LISTEN: Pianist Sophie Hutchings and organiser Sofia Ilyas, on Piano Day – an annual worldwide celebration of the piano (March 28).LISTEN: Veteran journalist Brian Toohey and historian Emma Shortis, on the problems with AUKUS (March 21).

LISTEN: Historian Michelle Arrow and trailblazing feminists Elizabeth Reid and Sara Dowse, on Women and Whitlam: Revisiting The Revolution (March 14).

LISTEN: Alix Biggs, Australian based in Kyiv, tells us about life in Kyiv, one year into Russia's war against Ukraine (March 14).

LISTEN: Dawn LaValle Norman, philosopher, answers the question, where are the women in Ancient philosophy? (March 7).

LISTEN: Damian Smith, art curator, on the Geoff Raby Collection of Chinese Contemporary Art (February 28).

LISTEN: Richard Denniss, economist, on the real causes of inflation in Australia and our COVID policy silence (February 28).

LISTEN: David Larkin, musicologist, on Richard Strauss's An Alpine Symphony and how music can powerfully evoke nature and the sublime (February 21).

LISTEN: Marina Benjamin, writer and editor, on her new memoir, A Little Give: the unsung, unseen, undone work of women (February 21).

LISTEN: Luke Henriques-Gomes, social affairs and inequality editor, on what we've learned from the Robodebt Royal Commission hearings (February 14).

LISTEN: Chris Wallace, author and academic, on her book, Political Lives: Australian Prime Ministers and Their Biographers (February 7).

LISTEN: Kendrah Morgan, head curator at Heide MoMA, on their landmark exhibition of modernist sculptor Barbara Hepworth's work (February 7).

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