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Join veteran sports journalists Gideon Haigh and Peter Lalor as they break down the 2025 Ashes series, in this live recording of their hit podcast Cricket Et Al.

Join Kathy Lette – beloved humourist and author of the Australian classic Puberty Blues – as she returns with another riotously entertaining tale.

Professor George Williams exposes how Australian universities are falling short of their public purpose, and what it will take to rebuild institutions worthy of the students and society they serve. 

Join the perceptive, playful chroniclers behind The Paris End for a drink, a gossip and a dash of cultural irreverence at our first Up Late of 2026.

Bestselling author and polymath Simon Winchester reveals how the wind – an unseen force with astonishing influence – has shaped humanity’s past and will define its future.

Literary icon Nell Zink brings to Melbourne the hedonistic spirit of a big night out in Berlin as she discusses her seventh much acclaimed novel, Sister Europe.  

In her gripping new novel The Dream Hotel, acclaimed Moroccan-American writer Laila Lalami conjures up a world where even dreams aren't safe from surveillance.  

Acclaimed British journalist Emily Maitlis reflects on a remarkable career at the forefront of global news, sharing insights and behind-the-scenes stories from some of the world’s most explosive headlines.

Preeminent philosopher A. C. Grayling returns to Melbourne to discuss one of the most urgent issues of our time: the decline of democracy.