Papua New Guinea suddenly remembers it’s not a colony any more and acts like a real nation. Nicholas Fryer makes some modest proposals. And there’s terror in the streets of Baltimore.
In this episode, there’s talk of hedgehogs and weasels, refugees and terrorism, and more.
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Episode Credits
- Bacon Sandwich audio from The Bill.
- Man In Hedgehog Onesie With Fake Bomb At TV Station Thought World Was Ending, Dad Says, BuzzFeed, 30 April 2016.
- Baltimore Bomb Threat Suspect’s Device Was Made of Candy, CBS Baltimore, 28 April 2016.
- Human rights and the politics of fear, ABC Radio National’s Sunday Extra, 1 May 2016.
- Cut Your Own Meat audio from a TV clip tweeted by Malcolm Turnbull, 11 April 2016.
- “Boomers want millennials to know it was patience and hard work – not luck – that got them into the #housing market”, tweet by Four Corners, 2 May 2016.
- Is this Australia’s biggest baby ever?
- F-35 chief considers fix for troubling Block 3i software faults, Flightglobal, 27 April 2016.
- Election 2016: Federal government to run $8m national security advertising blitz during campaign, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 May 2016.
- ‘If It Doesn’t Add Up, Speak Up’, via Daily Mail Online, 29 April 2016.
- PNG Supreme Court rules detention of asylum seekers on Manus illegal, ABC Radio’s PM, 26 April 2016.
- PNG announces Manus Island Centre to close, ABC Radio’s PM, 27 April 2016.
- More to come…
Series Credits
- The 9pm Edict theme by mansardian via The Freesound Project.
- Edict fanfare by neonaeon, via The Freesound Project.
- Elephant Stamp theme by Joshua Mehlman.
- Photograph of the Trinity atmospheric nuclear test, July 1945, by the US Government via Wikimedia Commons.
[Photo: The Adult Hedgehog Onesie Bomber, courtesy WJZ-13 CBS Baltimore.]