Veronica B on comedy and Crohn's disease

Russian citizens are marching in the streets. It’s being called the greatest threat to President Vladimir Putin’s reign in a generation. We’re joined by Nadya Tolokonnikova, one of the founders of t...

7 Feb 202116min

Jamila Rizvi talks to former tennis champion Jelena Dokic ahead of the Australian Open about her impressive career and the pressures of professional sport. Jelena made headlines in 1999 at just 16...

5 Feb 202120min

What’s with the Reddit v Wall St rumble – and why is the GameStop stock soaring? This story ticks all the boxes of being a big cultural ‘moment’ of our time? It involves the internet; it’s got the i...

4 Feb 202119min

The world watched on as the QAnon conspiracy theory circled over the White House during the Trump years. Trump has gone, what now for the QAnon believers and their claims? We’re joined by New York...

3 Feb 202119min

Today on the Briefing we discuss the chances of the Tokyo Olympic Games going ahead as planned in July. The Olympic Games is the biggest event in the world – and Tokyo’s Games were postponed last ye...

2 Feb 202120min

Today on the Briefing we discuss how billionaires are getting richer – and the rest of us are picking up the crumbs. We’re joined by Andrew Leigh, a Labor MP and former economist who explains how an...

1 Feb 202118min

In today's Briefing, we explain what the dark web is... and what’s happened in the ten years since Silk Road first launched. Silk Road was the first big dark web marketplace to gain notoriety... bu...

31 Jan 202118min

Jamila Rizvi chats to Thomas Mayo, a campaigner for the Uluru Statement from the Heart and celebrated indigenous author.   Thomas has travelled around Australia to promote the statement’s vision for a...

29 Jan 202121min