Booking Overview
Metrics
Episodes: 195
Frequency: Biweekly
Rating: 4.3/5.0
Estimated listeners: <1k
Gender skew: Male
Location: Australia
YouTube: 11.8k subscribers
Instagram: 1.4k followers
Contact Information
Publicly listed emails
the.cove@defence.gov.au
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Host
John Hardgrave - Host of The Cove Podcast, leading conversations about Australian Army leadership, military culture, modern warfare, soldier identity, and human performance.
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Recent Guest Discussions
Craig Foreman - The Recovery And Identification Of Missing Soldiers; The Search For Corporal William Murphy In Korea; Investigative Operations.
Aaron Pegram - Locating, Recovering, And Identifying Missing Australian Soldiers; The Search For Corporal William Murphy; Historical And Forensic Investigation.
Jonathan Lane - Military Identity, Culture, Mental Health, Veteran Transition, Peer-led Recovery, And The Relationship Between Shared Experience And Clinical Care.
Chris Smith - Army Adaptation To Modern Warfare; Positional Warfare, Drones, Reconnaissance-strike Systems, Contested Movement, Sustainment, And Land Power.
Jonathan Lane - Leadership, High-performance Environments, Military And Sporting Culture, Wellbeing, Identity, And Transition From Structured Service Or Sport.
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Episodes
The Drone-Enabled Battlefield: Army’s RAS Revolution with CAPT Andy Dunn-Lobban, Remote and Autonomous Systems Cell
September 20, 2026
Captain Andrew Dunn-Lobban from the Land Combat College’s Remote and Autonomous Systems Cell joins The Cove to explore how drones and robotic systems are changing land warfare. Drawing on lessons from Ukraine and Army’s own experimentation, we discuss the emerging Drone Combat System, new training pathways, how drone teams may operate across the force, and what soldiers and junior commanders need to understand about fighting in an increasingly RAS-enabled battlespace.
From Oxford to the Australian Army: Rethinking Officer Recruitment with LT Oliver Douglas
September 06, 2026
Lieutenant Oliver Douglas talks with John Hardgrave on The Cove Podcast to discuss his experience serving with the Oxford University Officers’ Training Corps while studying as a Rhodes Scholar. Drawing on his time inside both the Australian and British Army systems, he explores the cultural differences between the two forces and explains how the British UOTC model gives young people a rapid, low-commitment introduction to military service. The episode considers whether a similar approach...
Bringing Them Home: The Search for Australia’s Missing Soldiers with Dr Aaron Pegram and Maj Craig Foreman
August 23, 2026
In this episode of The Cove Podcast, John Hardgrave talks with Dr Aaron Pegram and Major Craig Foreman from Unrecovered War Casualties – Army explain the painstaking work involved in locating, recovering and identifying Australia’s missing service personnel. They discuss the historical research, forensic science and investigative expertise behind each case, before taking listeners inside the recent search in Korea for Corporal William Murphy, who has remained missing since the Battle of ...
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