Saturday Extra - Full program podcast
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Saturday Extra - Full program podcast
Smart analysis, lively conversations, and great company. Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.
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118 epizodes
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
Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.
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...
Trump's big beautiful bill signed into law
President Trump has signed his big beautiful bill into law at a White House 4th of July celebration. Plus, analysis from the ABC's John Lyons on Hamas...
Trump lashes out at Iranian supreme leader and abandons plans to roll back sanctions
Plus, a mid-year review of global events; the ethics and pitfalls of addictive true crime podcasts, and Winnie Dunn, the 29 year old Tongan-Australia...
Iranian talks with European officials fail as Israel warns of a long war
BBC Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet with an update from Geneva on talks between the Iranian Foreign Minister and European officials. Plu...
US protests and a military parade on Trump's birthday
After US Marines were mobilised against protesters on the streets of LA, President Trump is preparing for military fanfare in Washington. Is the new a...
Trump-Musk billionaire bromance comes to an end
Will Elon Musk and Donald Trump kiss and make up after the billionaire bromance blew up so spectacularly this week?
Plus, the future of warfare...
How Apple made China a global tech power
The consequences of attacks on Harvard for Australia with Professor Brian Schmidt; the latest from Asia's annual security summit, the Shangri-la La Di...
A Family's Reckoning with China; Libs and Nats on path to reunite
Understand Australia and the world with Nick Bryant.
Thomas Friedman: What's Trump's global agenda?
Nick Bryant and prominent New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman try to make sense of President Trump's motivations when it comes to foreign policy....
Ehud Olmert's peace plan at Jerusalem Peace Summit
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Australia Votes: Election Day 2025
Nick Bryant head to the marginal seat of Bennelong in Sydney and does a health check on the state of Australian democracy with the ANU's Dr Jill Shepp...
The legacy of Pope Francis in Papua New Guinea
Geraldine Doogue is in Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis, plus a nun in Papua New Guinea remembers his impact on her life.
Harvard v. Trump and Irish author Colum McCann
The showdown between America's elite university and the Trump administration has begun... who will come out on top?
Join Nick as well for an em...
Market turmoil in the new protectionist age
Economist Warwick McKibbin on how Trump's tariffs are up-ending the foundations of modern trade, and inflicting maximum damage on the global and US ec...
Major earthquake hits Myanmar
The 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck near Mandalay, in a country already torn by war. The quake was felt across Southeast Asia, and there are warnings...
Why conservatives think Trump is doing a great job
Just nine weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump is certainly shaking things up. Prominent conservative commentator Scott Jennings explains why MAGA...
New Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada will never be part of US
International politics and business, and the things that matter to Australians.