Bruce Beresford has selected “On Seeing an Old Poet in the Café Royal” by John Betjeman, and “All the Happiness Ahead” by Michael Cullup. The reader is Lionel Farrell.

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What are the Great Books of Liberty? How did A Clockwork Orange get in there? Join the online discussion.

Two sonnets selected by Andrew Bolt and read by Lionel Farrell.

Poems written and read by Melbourne poet Jordie Albiston.

Jon Faine: “Tony Abbott has a history of being late. In fact, it’s got him into trouble during election campaigns, it’s got him into trouble in various ways. He manages to be on time for a triathlon. He’s now 15 minutes late for his appointment here.”

Clive James: “Some day soon, perhaps, a jet will take him to Stockholm. Only occasionally changing its personnel and never changing its dark suits, the Nobel Prize committee has seldom been a good judge of poetry, but once in a blue moon they get it right, and Murray’s world currency is hard to miss.”

AUDIO: Babette Smith has chosen two favourite poems - “A Bush Christening” and “The Birthstain”. The reader is Lionel Farrell.

Kevin Donnelly: “The ex-communist and historian, Stuart Macintyre, strongly defends his new creation as balanced and impartial and argues that critics have failed to analyse the history curriculum in any detailed way.”