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Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr.

  1. 3 DAYS AGO

    Francesca Albanese: Australia complicit in the Gaza genocide, plus how our polticians got hooked on gambling money

    UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese says that rather than ensuring Israel respects the basic human rights and self-determination of the Palestinian people, Western states - including Australia - have provided Israel with military, diplomatic, economic and ideological support. And investigative journalist Quentin Beresford examines the deep connections between the Labor party and the gambling industry in Australia.

    55 min

  2. 4 DAYS AGO

    The power of Patrick White plus why we should forgive

    A new book looks at author Patrick White's startling use of language, his mythic depiction of the Australian landscape and the people who inhabit it, and the power his prose still holds today. Plus philosopher Lucy Allais reflects on the nature of forgiveness.

    55 min

  3. 5 DAYS AGO

    Ian Dunt's UK, how Chicago is resisting ICE, and Australian anthropology turns 100

    What does Ian Dunt think of the King's attempt to eject Prince Andrew from his royal lodgings? Then, in America, Chicagoans have been organising against ICE agents who are attempting to implement Trump's aggressive deportation agenda. Here at home, anthropology has turned 100 years old. Can the academic discipline escape from its colonial roots?

    55 min

  4. 6 DAYS AGO

    Anna Henderson's Canberra, global surveillance network exposed, and can AI speak whale?

    Anna Henderson looks at what changes the government is trying to make to environment protection laws and why the Coalition wants to split the bill. How an Indonesia-based surveillance company tracked journalists, activists and dissidents all over the world, and the scientists using artificial intelligence to understand whale language.

    55 min

  5. 23 OCT

    The political drama before the Dismissal, and communing with Stalin's ghost

    Today, we look backwards. Gough Whitlam's dismissal didn't come out of nowhere; 1974 and 1975 were years of intense political turmoil and scandal. Paul Kelly was there, in his late-20s, as The Australian newspaper's chief political correspondent, and has become one of the chief chroniclers of the dynamics that led to The Dismissal.  Political ghosts haunt Russia, as well. But there's a very specific belief, held by some Russian occultists, that the ghost of Stalin is haunting their country and can be contacted through the internet.

    55 min

  6. 22 OCT

    Looted bronzes returning to Africa, plus love in antiquity

    The famous Benin bronzes, looted by the British in 1897, are gradually being returned home to Nigeria. But they won't be on display at Benin City's new Museum of West African Art when it opens next month. Plus, classicist Professor Marguerite Johnson on understandings and expressions of love in antiquity.

    55 min

  7. 21 OCT

    Bruce Shapiro's USA, Suriname's first female president, and a world without sand?

    Bruce Shapiro looks at Anthony Albanese's first meeting with US President Donald Trump and whether the critical minerals deal will see Australia become America's quarry. The little Dutch-speaking country of Suriname in South America has been ruled by a despot for years. But now it has elected its first female president who is promising to turn its fortunes around, and save its rainforests at the same time. Plus, why is the world running out of sand, and what can be done about it?

    55 min

  8. 20 OCT

    Bernard Keane's Canberra, Chris Hedges slams Western media's coverage of Gaza, and Fiona Stanley's cancelled hospital event

    Crikey's Bernard Keane on Barnaby Joyce's decision to quit the Nationals. There's speculation the New England MP may join the One Nation party. Pulitzer prize winning journalist Chris Hedges slams the Western media's reporting of Gaza and the power of the Israel lobby. And why epidemiologist Professor Fiona Stanley, considered asking the Perth hospital named after her, to remove her name.

    55 min
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Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr.

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