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As climate change worsens and natural disasters become more frequent, can we keep relying on private insurance to bail us out? If not, how big is the role of government, at various levels, compared to individual householders?

Renowned Australian author Helen Garner steps back in time to the mid-90s in the latest instalment of her personal diaries. Biologist and writer Merlin Sheldrake goes on a literally mind-bending journey into the magical world of fungi. And listener Bill Boyd shares his true confession.

Biochemist and mathematician Jessie Inchauspe argues that managing our intake of glucose, and the sequence in which we eat food containing it, can have a massive influence on our health and how we feel day to day. And we tackle a book club dilemma in the Too Hard Basket.