Kit and Dave from Rocket Science stop in for a chat during their three-night residency at the Hopetoun as part of the Different Like You tour.

The Herd's Unkle Ho and Sulo talk 'Summerland', politics, and life post-John Howard.

Part 2 of Max Lavergne's interview with The Breeders' Kim and Kelley Deal.

The Dodos' singer slash guitarist slash songwriter Meric Long speaks to Max Lavergne about their 2SER feature album Visiter.

Max Lavergne speaks to The Breeders' Deal sisters on their 2008 tour in support of 'Mountain Battles'.

Kimberley Wildlife Carers and Associates – a new organisation that’s been set up successfully to care for injured wildlife and train new carers as well as informing and educating the community about their local wildlife and their problems. And an approach to carbon sequestration which in fact goes all the way back to pre-Columbian South America. As well as returning carbon to the soil rather than the atmosphere, it also improves the health of the soil, produces energy and deals with a lot of those biodegradable wastes.

Sometimes it’s very easy for us East coast people to think that we are the centre of the Australian universe. Well this week we have a couple of stories from the less populous states that are streets ahead of us in a couple of sustainability matters. Question One: why does South Australia have such a small percentage of drink containers in its litter? And Question Two: why is Western Australia so good when it comes to sustainable tourism and indigenous tourism to boot?

12 Canoes is the latest project from Australian filmmaker, Rolf De Heer and the Ramingining community of the top end. 50,000 years of Yolgnu society and culture is showcased seamlessly in this comprehensive interactive website. Rolf joins us to discuss the collaborative process and explain how a community just one generation out of the bush arrives at a new media project. Plus, those images of Iraqi prisoners being abused by US soldiers in Abu Grahib prison are among some of the most startling and unforgettable of all time. So was it the wrong doing of a few low-ranking trouble makers or was it in fact US Army standard operating procedure? American journalist, Philip Gourevitch joins us to discuss.

This episode, we hear from a new-media artist whos currently using the emotions expressed in blogs to change the shape of his latest sculpture called Pulse; we take a crash-course in Australian defamation law and examine its impact on free speech in today's online environment, and, we catch up with one of the loudest critics of the existing ABC charter.

In this episode, we find out what it's like to work for a government-run radio station in Beijing, catch up with a Chinese artist who's using comic strips to communicate the more personal stories of the recent earthquake tragedy and question whether smoking cigarettes should be banned in films.

We meet the first foreigner to break into the popular Japanese trend of the Keitai Novel, strip away at the many misconceptions surrounding pornography and question what longevity digital radio will have here, given its lack of success in the US and the UK.

This week, we find out about a headset that enables you to perform moves in a video game, using only the power of your mind; explore why the reality television series 'Big Brother' takes on an even bigger life online and question whether the landline phone will be a thing of the past in the near future.

This week, we take a look at the life of the Electronic Intifada - one of the first websites to use the internet as a platform to challenge mainstream media reportage. Also on the program, award-winning American public broadcaster, Ira Glass, reveals what ingredients he feels are necessary in exceptional works of non-fiction.

This episode, we speak with Morgan Spurlock - the filmmaker who made himself somewhat of an experiment in the fast food documentary, Supersize Me, who's now taken on more of a controversial stance with the new flick, Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden? Also on the program, we speak with an Australian who decided to make his filmmaking debut in a remote region of Pakistan where all foreigners - let alone filmmaking - was forbidden.

Since 1979, all western sounding music has been banned in Iran making it close to impossible to get your mits on any so-called naughty tunes. But the emergence of the internet has changed all that...Also on the program, we explore the seemingly intrinsic relationship between Aussie pub-rock and alcohol; plus we take a look at the role graffiti plays in communication and as a documentation of history.

On the show, we catch up with Stewart Butterfield, the Co-Founder of the extremely popular image hosting site, Flickr; explore whether the act of stripping should be considered an art form and chat to Walkley Award winning journalist, Chloe Hooper about her new book, 'The Tall Man'.

Leading researcher and historian, Henry Reynolds, reflects on the real story behind the Aussie screen classic, 'The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith'; documentary filmmaker Anna Broinowski shares her experiences of best selling novelist and alleged con-artist, Norma Khouri and arts critic John Conomos explains why he believes old and new media need to work together.

On the program, we explore logos, examine the effectiveness of web-based electoral campaigns, and look at how the humble mobile phone is changing the face of public health in the third world.

Journalist and writer Antony Loewenstein has created a colourful and comprehensive account of the issues facing bloggers around the globe who live and write under repressive regimes. Its called, The Blogging Revolution and comes highly recommended! In this in-depth interview we explore the popular notion of "democratised media" and ask whether the internet can ever truly be democratic when multi-national companies own it.

Incredibly annoying people read articles from the tabloids. oh, right, it's a PARODY.

The meeting point of barbershop quartets, commercial radio jocks and creepily heavy breathing!

Is there someone in your life you don't really care either way about? Call in and request some background music to express your ambivalence through the dying medium of radio!

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Nuclear disarmament – Dr Rod Lyon, ASPI Where did nuclear disarmament go off the rails? Exactly how hard would it be for a terrorist to steal a nuclear weapon? Why will global stability rely on nuclear weapons for some time yet? Will Australia sell uranium to India? And can Prime Minister Rudd's new nuclear disarmament commission have any real impact on the nuclear debate? The Australian Strategic Policy Institute's Dr Rod Lyon addresses these and more questions with Kelsey Munro.

China’s aid in the Pacific - Fergus Hanson, Lowy In the last three years, China’s aid pledges to some Pacific nations have increased at a rapid rate. What’s behind China’s new interest in the Pacific, an area that has traditionally been Australia’s regional backyard? Are there strategic implications, is it a resources grab or is it all to do with Taiwan - something simpler and yet harder to understand? The Lowy Institute’s Fergus Hanson speaks to Kelsey Munro.