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EPISODE · May 5, 2026 · 54 MIN

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

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Our regular US commentator looks at recent political attempts to use defamation law to silence American media. 2SER, a Sydney community radio station with a long history of training professional broadcasters, is under threat. And descendants of the Bounty mutineers, who lived on Pitcairn Island in the Pacific, crowdfunded to get an important document returned to them from London. Guests: Bruce Shapiro, Contributing Editor at the Nation, Executive Director of the Global Centre for Journalism and TraumaChris Nash, founding Professor of Journalism at Monash University, Former Director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ) at UTS in SydneyJon Bisset, CEO of the Community Broadcasting Association of AustraliaHelen Mears, Head of Curatorship & Research at Royal Museums GreenwichDr Pauline Reynolds, Chair, Norfolk Island Museums Trust

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