Dr Michael McKernan is a historian, commentator and writer with extensive experience in teaching, the media and practical presentation of history. During his career he has written and edited more than twenty books, including Australians at Home: World War I (2014), and discusses the significance of Keith Murdoch’s letter directed to the Australian Prime Minister Andrew Fisher, which led to the evacuation of the Gallipoli peninsula.

Dr Susannah Helman is Curatorial Manager, Exhibitions Branch, National Library of Australia, and one of the curators of Keepsakes: Australians and the Great War, which presents some of the Library’s unique collection of manuscripts, ephemera, artworks, photographs and documents relating to the First World War. She discusses Arthur Wheen’s translation of All Quiet on the Western Front in the context of his other papers displayed in the exhibition Keepsakes.

Peter Rees has been a journalist for more than forty years, working as federal political correspondent for the Melbourne Sun, West Australian and Sunday Telegraph. He is the author of three Great War books, most recently, Bearing Witness: The Remarkable Life of Charles Bean, Australia’s Greatest War Correspondent (2015), and discusses the overarching influence of Bean on subsequent researchers, historians and how Australians remember Gallipoli and the Great War.

666 ABC’s Genevieve Jacobs talks with author Robyn Cadwallader about her passion for the medieval era and her debut novel, The Anchoress.

Professor Emerita Michelle P. Brown explores the world of medieval illuminated manuscripts, their makers and readers, in the context of the famous Rothschild Prayer Book.

Frank Moorhouse, author of the beloved Edith trilogy, delivers the Australian Society of Authors’ 2015 Colin Simpson Memorial Lecture on the topic, 'Does the imagination have ethics?'.

Listen to Nick Davies as he speaks about breaking the News of the World phone hacking story in the United Kingdom.

Hear Margaret Manion and Erika Persak discuss the stunning 16th Century Netherlandish illuminated manuscript, The Rothschild Prayer Book, recently acquired for the Kerry Stokes Collection.

Join Michael Connelly and Jeff Popple as they discuss the latest Hieronymus Bosch thriller — set in the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit. The case starts with a fresh body, a bullet that’s been lodged in the victim’s spine for a decade, and new leads revealing that the shooting may have been anything but random.

To mark their 25th anniversary, the Friends of the National Library of Australia explore how libraries inspire and inform us all. Writers Don Watson, Marion Halligan and Omar Musa speak about why supporting libraries is important and why libraries matter to them personally.