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Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore traces 125 years of war, revolution, upheaval and revival in the Middle East. From the final days of the Ottoman Empire to to the current Iran-US conflict, Simon's new book The Cauldron examines the forces, characters and calamities that have shaped the region.
Guest: Simon Sebag Montefiore, writer and historian
Producer: Ali Benton

Bruce Shapiro asks if US President Donald Trump has betrayed American cattle farmers, after he eased tariffs on foreign beef. Australia sells weapons to the United Arab Emirates, but could those weapons be ending up in Sudan? Plus, the story of the first camera that made it to colonial Australia in May 1841. 
Guests:
Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor for The Nation, executive director of the Global Centre for Journalism and Trauma
Andrew Bartlett, President of Australians for War Powers Reform and former Democrats and Greens Senator for Queensland
Elisa DeCourcy, writer and curator, author of Early Photography in Colonial Australia, Melbourne University Press

One Nation is mopping up after new MP David Farley's 'rookie mistake' on his party's net migration target. Veteran Jerusalem correspondent examines the work of the Israeli ambassador to Australia Hillel Newman, after an IDF report found that no one would be held criminally liable for the death of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom and her colleagues in Gaza in 2024. Plus, composer and host of The Music Show Andrew Ford ponders the musical qualities of our names and nicknames.
Guests:
Anna Henderson, chief political correspondent, SBS
Irris Makler, freelance journalist, veteran Jerusalem correspondent
Andrew Ford, composer and host of The Music Show on Radio National

John Cameron Mitchell, American actor, playwright, and film director, directed some of the more outrageous movies of the 2000s, like Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and Shortbus. He argues that punk is as relevant than ever, and it is much more than a look. Plus, in the first half of the 20th century, up on the far north coast of WA, Wyndham Native Hospital incarcerated and treated Aboriginal people, because they were not allowed to be treated at the Wyndham District Hospital, known as the 'white' hospital.
Guests: 
John Cameron Mitchell, American punk icon and multimedia artist
Annabel (A.M.) Stafford, former journalist, teacher, author of 'The wanted and the unwanted' (MUP)

German philosopher Hanno Sauer argues that class hierarchies are a permanent feature of human societies. So if true equality is elusive, how do we live with class? Plus new revelations on the Cambridge Five - the young men who spied against Britain from the 1930s to the 1950s. 
Guests: 
Hanno Sauer, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies at Utrecht University. Guest of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney
Antonia Senior, author, journalist and co-host of the History Book Buffs podcast.  New book is Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire