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Uncommon Sense episodes

August 14, 2018 Uncommon Sense - 14 August 2018
Ben Eltham joined Amy to discuss the latest in federal politics. Richard Todd, Director and Producer of Dying to Live, came into the studio to discuss his documentary about organ and tissue donation in Australia, which is showing at the Melbourne International Film Festival
Dr Karen Jones, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne came in to talk about trust - what is it, and how can we trust wisely? Karen will be giving a lecture on Wise Trust as part of the Trust Project Talk Series.
1 hr 50 min
July 03, 2018 Uncommon Sense - 3 July 2018
Curators Kirsty Grant and Denise Whitehouse join the program to talk about the latest exhibition at theHeide Museum of Modern Art,'Design For Life: Grant and Mary Featherston', which explores the career of Grant Featherston, a pioneering Australian modernist furniture designer, and his professional and personal partnership with Mary Featherston. David Ritter, CEO ofGreenpeace Australia Pacificjoined Amy to talk about his new book, 'The Coal Truth: The fight to stop Adani, defeat the big polluters and reclaim our democracy'. PlusNew Matilda'sNational Affairs Correspondent Ben Eltham on the latest in federal politics.
1 hr 49 min
June 26, 2018 Uncommon Sense - 26 June 2018 - Kate Rossmanith
Author, academic and essayist,Kate Rossmanith joined Amy in the studio to talk about her hybrid memoirSmall Wrongs: How We Really Say Sorry in Love, Life and Law.
47 min
June 26, 2018 Uncommon Sense - 26 June 2018
Author, academic and essayist,Kate Rossmanith joined Amy in the studio to talk about her hybrid memoirSmall Wrongs: How We Really Say Sorry in Love, Life and Law.Jean-Dominique Mellot, Chief Curator of theBibliothque nationale de France (BnF), and specialist in the history of books, publishing, and cultural practices in the 17th and 18th centuries; along with Wallace Kirsop, Adjunct Professor at Monash University came in to talk about theState Library of Victoria's2018 Foxcroft Lecture. Mellot will deliver the lecture, 'Policing the Parisian Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment.' Plus Plus Ben Eltham came in to discuss the week in federal politics.
1 hr 45 min
June 19, 2018 Uncommon Sense - 19 June 2018 - David Christian
Historian Professor David Christian discusses a shared, secular origin story for humanity in his new book,Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
42 min
June 19, 2018 Uncommon Sense - 19 June 2018
Historian Professor David Christian discusses a shared, secular origin story for humanity in his new book,Origin Story: A Big History of Everything; Dr Anne Rees, historian at La Trobe University, came in to talk about the Australian women expats who found liberation in America; plus Ben Eltham on the latest in federal politics.
1 hr 56 min
June 12, 2018 Uncommon Sense - 12 June 2018
Don Driscoll, Professor of Terrestrial Ecology and President of the Ecological Society of Australia joined Amy to talk about the damaging effects of the NSW brumby protection legislation; Eminent Professor Jenny Graves AO, an evolutionary geneticist from La Trobe University came in to discuss the evolution of human sex chromosomes and whether the Y chromosome will disappear altogether; Amanda Dunsmore, Senior Curator, International Decorative Arts & Antiquities, came in to chat about the NGVexhibition,Japonisme: The Birth of Modern Art.
1 hr 51 min
June 05, 2018 Uncommon Sense - 5 June 2018
Writer Don Watson joined Amy to discuss his article A Pack Of Bankers published inThe Monthly; Dr Daniel Chamovitz, Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University spoke with Amy about his recently updated book,What A Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses(via Scribe Publications); University of Melbourne Lecturer in French Studies Dr Andrew McGregor and ACMI Film Programmer Roberta Ciabarra came in to discuss the double-bill Jean-Luc Godard season at ACMI featuring,Redoutable (Godard Mon Amour)andLe Mpris (Contempt).
1 hr 54 min
June 05, 2018 Uncommon Sense - 5 June 2018 - Dr Daniel Chamovitz
Dr Daniel Chamovitz, Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University spoke with Amy about his recently updated book,What A Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses(via Scribe Publications)
57 min
May 29, 2018 Uncommon Sense - 29 May 2018
Eminent social researcher and author Hugh Mackay AO joined Amy in the studio to talk about his new book,Australia Reimagined: Towards A More Compassionate, Less Anxious Society. Author Bri Lee also came in to discuss her moving and courageous memoir,Eggshell Skull, which details her time as a Judge's Associate at the Queensland District Court and then as the complainant in her own case. Plus Ben Eltham, National Affairs Correspondent forNew Matildaon the latest in federal politics.
1 hr 42 min

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A weekly conversation about politics and current events, international affairs, history, art, books, and the natural world, to illuminate the issues faced by society and explore them in new ways – presented by Amy Mullins.