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Smart analysis, lively conversations, and great company. Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.
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Iran-US peace talks face steep obstacles
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What did the Gulf states make of Trump's prime time address?
As a search and rescue mission is underway for a crew member from a US fighter jet that was downed in southern Iran, Gregg Carlstrom, the Middle East...
What would it take to end the Iran war?
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Thousands more US Marines head to Middle East as conflict escalates
The Pentagon is sending more US Marines to the Middle East as the war with Iran escalates and widens - Professor Robert Pape explains how the US is...
Who's winning the war in the Middle East?
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Trump demands Iran's 'unconditional surrender'
Yalda Hakim joins Nick Bryant from Qatar, as Iran continues strikes against Gulf states. Ed Luce, from the Financial Times discusses how Donald Trump...
How can we stop political violence in Australia?
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Major setback for Trump as tariffs ruled illegal
Australian economist Justin Wolfers reacts to the bombshell US Supreme Court ruling which deemed Donald Trump's tariffs illegal.
Cricketing leg...
Are we entering a 'new era in geopolitics'?
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Trump faces fury after racist post
Katty Kay from The Rest is Politics US dissects the latest in US politics including the reaction to a now deleted racist post of the Obamas.
Pl...
Will Iran make a deal rather than face US military action?
The latest on Iran from BBC Persian's Bahman Kalbasi as Tehran faces the threat of US military action in response to the killing of peaceful demonstra...
Mark Carney's powerful speech for middle powers to unite
Charles Kupchan and Malcolm Turnbull assess the week of diplomacy at Davos in Switzerland this week, the implications of Trump's America first approac...
Saturday Extra: Books and authors
On Saturday Extra's final show of the summer break: Our best conversations with authors of notable books. CNN's Jake Tapper on one of the most fatefu...
Saturday Extra Summer: History
From the Colossus of Rhodes to the hanging gardens of Babylon, we visit the seven wonders of the ancient world with author and historian Bettany Hughe...
Saturday Extra Summer: Global figures
On the show: Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Filipino journalist Maria Ressa, Lord Norman Foster who was awarded the Pritzker prize for architecture ,...
Saturday Extra Summer: 2025 in Review
What shaped the world in 2025?
We revisit the heartbreaking conflicts and the peacemaking.
From the powerful influence of the Trump presid...
Saturday Extra Summer: Suzie Miller, David Wenham and Richard Tognetti
Welcome to Summer on Saturday Extra where you'll hear some of our best conversations of 2025. This week - Australian arts and culture. A conversation...
Geraldine Brooks on love, loss and helping write Kamala Harris' memoir
One of Australia’s most celebrated authors, Geraldine Brooks on how she came to write a book with the Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris...
Updated US national security strategy and Governor-General Sam Mostyn on her role in polarised times
An updated US National Security Strategy pledges “lethal force” against drug cartels as the US continues a massive military presence off Venezuela - P...
A violent Thanksgiving in the US and David Frum on the era of Donald Trump
A chat with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook from chart-topping The Rest is History podcast; the year of Donald Trump with the author and journalist...
Trump gives Kyiv deadline to accept Russia backed peace plan
Constanze Stelzenmüller on Ukraine's ‘difficult choice’ over a US peace plan that's backed by Russia; the G20 in South Africa - Sherwin Bryce-Peace fr...
Trump faces rare pressure from MAGA base over Epstein files
On the show: The BBC apology to Trump over Panorama edit with former head of BBC executive Roger Mosey; Tara Setmayer, former GOP communications direc...
COP30 Climate Talks in Brazil
After another year of record heat and extreme weather, Nicholas Rowley unpacks what the UN climate talks might achieve. Annabel Crabb on her new ABC T...
The exile and punishment of Prince Andrew over Epstein ties
On the show: Journalist Emily Maitlis on Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's ties to the convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. Zohran Mamdani's blisteri...
Donald Trump heads to Asia
Donald Trump is about to embark on a week-long trip through Asia to attend ASEAN and APEC. He'll meet the new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi,...
What’s at stake in the Albanese Trump meeting?
One the show: The significant week in Middle East politics with the BBC's Tom Bateman who was part White House press corps travelling on Air Force One...
After the peace plan, what will the future of Palestine and Israel look like?
On the show: Palestinian aid worker in Gaza City, Hanya Al Jamal, and Israeli journalist, Amir Tibon, on public reactions to the ceasefire. Ghaith Al-...
Hamas agrees to release Gaza hostages and Trump tells Israel to stop bombing
On the show: Palestinian analyst Khalil Sayegh on Hamas announcement that it has accepted some elements of US President Donald Trump's plan to end the...
Mass UN walkout during speech by Benjamin Netanyahu
James Lindsay from the Council on Foreign Relations and the ABC's Laura Tingle wrap up the 80th session of the UN General Assembly. Virginia Hausegger...
Expectations of Albanese-Trump meeting
Anthony Albanese is about to embark on a trip to the United States, United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates. After a series of diplomatic disappointme...
Is America trapped in cycle of political violece?
Over the past year, the US has seen political assassination attempts and murders - the latest being Charlie Kirk, a leading, young conservative activi...
The US Department of War and China's revisionist history
Harvard historian Rana Mitter, on China’s war experience and the parade in Beijing this week. One of America’s most seasoned diplomats, Nicholas Burns...
Maria Ressa: the Nobel Peace Prize laureate on democracy, facts and truth
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Famine declared in Gaza and US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell bites back at President Trump
Hostage negotiator Gershon Baskin gives a fascinating insight into his conversations with Hamas negotiators as a UN-backed group declares famine in pa...
Uncovering Trump's backchannel to Putin
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Trump to meet Putin in Alaska to broker Russia Ukraine peace deal
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Is Donald Trump winning his trade war?
Analysis of President Trump’s move impose worldwide tariffs; calls for the Federal Government to to scrap the "Job ready" university fee system, with...
The truth behind Joe Biden's decline: Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson
Two of America's top journalists break down one of the most fateful decisions in American political history: Joe Biden’s run for re-election despite e...
Pentagon officials pull out of top security conference because event promotes “the evil of globalism"
Michael Fullilove joins Saturday Extra from the Aspen Security Forum which for decades has been a bipartisan event. Also on the show: Profound shifts...
How seriously should we take Elon Musk's America Party?
Plus, we get an update on the Texas flood recovery, find out what we can expect from the Prime Minister's visit to China and ask whether the future of...