One of Australia's best loved characters Bob Downe is forty years old. Created by Mark Trevorrow, the Prince of Polyester has enjoyed huge success both here and overseas.

An anniversary show is in the works to celebrate Bob’s birthday but Mark, who has many strings to his bow, is currently touring with his cabaret show Old Friends Sing Sondheim.

Guest: Mark Trevorrow, former journalist, broadcaster and actor

New South Wales  is hosting a drug summit for first time in twenty five years, but stakeholders are concerned that politicians won't act on findings.

With drug reform policy a political hot potato across all states and territories, what kind of changes would non government agencies like to see?

Guest: Dr Marianne Jauncey, Medical Director of Sydney's medically supervised injecting centre 

Pennsylvania has the largest Puerto Rican community of all the swing states.  "If Donald Trump loses Pennsylvania, Kamala Harris has a 94 percent chance of winning the electoral college".

It was one of the key swing states of the 2020 election, when Joe Biden's tiny margin of victory tipped a Democrat win for the first time since 1996.

Just days out from the 2024 election, what's the mood like on the campaign trail in the battleground state of Arizona?

Is it really Donald Trump’s race to lose?  

With only days to go and early voting already well underway in the US presidential election, political observers see movement in Trump's direction.  

Maria-Anna Mozart was, like her younger brother, a child prodigy. Together they toured Europe, but what became of her?

Australian-made film 'Mozart's Sister' documents her life, and asks whether it was she who composed some of Mozart's earlier works. 

Guest: Paul Dyer, artistic director and conductor of the Australian Brandenburg orchestra.

Donald Trump’s nephew Fred C. Trump has written an insider's account of the family “who put the fun into dysfunctional”.

All in The Family explores how cruelty and family dynamics helped create President Trump and how Fred Trump has evolved into a “different kind of Trump”

Guest: Fred C Trump - Author of All In The Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way

After the expulsion of hundreds of embassy-based spies, the Kremlin is using riskier and less conventional methods, alarming spy chiefs across Europe. 

The head of MI5, Ken McCallum, said that Russian agents have been responsible for "arson, sabotage and more dangerous actions conducted with increasing recklessness" after the UK backed Ukraine in its war with Russia.

Guest: Mark Galeotti, Russia expert and director of Mayak Intelligence

The ABC's Allyson Horn has just returned home for the birth of her second child.

She reflects on her eventful two year posting as the ABC's Midle East Correspondent.

Guest: Allyson Horn, the ABC's Middle East Correspondent.

Is it really Donald Trump’s race to lose?  

With only days to go and early voting already well underway, that’s the sentiment from many of America's leading pollsters, and political observers.

The data shows only a hair's breadth separates Donald Trump and his democratic rival Kamala Harris in the key battleground states that will decide the Presidency.

• Guest:  Matt Schlapp, Chairman, American Conservative Union