SBS is Australia’s multicultural broadcaster, offering media in a genuinely remarkable number of languages and dialects. It’s also got a long (if somewhat unsung) history of investing in interesting digital projects, and its True Stories podcast is but one of them. Season three of the show sees it turn toward true crime – but from season two, I particularly loved this story, Chinese Straight by Australian writer of Afro-Caribbean background, Maxine Beneba Clarke. Like many of the stories in the series, Clarke talks about her struggles to fit in, but this story is done so well; evocative and mournful, with a tangible whiff of Australian summer. It’s a slim finger of memoir, dipped in a soup of synths and sassy drum machine (courtesy James Cecil, aka Super Melody and formerly of the band Architecture in Helsinki). I love how much effort (and likely money) they’ve invested in these episodes; in addition to the lush and colourful sound design, you can also see the story laid out online like a long-scrolling picture book; they’ve even commissioned incredible illustrations and animations from artist Isobel Knowles.

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