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Weekly news satire, award-winning audio fiction, documentary reporting, academic conversation and comedy experiments—current work and the complete archive.
Eight-part Audible Original · 2022
A crime-noir mystery about a missing girl, a Pakistani refugee family and a Western Australian town turning fear into accusation.
Created and written by Sami Shah, who also co-directed the series.
Current shows
Weekly news satire · 2021–present
Creator · writer · host · producer
A fast, fiercely argued weekly breakdown of politics, global affairs and media absurdity—plus occasional documentary editions.
New every Saturday · independent and listener-supported
ListenUniversity of Melbourne podcast · Ongoing
Host
Conversations with researchers and specialists about the societies, politics and cultures reshaping contemporary Asia.
Produced by the Asia Institute
ListenDocumentary · comedy · radio
Five-part ABC RN documentary · 2016–17
Writer · presenter
Reporting from inside the arguments over Islam in Australia: belief, blasphemy, radicalisation, gender and belonging.
Later adapted into the bookListen
Five-part ABC RN documentary · 2019
Writer · presenter
An investigation into who gets to speak, who gets punished, and why free-speech absolutism becomes less absolute under pressure.
ABC RN EarshotListen
ABC RN documentary · 2021
Writer · presenter
A reported series about the language, evasions and lived realities shaping how Australia talks about race.
ABC RN EarshotListenTwo-part BBC Radio 4 series · 2015
Writer · performer
Pakistan’s political history, national myths and family arguments compressed into two programmes of stand-up and documentary storytelling.
Produced by Ed Morrish · with Anita AnandListen
ABC comedy podcast · 2016
Creator · host
Comedians return to the gigs that died hardest and excavate what humiliation can teach about performance.
Guests included Alexei Sayle, Claire Hooper and Luke McGregorListen
ABC comedy podcast · 2018
Co-host
Alice Fraser, Cal Wilson and Sami turn the manure of online trolling into flowers of comedy.
Twenty-one episodesListenIndependent media podcast · 2021–22
Co-host with Cam Wilson
A weekly audit of the power, coverage and strange internal weather of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.
Twenty-five episodesListenIndependent podcast · Archive
Creator · host
The earlier independent conversation and commentary show—an archive from before every project became a production company.
Earlier podcast archiveListenIndependent audio
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