Sunday Profile - Program podcast
By ABC Radio National
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Podcast Description
ABC Radio's Sunday Profile brings you significant interviews with the major players in all areas of public life. Richard Aedy talks with newsmakers from across Australia and beyond, and provides detailed story analysis and background information to keep you up to date.
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Sir Michael Marmot, epidemiologist | Richard Aedy talks to Sir Michael Marmot, the UK epidemiologist who proved that social status and power have a direct effect on human health. | 19 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rebecca Huntley, social researcher | This week Richard Aedy talks to Rebecca Huntley - the social researcher with her finger on the pulse of Australia. | 12 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ange Postecoglou, Melbourne Victory coach | Richard Aedy talks to Ange Postecoglou - fresh from guiding Brisbane Roar to successive premierships, he’s the cream of the A-league coaches and is now in charge of the competition’s biggest club, Melbourne Victory. | 5 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr Rhonda Galbally, disability advocate | Dr Rhonda Galbally is a key adviser to the federal government on the new National Disability Insurance Scheme. A scheme that, Rhonda Galbally says, will radically improve the lives of the disabled and their families. | 28 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Simon Longstaff, executive director of St James Ethics Centre | -- | 21 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Mattick, molecular biologist | Professor John Mattick is Richard Aedy's guest this week. He is a molecular biologist who is overturning the way we think about genes - and ourselves. | 14 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ita Buttrose, publisher & author | This week Richard Aedy talks with Australia's most well-known media doyenne. Ita Buttrose is back in the business of publishing - but this time it's digital. | 7 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mark Textor, political strategist | Political pollster and strategist, Mark Textor, talks to Richard Aedy this week. He was heavily involved in the LNP's successful campaign in the recent Queensland election. | 31 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Simon Baron-Cohen, Cambridge expert on Autism | Simon Baron-Cohen investigates human empathy as outlined in his book Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty. | 24 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bob Katter, federal MP | Bob Katter's Australian Party sparked controversy this week with television ads based on the LNP leader Campbell Newman's support for gay marriage. | 17 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Steven Schwartz, vice-chancellor, Macquarie University | Vice-Chancellor Steven Schwartz is now in his last year at Macquarie University. Other VCs might at this stage be winding down, or looking back over their tenure. But Steven Schwartz is still fizzing with ideas and pushing changes through. | 10 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mitch Hooke, CEO Minerals Council of Australia | Mitch Hooke is the CEO of the Minerals Council of Australia, and is the man who killed off Kevin Rudd's mining super tax. | 3 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kevin Sheedy | The newest AFL team, the Greater Western Sydney Giants, opens the 2012 season in just a few weeks. Richard Aedy talks to the GWS head coach - and the man who’s selling the game to the west - Kevin Sheedy. | 25 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul Dyer, artistic director, A*O | This week Richard Aedy talks with the harpsichordist and champion of early music, Paul Dyer, who is also the artistic director of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. | 18 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brigid Inder, activist for women's human rights and gender equality | In the lead-up the International Criminal Court's verdict on the Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga, Richard Aedy speaks with Brigid Inder, an advocate to the court for the rights of women in the world's worst conflicts. | 11 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ted Olson, former US Solicitor General | Ted Olson is a former Republican Solicitor General of the United States and the lawyer who successfully overturned California's ban on same sex marriage. | 4 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Terry Moran, former head of the Dept of Prime Minister and Cabinet | Starting off our new year of Sunday Profile, new host Richard Aedy talks to Terry Moran, a man who's been at the heart of federal and state governments in Australia for over 20 years. | 28 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mary Jerram, NSW State Coroner | New South Wales State Coroner, Mary Jerram, heads the busiest coroner's court in the country. She started her career as a high school teacher, became a magistrate, and now holds one of the most delicate, fascinating roles in the legal system. (This interview first aired on 5th June, 2011) | 21 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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PD James, crime author | At the age of ninety-one, British crime author PD James has just published a new novel. Baroness James looks back at her extraordinary life and she tells Sunday Profile why she opposes euthanasia. (This interview first aired on 2nd December, 2011) | 14 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jana Pittman, elite track athlete | Jana Pittman is one of Australia's top athletes. A two-time 400 metre hurdles world champion and Commonwealth Games gold medallist, she has suffered from a lot of bad publicity and, for the past few years, has kept out of the limelight. But now she is aiming for the London Olympics and hopes that, this time, public opinion will be on her side. She gives her first interview in two years to Sunday Profile. (This interview first aired on 2nd October, 2011) | 7 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Caitlin Moran, British author and commentator | (British media personality and author Caitlin Moran is a provocative and popular feminist. She says women still have a lot of self-liberation to do and, in doing so, they should arm themselves with plenty of humour. (This interview first aired on 9th October, 2011) | 31 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chris Bryant, British Labour MP and anti-journalistic corruption crusader | Chris Bryant is a British Labour MP - the first gay MP to marry in the House of Commons. He is also the man who got the editor of the now-defunct tabloid News of the World, Rebekah Brooks, to admit that her paper had paid police for information. It was the starting point of the ongoing News Corp saga which has led to twelve arrests this year, and which Chris Bryant wants to result in a change in media laws. (This interview was first aired on 14th August, 2011) | 24 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nick Sherry, resigning federal minister | Twenty-two years ago Nick Sherry entered federal politics as a young senator, and fifteen years ago he tried to take his own life. Since then he’s married, had children and had a fulfilling political career. This week he resigned from the front bench. How did he survive and thrive in Canberra? | 17 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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PD James, crime author | At the age of ninety-one, British crime author PD James has just published a new novel. Baroness James looks back at her extraordinary life and she tells Sunday Profile why she opposes euthanasia. | 10 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Kilcullen | Counter insurgency expert David Kilcullen is one of the world's leading advisers on political insurgency movements. His expertise has taken him from the Australian Army to the corridors of Washington. | 3 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Arthur Sinodinos | Arthur Sinodinos, John Howard's former chief of staff and closest adviser, has just been sworn in as a Liberal senator. He tells Sunday Profile he is different from his former boss, despite having been his right-hand man for over a decade, and talks about some of the mistakes of the Howard government, particularly on children in detention and WorkChoices. | 26 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hugh Laurie, actor, author and musician | Hugh Laurie is a comedian, actor and author. Today he is probably best known in his role as Dr House in the popular TV series House - for which he is said to be paid more than any other television actor in the US. | 19 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ben Naparstek, editor of The Monthly | Ben Naparstek, the twenty-five year old editor of The Monthly magazine has been at the centre of a few controversies. He talks to Sunday Profile in the week of the first public hearings by the federal government's Independent Media Inquiry. | 12 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Noam Chomsky, American linguist, philosopher & activist | This week on Sunday Profile one of the world's greatest thinkers, Noam Chomsky. The 'father of modern linguistics' - and human rights campaigner - is this year's recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize. | 5 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 29 Episodes |
- Free
- Category: Personal Journals
- Language: English
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