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Susan Banki assesses the impact the coup in Myanmar will have on the country's people and freedoms. Joe Cirincione welcomes Joe Biden's change in direction for nuclear weapons and arms control treaties. Alisa Bunbury takes us on a tour of the Grimwade collection - an exhibition of art and artefacts from Australia's colonial era.

Bruce Shapiro brings us the latest from Biden's America, Don Weatherburn discusses the dramatic decline in Australia's crime rate and Edward Brooke-Hitching curates a library of bizarre books.

Laura Tingle with the latest from Canberra, Kyle Wilson on the current protests in Russia and Craig Munro on some of the great Australian literary editors

David Anderson, ABC Managing Director, congratulates Phillip on his thirty years as host of LNL. Glyn Davis considers poverty and the responsibilities of looking after those less fortunate. Danny Dorling scans the data and concludes that the great acceleration and rapid change that has marked the last two centuries is starting to slow down.

Bruce Shapiro and Fintan O'Toole discuss America's eventful start to 2021 and what it will take to end the 'uncivil war', then Evan Osnos takes a closer look at Joe Biden, and what we can expect from his presidency, particularly when it comes to foreign policy.

Marcia Langton discusses the Voice to Parliament and how she feels about current debates about Australia Day and a panel discusses how Indigenous representation on stage and screen has changed over the last 20 years.

How the Biden administration will effect Australian politics, the threats to free speech in Australia and Tiffany Shellam on three indigenous intermediaries of early colonial Australia.

Between the wars in Britain, seances were hugely popular, so when a young housewife declares she's being haunted by a poltergeist, serious efforts were taken to find the truth. And Harvard University's papyrus scandal

The latest work by British author Martin Amis, Inside Story: How to Write, takes the death of his closest friend, Christopher Hitchens, as the starting point for this book. Along the way we meet other vibrant characters who have helped define Martin Amis - from his father Kingsley Amis, to his hero Saul Bellow, from poet Philip Larkin to his stepmother, the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard.

But ultimately he covers the hardest questions, such as how to live, how to grieve and how to die.

Don Watson has been writing for over forty years and his wit and sharp observations of Australian life are always worth a listen.