The Radio National Hour

The Antisemitism and Social Cohesion Royal Commission has handed down its interim findings, calling for better police protection of Jewish communities and events and a review of counterterrorism protocols. The CEO of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies Michele Goldman says its a good first step.  
It was the play-thing of a cashed up Kingdom, now after tipping billions into the breakaway golf tournament, Saudi Arabia is pulling its funding from LIV. So, if the big money goes, will the players stay and will they be welcomed back? Former pro-golfer Nick O'Hern says the franchise idea was always going to be a hard sell. 
A cancer diagnosis is life-changing. UNSW academics Louise Chappell & Na’ama Carlin and the late Siobhan O’Sullivan collaborated to write a new book Being Patient inspired by their own diagnoses and experiences. The argue that cancer sufferers need to stop being 'nice' or 'good' patients and invite their doctors to speak frankly about life and death.

Global alliances continue to strain under the weight of tensions in the middle east with the United Arab Emirates announcing its withdrawal from the OPEC oil group, a victory for the ‘drill-baby-drill’ club, but what will it mean for your petrol prices?   
Two new reports from our AUKUS partners - the US and Great Britain - have cast fresh doubt on their capacity to deliver on their commitments to the 360 billion dollar submarine project. Adam Lockyer, Associate Professor in Strategic Studies at Macquarie University questions whether the current leadership in both countries has the political will to deliver on their ambition. 
Francesca Albanese is one of the most scrutinised and controversial human rights officials in the world right now.Her new memoir, When the World Sleeps, is part political reckoning, part personal testimony — tracing her journey from a small town in southern Italy to the centre of a global argument about international law, power, and moral responsibility.

Today marks three decades years since a gunman opened fire at Tasmania’s historic Port Arthur jail killing 35 people. It was an unfathomable tragedy forever etched into the psyche of a nation. In the wake of this horror, we’ve learnt how to mourn and honour the dead, but we struggle with how to speak - or not to speak - of the perpetrator. In 2012 Tom Teeves lost his son in a mass shooting in Colorado. Since then he's made it his mission to prevent the fame and notoriety that so often motivates mass murderers. 
Palestinians have cast a ballot in local elections in Gaza and the West Bank  for the first time in twenty-years, a cause for celebration or cynicism? Dr Mustafa Barghouti is the secretary general of the Palestinian National Initiative which boycotted the vote. He asks what is the point of participation without power?  
The more things change the more they stay the same: two and half thousand years after Homer wrote The Iliad, the story of rage and the futility of war is as current as ever. In his new solo show with the Sydney Theatre Company, David Wenham is re imagining the epic poem for a modern audience.

They said it couldn’t be done. On Sunday not one but TWO runners completed the London marathon in under two hours. It's a feat of human endurance for sure, but what they were wearing on their feet also played a starring role. Australian and world champion marathon runner Robert De Castella reflects on far the technology has come.
The Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than it's ever been with decades old nuclear disarmament treaties under pressure and world powers choosing force over diplomacy to get their way. Australian nuclear weapons expert Dr Emma Belcher says the world is on the verge of a new nuclear arms race .
Actor Lisa McCune, talks about her latest project, a stage revival of the Hollywood classic, Steel Magnolias.

Does the gamified footage we see of missile strikes and drone attacks lead to a detached view of what war is really like? This ANZAC day, soldiers who've lived the real fear and horror of the battlefield are angered by the sanitised imagery we are served up on our screens. 
Google’s former head of AI ethics, Margaret Mitchell explains why Silicon Valley’s claim that dangerous chatbot behaviour can be fixed by new guardrails just doesn't stack up.
Melbourne Opera is giving Don Giovanni a #MeToo makeover, shifting the focus from the casanova to the women who bring Don Giovanni to justice. So does this scoundrel from the eighteenth century still have lessons for us all today?