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PRESENTS — Dig: The Ring In from 2022-03-09T01:30:48
Love to deep dive into a story you thought you knew? The Fine Cotton Ring In was one of the biggest scandals in Australian horseracing history. A plan to swap a slow horse with a much faster look-a...
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Presenting-Stuff The British Stole from 2021-11-18T01:00
Have you ever wandered around a museum and thought “How on Earth did all of this stuff get here?” You’re not alone. Throughout its reign, the British Empire stole a lot of stuff. Today those object...
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04 | This Much Is True — Getting Out from 2021-09-10T17:00
By some estimates, 15 per cent of Americans believe in QAnon, the conspiracy movement connected to the storming of the US Capitol in January this year. QAnon can be all-consuming, ending relationsh...
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03 | This Much Is True — Cults, QAnon and those left behind from 2021-09-03T17:00
Alex's bible classes started taking over his life — then he discovered who was really running them. Emma's mum went from crystals to a clique that believes in aliens and past lives. And Tim and his...
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02 | This Much is True — Dream weavers from 2021-08-27T16:00:51
Why do people spread information that isn't true on social media? Especially when they know that's what they're doing?
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01 | This Much Is True — Tradwife rabbit hole from 2021-08-20T17:00
Equality is for ugly losers. Feminism is cancer. #submissivehousewife. Welcome to the world of tradwives, a movement with two distinct subcultures: one wholesome, one harmful. For many, it's about ...
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INTRODUCING — This Much Is True from 2021-08-12T19:00:53
What do you believe? There’s some very weird stuff out there. From fringe ideas to full-blown conspiracy theories, we dive into the rabbit hole to find out why it’s so human to fall for them. We he...
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08 | Patient Zero: First Outbreak from 2021-05-28T08:00
In 1789, a disease tore through Aboriginal communities around Sydney Cove, or Warrane, leaving dead bodies floating in the harbour, and scattered along the shorelines. Some think that this outbreak...
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07 | Patient Zero: Back From The Brink from 2021-05-21T07:00
A six-year old boy in Papua New Guinea wakes up one day and is suddenly unable to stand by himself. Less than a year later, children in three other Asia Pacific nations are experiencing the same al...
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06 | Patient Zero: Ticking Time Bomb from 2021-05-14T06:00
You’re a doctor faced with a dilemma: your patient isn’t responding to treatment. In fact, they’re getting worse. You run through a list of what might be wrong, but nothing seems to fit. And then s...
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05 | Patient Zero: Spillover In Suburbia from 2021-05-07T05:00
A sleepy suburb in Brisbane is the scene of a gruesome disease outbreak, where the streets literally run with blood.
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04 | Patient Zero: How We Got Here from 2020-09-04T04:00
This is the big one. The history we’re living. From Melbourne to Munich, Lombardy to Wuhan and all the way back again: this episode is about what happened when we faced those first coronavirus case...
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03 | Patient Zero: The December Transplant from 2020-08-28T03:00
Three transplant patients die within a week of each other and alarm bells start ringing.
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02 | Patient Zero: Basement Files from 2020-08-21T02:00
A junior doctor uncovers a mystery that rewrites the story of a famous epidemic — and we learn the troubling origins of 'patient zero' as a concept.
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01 | Patient Zero: Something In The Water from 2020-08-14T01:00
Disease is spreading in the wake of a natural disaster on the Caribbean nation of Haiti — and everyone thinks they know where it's coming from… (Spoiler: They don't).
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06 | Section 71 — The Race Power from 2020-07-10T12:15
An extra episode in the series about High Court cases which have changed Australia. Series producer Jane Lee unpicks the origins and uses of Section 51(26) of the Australian Constitution, which giv...
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05 | Section 71 — The Hindmarsh Island Bridge Affair (Part 2) from 2020-07-10T12:10:14
In the second part of the long running and divisive case known as the Hindmarsh Island bridge affair, the battle heads inside the High Court.
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04 | Section 71 —The Hindmarsh Island Bridge Affair (Part 1) from 2020-07-10T12:05:08
Ever wondered how the term "secret women's business" entered the Australian lexicon? It's part of a bitter legal battle over land, culture and history in South Australia.
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03 | Section 71 — Communists, Terrorists and the High Court from 2020-07-10T12:00:14
How much power does the Federal Government have to protect Australians from international threats?
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02 | Section 71 — The High Court Dog-Fight on Schools Funding from 2020-07-10T11:55
The High Court showdown over religious freedom that could help you understand how schools are funded to this day.
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01 | Section 71 — Tasmanian crime of gay sex from 2020-07-10T11:50:08
It might surprise you to learn that until 1997, a man could go to jail for up to 21 years for having sex with another man in Australia.
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04 | Hot Mess — Hope from 2020-05-24T08:00
Despite all the gridlock on Australia's climate policy, there are moves towards a decarbonised economy. The exit from coal is gathering pace in the finance and insurance sectors. On the technology ...
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03 | Hot Mess — Party lines from 2020-05-17T08:00
There's more to our climate politics than the circus of losing a succession of Prime Ministers. Export earnings, donations, access, revolving doors between politics and industry mean that both side...
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02 | Hot Mess — Spin Cycle from 2020-05-10T08:00
The fossil fuel industries ignored their own research as far back as the 1960s and then denied climate change was going on. We hear how a small group of think tanks and a compliant media pushed our...
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01 | Hot Mess — Human frailties from 2020-05-03T08:00
What it is about us, all of us, that makes climate change hard to get our heads around and even harder to do something about? We talk to people who understand that climate change is a real danger ...
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INTRODUCING Hot Mess — Why haven’t we fixed climate change? from 2020-04-26T08:00
It’s been over three decades since most of us first heard about global warming. Meanwhile, the 20 hottest years on record have all occurred in the last quarter century. We’re had heatwaves, storms,...
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04 | Shifting Cultures: Vanuatu's stolen generation from 2020-02-22T13:30
150 years ago thousands of young men were taken from the Pacific Islands. Today the scars are still being felt.
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03 | Shifting Cultures: Polygamous marriage in modern Malaysia from 2020-02-15T13:30:43
Muslim Malaysians often have complex and tangled views about polygamy. Their feelings and beliefs aren’t always mirrored by their actions. What role does pragmatism play? What role does faith play?
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02 | Shifting Cultures: Survival and revival in the Torres Strait from 2020-02-08T13:30:26
The island of Poruma is a shrinking tropical paradise — battered by king tides and eaten by coastal erosion. Meet the locals fighting for survival, in more ways than one.
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01 | Shifting Cultures: South Korea's hope in hell from 2020-02-01T13:30
Expectation and competition are pushing young South Koreans to give up on marriage and kids.
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08 | Myths of War — Vietnam: the war's forgotten supporters from 2020-01-20T11:30
Why do we remember the demonstrators but forget the supporters?
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07 | Myths of War: Gay servicemen in Vietnam from 2020-01-13T11:30
No poofters? They shouldn’t have been there — but they were.
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06| Myths of War — The Thai-Burma railway and the myth of the river Kwai from 2020-01-06T11:30
It’s not just Aussies who have mates.
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05| Myths Of War — Was there a battle for Australia? from 2019-12-30T11:30
Why do we commemorate an event that probably didn’t happen?
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04 | Myths of War — Changi and the POWs behind the wire from 2019-12-23T11:30
Why some prisoners of war were happiest in Singapore.
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03 | Myths of War — General Sir John Monash: a flattering self portrait from 2019-12-16T11:30
A great general — but was he really the greatest?
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02 | Myths of War— Gallipoli: ANZAC misremembered from 2019-12-09T11:30
Ataturk never said his famous words and Bert Facey wasn’t there for the landing. Gallipoli stripped bare.
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01 | Myths Of War — The white feather women and their unwelcome gifts from 2019-12-01T13:30
Would you take a white feather from this woman? Giving unwelcome gifts in the First World War.
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04 | Why the Cold War still matters — The year no-one saw coming from 2019-11-10T08:00
In January 1989, East German leader Erich Honecker declared that the Berlin Wall would still be standing in 50 or even 100 years. By November that same year the Wall was down and the Cold War was o...
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03 | Why the Cold War still matters — The fall of an empire from 2019-11-03T08:00
How did a committed communist become an accidentally revolutionary Soviet leader? Take a closer look at the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev and discover how his approach to economic and political r...
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02 | Why the Cold War still matters — Repression and dissent from 2019-10-27T08:00
The Cold War is often referred to as the 'War of Words'. Meet the people who tore down the Iron Curtain from within the Soviet Union through protest and dissent. Hear the stories of a Romanian radi...
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01 | Why the Cold War still matters — The superpower standoff from 2019-10-20T08:00
The most familiar story of the Cold War is that of the superpower rivalry between the US and the USSR—two armed camps, teetering on the precipice of nuclear war. Find out how the standoff played ou...
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05 | The Somerton Man Mystery — could DNA finally solve this puzzling case? from 2019-10-12T13:00
Could breakthroughs in DNA technology and forensic genealogy identify Adelaide's Somerton Man? And is it time to finally dig him up?
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04 | The Somerton Man Mystery — a family connection could hold the answer from 2019-10-05T13:00
Derek Abbott has spent decades trying to identify the man found dead on Somerton Beach. If his theory is correct, he's married to the unknown man's great granddaughter. But to prove it, he needs th...
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03 | The Somerton Man Mystery — a case of disguised identity from 2019-09-29T01:00
The man who died on Somerton Beach in 1948 went to great lengths to disguise his identity. But he couldn't hide the clues on his body — his peculiar ears, teeth and calves. His DNA. Modern science ...
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02 | The Somerton Man Mystery — a poetry book clue and an elusive young woman from 2019-09-28T13:00
A torn piece of paper from a book of Persian poetry leads to the discovery of an elusive young nurse. What was her relationship to the dead man on Somerton Beach? Does she hold the key to cracking ...
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01 | The Somerton Man Mystery — the strange case of the body on the beach from 2019-09-21T13:00
In post-war Adelaide, there's a feeling of optimism and relief in the air, but it's mixed with paranoia about the changing world order. And in this mix, on a summer day on Somerton Beach, a man's b...
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04 | Who Runs This Place — The People from 2019-07-07T08:05
Union membership is a fraction of what it was but people power is finding a voice through new platforms and movements.
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03 | Who Runs This Place — The States from 2019-06-30T08:05
The different power players in each state. All six states are led by Premiers and have cabinets — they're the same. But they're also different. In part three, we look at the industries, groups and ...
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02 | Who Runs This Place — The Lobbyists from 2019-06-23T08:05
The industries and organisations that get what they want from government. In part two we stay in Canberra and look at the lobbyists, the industries and organisations most effective at getting what ...
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01 | Who Runs This Place — The Triangle from 2019-06-16T08:05
More power is concentrated inside Canberra’s Parliamentary Triangle than anywhere else. The Constitution doesn’t mention the Prime Minister but that office is where the power is. We look at how Pri...
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04 | Class Act — Don’t mention it from 2018-04-05T20:05
Why don't we talk about class directly? We recognise it when its rendered through language, dress and cultural taste. And a lot of our best comedy, drama and writing is about class. We revisit that...
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03 | Class Act — The dark heart from 2018-04-04T20:05
Inequality has been growing in Australia for three and a half decades. It’s reinforcing class divisions and affecting our health, where we live, our levels of education and employment prospects. It...
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02 | Class Act — How we got here? from 2018-04-03T20:05
Part two of Class Act looks at how we got here. The history of class in Australia, and how it has been shaped by immigration and structural changes to the economy.
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01 | Class Act — Where we sit? from 2018-04-02T20:05
The idea that Australia is a classless society is widely held and very appealing. It’s just not true. Class exists — it’s determined by economic, social and cultural capital — and it has a big impa...
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