Growing Up Asian In Australia contributor Benjamin Law discusses the text and its topic with Andrew McDonald.
Journalist and poet Eliza Griswold discusses ideology, politics and geography - within and between faiths.
With political leadership constantly in question, Glyn Davis draws on history and sociology to suggest why this may be.
Jane-Frances Kelly, Trevor Dance, Rob Adams and Jill Garner explore density, distribution and demographics.
Alain de Botton brings his light touch and intellectual pirouettes to the topic of religion and its atheistic utility.
Opium dens, illegal brothels and men with names as colourful as their pasts: we uncover Melbourne's criminal record.
Chinese dissident writer Liao Yiwu speaks with Alex Landragin about freedom, exile and books that transport him home.
Stuart Macintyre, Tim Soutphommasane, Marcia Langton and Clare Wright discuss essential works of Australian history.
Key figures in the TV adaptation of Christos Tsiolkas' novel The Slap discuss its journey from page to screen.
Thomas Keneally tells a story of racism, wartime politics, empire and the life and death of White Australia.
Brendan Cowell, Karen Pickering and Michael Currie join Hilary Harper to discuss the truth and utility of anger.
In a marathon session, Paul Keating talks cultural vision, reconciliation, reform and creativity with Robert Manne.
As the world prepares for its seven billionth person, our panel search for the soul in our ever more crowded cities.
Join Ramona Koval as she explores the food flights of Frank Camorra, Elizabeth Chong and Stephanie Alexander.
John Armstrong, lead essayist of 2011's first Griffith Review, impels universities to reform their humanities program...
Christian Lander, author of Stuff White People Like, in conversation with John Safran
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