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.
Pacific Politics and French Polynesia; Emma Shortis On Australia's Fatal Alliance With The U.S.; The Push to Prevent The Great Barrier Reef 'In Danger' Listing
Emma Shortis Delves Into Australia's Fatal Alliance With The United States
A Nordic Policy Edge for Australia; Harry Saddler explores the Questions Raised by Quolls; Australia’s vaccination targets – are they high enough?
The Shortest History of China with Linda Jaivin
Bill Bowtell talks pandemic politics in Australia and 'Zero COVID' under threat in NSW
Federal politics; epidemiologist Mary-Louise McLaws explains herd immunity, child vaccination, Long Covid, and the Delta variant; Resurrecting one of Australia’s native rodents
Epidemiologist Mary-Louise McLaws explains the Delta variant, herd immunity, child vaccination, and Long COVID
Federal politics; The Moorabool River under threat; Pacific island affairs with Nic Maclellan
The Moorabool River under threat
Mary-Louise McLaws on Victoria’s COVID-19 outbreak and fourth lockdown; U.S. politics
Mary-Louise McLaws on Victoria’s COVID-19 outbreak, fourth lockdown and vaccination drive
Richard Denniss on how ‘econobabble’ shuts down democratic debate
Richard Denniss on how ‘econobabble’ shuts down democratic debate; Saving the forests of East Gippsland; Contemplating trees across culture and history
Unpacking the federal budget; Sir Paul Nurse answers the big question, What Is Life?; Europe’s migration and refugee crisis
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sir Paul Nurse answers the big question, What Is Life?
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
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