Graham Readfearn, the Guardian Australia’s Environment Reporter gives us the latest on local and global environmental news, including a coral bleaching event taking place right now on the Great Barrier Reef. He also tells us about Antarctica’s sea ice reaching alarmingly low levels, a mystery paralysis syndrome afflicting lorikeet populations, and his podcast series, Weight of the World – the climate scientists who saw the crisis coming.
For International Women's Day, award-winning author and science journalist Angela Saini joins Amy from New York to talk about her latest book, The Patriarchs: How Men Came To Rule. Angela delves into the origins of "the patriarchy" and gendered oppression and finds that patriarchal societies are a far more recent historical development than we might imagine. She also talks about our fascination with matriarchy and women-led matrilineal societies and reveals that many different types of matrilineal societies exist across the world today. Angela explains how patriarchy is not inevitable and what feminists and people seeking a gender equal world can do to turn the tide. The Patriarchs was shortlisted for the 2023 Orwell Prize. It's published by Harper Collins Australia. This is the extended full version of the interview with Angela Saini. Angela's previous books are, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong, and Superior: The Return of Race Science.
Renowned Australian-born film critic Adrian Martin joins Amy to discuss the brilliance of Jean-Luc Godard’s cinematic masterpiece, LE MÉPRIS (Contempt, 1963), starring Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll, and Fritz Lang. Filmed in Capri, Italy, LE MÉPRIS depicts the breakdown of a marriage, but it is also about much more than that as you'll hear. It has been newly restored in 4k and is having its Australian premiere at Europa Europa Film Festival in Melbourne on the 6th and 11th March 2024 (Hawthorn and Elsternwick). The screenings are co-presented by Melbourne Cinémathèque.
This is the extended full version of the interview with Adrian Martin. In the original interview that aired, we heard some of the iconic music by Georges Delerue who composed the epic and sweeping soundtrack to LE MÉPRIS, including Générique and Camille.
To view Godard's films from home, they can be found at your local library, university library, Picture Search Video & Vinyl in Richmond, on Kanopy (often via your library's subscription, here is LE MÉPRIS), and Apple Movies and Google Movies. Godard's films are distributed in Australia by Madman Entertainment and Umbrella Entertainment.
Federal budget preview with Ben Eltham; Geoffrey Robertson QC outlines a Plan B for human rights; Scotland’s election results and UK politics with Chloe Ward
Geoffrey Robertson QC outlines a Plan B for human rights
Luke Henriques-Gomes on the NDIS under threat; why we should be angry about the death of the Murray-Darling basin; Australia’s archival treasures on the verge of destruction
Why we should all be angry about the death of the Murray-Darling Basin
Hong Kong politics with Antony Dapiran; Police reform and racial justice in the U.S. with Monica Bell; Bruce Pascoe on his connection to Bangerak Country, or Cape Otway
Monica Bell discusses George Floyd, police violence against Black Americans, and racial justice
Epidemiologist Mary-Louise McLaws on how to fix Australia’s vaccine rollout; Wild Mushrooming with Alison Pouliot; the rediscovery of a rare cloaked bee
Wild Mushrooming with Dr Alison Pouliot – A Foray into the Fungi Kingdom
Disability and unemployment policy in Australia; a case for the rights of the Moon; David Lindenmayer on Australia’s major ecosystems in collapse
A Case for the Rights of the Moon with Alice Gorman, Mari Margil and Thomas Gooch
Rick Morton on Australia’s aged care crisis; a philosophical reflection on the devastating summer bushfires; street artist ‘RONE in Geelong’
Rick Morton delves into Australia's aged care sector in crisis
Federal politics; Women war reporters on the frontline in Vietnam; Vida Goldstein — suffragist, social reformer and politician.
"You Don't Belong Here": How Three Trailblazing Women Rewrote the Story of War
Richard Denniss unravels the spin from Canberra on unemployment policy; The influential climate sceptics who hijacked climate policy; a virologist explains COVID variants and our immune systems
The influential climate sceptics who hijacked climate policy
Federal politics; Historian Henry Reynolds talks 'Truth-Telling' and why Indigenous sovereignty was never ceded; Nic Maclellan with Pacific Islands politics
Historian Henry Reynolds talks 'Truth-Telling' and why Indigenous sovereignty was never ceded
The brutal cost of seeking justice – Louise Milligan on her book, Witness; Epidemiologist Mary-Louise McLaws on COVID-19 outbreaks in hotel quarantine and achieving herd immunity through vaccination; Political crackdowns in Hong Kong
The brutal cost of seeking justice – Louise Milligan on her book, Witness
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