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RN shares Australia's best conversations across a diverse range of topics, including arts and culture, business and current affairs, health, science and technology, Indigenous culture and issues, and religion and ethics.
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| Scope | National |
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| Language | English |
| Country | Australia |
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Summer programming runs from Monday, 15th December 2025 to Sunday, January 18 2025. ABC Radio National Breakfast will continue live each day from 6am presented by Melissa Clarke & Barbara Miller. We'll also have special coverage from Radio National Religion & Ethics on Christmas Day. Global Roaming's Getting Lucky examines Australia's place in a shifting global order and the values that shape our future.
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Middle of the Air Poetry Competition
Are you a poet with something to say who loves music too? This Poetry Month, we've partnered with Red Room Poetry to launch a very special competition just for you. Middle of the Air celebrates poetry beyond the page, uniting poem and song in new ways while drawing on the rich history between these forms. So if you have a poem or lyrics to submit, get ready to enter from August 1. What can you win? There will be two winners selected for Middle of the Air in 2025.
Ellie Parnell - ABC Radio National
Ellie is a radio and podcast producer with a strong interest in music. With a background in law and environmental policy, Ellie fell in love with radio via hosting several specialist music programs at Radio Adelaide. She then moved to Gadigal Land and completed a Graduate Diploma in Radio at AFTRS. She’s been at the ABC since 2017 and has primarily worked on Radio National’s The Music Show, but in 2023 spent a year at Double J producing the flagship music documentary podcast The J Files.
ABC Radio National’s Top 100 Books of the 21st Century
Top 100 Books is Radio National's new annual countdown where we hand over the reins to you to vote for your favourite books, and then we celebrate the Top 100 in a big weekend broadcast! Each year we'll have a different theme, but this year we want you to tell us your Top 100 Books of the 21st Century.
Catherine Zengerer
Catherine Zengerer is a radio producer and presenter, MC and communications specialist. Currently producing Late Night Live with David Marr for ABC Radio National, Catherine has produced and presented live current affairs for over 15 years in Adelaide, Sydney and Hobart, both for the ABC and in the community radio sector.
Dr Preeya Alexander
As both a doctor and mum of two, Preeya is passionate about sharing accurate health information and empowering people to make informed decisions around their health. Preeya is a practicing general practitioner (GP) in metropolitan Melbourne and in 2015 was awarded the Richard Clinton Gutch medal for the highest overall score in general practice exams in the state of Victoria.