ABC Radio Nationals Podcasts

Science, culture and everything in between. Feel the heat. All species welcome.

The simplest questions often have the most complex answers. The Philosopher's Zone is your guide through the strange thickets of logic, metaphysics and ethics.

The Science Show gives Australians unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate, from the physics of cricket to prime ministerial biorhythms.

Big Ideas brings you the best of talks, forums, debates, and festivals held in Australia and around the world, casting light on the major social, cultural, scientific and political issues

We tease out the complex history behind those baffling events in the news.

In-depth conversations with the best fiction writers from Australia and around the world.

Informative, jargon-free stories about law reform, legal education, test cases, miscarriages of justice and legal culture. The Law Report makes the law accessible.

Blueprint is a weekly rummage through the essential cultural ingredients—design, architecture, food, travel, fashion—for a good life.

This Working Life looks at how we work and why we work. Lisa Leong explores ideas that are shaping changes in workplaces from practices to culture and leadership, and introduces you to people who have interesting and remarkable stories to tell.

New and compelling stories from Australia and around the world, told by some of our most popular and trusted historians. Step inside a time machine for an immersive journey through history, where stories of people, places and events bring the past vividly into our present world.

LNL stories separated out for listening. From razor-sharp analysis of current events to the hottest debates in politics, science, philosophy and culture, Late Night Live puts you firmly in the big picture.

Who killed Maria James? June, 1980, suburban Melbourne: Mother of two Maria James is stabbed to death in the back of her bookshop. Her killer has never been found.

The Money is a weekly 30 minute program that explains how the Australian economy and everything in it works, and how this all connects to the global economy.

What are you reading, loving or being challenged by? We review the latest in fiction for dedicated readers and for those who wish they read more.

In-depth conversations with artists and creative thinkers from Australia and around the world.

RN Presents brings you the best short feature and documentary series from the ABC’s Radio National network. The current series is Myths of War, a search for the truth in Australian military history and exploration of why we sometimes believe the opposite.

AWAYE! presents a diverse and vibrant Aboriginal arts and culture from across Australia and the best from Indigenous radio broadcasters around the world.

Off Track, with Ann Jones, is an Australian radio show and podcast which combines the relaxing sounds of nature with awesome stories of wildlife and environmental science, all recorded in the outdoors.

With a focus on international politics and business, Geraldine Doogue talks to expert commentators about the things that matter to Australians.

Background Briefing is daring narrative journalism: Australian investigations with impact. Our award-winning reporters forensically uncover the hidden stories at the heart of the country’s biggest issues.

AWAYE! presents a diverse and vibrant Aboriginal arts and culture from across Australia and the best from Indigenous radio broadcasters around the world.

In-depth conversations with the world's top directors, performers and writers for the stage.

Soul Search explores contemporary religion and spirituality from the inside out — what we believe, how we express it, and the difference it makes in our lives

Specialist and mainstream audiences alike rely on the Health Report to bring clarity to health and medical issues from social, scientific and political points of view.

Off Track, with Ann Jones, is an Australian radio show and podcast which combines the relaxing sounds of nature with awesome stories of wildlife and environmental science, all recorded in the outdoors.

Sum of All Parts tells extraordinary stories about the unseen influence that numbers have on the way we think, feel and behave.

Making sense of a changing world, Extra with Geraldine Doogue explores the risks and possibilities of big shifts in power, puts events with our neighbourhood and overseas into context and explains how this affects Australia’s place within our wider world.

RN Breakfast is the program informed Australians wake up to. Start each day with comprehensive coverage and analysis of national and international events, and hear interviews with the people who matter today—along with those who'll be making news tomorrow.

The People vs is your escape from all the usual arguments. It’s where informed citizens debate, doubt and decide.

Bend the rules with Soundproof – art for your ears.

The Roundtable is RN's weekly forum, exploring the big issues and ideas in national and international affairs.

A critical look at new technologies, new approaches and new ways of thinking, from politics to media to environmental sustainability.

Each year since 1959, the ABC has sparked conversation about critical ideas with the Boyer Lectures. The 2019 Boyer Lecturer is Rachel Perkins. Her lectures, titled The End of Silence, will echo the Uluru Statement from the Heart's call for a First Nations Voice to parliament and a process of agreement-making and truth-telling between governments and Indigenous peoples, to enable a deeper understanding of this nation's shared past and a path towards reconciliation.

With unparalleled resources, World News Tonight with David Muir provides the latest information and analysis of major events from around the country and the world.

From feisty debates and discussion from major writers festivals, to folk and hip hop from some of the past year’s great musical events. An RN summer season program.

Are women’s and men’s brains different? Is porn changing the way we have sex? Is sugar really that bad? Everyone has an opinion, but then there’s Science.

One single audio file of the whole program - good for continuous listening.

Contemporary and ancient, Australian and bilingual, live and recorded: here poetry speaks for itself in a rich radio world complete with sound and music.

Spend an hour in someone else's life. Conversations draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may have heard about, but never met.

The Religion and Ethics Report, where religion and ethics meet news and current affairs in Australia and around the world.

Books and Arts explores the many worlds of performance, writing, music and visual arts, and features interviews with local and international authors and artists.

Humourist and historian David Hunt and ABC 702’s Dom Knight take on Australian history and uncover the characters, events and a cat that you won’t find in the regular history books. This is not history for the faint-hearted.