Saturday Extra - Separate stories podcast
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Saturday Extra - Separate stories podcast
Smart analysis, lively conversations, and great company. Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.
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The Last Thing: Sita Sargeant
Sita Sargeant is the founder of She Shapes History, which runs walking tours around Australia focusing on the often-overlooked stories of women.
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Slow Horses author Mick Herron on his spy megahit
It focuses on a group of MI5 screw-ups — spies exiled to a stable of misfits called Slough House in London.
The show is based on a series of spy...
Mick Harvey awarded highest French cultural honour
Mick Harvey, a founding former member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, has been awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of A...
Mick Harvey awarded a French cultural honour
Mick Harvey, a founding former member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, has been awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of A...
Why the government shouldn't 'waste a crisis'
There's a saying that a government shouldn't "waste a crisis".
So could the Albanese government use the current state of the world to enact refo...
UN declares the Earth is out of balance, as Northern Territory faces five successive disasters
The Earth's climate is more out of balance than any time in observed history.
This week, the United Nations sounded the alarm for our climate,...
Does the White House have an 'off ramp' for Iran?
This morning, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he expects operations in Iran will be finished in the "next couple of weeks".
How realistic...
Why is this a golden age for the Matildas?
Tonight the Matildas will take on Japan in the final of the AFC Women's Asian Cup in Sydney.
Japan demolished South Korea this week, but the Ti...
Do US attacks on Iran signal the end of Trumpism?
With the Iran war entering its fourth week, President Trump's MAGA base are growing increasingly uneasy.
Podcast kings and Trump loyalists Joe R...
The SA election: A big moment for One Nation
Ahead of the South Australia state election, the polls are pointing to the re-election of the Labor government under Premier Peter Malinauskas.
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How weight loss drugs like Ozempic are changing the world
The story of weight loss drugs like Ozempic has become global and multi-sided, spanning celebrity culture, public health and major policy debates.
War in the Middle East, consequences in Australia
The war in the Middle East is continuing to have economic consequences for Australians. Chief among these is higher prices at the petrol pump.
T...
Is the war in Iran becoming an 'escalation trap'?
The US-Israel war against Iran is poised to enter its fourth week with no immediate off-ramps.
Now, the US military has deployed a second highly...
Exiled Iranian national soccer player speaks out about fate of returning players
One person who understands exactly what the Iranian women's soccer team has been going through this week is Shiva Amini.
A former Iranian women'...
From Adelaide to the Academy Awards
Guido Wolter is a visual effects supervisor from Adelaide, who's earned an Oscar nomination for his work on the film Sinners.
Guido and his team...
Flight of the Conchords star Bret McKenzie on his next act
Flight of the Conchords star Bret McKenzie is about to start a solo tour of Australia.
Bret talked to Saturday Extra about New Zealand politics...
Is Melbourne the world's best city?
Earlier this week, Melbourne topped Time Out's 50 best cities in the world in 2026, beating the likes of New York, Paris, London and perennial rival S...
Oil shock: Iran's leaders inflict pain on the global economy
Nearly two weeks after the United States and Israel attacked Iran, Iran has found a way to inflict pain back on its enemies by stopping international...
Iran is playing 'the long game'. Will it pay off?
Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is "wounded and likely disfigured", according to US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. But the regime still re...
The world's longest serving TV news anchor duo
Susannah Carr and Rick Ardon are the world's longest-serving television news anchor duo.
Since 1985, they've read the news together at 7 News Pe...
Why did America decide to go to war with Iran?
US President Donald Trump has demanded Iran's "unconditional surrender", in a dramatic escalation one week into the war he launched with Israel.
Magda Szubanski remembers comedy legend Ted Emery
This week, master of Australian comedy Ted Emery passed away.
He was the maestro behind some of Australia's classic TV comedies: Kath and Kim,...
A 'comeback' after 6,000 years of extinction
A tiny possum with an extremely long finger and a new kind of gliding marsupial have been identified in West Papua.
The two species were only p...
What's behind Trump's fight with an AI company?
Anthropic and the Trump administration had a major falling out last week when the leading AI company requested restrictions on how the military uses i...
How Iran's proxies have been degraded
Iran has spent decades and billions of dollars preparing foreign proxies as part of an alliance system stretching from Gaza, Lebanon and Syria to Yeme...
Can the Iranians outlast the Americans?
As the bombs keep falling on Iran, a big part of the Iranian strategy seems to be based on dragging out the conflict.
The regime knows there's n...
The Last Thing: Caroline Butler-Bowdon
The NSW State Librarian Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon joins Saturday Extra for The Last Thing. She talks about her last great read, last great sporting ma...
How Australian policy innovation influences the UK
Geoff Mulgan, who worked with former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, discusses how the Brits have borrowed some of our policy ideas. In a wide-ranging c...
Marianne Williamson on US politics
Marianne Williamson stood for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 and 2024.
She rose to national prominence back in the 1980s as a s...
A rare look inside North Korea
The outside world gets few hints at what is actually happening inside North Korea.
But this week, the Workers' Party of Korea is holding its con...
What makes a truly great speech?
Next week marks the 80th anniversary of one of the most era-defining speeches of the post-war years, which Sir Winston Churchill delivered in Fulton,...
What's behind the rise of political violence in Australia?
This week, the prime minister was whisked away from the Lodge in Canberra in response to a security threat. In the wake of the Bondi terror attack and...
Why are so many people Chinamaxxing?
These days, if you want to "become Chinese" on social media, your race doesn't matter.
It's all about wearing slippers inside, drinking hot wate...
Gisele Pelicot seeks to reverse the onus of shame for assault victims
It is one of the most shocking sexual abuse trials the world has seen.
Dominique Pelicot drugged his wife and invited at least 70 men into his h...
Cricket legends stand up for imprisoned Imran Khan
A group of former international cricket captains are calling for better treatment of Pakistan's imprisoned former prime minister — and cricket legend...
After Andrew's arrest, what now?
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested this week, so what's next for the former prince and the monarchy?
Controversy surrounds incoming Northern Territory Administrator
This week, the Northern Territory government will swear in a new administrator — it is the highest office in the territory, and the equivalent of a st...
Trump considers initial limited military strike on Iran
President Trump is considering committing the United States to another military campaign against Iran, telling reporters this week that he would decid...
Supreme Court strikes down Trump's tariffs
The US Supreme Court has deemed President Donald Trump's global tariffs illegal.
Trump responded by attacking the court's justices and vowing t...
Reimagining A Winter's Journey for Australia
Acclaimed tenor Allan Clayton and pianist Kate Golla are touring A Winter's Journey, a reimagining of Schubert's Winterreise for Opera Australia and M...