The actor confirms filing a cybercrime complaint and says jealous elements are trying to derail his momentum with fabricated claims.

With special guest: * Sean Turnell … in conversation with Bill Kable It is a special welcome to our guest today Sean Turnell. Sean survived for 650 days in Insein prison under the orders of the military Junta of Myanmar. In Sean’s new book An Unlikely Prisoner we hear how this unarmed University Professor who weighs 50kg wringing wet became a dangerous prisoner to a foreign government needing armed escorts wherever he went. We hear from Sean that he was summarily arrested in his hotel before being confined to a small cell he shared with an enormous rat. Nothing could prepare a person for this ordeal and Sean did not see it coming. Yet as you will hear in this interview Sean maintained his faith in humanity, his sense of humour and mostly his health. Perhaps the worst aspect was the uncertainty. Sean first thought that he would not be a priority for the authorities, that he would be fairly swiftly deported. It seemed that detention for a month would be the likely horrible outcome. But as the months went by there seemed to be no progress. Was he ever going to be released? Podcast (mp3)

Justicia Shipena  Former environment and tourism minister Pohamba Shifeta is demanding a police investigation into how details of a rape allegation against him were leaked to the media before he was contacted by investigators. Shifeta’s lawyer, Sisa Namandje, said in a letter to inspector general Joseph Shikongo that the leak violated his client’s rights.  He said it exposed Shifeta to public scrutiny over what he described as a false and malicious allegation. “Our client was published on what is clearly a false allegation of rape without being accorded an opportunity to explain,” Namandje wrote. He further called on the police to investigate the complainant in the rape case for allegedly abusing police resources by opening a false criminal case as an act of revenge. The letter states that the complaint was filed for the rape complaint on 15 July 2025, months after the alleged incident and just days after Shifeta was granted an interim protection order against her.  Shifeta had approached the Domestic Violence Court on 8 July, citing ongoing harassment by Mengela, who is the mother of his daughter. According to the letter, Shifeta’s wife, Sylvia Shekutumbwile Shifeta, also reported threats from the complainant at her workplace on June 19, 2025.  On 14 June, the complaint and another woman allegedly appeared uninvited at the couple’s home, which they say was another act of harassment.  The letter indicated that the Domestic Violence Court received and recorded the incidents.. Following these events, Shifeta’s wife, through her legal team at Viljoen, Viljoen & Vennote, issued a warning letter to the complainant on 21 June, instructing her to stop the harassment. Namandje argues that the rape charge, filed after these developments, is “motivated by spite and vengeance” and that the police would have seen the lack of merit had they contacted Shifeta.

The former Sinn Féin leader sought damages over a story in which an anonymous contributor alleged he sanctioned the murder of Denis Donaldson.

With special guest: * Alex Miller … in conversation with Bill Kable Those who fought against the Nazis in World War II were necessarily shadowy figures. It was a matter of survival. For Max Blatt who lived the latter half of his life in Australia those shadows stayed with him until the day he died. Even 20 years after his death those shadows and mysteries still shrouded his life story. But our guest today the award winning writer Alex Miller was not content to leave the story in the black hole of Nazi atrocities. For Alex and all of us these stories need to be explored and revealed if the community as a whole is to get over being so damaged by events in the not so distant past. Despite the sadness and tragedy in Max’s family this story becomes one of survival, friendship, mentoring and most of all love. Podcast (mp3)

With special guest: * Prof Frank Furedi … in conversation with Bill Kable Frank Furedi says that fear is the principal motivating force in the 21st Century. We see fear being used by all sides in politics; we see it in the family dynamic; we see it in the young with their fear of missing out (or FOMO). And yet at the same time we do not call it out because to some degree we have been sensitised to its operation. Once an expert like our guest today points out the use of fear we can see it everywhere and if it is not going to take over our lives completely we need to take some time-honoured steps to counter its influence. As Frank Furedi tells us, fear can be distinguished from anxiety which is also a major problem in the Western world with so much of the population in the grip of anxiety and depression. Podcast (mp3)

Frank Trojan testifies against false allegations and advocates for legislative changes in child abuse reporting.