Yes – Show number 850 – a good reason to have a bit of a break – for four months at least. In the meantime checkout our back catalogue of podcasts. In this show, Gordon […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/04/BTDT-2019_04_02-gordon-PODCAST.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:34 — 39.0MB)Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS

We welcome Will to the program for his second show while Gordon is away on the high seas. Chris tells of two great films from the recent Melbourne Queer Film Festival, which included some scenes […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/03/BTDT-2019_03_26-will2-PODCAST.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 46:51 — 42.9MB)

While Gordon is on the high seas, we welcome Will to the program for 2 shows, and he will share his knowledge with us. At this sad time, we offer our sympathies and concern for […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/03/BTDT-2019_03_19-will1-PODCAST.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:23 — 38.8MB)

In this week’s show, we talk about our Labour Day holiday which has morphed into Moomba. The origins of the 8-hour working day are being forgotten in the modern world of low wages, poor working […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/03/BTDT-2019_03_12-labour-day-PODCAST.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:52 — 39.3MB)

In this week’s show, we chat about the Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras telecast and what pleased us (as viewers) – and note that the parade was enthusiastically received by the crowds lining the […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/03/BTDT-2019_03_05-inman-PODCAST.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:52 — 39.3MB)

In this week’s show, we discuss how Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is planning to become ‘carbon neutral’ with the reduction of rubbish after the parade, and elimination of glitter (gasp) and balloons.  We […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/02/BTDT-2019_02_26-PODCAST-mgras.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 43:39 — 40.0MB)

In this week’s show, we discuss in broad terms the wonderful program listing of the forthcoming Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and applaud the range of films to be shown and the reflection of positive changes […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/02/BTDT-2019_02_19-MQFF-PODCAST.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:17 — 38.7MB)

In this week’s show, we honour gay icons who have birthdays around this time, and who have entertained us and widened our horizons of what it means to be gay.  We salute the late Graham Kennedy […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/02/BTDT-2019_02_12-PODCAST-Gra-Gra.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 40:52 — 18.7MB)

Once again, Pride March revealed the breadth and depth of our wide community to the general public in a wonderful display of colour and movement, held in fierce morning sunshine in Melbourne, with a gentle breeze […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/02/BTDT-2019_02_05-Fires-PODCAST.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:46 — 38.2MB)

In this week’s show, we wonder whether we Australians look forward to a public holiday but tend to ignore the reasons behind the non-work day. There is now greater interest in the celebration known as […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/01/BTDT-2019_01_29-PODCAST-public-hols.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:06 — 37.6MB)

We attended our community’s ‘midsumma Carnival Day’  on Sunday 20 January 2019 at Alexandra Gardens – All happy and gay – what a great day. In this week’s program, we refer to the ongoing example […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/01/BTDT-2019_01_22-carnival-PODCAST.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:33 — 39.0MB)

It’s our summertime and along with bushfires, the heat and drying rivers, we must prepare and engage in our community’s 23-day festival of ‘midsumma’ and especially next Sunday’s Carnival Day at Alexandra Gardens. In this […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/01/BTDT-2019_01_15-msumma-PODCAST.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:09 — 38.6MB)

Happy New Year to Everyone.  How quickly the years roll around? And have our Resolutions failed already? We express concern at the statistics of dangerous behaviour exhibited at some dance parties, by those wishing to enhance […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/01/BTDT-2019_01_08-PODCAST-NY-Resolutions.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:44 — 38.2MB)

“It never rains but it pours” – and we Melbourne-ites freak out when we get tropical downpours. Such is the variability of our weather that we are confused – is it global warming or Pluvius […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2018/12/BTDT_2018_12_18-C-Eve-PODCAST.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 43:37 — 39.9MB)

We are getting tired of the pressure to spend money on Christmas gifts, or being approached by charity-muggers (those tin rattlers – although these days they want to sign us for continuing e-donations). There is […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2018/12/BTDT_2018_12_11-Chuggers-PODCAST.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 40:49 — 37.4MB)

The recent uprising of young students seems to be a positive outcome of social media commentary, referencing the lack of initiative of the central government about climate changes all around Australia this summer season. The […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2018/12/BTDT_2018_12_04-school-kids-PODCAST-1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:54 — 38.4MB)

  As we again come to December, we reflect upon two major interlocked events in the gay history of Melbourne – the unwanted arrival of AIDS in Australia in 1982 and the horror which it […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2018/11/BTDT_2018_11_27-AIDS-JOY-PODCAST.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 44:21 — 40.6MB)

Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honours the memory of those whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence, and we hope that with education and awareness […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2018/11/BTDT_2018_11_20-PODCAST-TDoR.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 39:45 — 36.4MB)

This episode begins with our thoughts on Remembrance Day 2018, noting that our troops served in France and their memory is still being honoured by those devastated communities. We suggest that maybe Australia is moving […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2018/11/BTDT_2018_11_13-Remem-PODCAST.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 39:38 — 36.3MB)

This episode begins with our thoughts on the ‘race that stops the nation’ – the horse races that make up The Melbourne Cup Carnival. We talk about some historical facts, including the 1930 race won […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2018/11/BTDT_2018_11_06-MelbCup-PODCAST.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:17 — 37.8MB)

We begin this episode reporting on the moving ceremony when Mathew Shepard’s ashes were interred in the US National Cathedral – in a final act of respect, providing a safe place for his life to […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2018/10/BTDT_2018_10_30-PODCAST-MatShepCathedral.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 44:33 — 40.8MB)

We start this episode of Been There Done That chatting about postal votes determining the final result in the weekend’s Wentworth by-election, before reminding ourselves of an event in history which turned a poor purchase […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2018/10/BTDT_2018_10_23-Alaska-PODCAST.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 40:28 — 37.0MB)

We report on the behaviour of two male penguins in a Sydney aquarium. They are reported to be ‘inseparable’ and ‘who show great excitement caring for their egg’. Is Nature telling us something? More importantly, […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2018/10/BTDT_2018_10_16-Penguins-PODCAST.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:32 — 38.9MB)

This week, Gordon tells of his recent viewing of a family-friendly comedy movie – “Crazy Rich Asians” and how it presents the usual family crisis when preparing for a wedding, but with cultural differences from […]http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_beentheredonethat/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2018/10/BTDT_2018_10_09-PODCAST-Crazy-Rich.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:03 — 33.7MB)