Come backstage to hear artists and curators, dancers, actors, musicians, movie stars and directors; and then go with us to all the best festivals. Artworks and MovieTime bring you arts and movie news, reviews and commentary from Australia and the world.
Explore the worlds of reader and writer, publisher and bookseller, playwright and lyricist, blogger and journalist, illustrator, type designer and linguist. The Book Show and Lingua Franca are our specialist programs, with books and writers contributing to Radio National in all subject areas.
Radio National looks at the corporate world - the dramas, the people and the ideas that drive today's business and economics community. Saturday Extra with Geraldine Doogue takes care of the weekend, and on weekdays Breakfast has a daily wrap with business editor Sheryl Bagwell.
Hindsight, 360 and Verbatim bring home the richness of the outside world, liven up our national history, and tell the story of your local community. Life Matters and Australia Talks discuss daily concerns and invite your response: from anecdote to academic theory, it's here on Radio National.
Radio National's By Design explores the way things look, feel and function, how design reflects social change and how architecture influences who we are - and Artworks takes note when architecture and design affects the nation's cultural and artistic life.
For a mix of education stories about teachers, researchers, parents and students, subscribe to our regular Edpod downloads and listen to Life Matters. When education's in the news, it's also covered on Breakfast and Saturday Extra - but then, the whole of Radio National's an education.
The Science Show and Ockham's Razor have always brought us commentary on the environment and climate change. Special features can also be found on Background Briefing and our other current affairs regulars, The National Interest, Breakfast and Saturday Extra.
You can hear lots of discussion about family and children on our weekday morning program Life Matters, but other RN programs like Health Report, All In The Mind and Breakfast will often cover topics relevant to the wellbeing of children and families.
Keep your body and brain in top shape with the Health Report and All in the Mind and get involved in daily wellbeing discussions with Life Matters and Australia Talks. View story listing.
How did that come about? Rear Vision explains those complex contemporary situations we don't quite understand. History crops up in many of our programs - you'll learn new things whenever you listen.
Awaye! (Listen Up!) is where you'll find the latest news of Indigenous arts and culture. Music, storytelling, writing, drama, dance, visual arts, as well as commentary and discussion. Awaye! tackles topics concerning Aboriginal Australians but you'll also find Indigenous culture being discussed in many other programs and subject areas, such as education, history, health, environment, community and society and the arts.
Sounds like prime time TV...but it's the Law Report delving into all the latest drama and scandal of Australia's legal system. Meanwhile Breakfast, Australia Talks and Saturday Extra are ready to pounce on whatever's making courtroom news.
Responding to the volatility of technology and the growing need for information delivery across myriad platforms, Radio National is there to keep you up to date.
Dive into the music and experience Radio National's diverse range of music programming. Select from our deli of audio and online features, interviews, concerts, recordings and CD selections to explore music from all pockets of the planet. Updated daily, our music shows let you traverse different styles and genres or snuggle down into a quiet listening space of your own.
The Philosopher's Zone is where they congregate, but you'll find philosophers cropping up across Radio National. Late Night Live's Phillip Adams is fond of talking to them and philosophy, whether natural, moral or metaphysical, is never far away from RN, the ideas network.
Peter Mares illuminates all corners of Australian government and politics on The National Interest, and Michelle Grattan reports from Canberra each weekday on Breakfast. Counterpoint and Late Night Live dip into all sides of political commentary and, if it's serious news, it'll be discussed all over Australia's ideas network, Radio National.
The Spirit of Things and Encounter present Radio National's specialist coverage of religion and beliefs, and in The Rhythm Divine you'll find music with a spiritual impulse. The implications of religious and secular worlds coming together - in war or peace - will often be the subject of other Radio National programs.
Contemporary topics and special events from country towns and remote regions across Australia make for lively and engaging radio. Radio National's Bush Telegraph is out and about five days a week.
Radio National's Robyn Williams and Natasha Mitchell have made science the most popular specialist subject on the network. Every week The Science Show, Ockham's Razor and All In The Mind tell us something new about life and the world around us.
From Monday to Friday on Breakfast Warwick Hadfield delivers his entertaining slant on the sports of the day.
Many Radio National programs examine the consequences of war, and report on and discuss ongoing and new conflict across the globe. Up-to-date commentary from the front line and in-depth discussion of international unrest is a necessary part of our programming. Background Briefing, Late Night Live, Breakfast, AM and PM, Saturday Extra and Rear Vision all play their part.
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