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 politics; Former ambassador Geoff Raby on China's grand strategy & Australia-China tensions; Mary-Louise McLaws on COVID-19 science – aerosols, ventilation, and 'long COVID'
Federal politics; US Presidential Election results and analysis with Emma Shortis; air pollution and bushfire smoke – a silent killer.
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Craig Lapsley talks bushfires and the climate emergency
Richard Denniss on the state of Australia's economy; supporting native pollinators in your garden; Craig Lapsley talks bushfires and the climate emergency
Federal politics; A Vision For A Post-Capitalist Society With Yanis Varoufakis; Inspiration from the Mouths and Minds of Women Artists
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Federal politics; UK politics with Chloe Ward; Why we must value and fund universities and the humanities
Katerina Bryant explores her memoir, 'Hysteria'
Federal politics and the 2020 Budget; Katerina Bryant explores her memoir, 'Hysteria'; Brendan Wintle on how to fight a decade of biodiversity loss
Guillaume Pitron exposes the dark side of clean energy and the rare metals war
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Federal Politics; Vida Goldstein – suffragist, feminist, social reformer; David Lindenmayer on the forest ecology of the Central Highlands
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Federal politics; US politics and the life of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg with Emma Shortis; New Caledonia votes again on independence
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Federal politics; Becoming Simone de Beauvoir – philosopher, feminist, original thinker; David Brophy on deteriorating Australia–China relations
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