Jun 23, 2026 — If you’re trying to take someone down for being hysterical, you probably shouldn’t be speaking hysterically yourself. This is just one of the (apparently, not obvious) life lessons that we unpack on the latest episode of Spin Cycle, as we explore the...
Jun 18, 2026 — Charlie, fresh from the room itself, joins Rachel to dissect Pauline Hanson's address to the National Press Club, unpacking why the press gallery played it so safe and how even the sharper questions still failed to pin her down. Plus, a roleplay of Tim...
Jun 11, 2026 — Jess and Rachel speak with Jeff Sparrow - Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Advancing Journalism and former Triple R Breakfaster - about his essay for The Conversation examining how liberal media outlets in Australia and the US have applied starkly...
Jun 04, 2026 — ABC journalist Emily Baker talks to Jess, Charlie and Rachel about her investigation into sexual violence in Byron Bay in the 2000s. Plus, the team unpacks why Charlie Pickering's decision to call Grace Tame "problematic" was itself pretty problematic...
May 26, 2026 — Al Gore may have won the climate discourse (and an Oscar) with An Inconvenient Truth in 2003, and Greta Thunberg might’ve made fighting for the planet cool again fifteen years later… but neither invented the act of caring about the environment....
May 07, 2026 — Charlie and Rachel are joined by writer and author Patrick Marlborough to dissect the Abbott vs Downer battle for the Liberal Party presidency, unpack what Michael Gawenda's factually-challenged essay reveals about the declining standards of The...
Apr 30, 2026 — Jess and Charlie speak with RMIT journalism lecturer and Triple R broadcaster (host of Future Perfect on Monday mornings) Dylan Bird about World Press Freedom Day, before dissecting the chaos of the White House Correspondents' Dinner and unpacking the...
Apr 23, 2026 — Guardian Australia's chief investigations correspondent, Christopher Knaus, joins Spin Cycle to discuss his recent investigation into the death of Bikram Lama, a young Nepali man who died homeless in Sydney's Hyde Park.
Mar 24, 2026 — Why take advice from a human when you can get it straight from the mouth of an anthropomorphic carrot? Will the story work better if it looks more like a raisin or a prune? Do you think we can convince Tom Cruise to voice the green-haired Earth...
Mar 10, 2026 — Romanticizing your life content is syrupy, addictive, and everywhere. We’re all guilty of falling for the promise that our problems could be solved simply by thinking more mindfully or by jazzing up our daily routines with a new hobby (watercolours or...
