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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 6/19/26 | ![]() UK PM under pressure from Labour MPs | The likely leadership challenge in the UK. America at 250: What is the significance of Independence Day for Indigenous Americans? The latest on the Iran US negotiations.Pauline Hanson's speech at the National Press Club in Canberra and her hostile relationship with the media.And heartbreak for the Socceroos: what went wrong? | — | ||||||
| 6/12/26 | ![]() Ken Burns on the lessons of America's violent past | Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant. | — | ||||||
| 6/5/26 | ![]() A diplomatic win for Australia in the Pacific? | Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant. | — | ||||||
| 5/29/26 | ![]() Trump considers tentative US-Iran deal | Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant. | — | ||||||
| 5/22/26 | ![]() Landmark new home in the NT offers hope for remote Aboriginal communities | The power politics of the summit between Presidents Xi and Putin — how did it compare to Trump's visit? | — | ||||||
| 5/15/26 | ![]() The symbolism and substance of the Trump Xi summit | Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant. | — | ||||||
| 5/8/26 | ![]() As Reform UK surges in local council elections, will Farrer elect One Nation? | Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant. | — | ||||||
| 5/1/26 | ![]() Anthony Albanese on navigating global and political turbulence | Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant. | — | ||||||
| 4/24/26 | ![]() The US and Iran continue their 'diplomatic dance' | Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant. | — | ||||||
| 4/17/26 | ![]() US and Iran show signs of compromise | The latest on the Middle East and the clearest sign yet of a breakthrough between Washington and Tehran - David Rennie, the Geopolitics Editor at The Economist, and Professor David Kilcullen, one of Australia's leading military thinkers, unpack the overnight announcements and meetings.Author and journalist Katherine Stewart looks at the feud between Donald Trump and Pope Leo, and whether it points to something bigger: The fraying of MAGA?Jill Sheppard joins the show to discuss a new book, Landslide: The 2025 Federal Election.Australian journalist Cheng Lei talks about recreating her three years in Chinese detention as a live stage show at Melbourne Arts House. And nearly 200 people, including renowned Australian artist Lucy Culliton are painting outside this weekend as part of the first ever Art Prize in the country town of Bombala. | — | ||||||
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| 4/10/26 | ![]() Iran-US peace talks face steep obstacles | Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant. | — | ||||||
| 4/3/26 | ![]() What did the Gulf states make of Trump's prime time address? | As a search and rescue mission is underway for a crew member from a US fighter jet that was downed in southern Iran, Gregg Carlstrom, the Middle East Correspondent for The Economist, joins Saturday Extra with the latest news from the region.To the stars and the Artemis moon mission with Malcolm Davis, a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.David McCloskey, the co-host of podcast THE REST IS CLASSIFIED takes us into the world of his fourth novel, The Persian.The Queensland outback town of Winton becomes an official Dark Sky Place making it one of the best places on earth to star gaze.Eurovision is expanding into Asia, and the power of Bach's St John Passion this Easter weekend. | — | ||||||
| 3/27/26 | ![]() What would it take to end the Iran war? | Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant. | — | ||||||
| 3/20/26 | ![]() Thousands more US Marines head to Middle East as conflict escalates | The Pentagon is sending more US Marines to the Middle East as the war with Iran escalates and widens - Professor Robert Pape explains how the US is falling into an "escalation trap".Economist Stephen Koukoulas on how the oil shock is hitting the Australian economy and whether the government may use the crisis to bring forward economic reform.Andrew Day from The American Conservative, on how the decision to go to war is dividing President Trump's MAGA support base. How weight loss drugs are changing the world and might they become available to adolescents?Plus the ABC's Annabel Crabb on the South Australian election. | — | ||||||
| 3/13/26 | ![]() Who's winning the war in the Middle East? | Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant. | — | ||||||
| 3/6/26 | ![]() Trump demands Iran's 'unconditional surrender' | Yalda Hakim joins Nick Bryant from Qatar, as Iran continues strikes against Gulf states. Ed Luce, from the Financial Times discusses how Donald Trump has moved from a "peacemaker" to the pursuit of Iranian regime change.The discovery of a possum and a glider in the forests of West Papua that were thought to be extinct with Professor Tim Flannery. Magda Szubanski reflects on the life of Ted Emery, a much loved comedy director who died this week who was behind many Australian hit shows, such as Kath and Kim.Plus, Rick Ardon and Susannah Carr - the world's longest-serving television news anchor duo from Perth in Western Australia. | — | ||||||
| 2/27/26 | ![]() How can we stop political violence in Australia? | Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant. | — | ||||||
| 2/20/26 | ![]() Major setback for Trump as tariffs ruled illegal | Australian economist Justin Wolfers reacts to the bombshell US Supreme Court ruling which deemed Donald Trump's tariffs illegal. Cricketing legend Greg Chappell discusses the imprisonment of former rival-turned-mate Imran Khan.BBC News royal correspondent Jonny Dymond unpacks the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. The New York Times' Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks about her powerful interview with Gisele Pelicot, the French rape survivor. And what is Chinamaxxing? Writer Zara Wong explains. | — | ||||||
| 2/13/26 | ![]() Are we entering a 'new era in geopolitics'? | Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant. | — | ||||||
| 2/6/26 | ![]() Trump faces fury after racist post | Katty Kay from The Rest is Politics US dissects the latest in US politics including the reaction to a now deleted racist post of the Obamas. Plus, the Epstein files political fallout in the UK with Jon Sopel from The News Agents.How is the Israeli President Isaac Herzog's visit to Australia being reported in Israel?And former National Party leader John Anderson on the surge in One Nation support. | — | ||||||
| 1/30/26 | ![]() Will Iran make a deal rather than face US military action? | The latest on Iran from BBC Persian's Bahman Kalbasi as Tehran faces the threat of US military action in response to the killing of peaceful demonstrators and mass executions.The downfall of China's top military general Zhang Youxia as Xi Jinping escalates his purge of the People's Liberation Army elite with Richard McGregor from the Lowy Institute.Plus, is the Trump administration de-escalating controversial deportation tactics in Minnesota? | — | ||||||
| 1/23/26 | ![]() Mark Carney's powerful speech for middle powers to unite | Charles Kupchan and Malcolm Turnbull assess the week of diplomacy at Davos in Switzerland this week, the implications of Trump's America first approach and the remarkable speech made by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who described the end of the era underpinned by United States.Plus Niki Savva on the "inevitable" split of the Coalition and the future of Sussan Ley's leadership of the Liberal Party. | — | ||||||
| 1/16/26 | ![]() Saturday Extra: Books and authors | On Saturday Extra's final show of the summer break: Our best conversations with authors of notable books. CNN's Jake Tapper on one of the most fateful decisions in American history - Joe Biden's decision to run for re-election despite evidence of his decline; actor Griffin Dunne on coming of age in a family of larger-than-life characters in Hollywood; and historian Sophia Rosenfeld on the history of how choice became synonymous with freedom and self expression. | — | ||||||
| 1/9/26 | ![]() Saturday Extra Summer: History | From the Colossus of Rhodes to the hanging gardens of Babylon, we visit the seven wonders of the ancient world with author and historian Bettany Hughes; and from jewels to jumbo jets, a history of diplomatic gift giving; journalist Ed Wong on how travelling China with his father taught him that his family story is deeply entwined with China's rising power; 50 years of Papua New Guinean independence. Plus two new takes on Australian history with Professor Mark McKenna and Annabel Crabb. | — | ||||||
| 1/2/26 | ![]() Saturday Extra Summer: Global figures | On the show: Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Filipino journalist Maria Ressa, Lord Norman Foster who was awarded the Pritzker prize for architecture , and Irish novelist Colum McCann who won the National Book Award in America. | — | ||||||
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