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Jackie French chats with Phillip Adams about her remarkable career as an author for children and adults, her books that are writing women back into history and her passion for wombats.

Where did the 91,000 members of the Stasi go after the fall of the Berlin wall? Was there a market for their skills? Ross Dobson is a chef and food writer who has looked through the history of Australian cookery to try and find our national dish.

Jon Lee Anderson has been a foreign correspondent for over 40 years and Staff writer with the New Yorker Magazine. He shares with Phillip the highs and lows of an extraordinary career across continents.

Ashley Gray tells the untold story of the rebel West Indian cricketers who toured apartheid South Africa. Australia’s ‘scuba-diving philosopher’ Peter Godfrey-Smith explores the evolution of animal consciousness.

Simon Winchester on how people's relationship to land, its borders and its ownership have changed over time and geography.

Isabel Allende explores how feminism has shaped her life over the past seven decades. Jennifer Higgie documents the lives of women artists and their self-portraits.

Our cheery panel find the humour in some of the most challenging parts of a difficult year.

Ian Dunt's final commentary for 2021 on UK politics and society. Playwright David Williamson's warts and all autobiography.

Bruce Shapiro looks back at the successes and failures of 2021 for America and its President, Brendan Borrell recounts the epic race for the COVID-19 vaccine and Dennis Duncan reveals the unexpected history of the book index.

Laura Tingle has the latest from Canberra, political economist Yanis Varoufakis discusses a difficult year in global politics and Adrian Fisher reveals what life is like as the world's leading maze designer.

Mae Ngai explains how the racism that the thousands of Chinese found on the goldfields of California and Australia in the 19th century has had a lasting influence on East-West relations today, and Rebecca Solnit explains how seeing George Orwell's garden, in particular his roses, changed her whole perception of him.

An acting legend has died, and there's still a push for better protection for indigenous cultural sites. What now for The Solomons, after riots and unrest. And American/Australian scholar Ethan Blue tells a powerful and disturbing story of US deportation.

Bruce Shapiro on the latest court cases holding America's attention, Peter Lewis on creating a digital public square and Marion Maddox on Charles Strong's Australian Church (and on the Religious Discrimination Bill).

Laura Tingle has the latest on Canberra politics, Barat Ali Batoor discusses the long history of Afghan refugees in Australia and Zoe Playdon tells the story of trans trailblazer Ewan Forbes.

Howard French has written an acclaimed new book putting Africa and Africans front and centre in their contribution to the making of the modern world.

The Guardian's diplomatic editor on Boris's bizarre speech and the British role in AUKUS, a close look at Covid restriction protestors, and Australia might not be famous for our mountains but there's lots to appreciate about them.

Bruce Shapiro on the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict and what it means for America's open carry gun laws. Andrew Rosser considers whether Australia does enough to engage and connect with its diaspora. Media historian Jeannine Baker looks at the crucial but long-hidden role of the women who made Australian TV happen.

Laura Tingle has the latest from Canberra politics, Julian Meyrick discusses how to revive the arts post Covid and David Henkin tells the fascinating history of the seven-day week.

First the history of medical transplants that goes way back further in history than you might imagine, and then we find out the history of the Berndt Collection of notebooks and artefacts gathered in the 1940s and why they are currently inaccessible to the Gurindji people who are the subject of the collection.

Tess Newton Cain surveys reaction across the Pacific to Glasgow's Climate Change Summit. Frank Vogl discusses how the West aids and abets authoritarian rulers who plunder their nations' resources. Gum trees, the Southern Cross or the Boomerang? Historian Richard White discusses the iconic symbols of Australia and considers how they were determined and created.

Bruce Shapiro on the court cases that have America on edge, what is going on at the border between Belarussia and Poland and a memoir about growing up in communist Albania.

Laura Tingle has the latest from Canberra, lawyer Kieran Pender looks at changes to whistleblower legislation 

Kate Fortmueller and Kevin Sanson explore labor conditions for "below the line" workers in Hollywood and how they impacts sets across the world, and Lynne Carpenter-Boggs discusses her world-first study into composting human bodies.

Bruce Shapiro with the latest from Washington, how the LaTrobe Valley is preparing for the post-coal world and although the dish at Parkes turns 60, it is still being used to monitor space travel.