Brandon Garrett chronicles the litany of cases where flawed forensics have put innocent people in gaol and in some cases on death row. Is life preordained or random? Dr Sean Carroll argues that our existence, and that of the world, is the result of pure chance.

Ian Dunt assesses Keir Starmer's first year as Labour party leader. Julian Assange's father, John Shipton, discusses the campaign to free his son from gaol and stop his extradition to the USA. Helen Lewis introduces us to some of the most difficult feminists in history.

Bruce Shapiro on the latest from America, Libya's newly-elected interim government and Russian migration to Australia during the Cold War.

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.

Phillip Adams sits down for a wide ranging discussion about Australia, its democracy and its future.

Tess Newton Cain surveys the issues, politics and people of the Pacific. Stan Grant discusses his new book With the Falling of the Dusk: A Chronicle of the World in Crisis. Background Briefing journalist Alex Mann previews his report on white right wing extremists.

Bruce Shapiro has the latest from the US, Journalist Farid Farid and International Chamber of Shipping's Guy Platten discuss the Suez saga and Alexander Bell's misguided war on sign language and deaf culture.

Amy Remeikis from the Guardian on Canberra politics, Andrew Quilty reports on the Afghan perspective on the Brereton Report and Hal Whitehead on sperm whales.

The growing popularity of 'Doughnut Economics', and the story of rebel West Indian cricketers who toured apartheid South Africa.

Ian Dunt on the Scottish election, Mustafa Qadri on the millions of migrant workers in the Gulf and bringing artist A H Fullwood back to life