The Agony of Life

2013 • Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Season 1 episodes (8)

1 Childhood

2/6/13

The Aunts and Uncles discuss the key moments from their childhood - first memories, games, friends and things you saw that you wished you hadn't.

2 The Teenage Years

2/13/13

The Aunts and Uncles talk about what it was like to try and fit-in at school, the bullying and being bullied, the excruciating sex lessons from their parents, and the experimentation with hair, clothes and body ink.

3 The Immortal Years - 18 to 22

2/20/13

The Aunts and Uncles read the riot act on flatmates, eating, drinking, drugs, romances and first cars. And then asked whether they took this time in their life for granted, or worse, mistook being young for being immortal.

4 The Pathfinders - '20s and '30s

2/27/13

This is the part where our Aunts and Uncles realised that they were now adults who had to become self‐sufficient while deciding how to fulfill their career and social potential. So how did they learn to stand out in job interviews, turn up to work on time after a massive night out, and form opinions on politics, culture and etiquette?

5 Family

3/6/13

Not all of our Aunts and Uncles have children, but each of them has opinions on how children should be brought up.

6 Career

3/13/13

Career and career-legacy is something that dominates our thinking and our Aunts and Uncles are successful enough to tell you how to have a fulfilling career, remain calm under pressure, and maintain a sensible work-life balance. But what about the more difficult questions of how to maintain dignity when sacked, reach the top without screwing other people over, and surviving a workplace or public scandal with as much grace as possible?

7 Retirement

3/20/13

The Aunts and Uncles lead you through this change of pace and, with sensitivity and humour, map out what an idyllic retirement might look like.

8 The Final Frontier

3/27/13

Here they negotiate the final frontier and, on behalf of us all, answer the big questions of life: what are they most proud of, what's their biggest disappointment, is death to be feared or embraced, what happens to us after they die, and, in a perfect world,what would they like their last words to be?

About this show

Last time our Agony Aunts and Uncles took us through the cycle of love. It was confessional, illuminating, inappropriate and wrong. This time, narrator/interviewer Adam Zwar gets the band back together, with some elite additions, to bring you The Agony Of Life. No stone will be left unturned as Australia's funniest and brightest take us through the most important stages of existence - from child to adult, to creating and supporting families, to building and managing careers. And what after that? Should we sit on a hill and contemplate the wording of our epitaph or travel the world? As usual the Aunts’ and Uncles’ responses are hilarious, thoughtful and completely unexpected.

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