Spin Cycle

The team is joined by journalist and host of Triple R's The Mission, Daniel James, to celebrate week one of Radiothon. Subscribe!

The team sit down with ABC National Health Equity Reporter Rachel Carbonell to discuss her work on the Four Corners episode The Race to Reverse Ageing.Carbonell breaks down how longevity treatments like peptides are being marketed to Australians, whether they actually work, and what the risks might be. Plus the team reflects on their live show last week, and whether journalism is actually dead.

On a special whodunit panel show edition of Spin Cycle, the team try to get to the bottom of who killed journalism, with the help of Antoun Issa, Raf Epstein and Najma Sambul.

The team sits down with Matthew Ricketson, co-author of Getting Murdoched: How Murdoch's Media Wields Power and Punishment, to discuss how the Murdoch empire turns journalists into instruments of personal destruction — and why it's so hard to push back from inside the machine.

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 Wilson's breakfast TV meltdown at Amanda Rishworth.

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 different standards to coverage of Gaza compared to other conflicts. Plus - why does Dave Hughes care so much about changes to negative gearing and the capital gains tax?

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 — and his non-apology.

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 Australian, and examine how media coverage of the interim Antisemitism Royal Commission report has played out.

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 Australian government and media's growing obsession with social cohesion.

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.