In 2020, the first series of From the Embers premiered, focusing on communities across Australia who had faced fire and smoke and homes destroyed in what was one of the most difficult summers has ever seen, the 2019-20 bushfire season.In 2022, From the Embers 2: Phoenix returns to several places featured in the first series, including Mallacoota, Kangaroo Island, and the forests of the Far north of New South Wales to explore how communities are recovering from the fires and the issues that stem from trauma and isolation, coupled with the strength gained when so much is lost.This series will also visit new communities who are recovering from floods and seemingly never ending COVID lockdowns.Created in partnership with community radio stations, and the generous support of the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas, Paul Ramsay Foundation, The Minderoo Foundation Fire and Flood Resilience Initiative, and the Monash University's Fire To Flourish program.
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Signup to Generate a PitchIn 2020, the first series of From the Embers premiered, focusing on communities across Australia who had faced fire and smoke and homes destroyed in what was one of the most difficult summers has ever seen, the 2019-20 bushfire season.
Recent episodes include "A Change in the Landscape" (20 March 2026, 28 minutes), "Rising Rivers" (20 March 2026, 28 minutes), and "Roofs above Water" (20 March 2026, 28 minutes).
From The Embers publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 25 minutes across 19 episodes.
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From The Embers is a society show with 19 episodes published.
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Episode #8
Four Emergency level bushfires burned over one weekend in Western Australia in February 2022. With roughly 30% of WA agricultural land, most farmers are prepared for fire at any time. But when one comes, they rely...
Episode #7
Day after day of intense rainfall fell across south east Queensland In February 2022, breaking riverbanks, swamping roads and flooding homes. The city of Brisbane experienced one of the worst floods on record. In three...
Episode #6
Ever increasing record high flood levels are marked on the side of Lismore’s flood levee. Lismore, a town in Northern New South Wales is dissected by two major rivers. When there’s heavy rainfall...
Episode #5
One and a half million hectares of Yuin Country was destroyed by the 2019/2020 mega fires in the South Coast of New South Wales. These fires killed countless animals, plants and insect species - some of which are now on...
Episode #4
The fires that tore through the South Coast of New South Wales in 2019/2020 hit towns on the coast and in the bush. Within the community, homes were lost, some experienced events that left them traumatised and all...
Episode #3
Two years on from the massive fire that tore through Mallacoota, a tiny coastal town in Victoria, the camping grounds are full again, koalas can be spotted in the crowns of eucalypts and the landscape is green with...
Episode #2
Residents in Lobethal fled their properties for safety in December 2019, not knowing if they’d return and find their houses still standing. Adelaide’s Cudlee Creek fire filled the air with black smoke and...
Episode #1
Severe storms and fire are a part of life on Kangaroo Island. But the firestorms that blasted across the Island’s landscape in January 2022 were unlike anything ever seen before, and forbode of a changing climate...
From The Embers
In 2019, major fires surged across Australia lasting until rains and floods extinguished them in 2020. Most remember this as the worst season Australia had experienced. From the Embers season 2: Phoenix revisits towns...
Episode #9
The roads to Omeo were closed as fires surged towards the small East Gippsland town. Locals retreated to the Recreation Reserve to camp in outbuildings and halls clustered around the football field. Then out of...
Episode #8
What does a “properly defended” house look like? Is it a bunker in a hill? A mop and bucket at every corner? Do you just need a hose and access to a tap? Across Australia during the bushfire...
Episode #7
First the road closed. Then on the morning of New Years Day, night came and the skies turned red. Images from the coastal town of Mallacoota went viral as thousands of people sheltered on the wharf, the beach and in the...
Episode #6
Kangaroo Island is the oldest bee sanctuary in the world and home to one of the last disease-free koala populations in Australia. At the end of 2019, two lightning strikes lit up the bushland at Flinders Chase...
Episode #5
When a fast-moving fire started in Cudlee Creek in the Adelaide Hills, residents throughout the region had to stop, drop what they were doing and return to their homes to defend, evacuate, or take shelter. If they chose...
Episode #4
People move to Cooma for the landscape, to walk through forests, to farm, to be embraced in a small community that welcomes outsiders But in the summer of 2019, danger was lurking in the hills around Cooma and as the...
Episode #3
Early in the bushfire season, the town of Mongarlowe was encircled by flames and cut off from outside support. The town was facing encroaching fires so vast and severe that in other circumstances support teams of extra...
Episode #2
Early data placed the number of wildlife lost in the recent bushfires at over a billion. The impact of Australia’s recent fire season on wildlife has been devastating. Before the fires hit their zenith...
Episode #1
A transistor radio and couple of batteries kept people connected during the bushfires as they listened to the constant emergency alerts. But in between the official messages are the human ones. Five...
From The Embers
CBAA's documentary series From the Embers, takes listeners to the very heart of nine communities affected by the recent bushfire crisis. From the Embers is an important reminder to us all of the essential role that...
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