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The Radio National Hour
A weekday magazine-style current affairs program hosted by one of Australia's pre-eminent and loved interviewers. Drawing on Fran's extensive current affairs and cultural knowledge, The Radio National Hour takes a thoughtful, deep dive into the important and challenging issues, and brings insightful and engaging conversations with big names in the arts, sport and culture.
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Episodes
Australia's COP compromise 20.11.2025 55:15
Australia has succumbed to Turkiye’s pressure in negotiations over who will host next year’s annual global climate meeting. It's a blow for us and our Pacific neighbours, but the prime minister insists we’ll still play a leading role. And Australian humanitarian Noah Taylor has spent this week travelling in possibly the most dangerous place on earth, Sudan’s El Fasher region. He’s met desperate me...
Ultra-Processed food is making you sick and sad, is it time to take on Big Food? 19.11.2025 54:00
If that packet of food has more than five ingredients on the label it could be slowly killing you. And if an election were held in Britain tomorrow, right-wing populist leader Nigel Farage would be elected Prime Minister. Does this explain why the British Labour government is lurching to the right on immigration policy?
Nirvana Unplugged: the iconic performance that cemented Kurt Cobain as the tortured genius 18.11.2025 54:00
Fran Kelly brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge,entertain and inspire us.
COP that: Australia rejects Turkiye's offer to share climate meet 17.11.2025 54:38
Fran Kelly brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge,entertain and inspire us.
The Radio National Hour 14.11.2025 54:39
Kylie Morris brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge,entertain and inspire us.
Facebook is minting scam ads, are they serious about policing them? 13.11.2025 54:38
Kylie Morris brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge,entertain and inspire us.
Liberal party overwhelmingly in favour of dumping net zero 12.11.2025 54:39
Kylie Morris brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge,entertain and inspire us.
Good Gough, why The Dismissal still matters 11.11.2025 55:07
Kylie Morris brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge,entertain and inspire us.
Neo-Nazis to register as a political party to protect symbols of hate 10.11.2025 54:38
Kylie Morris brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge,entertain and inspire us.
The Radio National Hour 07.11.2025 54:44
Michael Rowland brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge,entertain and inspire us.
Icon of human rights movement, Navi Pillay receives Sydney Peace Prize 06.11.2025 54:37
Michael Rowland brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge,entertain and inspire us.
Zohran Mamdani's spectacular rise to power in NYC 05.11.2025 54:38
Michael Rowland brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge,entertain and inspire us.
Australians fail the government over housing crisis 04.11.2025 54:39
Michael Rowland brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge,entertain and inspire us.
Is the government failing the transparency test? 03.11.2025 55:07
Michael Rowland brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge,entertain and inspire us.
When Trump met Xi - power rivals come together as equals 31.10.2025 55:08
Michael Rowland brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge, entertain and inspire us.
Australia's new Aged Care Act is huge leap forward, but the devil is in the detail 30.10.2025 55:08
Compelling conversations on issues that challenge, entertain and inspire us.
Fears thousands massacred in Sudanese city of El-Fasher 29.10.2025 54:59
Michael Rowland brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge,entertain and inspire us.
'A stadium of the gods' - inside hurricane Melissa 28.10.2025 54:37
Michael Rowland brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge,entertain and inspire us.
Is the Coalition playing a net zero sum game? 27.10.2025 54:33
Michael Rowland brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge,entertain and inspire us.
Trump takes a wrecking ball to the White House, literally 24.10.2025 55:06
A New South Wales MP has taken the extraordinary step of using his parliamentary privilege to name a man who confessed as a teenager to killing three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer after her abduction from Fairy Meadow Beach in Wollongong fifty-five years ago. Jeremy Buckingham says Cheryl's family has been repeatedly failed by the justice system.
Could Australia benefit from having a co-operative supermarket chain? 23.10.2025 55:08
Compelling conversations on issues that challenge, entertain and inspire us.
'There is no diginity for Gazans' - promised aid yet to materialise 22.10.2025 55:15
The head of the World Health Organization is warning of a 'health catastrophe' that could last 'generations' in Gaza unless aid deliveries are dramatically scaled up. He points not only to the lack of aid but also the injuries that are going untreated and the mental trauma endured by Palestinians. Bushra Khalidi, Oxfam's head of policy for the occupied Palestinian territory says
The PM strikes a critical deal with the US, but was a rare price paid? 21.10.2025 55:15
Kylie Morris brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge, entertain and inspire us.
How Donald Trump turned the White House into a TV set 20.10.2025 55:14
Michael Rowland brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge,entertain and inspire us.
The Radio National Hour 17.10.2025 55:14
Fran Kelly brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge,entertain and inspire us.
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