So often the complex issue of justice is viewed through the legal prism of criminal, distributive or procedural justice. But Dr Rowan Williams and Mary Zournazi argue that justice needs to confront individuals' suffering as well as the deep patterns of violence and denial in society.

Stephen Pyne's history of fire and humanity's complicated love-hate relationship with it. Patrick Nunn explores the possibility that some stories of drowned civilisations might shed light on actual geological events that happened multiple millennia ago.

Jackie French chats with Phillip Adams about her remarkable career as an author for children and adults, her books that are writing women back into history and her passion for wombats.

Where did the 91,000 members of the Stasi go after the fall of the Berlin wall? Was there a market for their skills? Ross Dobson is a chef and food writer who has looked through the history of Australian cookery to try and find our national dish.

Jon Lee Anderson has been a foreign correspondent for over 40 years and Staff writer with the New Yorker Magazine. He shares with Phillip the highs and lows of an extraordinary career across continents.

Ashley Gray tells the untold story of the rebel West Indian cricketers who toured apartheid South Africa. Australia’s ‘scuba-diving philosopher’ Peter Godfrey-Smith explores the evolution of animal consciousness.

Simon Winchester on how people's relationship to land, its borders and its ownership have changed over time and geography.

Isabel Allende explores how feminism has shaped her life over the past seven decades. Jennifer Higgie documents the lives of women artists and their self-portraits.

Our cheery panel find the humour in some of the most challenging parts of a difficult year.

Ian Dunt's final commentary for 2021 on UK politics and society. Playwright David Williamson's warts and all autobiography.