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Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast
Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr. This LNL podcast contains the stories in separate episodes. Subscribe to the full podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
Episodes
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The hidden meanings in wine labels
For a long time walking into a bottle shop to buy wine felt like walking into an exclusive club. Wine labels were printed on thick, expensive paper; their…
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: Hanson offends again, migration debate heats up
The fall out from One Nation's cartoon suggesting Liberal MP Andrew Hastie was a traitor continues, and David Marr asks Anna Henderson why the major parties…
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The secret dinners behind Cold War journalism
Before 24-hour news, Washington’s most powerful journalists got their scoops over dinner — with generals, senators and senior officials. These invitation-only…
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How Big Tobacco still wields influence in Australia
As Australia grapples with a surging illicit tobacco trade, the Coalition and One Nation have called for a substantial cut to Australia's tax on legal tobacco…
Late Night Live - Separate stories podcastRivers are Europe's lifeblood. Now they're dying
Europe is a land of legendary rivers. For centuries, they've fed cities, transported great armies and powered modern industry. But this summer, after a series…
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How can you trust news generated by AI?
Since AI started being used by journalists in newsrooms around the world, there have been a number of high-profile publications that have made some rather…
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Why America wants its Greenland airbase back
During the Cold War, the US had 17 military bases across Greenland. Most were eventually abandoned, but now Washington wants to get its hands back on one…
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Stop the chop: the fight for Adelaide's parklands
Nearly a thousand trees are being cut down in Adelaide's heritage listed parklands to make way for a re-developed golf course and the MotoGP motorcycle race. A…
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Bruce Shapiro's USA: Gloria Steinem's legacy plus 25 years since 9/11
Bruce Shapiro reflects on the life of American feminist icon Gloria Steinem, and how many of the things she fought for are now under attack. As the 25th…
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Giorgia Meloni's four years in power
Four years on, Giorgia Meloni has done what few Italian leaders manage: stay in power. But has her right-wing revolution really materialised — and how secure…
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Humboldt - the philosopher who started the ecology movement
The idea that everything in nature is interconnected comes largely from the German philosopher, geographer, naturalist and explorer, Alexander von Humboldt…
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: Falling house prices
Anna Henderson discusses the political impact on the government of falling house prices, whether One Nation's superannuation policy is a vote winner and the…
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Unearthing a dark past - the campsites of Queensland's Native Mounted Police
For 80 years (1848-1928), the Queensland Native Mounted Police operated as a paramilitary force on Australia's frontier, with Aboriginal troopers under white…
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Why we're not all eating lab-grown meat
The quest to create enjoyable, successful lab-grown meat has been pursued over the past decade or two, by entrepreneurs around the globe who can see the…
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'Dynamite Doug' - the man who looted Cambodia's treasures
Amidst the chaos of the Khmer Rouge genocide and Cambodia’s civil war, a new crime wave emerged. Sacred temples across Cambodia were looted by smugglers and…
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The real-life horrors of corporate crimes
Rogue corporations commit terrible harms. They kill, addict and ruin on a huge scale - and often get away with it. A new book 'Corporate harms: a horror story'…
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Lesbia Harford: Australia’s anti-war, socialist poet
Lesbia Harford was one of the first women to graduate as a lawyer from Melbourne University in the First World War, but followed her socialist ideals by…
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Ian Dunt's UK: the great Tory reshuffle
A bloody reshuffle for Britain’s Conservatives — is Kemi Badenoch taking the party further to the right? Andy Burnham faces his first week back in parliament…
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Our reliance on GPS makes us vulnerable
We all carry GPS technology around in our pockets. But there’s a lot more to the 'Global Positioning System' than meets the eye. GPS was originally conceived…
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Why is Canada still battling separatist movements?
In October, the citizens of Alberta will vote in a referendum to decide whether the province should proceed with a process to separate from the federation of…
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: One Nation's WA win
Anna Henderson discusses One Nation's historic win in Western Australia, securing its first lower house seat in the state for candidate Luke Herdegen., and…
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Alice's dreaming - a girl's extraordinary encounter with Indigenous life in the 1900s
Early last century, Alice Duncan-Kemp grew up on a remote Queensland cattle station. Later she would write down her childhood memories of learning from…
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Gerontocracy - how the dominance of the old is holding America back
The wealth and power of American elders was epitomised in the US 2024 election, with Joe Biden vs Donald Trump. But elder power spreads beyond political…
Late Night Live - Separate stories podcastSimon Sebag Montefiore on the making of the modern Middle East
Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore traces 125 years of war, revolution, upheaval and revival in the Middle East. From the final days of the Ottoman Empire to to…
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The camera in the colony: Australia's oldest surviving photographs
In May 1841, French sea captain Augustin Lucas arrived in Sydney with the first camera ever seen in colonial Australia. A new book offers a comprehensive study…
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Are Australian weapons being used in Sudan's civil war?
A UN Security Council report has found 'credible' evidence that weapons and ammunition are making their way from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) into Sudan…
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Bruce Shapiro's USA: has Trump betrayed American beef farmers?
Our regular commentator on US politics explains why American cattle producers have a beef with President Trump. Many of them Trump supporters, they feel…
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What's in the 'sound' of a name?
Parents generally choose the name of their child based on familial or cultural ties, or for the way a name looks in writing. But perhaps more important - in…
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Calls for Israeli ambassador to Australia to be sent home
Israel's Ambassador to Australia Hillel Newman has defended the IDF probe into the death of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom, which recently cleared…
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: One Nation gets confused on migration
One Nation's Barnaby Joyce and Pauline Hanson have been busy trying to correct what fellow One Nation MP David Farley said the party's immigration figures…
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Wyndham Native Hospital - apartheid in Australia
Until the mid-20th century the Wyndham Native Hospital, on the far north coast of Western Australia, was an apartheid institution where Indigenous men, women…
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John Cameron Mitchell on punk, cancel culture, and how to navigate a dystopian world
John Cameron Mitchell wrote and starred in punk musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch – the tale of a gender queer east German rock and roll singer. He’s now on a…
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Unmasking the Cambridge Five spies
The Cambridge Five have gone down in history as the most notorious spies of the 20th century. For seventeen years, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt…
Late Night Live - Separate stories podcastIs a classless society impossible?
Is true social equality an impossible dream? The German philosopher Dr Hanno Sauer argues that class hierarchy is a permanent feature of human societies. Old…
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Going out - a colourful history of nightlife
From Shogun era Japan to the techno bunkers of 90s Berlin, people across time and cultures have always looked to let loose at night. Guest: Imogen Willetts…
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KPMG's trouble and strife
An expert guide to the commercial sins that have put the big consultancy under the spotlight, after more information emerged in a parliamentary hearing last…
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Ian Dunt's UK: the death of Cambridge scholar Jason Arday
Ian Dunt examines the fallout from the death of Cambridge academic Jason Arday. And Nigel Farage’s Clacton by election victory - what does it say about his…
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How Gina Rinehart defends her public image
In recent weeks, the ABC has removed references to the Australian mining executive Gina Rinehart, following complaints. Guardian reporter Sarah Martin looks…
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Jordan's difficult position in US-Iran war
Jordan has been trying to maintain neutrality in the Middle East war, but with a pre-existing military agreement with the US, that is proving increasingly…
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: will Labor pass its NDIS reforms?
SBS political correspondent Anna Henderson surveys a busy week ahead in federal parliament, with the government eager to broker a deal to reform the National…
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Nocturnes - the magic of night music
The popularity of calming 'night' music to help people sleep is the latest iteration of compositions that reflect the coming of the night. It was composer John…
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Vale Kris Short
Late Night Live is sad to hear of the passing of Kris Short, who was one of LNL’s most enduring producers. She worked on the show between 1996-2015. Long…
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The secret way out: Inside the world of sovereign citizens
What if your mortgage was illegal, your taxes were voluntary and you could simply opt out of the law? Sovereign citizens believe they’ve discovered a hidden…
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James Baldwin: The loves that shaped a literary giant
James Baldwin’s writing was inseparable from the people he loved, mentored and collaborated with. A new biography explores the intimate relationships that…
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Agatha's Cantata - giving voice to a forgotten orphan composer
Born in 1712 without the fingers of her left hand, Agatha spent her life at the Venetian orphanage known as the Ospedale della Pietà. Her Cantata, ‘Ecce nunc‘…
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Marwan Barghouti to run for president of the Palestinian Authority, from prison
The last time a presidential election was held by the Palestinian Authority was in 2005, when Mahmoud Abbas was elected to a four-year term following Yasser…
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Bruce Shapiro's USA: Democrat divisions and Fauci on trial
A deep split is emerging inside the Democrats as yet another progressive populist wins in Michigan, while a more conservative group called The Third Way is…
Late Night Live - Separate stories podcastFrom hieroglyphs to hashtags: the hidden history of punctuation
Punctuation marks have crept into the spaces between our words over thousands of years. But we rarely reflect on why they look the way they do or how they even…
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What’s behind Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan forming a new defence pact?
Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan have just signed a new NATO-like defence pact. The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement commits each country to respond in the…
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: bipartisanship on gambling reforms?
Are the PM and the Opposition Leader on the verge of agreeing on gambling reform? Plus where Labor is heading on the issue of immigration. And the meanings of…
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Blackbirding: the Australian slavery that nobody stopped
Decades after Britain abolished slavery in its colonies, an industry built on indentured labour from the Pacific quietly grew in Queensland. Workers were often…
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Peter Garrrett on what the public think of AUKUS
The crowdfunded AUKUS public inquiry has so far had over 500 submissions, including from former ministers Gareth Evans, Linda Reynolds and Christopher Pyne in…
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How wine made the modern world
Across 8,000 years, wine has shaped religion, power, trade and culture. Wine is more than a drink — it’s a story of civilisation itself. Historian Kathleen…
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Bernard Keane on Australia’s real opportunities in an unstable world
In his new book, Crikey’s political editor, Bernard Keane, turns his eye not just to where Australia has gone wrong, but to how we can best position ourselves…
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The last cats on Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island could soon achieve its goal of feral cat eradication, with approximately 150 cats left to catch. Feral cats have devastated wildlife…
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Odyssey filming controversy on indigenous land in Moroccan region
The Odyssey blockbuster makes clear the colonisation and exploitation of Homer's time, but it was partly filmed in an indigenous area which Morocco occupies…
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Ian Dunt's UK: Can Count Binface beat Farage? And just what is 'Operation Fortress?'
Nigel Farage's call to adopt Australia’s 'stop the boats' policy has divided opinion, while new Prime Minister Andy Burnham faces the challenge of restoring…
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Butterfly collecting is no longer allowed
Butterfly populations have been declining since the 1960s. Butterfly collectors are also declining in number, because the practice is discouraged and in some…
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What's behind the push for Cyprus reunifcation?
Nearly ten years after they last collapsed, UN Secretary António Guterres has been in Cyprus, pressing for reunification talks to recommence. Cyprus has been…
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Anna Henderson at Garma: Noel Pearson calls for Aboriginal affairs overhaul
Three years since the defeat of the Voice referendum, Noel Pearson returned to the Garma festival to deliver a blistering speech, which included a proposal to…