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In his latest book Knowing What We Know award-winning writer Simon Winchester explores the history of how humans have passed on knowledge and whether the emergence of 'smart' technology will disrupt this age-old process. 

Before you get in the water again, hear TIm Flannery talk about the Megalodon, Morgan Ody on why we need a global peasant revolution and James Hannam explains how the world became round (or is it?)

Ian Dunt asks why the British PM and Prince William did not attend the Women's World Cup Final in Australia to support the English team. Professor Jamie Pittock explains what the government's new Murray-Darling deal means for the river basin. And writer Allison C Meier explores the history of American graveyards.

Laura Tingle debriefs on the ALP Conference and the national Cabinet housing meeting. Best-selling author and academic Lea Ypi on the treatment of Albanians in the UK. And how Andrew Sneddon escaped an unhappy childhood among the sleazier residents of Qld's Gold Coast.

The coup in Niger will likely lead to regional instability as the neighbouring countries disagree on a response and Wagner hopes to benefit from the situation. And philosopher Costica Bradatan explains why he believes we should all embrace failure.

Our regular US correspondent Bruce Shapiro discusses a landmark climate trial in Montana and the latest Trump indictment. Plus, Afghan academic Farkhondeh Akbari on the fate of women two years after the fall of Kabul. And we meet nature's greatest lairs and cheats with biologist Lixing Sun. 

7.30's Chief Political Correspondent Laura Tingle brings the latest news from inside the Canberra bubble. Food security expert Joseph Glauber discusses how developments in the Russia-Ukraine war and El Nino threaten global food supplies. Plus, a story about how a group of snow monkeys found themselves in America's deep south that has to be heard to be believed. 

Award-winning historian Tom Holland recounts one of the most dazzling chapters in Roman history - the Pax Romana - when the Empire reached the heights of its predatory glory. The year 69AD was one of civil war, when four Caesars in succession ruled the Empire. But from the chaos emerged an era of unrivalled Roman peace and power.  Guest: Tom Holland, historian and author of Pax: War and Peace in R...

Three years on, Dalal Mawad talks about the women who survived the Beirut bomb blast, and their lives now. Plus Australian musician David Bridie and Papuan musician George Telek tell Phillip about their enduring friendship, which is the subject of a new documentary . 

Ian Dunt discusses whether the privatisation of the public service is as extensive, and worrying, in the UK as it seems to be in Australia. Drew Rooke discusses how online sports betting got its start in Australia, in Alice Springs of all places. Plus, we meet two women who are fighting poaching and gender stereotypes in South Africa.  Guests: Ian Dunt, columnist at the “i” newspaper. Drew Rooke,...

Laura Tingle on the Prime Minister's visit to Garma, and calls to delay or modify the Voice to Parliament Referendum. Can Amazonian leaders save their rainforest, for the sake of the planet? And the story of Operation Hurricane - when the British first tested their atomic bomb in Australia.  

The Murdoch media mogul that we've come to know is almost unrecognisable from Rupert Murdoch, the youth. Author Walter Marsh discusses the era that shaped young Rupert, the radical who espoused socialism, kept a bust of Lenin in his uni accommodation and then went on to build his empire from 1950s Adelaide.

Two incredible true crime tales of the powerful women behind Latin America's drug trade, and the unlikely women who formed a notorious murder ring in rural Hungary. Plus, we get an update on the situation in Myanmar. 

Plus, Bruce Shapiro discusses Donald Trump's mounting legal woes, and how the climate crisis is hitting home this American summer. 

Laura Tingle on whether the double dissolution could really happen. Cambodia's longest serving PM hands over to his son. And flour mill photography, flour bag art, and many other things you might not know about flour in Australia.

How are we going to deal with an ever-heating planet? Plus the hidden history of phrenology - it was used by white colonisers to justify their claims of superiority, but it was also taken up by other groups in surprising ways.

Journalists Tess Newtown-Cain and Robert Iroga provide an update from the Pacific, 20 years since Australia's peacekeeping mission to Solomon Islands. Why does Honduras want to build a new prison island? And from child-eating demons to singing mermaids - we trace the ancient origins of female monsters. 

Constitutional experts Megan Davis and George Williams explain why they believe putting the Voice in the constitution will result in the best outcomes for Indigenous Australians. And Alex Andreou dissects what the latest UK by-elections mean. 

Laura Tingle on Kathryn Campbell's resignation from her position on the AUKUS advisory panel, Ronald Reagan's surprising role in the Hollywood strike of 1960 and how the Sami people's fight against damming the Alta river was a turning point for Indigenous rights in Norway. 

As Christopher Nolan's new epic Oppenheimer hits cinema screens, Professor of Philosophy and biographer Ray Monk recounts the true story of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer - the complicated genius and reluctant father of the atomic bomb.  This interview originally aired in 2013. 

The Japanese view of NATO possibly opening an office in Japan. Germany's commitment to massively extend its military spending - with Australia contributing - follows decades of a prevailing pacifist ethos. And why owls have fascinated writers, artists and ecologists.

Bruce Shapiro discusses the conspiracy loving Robert F Kennedy, the Ugandan President and his son are in trouble with International Criminal Court and we find out about the many talents of the termite in Gurindji country.

7.30's chief political correspondent Laura Tingle on the new Reserve Bank governor of Australia; and the future of the big four accountancy firms. Plus veteran political analyst Norman Solomon on how America's endless war in the Middle East has been made largely invisible to the public.