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Political reporter Tom McIlroy tells the story of Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles - the vast paint-splattered canvas, controversially acquired by the Whitlam government for Australia's new National Gallery in 1975. Plus, historian Sarah Gold McBride on 19th Century America's fixation on head and facial hair - believed to connote class and character.
Previous episodes
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2496 - LNL Summer: How Australia bought Pollock's 'Blue Poles', plus when America went hair crazyMon, 08 Dec 2025
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2495 - Laura Tingle, Hannah Ferguson and Craig Reucassel farewell 2025Thu, 04 Dec 2025
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2494 - Geoffrey Robertson on war crimes impunity, plus how bush medicine saved Allied soldiers in WWIIWed, 03 Dec 2025
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2493 - Bruce Shapiro and Ian Dunt dissect a wild year in US and UK politicsTue, 02 Dec 2025
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2492 - Anna Henderson's Canberra, Indian Maoists surrender, plus are public pools doomed?Mon, 01 Dec 2025
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2491 - Who was the oldest prisoner in history? Plus the breathtaking Birrundudu drawings revealedThu, 27 Nov 2025
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2490 - Niki Savva on why the 2025 federal election was a political 'earthquake' in AustraliaWed, 26 Nov 2025
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2489 - What happened to Nauru's riches? Transgender troops fight Trump, plus the world's oldest prostheticsTue, 25 Nov 2025
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2488 - Anna Henderson's Canberra plus Netanyahu's political survivalMon, 24 Nov 2025
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2487 - Simon Winchester on wind: the invisble force that we can't live withoutThu, 20 Nov 2025
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2486 - Bruce Shapiro's USA, climate and slavery justice for Jamaica and feral foxesWed, 19 Nov 2025
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2485 - Helen Garner on Erin Patterson's trial and a lifetime of keeping diariesTue, 18 Nov 2025
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2484 - Anna Henderson's Canberra, inside Myanmar's civil war, and traffic jams in spaceMon, 17 Nov 2025
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2483 - Gareth Evans: Australia should do more on nuclear control, plus Joseph Stiglitz warns of 'inequality emergency'Thu, 13 Nov 2025
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2482 - Henry Reynolds turns Australian history upside-downWed, 12 Nov 2025
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2481 - Ian Dunt's UK, police brutality in Brazil, and Australia's earliest computerTue, 11 Nov 2025
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2480 - Anna Henderson's Canberra, Sudan's genocidal gold rush and the missing dismissal footage mysteryMon, 10 Nov 2025
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2479 - Do modern Liberals still back Whitlam's dismissal? Plus, the courageous life of 'Weary' DunlopThu, 06 Nov 2025
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2478 - Bruce Shapiro on Mamdani's victory, Trump's ballroom blitz, plus an author's win over AIWed, 05 Nov 2025
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2477 - The legacy of U Thant plus what Australia's earliest photographs can tell usTue, 04 Nov 2025
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2476 - Anna Henderson's Canberra, banning kids from social media and cracking the Kryptos codeMon, 03 Nov 2025
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2475 - Francesca Albanese: Australia complicit in the Gaza genocide, plus how our polticians got hooked on gambling moneyThu, 30 Oct 2025
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2474 - The power of Patrick White plus why we should forgiveWed, 29 Oct 2025
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2473 - Ian Dunt's UK, how Chicago is resisting ICE, and Australian anthropology turns 100Tue, 28 Oct 2025
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2472 - Anna Henderson's Canberra, global surveillance network exposed, and can AI speak whale?Mon, 27 Oct 2025
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2471 - The political drama before the Dismissal, and communing with Stalin's ghostThu, 23 Oct 2025
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2470 - Looted bronzes returning to Africa, plus love in antiquityWed, 22 Oct 2025
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2469 - Bruce Shapiro's USA, Suriname's first female president, and a world without sand?Tue, 21 Oct 2025
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2468 - Bernard Keane's Canberra, Chris Hedges slams Western media's coverage of Gaza, and Fiona Stanley's cancelled hospital eventMon, 20 Oct 2025
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2467 - Tim Minchin's nipples are just fine, thanksThu, 16 Oct 2025
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2466 - Australia's foreign policy in the age of Trump, plus Ilan Pappe on Israel's futureWed, 15 Oct 2025
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2465 - Ian Dunt's UK, trouble in Madagascar, and women in the skiesTue, 14 Oct 2025
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2464 - Tom McIlroy's Canberra, the wonder of clouds, and who speaks Esperanto?Mon, 13 Oct 2025
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2463 - Inside the Gisele Pelicot trial, plus how our cities lost their shadeThu, 09 Oct 2025
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2462 - Could sanctions on Iran backfire? Plus the Australian father of the bombWed, 08 Oct 2025
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2461 - Bruce Shapiro's USA, Irris Makler on October 7, and New Zealand's crusade on feral predatorsTue, 07 Oct 2025
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2460 - Does our world lack moral ambition? And the Victorian obsession with orchidsMon, 06 Oct 2025
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2459 - Doc Evatt and the making of Israel, plus the twisted history of ropeThu, 02 Oct 2025
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2458 - How Malka Leifer was brought to justice, plus when America went mad for MarsWed, 01 Oct 2025
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2457 - Ian Dunt's UK, the right to sing in Afghanistan, and how salmon got to TasmaniaTue, 30 Sep 2025
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2456 - Mark Kenny's Canberra, ASIC and Stablecoin, and the threads of empireMon, 29 Sep 2025
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2455 - When 29 nations defied the world's superpowers, plus the pioneering SA cop Kate CocksThu, 25 Sep 2025
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2454 - Busting myths about young Australian voters, plus the decline of NGOsWed, 24 Sep 2025
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2453 - Bruce Shapiro's USA, Nepal in the aftermath of revolution, and Ackland on defamationTue, 23 Sep 2025
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2452 - Mark Kenny's Canberra, Trump's corporate clemency, and Muslim-Australian poetryMon, 22 Sep 2025
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2451 - Questions over the Australian War Memorial literary prize, and trouble for the CIAThu, 18 Sep 2025
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2450 - The politics of humiliation, plus the billionaire outdoorsman who gave it all awayWed, 17 Sep 2025
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2449 - The UN's report on genocide in Gaza, Donald Trump heads to the UK, and Anguilla's internet jackpotTue, 16 Sep 2025
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2448 - Anna Henderson's Canberra, Bruce Shapiro on the killing of Charlie Kirk, plus why are we keeping QWERTY?Mon, 15 Sep 2025
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2447 - Germany's Gaza protest crackdown plus solving crimes using feathersThu, 11 Sep 2025
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