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                                                        Why we need to cancel cancel culture — with defamation barrister Sue Chrysanthou
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Nov 03, 2025 | 
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                                                        Out of this world — with Booker Prize winning author Samantha Harvey
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 30, 2025 | 
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                                                        What Artists See? Critic Quentin Sprague helps you get to the messy human heart of art
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 29, 2025 | 
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                                                        Matrescence — on the metamorphosis of motherhood
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 28, 2025 | 
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                                                        Alexander the Great — A genius? A tyrant? A visionary? A killer? A maniac?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 27, 2025 | 
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                                                        Nobel laureate Donna Strickland on her life in lasers 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 23, 2025 | 
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                                                        Ziggy Ramo’s latest project asks what makes us human?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 22, 2025 | 
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                                                        New legislation to protect you against invasion of your privacy
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 21, 2025 | 
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                                                        How to build a stock exchange — the past, present and future of finance
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 20, 2025 | 
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                                                        Is Jane Austen the greatest English novelist of all time?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 16, 2025 | 
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                                                         We’re F**ed! It’s too late to avoid civilisational collapse. 2025 Beaker Street Festival Great Debate 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 15, 2025 | 
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                                                        Who killed the liberal international order (and what comes next)? 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 14, 2025 | 
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                                                        Can the Democrats save democracy in the US?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 13, 2025 | 
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                                                        Maria Ressa on what Donald Trump learnt from Rodrigo Duterte and other strongman rulers
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 09, 2025 | 
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                                                        Prove It! Elizabeth Finkel's Scientific Guide for the Post-Truth Era
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 08, 2025 | 
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                                                        John Lennon and Paul McCartney — a partnership that changed cultural history
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 07, 2025 | 
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                                                        'Militarism gone mad' — Labor firebrand hits out at party’s support of AUKUS
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 06, 2025 | 
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                                                        Genocides are everyone's business, not no-one's business — Gareth Evans, Yassmin Khadra, Daniel Abot's urgent plea for peace
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Oct 02, 2025 | 
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                                                        Vale Dr Jane Goodall — why the renowned primatologist and environmentalist held onto hope
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 02, 2025 | 
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                                                        Is AI the new coloniser? How to create more life-centred AI before it's too late
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 01, 2025 | 
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                                                        Condoleezza Rice on how to fix the break-up of global cooperation
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 30, 2025 | 
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                                                        The rise of Spotify and the costs of the perfect playlist —  with music journalist Liz Pelly
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 29, 2025 | 
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                                                        Yolngu power — art, culture, country, law — with Marcia Langton and Clare Wright
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 25, 2025 | 
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                                                        Nobel scientist Jennifer Doudna with Natasha Mitchell — the gene editing revolution, radical ethics, and what's next? [Archive episode]
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 24, 2025 | 
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                                                        Helen Vatsikopoulos — when the stories of migrants in Australia are silenced it's bad for all of us
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 23, 2025 | 
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                                                        The power of essays — with David Marr, Esther Anatolitis, Brooke Boland and Ashleigh Wilson
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 22, 2025 | 
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                                                        Fleeced — unravelling the history of wool and war
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 18, 2025 | 
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                                                        What's up with dieting Doc? Rethinking the obesity obsession in healthcare
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 17, 2025 | 
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                                                        Doing business ethically in turbulent times — with Helen Clark
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 16, 2025 | 
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                                                        Jimmy Barnes – tells it all
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 15, 2025 | 
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                                                        Hanna Rosin on what’s happened to the end of men in Trump’s America 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 11, 2025 | 
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                                                        Nuked or not? The politics and power play over nuclear energy as a climate fix
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 10, 2025 | 
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                                                        Heart-to-heart with John Wamsley and David Lindenmayer — why these trailblazing environmentalists won't back off
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 09, 2025 | 
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                                                        Are the reading wars really over?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 08, 2025 | 
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                                                        Is our university system broken?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 04, 2025 | 
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                                                        The radicalisation of boys — Jess Hill, George Megalogenis, Thomas Mayo with Natasha Mitchell at Byron Writers Festival
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 03, 2025 | 
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                                                        The AI Con — unpacking the artificial intelligence hype machine
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 02, 2025 | 
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                                                        Barry Jones and Kerry O'Brien — on complexity, politics and love
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 01, 2025 | 
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                                                        Tradwives — cosy cottage core fantasy, or something more sinister? With Megan Agnew, Rosie Waterland, Beverley Wang and Nakkiah Lui 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Aug 28, 2025 | 
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                                                        My Sister and Other Lovers — Esther Freud with Natasha Mitchell at Byron Writers Festival 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Aug 27, 2025 | 
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                                                        When dreams speak truth — exploring the relationship between our realities and the subconscious
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Aug 26, 2025 | 
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                                                        The US was meant to pivot to Asia — has Donald Trump changed course?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Aug 25, 2025 | 
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                                                        Alison Lester and Jane Godwin on how children’s books change lives
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Aug 21, 2025 | 
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                                                        From devil horns to deep listening — Maxine Beneba Clark, Debra Dank, Damon Young on the power of communication 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Aug 20, 2025 | 
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                                                        How a picnic started the fall of the Iron Curtain
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Aug 19, 2025 | 
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                                                        Anna Funder — Bears out there, writing in the age of bots and broligarchs
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Aug 18, 2025 | 
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                                                        The remarkable life of Marie Curie and the women scientists she inspired — with Dava Sobel
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Aug 14, 2025 | 
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                                                        Wellness influencers will outlive us all! The Science Smackdown Debate at World Science Festival Brisbane
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Aug 13, 2025 | 
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                                                        How to live an experimental life
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Aug 12, 2025 | 
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                                                        Dugongs — up close and personal
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Aug 11, 2025 | 
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                                                        Do you know the size of your material footprint? 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Aug 07, 2025 | 
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                                                        Sarah Wilson reckons with our civilisational collapse
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Aug 06, 2025 | 
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                                                        Mike Burgess — Espionage is a growing and costly threat to Australia
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Aug 05, 2025 | 
| 
                                                     
                                                        Plummeting vaccination rates threaten public health
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Aug 04, 2025 | 
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                                                        Not drowning waving, a modern media tale — with Geraldine Doogue
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jul 31, 2025 | 
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                                                        From Con the Fruiterer to East West 101 — the changing face of Australian TV
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jul 31, 2025 | 
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                                                        FAT is not an F-word! The radical practice of fat joy
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jul 30, 2025 | 
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                                                        How animals use natural medicine to heal themselves
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jul 29, 2025 | 
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                                                        The dark side of collaboration — when thinking together goes wrong
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jul 28, 2025 | 
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                                                        Adam Liaw on what spaghetti bolognese tells us about Australian life
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jul 24, 2025 | 
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                                                        Mao and Stalin — did they lead the way for tyrannical leaders like Trump?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jul 23, 2025 | 
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                                                        One land, two laws, it’s black and white — with Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander Social Justice Commissioner Katie Kiss
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jul 22, 2025 | 
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                                                        Doctor Who turns 60 — why the world still loves you
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jul 21, 2025 | 
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                                                        Is AI our modern-day Frankenstein? Jeanette Winterson and Toby Walsh
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jul 17, 2025 | 
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                                                        ABC's CITIZEN JURY — Would you live inside a modern power station? These people will, and want to be heard
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jul 16, 2025 | 
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                                                        Radical economics — what can we learn from the life of John Maynard Keynes
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jul 15, 2025 | 
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                                                        Life behind the lens — with photojournalists Lorrie Graham, Rick Stevens and Mike Bowers
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jul 14, 2025 | 
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                                                        Can citizen juries put the people back in democracy?
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jul 10, 2025 | 
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                                                        Join Jodi Edwards and her Sea Kin on a journey that flows like salt water — you won't see the sea in the same way
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jul 09, 2025 | 
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                                                        Behrouz Boochani and Arnold Zable on the radical act of friendship
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jul 08, 2025 | 
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                                                        Where to now — transforming anger into action after the Voice referendum 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jul 07, 2025 | 
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                                                        What would a feminist utopia look like?  
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jul 03, 2025 | 
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                                                        Dark tourism, death, design, and the macabre — should some places stay untouched?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jul 02, 2025 | 
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                                                        Is language power? With American linguist John McWhorter
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jul 01, 2025 | 
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                                                        Hard new world — our post-American future, with Hugh White and Allan Behm
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jun 30, 2025 | 
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                                                        Baby boycott — the fertility crisis and the big decision 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jun 26, 2025 | 
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                                                        Love your gut — understanding the microbiome
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Jun 25, 2025 | 
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                                                        Adapt or collapse — can we meet the moment of environmental peril
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jun 24, 2025 | 
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                                                        Kate McClymont on the complete insanity of investigative journalism
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jun 23, 2025 | 
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                                                        The second coming of quantum — the next scientific revolution is here 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jun 19, 2025 | 
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                                                        The past is a foreign country — Santilla Chingaipe, Sita Sargeant, Steve Vizard with Natasha Mitchell
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jun 18, 2025 | 
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                                                        Will American democracy survive the Dark Enlightenment? Sarah Churchwell on Gone with the Wind and the roots of extremism
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jun 17, 2025 | 
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                                                        We are the evidence — empowering change in Indigenous Australia
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jun 16, 2025 | 
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                                                        From Bangalore to Balmain – Padma Raman’s lifelong advocacy for women and girls 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jun 12, 2025 | 
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                                                        Fashion's fails — we can fix its toxic legacy! Kit Willow, Natasha Mitchell, and guests 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jun 11, 2025 | 
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                                                        Warren Ellis on why he bought a Sumatran wildlife sanctuary — with Justin Kurzel and Zan Rowe 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jun 10, 2025 | 
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                                                        To infinity – who's in charge of outer space? 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jun 09, 2025 | 
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                                                        Being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza — with Peter Beinart and Sarah Schwartz
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jun 05, 2025 | 
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                                                        We asked for workers and got people — inside the temporary visa scheme putting food on your plate
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jun 04, 2025 | 
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                                                        The unbearable intimacy of voicing someone’s words — with Forced Entertainment
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jun 03, 2025 | 
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                                                        Gina Chick on what dark nights of the soul can teach us about life and living
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jun 02, 2025 | 
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                                                        Safe at home – who profits when you’re afraid of your neighbours? 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                May 29, 2025 | 
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                                                        The ghosts are here — Tasma Walton, Darren Rix, Craig Cormick, Anthony Sharwood with Natasha Mitchell
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                May 28, 2025 | 
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                                                        Words to sing the world alive — waking up First Nations languages
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                May 27, 2025 | 
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                                                        From vulture bone flutes  to ‘organised sound’— Andrew Ford's short history of music
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                May 26, 2025 | 
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                                                        If it bleeds it leads – Bruce Shapiro on documenting the violence of modern life 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                May 22, 2025 | 
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                                                        Live to 150? David Sinclair on why we age — and why he thinks we don't have to
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                May 21, 2025 | 
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                                                        Australia and the spectre of war — from Vietnam to today
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                May 20, 2025 | 
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                                                        Australia votes — what message should we take from this election result?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                May 19, 2025 | 
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                                                        What are you wearing? Why we aren’t buying Australian made fashion
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                May 15, 2025 | 
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                                                        Mark Zuckerberg claims corporations are culturally neutered — are they? Men, women, work, and the manosphere
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                May 14, 2025 | 
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                                                        History lessons — historians Orlando Figes, Bettany Hughes,  Matthew Longo and Dava Sobel with Annabelle Quince
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                May 13, 2025 | 
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                                                        Chatting with 2025 Grammy winner Ruthie Foster
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                May 12, 2025 | 
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                                                        Vladimir Putin’s Russia — with exiled journalist and author Mikhail Zygar
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                May 08, 2025 | 
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                                                        Rituals, rats, and reeded vertebrae! The mysteries of Machu Picchu and Ancient Peru revealed
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                May 07, 2025 | 
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                                                        Mental ill-health and the power of words
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                May 06, 2025 | 
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                                                        Worried about the future? A mosquito could help you to live in the present
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                May 05, 2025 | 
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                                                        Australia votes— are our political parties on the nose?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                May 01, 2025 | 
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                                                        Has the world lost the plot? John Lyons, Greg Sheridan, Emma Shortis, Josh Taylor with Natasha Mitchell
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Apr 30, 2025 | 
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                                                        The painting that changed Australia — the story of Blue Poles
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Apr 29, 2025 | 
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                                                        Are Donald Trump and US politics bringing global health to its knees?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Apr 28, 2025 | 
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                                                        Sir Simon Schama — On antisemitism
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Apr 24, 2025 | 
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                                                        How do we make cancer treatment worth it, work better, and less harmful?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Apr 23, 2025 | 
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                                                        Pankaj Mishra — the world after Gaza
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Apr 22, 2025 | 
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                                                        Uncovering Pompeii — 300 years of archaeology
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Apr 21, 2025 | 
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                                                        When women resist authoritarianism — what's happening in Iran, Afghanistan, Myanmar right now? 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Apr 17, 2025 | 
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                                                        A season of death — with Raimond Gaita and Michelle Lesh
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Apr 17, 2025 | 
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                                                        Where is the soul in science? Natasha Mitchell and guests on a humanity defining battle (Archive)
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Apr 16, 2025 | 
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                                                        When the Tech Bros come to town — with Kara Swisher and Marc Fennell
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Apr 15, 2025 | 
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                                                        The biggest threat to the planet is a story — an eye-opening insider account of Australian environmentalism 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Apr 14, 2025 | 
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                                                        Supporting teenagers to thrive online
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Apr 03, 2025 | 
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                                                        Can storytellers change the world? Tim Winton and Rachel Perkins join Natasha Mitchell
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Apr 02, 2025 | 
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                                                        Populist rage in America — history, causes and impacts
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Apr 01, 2025 | 
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                                                        Good conversations — with writer and poet Ian WIlliams (CBC Massey Lecture 5)
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Mar 31, 2025 | 
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                                                        Who can speak for whom to whom about what? — with writer and poet Ian Williams (CBC Massey Lecture 4) 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Mar 27, 2025 | 
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                                                        Personal conversations — with writer and poet Ian Williams (CBC Massey Lecture 3)
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Mar 26, 2025 | 
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                                                        Public conversations — with writer and poet Ian Williams (CBC Massey Lecture 2)
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Mar 25, 2025 | 
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                                                        Why we need to have a conversation about conversations — with writer and poet Ian Williams (CBC Massey Lecture 1)
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Mar 24, 2025 | 
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                                                        Australians – the ‘aristocrats’ of Asia? The Lucky Country 60 years on
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Mar 20, 2025 | 
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                                                        Choices created Australia's housing mess, what choices will fix it? Natasha Mitchell and guests
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Mar 19, 2025 | 
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                                                        Free your attention — meditation and mindfulness in the digital age
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Mar 18, 2025 | 
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                                                        Today YOU can choose your family 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Mar 17, 2025 | 
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                                                        Riverhood — oral histories in the Murray Darling Basin
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Mar 13, 2025 | 
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                                                        Vested interests vs public interest? How the fossil fuel industry captures Australian governments
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Mar 12, 2025 | 
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                                                        France — a paradoxical country
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Mar 11, 2025 | 
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                                                        Can the International Criminal Court deliver justice?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Mar 10, 2025 | 
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                                                        Helen Garner on footy, boys, and growing old 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Mar 06, 2025 | 
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                                                        Is America on the cusp of collapse under Trump? Natasha Mitchell and guests at Adelaide Writers Week
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Mar 05, 2025 | 
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                                                        What does the internet know about you?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Mar 04, 2025 | 
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                                                        Security in Europe hangs in the balance. Is NATO on the rocks? 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Mar 03, 2025 | 
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                                                        Animals — Us and them? How does loving animals go together with industrial farming?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Feb 24, 2025 | 
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                                                        Animals — Us and them? Are you having a whale of a time?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Feb 24, 2025 | 
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                                                        Animals — Us and them? The cat catastrophe – pet or pest?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Feb 24, 2025 | 
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                                                        Animals — Us and them? What is the purpose of zoos in an extinction crisis?   
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Feb 24, 2025 | 
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                                                        Animals — Us and them? The true and the ugly of wildlife documentaries
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Feb 20, 2025 | 
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                                                        Jem Bendell, the fake green fairytale, and how to survive civilisational collapse
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Feb 19, 2025 | 
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                                                        A murder in Malta — how Daphne Caruana Galizia's fight for justice lives on in her son
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Feb 18, 2025 | 
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                                                        Empireworld — Sathnam Sanghera on how British imperialism shaped the globe
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Feb 18, 2025 | 
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                                                        Living out your mental illness in public paves the way to lasting change
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Feb 17, 2025 | 
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                                                        Uncancelled culture — forgiveness and redemption in the digital age
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Feb 13, 2025 | 
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                                                        I can change the world! How these changemakers found their superpower
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Feb 12, 2025 | 
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                                                        Re-thinking the relationship between brain and machine
                                                     
                                                    
                                                 | 
                                                Feb 11, 2025 | 
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                                                        Video games —  a new frontier in the fight for global influence?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Feb 10, 2025 | 
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                                                        Don’t be a D**khead  — with musicians Kasey Chambers and Clare Bowditch
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Feb 06, 2025 | 
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                                                        Should scientists stand up as things fall down? Advocacy, activism, impartiality and the risks
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Feb 05, 2025 | 
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                                                        Minority report —  the new shape of Australian politics, with George Megalogenis and Tory Shepherd
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Feb 04, 2025 | 
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                                                        Why Australian politicians welcomed fascists after the Second World War
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Feb 03, 2025 | 
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                                                        What’s the secret to governments making wise decisions?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jan 30, 2025 | 
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                                                        Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life — how fungi do things differently, and inspire us to as well
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jan 29, 2025 | 
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                                                        Nicky Winmar and Rhoda Roberts − showing racism in sport the red card
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jan 28, 2025 | 
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                                                        Chopsticks or fork? — Jennifer Wong and Lin Jie Kong with Annabel Crabb 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jan 27, 2025 | 
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                                                        Writers who rock — on the art of music writing
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jan 23, 2025 | 
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                                                        How surfing writer Tim Baker and doctor Peter Goldsworthy learnt to live well and laugh with cancer
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jan 22, 2025 | 
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                                                        The fight to protect abortion in the United States — with Dr Angel Foster
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jan 21, 2025 | 
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                                                        The Knowledge Gene — the incredible story of the supergene that gives us human creativity
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jan 20, 2025 | 
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                                                        Is there life on Mars?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jan 16, 2025 | 
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                                                        The delicate complexities of treating mental illness — Jonathan Rosen, Patrick McGorry with Natasha Mitchell
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jan 15, 2025 | 
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                                                        Mary Beard and the Roman Empire
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jan 14, 2025 | 
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                                                        Looking to a healthy future with Helen Clark
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jan 13, 2025 | 
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                                                        How traumatic stress hurts us — with Bessel van der Kolk
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jan 09, 2025 | 
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                                                        Are national deficits a myth? Stephanie Kelton explodes an economic holy cow
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jan 08, 2025 | 
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                                                        How to cut through political spin — Richard Denniss, Joelle Gergis, Yanis Varoufakis, Tom Keneally with Natasha Mitchell
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jan 07, 2025 | 
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                                                        Islands rising — life on the front lines of the climate crisis 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jan 06, 2025 | 
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                                                        Liberalism as the basis of life?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jan 02, 2025 | 
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                                                        Thriving not just surviving with Tibetan master Mingyur Rinpoche, a Sufi scholar and Indian philosopher of mind
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Jan 01, 2025 | 
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                                                        AC Grayling — How to live well, according to philosophy
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Dec 31, 2024 | 
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                                                        Laurie Anderson on time and life
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Dec 30, 2024 | 
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                                                        Hugh Mackay — Australian society in the 21st century
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Dec 26, 2024 | 
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                                                        Holly Ringland helps you to get creative
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Dec 25, 2024 | 
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                                                        Lifting the lid — the lost story of an extraordinary Egyptian coffin revealed
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Dec 24, 2024 | 
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                                                        Andrew O'Hagan — Literature and truth in the era of fake news, algorithms and artificial intelligence
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Dec 23, 2024 | 
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                                                        Eric Bogle tells it all — his songs and his life
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Dec 19, 2024 | 
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                                                        The debate over shark nets: killers or life savers? With Natasha Mitchell and guests 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Dec 18, 2024 | 
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                                                        Meet the mothers of Australia's women's refuge movement
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Dec 17, 2024 | 
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                                                        Is Australia overrun by feral animals? With Gardening Australia's Costa Georgiadis
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Dec 16, 2024 | 
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                                                        Benjamin Law’s butt, and the power and politics of portraiture 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Dec 12, 2024 | 
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                                                        The surfer and circumnavigator — the gobsmacking feats of Pauline Menczer and Bonnie Hancock
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Dec 11, 2024 | 
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                                                        President Petr Pavel – on why the war in Ukraine is a fight for geopolitical stability worldwide
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Dec 10, 2024 | 
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                                                        Memory, refugees and the Vietnam War — with Pulitzer Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Dec 09, 2024 | 
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                                                        Who gets to shape the story? Reporting on the conflict in the Middle East — with The Guardian’s Nour Haydar 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Dec 05, 2024 | 
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                                                        50 years after Cyclone Tracy — powerful memories of horror and hope
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Dec 04, 2024 | 
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                                                        Deaf defying: disability leadership as an act of resistance — with Dr Scott Avery
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Dec 03, 2024 | 
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                                                        Trees, seeds, and ecotourism — the hidden histories Nature reveals about us
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Dec 02, 2024 | 
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                                                        The right to discriminate? Religious schools and Australian human rights law 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Nov 28, 2024 | 
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                                                        Is it still possible for empathy to trump hate?  Here's how. Rhonda Magee and Mariam Tokhi with Natasha Mitchell
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Nov 27, 2024 | 
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                                                        Busting the myths around menstruation and menopause, with Dr Jennifer Gunter  
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Nov 26, 2024 | 
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                                                        The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, 30 years on 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Nov 25, 2024 | 
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                                                        Together, or together alone? Teens and adults debate social media's good, bad and ugly
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Nov 21, 2024 | 
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                                                        ADHD, autism, depression — is social media causing social contagion? Jean Twenge, Sonny Jane Wise, Alice Dawkins, Sandersan Onie with Natasha Mitchell 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Nov 20, 2024 | 
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                                                        Negotiating peace against the odds can be murky business
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Nov 19, 2024 | 
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                                                        The 4-Day-Week − creating a better work life balance or just more stress?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Nov 18, 2024 | 
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                                                        From Mumbai to Studio 54 — how Asha Puthli became India's first disco star
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Nov 14, 2024 | 
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                                                        Joanna Murray-Smith — You’re Right, I’m Wrong: The Artist's Role in a Shifting World
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Nov 13, 2024 | 
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                                                        The future of remembering wars past — school students speak frankly with Natasha Mitchell at the Shrine
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Nov 11, 2024 | 
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                                                        Ending homelessness is possible
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Nov 07, 2024 | 
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                                                        What's wrong with death? Sophia Club live philosophy with Natasha Mitchell and guests
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Nov 06, 2024 | 
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                                                        From Gatsby to Huck Finn — American literature in an age of polarisation
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Nov 04, 2024 | 
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                                                        Old, new, best, true — the joy, power and heartache of friends
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 31, 2024 | 
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                                                        Unconventional women — a hidden story of nuns with Natasha Mitchell and guests
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 30, 2024 | 
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                                                        Candice Fox, Matthew Conon, Benjamin Stevenson – on the ethics of crime writing
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 28, 2024 | 
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                                                        SOS Democracy with Jon Faine — Can democracy survive social media?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 27, 2024 | 
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                                                        SOS Democracy with Niall Ferguson and Barrie Cassidy — Is democracy doomed?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 25, 2024 | 
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                                                        SOS Democracy with Scott Stephens — Saving democracy with decency
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 25, 2024 | 
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                                                        Spielberg, a tuba, and a shark named Bruce — the cultural impact of Jaws
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 24, 2024 | 
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                                                        Brain amoeba, weird worms and the wild parasites (inside you too!) with Natasha Mitchell and guests
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 23, 2024 | 
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                                                        SOS Democracy with Fintan O’Toole — The US elections and the politics of self-pity 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 22, 2024 | 
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                                                        From pointe shoes to jockstraps – David McAllister lifts the curtain on the secrets of ballet
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 21, 2024 | 
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                                                        The dangerous rise in antisemitism – Sharon Nazarian
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 17, 2024 | 
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                                                        A plea for peace in the Middle East — Louise Adler and Nasser Mashni
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 16, 2024 | 
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                                                        SOS Democracy with Niki Savva — Can politicians and journalists do better?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 15, 2024 | 
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                                                        What makes you a top athlete: science, training or talent? 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 14, 2024 | 
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                                                        Cemeteries − the parks and public spaces of the future
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 10, 2024 | 
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                                                        The case for controversial ideas — philosopher Peter Singer with Natasha Mitchell 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 09, 2024 | 
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                                                        How Edna Walling changed gardening — with Gardening Australia's Millie Ross
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 08, 2024 | 
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                                                        From Gaza to Ukraine — is it harder to build peace, than to start war?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 07, 2024 | 
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                                                        Superheroes, pop stars, and “good enough tv” — The life of a culture critic in 2024
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 03, 2024 | 
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                                                        Gold, Galahs and the Milky Way: unlocking the universe 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 02, 2024 | 
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                                                        Why autistic people make terrific employees
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Oct 01, 2024 | 
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                                                        Is depression a form of jetlag? Understanding the circadian rhythm
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 30, 2024 | 
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                                                        Restoring the fine art of traditional trades
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 26, 2024 | 
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                                                        What rights for children in care? 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 25, 2024 | 
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                                                        Students win fight for climate justice before the world's highest court
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 24, 2024 | 
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                                                        Housing as a human right? With Alan Kohler and Kevin Bell
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 23, 2024 | 
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                                                        Saving winter — the future of snow in Australia's Alpine region
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 19, 2024 | 
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                                                        Busting single motherhood myths
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 18, 2024 | 
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                                                        How history shapes who we are — with Frank Bongiorno and Peter Stanley 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 17, 2024 | 
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                                                        Why a scary tale is good for you − Angela Slatter, Kathleen Jennings, Naomi Novik and Shelley Parker-Chan
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 16, 2024 | 
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                                                        Are we taking Orwell's name in vain?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 12, 2024 | 
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                                                        How valid is the Australian Constitution today?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 11, 2024 | 
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                                                        Gas, tax and the free market — with Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 10, 2024 | 
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                                                        A maze with no exits — Ma Thida on Myanmar’s struggle for democracy
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 09, 2024 | 
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                                                        So you want to know what’s good for your kids?— with Norman Swan
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 05, 2024 | 
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                                                        Milk — a misunderstood, maligned, miracle food?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 04, 2024 | 
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                                                        From landmines to killer robots — inside the campaigns to ban weapons of war 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 03, 2024 | 
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                                                        Richard Flanagan, Michael Robotham on the hidden costs of cheap books
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Sep 02, 2024 | 
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                                                        Caribbean identity in Australia — with Maxine Beneba Clarke and Sienna Brown
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Aug 29, 2024 | 
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                                                        Tim Flannery and the mystery of Big Meg — why did the world's largest predator disappear? 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Aug 28, 2024 | 
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                                                        Intellectual influencers — the new generation of social media stars
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Aug 27, 2024 | 
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                                                        Is bush tucker the future of food security?
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Aug 26, 2024 | 
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                                                        Public broadcasting is not as simple as ABC — with Kim Williams and Kerry O’ Brien 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                Aug 22, 2024 |