Radio National Presents
New series: The Home Front with Anthony Burke. What if Australia’s housing crisis wasn’t just a problem — but a chance to build something better?
In the six-part series The Home Front, design expert Anthony Burke explores how smart, thoughtful design could help fix Australia’s housing challenges — and reshape the Great Australian Dream for a new generation.
From stories of disease outbreaks to myths of war and understanding how power actually works — Radio National Presents is the home of great storytelling that helps you better understand what’s going on in the world. Catch up on past series below.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 77
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
04 | The Home Front: Money money money
We all know that house prices have gone through the roof, but what’s driving them, and what can actually be done?
In this episode, we dig into the money behind the housing crisis, from tax policy an…
00:41:52 |
Mon 08 Sep 2025
03 | The Home Front: One roof, many lives
What if Australia’s housing crisis wasn’t just a problem — but a chance to build something better? Australia’s homes are doing more than sheltering families — they’re accommodating multigenerational …
00:40:26 |
Mon 01 Sep 2025
02 | The Home Front : Lessons in living
We look at how Australians have lived together in the past — and what those lessons might offer us today.
From the tightly packed worker’s cottages of the early 1900s, where strong community bonds h…
00:40:22 |
Mon 25 Aug 2025
01 | The Home Front: Owning the Dream
What if Australia’s housing crisis wasn’t just a problem — but a chance to build something better? In the Home Front, we unpack the historical, cultural, and political forces that shaped our national…
00:40:27 |
Mon 18 Aug 2025
INTRODUCING — The Home Front with Anthony Burke
Australia's housing crisis is pushing more people to the edge — but could better design help turn things around? In The Home Front, design expert Anthony Burke explores how we got here, why the Great…
00:03:12 |
Tue 05 Aug 2025
INTRODUCING — Brain Rot, a series from Science Friction
For Science Friction, it's Brain Rot — a new series about the science of being chronically online and what it’s doing to our brains.
What's really going on with our attention spans? Is data-dumping …
00:03:00 |
Sat 05 Jul 2025
05 The Books That Changed Us — The Female Eunuch
She told women they'd been objectified, stereotyped, sold a middle-class myth of romance and marriage and that another, better, life could be had. The Female Eunuch by the Australian feminist Germain…
00:28:25 |
Wed 18 Dec 2024
04 The Books That Changed Us — Silent Spring
The extraordinary story of a lowly-paid public servant who launched an environmental conservation movement and became an unlikely 1960s pop culture icon.
Using a combination of lyrical writing and f…
00:28:25 |
Wed 18 Dec 2024
03 The Books that Changed Us — Hiroshima
John Hersey's Hiroshima revealed the true horror of the 1945 nuclear bombing of Japan. Following the lives of six ordinary people from the moment of impact, the American journalist brought home the r…
00:28:25 |
Wed 18 Dec 2024
02 The Books That Changed Us — How to Win Friends and Influence People
Championed by business tycoon Warren Buffett, utilised by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and exploited by the murderous cult leader, Charles Manson, the self help book, How to Win Friends and…
00:28:36 |
Wed 18 Dec 2024
01 The Books that Changed Us — The Interpretation of Dreams
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud introduced us to the concepts of the unconscious, hidden desires and repressed sexuality and is the first in our new series, The Books That Changed Us wh…
00:28:25 |
Wed 18 Dec 2024
06 | The King of Kowloon — Reinvention
In this final episode of The King of Kowloon, Hong Kong is being remade at warp speed. In this national security era, its politicians have been jailed and its citizens are moving overseas into exile.…
00:31:08 |
Thu 04 Aug 2022
05 | The King of Kowloon — Defiance
On June 9, 2019, Hong Kong convulses, as a million people march on the streets in protest against a proposed extradition law. The King had used his misshapen calligraphy to speak of dispossession, an…
00:28:48 |
Thu 28 Jul 2022
04 | The King of Kowloon — Legacy
The King of Kowloon is an old man now; lying frail in a hospital bed. Outside, on the streets, there is trouble. A protest at the demolition of Queen's Pier, then another at a street famous for print…
00:28:38 |
Thu 21 Jul 2022
03 | The King of Kowloon — Search
In 2000, Hong Kong has been under Chinese rule for three years. At first glance, it seems that not much has changed. The King's star continues to rise — no longer seen as a dishevelled old crank, he …
00:26:55 |
Thu 14 Jul 2022
02 | The King of Kowloon — Transition
As Hong Kong hurtles towards the transition from British colony to Chinese territory, the king becomes an unlikely celebrity artist. Governor Chris Patten prepares to hand back Hong Kong to the Chine…
00:29:31 |
Thu 07 Jul 2022
01 | The King of Kowloon — Disappearance
The King's calligraphy once covered Hong Kong, but now it has all but disappeared. Louisa searches for traces of the King, and for any truth to his claims of dominion over Kowloon. In this quest, she…
00:26:06 |
Wed 29 Jun 2022
INTRODUCING — The King of Kowloon: A Most Unlikely Icon
He called himself the King of Kowloon and, for almost half a century, he used his misshapen Chinese characters to wage a calligraphic campaign claiming his dominion over Hong Kong. Journalist Louisa …
00:03:28 |
Wed 22 Jun 2022
04 | Face Value Empowerment or exploitation?
The decision to get cosmetic enhancement is complicated. It could be triggered by childhood bullying, influenced by social media, or stem from a belief that you’re not good enough.
The beauty industr…
00:39:47 |
Sun 22 May 2022
03 | Face Value — Killer curves and harsh realities
Cosmetic enhancement comes with plenty of risks. Botched surgeries, safety breaches, and in the worst-case scenario, fatal results. They've been reported for decades. Horror stories aside, chasing yo…
00:40:23 |
Sat 14 May 2022
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