Late Night Live — Full program podcast
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Late Night Live — Full program podcast
Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr.
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LNL Summer: Trans poet and comedian Alok Vaid-Menon on being banned by Trump
One of US President Donald Trump's first executive orders was to declare there are only two genders and to ban transgender women from participating in...
LNL Summer: The Aussies the union movement left behind, and what causes a society to collapse?
A new history of the union movement in Australia looks at those often left out of the picture: migrants, women, Indigenous Australians and LGBTQIA+ pe...
LNL Summer: Reckoning with the West, and radio propaganda wars in the Middle East
Journalist Omar El Akkad examines what he sees as the moral contradictions of the West in the face of the Gaza war. And historian Margaret Peacock tra...
LNL Summer: How Australia bought Pollock's 'Blue Poles', plus when America went hair crazy
Political reporter Tom McIlroy tells the story of Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles - the vast paint-splattered canvas, controversially acquired by the Whi...
Geoffrey Robertson on war crimes impunity, plus how bush medicine saved Allied soldiers in WWII
Renowned human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson KC says the killing of two people who survived a US strike on a speed boat off the coast of Venezuela...
Bruce Shapiro and Ian Dunt dissect a wild year in US and UK politics
Late Night Live regulars Bruce Shapiro (USA) and Ian Dunt (UK) reflect on a turbulent, torrid and at times bizarre year in politics on both sides of t...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, Indian Maoists surrender and neglected pools
Anna Henderson looks at the government's control of defence budgets and the blossoming relationship between Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce. In India...
Who was the oldest prisoner in history? Plus the breathtaking Birrundudu drawings revealed
Author and journalist Gideon Haigh uncovers the intriguing tale of Australian man William Richard Wallace - the oldest prisoner in recorded history. W...
What happened to Nauru's riches? Transgender troops fight Trump and antique prosthetics
Nauru briefly had one of the highest per-capita incomes on earth, thanks to phosphate mining - so where did all the money go? Transgender troops kicke...
Anna Henderson's Canberra plus Netanyahu's political survival
Pauline Hanson's burka stunt stymies the Senate while the Labor government is deep in negotiations with the Greens and the Coalition to get changes to...
Simon Winchester on wind: the invisble force that we can't live without
The acclaimed writer Simon Winchester turns his eye to the wind - the invisible force with the power to sustain, relieve, inspire, irritate and destro...
Bruce Shapiro's USA, climate and slavery justice for Jamaica and feral foxes
Bruce Shapiro looks at why Donald Trump has finally agreed to release the Epstein files. After being devastated by yet another hurricane, Jamaica is s...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, inside Myanmar's civil war, and traffic jams in space
After the Liberal Party joined the Nationals in ditching net zero, what is the fate of remaining Liberal Party moderates in city seats? A new document...
Gareth Evans: Australia should do more on nuclear control plus Joseph Stiglitz on income inequality
As Russia and the US both threaten resume nuclear testing and China has tripled its stock of nuclear arms, former foreign minister Gareth Evans says A...
Ian Dunt's UK, police brutality in Brazil, and Australia's earliest computer
What caused the latest drama at the BBC, and what does it say about the state of British media? Ian Dunt explains. As Brazil tries to present its best...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, Sudan's genocidal gold rush and the missing dismissal footage mystery
The Liberal Party looks likely to drop their net zero policy this week, but what will that do for their base? At the heart of the genocide in Sudan is...
Do modern Liberals still back Whitlam's dismissal? Plus, the courageous life of 'Weary' Dunlop
50 years since the Governor-General sacked sitting Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, do modern Liberal MPs still back the Dismissal? Plus, Peter Fitzsimon...
Bruce Shapiro on Mamdani's victory, Trump's obsession with grand buildings, plus an author's win over AI
New Yorkers have shaken the United States's political establishment and delivered 34-year-old socialist Zohran Mamdani a thumping victory in the city'...
The legacy of U Thant plus what Australia's earliest photographs can tell us
U Thant went from being a Buddhist teacher to playing a pivotal role in resolving some of the most dangerous international crises of his time as UN Se...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, banning kids from social media and cracking the Kryptos code
Anna Henderson looks at the political implications for both the Nationals and the Liberals of the Nats' decision to abandon its net zero policy. Can b...
Francesca Albanese: Australia complicit in the Gaza genocide, plus how our polticians got hooked on gambling money
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese says that rather than ensuring Israel respects the basic human rights and self-determination of the Palestini...
The power of Patrick White plus why we should forgive
A new book looks at author Patrick White's startling use of language, his mythic depiction of the Australian landscape and the people who inhabit it,...
Ian Dunt's UK, how Chicago is resisting ICE, and Australian anthropology turns 100
What does Ian Dunt think of the King's attempt to eject Prince Andrew from his royal lodgings? Then, in America, Chicagoans have been organising again...
Anna Henderson's Canberra; global surveillance network exposed, and can AI speak whale?
Anna Henderson looks at what changes the government is trying to make to environment protection laws and why the Coalition wants to split the bill. Ho...
The political drama before the Dismissal, and communing with Stalin's ghost
Today, we look backwards. Gough Whitlam's dismissal didn't come out of nowhere; 1974 and 1975 were years of intense political turmoil and scandal. Pau...
Looted bronzes returning to Africa, plus love in antiquity
The famous Benin bronzes, looted by the British in 1897, are gradually being returned home to Nigeria. But they won't be on display at Benin City's ne...
Bruce Shapiro's USA, Suriname's first female president, and a world without sand?
Bruce Shapiro looks at Anthony Albanese's first meeting with US President Donald Trump and whether the critical minerals deal will see Australia becom...
Bernard Keane's Canberra, Chris Hedges slams Western media's coverage of Gaza, and Fiona Stanley's cancelled hospital event
Crikey's Bernard Keane on Barnaby Joyce's decision to quit the Nationals. There's speculation the New England MP may join the One Nation party. Pulitz...
Australia's foreign policy in the age of Trump, plus Ilan Pappe on Israel's future
Historian and former intelligence officer Clinton Fernandes says there's method to the apparent madness of the second Trump administration's approach...
Ian Dunt's UK, trouble in Madagascar, and women in the skies
Ian Dunt examines the role that the UK played in the Gaza ceasefire, and Keir Starmer crosses a personal Rubicon: he's criticising Brexit in public. I...
Tom McIlroy's Canberra, the wonder of clouds, and who speaks Esperanto?
Political editor at Guardian Australia, Tom Mcllroy, on why the government has watered down its superannuation tax plan, the wonders of cloud-watching...
Questions of consent: Inside the Gisele Pelicot trial plus shadeless landscapes
One of the 51 men convicted men of raping French woman Gisele Pelicot is appealing his conviction, arguing he didn’t know that she hadn’t given her co...
Could sanctions on Iran backfire? Plus the Australian father of the bomb
After attacks from Israel and the United States bombing of a nuclear facility, Iran is cracking down on dissent, while dealing with reimposed sanction...
Bruce Shapiro's USA, Irris Makler on October 7, and New Zealand's crusade on feral predators
Bruce Shapiro discusses how long the U.S. government shutdown might last, and why ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents are causing tu...
Does our world lack moral ambition? And the Victorian obsession with orchids
The Dutch historian Rutger Bregman is calling on the world's best and brightest to quit their corporate jobs and show some more 'moral ambition', to b...
Doc Evatt and the making of Israel, plus the twisted history of rope
Doc Evatt, an influential Australian politician and jurist, played a notable role in shaping Israel’s early international standing. As President of th...
How Malka Leifer was brought to justice, plus when America went mad for Mars
A new documentary recounts the 15-year struggle of three sisters from Melbourne's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community to bring their abuser and former-hea...
Ian Dunt's UK, the right to sing in Afghanistan, and how salmon got to Tasmania
UK columnist Ian Dunt surveys the strange world of political party conferences in the UK, plus the emerging role of former PM Tony Blair in plans for...
Mark Kenny's Canberra, ASIC and Stablecoin, and the threads of empire
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has wrapped up his three-day visit to the UK, including an appearance at the UK Labour Party conference. He's told the...
When 29 nations defied the world's superpowers, plus the pioneering SA cop Kate Cocks
It's been 70 years since 29 nations of Africa and Asia gathered in Bandung Indonesia in 1955 to forge a path beyond Empire, and lay the foundations fo...