Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

Our societies are more diverse than ever, yet we spend more of our time with people just like us. Are we losing a sense of common life? Maybe the far left and the far right aren't the cause of our div...

5 Sep 20241h

Are we too focused on race? Have recent anti-racist movements like The Voice to Parliament and Black Lives Matter abandoned the colour-blind spirit of the civil rights pioneers?   Josh took to the sta...

2 Sep 202426min

"The debate over free speech, hate speech, online harms, algorithms and social media is tangling us up in knots. Let’s get back to first principles, because our ability to survive the 21st century dep...

29 Aug 202448min

Andy is the producer The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling and previously of the New York Times' groundbreaking podcast The Daily.   During the riots and racial reckoning after the killing of George Floyd,...

26 Aug 20241h 26min

Can great TV & movies help us overcome political polarisation? Is being creative the same as being open-minded? Why are artists sometimes blinkered?   Emile Sherman is the Academy Award-winning produc...

22 Aug 202430min

What should you make of comparisons between the present day and the 1930s? Is the greatest risk that we're sliding towards Nazi-style fascism? Or that we're being drawn into a civil war where half the...

19 Aug 202453min

Two of the internet’s most intellectual contrarians sit down in a park with Josh. Magic ensues.   Jesse is among the world's most astute analysts of internet nonsense. He became a lightning rod when h...

15 Aug 20241h 14min

Why do some people have strong moral opinions but don't act on them, while other people effect real change? It's a question Josh wanted to ask Australia's most influential athlete-turned-politican. Da...

12 Aug 20241h 2min