Waleed Aly

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1,043 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 18 Jun

Waleed Aly’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty · S4 EP17: Waleed Aly · 25 Apr 2026 podcast

One is often topical and then the other one, sometimes we do something that's a bit timeless, a bit like a book club.

And I totally forgotten that this week we are doing a show that is dedicated to Dr. Faustus.

the play, the 16th century Marlowe play from which everyone knows the basic story, you know, so your soul to the devil, et cetera, the Faustian pact, all that.

And I realized I've not thought about this or prepared for it.

And so I come across it in my email by accident and I go, I better start reading this play.

All I'm going to say is if you're going to find a flight to do it, it better be a flight from Canberra.

Canberra to Melbourne is the flight for that.

But I'm trying to read a play written in 16th century English and that's how I'm spending my flight.

That would have been amazing because the opening scene, which is the only scene I got through because it was hard going, has him in his study alone and then it has the good angel and the evil angel talking to him.

And I would have loved to have seen him act out both those angels.

And if you're in seat 1A, that's the kind of thing you can ask the cabin crew to do.

Yeah.

Dr. Faustus is deeper in their repertoire, but yes.

I haven't seen Sinners, but that makes perfect sense because it is such a deeply embedded trope in Western culture.

For some reason, this thing has survived, this idea.

But we'll talk about this on The Minefield on ABC Radio National.

I've read Scene One.

Scene One.

Okay.

Would you like me to do a reading now?

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