Happy 2026 to all Radio National listeners!
As the year kicks off, we have some great summer content for you.
Start with the latest episode of No One Saw It Coming, which looks at the fascinating story of The Garage Girls.
As World War II raged in the Pacific, there was a team of codebreakers in Australia working around the clock intercepting and deciphering Japanese messages.
It was Australia's own Bletchley Park, but the team were young, female and worked in a shed — so they called themselves The Garage Girls.
Meanwhile, on Global Roaming's summer series, Hamish Macdonald and Geraldine Doogue are inviting big thinkers from different fields to consider how Australia can not just survive but thrive in a more challenging world.
In this episode, Australia's former Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel shares his thoughts on how Australia can feasibly get to net zero and harness our potential as a clean energy superpower.
And on The Economy, Stupid, the summer series Choose Your Own Australia continues. This week, it asks some big questions around housing. How did owning a home of your own become so impossible for so many? And is it too late to turn things around?
Below you'll find an engaging mix of this fresh content, as well as some best-of episodes from last year.
Topics range from opting out of online life to food fads to the origins of the Bible.
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