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Late Night Live — Full program podcast
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Best of LNL: Walter Marsh on the young Rupert Murdoch
The Murdoch media mogul that we've come to know is almost unrecognisable from Rupert Murdoch, the youth. Author Walter Marsh discusses the era that shaped…
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Best of LNL: A tribute to Jimmy Carter, and why rats rule New York
Former speechwriter James Fallows pays tribute to the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter. Plus, writer Xochitl Gonzalez on New York's…
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Best of LNL: Influencers - Australia's political biographers
Political historian and journalist Chris Wallace investigates how prime ministerial biographies have impacted our leaders throughout Australia's history — for…
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The Year in Review 2023: The black, the white and the downright colourful
In a year when wars and the referendum on the voice all worked towards dividing us, there were moments of joy and unity that brought us together as a nation…
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International Day of Disability: Focus on blindness
To mark International Day Of People With Disability, December 3rd, the ABC is showcasing content featuring people with lived experience of disability. On Late…
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Bruce Shapiro's America and the woman who challenged our social order
Trump and war - Bruce Shapiro looks back on the year in US politics. And the woman was not anti-social, but anti the social order: the life of Sydney…
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The politics of 2023 and celebrating 100 years of RN
Laura Tingle and Nikki Savva look back on 2023 and give a report card for Canberra Politicians. Jock Given and Virginia Madsen help us celebrate 100 years of…
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Climate change and the "end of Eden", and the female aviator who became a spy
Journalist Adam Welz shares his plea to save what's left of the Earth's magnificent biodiversity, before its too late. And documentarian Mary Haverstick on the…
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The long campaign for Indigenous Rangers and the real power of Roman emperors
A UNESCO award for the Gunditjmara people of Western Victoria but the campaign for Indigenous people to care for their own country carries on, plus how true…
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Ian Dunt's UK, Pacific priorities at COP28 and the power of eyeliner
Ian Dunt reflects on an eventful year in UK politics and looks ahead to the 2024 election. Joseph Sikulu and Wesley Morgan preview COP28 from a Pacific…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, and the stories told by the paintings of the State Library of NSW
Laura Tingle on the sacking of Mike Pezzullo, and Tanya Plibersek's win on the Murray Darling Basin Plan. And what a close study of oil paintings from the past…
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Yascha Mounk's Identity Trap. Raimond Gaita on Justice and Hope
Why focusing on identity groups is the wrong prescription to overcome injustice and build a fairer society. Also, moral philosophy and how love can lead to…
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An hour with Charlie Chaplin
Phillip spends an hour revisiting the life of Charlie Chaplin with biographer Scott Eyman, author of Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex and Politics…
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Bruce Shapiro's America, Netanyahu's political future and convict tales with Jim Haynes
Bruce Shapiro asks whether Joe Biden's influence on the Prime Minster of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu is waning while Dahlia Scheindlin discusses the political…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, China's role in the Middle East, and the assassination of Lumumba
Laura Tingle discusses the political fallout from the sonar incident in the South China Sea. Could China help to negotiate a Palestinian peace deal? Plus, what…
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Richard Flanagan on life and love in the nuclear era
Richard Flanagan talks with Phillip Adams about his latest book Question Seven which addresses the questions we should be asking as both writers and readers in…
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Facial recognition and privacy. Alexandria: The city that changed the world
What the huge advances in facial recognition technology mean for privacy. How the ancient city of Alexandria shaped modern philosophy, science and religion.
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Ian Dunt on the Big Reshuffle and UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
'I' news columnist Ian Dunt unpacks the explosive UK cabinet reshuffle, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese talks…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, and economist Sean Turnell on his imprisonment in Myanmar
Laura Tingle on Penny Wong's fine line on Israel-Gaza. And Australian economist Sean Turnell in a long chat about his 650 days of imprisonment in Gaza, and…
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Britain's empire on the brink
A century after the British Empire's zenith, historian Matthew Parker discovers a ruling power be-set by debt and doubt, and on the ground, the sounds of…
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How swing was used for war propaganda and the Pacific Islands Forum meets in Rarotonga
Scott Simon recounts the chilling story of how Joseph Goebbels used his own swing and jazz band to create musical propaganda during WW2 and Tess Newton-Cain…
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Bruce Shapiro's America, the mass protest decade, and the WWII rescue of JFK
Bruce Shapiro on US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's desperate diplomatic mission to the Middle East. Journalist Vincent Bevins explains why the mass…
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The PM visits China, Pacific nuclear legacies and the young whalers sent to Antarctica
Laura Tingle reports on the PM's trip to China, Nic Maclellan reports on the ongoing impacts of 50 years of nuclear testing in the Pacific and Sandy…
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Adelaide Ironside: The first Australian artist to astonish the world. Love: a curious history in 50 objects.
Analysis of current events to the hottest debates in politics, science, philosophy and culture.
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Wendy Harmer on 'Lies My Mirror Told Me'
Wendy Harmer has lived a life full of 'firsts' - she was the first female news cadet in an all-male newsroom in Geelong, the first Australian female stand-up…
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UK Politics, a marine heatwave heads south and why people love saunas
Naomi Smith on the tensions rising in the UK over the war in Gaza, Scott Bennet talks about the threats to the Great Southern Reef by an approaching marine…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, the international Atlas Network and the Mexican town that banned avocados
Laura Tingle analyses PM Albanese's visit to the US, and how Australia is navigating its Israel/Gaza war response. The low profile Atlas Network has 500…
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US-backed wars and their legacies, and Maria Sybilla Merian, the first ecologist
American essayist Phil Klay reflects on the realities of the Israel-Gaza conflict, and the broader ethics of US involvements in wars in the past 20 years. And…
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How we choked the Earth with dust, and Melbourne's orange-peel panic
Geographer Jay Owens takes us to just some of the sources of dust that we generate and breathe every day. Plus, Robyn Annear's rollicking history of 19th…
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Bruce Shapiro's America, Poland's surprise election result, and Australia's citizen scientists
Bruce Shapiro on a tumultuous time in US politics, as the Israel-Gaza war escalates and the Speaker's chair in the US House of Representatives remains vacant…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, deadly cults in Kenya, and Jamaica's official language
Laura Tingle on the PM's travel plans to the US and China. In Kenya, religious extremism saw 400 deaths earlier this year. But how to combat that mindset? And…
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1848: a most important revolutionary year. The history of silk.
Christopher Clark explains how the revolutions of 1848 changed Europe forever. Aarathi Prasad shares the history and potential of silk and its many…
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Rory Stewart on his time as a Tory MP, and a clear-flowing Yarra River
Former Tory MP Rory Stewart on the chaos and dysfunction within the UK Conservative party over the past decade. Plus, nature writer Harry Saddler reminds us…
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Ian Dunt's UK, keeping Singapore cool, and Australia's soft power
Ian Dunt is blunt about the UK's future after a high-speed rail line was axed to the north. How Singapore is working to cool down its citizens in the face of…
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Where to now for reconciliation?
Laura TIngle and John Paul Janke talk through the hopes for reconciliation now that Australian voters have rejected the voice. James Canton meditates on the…
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Ed Yong on the world of animal senses, and why witches are still on trial
Pulitzer prize winner Ed Yong reveals the astonishing world of animal senses - from dogs who socialise through smell, to fish who taste with their skin. Plus…
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The Australian origins of the 8 hour workday, and the fateful relationship of Bennelong and Arthur Phillip
Sean Scalmer recounts how Australian workers fought for an eight hour workday, setting a precedent for the rest of the world. Plus, Kate Fullagar unravels the…
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US response to Hamas attacks, the lucrative passport trade, and the sex worker who became a spy
Professor Brendon O'Connor on the US response to the Hamas attacks on Israel. Kristin Surak investigates the lucrative global market for citizenship and…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, China's economic woes, and the convicts of New Caledonia
Analysis of current events to the hottest debates in politics, science, philosophy and culture.
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Michael Palin on his Great-Uncle Harry and Julia Ebner on extremism
Michael Palin shares what he learnt from the 'murderous and mundane' war diaries of his Great-Uncle Harry and Julia Ebner explains how the extremists are…
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Kevin McCarthy ousted, motherhood as glaciers melt, and history's greatest act of greenwashing
Bruce Shapiro explains the ousting of US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and what comes next. Elizabeth Rush shares her journey to Antarctica's 'Doomsday…
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Ian Dunt's UK, Trinity's nuclear fallout, and the original Luddites
Ian Dunt dissects UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman's attack on multiculturalism. New research reveals the vast extent of the nuclear fallout from America's…
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An LNL special: Historian Henry Reynolds reflects on the extraordinary gaps he discovered in Australian history telling
In his lifetime, ground-breaking historian Henry Reynolds has seen many changes in the telling of Australian history. Some of the most important truths, such…
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The lion breeding boom in South Africa and some fake heroes exposed
Adam Welz tells the shocking story behind the booming lion breeding program in South Africa and Otto English examines some of the heroic figures of our age to…
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The spies that shaped history and a floating university
World-leading intelligence historian Calder Walton takes us on a tour through the 100-year Intelligence war between East and West, and historian Tamson Pietsch…
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Bruce Shapiro's America, China's language police, and the legacy of the Bark Petitions
Bruce Shapiro on the 'tentative' agreement reached between Hollywood studios and striking workers. Historian Gina Anne Tam explains why the Chinese state is…
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Payday for pensioners, waging war over undersea cables, and the art of Lonnie Holley
Journalist Clare Armstrong on the government's new employment white paper, and what it means for pensioners keen to work more hours. Why are undersea cables…
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Yanis Varoufakis on Technofeudalism and the evolution of counting
Yanis Varoufakis explains why he thinks capitalism has been replaced by Technofeudalism. Keith Houston takes on a trip through humanity's history of counting -…
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The future of the Middle East and NASA's first female astronauts
Robert D. Kaplan challenges Western ideas about the Middle East and tries to offer a broader picture of the future of the region that looks beyond the binaries…
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Ian Dunt's UK, Israel-PNG relations, and cheerfulness in Art
Ian Dunt on the efforts of former Prime Ministers Theresa May and Liz Truss to defend their legacies. What role has religion played in the strengthening of…
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Amy Remeikis' Canberra, the nuclear waste challenge, and one woman's passion for eating offal
Amy Remeikis is this week's Canberra sage, as the Voice campaign heads into its final weeks. Nuclear energy has been put back on the political agenda but…
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What is it really like to be blind?
In a special episode of Late Night Live, Phillip is joined by two legally blind writers from either side of the Atlantic. Both Andrew Leland and Selina Mills…
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How the Sami voice is heard in Norway, 50 years since the Pinochet coup, a history of the Tiwi Islands
Karla Grant shares her experience of the Sami parliament in Norway, Rodrigo Acuña questions why Australia remains tight lipped on their rumoured involvement in…
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Bruce Shapiro's America, and the unsung heroes of the Oxford English Dictionary
Bruce Shapiro reflects on Joe Biden's historic visit to Hanoi, and US-Vietnam relations. Plus, Sarah Ogilvie celebrates the thousands of people who helped…
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Bernard Keane's Canberra, Taiwan from the inside and the myths of national dishes
Bernard Keane canvasses the Government and Greens' housing deal, and the Qantas political missteps. Taiwanese journalist Brian Hioe says the rest of the world…
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The American obsession with conspiracy theories, plus the Dickens-led tourism trend
America was a land born in paranoia, and it's coloured people's thinking ever since, Colin Dickey argues. And what would Charles Dickens make of the literary…
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Reviving regional "news deserts", and humanity's interstellar future
Three experts in regional journalism offer solutions to the rapid decline of local news in both Australia and North America. Plus, Harvard physicist Avi Loeb…
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Ian Dunt's UK and the life of Dorothea Mackellar
Ian Dunt gives an F for the UK governments management of the crumbling school system, how Indonesia and Australia will work together to make electric vehicle…
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What makes a referendum successful? And growing up with an activist father
George Megalogenis and Matt Qvorstrup discuss what's been key to referendum success in the past, both in Australia and overseas. Plus, 100 years on, Roger…
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Fakes and frauds: A Jewish cookbook and a polar explorer
Two stories of trickery that prove the truth is stranger than fiction. Karina Urbach reveals how her grandmother's famous cookbook was stolen and expropriated…