The Radio National Hour

Fran Kelly brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge,entertain and inspire us. 

Fran Kelly brings you compelling conversations on issues that challenge,entertain and inspire us. 

It’s one year since Donald Trump was inaugurated as President of the United States for the second time, but the 47th version is very different to the 45th. 

Today parliamentarians came together to remember the 15 people slain as the sun set over Australia’s most iconic beach on December the 14th last year. But as debate begins over the political response to the Bondi attacks, will MPs be able to summon the same unity? And we hear from the aunty of the youngest victim of the atrocity, 10-year old Matilda. 

It's summer on ABC Radio National, so we're bringing you some of your favourite stories from 2025.Today, Pulitzer Prize winning founder of the website PolitiFact Bill Adair on the golden age of lying in American politics Also, as Tasmania’s salmon industry struggles to maintain its social licence amid mass mortality events Canada says it will ban open net  salmon farms altogether.And, reflections of twenty years in the music business with Australian singer-songwriter Josh Pyke.

It's summer on ABC Radio National, so we're bringing you some of your favourite stories from 2025.Today, thousands of people simply vanish in Japan every year, it’s not a vast criminal conspiracy, but an industry created to help people start over. Also, author Jeanette Winterson celebrates 40 years of literary shock, awe and raging success.and, the sound of music, Swiss brothers Esteban and Alejandro Guitierrez aka Hermanos Gutierrez play their special blend of Latin guitar.

It's summer on ABC Radio National, so we're bringing you some of your favourite stories from 2025.Today, the Murdoch family's real life succession drama, which saw Rupert try to subvert the family trust  and install favoured son Lachlan as heir apparent. Also, a colossal comeback, I’ll speak to one of the scientists who this year claims to have brought the dire wolf back from extinction after around 13000 years. And Australia’s favourite flautist, Jane Rutter after 27 albums her sound is as fresh as ever.

It's summer on ABC Radio National, so we're bringing you some of your favourite stories from 2025.First, we might look back on 2025 as the year of Artificial Intelligence and this year’s winner of the Turing Prize Dr Richard Sutton, says we have nothing to fear.Also, this year marked 50 years since the release of Picnic at Hanging Rock, we spoke to celebrated Australian director Peter Weir.And, the incomparable David Sedaris joins me to talk about his audience with the Pope at the Vatican. 

It's summer on ABC Radio National, so we're bringing you some of your favourite stories from 2025.First, a year ago today NASA got closer to the sun than we've ever been before, you’ll hear from the project scientist for the Parker Solar Probe mission.Also, Irish writer Colm Tóibín on the fear of missing out... And, piano virtuoso Andrea Lam was just 13 years old when she debuted with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra but this year she found a very different sort of fame, with the ABC’s hit series The Piano. 

It's summer on ABC Radio National, so we're bringing you some of your favourite stories from 2025.Today, how medical researchers and practitioners have been blind to differences of sex and gender with deadly consequences.Plus, Saul Griffith’s electrifying “how-to guide“ for your life and home. And the bold plan to resurrect the railway linking the Islamic holy city of Medina to the oldest capital city in the world, Damascus.