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The Anthill Podcast Guide

Listen to The Anthill, a News & Politics podcast by The Conversation. Stream 102 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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The Making of One Nation: coming soon

Search for "The Making of One Nation" and follow now. From a fish and chip shop in regional Queensland to the heart of Australian politics:...

02:18Mar 27, 2026

The Making of an Autocrat: beat the courts

In democratic systems, the courts are a vital check on a leader’s power. They have the ability to overturn laws and, in Donald Trump’s case,...

17:26Dec 28, 2025

The Making of an Autocrat: hijack a party

We used to have a pretty clear idea of what an autocrat was. History is full of examples: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, along wit...

17:27Dec 28, 2025

The Making of an Autocrat, coming soon

We used to have a pretty clear idea of what an autocrat was. History is full of examples: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, along wit...

01:18Dec 22, 2025

Scam Factories Ep 3: Great Escapes

Every day that he was locked up in a scam compound in Southeast Asia, George thought about how to get out. "We looked for means of escaping,...

44:36Jun 12, 2025

Scam Factories Ep 2: Inside the operation

A few weeks after Ben Yeo travelled to Cambodia for what he thought was a job in a casino, he found himself locked up in a padded room. “It’...

39:13Jun 12, 2025

Scam Factories Ep 1: No skills required

Scam factories is a special three-part series taking you inside Southeast Asia's brutal fraud compounds. Hundreds of thousands of people are...

33:55Jun 12, 2025

Know Your Place part 1: the class shift

In the first episode of our new podcast series Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics , host Laura Hood, senior politic...

32:23Oct 7, 2024

An update and a name change

We’re changing our name, from The Anthill, to The Conversation Documentaries! Over the last few years we’ve used The Anthill podcast to run...

02:13Sep 17, 2024

Theory of everything: do we really need one?

The quest for a theory of everything – explaining all the forces and particles in the universe – is arguably the holy grail of physics. Whil...

57:29Apr 12, 2023