Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAmerica's history of expelling migrants, and factchecking in a "post-truth" world
US President Donald Trump’s threatened deportation of up to twenty million immigrants brings back tough memories for Japanese Americans who were depo…
1 year, 1 month ago
Vancouver's fentanyl epidemic plus the lost languages of Tibet
Vancouver decriminalised possession of small quantities of drugs for personal use in 2023. Then drug deaths sky-rocketed. So did the experiment fail,…
1 year, 1 month ago
Elon Musk and Nigel Farage fall out, plus can Trump really buy Greenland?
Ian Dunt on the fall-out between Nigel Farage and Elon Musk. Plus what Greenlanders think of Trump's push to the buy the icy island.
1 year, 1 month ago
Australia by numbers, and a history of the beach shack
As the Australia Day weekend comes to a close, leading social researchers Rebecca Huntley and Anthea Hancocks break down what the latest data says ab…
1 year, 1 month ago
When child soldiers grow up and April Ashley - glamour model and trans pioneer
What happens when child soldiers grow up and have children of their own? A new inter-generational study looks at the former child soldiers of Sierra …
1 year, 1 month ago
Peter Beinart on being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza, and Coca-Cola's power in China
While anti-Semitic attacks in Australia and America appear to be on the rise, Jewish journalism professor and author Peter Beinart argues that Israel…
1 year, 1 month ago
Bruce Shapiro on Trump's America Mark ll and a journalist returns to Syria
Regular US commentator Bruce Shapiro in an extended segment to talk inauguration and more. And journalist Dima Khatib was on the first commercial fli…
1 year, 1 month ago
Laura Tingle's Canberra, a fishy deal and eucalypts taking over the world
Laura Tingle looks at how the major parties spent their summer as the shadow election campaign takes off. A landmark agreement for workers on Pacific…
1 year, 1 month ago
LNL Summer: Stephen Fry on life, last words and the things he can't do
Stephen Fry (UK) ets candid on storytelling, impostor syndrome, and the things he’s hilariously hopeless at. Wise, witty, and wonderfully self-deprec…
1 year, 1 month ago
LNL Summer: Can copyright protect Indigenous art, and the downfall of the Maharajas
Since the 1980s, lawyers have used copyright law to protect Indigenous Art, but is it fit for purpose? When India gained its independence, a huge par…
1 year, 1 month ago