Radio National Presents
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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
02 | Face Value — Ethnic ambiguity and the Kardashian effect
For the longest time, Western beauty has been celebrated. The desire and pressure to look more 'Western' has led to skin whitening products, nose jobs and double eyelid surgery. But the tide is turni…
00:42:10 |
Sat 07 May 2022
01 | Face Value — Beauty boom in the age of Zoom
COVID-19 has changed the way we do things. We're relying on video platforms to work and to connect. And it turns out that seeing our faces on-screen everyday has triggered more people to seek cosmeti…
00:40:25 |
Sat 30 Apr 2022
INTRODUCING — Face Value
The cosmetic enhancement industry is booming. Injectables and surgical procedures promise age-defying beauty. But they come with real risks. From anti-wrinkle injections and fillers, to nose jobs and…
00:02:51 |
Wed 27 Apr 2022
04 | This Much Is True — Getting Out
By some estimates, 15 per cent of Americans believe in QAnon, the conspiracy movement connected to the storming of the US Capitol in January this year. QAnon can be all-consuming, ending relationship…
00:39:27 |
Fri 10 Sep 2021
03 | This Much Is True — Cults, QAnon and those left behind
Alex's bible classes started taking over his life — then he discovered who was really running them. Emma's mum went from crystals to a clique that believes in aliens and past lives. And Tim and his d…
00:38:52 |
Fri 03 Sep 2021
02 | This Much is True — Dream weavers
Why do people spread information that isn't true on social media? Especially when they know that's what they're doing?
00:39:49 |
Fri 27 Aug 2021
01 | This Much Is True — Tradwife rabbit hole
Equality is for ugly losers. Feminism is cancer. #submissivehousewife. Welcome to the world of tradwives, a movement with two distinct subcultures: one wholesome, one harmful. For many, it's about co…
00:37:45 |
Fri 20 Aug 2021
INTRODUCING — This Much Is True
What do you believe? There’s some very weird stuff out there. From fringe ideas to full-blown conspiracy theories, we dive into the rabbit hole to find out why it’s so human to fall for them. We hear…
00:04:57 |
Thu 12 Aug 2021
08 | Patient Zero: First Outbreak
In 1789, a disease tore through Aboriginal communities around Sydney Cove, or Warrane, leaving dead bodies floating in the harbour, and scattered along the shorelines. Some think that this outbreak w…
00:44:00 |
Thu 27 May 2021
07 | Patient Zero: Back From The Brink
A six-year old boy in Papua New Guinea wakes up one day and is suddenly unable to stand by himself. Less than a year later, children in three other Asia Pacific nations are experiencing the same alar…
00:40:30 |
Thu 20 May 2021
06 | Patient Zero: Ticking Time Bomb
You’re a doctor faced with a dilemma: your patient isn’t responding to treatment. In fact, they’re getting worse. You run through a list of what might be wrong, but nothing seems to fit. And then sud…
00:40:30 |
Thu 13 May 2021
05 | Patient Zero: Spillover In Suburbia
A sleepy suburb in Brisbane is the scene of a gruesome disease outbreak, where the streets literally run with blood.
Unravelling the mystery of where this disease comes from will have far-reaching …
00:40:55 |
Thu 06 May 2021
04 | Patient Zero: How We Got Here
This is the big one. The history we’re living. From Melbourne to Munich, Lombardy to Wuhan and all the way back again: this episode is about what happened when we faced those first coronavirus cases.…
00:43:48 |
Thu 03 Sep 2020
03 | Patient Zero: The December Transplant
Three transplant patients die within a week of each other and alarm bells start ringing.
Guests:
Fiona Pepper
Actor, playing the part of Rae Moran
Dr Mike Catton
Deputy Director, Doherty Institute …
00:40:40 |
Thu 27 Aug 2020
02 | Patient Zero: Basement Files
A junior doctor uncovers a mystery that rewrites the story of a famous epidemic — and we learn the troubling origins of 'patient zero' as a concept.
Guests:
Dr John Gerrard
Director of Infectious Di…
00:40:08 |
Thu 20 Aug 2020
01 | Patient Zero: Something In The Water
Disease is spreading in the wake of a natural disaster on the Caribbean nation of Haiti — and everyone thinks they know where it's coming from… (Spoiler: They don't).
Guests:
Jonathan M. Katz
Freel…
00:41:15 |
Thu 13 Aug 2020
00 | Introducing... Patient Zero
Even big diseases start small.
A co-production of ABC Science and Radio National, Patient Zero tells the stories of disease outbreaks: where they begin, why they happen and how we found ourselves in…
00:04:16 |
Fri 07 Aug 2020
06 | Section 71 — The Race Power
An extra episode in the series about High Court cases which have changed Australia. Series producer Jane Lee unpicks the origins and uses of Section 51(26) of the Australian Constitution, which gives…
00:11:41 |
Fri 10 Jul 2020
05 | Section 71 — The Hindmarsh Island Bridge Affair (Part 2)
In the second part of the long running and divisive case known as the Hindmarsh Island bridge affair, the battle heads inside the High Court.
00:27:53 |
Fri 10 Jul 2020
04 | Section 71 —The Hindmarsh Island Bridge Affair (Part 1)
Ever wondered how the term "secret women's business" entered the Australian lexicon? It's part of a bitter legal battle over land, culture and history in South Australia.
00:28:36 |
Fri 10 Jul 2020
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