The Front

Emails published by the US Department of Justice in the so-called Epstein files appear to show the former Duchess of York, known as ‘Fergie’, introduced Poppy Cottrell to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein a year after he was released from prison.
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What’s fair when reporting Donald Trump? He’s suing the BBC over a selective edit of his Jan 6 speech, but the ABC - which did its own slice of the same speech, is defending its journalism. Today, Steve Jackson joins us with internal ABC emails revealing who really runs the show.
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This episode of The Front is presented and produced by Claire Harvey and edited by Tiffany Dimmack. Our team includes Kristen Amiet, Lia Tsamoglou, Joshua Burton and Jasper Leak, who also composed our music.
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First, the robots came for art and music. Now, the most human of artforms - podcasts - is being replicated by artificial intelligence models that aren’t satisfied with helping humans - they want to imitate us too. Here at The Australian - we will always make handmade, human journalism. But what happens when AI steps out from behind the curtain - and tries to claim the spotlight?
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The weekend edition of The Front is co-produced by Claire Harvey and Jasper Leak. The host is Claire Harvey. Audio production and editing by Jasper Leak who also composed our theme.
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Arrested, questioned and released to await possible charges carrying a 20 year jail penalty: it’s a hard fall for the former Duke of York. Today, Europe correspondent Jacquelin Magnay on the fall of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
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The biggest American armada in two decades is assembling in the Middle East as negotiations fail. Today chief international correspondent Cameron Stewart joins us to step though Iran’s options from here, the Pentagon’s strategic calculations and what would happen to the agents of Iranian terror around the world, including in Australia.
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This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Kristen Amiet and edited by Tiffany Dimmack. Our team includes Lia Tsamoglou, Joshua Burton and Jasper Leak, who also composed our music.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.