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May 29, 2024 Rory Stewart on walking through Afghanistan to become a Tory MP
The extraordinary Rory Stewart tells the story of walking across Iran, Pakistan, the Himalayas and Afghanistan following 9/11. He made it his business to understand local cultural practices and languages during his time as author, historian and former diplomat in Iraq and Libya.
Then in 2023 Phillip speaks to him again after Rory had had enough of his time as Tory MP and blew the whistle on life inside Westminster.
Guest: Rory Stewart. Interviews from 2013 and 2023
49 min
May 29, 2024 Rob Sitch on how comedy teams work
The genius behind so many successful comedy films and TV programs in Australia, such as D-Gen, The Late Night Show, The Castle, Hollow Men and Utopia. Rob Sitch discusses the working of comedy teams, making live comedy to air and the challenges of acting, writing and directing.
Guest: Rob Sitch
54 min
May 29, 2024 Christina Lamb on the follies of war
Christina Lamb OBE, Chief Foreign Correspondent at the Sunday Times, has reported from the world’s hotspots now for decades, including Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
She wrote a searing analysis of the problems with many of the western involvements in these countries, and about her experience being ambushed by the Taliban in Iraq.
But in the years since 9/11 she’s been shocked many times while watching the west, “fight a war with our hands tied, committing too little too late, failing to understand local dynamics and turning a blind eye as our enemy was helped by our own ally, Pakistan”.
Guest: Christina Lamb, journalist and author
35 min
May 29, 2024 The media history wars
From the earliest days, control of the media was a hard fought battle. In the 1930s, a massive campaign was waged by Australian newspaper barons against the formation of an independent news service at the ABC.
Then, from the 1940s through to the 1970s, twelve independent newspaper companies morphed into a handful of multimedia giants, controlling papers, magazines, radio and tv stations. It resulted in the most concentrated level of media ownership and control in the western world.
Guest: Sally Young, Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne
9 min
May 29, 2024 Primatologist Jane Goodall and Rwanda under the spotlight
Jane Goodall is most well know for her work with chimpanzees in Tanzania, but she is currently in Australia explaining why she has hope for the climate. Michela Wrong has been researching the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame and questions why the west continues to support him.
55 min
May 28, 2024 Bruce Shapiro explains what an upside-down US flag means.
In Bruce Shaprio’s America, Donald Trump’s hush money trial is almost over and what’s going on with the upside- down US flag? Exiled activist Ma Thida on Myanmar’s civil war.
55 min
May 27, 2024 Bernard Keane's Canberra plus Clive Hamilton on privilege
Bernard Keane looks at how the government is navigating the challenges of reconciliation, hate speech, the war in Gaza and the path to net zero. Plus Clive Hamilton asks why Australia accepts says the privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerful - which he says cause widespread harm.
55 min
May 23, 2024 Jordan protests Gaza war plus AC Grayling on who owns the moon
In Jordan both the royal family and Palestinian Jordanians are protesting the war in Gaza, but Jordan's reliance on Israeli water is becoming a political obstacle to further action. And philosopher AC Grayling thinks we need to turn our attention to ownership disputes not on earth, but on the moon.
55 min
May 22, 2024 Reporting 5km from the frontline and the history of undersea cables.
Anastasia Taylor-Lind and Alisa Sopova met covering the war in Donetsk back in 2014. Since then they have captured the every day lives of people living close to the frontline. Aaron Bateman traces the history of global connection from radio to modern day undersea cables.
55 min
May 21, 2024 UK politics, Stella Assange and how to fix France
Stella Assange on what the latest court win means for Julian Assange, Ian Dunt assesses the initial pitches from Labor and the Conservatives in the election campaign and Nabila Ramdani busts a few myths about what France is really like, and how it should be fixed.
55 min