Funny, raw, personal experiences of immigration and cultural identity in modern Australia. Featuring guests from a wide variety of migrant backgrounds, chatting about experiences navigating the culture clash. Hosted by comedian, Sonia Di Iorio and performer and visual artist, Melissa Viola.
Episodes
Nov 24, 2020
Nov 24, 2020
44 min
Cristina Abela is the co-founder of Latin Stories Australia and she joins Mel and Sonia to discuss the project. She also shares her experience of living in Australia as a recent immigrant versus years down the track, her connection to Mexico’s Day of the Dead celebrations and more!
Latin Stories Australia: @latinstoriesaustralia
Sonia: @soniadsees
Mel: @woolseyemelbourne
Producer André: AndreX
Check out Sonia’s gig info, clips and more on Facebook here
Nov 17, 2020
Nov 17, 2020
43 min
Mel and Sonia are talking about talking… Italian! All things growing up around the language, how much they learnt, what they found difficult to pick up, peculiar phrases and more!
Sonia: @soniadsees
Mel: @woolseyemelbourne
Producer André: AndreX
Check out Sonia’s gig info, clips and more on Facebook here
Sep 22, 2020
Sep 22, 2020
55 min
Author and comedian Sami Shah joins us and discusses raising a child in a different country to the one he grew up in, moving from the huge city of Karachi, Pakistan to regional Western Australia, performing comedy in both countries and more!
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Sami: @samishahdotcom
Sonia: @soniadsees
Mel: @woolseyemelbourne
Producer André: AndreX
Check out Sonia’s gig info, clips and more here
Sep 15, 2020
Sep 15, 2020
49 min
Actor Karanvir Malhotra (What Are The Odds?, Selection Day, The Forgotten Army) joins us to discuss the joys and difficulties of living between two countries, finding his love for acting in Melbourne, and more!
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Karanvir: @karanvirm
Sonia: @soniadsees
Mel: @woolseyemelbourne
Producer André: AndreX
Check out Sonia’s gig info, clips and more on Facebook here
Sep 8, 2020
Sep 8, 2020
54 min
We’re joined by comedian and Logie winner, Dilruk Jayasinha (Utopia, HYBPA?, Hughesy We Have A Problem) for a very fun chat about fitting in, homesickness, cricket, Jason Donovan and more!
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Dilruk: @dilrukj
Sonia: @soniadsees
Mel: @woolseyemelbourne
Producer André: AndreX
Check out Sonia’s gig info, clips and more on Facebook here
Sep 1, 2020
Sep 1, 2020
45 min
Podcaster and comedian Alexei Toliopoulos joins us to talk wog comedy, his love of Looking For Alibrandi and his misfortunes at Greek school.
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Alexei: @thisisalexei
Sonia: @soniadsees
Mel: @woolseyemelbourne
Producer André: AndreX
Check out Sonia’s gig info, clips and more on Facebook here
Aug 25, 2020
Aug 25, 2020
52 min
We’re joined by actor and comedian Diana Nguyen who shares what went into making Phi and Me, the first Vietnamese-Australian family comedy webseries. We also discuss navigating dating and sexuality with family expectations and more!
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Diana: @realdiananguyen and diananguyen.com.au
Sonia: @soniadsees
Mel: @woolseyemelbourne
Producer André: AndreX
Check out Sonia’s gig info, clips and more on Facebook here
Aug 18, 2020
Aug 18, 2020
50 min
Mel and Sonia kick off season 3 by talking about some common Italian superstitions. We consider their origins and discuss our personal experience with these beliefs. There’s spilling oil, hats on beds, crotch grabbing and of course the dreaded malocchio (the evil eye).
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Sonia: @soniadsees
Mel: @woolseyemelbourne
Producer André: AndreX
Check out Sonia’s gig info, clips and more on Facebook here
Aug 12, 2020
Jul 7, 2020
Jul 7, 2020
52 min
Ivan Aristeguieta tells Mel and Sonia about being part of the first wave of stand-up comedians in Venezuela and breaking into the Australian comedy scene. Plus he shares some details on the turmoil in Venezuela and we connect over meeting family in your country of heritage for the first time.
Find Ivan here
Sonia: @soniadsees
Mel: @woolseyemelbourne
Producer André: AndreX
Find more great content on our Facebook page here