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A podcast before the end.Last Of The Line is where a group of middle-aged friends meander through topics they don’t fully understand — mostly so our kids have something to remember us by when we inevitably die.We’re part of the last generation to grow up before the internet, standing at the edge of the analogue world as the AI tide rolls in. Before it washes us away completely, we’ve got a few things left to say.

A late-night visit to his Shanghai laneway house by China’s notorious secret police triggered a diplomatic storm which abruptly ended Michael Smith’s stint as one of Australia’s last foreign correspondents in China. After five days under consular protection, Smith was evacuated from a very different China to the country he first visited 25 years earlier.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY* An urgently important exploration of the human stories behind Canada's evolving acceptance of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), from one of its first and most thoughtful practitioners. Dr. Jean...

In this brilliant and profoundly moving collection of "farewell letters" written by servicemen and women to their loved ones, Siân Price offers a remarkable insight into the hearts and minds of some of the soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the past 300 years.