Hugh Mackay is a family friend, he's also the founder of the Australian quarterly research series The Mackay Report 1979-2003, which later became The Ipsos Mackay Report. He is a psychologist, social researcher and writer. He was a weekly newspaper columnist for 25 years and is generally a social commentator and extremely thoughtful guy. I really enjoyed having the opporunity to chat with him, as he releases a pair of books together, both about love.

We had a fascinating and wide ranging chat that covered duty, society, love, age, kindness and perspective. I hope you enjoy listening to it!

You can find his books and website here: hughmackay.net.au

Spaceacre is a duo of musicians, locked down in the south of France, making an album in the midst of the world collapsing. What does that feel like? We discuss over tea.

The anniversary of Lucy Fraser's death was 12 October. I uploaded this podcast I did with her in the final year of her life

Laura Davis is a friend of the show, and one of my favourite people in the whole world. We talk over LOTS of tea about her new bus show, and the horrible little mince man found art who is the unexpected avatar of 2020.

David Rose is a comedian and documentarian, talking with me about his ancestor, a Jewish comedian who played a caricature jew. We discuss offense, progress, context, hate speech and the function of minorities mocking themselves.

Find David on twitter and instagram at @davidrosecomedy

Mitch Alexander of Not Good Enough talks about revolution, landlords and capitalism.

Find him online at @notgoodpod

A time travel episode with the wonderful Ash Fontana - Angel Investor and all round business wizard, talks to me over mint tea. Before the pandemic!

How much to struggle, and how not to get caught up in questioning big life choices. Intellectual Honesty. Community. Ambition. Competency. Success.

Find Ash at @ashfontana on instagram and twitter

Tegan Higginbotham is a writer, presenter, comedian and friend of the podcast. We talked genre fiction and the chilling effect of online discourse.

@teganmh

Gary Anderson is an LA based comedian and friend - we talk about the politics of parenting, race and conservative commentary.

Sami Shah, author, broadcaster and comedian, talks about the problem with getting the dream job, what he wants to say and what it's like getting hate mail from white supremacists AND the Taliban.