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Michael Palin shares what he learnt from the 'murderous and mundane' war diaries of his Great-Uncle Harry and Julia Ebner explains how the extremists are moving from the margins to the mainstream.

Bruce Shapiro explains the ousting of US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and what comes next. Elizabeth Rush shares her journey to Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' and how it shifted her feelings on becoming a mother. Plus, Greg King exposes how forestry barons covered up the logging of California's iconic redwood forests.  

Ian Dunt dissects UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman's attack on multiculturalism. New research reveals the vast extent of the nuclear fallout from America's Trinity nuclear bomb test in 1945. Plus, the original Luddites of the 1800s, and their rebellion against Big Tech. 

In his lifetime, ground-breaking historian Henry Reynolds has seen many changes in the telling of Australian history.  Some of the most important truths, such as what really happened on the frontier, were instigated by him.

Adam Welz tells the shocking story behind the booming lion breeding program in South Africa and Otto English examines some of the heroic figures of our age to reveal them as much more complex flawed humans than they appear.

World-leading intelligence historian Calder Walton takes us on a tour through the 100-year Intelligence war between East and West, and historian Tamson Pietsch tells the story of a grand educational experiment conducted in the 1920's, called ‘The Floating University’.

Bruce Shapiro on the 'tentative' agreement reached between Hollywood studios and striking workers. Historian Gina Anne Tam explains why the Chinese state is cracking down on minority languages. And the powerful legacy of the Yirrkala Bark Petitions, 60 years on. 

Journalist Clare Armstrong on the government's new employment white paper, and what it means for pensioners keen to work more hours. Why are undersea cables becoming a source of geopolitical tension? Plus, the improvisational creativity of artist Lonnie Holley. 

Yanis Varoufakis explains why he thinks capitalism has been replaced by Technofeudalism. Keith Houston takes on a trip through humanity's history of counting - from fingers and toes to the pocket calculator.

Robert D. Kaplan challenges Western ideas about the Middle East and tries to offer a broader picture of the future of the region that looks beyond the binaries of democracy and authoritarianism. Plus, Loren Grush tells the story of the six extraordinary women that smashed the glass ceiling of NASA's space program back in 1978.