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The sixth season of If You’re Listening tells the story of Australia’s turbulent history with climate change, and what that means for the future. As we approach a federal election where clim...
From engineers with god complexes to elite athletes prone to being struck by lightning, Matt’s producers Pat and Adair bring the strangest s...
For decades now, the tiny gas-rich nation of Qatar has been surviving off the back of its international diplomacy. But now old alliances are...
In 2003, fire trucks, ambulances and hazmat crews descend on Merewether High School in Newcastle after reports of a radioactive incident. No...
In the midst of bluffs, empty threats and broken promises, Trump has struggled to find any leverage over the Iranian regime he has declared...
Until now, Australia has been relying on oil that passed through the Strait of Hormuz before the war began. But the last tankers to leave th...
When the Strait of Hormuz closed, global gas prices doubled seemingly overnight. As one of the world’s biggest gas exporters, the spike shou...
Matt spent a week camping entirely out of internet reception, so Kara does her best to get him up to speed on all the latest of the US-Iran...
Over the past few years, industrial scam compounds have surged throughout Myanmar, buoyed by the resources of powerful criminal networks, an...
Sisonke Msimang from the new ABC podcast Boycott! joins Matt to share her father’s journey as a revolutionary in the fight against apartheid...
Turn on the tv and you’ll see no shortage of concerned journalists standing at fuel bowsers, shaking their heads at the rising prices. For p...
In 1987 the USS Stark became the first U.S. ship sunk by missile fire since World War II. The missiles were fired by Iraq, America’s ally at...
While governments scramble to find a way around the Strait of Hormuz, a pipeline sits half-finished in the desert that would have solved the...
As we’ve been looking into Iran over this month, we’ve had a lot of trouble finding out what is really happening on the ground. That’s due t...
Water is the lifeblood of all civilisations. In Iran, the water is drying up. That disappearance is becoming impossible to ignore, and after...
Author Saeed Fassaie shares his story of witnessing the Iranian revolutionary first-hand, from being a political fugitive, to a soldier, to...
There’s a persistent fantasy in Washington that regimes are like light bulbs: smash the fixture, screw in a new one, problem solved. The rea...
Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert spent over 800 days in an Iranian prison interrogated by the Revolutionary Guard, and got into plent...
Donald Trump once warned against endless wars. Now, he’s launched a strike killing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and many Iranian leadership figure...
Matt and Kara answer your questions about the the unfolding situation in the Middle East. Who are the contenders for new leadership, how wil...
Where did Jeffrey Epstein get his vast fortune from? Of all the questions surrounding this labyrinthine saga, the source of Epstein’s millio...
Matt and Kara try to answer your questions about the Epstein files without being sued... with only limited redactions. They get into the con...
A dark Epstein storm cloud is settling in over Europe — and it’s drifting straight across Westminster. As the newly released Epstein files r...
Space travel is a serious physical and mental challenge by all accounts. But what happens when an astronaut goes rogue mid-flight? Matt is j...
When news first broke of a billionaire sex offender with a private island… the story didn’t erupt through traditional media — instead it cir...
That's right, we're talking soil again. Is there a field of Ukranian chernozem soil sitting in rural New South Wales? Producer Pat joins Mat...
For a long time, no matter which party was in power - the US government has operated within pretty defined guardrails… that is, until Donald...
Jon Lovett has been following the daily minutia of U.S. politics for a decade on his podcast Pod Save America. Ahead of their Australian tou...
Matt is joined by psychologist and science writer Steven Pinker to discuss doomsday predictions, climate anxiety, and how best to split the...
In the midst of the Cold War, it was a very real fear that a nuclear winter would obliterate life as we know it. Now, fortunately, that neve...
Matt and Kara discuss the book that inspired the Black Swan series… but didn’t make it into the final cut! Can experts, soothsayers, and psy...
In 1959 a flight to London took days and cost half a year’s average salary. But things were changing rapidly. The invention of the Concorde...
Matt and Kara delve deeper into the story of town planner Alex Ramsay, and the bizarre deal he struck to purchase the land that would become...
In the 1950s three quarters of Australians were homeowners, most lived on a quarter-acre block, with a mortgage that could be covered with o...
Until recently people were scared our planet would be outstripped by the weight of a colossal population. Experts feared that by 2026, there...
Kara and Matt take you behind the scenes of putting the series together, and how hard it is to find an iron when you need one. The Black Swa...
In a post on Truth Social, US President Trump announced that he had captured the Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro and his wife, and that...
The massive infrastructure project NEOM sits in the Saudi Arabian desert, and the jewel in its crown is The Line, a futuristic city which lo...
Putting fluoride in drinking water has often been called one of the most successful public health measures in human history. But since the v...
Australians are very proud of our gun laws, and we have good reason to be. The laws are world famous and frequently referenced in the wake o...
On Sunday the 14th of December, two men; a father and son, used a range of firearms to attack a large Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach pl...
During a 15 minute phone call, US President Donald Trump offered the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro safe passage for him and his family...
We have always been obsessed with stories about killer robots. But where do stories about malevolent machines with a mind of their own origi...
Tech bros are racing to develop the first mass-produced humanoid. But despite billions of dollars in investment, these robots require a grea...
You wouldn't steal a podcast! After meeting the founder of Sweden's Pirate Party, Rick Falkvinge, we decided to take a closer look at the wo...
Currently, as many as 5000 Chinese spies are operating in Taiwan. Many of Taiwan’s allies are concerned that these spies, along with the inc...
In the early 90s, Australia’s most wanted fugitive was Christopher Skase. He was hiding on the Spanish island of Mallorca, to avoid the corp...
For the last decade or so, there’s been a lot of talk about how the Chinese government uses technology to issue social credit scores to its...
Get ready as Matt and Kara address a whole lot more listener questions. All things from Elon Musk’s impending trillionaire status to the mys...
On the 19th of October at 9:30am, two thieves parked a truck at the Louvre. They carved a hole in the window, climbed into the gallery, smas...
On 11 November 1975, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was sacked by Governor-General Sir John Kerr. For the past 50 years, people have speculate...