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4392 - Kate Grenville investigates a colonial cold case, plus who stole Victoria's ceremonial mace?

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Tue, 06 Oct 2026
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Mon, 28 Sep 2026
4384 - Australian doctors in Gaza, plus how vanilla went global

Thu, 24 Sep 2026
4383 - How immigration made Australia, plus our endless hunger for resources

Wed, 23 Sep 2026
4382 - Bruce Shapiro on the looming US midterms, plus Putin's new world order

Tue, 22 Sep 2026
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Tue, 01 Jul 2025
4380 - Albanese's second term ambitions, a new MI6 chief, and the forgotten Flinders brother

Mon, 30 Jun 2025
4379 - How to share resources in space, and the true crimes of Wiradjuri brothers Jimmy and Joe Governor

Thu, 26 Jun 2025
4378 - What is France's role in the world? Plus, a trailblazing, rebellious Māori Professor

Wed, 25 Jun 2025
4377 - Ian Dunt's UK, one year on from Julian Assange's release, and how classical statues lost their noses

Tue, 24 Jun 2025
4376 - Will MAGA Republicans split over Iran strikes? And does Israel have its own nuclear weapons?

Mon, 23 Jun 2025
4375 - The fallacies of the fertility crisis, and a gritty history of Macau

Thu, 19 Jun 2025
4374 - A shambolic expedition to Arnhem Land, and the first despot of North Korea

Wed, 18 Jun 2025
4373 - Bruce Shapiro's USA, Dutch politics in crisis, and the Inca language of knotted strings

Tue, 17 Jun 2025
4372 - Albanese to meet Trump, a history of the Iran nuclear deal, and how the sweet potato crossed oceans

Mon, 16 Jun 2025
4371 - Who is America? And Australia's most successful female artist Emily Kngwarray

Thu, 12 Jun 2025
4370 - Young US men are joining Russian churches, plus an infamous brawl over the haka

Wed, 11 Jun 2025
4369 - Bruce Shapiro's America, and hunting down the Myall Creek murderers

Tue, 10 Jun 2025
4368 - The true power of land ownership, plus giving children the right to vote

Mon, 09 Jun 2025
4367 - Two months on from Myanmar's earthquake, and healing a divided United States

Thu, 05 Jun 2025
4366 - Haiti's gang crisis takes a dark turn, plus the mother of all languages

Wed, 04 Jun 2025
4365 - Ian Dunt's UK, Pakistan and India's war over water, and who named our body parts?

Tue, 03 Jun 2025
4364 - Bernard Keane's Canberra, what America's 'comfort class' doesn't get, and the life of a food critic

Mon, 02 Jun 2025
4363 - The origins of the term 'national security', and actress Merle Oberon's false identity

Thu, 29 May 2025
4362 - Abalone cultural heritage in Tasmania and overtourism in the Canary Islands

Wed, 28 May 2025
4361 - Bruce Shapiro's America, the money behind the 'Enhanced Games', and an ancient Roman cookbook

Tue, 27 May 2025
4360 - Late Night Live farewells Laura Tingle

Mon, 26 May 2025
4359 - D-day looms for Woodside's Burrup gas plant, and teaching troubled teens to hunt in the New Zealand wilderness

Thu, 22 May 2025
4358 - The Aussies the union movement left behind, and what causes a society to collapse?

Wed, 21 May 2025
4357 - Tariff chaos on American shelves, Ukraine minerals deal and Lake Eyre in flood

Tue, 20 May 2025
4356 - Laura Tingle's Canberra, and Harriet Walter re-writes Shakespeare's women

Mon, 19 May 2025
4355 - The Brazilian Marxists claiming unused land, and Australia's Antarctic obsession

Thu, 15 May 2025
4354 - Who's still selling arms to Israel? And the legal rights of nature

Wed, 14 May 2025
4353 - Ian Dunt's UK, Europe's thirsty data centres, and the survival of Indigenous message sticks

Tue, 13 May 2025
4352 - Laura Tingle's Canberra, US-China trade talks and the art of the courtroom sketch

Mon, 12 May 2025
4351 - Does our world lack moral ambition? And the Victorian obsession with orchids

Thu, 08 May 2025
4350 - Bruce Shapiro's America, How Kerala got rich and vale Ted Kotcheff of Wake in Fright

Tue, 06 May 2025
4349 - Labor's stunning landslide, plus the hangover from Australia's wine boom

Mon, 05 May 2025
4348 - Was Hitler's filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl complicit in Nazi atrocities?

Thu, 01 May 2025
4347 - Australia's biggest tax lurks, and Mexico stares down Donald Trump

Wed, 30 Apr 2025
4346 - Ian Dunt on UK's gender wars, John Lyons on Ukraine's resistance, and arts funding under pressure

Tue, 29 Apr 2025
4345 - Laura Tingle's election, and the year that changed the world

Mon, 28 Apr 2025
4344 - Australians in the Spanish Civil War, and when hair was thought to indicate character

Thu, 24 Apr 2025
4343 - What it's like to be raided by DOGE, and the fearless feminist Beatrice Faust

Wed, 23 Apr 2025

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