The Conversation Documentaries

The Conversation Documentaries

The Conversation

Episodes 106
Avg. Duration 36m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.7 (41)
Since May 2016
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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About This Podcast

The Conversation Documentaries (formerly The Anthill) is podcast from The Conversation. Our documentary series cover everything from science to the environment, politics, culture and economics. We unearth new stories from the world of academia and talk to experts to shed light on some of the big questions of today. The Conversation is a not-for-profit independent media organisation and our journalists work with academics to help share their research knowledge with as many people as possible.

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S1E5 5 | The Making of One Nation: master the media

Jun 09, 2026 25m

The media made Pauline Hanson and One Nation, but now the party holds all the power.It’s a perfect storm for democracy: a shrinking and cowering traditional media, the toxic algorithms of the…

S1E4 4 | The Making of One Nation: move the centre

Jun 02, 2026 19m

It’s never held government, or even opposition, yet One Nation’s managed to exert an outsized influence on the public policy agenda.From borders to migration, multiculturalism to Indigenous affairs,…

S1E3 3 | The Making of One Nation: survive a scandal

May 26, 2026 19m

We’d all like deeply considered policy and informed debate to be at the heart of politics, but unfortunately controversies and scandals tend to steal the show.For most parties, scandals are…

S1E2 2 | The Making of One Nation: define the enemy

May 19, 2026 20m

You might remember this line in Pauline Hanson's maiden speech: "I'm afraid we're in danger of being swamped by Asians."It wasn't the first racist comment she'd made in public and it certainly wasn't…

S1E1 1 | The Making of One Nation: enter the outsider

Apr 01, 2026 25m

Listen to the full series by searching and following 'The Making of One Nation'(click here for Spotify or Apple.)Nearly thirty years on, Hanson's infamous maiden speech — warning that Australia was…

S1 The Making of One Nation: coming soon

Mar 27, 2026 2m Trailer

Search for "The Making of One Nation" and follow now.From a fish and chip shop in regional Queensland to the heart of Australian politics: this is the unlikely story of the country’s most…

The Making of an Autocrat: co-opt the military

Jan 04, 2026 18m

In November, six Democratic lawmakers recorded a video directed at members of the US military and intelligence agencies. In it, they issued a blunt reminder:"The laws are clear: […] You must refuse…

The Making of an Autocrat: suppress the people

Jan 04, 2026 15m

The list of people Donald Trump has punished or threatened to punish since returning to office is long. It includes the likes of James Comey, Letitia James, John Bolton, as well as members of the…

The Making of an Autocrat: beat the courts

Dec 28, 2025 17m

In democratic systems, the courts are a vital check on a leader’s power. They have the ability to overturn laws and, in Donald Trump’s case, the executive orders he has relied on to achieve his…

The Making of an Autocrat: manufacture a crisis

Dec 28, 2025 14m

Donald Trump has sounded the alarm, over and over again, that the United States is facing an “invasion” by dangerous gang members. He blames immigrants for the country's economic problems and claims…

The Making of an Autocrat: recruit an architect

Dec 28, 2025 16m

Every autocrat needs a clan of loyalists, strategists, masterminds – these are the figures behind the scenes pulling the strings.They’re unelected and unaccountable, yet they wield a huge amount of…

The Making of an Autocrat: hijack a party

Dec 28, 2025 17m

We used to have a pretty clear idea of what an autocrat was. History is full of examples: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, along with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping today. The list goes on.So,…

The Making of an Autocrat, coming soon

Dec 22, 2025 1m Trailer

We used to have a pretty clear idea of what an autocrat was. History is full of examples: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, along with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping today. The list goes on.So,…

Scam Factories Ep 3: Great Escapes

Jun 12, 2025 44m

Every day that he was locked up in a scam compound in Southeast Asia, George thought about how to get out. "We looked for means of escaping, but it was hard," he said. Scam Factories is a podcast…

Scam Factories Ep 2: Inside the operation

Jun 12, 2025 39m

A few weeks after Ben Yeo travelled to Cambodia for what he thought was a job in a casino, he found himself locked up in a padded room. “It’s a combination between a prison and a madhouse,” he…

Scam Factories Ep 1: No skills required

Jun 12, 2025 33m

Scam factories is a special three-part series taking you inside Southeast Asia's brutal fraud compounds. Hundreds of thousands of people are estimated to work in these scam factories. Many were…

Know Your Place part 5: the real class divide

Nov 04, 2024 32m

The neglect of working-class voters in the past few decades has had profound consequences for British political life. Disillusioned with the two main parties, many have turned to Nigel Farage’s…

Know Your Place part 4: a working class parliament?

Oct 28, 2024 29m

After the 2024 election, the British parliament looks very different, with a large Labour majority for the first time in more than a decade. Several cabinet ministers come from working-class…

Know Your place part 3: what class means now

Oct 21, 2024 35m

In the third part of Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics, we explore how class is defined and measured, and how the UK’s changing class identity interacts with identity…

Know Your Place part 2: a history of class politics

Oct 14, 2024 32m

In the second episode of Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics, host Laura Hood, senior politics editor at The Conversation, looks back at a century of class in British politics…

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