From 'Bush Christmas; in 1947 to 2024's 'Nugget is Dead', what are the ingredients for an Australian family Christmas movie?

Guests:  Vic Zerbst and Jenna Owen, ‘Nugget is Dead’ co-writers and actors

Navalny began writing his memoir while recovering from his 2020 poisoning by the Russian security service; it ends with his prison diaries. 

Arkady Ostrovsky travelled with Navalny on that fateful flight to Russia before Navalny was imprisoned. 

He says that the book's insights into Navalny’s preparation for death and martyrdom are deeply profound.  

The Brisbane Olympics organising boss Andrew Liveris has backed a new stadium for the 2032 Games, revealing a multi-billion-dollar venue at the proposed inner city Victoria Park precinct.

The Queensland government is just days into a 100-day review into the best option for the main stadium venue.

With French President Emmanuel Macron expected to announce a new prime minister within days, what is how has France become so divided?

Guest: Dr Romain Fathi, senior lecturer in History at the Australian National University

Its title has often been misappropriated, but it remains one of Australia's intellectually influential books.

Donald Horne’s classic, The Lucky Country was published sixty years ago this week. 

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing mounting pressure to resign over his failed attempt to impose martial law as parliament moves closer to a vote on his impeachment.

Yoon's attempt to rule by martial law has caused public outrage and street protests and tested the country's democratic resilience. . 

Margaret Olley was the subject of not one, but two Archibald prize winning portraits. The first was in 1948 by William Dobell and the second was in 2011 painted by Ben Quilty.

Now a small regional gallery is fundraising to purchase the 2011 portrait to complement a re-creation of the artist's house.

Guest: Ingrid Hedgcock, director of Tweed Regional Gallery and the Margaret Olley Art Centre

Fifty years ago Martin Green began research into how to improve solar cells. In 1983 he led a team that invented the PERC cell, a solar power technology that allows more sunlight to be captured and turned into electricity. 

This innovation, since further developed by Green and his team at UNSW, is now used in over 90 per cent of global silicon solar module production.

He continues to work in the lab and has mentored hundreds of students and solar pioneers.

• Guest: Martin Green, Scientia Professor, University of New South Wales. Founder and inaugural director of the  Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics. 

Money brings freedom and it takes it away. It inspires and corrupts us. But what is money?

Economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money – from coins in Republican Greece to mathematics in the medieval Arab world, and from the emergence of the US dollar right up to today’s cryptocurrency and beyond. 

• Guest: David McWilliams, economist, podcaster and author of Money: A story of Humanity (Simon and Schuster)

The end of the Cold War was meant to bring peace, but instead, the 21st Century is rife with conflict.