
A weekday magazine-style current affairs program hosted by one of Australia's pre-eminent and loved interviewers. Drawing on Fran's extensive current affairs and cultural knowledge, The Radio National Hour takes a thoughtful, deep dive into the important and challenging issues, and brings insightful and engaging conversations with big names in the arts, sport and culture.
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 229 | Founded | 2 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | NewsSociety & Culture | |||

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What more is there to say? An extraordinary interviewer
Fran Kelly must be one of the world’s best interviewers. She always has the most obscure facts at her fingertips, dropping them in at exactly the right moment. Her interviews are forceful but never uncomfortable and she illuminates every subject she covers
Please, put a description in the podcast. I shouldn’t have to listen to the introduction do you know what the podcast is about. Life is too short for that. And Fran deserves five stars which I can’t give it the moment.
I have no idea whether RN took my advice from the previous review - but now there is a subject matter description in the podcast summary - and I caught the great interview with William Yang!
Keith Duddy
Love Fran Kelly and this format
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Weekday, interview-led conversations connect Australian and international current affairs with arts, culture, sport and everyday life. Fran Kelly guides discussions with journalists, researchers, policymakers, advocates and public figures, bringing detailed knowledge and pointed questions to subjects ranging from AI governance and climate accountability to diplomacy, literature, food and performance. The format moves between substantial interviews and shorter segments, often placing hard-news analysis alongside cultural stories and personal experience. That breadth is a defining feature: an episode might examine a legal or geopolitical issue, then turn to an artist, performer or sporting story, without losing its focus on the people and ide... more
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Recent guests on The Radio National Hour include:
1. Marie Hargreaves
2. Lance Ferguson
3. Kylie Auldist
4. Kenneth Roth
5. Bayley McKenna
6. Susanna Day
7. Flick Chaffer-Smith
8. Shalom Lipner
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