A weekday magazine-style current affairs program hosted by one of Australia's pre-eminent and loved interviewers. Drawing on Fran's extensive current affairs and cultural knowledge, The Radio National Hour takes a thoughtful, deep dive into the important and challenging issues, and brings insightful and engaging conversations with big names in the arts, sport and culture.
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A weekday magazine-style current affairs program hosted by one of Australia's pre-eminent and loved interviewers. Drawing on Fran's extensive current affairs and cultural knowledge, The Radio National Hour takes a thoughtful, deep dive into the important and challenging issues, and brings insightful and engaging conversations with big names in the arts, sport and culture.
A New South Wales MP has taken the extraordinary step of using his parliamentary privilege to name a man who confessed as a teenager to killing three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer after her abduction from Fairy Meadow Beach in Wollongong fifty-five years ago. Jeremy Buckingham says Cheryl's family has been repeatedly failed by the justice system.
The head of the World Health Organization is warning of a 'health catastrophe' that could last 'generations' in Gaza unless aid deliveries are dramatically scaled up. He points not only to the lack of aid but also the injuries that are going untreated and the mental trauma endured by Palestinians. Bushra Khalidi, Oxfam's head of policy for the occupied Palestinian territory says
The story of Malala Yousafzai is seared into our memories; the 15 year old school girl shot in the face by the Taliban in 2012. It’s a story that writes itself, but in her new, deeply personal memoir, Finding My Way she shares a very different one.
“A people in waiting..” that’s how one Palestinian describes hundreds of thousands caught in a holding pattern in Gaza. Relieved by an end to the bombing, but barely able to survive. Hamas has returned to the streets, brandishing weapons.
Thousands of Palestinians have been released from Israeli custody in exchange for the hostages taken by Hamas. But Israel is choosing to keep some important figures imprisoned. Palestinian physician and politician Dr Mustafa Barghouti says these people could be future leaders of a Palestinian state.
A gruesome trend known as ‘hotspotting’ is being blamed for surging rates of HIV/AIDS on the pacific island of Fiji, where children as young as 10 years have contracted the deadly virus after sharing needles. The country’s health minister is warning 3 thousand new cases could be diagnosed this year alone
US President Donald Trump has been instrumental in securing that ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. Has it been enough for him to clinch the Nobel Peace Prize?
Big industrial manufacturer's say Made In Australia will become a relic of history unless the federal government acts to fix the 'broken' east coast domestic gas market.
Two years on from the October 7 attacks, the shock and grief for Australian Jews has given way to complex feelings of anger, shame and sometimes hostility as they find themselves judged by the wider community.
A weekday magazine-style current affairs program hosted by one of Australia's pre-eminent and loved interviewers. Drawing on Fran's extensive current affairs and cultural knowledge, The Radio National Hour takes a thoughtful, deep dive into the important and challenging issues, and brings insightful and engaging conversations with big names in the arts, sport and culture.
