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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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How US presidential pardons are being used as a political tool
On the day of his inauguration, US President Donald Trump issued a mass pardon covering over a thousand people charged or convicted in connection with the…
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Not satisfactory at all: Geoffrey Watson on the NACC'S Robodebt findings
"I don't feel like it's satisfactory at all." Geoffrey Watson SC, has compared the sealed section of the Holmes Royal Commission into Robodebt with the recent…
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Ian Dunt's UK: Trump pressures Starmer on Iran war
US President Donald Trump has renewed his criticism of the UK government over its response to the Iran conflict, after Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the…
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Why pensioners are still protesting in their seventies
Adelaide writer Margaret Merilees has spent her life protesting: from Pine Gap in the 1980 through to the Rising Tide protests against coal exports, to joining…
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Will Saudi Arabia be the winners in the war on Iran?
Saudi Arabia has long sought to be the dominant power in the Middle East and there is speculation Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman himself urged…
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: Matt Canavan and his Nationals' front bench
The new Nationals' leader has announced his front bench. Our weekly correspondent analyses what the reshaped Nationals will offer, and how they will deal…
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Porn, AI, and the internet: social media's new frontier
In January, AI-generated pornography flooded the social media site X, owned by Elon Musk. X's AI chatbot turned anybody into pornography, and brought millions…
Late Night Live - Separate stories podcastMystic, manipulator, catalyst: Rasputin and Russia’s Last Tsar
Grigory Rasputin rose from a humble Siberian peasant to become one of the most influential figures at the court of Tsar Nicholas II. A mystic and…
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Psst: the Irish love a conspiracy theory
The Irish have high trust in government, and, also, a surprisingly widespread belief in conspiracy theories. What explains the Irish appetite for conspiracies…
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Why is it so hard to make Australian TV?
The amount of money going towards subsidising Australian film and TV has gone way up over the last two decades. The number of hours being made has gone way…
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Lost Vanuatu numbering system
In the early 2000s, esteemed Australian archaeologist Matthew Spriggs made a promise to the community of Aneityum, an island of Vanuatu: he would try to…
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Armageddon briefings: US Troops told Iran war is 'God’s plan'
US military commanders have been invoking extremist Christian rhetoric about biblical “end times” to justify involvement in the Iran war to troops. A group…
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Bruce Shapiro's USA: Noem, no more
Will the war in Iran be long or short? According to Donald Trump: both, depending on what day you ask him. Plus, new and scandalous allegations from the…
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Power, crime, and money: the rise of the global mafia
In Mafia: A Global History, Ryan Gingeras draws on more than a decade of research to uncover this suppressed underworld history. Crossing centuries and…
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Why France is backing Lebanon in the Middle East War
“For Lebanon we must act,” said French President Emmanuel Macron last week. “Everything must be done to prevent this country, so close to France, from once…
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: Albanese's call for de-escalation in Middle East
Australia's military capabilities are in focus as the government decides how it can assist Gulf states facing an Iranian retaliatory strike, amid the war in…
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Australia's oldest continuously used library turns 200
The State Library of NSW has had to adapt its collections and philosophy over the years, becoming both a foundation of, and mirror to, broader societal change…
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Yanis Varoufakis on the Iran war, drug charges & cancelling Adelaide Writers' Week
Yanis Varoufakis sits down with David Marr to reflect on the war on Iran, the failures of the Democracy in Europe Movement, cancelling his appearance at…
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In conversation with the UK's Ian Dunt
For the first time, Late Night Live UK political commentator Ian Dunt, meets David Marr in person. In this special hour-long conversation, Dunt explores the…
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Australia's first desert people
Sometimes described as a 'phantom population', because so little is known about them, the first settlers across the arid interior of Australia are coming to…
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Batteries, and the power they have over us
The green energy future depends on batteries. But batteries are not exactly a low-footprint technology; a massive mining and industrial operation will be…
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Gideon Levy on Israel's objectives in Iran, Lebanon, and the broader Middle East
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said the US bombing of Iran had to happen because they had intelligence that Israel was about to take action. He also…
Late Night Live - Separate stories podcastBehind the bestseller: feuds, failures, and publishing mishaps
Behind every great book lies a story — and sometimes, it’s a disaster. In When Books Go Bad, Alexander Johnson uncovers the scandalous mishaps that have shaped…
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Trump attacks Iran: the view from inside America
President Trump has put the United States, and the world, into an unpredictable situation: a war without a clear rationale, and without a clear end. In the…
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: Australia and the Iran war
Our regular Canberra correspondent dissects the careful language being used by the Australian Government, in the wake of the US and Israel's surprise attack on…
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Bob Carr on suddenly losing his wife Helena
Former NSW Premier and former Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Bob Carr and his wife Helena were almost inseparable. When she suddenly died, while they…
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High Court rules the Catholic Church is liable for a priest's abuse
A NSW man who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of a priest in the late 1960’s when he was 13, has won his High Court battle over liability, but had his…
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Bruce Shapiro's USA: the State of the Union address
US President Donald Trump has just given his State of the Union address, saying America is winning so much they don't know what do. But who believes him? Bruce…
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Water in 2026: will Australia learn from our mistakes?
Australia's last big drought was from 2017 to 2019; a relatively short drought, but a vicious one. Water storage levels in Sydney dropped by 50% in just…
Late Night Live - Separate stories podcastWhat do Mawson's diaries reveal about the Flinders Ranges in South Australia?
As well as his Antarctic work, the explorer Sir Douglas Mawson had a deep interest in the Flinders Ranges. A team has been working for years to decipher his…
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A new treaty for the High Seas
Ocean advocates call it 'the most exciting thing that's happened this century'. The lawless High Seas have a new international Treaty - the UN's High Seas…
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What can and can't the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion decide?
As the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion gets underway, legal writer Richard Ackland discusses what the Commission can and can't cover, and…
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Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark: The UN has a woman problem
A new report from the group GWL voices (Global.Women.Leaders) has highlighted the scarcity of women at the top of international organisations, across the…
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: ISIS women and children, One Nation policies, and Australian values
As the debate continues over what to do about the Australian ISIS women and children in Syria, Anna Henderson discusses the current political obsession with…
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The end of the gay rights revolution?
The LGBTQI rights movement in the West has succeeded beyond its wildest dreams, but gay author Ronan McRea argues this success seems suddenly fragile. He says…
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Immigrant labour from the Pacific: are we getting it right?
With political rhetoric around immigration firing up again, we look at the great potential, but very real problems, of a temporary migration policy, PALM - The…
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Deflect, distract, deny: how politicians avoid direct answers
The best political communicators don’t just speak, they position. They don’t just answer, they frame. They don’t just promise, they hedge. A look at the daily…
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The return of Germany as a military power
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a Zeitenwende, a “watershed moment”, in the words of Germany’s chancellor at the time. Germany shook itself out of its long…
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Ian Dunt's UK: is Keir Starmer's leadership is risk?
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's has spruiked Britain's necessity to be closer to Europe, both in defence and economic terms, at the Munich Security…
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How green are green burials?
Knowing that your body is contributing to the growth of a tree or the richness of soil is increasingly attractive. But the healthier climate claims made by…
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Washington tightens grip as Cuba faces mounting crisis
Whether former President Donald Trump will strike a deal with Cuba remains an open question, as pressure on Havana intensifies. Trump has signalled that…
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Democracy for sale: gambling’s grip on politics
While Australians lose over $31 billion to gambling each year, industry donations to major political parties continue. Over the past decade, millions have…
Late Night Live - Separate stories podcastThe music of the stars, with the "founding mother" of asteroseismology
Conny Aerts had a hunch, that stars had internal rotation and measuring those rotations could give us rich information about the universe. She was right, and…
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Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong's voice of freedom, will die in prison
The Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai will die in prison, after being sentenced to 20 years. Lai is one of the island's most prominent pro-democracy advocates, and…
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Anna Henderson's Canberra: what to expect from the new Liberal leadership
The new Opposition leader Angus Taylor and deputy Liberal leader Jane Hume are flagging their crisis plan will involve lowering taxes and immigration, changing…
Late Night Live - Separate stories podcastSteven Pinker on common knowledge... and common delusion
In his new book, Steven Pinker asks us to look at how group knowledge works. Pinker argues that what drives society is knowing that what we know is widely know…
Late Night Live - Separate stories podcastThe memes are the politics: Charlie Warzel on Trump's Extremely Online administration
The White House is publishing AI slop images; ICE conducts raids and turns the video into film-style trailers; right-wing influencers are sitting in the White…
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Gaza is a nightmare, but once it was a dream
Gaza is today in ruins, with over seventy thousand dead and buildings everywhere rendered rubble by the onslaught from Israel since the Hamas attack of October…
Late Night Live - Separate stories podcastAn old book, a hidden drawing: how Sydney held the answer to an Italian Renaissance mystery
When librarians from the University of Sydney found a sketch and an inscription in the back of a 1497 copy of Dante's Divine Comedy, they called in Renaissance…
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How journalists are tackling three million Epstein files - and what they're finding
The Epstein files are so immense that if printed out they would equal two Eiffel towers of paper. So how, exactly, are journalists making sense of the 3…
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"A moment of reckoning" - NSW police response to Sydney Herzog protest under spotlight
The actions of NSW police are being questioned after videos emerge showing violent scenes at the Sydney protest against Israel's President, Isaac Herzog. Video…
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Toads most feral: what can Australia do?
Cane toads (Rhinella marina) are an invasive species introduced to Australia in 1935 to control agricultural pests. The species spread rapidly and now poses a…
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Indonesia and Australia sign a security pact: what are we worried about?
We're now even closer with Indonesia. On 6 February Anthony Albanese signed a security pact with Indonesia's president, Prabowo Subianto, agreeing to consider…
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Bernard Keane's Canberra: A Coalition reunification, even as the Liberals contemplate "non-existence"
Parliament returns for the second half of the sitting fortnight, with the Liberal Party and The Nationals reunited, again. But all is not calm. Liberal senator…
Late Night Live - Separate stories podcastWinnie-the-Pooh: how the gentle bear left a complicated legacy
Winnie-the-Pooh, the Bear of Very Little Brain, has been entertaining children for a century this year, but for Pooh's creator, A. A. Milne, the character…
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Tucker Carlson, the influential broadcaster admired by President Trump
The US commentator Tucker Carlson began his working life as a respected and brilliant writer on a small conservative magazine. He moved to television…
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Trade Secret: Polar Bears for sale in a warming world
Australian filmmaker Abraham Joffe pulls back the curtain on a reality most people don’t realise: Polar Bears are still legally hunted and sold around the…
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Why is everyone rushing to do trade deals with India?
After twenty years of negotiations, the European Union has suddenly managed to cut a trade deal with India. Not to be out-done, US President Donald Trump…
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Ian Dunt's UK: Anger over Mandelson's Epstein links and a new candidate for Reform
Former UK Labour powerbroker Peter Mandelson is retiring from the House of Lords amid intense scrutiny over his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey…
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Peter Drew, the 'AUSSIE' poster artist who wants to engage with young right wing men
Peter Drew's 'Aussie' posters, seen around our cities, have now been copied in Melbourne by someone using a picture of the younger of the two Bondi shooters…