Also this week, Geraldine breaks a habit of a lifetime and begins baking packet-mix cakes.Join the conversation at the Facebook page or email us at ldcpodcast1@gmail.com. Making sense of a changing world, Extra with Geraldine Doogue explores the risks and possibilities of big shifts in power, puts events with our … As the COVID-19 situation in Australia worsens, the next six to twelve months remain unclear. Geraldine and Eliza anxiously look forward to the next six months.Also this week: Fintan O'Toole on the fatal delusions of Boris Johnson.Thanks for listening! Tune in for half an hour of laughs and … Such a fascinating range of topics and interviewees. Tune in for half an hour of laughs and … She wonders if people will revert back to old habits once a vaccine is (hopefully) found.Eliza has been thinking about technology and how to live a sane online life. Covers nicely Australian news and history in an international context. We're all being asked to delay our plans and live in limbo.It's making Geraldine realise that our lives aren't quite as settled as they may seem. But the economy - which was already in freefall - is now terminal. Let us know your thoughts via email ldcpodcast1@gmail.com or join the Facebook page at "Long Distane Callers"Australia In The World - DFAT Secretary Frances AdamsonBig news this week: Eliza and her family will stay in Australia permanently. Eliza Harvey is an Australian journalist who moved to Indonesia from Australia in 2015. Thanks for listening! They won't return to Lebanon.Eliza's thrilled to be home and looking forward to resuming her journalism work.Her husband Adam has been offered a new job at the ABC TV current affairs program "4 Corners".The decision to leave Lebanon was bittersweet. Podcast Directory: ABC: 4 day week for all ... 4 day week for all By Geraldine Doogue on Saturday Extra. The New York Times has launched an attack on Farrow, arguing that he doesn't like to let inconvenient truths get in the way of a ripping yarn.The celebrity journalist won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on Harvey Weinstein along with New York Times journalist Jodi Kantor & Meghan Twohey.Eliza thinks Farrow could have done more to acknowledge his colleagues and the team of people involved in bringing down a predator like Weinstein. In episode 3, the dogs emerge from a fetid pond and "let the unpleasantness sink in". Join the conversation at the Facebook page "Long Distance Callers" or email ldcpodcast1@gmail.comGeraldine's learning to live with ambiguity. "The Australian doctor's work on anxiety was released in the 1960s without fanfare but has come to be seen as cutting edge.Judith Hoare thinks society has learnt a habit of fear and we need to learn to manage anxiety as we resume our normal lives. She thought the New York Times expose was a cautionary tale for less experienced journalists embarking on big investigations.Also this week, Geraldine finishes her first novel in a while. Thanks for listening! She joins Eliza on the latest episode of the Lockdown Chronicles.Join the conversation at the Facebook page "Long Distance Callers" or email us at ldcpodcast1@gmail.comDenee Savoia is an Australian journalist living and working in Istanbul, Turkey. Eliza wonders if her Mum's work patterns are linked to Australia's emergence from the COVID-19 lockdown? Each week she phones her Mum -- ABC broadcaster Geraldine Doogue -- back home in Sydney. Love that ABC RN enables shows like this to exist. Geraldine has been reflecting on the manic pace of life before Covid-19. Join the conversation at the Facebook page "Long Distance Callers" or email us at ldcpodcast1@gmail.comGeraldine interviews Hannah Blair about the Clinton AffairCoronavirus unleashed on the river - NYT photographer Tyler Hicks takes us down the river.She's loaded the audio book "Middlemarch" on her smart phone and packed her suitcase with winter woolies. But Geraldine thinks it's a result of "normal life" returning to the northern hemisphere.Also this week, Eliza worries about Lebanon and its future. Love that ABC RN enables shows like this to exist. Leave us a review on your podcast platform of choice. Eliza Harvey is an Australian journalist who moved to Indonesia from Australia in 2015. Eliza Harvey is an Australian journalist who moved to Indonesia from Australia in 2015.

Thanks for listening!David Crowe on Malcolm Turnbull’s memoir - The Good WeekendMichael Ignatieff: the intellectual who wanted to be a politicianLight and Shadow: Memoirs of a Spy’s Son – Mark Colvin memoir It seems like a good mantra for life.Also this week, how should white people respond to the Black Lives Matter protests?Eliza prepares to give herself a history lesson before the November election in America.And Geraldine looks for plants which thrive in dappled light.Join the conversation at the Facebook page "Long Distance Callers" or email at ldcpodcast1@gmail.comFordham’s Bryan Massingale: White Catholics need to sit with the discomfort of systemic racismRetired General Jim Mattis has launched a scathing criticism of his old boss, labelling Donald Trump a divisive President and a threat to the Constitution.Geraldine and Eliza wonder if General Mattis' letter will act as a call to arms amongst Republicans who have been privately wary of the President's behaviour, but until now unwilling to criticise him publicly.Also this week, Eliza is enthralled in the German TV series "Das Boot".Geraldine wonders how long it takes for a war-torn country to properly confront its past.