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A new history of the BBC looks back at the people who made it what it is, and the people it serves.

Tess Newton Cain reports on how the clean up is progressing in Tonga, John Bartlett on the youthful progressive government newly elected in Chile and Frank Uekotter on what can be learnt from the history of monoculture.

Bruce Shapiro sheds some light on Biden's possible Supreme Court picks, political theorist John Keane gives us a potted history of democracy, and art history professor Catherine Speck celebrates the life and work of artists Ann Newmarch and Hossein Valamanesh.

Crikey's Bernard Keane takes a look at the week in politics, Guy Rundle reflects on Australia in the lead-up to the 2019 federal election and what's behind the recent escalation in Yemen's protracted war? 

Ian Dunt returns for 2022 to talk Westminster parties and the Ukraine, and Johann Hari explains why a digital detox is harder than you might imagine

The Australian Republic Movement has released its Australian Choice model for Australia to become a republic. Peter FitzSimons, Bob Carr and Anne Twomey debate the direct election model and its suitability for the Australian voter. Megan Davis is also a republican, but she believes that the unfinished business put forward through the Uluru Statement must be addressed first.

Bruce Shapiro on the challenges Biden faces as he enters year two of his presidency, and the remarkable story of how the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was established fifty years ago.

Laura Tingle on Scott Morrison's summer of woe, will Russia really go to war with Ukraine and how climate change is affecting the Arctic treeline and those who depend on it.

Bernadette Brennan discusses her biography of the brilliant but enigmatic author, Gillian Mears.

Marc David Baer explains why the history of the Ottoman Empire should be considered part of European history and Jamie Mackay takes us through the many empires that left a mark on the island of Sicily

ANU anthropologist Christine Helliwell tells the story of a secret mission to infiltrate Borneo, under Japanese occupation.

Brandon Garrett chronicles the litany of cases where flawed forensics have put innocent people in gaol and in some cases on death row. Is life preordained or random? Dr Sean Carroll argues that our existence, and that of the world, is the result of pure chance.

What is the biological purpose of the handshake and why has it outlasted other forms of greeting?

Edmund Richardson recounts the story of Charles Masson, a self-taught archaeologist, and his quest to find the lost city of Alexandria.

Clothing historian Lucy Adlington on the ‘The Dressmakers of Auschwitz' and Charlie English's account of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill.

They're very resource hungry and yet skyscrapers are, and will remain essential to future living, and the hounding of singer Billie Holiday by the FBI.

Environmental historian Emily O’Gorman explains why it's a mistake to set wetlands aside as areas not available for human interaction and use. Philosopher Lee McIntyre urges a push back against science denial and disinformation. David Rooney on how clocks have been deployed as instruments of faith, money and power, imposing social order and regulating behaviour.

Stuart Kell, author of Sold down the River: How robber barons and Wall Street traders cornered Australia’s water market. Gideon Haigh looks at Doc Evatt's legal rather than political legacy.

Quentin Beresford analyses the environmental history of the basin. Anne Sebba's 'Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy'

Richard Beasley's provocative account of what has gone wrong in the Murray Darling Basin. Hal Whitehead on how sperm whales communicate. Nancy Wisser's weird and wonderful world of Stonehenge replicas.

Phillip Adams sits down with Peter Cosgrove for a wide ranging discussion about Australia, its democracy and its future.

Wayne Quilliam picked up his first camera whilst in the navy thirty years ago and has not put it down since, photographing Indigenous communities around Australia and the world. Narayan Khandekar explains how art and science meet when it comes to the world of colour.

The koala is in real danger of extinction and yet politics are preventing any effective action being taken to protect them.

So often the complex issue of justice is viewed through the legal prism of criminal, distributive or procedural justice. But Dr Rowan Williams and Mary Zournazi argue that justice needs to confront individuals' suffering as well as the deep patterns of violence and denial in society.

Stephen Pyne's history of fire and humanity's complicated love-hate relationship with it. Patrick Nunn explores the possibility that some stories of drowned civilisations might shed light on actual geological events that happened multiple millennia ago.