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   Number 1: Bruce Shapiro's USA, who's supplying weapons to Sudan, plus the first camera in Australia

   Bruce Shapiro asks if US President Donald Trump has betrayed American cattle farmers, after he eased tariffs on foreign beef. Australia sells weapons to the United Arab Emirates, but could those weapons be ending up in Sudan? Plus, the story of the first camera that made it to colonial Australia in May 1841. Guests:Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor for The Nation, executive director of the Global Centre for Journalism and TraumaAndrew Bartlett, President of Australians for War Powers Reform and former Democrats and Greens Senator for QueenslandElisa DeCourcy, writer and curator, author of Early Photography in Colonial Australia, Melbourne University Press

   August 25, 2026·55min
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   Number 2: Ian Dunt's UK, the KPMG scandal, plus 500 years of nightlife

   Our regular UK correspondent on the death of former Cambridge Professor Jason Arday. An accounting and ethics expert who has been following the KPMG case explains why some of the firm's activities are so controversial. And 'going out' - a colourful romp through the many ways that many cultures enjoy night life. Guests: Ian Dunt, columnist with i-news; co-host of the Origin Story podcastTom Ravlic, journalist, author and academic who has been writing about the KPMG saga for Crikey, and The MandarinImogen Willetts, author of ‘Up All Night: A History of Going Out'

   August 18, 2026·55min
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   Number 3: How the US became a country for old men, plus the extraordinary encounters of a 1900s cattle station girl

   Yale Professor Samuel Moyn argues that the old in the United States have hoarded wealth and power, and that something needs to give. Plus, Australian historian Tom Griffiths corroborates the extraordinary encounters of a 1900s white cattle station girl, Alice Duncan-Kemp, who learned from Indigenous Mithaka people in outback Queensland. Guests:Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law and History at Yale University, author of 'Gerontocracy in America: how the old are hoarding wealth and power - and what to do about it' (2026)Tom Griffiths, historian and author of 'Alice's dreaming' (2026)

   August 27, 2026·55min
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   Number 4: Anna Henderson's Canberra, the Israeli ambassador on Zomi Frankcom, plus the music in our names

   One Nation is mopping up after new MP David Farley's 'rookie mistake' on his party's net migration target. Veteran Jerusalem correspondent examines the work of the Israeli ambassador to Australia Hillel Newman, after an IDF report found that no one would be held criminally liable for the death of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom and her colleagues in Gaza in 2024. Plus, composer and host of The Music Show Andrew Ford ponders the musical qualities of our names and nicknames. Guests:Anna Henderson, chief political correspondent, SBSIrris Makler, freelance journalist, veteran Jerusalem correspondentAndrew Ford, composer and host of The Music Show on Radio National

   August 24, 2026·55min
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   Number 5: Simon Sebag Montefiore on the making of the modern Middle East

   Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore traces 125 years of war, revolution, upheaval and revival in the Middle East. From the final days of the Ottoman Empire to to the current Iran-US conflict, Simon's new book The Cauldron examines the forces, characters and calamities that have shaped the region.Guest: Simon Sebag Montefiore, writer and historianProducer: Ali Benton

   August 26, 2026·55min
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