World-leading intelligence historian Calder Walton takes us on a tour through the 100-year Intelligence war between East and West, and historian Tamson Pietsch tells the story of a grand educational experiment conducted in the 1920's, called ‘The Floating University’.

The spies that shaped history and a floating university

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Iran has shown remarkable restraint in responding to Israel's attacks on Gaza. Professor Ali Ansari says the country is not only caught up in internal issues following the death of its president, but also has a long and not well-known connection with the Jewish community. Plus, how acting quickly on pulling methane from the atmosphere could make a difference to climate change.

The lost history of Iranian Jews plus clearing the air - of emissions

Narendra Modi has won his third successive election in India, but journalist Atul Dev tells the backstory of his feared and influential wingman, Amit Shah. And author Regan Penaluna tells the story of some of the women philosophers whose names should be better known - like Mary Astell.

Who are Amit Shah and Mary Astell?

Ian Dunt on the first fortnight of the UK election campaign, how Mexico's new President, Claudia Sheinbaum, will take on its machismo culture and thirty years after its discovery, how the Wollemi pine is coping with modernity.

Ian Dunt's UK, Mexico's anti-machismo president and preserving the Wollemi pine

7:30's Chief Political Correspondent Laura Tingle is back with Phillip to discuss the latest immigration scandal to shake up politics, and historians Michelle Arrow and Leigh Boucher look at Australia's long fight for equality on the basis of sexuality and gender, from the 1970's to today.

Laura Tingle's Canberra and Australia's ongoing fight for equality

Anne Applebaum on the connections between Russian and Chinese autocrats and the Trump Republicans seeking to discredit liberalism. Plus how Joseph Stalin secretly organised to evacuate 12,000 Greek communists after the Greek Civil War, and send them to Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

The spies that shaped history and a floating university

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