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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Jonathan Green |Kim Jirik |Carey Dell |Rhiannon Brown
In times of war, food and nourishment can determine victory or defeat. Welcome to the world of military food. Armies once lived off the land, but now they can live off a sealed, freeze-dried pouch. Imagining, making and storing combat-ready food leads global food science, which means that each and every one of us eats a little like a soldier.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Jonathan Green |Kim Jirik |Carey Dell |Rhiannon Brown
The food we eat at school matters. Some Australian children get too much of the wrong thing, while others get not much of anything at all. In these early years, the food habits of a lifetime are being set, and study after study shows the link between nutrition, attention and learning. If almost every other high-income country in the world is providing free or subsidised lunches for school-aged children, why is Australia an outlier?
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Michael Cathcart |Rosa Ellen |Cathy Pryor |Carey Dell
As a teenager in Belgium, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui grew up dancing with his friends in the street. He’s now a renowned choreographer with his own company and the director of the National Ballet of Flanders, choreographing everything from pop music videos to the new show MANIFEST at Perth Festival - where members of the public can train alongside his dancers for a performance in the city’s Forrest Place. Can love exist between two people on opposite sides of the nuclear debate?
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Claire Nichols |Anita Barraud |Carey Dell |Rhiannon Brown
Look in any library or book shop at any time of year and there's bound to be a newly released Alexander McCall Smith novel on the shelf. Most known for his No 1 Ladies' Detectives Agency Series, the 44 Scotland Series, and even books for children, he also writes standalone novels. Hear how he uses the seasons to write up to five books a year, including one of the latest, The Winds from Further West, Polygon.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Claire Nichols |Anita Barraud |Carey Dell |Rhiannon Brown
What is it like to write a book that changes your life? Some of the world’s biggest authors reminisce about their all-time biggest books – the novels that changed their lives. In the first of this breakthrough series Audrey Niffenegger reflects on her debut novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife. The 2003 book, about time-travelling librarian Henry and his artist wife Clare, was an instant bestseller. It’s been adapted to the screen twice, as a film in 2009 and a TV series in 2022.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Clare Rawlinson |Carey Dell |Sarah Mashman |Beverley Wang
Twenty-three years after the original series of The Office debuted, Australia has its own version of the mockumentary workplace comedy, They Office featuring needy bad boss - and chump- Hannah Howard, played by Felicity Ward. Felicity and show runners Jackie Van Beek and Julie De Fina talk to BW about how this 13th version of The Office, streaming on Prime Video, adapts itself to the post-pandemic world of work.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Claire Nichols |Sarah L'Estrange |Carey Dell |Rhiannon Brown
Scottish author Andrew O'Hagan explains why finishing his latest novel Caledonian Road was like "landing 65 planes on the tarmac" and award-winning author Evie Wyld on her new book The Echoes, and why there are so many sharks in her fiction. Scottish author Andrew O'Hagan's latest book Caledonian Road (Faber and Faber) is a big in length and Dickensian scope.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Beverley Wang |Sarah Mashman |Clare Rawlinson |Carey Dell
Vietnamese-Australian actor Hoa Xuande stars as The Captain in HBO's The Sympathizer, a limited series based on Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer-prize winning novel. Hoa takes us behind the scenes, telling us about how he landed this huge role, and what it was like to act opposite heavyweights like Robert Downey Jr. and Sandra Oh.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Damien Carrick |Anita Barraud |Carey Dell
What's it like to have the responsibility to decide if a violent offender should be released from prison and allowed back into the community? Rob McKeon is a member of England's parole board who has helped to decide the fate of thousands of prisoners over the past decade. Warning: this conversation contains discussion of violent crime. Guest: Rob McKeon, Member of the Parole Board for England & Wales; Author, Parole: The Fate of Prisoners in My Hands and the High-stakes Risks of Getting it Wrong
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Claire Nichols |Sarah L'Estrange |Carey Dell |Rhiannon Brown
A wild puma stalks through Robbie Arnott's haunting new novel, Dusk, Fiona McFarlane's homage to true crime podcasts in Highway 13 and Malcolm Knox raises the stakes in a Soviet era political thriller, The First Friend. Australian author Robbie Arnott has published four novels, and two of them — The Rain Heron and Limberlost — have been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award.
