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  • 6:00 am
    Country Breakfast
    With Edwina FarleyIn-depth coverage of social, economic and political events affecting people beyond the urban fringe
  • 7:00 am
    Saturday AM
    With Michael BrissendenAustralia's most informative morning current affairs.
  • 7:30 am
    Saturday Extra
    With Geraldine DoogueAnalysis of the week's events, with a special focus on business and foreign affairs
  • 9:00 am
    Blueprint for Living
    With Michael WilliamsBlueprint for Living explores the things that help make for a good life: food, architecture, design, fashion, travel and issues that affect our personal well-being.
  • 10:30 am
    Off Track
    With Ann JonesFrom suburban backyards to the remote wilderness: RN heads outside.
  • 11:00 am
    The Music Show
    With Andrew FordA mix of music, interviews and the latest developments in music.
  • 12:00 pm
    The Science Show
    With Robyn WilliamsSince 1975, fascinating insights into all manner of things scientific.
  • 1:00 pm
    Monocle
    From Monocle 24: The Menu, The Culture Show, Section D, The Urbanist and The Entrepreneurs.
  • 1:30 pm
    Download This Show
    With Marc FennellThe latest in social media, consumer electronics, digital politics, hacktivism and more.
  • 2:00 pm
    Books and Arts
    With Daniel BrowningExplore the many worlds of performance, writing, music and visual arts, and feature interviews with local and international authors and artists.
  • 3:00 pm
    The Final Cut
    With Jason Di RossoFilm & screen culture from arthouse to multiplex.
  • 3:30 pm
    The List
    With Cassie McCullaghWhat you really should know about everything.
  • 4:00 pm
    Conversations with Richard Fidler
    With Richard FidlerDraws you deeper into the life story of someone you may have heard about, but never met.
  • 5:00 pm
    Earshot
    With David RutledgeEarshot is all about people, places, stories and ideas, in all their diversity.
  • 5:30 pm
    The Minefield
    With Scott Stephens and Waleed AlyIn a world marked by wicked social problems, The Minefield helps you negotiate the ethical dilemmas, contradictory claims and unacknowledged complicities of modern life.
  • 6:00 pm
    AWAYE! (Listen Up)
    With Daniel BrowningIndigenous arts, music and culture from Australia and around the world.
  • 7:00 pm
    BBC Arts Hour
    With Nikki BediThe best global arts coverage from across the BBC presented by Nikki Bedi.
  • 8:00 pm
    Earshot
    With David RutledgeEarshot is all about people, places, stories and ideas, in all their diversity.
  • 9:00 pm
    Monocle
    From Monocle 24: The Menu, The Culture Show, Section D, The Urbanist and The Entrepreneurs.
  • 10:00 pm
    The Music Show
    With Andrew FordA mix of music, interviews and the latest developments in music.
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  • The Lake Palace, Udaipur

    Inside the Lake Palace

    The historic Indian city of Udaipur is often called the 'Venice of the East', and its most famous building, the Lake Palace, has become a byword for exotic luxury around the world. Colin Bisset looks at the history behind this iconic piece of architectural brilliance.

    Blueprint for Living

  • Burger

    What makes the perfect burger?

    The 'gourmet' burger trend seems here to stay, with even the major fast-food chains now muscling on the booming marketplace. Blueprint for Living tries to separate the bespoke from the bland in an attempt to learn the science behind the perfect burger.

    Blueprint for Living

  • Virtual pokie game on mobile

    Are kids fair game for gambling companies?

    Gambling techniques are permeating free online and mobile app games. Social casino games that mimic real slot machines are among the most popular, with no restrictions on children playing. Ann Arnold investigates the convergence of gambling and gaming.

    Background Briefing

  • Classifieds in a newspaper

    Confessions of a classified voyeur

    Journalist Fiona Harari is a self-described classifieds voyeur. She’s been scouring the back pages of newspapers and weird corners of the internet for more than 15 years. In her ‘Addendum’ series for Radiotonic, she found that the stories behind the ads are tragic, funny and overwhelmingly human.

    Radiotonic

  • Brown Hill Range wind turbines at sunrise

    The ultimate guide to Australia's future energy options

    Despite recent cuts to the renewable energy target in Australia, leaders elsewhere are looking to a future without coal. So what are our other options? Carl Smith guides us through Australia's alternative energy sources—exploring how they work, their potential and why they aren't used already.

    The Science Show

  • A silhouette of Arnold Schwarzenegger

    He said he'd be back: Hollywood’s nostalgia addiction

    With a new Top Gun movie in the works, a Terminator sequel blasting into cinemas, a Mad Max remake wowing critics and a mediocre-at-best Jurassic World outdoing expectations at the box office, film critic Cam Williams takes a look at the current wave of nostalgia sweeping Hollywood.

    The Final Cut

  • Former World Bank president Robert Zoellink

    US wrong on China investment bank: former World Bank head

    Former World Bank chief Robert Zoellick says the US government was wrong to lobby Australia to stay out of the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and stop opposing Chinese ideas for the sake of it. RN Breakfast’s Sheryle Bagwell reports.

    RN Breakfast

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