Leni Riefenstahl has been hailed as one of the greatest directors of all time, even though her most famous films were works of propaganda for Hitler's Reich. Her film about the 1934 Nuremberg rallies broke new ground in cinematic techniques and had a huge influence on filmmakers for years to come. Riefenstahl always claimed she was just an artist, unaware of Nazi atrocities, but a new documentary reveals secrets from her extensive archives.

• GUEST: Andres Veiel, Director, 'Riefenstahl', showing at the German Film Festival 
• PRODUCER: Catherine Zengerer

Mexico's first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, is hugely popular in her country, and gaining global admiration for winning both Donald Trump’s respect, and his apparent cooperation with her over tariffs. 

Guest: Maya Averbuch, Bloomberg journalist based in Mexico City for the last 8 years, covering Mexico’s economy and politics 

Producer: Ann Arnold

Despite growing intergenerational inequality, and numerous tax reviews and recommendations, there's been no major reform to Australia's taxation system since the introduction of the GST in the year 2000. From capital gains tax discounts, to superannuation concessions, is Australia's tax system unusually generous to the wealthy? And why is tax reform so politically difficult? 

Guest: Chris Evans, Professor Emeritus at the University of New South Wales, former head of the Australian Taxation School

Producer: Jack Schmidt

It's been a turbulent few years in Australia's arts sector - post-pandemic financial pain, to major leadership changes, shifting consumer tastes, and censorship over the war in Gaza. Brook Turner examines the drama inside some of Australia's oldest arts institutions. 

• Guest: Brook Turner, freelance journalist, contributor to the Australian Financial Review, author of Turbulence and Transcendence: Biennale of Sydney: The First 50 Years 
• Producer: Helen Pitt 

When Vladimir Putin launched his latest war on Ukraine in 2022 he thought it would take three days. To everyone's surprise Ukraine managed to maintain its resistance for three years. But with Trump now in power, can Ukraine continue to hold out?

• GUEST:  John Lyons, ABC Global Affairs Editor, author of “A bunker in Kyiv (with Sylvie le Clezio)”, published by Harper Collins 
• PRODUCER: Catherine Zengerer

Ian Dunt looks at the fallout from the UK Supreme court ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex, why Labour's push to remove hereditary peers from the House of Lords has stalled and the Ukraine peace talks are off track. 

• GUEST: Ian Dunt, columnist with the “i”, co-host of the Origin Story podcast
• PRODUCER: Jack Schmidt

The National Library of Australia is asking people across the country to keep hold of materials from the 2025 election campaign to go towards its political ephemera collection. The collection contains over forty thousand items and stretches back to 1901.

• GUEST: Catherine Aldersey, Curator, National Library of Australia.
• PRODUCER: Ali Benton

Author and filmmaker Phil Craig recounts how the final, dramatic acts of the Second World War set Britain, her colonies and her dominions on a new course.

• Guest: Phil Craig, author of 1945, The Reckoning: War, Empire and the Struggle for a New World, published by Hachette
• Producer: Helen Pitt

As Australia enters the final week of the election campaign, Laura Tingle looks at the latest polls and how culture wars around Welcome to Country ceremonies have entered the fray.  

• GUEST: Laura Tingle, 7.30 Political Editor
• PRODUCER: Catherine Zengerer

The thickness, colour and texture of facial and head hair showed character traits about men and women, it was believed in 19th century America. The assessments were imbued with judgements about race and gender. Guest: Sarah Gold McBride, author of 'Whiskerology: the culture of hair in 19th century America’ (Harvard University Press, due out in June 2025) Producer: Ann Arnold