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and all things

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." It was hosted by

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and Catholic priest,

Bob Maguire Robert John Maguire (14 September 1934 – 19 April 2023), also known as Robert John Thomas Maguire and commonly known as Father Bob, was an Australian Roman Catholic priest, community worker and media personality. From 1973 to 2012, Maguire w ...

. It ran from 2005 to 2015.Sunday Night Safran was the best kind of journalism 1 December 2015
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'' Retrieved 17 May 2016 During the program's run, Safran and Fr Maguire were able to get interviews from people such as: *religious scholar

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* Julian Assange's mother Christine *

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star

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*Pulitzer Prize winning journalist

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*philosopher and

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founder

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*retired prison doctor and psychiatrist

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*longest-serving Australian Foreign Minister

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*West Memphis Three

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* detained Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste *antitheist

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*Dame Edna *

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*conspiracy theorist

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*television evangelist and exorcist

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*Serbian political activist

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*former white supremacist skinhead Frank Meeink *pro-euthanasia doctor

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director

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*journalist and writer

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*true crime writer and

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co-worker

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*Australian Race Discrimination Commissioner

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*the Lizardman

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*African-American pro-Israel political activist and Zionist

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*Jewish activist against child sexual abuse

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*psychic Lisa Williams *American parodist

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