Rewind on RTRFM – 10 September 2021

This week, Rewind kicked off with a robust chat between Nobel Laureate and policymaker Dr. Bill Hare and On the Record’s Fiona Bartholomaeus. Dr. Hare is the CEO of think tank Climate Analytics, and so he shares some cutting-edge strategies for responding to the current crisis.

Journalist, provocateur, and friend of Fr. Bob John Safran spoke to Jesse Begley about his new book, Puff Piece. He investigated the bewildering world of Big Tobacco through Philip Morris’s counterintuitive “solution” to smoking – a “heat stick” that is effectively the same thing as a cigarette.

Finally, political journalist turned agricultural expert Gabrielle Chan told Jeff Bullen why we should give a blank about farming. Her new book explains why we suddenly saw food shortages during the first months of the coronavirus panic, and how policymakers need to step up if we’re going to keep food on the supermarket shelves.