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Psychedelics have been touted as breakthrough treatments for mental health conditions like depression and PTSD . But can they live up to the hype?

A body frozen for 5,000 years and evidence of murder. What happened to Ötzi the Iceman?

Lead singer of The Bamboos Kylie Auldist heard her song in a nightclub thousands of kilometres away from home

Join the host of Weekend Nightlife Suzanne Hill for The Pop Quiz, Saturday September 19th edition, to find out if you have the answer correct!

When did dancing become something some men feel they’re not supposed to do?

Is the rage of middle age really about menopause, or everything that came before it?

Holly Ringland talks about threading themes of belonging, memory and what it takes to face our pasts into her latest novel, "The World Beneath Her Feet".

Play The Mighty Challenge, Friday September 18 edition to see if you have the answer!

Janet Greig was one of the first female doctors in Australia.

Not quite British, not quite American, this hybrid accent was embraced by Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s.

Stuart has written a provocative new booklet titled Fragile Prosperity — Australia's Gigantic Monetary Gamble, which examines whether or not we are suffering from a giant, failing experiment with modern money

Joining Philip Clark on Nightlife is Rob Watson, Political Correspondent for BBC World Service Radio and BBC TV

Waleed Aly examines what happened to liberalism, the rise of new conservative and progressive politics, and why freedom can sometimes feel so unfree.

Play The Mighty Challenge, Thursday September 17 edition to see if you have the answer!

Nightlife News Breakdown with Philip Clark, joined by Clare Armstrong, the ABC's chief digital political correspondent, based at Parliament House in Canberra.

Play The Mighty Challenge, Wednesday September 16 edition to see if you have the answer!

Nightlife News Breakdown with Philip Clark, joined by Jack Quail, political reporter for The Australian in their Parliament House bureau in Canberra.

You may be just a black tea drinker but there is quite an astonishing world of teas out there, many you wouldn't have heard of.

Michael Janda, Editor of the ABC News' Business Reporting Team, joined Philip Clark on Nightlife to discuss the latest in economic, business and finance news.

What might carbon monoxide be doing in the brain that could potentially protect against Parkinson's?

Play The Mighty Challenge, Tuesday September 15 edition to see if you have the answer!

Nightlife News Breakdown with Philip Clark, joined by Ryan Heath, POLITICO Australia’s Launch Editor

Behind the medals and the military legend was a man with his own private story of courage, heartbreak, resilience and determination

What changes are coming to Centrelink and other social security payments from September 20?

Nightlife critic of screens large and small, Wenlei Ma joins Philip Clark to review the latest to watch.

Play The Mighty Challenge, Monday September 14 edition to see if you have the answer!

Bruce Wolpe, Senior fellow at the US Studies Centre, formerly with the Democratic staff in the US Congress in President Obama's first term, joined Philip Clark for American Insight

Nightlife News Breakdown with Philip Clark, joined by Emily Barrett, Managing Editor of The Saturday Paper.

What happens to the brain during perimenopause, why are some women more affected than others, and why we need to better understand the connection between hormone health and mental health?

Travel writer Fleur Bainger has found one location where you can still get a lot of bang for your travel buck.

Associate Professor Charley Lineweaver, Astrophysicist at the ANU’s Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, joined Philip Clark on Nightlife to discuss the latest in science and space.

Before finding his feet as a commentator, Matt Keenan spent years trying to become a professional cyclist

A desperate and dangerous march towards freedom.

Join the host of Weekend Nightlife Suzanne Hill for The History Quiz, Sunday 13th of September, beds edition, to find out if you have the answer correct!

Before the big venues and festivals, the Hopetoun Hotel was a place to watch future Australian music royalty perform for the price of a few beers.

Play Nightlife's famous Pop Quiz.

Willie Nelson is 93 and has released 18 albums in the last decade. When exactly does a rock star call it a day?

Western Gu Gu Yalanji Elder Graham Brady and his nephew Jungaji come from a long lineage of First Nations artists in Far North Queenslad who share their people's stories and struggles with the world through song and art.

The hidden cost of our waste

Play The Mighty Challenge, Friday September 11 edition to see if you have the answer!

Former ABC presenter Simon Marnie was presenting Nightlife when the planes hit the World Trade Centre towers in New York.

A prolific writer who produced more than forty novels during his lifetime, Wells was fascinated by the ways he imagined science would shape the future.

Nightlife's resident demographer suggests net overseas migration should sit around 200,000 with the emphasis shifted from temporary to permanent migrants.

Play The Mighty Challenge, Thursday September 10 edition to see if you have the answer!

If you're trying to decide which car to buy or want to learn more about the latest EVs on the market, Motortorque can help.

There have been calls from across the political spectrum, for One Nation to take down a video which repeatedly calls Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie a 'traitor' for giving evidence in court against accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith in a defamation trial.

Germany has been making headlines this week for two very different reasons: a major breakthrough for the far right in regional elections, and a significant milestone for its emerging space industry.

Paul Barry has spent a good deal of his life charting the slippery shenanigans of corporate crooks, including Alan Bond.

Play The Mighty Challenge, Wednesday September edition to see if you have the answer!

Former banker and financial commentator Satyajit Das spoke to ABC Business Daily about the potential for another major global financial crisis — a 'Bondmageddon'. Has the world become too dependent on cheap money, and will the AI boom become another fault line in the financial system?

There's a growing industry of politicians from all persuasions and levels of achievement to write books and give retrospective interviews in order to shape how history will regard them. Is it a noble urge, to ensure history's record is true, or is it fear that if their account isn't recorded and published, then critical views about their political lives and careers will become their legacy?

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has defended his undeclared honorary membership of a golf club that promised a taxpayer funded grant, claiming he wasn't aware of it. Liberal frontbencher and former SAS veteran, Andrew Hastie has called Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce "lying cowards", demanding they remove a One Nation cartoon that portrayed him as a traitor.

Play The Mighty Challenge, Tuesday September 8 edition to see if you have the answer!

Nick Bruining, independent financial adviser, joins Nightlife regularly to talk about the ever-changing world of business and finance and what these changes mean.

One Nation is defending Warren Pickering, a candidate in the upcoming Victorian state election, after admitting to a history of drug uses when he was younger, following printed allegations in The Australian, from his former partner of nearly two decades.

Nightlife looks at the life of Benjamin, the last known Tasmanian Tiger who died in captivity this week in 1936, marking the extinction of this beautiful animal.

The UK has just taken its first step into the Robotaxi era, with Wayve's self-driving cars now available to book through the Uber app; but there'll still be a licensed human driver in the front to take over if needed.

Nightlife takes a deeper perspective than just the news on what is happening in America with Philip Clark joined by Bill Wyman, former assistant managing editor of National Public Radio in Washington, and columnist for SMH and the AGE.

Play The Mighty Challenge, Monday September 7 edition to see if you have the answer!

One Nation is promising to give Australians the choice to use some of their superannuation to pay their mortgage or rent. People would be able to carve off a quarter of the compulsory 12 per cent super contributions and redirect that towards their mortgage or rental costs for three years.

From supplements and blood tests to wearable technology and DNA testing, there's never been more choice — or more claims about how we can live longer. But with so much information, conflicting advice and products competing for our attention and our money, how do we know what actually works?

At more than 122 kilometres long, K'gari formerly known as Fraser Island is the world's largest sand island and a World Heritage-listed site, with endless beaches, crystal-clear lakes, ancient rainforest and plenty of wildlife. How do you make the most of a visit to K'gari?

Scientists searching deep underground in South Dakota have detected a mysterious particle interaction that could potentially be a sign of dark matter — the invisible substance thought to make up much of the universe.

Join the host of Weekend Nightlife Suzanne Hill for The History Quiz, Sunday 6th of September, Pop Culture edition, to find out if you have the answer correct!

Geopolitics with Dr Ben Zala.

When you're on the road and you roll into a new town, do you look for that yellow and blue logo and pop in to grab a map and chat to a local?

The furthest man-made object from Earth: the extraordinary voyage of Voyager 1.

The Church frontman says he's fought with band members over whether a song with 'stupid lyrics' can be redeemed

Join the host of Weekend Nightlife Suzanne Hill for The Pop Quiz, Saturday September 5th edition, to find out if you have the answer correct!

The live music venue had an extraordinary sprung dance floor using tyres stuffed with horse hair that gave the crowd a bounce as they danced.

Party historian Imogen Willetts traces the history of going out in her new book Up All Night.

We're taught the alphabet in school when we're young, but how much do you know about its history?

The fight against a leading cause of preventable blindness started with Fred Hollows in the 1970s. Five decades later, Australia has reached a remarkable milestone. So how did we get here?

Play The Mighty Challenge, Friday the 4th of September edition to see if you have the answer!

Dr Jill Colwell rode and walked her camel Tiki from Alice Springs to the Gold Coast in 1988.

Emeritus Professor Darryl Jones from Griffith University has spent decades researching our relationship with wild birds and joined Philip Clark with advice for listeners to Nightlife.

Philip Clark and listeners to Nightlife are joined by Matthew Doran, ABC's Middle East Correspondent, to unpack developing stories from the region.

Nightlife News Breakdown with Philip Clark, joined by Ellen Ransley, the Courier Mail’s federal politics reporter, based in the Canberra press gallery.

Prize-winning writer Richard Flanagan has released a dazzling collection of writing, essays, articles and speeches, from a range of topics close to the author’s heart.

Play The Mighty Challenge, Thursday September 3 edition to see if you have the answer!

Play The Mighty Challenge, Wednesday September 2 edition to see if you have the answer!

Gareth Hutchens, ABC Business and Economics reporter joined Philip Clark on Nightlife to discuss the latest in economic, business and finance news and his views on new trends.

Kings, warriors, poets, terrorists and peacemakers are all covered in The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East by Simon Sebag Montefiore, who joined Philip Clark.

Josh Niland  joined Philip Clark on Nightlife to discuss his much coveted 'three hat' ranking in the Good Food Guide as well as international accolades for his approach to cooking.

Nightlife News Breakdown with Philip Clark, joined by Amy Remeikis, chief political analyst for The Australia Institute and independent political commentator.

When a convoy of British ships assembled in the waters of Port Jackson in January 1788, a young boy from the Eora Nation watched from the shores. Seventeen years later, he was a resistance fighter, battling for Country west of Sydney.

Critic of screens large and small, Bruce Isaacs joins Philip Clark and listeners to Nightlife with reviews of the latest flicks to watch.

Australian fashion and apparel is worth up to $50 billion a year as an industry and supports hundreds of thousands of jobs. But cheap imports from online giants are reshaping consumer habits.

Nightlife News Breakdown with Philip Clark, joined by Krishani Dhanji, political reporter and live blogger for Guardian Australia, based in Canberra.

Play The Mighty Challenge, Tuesday September 1 edition to see if you have the answer!

Play The Mighty Challenge, Monday August 31 edition to see if you have the answer!

Cognitive decline is a concern for us as we age and we're keen to find out what might work to counter it, even prevent it. Are we thinking about brain aging the wrong way?

Philip Clark and listeners to Nightlife are joined by Jessica Lockhart, Lonely Planet's Oceania Destination Editor with a few suggestions and great tips for travellers.

Associate Professor Charley Lineweaver, Astrophysicist at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, joined Philip Clark on Nightlife to discuss the latest in science and space.