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Wyndham Native Hospital - apartheid in Australia

Until the mid-20th century the Wyndham Native Hospital, on the far north coast of Western Australia, was an apartheid institution where Indigenous men, women and children were imprisoned, left untreated and subjected to experimental treatments without their knowledge and against their will.Guest: Annabel (A.M.) Stafford, former journalist, teacher, author of 'The wanted and the unwanted' (MUP)Producer: Ann Arnold

John Cameron Mitchell on punk, cancel culture, and how to navigate a dystopian world

John Cameron Mitchell wrote and starred in punk musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch – the tale of a gender queer east German rock and roll singer. He’s now on a mission to bring back punk, saying: “The job of youth is to be punk, meaning to question the status quo in a way where it doesn’t matter if you feel offended, safe…they should be physically safe, mentally unsafe. That is education.”  He tackles cancel culture, identity politics and stories vs facts in this conversation with David Marr. John Cameron Mitchell is appearing at Sydney's Festival of Dangerous Ideas and Melbourne International Film Festival in August, and then at Sydney's Enmore Theatre and Melbourne Recital Centre in September. Guest: John Cameron Mitchell, writer, director and actor.Producers: Jack Schmidt

Unmasking the Cambridge Five spies

The Cambridge Five have gone down in history as the most notorious spies of the 20th century. For seventeen years, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, Donald Maclean and John Cairncross got away with leaking top-secret British intelligence to the Soviet Union with disastrous consequences. Now a new book, drawing on recently declassified files, debunks some enduring myths about them.Guest: Antonia Senior, author of Stalin's Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire Producer: Julie Street

Is a classless society impossible?

Is true social equality an impossible dream? The German philosopher Dr Hanno Sauer argues that class hierarchy is a permanent feature of human societies. Old elites may fall, but new ones fill the void. Rank, hierarchy and privilege, stubbornly persists.Hanno Sauer appears at Melbourne's The Wheeler Centre on 20 August and at Sydney's Festival of Dangerous Ideas from 22-23 August. Guest: Hanno Sauer, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Utrecht University, author of Klasse, and The Invention of Good and Evil: A History of MoralityProducer: Jack Schmidt

Going out - a colourful history of nightlife

From Shogun era Japan to the techno bunkers of 90s Berlin, people across time and cultures have always looked to let loose at night. Guest: Imogen Willetts, author of 'Up All Night: A History of Going Out'Producer: Ali Benton