All Episodes

Speaking with: Chris Ho and Edgar Liu about diversity and high density in our cities

Speaking with: ‘Everybody Lies’ author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz on why we tell the (sometimes disturbing) truth online

Speaking with: Author Anita Heiss on Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

Speaking with: law professor Cass Sunstein, on why behavioural science is always nudging us

Speaking with: journalist David Neiwert on the rise of the alt-right in Trump’s America

Speaking with: Cameron McAuliffe on NIMBYs, urban planning and making community consultation work

Speaking with: satirist Armando Iannucci on The Death of Stalin

Speaking with: Andrew Leigh on why we need more randomised trials in policy and law

Speaking with: David Field about unusual crimes that have changed the law

Speaking with: social researcher and author Hugh Mackay on 2017, ‘a really disturbing year’

Speaking with: Emrys Westacott on the virtue of frugal living

Speaking with: Bates Gill on Australia’s changing relationship with China

Speaking with: Emma Power and Jennifer Kent about why Australian cities and homes aren’t built for pets

Speaking with: John Gerrard on preventing infectious diseases

Speaking with: Nicole Gurran on Airbnb and its impact on cities

Speaking with: Nancy Pachana on planning for an active and engaged ageing population

Speaking with: Cameron Murray on grey corruption and the ‘Game of Mates’

Speaking with: Dr Mark Blaskovich on antibiotic-resistant bacteria and the threat of superbugs

Speaking with: Julian Savulescu on the ethics of genetic modification in humans

Speaking with: Professor Peter Koopman on CRISPR and the power of genome editing

Speaking with: Peter Doherty about infectious disease pandemics

Speaking with: Tony Kevin on his return to Moscow and the new Cold War with Russia

No problem too big #1: Artificial intelligence and killer robots

Speaking with: Mia Woodruff about using 3D printing to replace body parts

Speaking with: The Daily Beast’s Christopher Dickey on reporting on and living through terrorism in Paris

Speaking with: Peter Green on saving the Christmas Island red crab

Speaking with: Nicole Cook on union ‘green bans’, housing affordability and the Sirius building

Speaking with: Serial’s Julie Snyder about making groundbreaking podcasts

Speaking with: Alanna Kamp about the erasure of Chinese-Australian women from our history books

Speaking with: Ilan Wiesel and Ray Forrest about the impact of the super rich on our cities

Speaking with: Bad Pharma author Ben Goldacre about how bad research hurts us all

Speaking with: Juan Francisco Salazar about colonising Antarctica and Mars

Speaking with: Hannah Dahlen on pregnancy care

Speaking with: ‘Poll Bludger’ William Bowe in the final week of the election campaign

Speaking with: Deb Warr on “poverty porn”

Speaking with: ‘Poll Bludger’ William Bowe on the election races to watch

Speaking with: John Hattie on how to improve the quality of education in Australian schools

Speaking with: Graeme Orr on the festival of elections

Speaking with: Rhonda Itaoui on navigating the city as a young Muslim

Speaking with: Lucy Turnbull on the Greater Sydney Commission

Speaking with: Shanthi Robertson and Ien Ang on migrants, refugees and Australia’s place in Asia

Speaking with: Aric Bendorf on how to increase organ donation rates in Australia

Speaking with: Meg Urry on supermassive black holes

Speaking with: the Poll Bludger William Bowe on the Canning byelection

Speaking with: Lawrence Gostin on Ebola, the WHO and the future of global health

Speaking with: Naomi Klein on capitalism and climate change

Speaking with: Crystal Legacy on the politics of transport infrastructure

Speaking with: Hayley Saul and Emma Waterton on the Nepal earthquake and the everyday Nepalese hero

Speaking with: Anthony D'Costa on the challenges facing India’s economy

Speaking with: Hazel Easthope on designing for high density living

Speaking with: Jason Dittmer on superheroes and fascism

Speaking with: Keith Jacobs on the politics of housing

Speaking with: Peter Singer on effective altruism

Speaking with: Cameron McAuliffe on graffiti, art and crime

Speaking with: Joanne Orlando on children and technology

Speaking with: David Tiley on funding Australian films

Speaking with: Shanthi Robertson on the changing face of migration

Speaking with: Tim Jones on child sexual abuse within religious institutions

Speaking with: Kerry Brown on China, Australia and diplomacy

Speaking with: Duane Hamacher on Indigenous astronomy

Speaking with: Nicole Gurran on affordable housing

Speaking with: Sarah Sorial on free speech and democracy

Speaking with: Steve Kilbey, lead singer of The Church

Speaking with: Nick Rowley on democracy in Antarctica

Speaking with: George Galster on revitalising Detroit

Speaking with: Scott McKinnon on LGBTI issues during natural disasters

Speaking with: journalist Masha Gessen on Putin’s Russia

Speaking with: Robert Picard on democratising the media

Speaking with: singer-songwriter Mark Seymour

Speaking with: food critic Ruth Reichl

Speaking with: mountaineer Andrew Lock

Speaking with: The New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum

Speaking with: Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield