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The History Listen
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The History Listen

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New and compelling stories from Australia and around the world, told by some of our most popular and trusted historians. Step inside a time machine for an immersive journey through history, where stories of people, places and events bring the past vividly into our present world.
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Download This Show

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Download This Show is your weekly guide to the world of media, culture, and technology. From social media to gadgets, streaming services to privacy issues. Each week Marc Fennell and a team of people far smarter than him (his words, not ours) take a fun deep dive into how technology is reshaping our lives.
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Silver Bullet

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Everyone says there are no shortcuts to self-improvement but what if everyone is wrong? The market is flooded with products that promise to make you happier and healthier, with more inner peace and fewer problems. So surely one of them must be a Silver Bullet for a better you? On this comedy podcast, Lewis Hobba and Michael Hing try the gadgets, the hobbies, the experiences and wellness trends that their celebrity guests swear by to find out if they also work for them.
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ABC News Daily

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ABC News Daily is the podcast that helps you understand the issues affecting your world. Every episode, host Samantha Hawley walks through one story with the help of an ABC colleague or expert in under 15 minutes. When you want coverage you can trust, listen to ABC News Daily.
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ABC KIDS News Time

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Every Friday, join Ruby for News Time as she counts down the week’s most interesting news stories for kids. From amazing animals to special events, the natural world to outer space, News Time is made especially for children to help them understand the world around them.
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If You're Listening
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If You're Listening

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The world is on fire. There's a coup. A former president is being indicted. Inflation is through the roof, and AI is taking our jobs. What does it all mean? Each week, Matt Bevan explains the biggest story in world news while hiding in his basement from assassins and authoritarian regimes.
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Unravel — Firebomb
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Unravel — Firebomb

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Chinese restaurants are being firebombed in the dead of night. The police arson squad is racing against the clock to stop the next attack. Along the way, there are buried weapons, secret informers, punks, ninjas, and political manoeuvres. As the rest of Australia celebrates the nation's bicentenary, a campaign of terror is getting underway in Perth. Now, in this deeply personal season of Unravel True Crime, Crispian Chan investigates what really happened after his family's restaurant went up ...
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Good Morning America

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Listen to America’s #1 morning show, “Good Morning America,” and “GMA3: What You Need to Know” on-demand. ABC News’ Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Michael Strahan and chief meteorologist Ginger Zee deliver a daily mix of breaking news, hard-hitting interviews, exclusive investigations, cutting-edge medical updates, and financial reporting. And now catch up on all the latest news, lifestyle and entertainment headlines with “GMA3.”
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Days Like These - True Stories
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Days Like These - True Stories

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The best story you'll hear this week. Days Like These is a podcast told by one person telling the tale of how they lived through something wild. Sometimes funny, sometimes scary, sometimes both. We've got sharks and pirates, justice and injustice, drugs and recovery, love and hate, spies and thieves, triumphs and disasters. All we need from you is less than half an hour each week.
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Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast
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Yanis Varoufakis: what is technofeudalism? 25:53

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Is capitalism dead? As big tech's influence and control on the markets and all our lives continues to grow, could it be that capitalism has been replaced by technofeudalism. Yanis Varoufakis explains how we all became cloud serfs providing our data for free. Guest: Yanis Varoufakis, former Minister for Finance in Greece and author of Technofeudalis…
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Big Ideas
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Why young people want to break the binaries of the Voice debate 54:51

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There's a broad spectrum of perspectives on the Voice referendum, but where do the voices of Australia's youth fit into the debate?Recently, the University of Tasmania gathered a panel of young Indigenous and non-indigenous voices to speak to the complexities of this era-defining moment, and what future they want to inherit — whatever the outcome o…
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The Money
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Menopause is costing the economy a fortune. El Nino weather and its impact. Central Bank Digital Currencies explained.  29:02

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How women and their employers are paying a big price because of menopause. El Nino weather and its impact on economic staples. What are Central Bank Digital Currencies and could they change the financial landscape?By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The Bookshelf
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Lauren Groff, Daniel Mason and Anna Kate Blair: fables, trees, history and art 54:06

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Kate and Cassie read Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wilds, Daniel Mason's North Woods and Anna Kate Blair's The Modern with writer Maggie Mackellar (Graft) and the Art Show's Rosa Ellen. Survival, hunger, lush landscapes, ambition, art, history . . . with a surprising side of beetles, apples, wedding dresses and frozen fish.…
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Soul Search
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Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet at 100 54:07

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It’s been 100 years since the publication of The Prophet by Khalil Gibran, a book beloved by everyone from Indira Ghandi to Elvis Presley. What is the story behind one of the most enduring spiritual texts of the Twentieth Century, and why did it strike such a chord?Yahia Lababidi is an Egyptian American poet, essayist and aphorist. His most recent …
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The Party Room
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Politics turns nuclear 27:00

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If Australia was to adopt the Coalition's demand to replace coal-fired power stations with nuclear, it would come with a $387 billion dollar price tag according to the Albanese government. But is nuclear energy really "a unicorn and a fantasy" for Australia?And with just over three-weeks until referendum day, is the tone of the Voice debate changin…
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Download This Show
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Big tech call for AI regulation 28:36

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Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and other big names in tech have joined a US Senate hearing to call for better regulation of AI, but they’re divided on how to get there. And Apple wants to know how you feel as part of a software update – but who does it really benefit? Meanwhile supermarket giants are increasing surveillance measures and NAS…
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Future Tense
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The normalisation of economic warfare 29:08

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"Geoeconomic confrontation" ranks as one of the most severe risks facing the world, according to a recent World Economic Forum report. Trade is increasingly becoming a weapon of warfare, and the future consequences for world co-operation could be significant. So, should the use of sanctions be regulated by an international body? And if a global reg…
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If You're Listening
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Why Modi picked a fight over India's true name 18:13

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When world leaders received their invitations to the 2023 G20 summit in New Delhi, everyone got a bit of a surprise. It referred to Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of Bharat, not India.The debate over the naming of India stretches back nearly 80 years, and tells an important story about the country's history.And Modi's new push for a change in …
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ABC News Daily
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Surviving the extreme heat this summer 13:32

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Parts of Australia have been experiencing well above average temperatures for this time of year, with alerts for bushfires already being issued. At the same time, the Bureau of Meteorology has declared the El Nino weather pattern is underway, meaning a hotter and drier summer is likely.Today, the founder of campaign group Sweltering Cities, Emma Ba…
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Rear Vision — How History Shaped Today
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Indigenous Voices to Parliament: The Scandinavian Model 29:06

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On the 14th of October we'll all be voting in a referendum on changing the constitution to recognised Indigenous Australia’s by the establishment of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.For over 30 years Norway, Sweden and Finland have all had such bodies known as Nordic Sami parliaments. Each of these bodies makes representations to the national gove…
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Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast
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How NASA's first women astronauts revolutionised space 27:08

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When Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon and took his ‘giant leap for mankind’, women were banned from NASA’s astronaut corps altogether. But in 1978, NASA finally went on a diversity drive and recruited six female trailblazers.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Robert Kaplan on rethinking the Middle East 25:20

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After spending fifty years reporting on and studying the Middle East, Robert D. Kaplan makes the provocative argument that Western observers need to stop projecting liberal values onto this part of the world, and engage with the increasingly geo-strategically important region in a new way.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Late Night Live - Full program podcast
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The future of the Middle East and NASA's first female astronauts 53:38

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Robert D. Kaplan challenges Western ideas about the Middle East and tries to offer a broader picture of the future of the region that looks beyond the binaries of democracy and authoritarianism. Plus, Loren Grush tells the story of the six extraordinary women that smashed the glass ceiling of NASA's space program back in 1978.…
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Big Ideas
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Artificial wombs and animal sex — philosophers weigh in on brave new futures 59:27

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When it comes to biological sex, humans are pretty vanilla. Things are so much wilder in nature. Philosopher of science Paul Griffiths challenges the notion that our biological sex is a rigid, unchangeable thing. Political philosopher Luara Ferracioli contemplates the controversial idea of artificial wombs replacing women’s wombs, with babies gesta…
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Silver Bullet
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Alex Lahey co-signs memory foam pillows 42:36

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Sleep: it’s one of the only things you do every day that regularly has the word "beauty" attached to the front of it. Probably worth getting better at it, then. This week’s guest, musician Alex Lahey, enters the saloon with a silver bullet that's affordable, attainable and will supposedly make oyu more beautiful: memory foam pillows. Will it find i…
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ABC News Daily
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What taking on the tax office cost a whistleblower

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Can you imagine if the tax office went into your bank account and retrieved money it says you owe, without your permission? Well, it can do that and it does. It’s a practice that distressed ATO employee Richard Boyle so much that he tried to help some taxpayers get around it. He also became a whistleblower and is now facing charges that could land …
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The Party Room
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The Voice Referendum Explained - Misinformation and the referendum campaigns 14:30

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There are all sorts of claims and down-right lies doing the rounds in the run up to the referendum. Misinformation and disinformation have become a huge issue in this campaign, with both sides accusing the other of either hiding the truth or spreading untruths. In this episode, we look at how the campaigns are going and why false claims and fear se…
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Coronacast
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When will we be out of the COVID pandemic phase? 15:24

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It's a question that we've been asking since the very beginning of the pandemic: when will it really end?It's easy to think that because people are vaccinated and less attention is paid to COVID, it's over. In reality more than 5000 people have died of COVID this year, and the disease burden rises every time there's a new variant.On today's Coronac…
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Days Like These - True Stories
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Alphrisk finds his voice as a rapper. But will ice addiction silence his success? 20:57

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With his rap group Deceptikonz, Taupe Daniel ‘Alphrisk’ Maoate is making noise across Australasia. He’s tight with his bandmates, but they’re in the dark about an important detail – Alphrisk is addicted to ice, and it might just sabotage his career.By ABC listen
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Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast
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The history of cheerfulness, from Shakespeare to Louis Armstrong 20:52

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In an era where every day seems to bring a fresh crisis, a new book looks at the subtle importance of ‘cheerfulness’, and how it has been a crucial yet overlooked part of the Western canon, spanning from the plays of Shakespeare to the songs of Louis Armstrong.Timothy Hampton, Professor of Comparative Literature and French at the University of Cali…
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Israel and PNG's surprising relationship 16:05

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Israel is effectively subsidising a new PNG embassy in Jerusalem - a controversial location for any embassy. The PNG Prime Minister, James Marape, says his nation's commitment to Christianity is one reason he supports Israel. Sean Jacobs, PNG-born, Brisbane-based writer and commentator on Pacific affairs. Daniel Seidemann, Israeli attorney and anal…
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Ian Dunt's UK, Israel-PNG relations, and cheerfulness in Art 53:33

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Ian Dunt on the efforts of former Prime Ministers Theresa May and Liz Truss to defend their legacies. What role has religion played in the strengthening of ties between Israel and Papua New Guinea? Plus, from Shakespeare to Louis Armstrong - the importance of cheerfulness in Western Art.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Big Ideas
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The deeper meaning of travel: Richard Fidler, Kris Kneen, Adam Liam, Vicki Shururoglou 53:20

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Travelling is fun — but does it have a deeper purpose? It helps us cultivate connections in the world, it shapes our own identity and makes us understand other cultures. But has modern technology made it too easy and fast-paced? What does 'good-travelling' involve? How do you fit into the places you visit?…
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