Saturday Extra - Separate stories podcast

• Geraldine Brooks on love, loss and ghost writing for Kamala Harris

  Geraldine Books is a Pulitzer Prize winning author whose work spans foreign affairs, fiction and politics.Her most recent books bring readers somewhere far more intimate.Memorial Days, released this year, is her deeply affecting meditation on love and loss written as she grieved the loss of her husband.Brooks also takes us behind the scenes of Kamala Harris' memoir 107 Days, and inside the process of ghost writing.Guest: Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize winner author of Memorial Days.

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• Behind the scenes of journalist Gary O'Donoghue's exclusive interview with Trump

  Gary O’Donoghue is the BBC's North America correspondent who made headlines due to an sudden, exclusive interview with President Trump. He was also in Butler, Pennsylvania, the day that Donald Trump survived the assassination attempt and led global news with his award winning reports from the scene.Gary, who goes by the social media handle @BlindGazza, also discuss the challenges of being a blind journalist and the encouragement he gives to young blind people.  

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• David Gonski reflects on 20 years as Chancellor of UNSW

  David Gonski is one of Australia's most respected and connected leaders — known as the "chairman of everything". After 20 years at UNSW as its longest serving Chancellor, David Gonski is stepping down. He led the top university through COVID, funding crises and criticism of the sector's reliance on international students. What are his parting thoughts?

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• Rifts between Europe and America as intense talks on Ukraine war continue

  The struggle between the US and the Europeans over the Ukraine war and the security of the continent is at a historic turning point — for the first time since the end of World War II, there are concerns that America is abandoning its NATO allies. European leaders will meet again this weekend to discuss using Russian assets and cash that have been frozen in the EU for a loan to help Kyiv fund its military and economy.Guest: Constanze Stelzenmüller, director of the Centre on the United States and Europe, Brookings.

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• Did Saturday Extra fulfil its promises to you?

  At the start of this year, we said we would bring you the best commentators, the biggest brains, and people with lived experience on the ground. We promised to help make sense of the world and abide by one of the first rules in journalism — never be boring.So how did we do?

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