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.
Marine biologist Sarah Laverick talks about Antarctica, World Ocean Day, and her book, Through Ice & Fire: the adventures, science and people behind Australia's famous icebreaker Aurora Australis; Historian Liam Byrne discusses…
Amy speaks with historian Rutger Bregman about his timely new book, Humankind: A Hopeful History. Rutger delves into the evidence for why and how most humans are actually pretty decent, and just how…
Amy speaks with Melburnian Nicholas Dowse, Founder of the urban beekeeping collective Honey Fingers, ahead of World Bee Day on May 20. They will discuss the history of beekeeping across the world, modern…
The Guardian's Luke-Henriques-Gomes discusses COVID-19 developments; American naturalist and writer Sy Montgomery discusses her books How to Be A Good Creature and The Soul of an Octopus; and Dr Emma Shortis…
American science writer David Quammen discusses his prescient 2012 book, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic; Megan Patty, Head of Publications at the NGV on their new book of essays…
Hong Kong-based lawyer and author Antony Dapiran on his new book, City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong. Virologist Dr Sacha Stelzer-Braid on the behaviour of the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Dr…
David George Haskell explores his book, The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors. Laureate Professor Nicholas Talley AC, Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Journal of Australia, on the coronavirus pandemic, including ICU…
Adjunct Prof. Bill Bowtell from UNSW, talks to Amy about Covid-19 in Australia and globally, and what actions the government should take from a public health perspective, and how to manage infection risk…
Dr Emma Shortis on the latest in US politics, including the Democratic primaries and Super Tuesday. Steve Meacher, President of Friendsof Leadbeater's Possum Inc, on the imminent logging of large native trees…
Dr Chloe Ward from RMIT comes in to discuss the evolving nightmare of Boris Johnson's Britain after Brexit; Associate Professor Jessica Whyte, political theorist from UNSW on her critically acclaimed book, The Morals…
Guardian Reporter Luke Henriques-Gomes on the Disability Royal Commission and welfare policy; natural historian and environmental photographer Alison Pouliot on The Allure of Fungi; plus, Nick Parry on EU-Australia relations post-Brexit and…
International art conservators Will Shank and Antonio Rava on their restoration of the famed Keith Haring mural in Collingwood. Brendan Wintle, Professor of Conservation Ecology at the University of Melbourne on the status…
Associate Professor Kevin Tolhurst on the federal government's proposed bushfire royal commission, what we learned from previous ones and why we don't need another royal commission into bushfires. Plus Elisabetta Ferrari comes in…
Philosopher Dr Matthew Sharpe explores existentialism, evil and French author Albert Camus; Dr Alexandra Phelan on the deadly coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Wuhan that continues to spread across China and the world; plus Ben…
Dr Emma Shortis on the US Senate’s impeachment hearings into President Trump, and the Democratic presidential candidate race; and Dr Manu Saunders on how your garden is an ecosystem.
Amy wraps up 2019 with a wide-reaching look at Australian and US politics with guests Ben Eltham and Emma Shortis, Professor Andrew Walter comes in to discuss the UK election results and Brexit…
Red Stitch actors on their premiere of OIL, and Professor Alex Collie on the links between poor health and receiving the Disability Support Pension / Newstart Allowance.
Storyteller and musician Carus Thompson comes in to discuss the social and political issues in Australia that underlie his music, leading forest and conservation researcher and advocate Professor David Lindenmayer on the Victorian…
Professor Timothy C. Winegard from Colorado Mesa University, USA will explore his new book, The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator. Pacific journalist Nic Maclellan on Australia’s dilemma – that a…
Film director Janine Hosking on her documentary The Eulogy, which looks at the life and lonely death of one of the world's greatest pianists, Geoffrey Tozer, and Paul Keating's eulogy for a man…
Amy speaks with Judith Hoare about the Australian woman who cracked the anxiety code and became a worldwide sensation – Dr. Claire Weekes; Luke Henriques-Gomes discusses what we're learning from the Senate inquiry…
Geelong Football Club Vice-President Bob Gartland and Geelong Gallery Director Jason Smith come in to talk about 160 years of the Geelong Football Club; Dr Delia Lin on 70 years since the founding…
