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Late Night Live — Full program podcast
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Ian Dunt's UK, what is woke capitalism and a brief history of the CWA
Ian Dunt reports on the latest gaffes from Boris Johnson, Carl Rhodes on why we should be wary of woke capitalism and Liz Harfull gives us a brief history of…
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Bruce Shapiro's America, the lithium boom and spoken word artist Sukhjit Khalsa
Historic Supreme Court confirmation hearings are underway for Biden's nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. The pros and cons of the lithium industry in Australia and…
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Bernard Keane's Canberra, the real Russian elite and the Stasi poetry circle that tried to bring down capitalism
Bernard Keane on the SA election, Anatol Lieven on the real Russian elite and what a peace deal might look like and the Stasi poetry circle which tried to…
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A chat with Wendy McCarthy. Chandran Nair on dismantling white elitism
Chandran Nair makes the argument that we need to acknowledge and then dismantle global white elitism and Wendy McCarthy talks about the challenges of her…
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The Zachary Rolfe trial, climate change and agriculture and Australian author Alice Pung
Sarah Collard reports on the responses to the trial for the murder of Kumanjayi Walker, Professor mark Howden talks to the latest IPCC report and the expected…
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Bruce Shapiro's America, crisis in the arts and social animals
Bruce Shapiro on President Biden's options as the war in Ukraine escalates; Australia's arts sector was one of the hardest hit by the pandemic and still faces…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, Australia's economic future post-covid and how the pandemic has shaped the English language
Laura Tingle on flood fury, petrol pain and defending Defence - how the PM has fared this week in politics. Financial markets expert Satyajit Das looks at the…
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Howard French: Born in Blackness
Howard French has written an acclaimed new book putting Africa and Africans front and centre in their contribution to the making of the modern world.
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Ian Dunt's UK, West Africa's coups and the Black divers unearthing slave shipwrecks and their stories
Ian Dunt gives us an update on how the United Kingdom is responding to the escalating war in Ukraine. Then Al Jazeera's Nicolas Haque gives us an overview of…
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Bruce Shapiro's America, wheat shortages from exporters Ukraine and Russia, and the tale of stowaway Rose de Freycinet
President Joe Biden has to make some big decisions about the US response to Ukraine. Wheat shortages will impact both Ukrainian and Russian populations, and…
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Nour Haydar's Canberra, the nuclear threat in Ukraine and the meanings of sport
Nour Haydar's Canberra, the nuclear threat in Ukraine and the legacy of Shane Warne and his place in the history of sport.
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New insights on Bob Hawke, and a call for more boldness in Australia
Journalist and author Troy Bramston has written a mammoth biography of former Prime Minister Bob Hawke, shedding light on even more of his personal foibles and…
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State of the Union, the Chagos Islands and Judith Wright's essays
Bruce Shapiro gives us his analysis of President Biden's State of the Union, Philippe Sands explains the case for returning the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and…
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Pacific update, Youth of Gaza and Mutiny on the Bounty
News from around the Pacific with Tess Newton Cain and the youth creating job opportunities in Gaza. Plus, a direct descendant of Fletcher Christian tells the…
Late Night Live — Full program podcastLaura Tingle's Canberra, Ukraine conflict escalates and are we eating ourselves to extinction?
Laura Tingle on war, floods and the upcoming election, Russian troops advance towards Ukraine's capital Kyiv and are we eating ourselves to extinction?
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Older workers in the pandemic, and black British historical icon Mary Seacole
The pandemic has caused a worker shortage, yet there's a missed opportunity with older workers. A new book about black British nurse Mary Seacole tackles some…
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Ian Dunt's UK, 50 years since Nixon went to China and a grandfather's letters of complaint
Ian Dunt assesses the UK's response to the Ukraine crisis, we go back 50 years to that fateful trip by President Nixon to China and Nick Oliver reads some of…
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Bruce Shapiro's America, Ukraine update and the history of cut flowers
A historic $73 million settlement has been reached for the families of the Sandy Hook school shooting. Ukrainian journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk provides an…
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Amy Remeikis on Canberra politics, Africa-EU summit sees Covid support and the history of diplomatic gifts
The PM creates sparks on the campaign trail, the first summit between Africa and the European Union in five years sees a support package aimed at mitigating…
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The worldwide spread of Pentecostalism, and a writer delves into his family's mobster past
Pentecostalism's growth is phenomenal, and in some countries in Africa and South America, it's political, and a form of warfare. Plus author Russell Shorto…
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State capture and democracy in Australia and the importance of friction in modern life
How much industry influence is too much for a democracy like Australia to bear and why the science of friction is so critical to modern life with Laurie…
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Bruce Shapiro's America, Blinken's visit down under and Australian 'sheroes'
As tensions continue to escalate between Russia and the West, Bruce Shapiro considers what cards are left to play. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Antony Blinken…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, humanitarian crisis unfolds in Afghanistan and the diaries of Chips Channon
Laura Tingle reflects on the final sitting days of the 46th parliament, more than half the population of Afghanistan facing starvation and the diaries of Henry…
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Questionable autopsy work, and plastic surgery in prison
How one man with major holes in his CV ran South Australia's autopsies for nearly three decades. And the strange but true tale of plastic surgery provided to…
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Ian Dunt, a history of terrorism in Australia and the WW2 story of the Hutchinson Camp
Ian Dunt on Boris Johnson's latest gaffe, Kristy Campion on some forgotten history of terrorism in Australia and Simon Parkin on the brilliant refugees that…
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Bruce Shapiro's America, hydrogen hype and the world of psychic-mediums
Debates about free speech sweep the States; hydrogen now comes in green, blue, grey, even pink, but are they all worth the hype? And journalist Gary Nunn…
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Text message scandals, does power corrupt and can we have universal ethics?
Laura Tingle on Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce being embroiled in the text message scandal, political scientist Dr Brian Klaas on the nature of power and philosopher…
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Celebrating 100 years of the BBC
A new history of the BBC looks back at the people who made it what it is, and the people it serves.
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Pacific update, Chile's young new leaders and a history of monoculture
Tess Newton Cain reports on how the clean up is progressing in Tonga, John Bartlett on the youthful progressive government newly elected in Chile and Frank…
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Bruce Shapiro's America, a history of democracy and vale Ann Newmarch and Hossein Valamanesh
Bruce Shapiro sheds some light on Biden's possible Supreme Court picks, political theorist John Keane gives us a potted history of democracy, and art history…
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Canberra politics, Guy Rundle's Australia and war in Yemen
Crikey's Bernard Keane takes a look at the week in politics, Guy Rundle reflects on Australia in the lead-up to the 2019 federal election and what's behind the…
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Ian Dunt's Britain, and Johann Hari on why we struggle to pay attention
Ian Dunt returns for 2022 to talk Westminster parties and the Ukraine, and Johann Hari explains why a digital detox is harder than you might imagine
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An Australian republic - a new model and unfinished business
The Australian Republic Movement has released its Australian Choice model for Australia to become a republic. Peter FitzSimons, Bob Carr and Anne Twomey debate…
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Bruce Shapiro's America and how the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was established
Bruce Shapiro on the challenges Biden faces as he enters year two of his presidency, and the remarkable story of how the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, Ukraine-Russia tensions and the disappearing Arctic treeline
Laura Tingle on Scott Morrison's summer of woe, will Russia really go to war with Ukraine and how climate change is affecting the Arctic treeline and those who…
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Bernadette Brennan on her biography of Gillian Mears
Bernadette Brennan discusses her biography of the brilliant but enigmatic author, Gillian Mears.
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East meets West during the Ottoman Empire and in Sicily
Marc David Baer explains why the history of the Ottoman Empire should be considered part of European history and Jamie Mackay takes us through the many empires…
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The untold story of a secret Australian operation in WW2 Borneo. Difficult Women: A history of feminism in 11 fights
ANU anthropologist Christine Helliwell tells the story of a secret mission to infiltrate Borneo, under Japanese occupation.
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Flawed forensics. The role of chance in life.
Brandon Garrett chronicles the litany of cases where flawed forensics have put innocent people in gaol and in some cases on death row. Is life preordained or…
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The history of the handshake. The rise of Modern Spiritualism
What is the biological purpose of the handshake and why has it outlasted other forms of greeting?
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Afghanistan's lost city of Alexandria. A secret library in Syria and a bookshop in Cairo
Edmund Richardson recounts the story of Charles Masson, a self-taught archaeologist, and his quest to find the lost city of Alexandria.
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz. Hitler's war against modern art and the mentally ill.
Clothing historian Lucy Adlington on the ‘The Dressmakers of Auschwitz' and Charlie English's account of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill.
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Are skyscrapers the future? and the hounding of jazz legend, Billie Holiday
They're very resource hungry and yet skyscrapers are, and will remain essential to future living, and the hounding of singer Billie Holiday by the FBI.
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Murray Darling wetlands. Taking on science deniers. A brief history of clocks
Environmental historian Emily O’Gorman explains why it's a mistake to set wetlands aside as areas not available for human interaction and use. Philosopher Lee…
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Water trading in the Murray Darling and a dissenting Doc Evatt
Stuart Kell, author of Sold down the River: How robber barons and Wall Street traders cornered Australia’s water market. Gideon Haigh looks at Doc Evatt's…
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Environmental history and the Murray Darling. Reconsidering Ethel Rosenburg
Quentin Beresford analyses the environmental history of the basin. Anne Sebba's 'Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy'
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The Murray Darling basin debacle. How whales communicate. Stonehenge replicas
Richard Beasley's provocative account of what has gone wrong in the Murray Darling Basin. Hal Whitehead on how sperm whales communicate. Nancy Wisser's weird…
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One on one with Sir Peter Cosgrove
Phillip Adams sits down with Peter Cosgrove for a wide ranging discussion about Australia, its democracy and its future.
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Wayne Quilliam, Indigenous photographer and Narayan Khandekar, master of colour
Wayne Quilliam picked up his first camera whilst in the navy thirty years ago and has not put it down since, photographing Indigenous communities around…
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The imminent threats to our national icon, the koala
The koala is in real danger of extinction and yet politics are preventing any effective action being taken to protect them.
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Justice as love
So often the complex issue of justice is viewed through the legal prism of criminal, distributive or procedural justice. But Dr Rowan Williams and Mary…
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A history of fire. Drowned worlds
Stephen Pyne's history of fire and humanity's complicated love-hate relationship with it. Patrick Nunn explores the possibility that some stories of drowned…
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Author Jackie French on women, writing, war and wombats
Jackie French chats with Phillip Adams about her remarkable career as an author for children and adults, her books that are writing women back into history and…
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Where the Stasi went and Australian Cooking History
Where did the 91,000 members of the Stasi go after the fall of the Berlin wall? Was there a market for their skills? Ross Dobson is a chef and food writer who…
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The peripatetic life of journalist Jon Lee Anderson
Jon Lee Anderson has been a foreign correspondent for over 40 years and Staff writer with the New Yorker Magazine. He shares with Phillip the highs and lows of…
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Cricket's unforgiven. Marine animals and consciousness
Ashley Gray tells the untold story of the rebel West Indian cricketers who toured apartheid South Africa. Australia’s ‘scuba-diving philosopher’ Peter…
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Simon Winchester and the history of land
Simon Winchester on how people's relationship to land, its borders and its ownership have changed over time and geography.
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Isabel Allende's memoir. A history of women's self portraiture
Isabel Allende explores how feminism has shaped her life over the past seven decades. Jennifer Higgie documents the lives of women artists and their…
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2021 Year in review, with laughs aplenty and sombre reflection as well
Our cheery panel find the humour in some of the most challenging parts of a difficult year.
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Home truths: David Williamson's memoir
Ian Dunt's final commentary for 2021 on UK politics and society. Playwright David Williamson's warts and all autobiography.