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Ian Dunt examines what Viktor Orban's loss in Hungary means for the EU and looks at questions around Donald Trump's mental capacity. There once was a plan that brought disparate countries together, to work for their common good, in Asia and the Pacific. And an author and scholar has been getting some very flattering emails from 'people' keen to promote his books.
Guests: 
Ian Dunt, iNews columnist and regular LNL commentator
Professor David Lowe, Deakin University, author of 'The Colombo Plan: development internationalism in Cold War Asia' (Cambridge University Press) 
Dennis Altman, article on literary AI in the April issue of Australian Book Review

Cuba's leader is defiant in the face of the country's worst humanitarian crisis in decades, while President Trump hints at inflicting more pain. And the Strait of Hormuz is the latest of many maritime chokepoints which, in the past, have destroyed or saved civilisations. 
        Guests:
Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer with The New Yorker
Damien Valdez, historian from the University of Cambridge

Professor Mark Kenny reflects on Australia's record fuel price hike and the Australian government's unfolding response. We meet the Log Cabin Republicans, a prominent organisation of gay conservatives that continues to support US President Donald Trump. Plus, amid reports of damage to cultural heritage sites in Iran, Australian archaeologist John Tidmarsh reflects on the beauty of damaged and destroyed sites across the Middle East region. 
Professor Mark Kenny reflects on Australia's record fuel price hike and the Australian government's unfolding response. We meet the Log Cabin Republicans, a prominent organisation of gay conservatives that continues to support US President Donald Trump. Plus, amid reports of damage to cultural heritage sites in Iran, Australian archaeologist John Tidmarsh reflects on the beauty of damaged and destroyed sites across the Middle East region. 
Prof. Mark Kenny, former national affairs journalist and Director of the Australian Studies Institute, ANU
Ed Williams, executive director of Log Cabin Republicans, USA
Dr John Tidmarsh, archaeologist and tour leader

Alec Derwent Hope (1907–2000) was one of Australia's most acclaimed poets. His first collection was not published until he was 48 years old, but its release cemented his reputation as the pre-eminent Australian poet of his time. The literary scholar Susan Lever knew Hope, and has written the first biography of his life - from rural Tasmania, to the halls of Oxford, and the heights of Australia's literary scene.
Guest: Susan Lever, author of A.D. Hope - A life, published by LaTrobe
Susan's recommended reading:
The Coast of Cerigo
Moschus Moschiferus. A Song for St Cecilia's Day
An Epistle: Edward Sackville to Venetia Digby
Imperial Adam
The Death of the Bird
Inscription for a War
The Return of Persephone

Pulitzer prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee, looks at the state of the arts in Trump's America, and the story of Daniel Defoe's secret life as a spy, against Scottish independence, in the early 1700s, before he became the author of the famous 'Robinson Crusoe'.
Guests:
Sebastian Smee, writer and art critic, formerly with The Washington Post
Marc Mierowsky, author of 'A spy amongst us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the plot to end Scottish Independence' (Yale University Press)