Talks and interviews spanning current affairs, politics, society, culture, and music. From the offbeat to the upbeat. The local to the global. Taking stock of where we are, where we've been, and where we're going.
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Future Perfect is hosted by RRR - Triple R. The show has published 34 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Waleed Aly on how liberalism is failing and the new politics rising in its place" (20 October 2026, 34 minutes), "George Megalogenis on who Australia is becoming and why it matters for our politics" (28 August 2026, 49 minutes), and "Kae Tempest on words, music, and feeling in touch with the world" (31 May 2026, 25 minutes).
Future Perfect publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 60 minutes across 34 episodes.
Booking probability for Future Perfect is 21%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Future Perfect requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Future Perfect's contact route on record: verified email.
RRR - Triple R hosts Future Perfect, a society show with 34 episodes published.
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Episode #43
Waleed Aly is one of Australia’s sharpest public intellectuals. He has a particular skill in probing the bigger questions that lie beneath our politics and culture, and his new Quarterly Essay is no exception. It’s...
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Episode #42
Journalist, author and long-time Triple R subscriber George Megalogenis joins host Dylan Bird to discuss his new book Three Shocks: Who We Are Becoming In The 21st Century . It looks at the transformative shifts that...
Episode #41
Kae Tempest is a person of deep feeling, with a rare ability to channel life's beauty, pain, and mysteries into moving works of art. From his roots as an MC and spoken word artist on the London scene, he rose to...
Episode #40
In late 2023, Antoinette Lattouf had a five day contract to host the mornings program on ABC radio Sydney. It’d normally be a light and breezy week of broadcasting in the pre-Christmas wind down. Instead, it became the...
Episode #39
Francesca Albanese is a human rights expert, legal scholar, and one of the world's most significant voices on Palestinian struggle. As the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, she...
Episode #38
Louis Theroux's new Netflix documentary Inside the Manosphere has refocused public attention on how toxic masculinity is incubated online. But what whappens when these often violent, sexist attitudes towards women and...
Episode #37
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers across the world, has grown to become one of the most visited sites on the internet. Dylan Bird is joined by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to...
Episode #36
Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and former Greek finance minister. He’s also a best-selling author of titles including Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism , Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism...
Episode #35
<p>Although the podcast format of Future Perfect has now wrapped, this show continues to be broadcast on Triple R. You can now listen to new episodes on Triple R’s FM On Demand service at...
Episode #34
<p>On this year’s final episode of Future Perfect, Dylan is joined by David Manne, Executive Director of Refugee Legal, to explore the federal government's new suite of measures cracking down on refugees and asylum...
Episode #33
<p>Content warning: this episode contains discussion of gendered violence. If you find any of this distressing, you can seek support via 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732.</p><p>Dylan is joined by Dr Stephanie Wescott...
Episode #32
<p>Dylan is joined by Jeff Sparrow to walk us through what Donald Trump’s election win could mean for politics in Australia. (1:02)</p><p>Psychologist, author and educator Dr Chris Cheers chats all things loneliness...
Episode #31
<p>Dylan is joined by Cam Walker, campaigns coordinator at Friends of the Earth, to unpack what the re-election of Donald Trump could mean for global climate and environmental policy amid the annual United Nations...
Episode #30
<p>Dylan is joined by Dave Nichols, Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne, to dive into the history of The Age after the newspaper marked 170 years of publication, and pay tribute to Melbourne...
Episode #29
<p>Dylan is joined by Benita Kolovos, Victorian state correspondent for Guardian Australia, to bring us up to date on what’s going on in the race for Melbourne’s next Lord Mayor ahead of the Melbourne City Council...
Episode #28
<p>Dylan is joined by Paul Strangio, Emeritus Professor of Politics at Monash University, to discuss Anthony Albanese’s Prime Ministership and the key issues ahead of early next year’s election. (0:57)</p><p>Writer...
Episode #27
<p>Dylan is joined by Cam Walker, campaigns coordinator at Friends of the Earth, to talk through the decommissioning of aging oil and gas infrastructure in the Bass Strait and ahead of a Victorian Parliamentary inquiry...
Episode #26
<p>Dylan is joined by American author and political analyst Thomas Frank to break down what we can expect in the lead-up to the US election, and what he experienced attending the Democratic and Republican National...
Episode #25
<p>Guest host Ben Harrington is joined by Dr Karinna Saxby, Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, to make sense of the recent controversy around the federal government’s original move not to include questions...
Episode #24
<p>Content warning: this episode contains discussion of sexual assault and violence. If you find any of this distressing, you can seek support via 1800 RESPECT on 1800 737 732 and the Men’s Referral Service on 1300 766...
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journalist, political and social commentator
Lecturer in the School of Education, Culture and Society at Monash University, Monash University
Professor of Information Sciences and Director of Social Change, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Director of Sales – North America, Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne
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