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The Honourable Reverend Dr Lynn Arnold AO has one of those names that tells you immediately – he’s done a few things. He’s been busy. You don’t get that many prefixes and suffixes without burning the midnight oil.

How did a 19th-century English working-class woman with no formal education end up becoming one of the most influential fossilists of all time? We explore the impact of ice, wind and plate tectonics on who we are today.

Eva Cox on life, her 1995 Boyer lectures and what's next.

A panel of eminent satirists canvasses the comedy fodder offered up in the past year.

Are the evangelical supporters of Trump hoping he will bring on the apocalypse and with Brexit remaining an ongoing issue, what can we learn from the Irish Civil War of 1922.

Bruce Shapiro wraps up the year and Nick Richardson explains the significance of 1956 in Australia's history.

A week of machismo and masochism as the Prime Minister fights to save the political career of his Energy Minister, Angus Taylor. Kristinn Hrafnsson explains why journalists should care about what happens to Julian Assange.

Daniel McCarthy explores what effects the impeachment proceedings are having on voter sentiment and we commemorate Clive James. In an interview with Phillip in 2006, the late raconteur reveals his love of the tango, Japanese culture and Peter Sellers.

Ian Dunt wraps up the year in UK politics as the Brexit election looms.

News from America with Bruce Shapiro and the history of Britain in books.

It was China, China, China in parliament today. Failure at controlling money laundering doesn't only damage Westpac managers, it hurts small communities throughout Asia and the Pacific who have no access to banking services. After Hitler came to power in 1933, Jewish journalist Charlotte Beradt began collecting the dreams of her fellow Berliners. Her work provides a unique insight into the effect...

Journalist Jeff Sparrow traces the fascist roots of the Christchurch massacre and British historian Bettany Hughes explores the darker side of the goddess Venus.

Asbestos on the rise in Asia, who was Alexander von Humboldt and vale Colin Tatz

Bruce Shapiro on Trump's impeachment hearings; Google's obsession with your health; and the forest that will become books to fill a library - in the year 2114.

Di Morrissey has come full circle coming back to her birth place and journalistic roots.

Geoffrey Robertson discusses why the British Museum should "wash its hands of blood" and return the Elgin marbles, the Benin bronzes and "other pilfered cultural property.”

Ian Dunt discusses how political parties in the UK are gearing up for the December 12 election, Danish academic Ole Wæver explains how political response to climate change could threaten democracy and Simon Parkin on the ingenious young British women who helped turn back Nazi U-boats in World War Two.

Bruce discusses the emergence of Michael Bloomberg for the Democrats, and other matters. Spain keeps on heading back to the polls. And a philosopher's take on the human/animal connection.

Labor's election post-mortem. The referendum on independence for Bougainville starts on 23 November, what are the options for the future?

Daniel McCarthy brings us an update on the gubernatorial elections in the US, historian Elizabeth Leake on what role the CIA played in the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and we revisit a classic from the LNL archives: Deborah Blum on the invention of modern forensic medicine.

Aged care workers tell their story, as does 5th generation farmer Charles Massy.

An impeachment update, the source of Chile's unrest and Australia's islands reviewed

Quiet Australians and noisy minorities. The World Health Organisation has declared climate change to be "the most significant threat of the 21st century." What impact is it having on Australians' health?

The history and future of religion and the history and future of Europe

Ian Dunt discusses the UK's upcoming December election, we look at the increasing risks of undocumented migration and we meet the most dangerous animal in the world, the mosquito.