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Unforgettable true crime mysteries, exclusive newsmaker interviews, hard-hitting investigative reports and in-depth coverage of high profile stories. Now listen twice weekly, with The 20/20 True Crime Vault each Wednesday.
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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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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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Late-night television's award-winning news program featuring anchors Juju Chang and Byron Pitts. For in-depth reporting on today's major news stories, to features, profiles, Nightline has the last word in live network news.
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"This Week with George Stephanopoulos" is ABC News’ pre-eminent Sunday morning discussion program, featuring newsmaker interviews and panel discussions and debates on a wide range of global issues and commentary, putting into unique perspective the preceding week’s news, and often setting the stage for the week ahead.
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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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It's estimated that by 2050 more than 70 per cent of the world's population will live in cities. Urbanisation carries many benefits, but it also threatens to intensify the climate crisis. So, how do we better design our cities to minimise the "urban heat island" effect? The solutions are out there, but do we have the will to put them into practice?…
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The world’s attention may have shifted to the war in the Middle East, but in Ukraine the battle drags on as a second winter sets in. It comes after a brutal counter-offensive in which Ukrainian soldiers tried but failed to take back significant territory from the Russians. Today, Dr Samir Puri, a visiting lecturer at King’s College London and forme…
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China's pandas are not just pandas. They're diplomats. You're friendly to China? You get a panda. You criticise China? You get no pandas. In recent years China has been hostile toward the West, with the most literal symbol of their displeasure being the withdrawal of their pandas from zoos around the world. And yet, Chinese President Xi Jinping app…
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When award-winning writer and broadcaster Selina Mills started to lose her sight, she noticed that people started to treat her differently. It caused her to explore where the stigma around blindness originates and how it persists in Western culture to this day.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Writer Andrew Leland is gradually losing his sight as a result of a progressive eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa. He discusses what it's like to join - but not feel entirely a part of - the blind community and what it actually means to be blind.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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To mark International Day Of People With Disability, December 3rd, the ABC is showcasing content featuring people with lived experience of disability. On Late Night Live, we revisit the conversations we had with legally blind writers from either side of the Atlantic, Andrew Leland and Selina Mills.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Your internal experience of consciousness – your rich inner life — has had scientists and philosophers completely perplexed for centuries. How does your brain's 100 billion neurons conjure up that distinct sense you have of being YOU? Is it different to your dog's sense of being a 'doggish'? Could that sense be reproduced in artificial intelligence…
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A college student disappears while out running, her body found at the edge of a river. For decades, her family and close-knit town are haunted – was her killer living among them? Finally, DNA – and help from an unlikely source - would identify her killer. Originally broadcast on 9/20/2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic…
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How do you make the meaningless meaningful? Every sporting league has grappled with that question and the NBA might have found the answer. The basketball league has taken elements of soccer/football 'Cup' formats and injected them into regular season fixtures to bring tension and stakes where they didn't previously exist. Today, Phil Murphy speaks …
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It’s part of the biggest road project ever built in Australia, but when a complex maze of tunnels and roads opened in Sydney last month it became apparent there was a major design flaw causing traffic chaos. So, how did planners get it so wrong and why do we rely so heavily on motorways? Today, transport planner from the University of Technology Sy…
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‘It takes a man or woman of great moral courage…to dare the risk of being himself or herself all the time’ – so said Bee Miles, the Sydney woman who claimed she was not anti-social, but anti the social order of 1920’s Australia. Her refusal to conform saw the intellectual radical arrested more than 300 times and be locked up in at least seven psych…
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Bruce Shapiro reflects on the year that was in American politics, and looks ahead to a fateful election year in 2024. Guest: Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with The Nation magazine; Executive Director of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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In 1963, as the space race was taking off, the influential political philosopher Hannah Arrendt challenged scientists over their shift away from a humanistic focus to worlds beyond. She was responding to a question posed by the Encyclopedia Britannica: "Has man’s conquest of space increased or diminished his stature?". Replace man with human, and l…
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How many sports streaming services have you signed up to? If you want to watch Australia at cricket World Cups you're going to need to add Amazon after the tech giant bought a big slice of the sport. It underlines the ever more fragmented world of sports fandom. Today, Jack Snape speaks with Patrick Stack about how much more fans can take and the i…
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By the end of 2023, the number of immigrants who’ve arrived in Australia during the year may be approaching 600 thousand. They’re filling jobs and bringing cultural diversity to communities, but there is a downside for the economy. Today, the ABC’s business editor Ian Verrender explores the impact the surge is having on inflation, interest rates an…
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As we celebrate 100 years of radio in Australia, radio historians Dr Virginia Madsen and Professor Jock Given look back at the early days of wireless, how Radio National was born, and at the golden moments in the history of our favourite medium.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Laura Tingle and author and columnist Niki Sava look back on the key political events of 2023, including the Voice referendum loss, the cost of living crisis and scandals like Robodebt and PWC. Guests: Laura Tingle, Chief Political Correspondent, 7.30 Niki Savva, author and columnist.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Mental health problems and chronic diseases are plaguing societies around the world. Both fields need new solutions. We know that lifestyle and obesity contribute to chronic diseases; they can shorten your life by 11 years! But can you use lifestyle to stay chronically healthy? And are we ignoring human rights and social factors in mental health po…
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A third team in the history of the WBBL has managed to defend a title, this time it's the Adelaide Strikers and didn't they put on a great show against the Brisbane Heat in the final. Amanda-Jade Wellington was the star of the show bowling at the death, but will this performance finally see her earn Australian selection? The atmosphere was pumping …
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