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2 days ago | 
abc.net.au | Marc Fennell |Zoe Ferguson |Zoë Ferguson |Taryn Priadko |Hamish Camilleri
When the US wanted to beat the Nazis, they turned to an unlikely ally: the Mafia. But who really won as a result of this clandestine coalition? Guest: Matthew Black - historian and author of Operation Underworld: How the Mafia and U.S. Government Teamed Up to Win World War IIGot a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at [email protected]
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Marc Fennell |Taryn Priadko |Zoe Ferguson |Zoë Ferguson |Hamish Camilleri
It's one of the most famous events of modern history, but what if the fall of the Berlin Wall began with a small slip up during a routine press conference? Got a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at [email protected]
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Marc Fennell |Zoe Ferguson |Zoë Ferguson |Taryn Priadko |Hamish Camilleri
Meet Phineas Gage, railroad foreman and all-round good guy. That is, until a giant metal pole shoots through his brain. What happens next will change neuroscience forever. Guest: Sam Kean – author of The Tale of the Duelling Neurosurgeons: The History of The Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery. Get in touch:Got a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at [email protected], Brain and Nervous System, Psychology
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Andrew West |Hamish Camilleri |Nadyat El Gawley
A State Memorial Service will be held in Sydney this week for David Polson, one of the first people in Australia to contract HIV AIDS. David lived for 40 years after his initial diagnosis, developing a close friendship with one of his early carers, CLARE NOLAN from the Sisters of Charity. The Catholic nuns ran Ward 17 at St Vincent's Hospital, where they nursed hundreds of HIV AIDS patients. Sister Nolan remembered David Polson and the prejudice he and other patients encountered.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Andrew West |Hamish Camilleri |Nadyat El Gawley
Pope Francis is reportedly out of immediate danger but will remain in hospital as doctors manage his recovery from double pneumonia. As he has fought the disease, we’ve been looking at his legacy. In the global south, his message about poverty and climate change resounds loudly. Bishop BRODERICK PABILLO is from Palawan in the Philippines. He was a strong critic of former president Rodrigo Duterte, who has been arrested by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Andrew West |Hamish Camilleri |Nadyat El Gawley
What are the implications of recent clashes with loyalists to the Assad regime? The Sisters of Charity ran Ward 17 at St Vincent's Hospital, where they nursed hundreds of HIV AIDS patients. Sister Nolan remembers David Polson and the prejudice he and other patients encountered. And why does the pope's message about poverty and climate change resound loudly in the global south?
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Andrew West |Hamish Camilleri |Nadyat El Gawley
Since the takeover of Syria by the Islamist group Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, also known as HTS, an uneasy calm had settled over the country. Religious minorities were more hopeful they could survive the new regime. But recent mass violence in the coastal provinces of Latakia and Tartus has destroyed such hopes. More than 1000 people, mostly civilians from the Alawite minority, have been killed, as security forces clashed with militias loyal to the ousted Assad regime.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Brooke Prentis |Rohan Salmond |Hong Jiang |Hamish Camilleri
Japanese tourism is exploding. Over 600,000 Australians visited Japan in 2023, and most of them visited a temple or shrine — even though they wouldn’t normally do that back home. But what's the etiquette when visiting a sacred place, and what do Japanese people think? Guests:Dr Natsuko Akagawa is Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland and a member of International Council on Monuments and Sites.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Hamish Camilleri |David Le May
From deep sea mining to illegal fishing on the high seas, who is the boss of the ocean? And why are scientists-turned-entrepreneurs singing the praises of seaweed? Join Natasha Mitchell and guests at the 2024 Ocean Lovers Festival in Bondi for two panels of big thinkers exploring new frontiers for ocean exploitation — and inspiration — the risks, the rewards, and the regulation of this vast wilderness which covers 70% of the planet's surface.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Hamish Camilleri
New York writer Jonathan Rosen’s memoir The Best Minds: a story of friendship, madness, and the tragedy of good intentions is a story of tenderness, heartache, and horror as he explores the vexed tensions between civil rights, medical power, and the complexities of recognising and treating severe psychotic illness.
