The 9pm Offensively-Named Dispatches from Prison Island Megamix

Mike Lindell, Trump supporter and founder and CEO of My Pillow, Inc, pimping his merchandise on Jim Bakker’s daily infomercial program in September 2021.

In this episode we simply have to hear about the plight of Nicki Minaj’s cousin’s friend. There’s some unbiased news from America. And there’s a compulsory mention of submarines.

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The 9pm Polar Political Peregrination with Dr Liz Buchanan

Dr Elizabeth Buchanan (Photo: Australian National University; Map: CIA / Library of Congress)

In the final episode of the Edict’s Late Winter Series, we discuss Antarctic geopolitics with Dr Elizabeth Buchanan from the Australian War College. There’s a lot more to it than snow, penguins, and coloured lights in the sky.

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The 9pm Bonus Ouroboroworm of Despair, from Scams to Afghanistan

A dog’s heart infected with parasites at the Meguro Parasitological Museum in Tokyo. (Photo: Andrés Monroy-Hernández)

Technically this episode isn’t part of the Late Winter Series, because there’s no special guest and it wasn’t scheduled, but here it is. It’s the Full Moon, and I’m in a mood.

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The 9pm The Earth is On Fire and We’re All Going to Die with Ketan Joshi

Ketan Joshi looking relatively optimistic about the future. (Photo: University of Sydney)

The Late Winter Series 2021 of the Edict continues as Planet Earth continues to burn. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is calling it a “code red for humanity”. We dig into that with Ketan Joshi. He’s a communications consultant working with NGOs in Europe, and also a freelance writer covering climate and energy.

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The 9pm National Plan to Plan to Have a COVID-19 Plan with Upulie Divisekera and Dr Trent Yarwood

Upulie Divisekera (left) and Dr Trent Yarwood. (Photos: Supplied, digital processing by Stilgherrian)

The Late Winter Series 2021 of the Edict continues with a look at how Australia is handling the COVID-19 pandemic. Our guests are science communicator and medical researcher Upulie Divisekera and infectious diseases physician Dr Trent Yarwood.

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