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2586 - How royal commissions make a difference, plus cuisine in conflict zones

Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr.

2586 - How royal commissions make a difference, plus cuisine in conflict zones

Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr.

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Episodes

How royal commissions make a difference, plus cuisine in conflict zones

Ian Dunt on Starmer's demise, Antoinette Lattouf on women who win, plus 50 years of Australian film at Cannes

Australia's first political assassination, plus the man who led Japan into war

Anna Henderson's Canberra, six months in a submarine and the ethics of crisis reporting

Fintan O'Toole on Trump's brand of 'crazy,' plus how to escape the Taliban

Netanyahu faces a new opposition party, plus the lives of those liberated from the Nazi camp Bergen-Belsen

Bruce Shapiro's USA, why community radio matters, and an historic Pitcairn Island document returned

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Kim Jong Un's comeback and classical marble statues - in colour

Australian writers celebrate David Malouf - friend, mentor, inspiration

Ian Dunt on the King's speech to Congress, plus the scandalous life of Dick Meagher

Pakistan the negotiator, and reporting mass shootings

How war fired up indigenous soldiers, and Japanese espionage - fact or fiction?

Who are the British elite today? Plus, memories of polio in postwar Australia

NZ PM's leadership struggle, and the Weintraubs Syncopators' sad end

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Chernobyl's wildlife thriving and the great convict escape on the Catalpa

Anna Henderson's Canberra, how best to commemorate war, plus Lake Eyre tourists need fuel

A Jewish Australian lawyer reckons with state violence. Plus, can corporate scandals be good for the world?

Ian Dunt's UK, the Colombo plan, and AI publishing scams

Jon Lee Anderson on Trump's Cuba threats, plus how chokepoints like Hormuz have shaped history

Australia's fuel import dependency, gay conservatives backing Trump, plus damaged treasures in Iran

The making of poet A.D. Hope, Australian literary giant

Sebastian Smee on being laid off by the Washington Post, plus the secret life of famous author Daniel Defoe

Bruce Shapiro's USA, antibiotic resistance in India, plus Marralwanga's bark paintings

Henry Reynolds turns Australian history upside down

Robert Reich's America, plus ten years since the release of the Panama papers

Ian Dunt's UK, and the Shahs and Ayatollahs of Iran

Western Australia's GST wins, Israel death penalty for West Bank, and mapping the wilderness

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Ash Sarkar critques the modern Left, and should daylight savings be permanent?

The struggle to get aid into the Middle East, plus a great Australian librarian retires

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Trump’s business in the Gulf, plus the Museum of Failure

Anna Henderson's Canberra, a tribute to Rhoda Roberts, and making floristry more sustainable

Guns and God in the USA, plus fresh scrutiny on weedkiller Roundup

Please explain: Niki Savva, Paul Kelly and Antony Green on the resurgence of Pauline Hanson

Ian Dunt's UK, Geoffrey Watson finds the NACC wanting and the power of presidential pardons

The new Nationals' front bench, where Saudi Arabia sits in the Middle East war, and meet veteran protestor Mag Merrilees

Acclaimed historian and author Antony Beevor on Rasputin, and Elon Musk's facilitation of making fake porn with unauthorised images

Funding Australian TV, and conspiracy theories in Irish politics

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Christian rhetoric in the US military, and Vanuatu's lost numbering system

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Economist journalist Sophie Pedder on President Macron's support for Lebanon, and why the power of the mafia - in multiple cultures - still prevails.

Yanis Varoufakis on war and drugs, and 200 years of the State Library of NSW

In conversation with the UK's Ian Dunt

Gideon Levy on Israel's objectives in Iran, the secret life of batteries, and Australia's earliest desert people

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Bruce Shapiro on the US attack on Iran, and when books go bad

Bob Carr on suddenly losing his wife Helena

Bruce Shapiro on Trump's State of the Union, Catholic Church High Court loss and do Australian cities have a guaranteed water supply?

Richard Ackland on the antisemitism Royal Commission, the biodiversity of the high seas, and Mawson's scrawled diaries

Anna Henderson's Canberra, and Helen Clark on the UN's missing senior women

A review of the Pacific labour scheme in Australia, and rethinking the gay rights movement

Ian Dunt's UK, Germany rearms and politicians who dodge questions.

Gambling's grip on politicians, Cuba's invasion threat and greenwashing green burials

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