The Radio National Hour

New guidelines for prostate cancer screening are expected to be announced this month, offering men in their 40s the chance to get tested and get ahead of the curse, which impacts 26 thousand Aussie fellas every year.

If you’re savouring the prospect of a glass of nice whisky this weekend, there’s some sobering news for you. We may be getting to the point of peak peat. The extraction of the vital ingredient is so serious that Scotland is proposing a ban on its sale. 

A moment of peril for the United States after a conservative influencer is assassinated during a public debate at a university in Utah. 

Hamas insists that none of its senior leadership were killed in an Israeli strike on a villa they were staying in, in the Qatari capital Doha. The audacious attack was a big gamble by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, given Qatar's role as a mediator and close ally of the United States. 

The real-life succession drama engulfing the Murdoch family has seemingly been resolved, with the recalcitrant siblings yielding to their father, Rupert’s, wish to give control of his media empire to his anointed successor Lachlan, ensuring that it's conservative vibe will continue for at least the next few decades. Australia is duking it out with Turkiye to win the right to host the COP-31 climate summit with the Pacific. And it started as a crush on a guitarist, now nearly a decade on Spanish singer-songwriter Lau Noah is a darling of the guitar festival scene with her unique baroque folk style. 

Convicted triple murderer Erin Patterson today learned she'll spend at least 33 years in prison - much of it in solitary confinement - for poisoning four of her family members with a meal of beef wellington, laced with death-cap mushrooms in late July 2023. ABC investigative reporter and host of The Mushroom Case Daily, Rachael Brown says the sentencing hearing, which was beamed around the world, was deeply moving. France is, once again, on the precipice of a political crisis, with the national parliament set to vote on a no-confidence motion that will likely see another Prime Minister turfed out for daring to try and rein in a ballooning budget deficit. Political analyst and former advisor advisor to President Nicholas Sarkozy, Natanael Bloch says France's leaders are simply unwilling to compromise. If there’s one Australian actor who can singularly command a stage, surely it’s Noni Hazelhurst. She's embarking on a yet another solo stage show, The Lark written by playwright Daniel Keene. 

Compelling conversations on issues that challenge, entertain and inspire us.

Time-restricted diets like the 5:2 - popularised by the late Dr Michael Mosley - have achieved cult status in recent years, promising not just to deal with excess weight but also prevent diabetes and add years to our life, but the largest ever study of its devotees has linked the diet to cardiovascular disease.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu isn't listening. Not to the head of the IDF, not to the negotiators urging him to accept a phased, ceasefire deal and certainly not to the desperate parents of hostages. Lazar Berman the Times of Israel's diplomatic editor says Bibi Netanyahu is convinced that Israel in the 'final stage' of the war. And imagine paying rent that doesn't just keep a roof over your head, but gives you a real stake in the place you live and where no one is going to boot you out to chase profits, this is one model of providing housing that's thriving in Switzerland. When your time comes, how will you be remembered? Language psychologist David Markowitz has studied tens of millions of obituaries to understand what it is we value when we eulogise our loved ones. His finds show that our feelings towards the dearly departed have changed in the wake of seismic global events like Sept 11 and the COVID-19 pandemic.  

Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto has called in the military to quell nationwide protests in what critics say is an echo of the nation's authoritarian past. Speaking of authoritarian leaders, the man dubbed the 'Trump of the Tropic's', Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro is facing decades in prison, accused of plotting to overthrow the government. A verdict in his court case is expected by the end of the week. And eight First Nations STEM students are undertaking a space bootcamp at Melbourne's Monash University ahead of a ten-week research placement at at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and the UK’s national space laboratory: RAL Space.