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2048 - Climate change and the "end of Eden", and the female aviator who became a spy

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2048 - Climate change and the "end of Eden", and the female aviator who became a spy

Thu, 30 Nov 2023
2047 - The long campaign for Indigenous Rangers and the real power of Roman emperors

Wed, 29 Nov 2023
2046 - Ian Dunt's UK, Pacific priorities at COP28 and the power of eyeliner

Tue, 28 Nov 2023
2045 - Laura Tingle's Canberra, and the stories told by the paintings of the State Library of NSW

Mon, 27 Nov 2023
2044 - Yascha Mounk's Identity Trap. Raimond Gaita on Justice and Hope

Thu, 23 Nov 2023
2043 - An hour with Charlie Chaplin

Wed, 22 Nov 2023
2042 - Bruce Shapiro's America, Netanyahu's political future and convict tales with Jim Haynes

Tue, 21 Nov 2023
2041 - Laura Tingle's Canberra, China's role in the Middle East, and the assassination of Lumumba

Mon, 20 Nov 2023
2040 - Richard Flanagan on life and love in the nuclear era

Thu, 16 Nov 2023
2039 - Facial recognition and privacy. Alexandria: The city that changed the world

Wed, 15 Nov 2023
2038 - Ian Dunt on the Big Reshuffle and UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese

Tue, 14 Nov 2023
2037 - Laura Tingle's Canberra, and economist Sean Turnell on his imprisonment in Myanmar

Mon, 13 Nov 2023
2036 - Britain's empire on the brink

Thu, 09 Nov 2023
2035 - How swing was used for war propaganda and the Pacific Islands Forum meets in Rarotonga

Wed, 08 Nov 2023
2034 - Bruce Shapiro's America, the mass protest decade, and the WWII rescue of JFK

Tue, 07 Nov 2023
2033 - The PM visits China, Pacific nuclear legacies and the young whalers sent to Antarctica

Mon, 06 Nov 2023
2032 - Adelaide Ironside: The first Australian artist to astonish the world. Love: a curious history in 50 objects.

Thu, 02 Nov 2023
2031 - Wendy Harmer on 'Lies My Mirror Told Me'

Wed, 01 Nov 2023
2030 - UK Politics, a marine heatwave heads south and why people love saunas

Tue, 31 Oct 2023
2029 - Laura Tingle's Canberra, the international Atlas Network and the Mexican town that banned avocados

Mon, 30 Oct 2023
2028 - US-backed wars and their legacies, and Maria Sybilla Merian, the first ecologist

Thu, 26 Oct 2023
2027 - How we choked the Earth with dust, and Melbourne's orange-peel panic

Wed, 25 Oct 2023
2026 - Bruce Shapiro's America, Poland's surprise election result, and Australia's citizen scientists

Tue, 24 Oct 2023
2025 - Laura Tingle's Canberra, deadly cults in Kenya, and Jamaica's official language

Mon, 23 Oct 2023
2024 - 1848: a most important revolutionary year. The history of silk.

Thu, 19 Oct 2023
2023 - Rory Stewart on his time as a Tory MP, and a clear-flowing Yarra River

Wed, 18 Oct 2023
2022 - Ian Dunt's UK, keeping Singapore cool, and Australia's soft power

Tue, 17 Oct 2023
2021 - Where to now for reconciliation?

Mon, 16 Oct 2023
2020 - Ed Yong on the world of animal senses, and why witches are still on trial

Thu, 12 Oct 2023
2019 - The Australian origins of the 8 hour workday, and the fateful relationship of Bennelong and Arthur Phillip

Wed, 11 Oct 2023
2018 - US response to Hamas attacks, the lucrative passport trade, and the sex worker who became a spy

Tue, 10 Oct 2023
2017 - Laura Tingle's Canberra, China's economic woes, and the convicts of New Caledonia

Mon, 09 Oct 2023
2016 - Michael Palin on his Great-Uncle Harry and Julia Ebner on extremism

Thu, 05 Oct 2023
2015 - Kevin McCarthy ousted, motherhood as glaciers melt, and history's greatest act of greenwashing

Wed, 04 Oct 2023
2014 - Ian Dunt's UK, Trinity's nuclear fallout, and the original Luddites

Tue, 03 Oct 2023
2013 - An LNL special: Historian Henry Reynolds reflects on the extraordinary gaps he discovered in Australian history telling

Mon, 02 Oct 2023
2012 - The lion breeding boom in South Africa and some fake heroes exposed

Thu, 28 Sep 2023
2011 - The spies that shaped history and a floating university

Wed, 27 Sep 2023
2010 - Bruce Shapiro's America, China's language police, and the legacy of the Bark Petitions

Tue, 26 Sep 2023
2009 - Payday for pensioners, waging war over undersea cables, and the art of Lonnie Holley

Mon, 25 Sep 2023
2008 - Yanis Varoufakis on Technofeudalism and the evolution of counting

Thu, 21 Sep 2023
2007 - The future of the Middle East and NASA's first female astronauts

Wed, 20 Sep 2023
2006 - Ian Dunt's UK, Israel-PNG relations, and cheerfulness in Art

Tue, 19 Sep 2023
2005 - Amy Remeikis' Canberra, the nuclear waste challenge, and one woman's passion for eating offal

Mon, 18 Sep 2023
2004 - What is it really like to be blind?

Thu, 14 Sep 2023
2003 - How the Sami voice is heard in Norway, 50 years since the Pinochet coup, a history of the Tiwi Islands

Wed, 13 Sep 2023
2002 - Bruce Shapiro's America, and the unsung heroes of the Oxford English Dictionary

Tue, 12 Sep 2023
2001 - Bernard Keane's Canberra, Taiwan from the inside and the myths of national dishes

Mon, 11 Sep 2023
2000 - The American obsession with conspiracy theories, plus the Dickens-led tourism trend

Thu, 07 Sep 2023
1999 - Reviving regional "news deserts", and humanity's interstellar future

Wed, 06 Sep 2023