Short-listed Independent Podcast Award 2024 and Golden Lobe 2025

Episodes

March 11, 2021

Kind Like Sharon (Ep 1)

A mini radio soap opera in 10 minute episodes, written, performed and produced by Flloyd Kennedy. Helen is in her 70s, happily living on her own, except when her family decide to invade her space “to look after her”, or becau...

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March 12, 2021

Speaking as a "not so young person"

Helen’s over-protective daughter Janey has gone home, but can't seem to let go, and Helen is over it. It’s time to face facts, and Helen wants to call things by their proper names. Granddaughter Susie also needs a bit of a sh...

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March 15, 2021

Flowers for the Birthday Girl

Helen is excited to receive a bunch of beautiful flowers. Is there a secret admirer? Or is her highly strung daughter, Janey, right to be suspicious? Helen finds her tactfulness filter slipping, and Janey holds her own! Suppo...

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March 26, 2021

Finish the Book

Helen is pleased to discover that she didn't upset her very elderly neighbour, who has set her a puzzle instead. Granddaughter Susie calls up, seeking advice on her uni assignment. And what is Alexa on about? Support the Show...

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April 1, 2021

Caught Out

Helen may have let something slip that she'd rather her family didn't know about. And daffodils from Janey's garden won't help. But she's delighted to receive a call from her Great Niece, Georgie, (Allana Noyes) now living an...

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April 8, 2021

Saving Grounds

Helen has a crisis in the kitchen, but is it because she is old, or just stupid? 102-year-young Nana from next door has something to say on the subject. Meanwhile, Helen still hasn't told Janey about the book. Support the Sho...

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April 15, 2021

A Different Perspective

Helen’s best friend Joey challenges her to get out of her comfort zone

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April 23, 2021

More Secrets

Helen still trying to avoid working on that memoir

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April 25, 2021

Bonus: "Am I Old Yet?" poem

Send us a Text Message. I wrote this poem last July, shortly after the first lockdown began to open up. The acting college where I had been teaching voice part time prior to lockdown invited me to come back into the studio to...

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April 30, 2021

A Small Insurrection

Like mother, like daughter

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May 7, 2021

Jack Who?

It is a sign of the times that a phone call from an unknown caller has to be assumed to be a scammer. Helen decides to take them on, but she gets more than she bargained for. And is sweet Susie turning into a banshee? This ep...

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May 12, 2021

A Blast from the Past

The sisters of the travelling scarf…

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May 20, 2021

Has Pattie Got a Secret?

Catchup call with Pattie

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May 27, 2021

Remembrance of Things Past

What to leave out of a memoire

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June 3, 2021

14: Hey—Old Lady!

Helen gets a fright while out shopping for cheese, and makes a new friend. It's always best not to jump to conclusions. In this week's episode, she might just find the answer to her question from someone much, much younger....

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June 11, 2021

15: Oh Waiter!

Susie and Helen enjoy a rendezvous in the park, and the subject of a marriage proposal comes up. A visit to the Cheese Shop Cafe provides an unexpected turn of events, as the Polish waiter is not quite as he seems. This epi...

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June 18, 2021

16: The Problem with Janey

102 year old Nana next door is off for the weekend to visit her pals. Meantime, Susie has been on the phone to Janey about Helen's escapade at the Cheese Shop, and Janey is in a panic. Helen won't take kindly to being scold...

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June 25, 2021

17: Neil Gaiman Envy

Helen enjoys a catchup Facetime call with her publisher friend Joey. They swap old lady experiences of diminishing dietary possibilities, and short walks. Helen confesses a desire to be more like Neil Gaiman. And Janey drops...

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July 2, 2021

18 Houston Calling

Four of the original gang of five from Helen's student days are now back in touch with each other,. Esme (Essie) calls from her home in Houston, Texas, and the conversation touches on old memories as well as future possibi...

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July 9, 2021

19 Who's a Keeper?

Helen tries to dodge a few bullets when she finds herself in between her granddaughter Susie and Susie's boyfriend Jack. It would be helpful if she could ever learn to think before she speaks. Liverpool legend Mark Porter re...

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July 15, 2021

20 A Natter with Nana

The sun is out, and Helen joins Nana Madeleine from next door for a natter in the garden. The birds are singing, as the 102 year old and the 77 year old toss some ideas around regarding family, depression and whether humanity...

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July 22, 2021

21 Rockhampton Daze

Helen's great-niece Georgie is visiting her parents, Flora and Walter, and her grandmother Marian (Helen's sister) in Rockhampton, in Central Queensland. She has booked a Skype call with Helen, who is running late—as usual. ...

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July 30, 2021

22 Cheese Shop Cafe Encounters

Helen makes a new friend who bumps into her (literally) at the Cheese Shop Cafe. Turns out they have a mutual acquaintance in Rene, the young Scot who rescued Helen's cheese in a previous episode (#14). Meanwhile Charlie, Sus...

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Aug. 6, 2021

23 The Cat Leaps Out of the Bag

Final episode of Season 1 for the audio comedy podcast "Am I Old Yet?". The ageing Helen believes she has discovered her daughter Janey's secret, but needs to be tactful. Janey has finally accepted that her mother is not midd...

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