Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson is widely considered one of the greatest football managers of all time, having won more trophies than any other manager in the history of football.

After Sir Alex suffered a near-fatal brain haemorrhage in 2018, his son Jason took on the task of directing Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In, a documentary charting the highs and lows of the 79-year-old’s incredible career.

Writer Aminatta Forna's ongoing love of exploration has been captured in her new book, The Window Seat: Notes From A Life In Motion, a collection of thought-provoking essays that traverse a range of subjects including displacement, identity, memory, and how we encroach on the non-human world.

Donald Trump’s company the Trump Organization and its longtime chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg have been hit with a slew of criminal charges including conspiracy, grand larceny, and multiple counts of tax fraud. Amherst College law professor Lawrence Douglas, whose most recent book is Will He Go? Trump and the Looming Electoral Meltdown, joins the show to discuss.

Kim reads out listener feedback on the show.

Kiwi-Scottish starman Dr Stephen Curran returns by popular demand to unpack cosmic goings-on.

Dr Archa Fox has an unusual background for a scientist - when she was three her parents packed the family off to India to join the Orange People cult. Now Dr Fox is an associate professor at the School of Human Sciences at The University of Western Australia, and is part of a group of mRNA scientists who successfully lobbied for a mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility to be built in Australia. 

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Gary Fettke is the only doctor in Australia to be banned from giving dietary advice to his patients, after recommending those with complications of Type 2 Diabetes reduce their sugar intake. Now Dr Fettke has set his sights on the anti-meat lobby, claiming the current demonisation of red meat has nothing to do with science, but is about religious ideology and processed food industry profit.

Writer, activist and historian Rebecca Solnit's latest is Recollections of My Non-Existence, a memoir that describes being a 19-year-old in San Francisco - where she started to forge her voice as a young writer during the era of punk rock and amid an atmosphere of gender violence.

In 2013, journalist Jessica Bruder hit the road to document the growing subculture of Americans who have given up traditional housing to move into 'wheel estate' — many because of economic or personal hardship. The project spanned three years and the resulting book Nomadland was released in 2017 and made into an award-winning movie.

In his day job Ian White is the general manager of a cyber-security company, dealing with issues of hacking and ransomware, but in his spare time he has another important role: as 'big buddy' to a young boy who doesn't have a father in his life.