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Laura Tingle dissects national politics and focusses on the medical evacuation bill. Jenny Hocking's campaign to bring the Palace Letters into public view suffers a legal set back. Amin Saikal discusses how the state of Iran has managed to survive from both internal and external threats in the forty years since the revolution.

Marx's grave has been vandalised in the London. Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, why is the fear of Judeo-Bolshevism so enduring for the far right ?

What is life like in Bolsonaro's Brazil, why the world should pay attention to China's feminists and chasing the world's largest butterfly.

Bruce Shapiro previews the State of the Union address, and mounting pressures on President Trump. The West has been involved in a long and mostly unequal cultural exchange. And why we should focus less on AI and the technical jobs of the future, and more on environmental stewardship roles.

Laura Tingle discusses the political response to today's Royal Commission report on banking and finance. How Indigenous languages can open up new ways of seeing the world. Behrouz Boochani and his award winning book about his life as a detainee on Manus Island.

Could Trump win in 2020? Why is another New York billionaire declaring he will run for president?

The Republicans in the US were once accepting, even supportive, of environmental protection but why in recent years has there been a significant change in attitude?

Bruce Shapiro brings the news from another huge week in Washington, the story of Australia's first spies reveals their sophistication and China decides to co-opt religion rather than fight it.

Jack Thompson sits down for a chat with Phillip Adams.

Journalist Ian Dunt with an update on Teresa May's Brexit woes, the staggering defeat of her plan in the House of Commons, and this week's IRA bombing in Derry.

Scientists unsurprised by Murray Darling fish deaths; New Zealand's formerly happy relationship with China is being tested; new copyright freedoms are a boon for Australian historians

Bruce Shapiro joins us for the latest from Washington, the story behind Nancy Pelosi and her remarkable negotiation skills and how can we age better now that we are ageing longer?

With an election in the wind, Laura Tingle discusses how Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten have started the year.

India Now: India's cities are higgledy-piggledy places, seemingly without logic. Should they be redesigned and rebuilt or are their 'unfinished edges' suited to the country? How did India become a democracy and how strong are its democratic institutions? In The Assassination's final episode we hear from the accused.

Has the value of world heritage been corrupted and how poisons were first removed from food and episode 9 of The Assassination.

How the protection of economic interests is critical in the making of Australian foreign policy Sergei Esenin is the Dylan Thomas of Russia, only much prettier. The Assassination: Episode 8, The Assassin's journey.

Henry VIII's henchman. Protestant reformer. Master politician. According to Wolf Hall author Hillary Mantel, 'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years'.

There's a social and sexual revolution sweeping through the sub-continent - and changing the way couples court, marry and live together. How do cultural factors complicate the Clean India movement? Episode 6 of The Assassination takes us through Bhutto's final hours.

The true story of the original Siamese twins, a new look at the legacy of Hugh Stretton and episode 5 of The Assassination.

They explain, they defend, they deny, and they cry. New York Times best-selling author Robin DiAngelo on why it's so hard for white people to talk about their own racism. Could the Sicilian mafia have emerged on the back of the humble lemon? Episode 4 of the award winning series about the murder of Benazir Bhutto.

New York Times best-selling physicist Michio Kaku on terraforming Mars, interstellar travel, immortality and our destiny beyond earth 

If you're a media junkie, India has you covered with 16,000 daily newspapers and over 400 news channels. But a spate of attacks on journalists calls into question whether a bigger media is necessarily an independent one.

Roma Agrawal shares the secrets of engineering and we meet Benazir Bhutto in the first episode of the BBC series - The Assassination.

Beware the cry of Deep Fake news. We dive into the secret lives of whales, tracking one of the world’s most enigmatic creatures from its four-legged, dog-snouted past to its uncertain climate-changed future. Half a millennium before Google Books, a Spanish bibliophile set out to create a ‘Library of Everything’ in Seville. Hernando Colon’s 16th-century library was not just a wonder of the Renaissa...

Netanyahu's story is Israel's story.