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It is 150 years since one of the greatest convict escapes in Australian history. In 1876, a whaling ship called the Catalpa picked up six Irish political prisoners from a rowboat off Fremantle, WA, and sailed back to America with them. The Catalpa had come from New York solely for that purpose.
Guest: Tony Moore, historian, and Professor of Media and Communications, Monash University 
            Lead Chief Investigator, ARC Linkage Project 'Conviction Politics: the convict routes of Australian democracy' 
            Author of a 2010 book called ‘Death or liberty: rebels and radicals transported to Australia 1788 – 1868' (Allen&Unwin) 
Producer: Ann Arnold

It's been 40 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, when an exploded reactor emitted four hundred times the radioactive material released by the Hiroshima bomb. Some 350,000 people were evacuated from the surrounding area, but today the 'Chernobyl Exclusion Zone' is a thriving wildlife refuge, home to a range of species that have adapted to their irradiated environment. 
Guest: Germán Orizaola, Associate Professor in Zoology, Department of Biology of Organisms and Systems, University of Oviedo
Producer: Jack Schmidt

As the Iran ceasefire deadline looms, Trump says he's unlikely to extend it without a new deal, but will Iran believe anything he says? Meanwhile there's more scandal in the Trump administration with allegations FBI Director Kash Patel is drinking to exces, and labor secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has stepped down after after an internal investigation revealed she was having an affair. Democratic Congressman from California, Eric Swalwell, has also resigned after facing allegations of sexual misconduct. 
Guest: Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with The Nation magazine and Director of the Global Center for Journalism and Trauma. 
Producer: Catherine Zengerer

As ANZAC Day approaches, the esteemed Australian military historian Peter Stanley asks whether Australia's remembrance of war reflects the complexion of our modern society.  In Stanley's view, we need to ask questions about who and what we ‘remember’, why and how, and what we continue to forget.
Guest: Peter Stanley, military historian, former principal historian at the Australian War Memorial

Recent polling shows some interesting results: the PM and the Opposition leader are a close race in one poll, and One Nation is dipping. Plus, Independent David Pocock's gas tax billboards, and how the NDIS went from a much vaunted health and wellbeing support, to a political nightmare. 
Guest: Anna Henderson, SBS chief political correspondent