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EPISODE · Apr 17, 2026 · 55 MIN

The ceasefires are holding, but does the Trump administration have the patience for lasting peace?

from The Radio National Hour · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

A ceasefire has been declared in Lebanon as a fragile peace holds with Iran, is this enough to bring everyone back to the negotiating table? Former US diplomat Alan Eyre helped to broker the Obama era deal, he questions whether this administration is really in it for the long haul.Acclaimed Finnish-Estonian writer Sofi Oksanen lives with a voice in her head, it belongs to her great-aunt who lost her own voice after being raped by a soldier in the Red Army in 1944. Her story is the backdrop to Oksanen’s latest work, Same River, Twice: Putin’s War on Women, a searing account of the toxic misogyny that courses through modern Russia and its brutal war in Ukraine.    The trombone is having a moment, thanks to a recently discovered 16th-Century German manuscript - inspiring an orchestral epic called ‘The Book of Miracles’. Hellen Vollam - Principal Trombone of the BBC Symphony Orchestra - was the first musician to bring this work to life.  

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