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Three fascinating women - Nell Frizzell on the future of the monarchy, Maya Jasanoff looks back on the empire and Paola Totaro  on anosmia.

How wire-tapping was invented by criminals to be used by law enforcement and Nornie Bero takes you to the Torres Strait via the kitchen. 

What can we expect from Britain's newest PM? Plus, Pakistan is reeling after horrific floods and we meet the man who suffered a ten-moth migraine and lived to tell the tale.

President Biden took aim at Trump and MAGA Republicans in an ominous speech. Ghana is, literally, a goldmine - yet the profits aren't flowing to the people. Plus, Australia's French connection.

The latest political news from Canberra, Satyajit Das on whether interest rates can tackle global inflation and the hidden women who made Melbourne what it is today. 

Basketball giant Shaquille O'Neal causes a flurry, and where to find hope in the climate debate.

Eminent historian Sheila Fitzpatrick reflects on the life and legacy of the late Mikhail Gorbachev, and we bring you a conversation between Phillip and Gorbachev from the archives.

Discussions on politics, science, philosophy and culture, with fascinating and often controversia...

Laura Tingle on Canberra, Mark Pesce on technology and Alisa Bryce on soil

It's crime night on Late Night Live, as we hear the story of a global maritime conspiracy, and a billion dollar cryptocurrency con and the woman who got away with it.

Ros Taylor previews the change of PM in the UK, Rory Cormac takes us behind the scenes of staging a coup, and documenting the mystery behind the life of film maker John Farrow.

Bruce Shapiro's America, the enormous Saudi Arabian megalopolis of NEOM and why women have been misdiagnosed and medically misunderstood throughout history. 

Laura Tingle on the fall-out from the Morrison Ministry scandal, the ripple effects of the Partition of India 75 years on and we follow the trench coat from the military to the movies. 

Meet the young media operators who have decided to take a different approach to attract the next generation of news consumers. David Horner discusses how Australia decides to go to war.

Tess Newton Cain with the latest Pacific news. Two women advocating for a greater refugee voice in policy-making. Journalist Michael Pascoe reflects on mortality, masculinity and family.

As Liz Cheney's primary gets underway, Bruce reports on the further splitting among Republicans. A panel discussion on 20 years of Guantanamo. And our interview with Salman Rushdie on.. freedom of speech.

Laura Tingle has been trying to untangle, along with every other political journalist, the surprising multi-portfolio move by Morrison as PM. We learn more about who the Myanmar regime is, as they execute activists and exacerbate the civil war. And Joy McCann tells us Australian stories of the Antarctic.

In a special ABC Arts Week discussion, writer Maxine Beneba-Clarke, musician PilAto and art historian and curator Aindrea Emelife on using art to change perceptions. And, in the wake of recent executions in Myanmar Barry Jones on his updated edited collection of essays on the death penalty.

The Tory leadership race continues as the UK heads towards recession, Stephen McDonell takes us inside China and Mike Carlton on Australia's war in the Mediterranean.

What's behind the apparent FBI raid of Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort? Plus, how a network of mates is making Australia unequal, and why we need to shake off our obsession with fluency.

John Barilaro tells a NSW parliamentary inquiry that he is the 'victim' of a scandal involving his appointment to lucrative New York trade role. Plus, one man's positive vision for an ecological democracy and the a millennial writer who left inner-city life to take over the family farm. 

Three women risked their lives to protect diaries to implicate Hitler, and a journey through history to explain the mysteries of Japanese humour.

Journalist and photographer Andrew Quilty tells the story of the fall of Kabul through the eyes of its citizens and Glenn R Cooke tells the history of Queensland through its tea towels.

Bruce Shapiro talks tensions with the Taliban over the assassination of al-Zawahiri, we look at the progress of the PNG election and a new documentary looks back at the Franklin Dam protests of the 1980s.

Jack Latimore explains the many speed bumps to be overcome on the way to a referendum on the Voice, the arguments against the Mulga Rock uranium mine in WA and we remember polymath and creator of the Gaia theory James Lovelock.