Start your day the right way, with a stimulating discussion of the latest news headlines and hot button topics from The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. Today, hear from Writers' Week guests Serhii Plokhy and Sanam Maher and ABC News South Australia Deputy Editor Nic Harmsen. ABOUT TODAY'S PANEL Serhii Plokhy Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University. He has published in English, Russian and Ukrainian as well as having taught in Canada, Ukraine and the USA. His bestselling book Chernobyl: the History of a Tragedy won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction 2018. His latest book, Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II is published in October 2019. Sanam Maher Sanam Maher is a journalist based in Karachi, Pakistan. For more than a decade, she has covered stories on Pakistan's art and culture, business, politics, religious minorities and women. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Caravan, Roads and Kingdoms and Buzzfeed. A Woman Like Her is her first book.  Nic Harmsen Nick Harmsen is the Deputy Editor of ABC News in South Australia. An award-winning journalist, Nick has experience reporting for a host of ABC programs in Queensland, South Australia, Canberra and Washington DC. For most of the past decade, he’s covered South Australian politics.   

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.