If You're Listening
If You're Listening is a TV show on ABC News. The program has been available since 2023. A total of 35 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in July 2024.
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The world is on fire. Inflation is through the roof, and AI is taking our jobs. What does it all mean? Matt Bevan explains the biggest story in world news while hiding in his basement from assassins and authoritarian regimes.
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43:00When a 20 year old gunman shot at Donald Trump, the American public was ready with conspiracy theories explaining how and why he did it. They're primed to believe their government is keeping secrets from them - because it is.
16:00Some people don't like wind farms. They say they're bad for wildlife, they affect property values and create pollution. But are any of these claims true? How the wind farm debate nearly tore the King Island community apart.
17:00Former Australian Of The Year Rosie Batty has compared domestic violence to terrorism, and called for similar levels of funding. Is that comparison extreme, or is it the best way to get us closer to fixing the problem?
15:00Nearly fifty years ago, the 1976 Montreal Olympics suffered a financial disaster so massive it nearly heralded the end of the Olympic Games. Is Brisbane repeating the mistakes of the past?
22:00The UK Labour Party won the 2024 General Election in a landslide. So what took the Labour Party so long to get elected? How Labour went to war with itself - over policy, factions, personalities, Brexit, and anti-Semitism.
19:00The final years of the Tory government were a chaotic mix of changing leaders and desperate policies. By all measures the UK is worse off. One of the Conservatives' last policies: Immigration - a plan to fly people to Rwanda.
17:00The NHS has been called "the closest thing the English people have to a religion". So how was Britain's National Health Service left to fall into disrepair, on the edge of collapse, right as a catastrophic pandemic hit?
20:00British PM David Cameron took a colossal gamble when he held a referendum on whether Britain should leave the European Union. He was sure Remain would win instead it led to Brexit and years of chaos, division and uncertainty.
17:00The first in a four-part series Who Broke Britain, about the past 14 years of Conservative Party leadership. When the Tories won the UK Election in 2010, they took a butcher's knife to the budget - in the name of austerity.
15:00Fake photos are everywhere, and there's a long history of people doctoring them, from photocopying to photoshopping and straight up AI. But is there a time coming where we won't be able to tell the fakes from the real thing?
17:00The President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash in bad weather. Raisi was a phenomenally important figure in Middle Eastern politics - not just Iran's President, but the likely next Supreme Leader of Iran.
14:00Michael Cohen is the star witness in the Trump hush-money trial. He was once Trump's personal attorney and said he would "take a bullet" for his boss - but then everything changed.
13:0030 years ago, property in Tokyo was the most expensive in the world. Now home ownership is comparatively affordable with plenty of available stock. How was this massive turnaround achieved and what can we learn from Japan?
15:00Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust. He is doing everything he can to stay in office, because if he holds office, he can't be thrown in jail. Sound familiar?
15:00Iran and Israel are caught in a cycle of revenge. They retaliate in a way to appease an angry population and deter more attacks without escalating to all-out war. The response may change the trajectory of the Middle East.
14:00An unprecedented leak of data from Chinese company i-Soon has cracked open the black box, revealing the secrets of China's cyber espionage operations.
16:00How Ayatollah Khomeini changed the course of Middle Eastern history, and how his ideas are still affecting us today.
16:00The Duterte and Marcos families are the Montagues and Capulets of the Philippines. They have tussled for power for nearly 60 years, but now there are talks of secession splitting the country in two.
15:00Donald Trump was ordered to pay a $463.9 million fine for lying to banks about how rich he is. He faces at least five other cases that could cost him millions more. Can he make it to election day without running out of money?