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Alfred Dreyfus was an officer in the French Army when he was arrested 130 years ago for treason, convicted and sent to Devils Island for 5 years in solitary confinement. His battle for justice divided the population of France and fascinated people across the globe. How much of his persecution can be put down to antisemitism and why is this case still so relevant? Guest: Maurice Samuels, author of Alfred Dreyfus: The man at the centre of the affair (Yale University Press)

Early last century, America was little known by Australians, but it offered restless, aspirational women an alternative to the well worn path to England. It was more free, and more bold. Guest: historian Yves Rees

Israel has erupted in protests following the execution of six more of the hostages taken by Hamas on October 7, 2023. The US is urgently trying to come up with a ceasefire plan, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is making no sign of changing course. While the protests indicate a clear dissatisfaction with the Israeli leader over his handling of the hostage situation, they don’t necessarily mean there is less support for the war on Gaza. Dr Dahlia Scheindlin - public opinion researcher and political scientist. Author of “The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel: Promise Unfulfilled”, published by De Gruyter.

For more than 1000 years, India was a trading powerhouse across the globe - not only of spices, wild animals and gemstones but also of language, philosophy, religion, mathematics and astronomy. But why is this part of India's history not so well known, and why did its dominance wane about 1200 AD. Guest: William Dalrymple, historian, podcaster and author of The Golden Road How Ancient India Transformed the World (Bloomsbury)

Sadly former ABC broadcaster Tim Bowden has died aged 87. Tim Bowden enjoyed an impressive career in broadcasting, from This Day Tonight to radio documentaries and hosting BackChat. Tim also has 14 books to his name, and he spoke to Phillip Adams about his life and work back in 2013.

Is eradicating the fire ant in Australia still possible?

The military coup in Myanmar that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi a few years ago remains a work in progress. The army has never controlled the whole country, as local militia fight to seize territory from the regime. The most fierce of these little wars at the moment is being fought by the Arakan Army in the coastal Rakhine State. It's primarily Buddhist in the south and Rohingya Muslim in the north, where it borders Bangladesh. Guest:

This week, the Labor government decided that putting in questions about people's sexuality and gender was too hard, only to reverse that decision later in the week. Why is the government finding these decisions on culture issues so difficult? Laura Tingle, Chief Political Correspondent, 7.30

There has been a long and complex conversation about the name of our highest mountain. Named after a Polish noble in 1843, the move towards a meaningful and accurate Indigenous name, to replace or co-exist alongside, continues. GUESTS: Richard Swain High Country, river guide, Assoc Professor, Fenner School ANU, and Dr Harold Koch specialist in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, and co-editor of "Aboriginal placenames : naming and re-naming the Australian landscape" 2009 ANU Press

A landmark Senate inquiry into missing and murdered First Nations women found there has been little, if any, justice for those women and their loved ones, and in too many instances, the suspected perpetrator has never been held to account. Now, fed up with the slow wheels of government, a group of over seventy specialist domestic, family, and sexual violence organisations has formed a new national grassroots network with a mission to reducing all forms of violence. Guests: Kerry Staines - CEO, First Nations Advocates Against Family Violence Thelma Schwartz – Principal Legal Officer with the Queensland Indigenous Family Violence Service Dr Hannah McGlade - Associate Professor, Curtin Law School and expert in Indigenous rights to the UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Peoples

A rookie farmer, who happens to be a neuroscientist who has specialised in studying dogs, gets a few cows to eat the grass down. He learns about their lives and personalities, and soon considers them friends. Guest Gregory Berns

Managing charitable trusts in Australia has become big business.

It’s been labelled the most consequential act of sabotage in modern times, and one of the most destructive environmental catastrophes the world has seen. The 2022 attack on the Nord Stream pipeline cut Germany’s reliance on gas from Russia. So who stood to gain from this and why has the mystery not been fully solved yet? This has been treated like a proper detective story in Germany. And top investigative reporters from across German media have teamed up to investigate. The journalists have uncovered many of the puzzle pieces, such as the direct involvement of Ukraine and Poland. Guest: Jorg Schmitt is an investigative journalist at German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Simon Armitage was a sleepy ten-year old kid in West Yorkshire when he was awakened by poetry.

What role is the Arab American vote playing in the US Presidential election so far, particularly in the swing state of Michigan? There’s been strong discontent over the US funding Israel’s war on Gaza. Now Vice President and Presidential candidate Kamala Harris is beginning to court the Arab American voters in Michigan. How much influence will they have over US foreign policy? And what’s the history behind the city of Dearborn’s predominantly Arab American population? Guest: Sally Howell - Professor of History and Arab American Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn

It seems that people either love or hate the humble anchovy. But it has been flavouring our food for millennia although in many different forms - from the Roman sauce 'garum' to various pastes and preserved forms to the centrepiece of a pizza, tapas or caesar salad. Guest: Christopher Beckman, author of A Twist in the Tail – How the Humble Anchovy Flavoured Western Cuisine published by Hurst

Prime Minister of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim, is now radically changing his international strategy and foreign policy by applying to join the BRICS group of non-aligned nations.

While the opposition has been trying to keep the focus on Gaza the government has pushed a number of key bills through the Senate - on aged care, changes to the NDIS and putting the CFMEU into administration. Guest: Laura Tingle, Chief Political Correspondent, 7.30

Islands are the location of two extremes: they hold the greatest concentration on earth of both biodiversity and species extinctions. The challenge to save them and their inhabitants from the triple threat threat of invasive species, sea level rises and global heating seems immense, But the results when rescue teams are sent in are remarkably quick - a gecko thought be extinct reappears. Giant tortoises thriving in the wild once again. Now the not-for-profit organisation Island Conservation is running a challenge to begin restoring at least 40 globally significant island-ocean ecosystems by 2030. Guest: Cameron Diver, Vice-President, Island Conservation.

Political philosopher David Runciman sits down with David Marr to discuss why democracy is in such a state of disrepair, and the scintillating idea he has to give our tired old systems a jolt of adrenaline.