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Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr.

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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 29, 2026

    The race for deep sea riches, plus when trauma is weaponised (opens the original)

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    A host of new companies are rushing to apply for seabed exploration licences promised by the Trump administration - but are they equipped for this venture? Plus, trauma has gone from the clinic to the culture wars, but is a politics built around personal suffering crowding out class, power and solidarity? Guests Todd Woody, Reporter, Bloomberg News Catherine Liu, Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Author of Traumatised: The New Politics of public suffering

  2. Episode · Sep 28, 2026

    Mark Kenny's Canberra, could Volkswagen be in trouble?And David Marr at Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre (opens the original)

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    Mark Kenny reviews PM Anthony Albanese's week at the United Nations in New York, and asks whether the Australian leader should be more assertive in rebuking the US President, on issues like the regulation of AI. Volkswagon is cutting jobs, considering factory closures, and even turning one car plant towards defence production. Can the company reinvent itself before its glory days become history? And David Marr takes you to the outback, to see Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre in flood. Guests Mark Kenny, Di

  3. Episode · Sep 24, 2026

    Australian doctors in Gaza, plus how vanilla went global (opens the original)

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    Doctors work long hours in hospitals around the world, but visiting doctors in Gaza have to endure just some of what their local peers do: military attack, inadequate resources, inadequate food, and a starving, distressed population. Plus, the curious history of vanilla - and how, despite its exotic flavouring and difficult cultivation, "vanilla" became a term for bland. Guests: Dr Bushra Othman, Palestinian Australian General Surgeon from Naarm/Melbourne. Has done three stints in Gaza, and edit

  4. Episode · Sep 23, 2026

    How immigration made Australia, plus our endless hunger for resources (opens the original)

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    Australia is a nation built by migrants, but immigration has always been politically contested. A new history traces how we came to decide who belongs, who gets in and who is kept out, right back to the early days of the colony. Plus, historian James Crawford explores what happens when the resources that underpin modern life become harder to find, harder to extract and harder to replace. Guests Mark Cully, author of Waves of Plenty: Immigration and the Making of Australia , published by Black In

  5. Episode · Sep 22, 2026

    Bruce Shapiro on the looming US midterms, plus Putin's new world order (opens the original)

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    Bruce Shapiro surveys the path ahead to November's critical US midterm elections, as US President Donald Trump's polling sinks to a new low. Plus, the senior Guardian correspondent Luke Harding on how Putin has up-ended the postwar global order, with help from his American counterpart. Guests Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with The Nation magazine and Director of the Global Center for Journalism and Trauma. Luke Harding, The Guardian's senior international correspondent, and former Moscow bu

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