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Late Night Live — Full program podcast
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- Late Night Live — Full program podcast
US Politics, the vaccine race and the history of the index
Bruce Shapiro looks back at the successes and failures of 2021 for America and its President, Brendan Borrell recounts the epic race for the COVID-19 vaccine…
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Laura Tingle, Yanis Varoufakis and mazes
Laura Tingle has the latest from Canberra, political economist Yanis Varoufakis discusses a difficult year in global politics and Adrian Fisher reveals what…
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China and the global goldrush and Rebecca Solnit on George Orwell's roses
Mae Ngai explains how the racism that the thousands of Chinese found on the goldfields of California and Australia in the 19th century has had a lasting…
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Indigenous update with Jack Latimore, strife in the Solomon Islands, and the US story of a train called the 'Deportation Express'
An acting legend has died, and there's still a push for better protection for indigenous cultural sites. What now for The Solomons, after riots and unrest. And…
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Bruce Shapiro's America, the digital public square and Charles Strong's Australian Church
Bruce Shapiro on the latest court cases holding America's attention, Peter Lewis on creating a digital public square and Marion Maddox on Charles Strong's…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, refugees from Afghanistan and trans trailblazer Ewan Forbes
Laura Tingle has the latest on Canberra politics, Barat Ali Batoor discusses the long history of Afghan refugees in Australia and Zoe Playdon tells the story…
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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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UK update with Patrick Wintour, who exactly are the 'freedom' demonstrators, and Australia's mountains
The Guardian's diplomatic editor on Boris's bizarre speech and the British role in AUKUS, a close look at Covid restriction protestors, and Australia might not…
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Bruce Shapiro's America. The Australian diaspora. The Women who made television.
Bruce Shapiro on the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict and what it means for America's open carry gun laws. Andrew Rosser considers whether Australia does enough to…
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Laura Tingle, reviving the arts and the history of the seven-day week
Laura Tingle has the latest from Canberra politics, Julian Meyrick discusses how to revive the arts post Covid and David Henkin tells the fascinating history…
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A history of medical transplants and the Berndt Collection
First the history of medical transplants that goes way back further in history than you might imagine, and then we find out the history of the Berndt…
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Pacific update. The kleptocrats' enablers. Symbols of Australia
Tess Newton Cain surveys reaction across the Pacific to Glasgow's Climate Change Summit. Frank Vogl discusses how the West aids and abets authoritarian rulers…
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Bruce Shapiro's America, the Belarus border dispute and an Albanian memoir
Bruce Shapiro on the court cases that have America on edge, what is going on at the border between Belarussia and Poland and a memoir about growing up in…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, whistleblower legislation and amusing Australian history
Laura Tingle has the latest from Canberra, lawyer Kieran Pender looks at changes to whistleblower legislation
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Hollywood workers revolt and human composting
Kate Fortmueller and Kevin Sanson explore labor conditions for "below the line" workers in Hollywood and how they impacts sets across the world, and Lynne…
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Bruce Shapiro's America, transitioning from coal in the LaTrobe Valley and the dish turns 60.
Bruce Shapiro with the latest from Washington, how the LaTrobe Valley is preparing for the post-coal world and although the dish at Parkes turns 60, it is…
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Canberra politics, deporting Indigenous Australians and endangered languages
Laura Tingle has the latest from Canberra, Eddie Snyot discusses deporting Indigenous Australians and James Griffith's new book explores the politics of…
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Judith Brett on writing about politics and Bain Attwood on the petitions of Indigenous leader William Cooper
Judith Brett discusses the shifts she has seen in the political landscape in her 40 years of observation and writing and Bain Attwood tells the story of…
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Indigenous update, carbon justice, the children of ancient Rome.
Sarah Collard, NITV's political correspondent, has an update on Indigenous news and issues. Political philosopher Jeremy Moss explains why Australia's major…
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Bruce Shapiro on US politics and Lara Marlowe on Robert Fisk
Bruce Shapiro on the latest court case out of Guantanamo and also Texas where a new law challenging the right to an abortion is heading to the Supreme Court…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, Julian Assange's trial and Film Noir
Laura Tingle has the latest from Canberra, Rebecca Vincent reports from Julian Assange's extradition appeal and Eddie Mueller discusses the endurance of film…
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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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Ian Dunt's Britain, Australia's growing Indian population and Cairo's much loved Diwan bookstores
Ian Dunt sets the UK scene for COP26 starting on Sunday,and discusses the rising Covid hospitalisations. The burgeoning Indian Australian population could…
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Joe's woes, Iraq's upcoming election and the stately homes controversy
Bruce Shapiro on President Joe Biden's struggle to get his climate policy in place before Glasgow, Rasha Al-Aqeedi on the upcoming Iraqi elections and Sam…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, a Syrian seed bank and letters to Robert Menzies
Laura Tingle has the latest from Canberra, Helen Sullivan discusses a Syrian seed bank and Martyn Lyons examines the thousands of letters written to Prime…
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Shashi Tharoor on Indian nationalism and Paul van Reyk on Australia's food history
Shashi Tharoor on how post-colonial nationalism in India has been perverted under Prime Minister Modi and Paul van Reyk looks at what the history of food in…
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Pacific update, Northern Territory water pressures, and insights into mysterious illnesses
The realities of PNG's Covid situation in the provinces are emerging. Development plans in the NT are creating controversies over water. And UK writer Alice…
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Colin Powell's legacy, the sinking of the SIEV-X, recreating the woolly mammoth
Bruce Shapiro looks back over the achievements of Colin Powell, Tony Kevin looks back at the sinking of the SIEV-X twenty years ago and Ross Barnett discusses…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, farm succession and lost in Larrimah
Laura Tingle has the latest on Canberra politics, Lucie Newsome discusses why sons are favoured to inherit the family farm and journalists Caroline Graham and…
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When Einstein meets Curie at the Solvay Conference and the complexity of ancient civilisations
What happened in 1911 when many brilliant minds of the era like Marie Cure and Albert Einstein meet at a conference in Brussels and what we can learn from…
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Ian Dunt's Britain, and Lech Blaine on Australian larrikins
The UK's early response to Covid has been condemned, but life now under Covid is relatively 'normal'. Lech Blaine's Quarterly Essay looks at elites' misuse of…
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Bruce Shapiro, update from Afghanistan and "Fat Leonard" sings
Bruce Shapiro on the journalists who have won the Nobel Peace Prize, Andrew Quilty and Nadene Ghouri report on the latest from Afghanistan and Tom Wright tells…
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Canberra politics, Glasgow talks and prosperity in the Gulags
Amy Remeikis on the latest from Canberra, Tim Buckley looks at the consequences of Australia not engaging at the COP26 meeting in Glasgow and Gerhard Toews…
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America's increasing inequality and polarisation with Evan Osnos and Alec MacGillis
Evan Osnos looks at three cities in America to investigate the increasing polarisation of the country that was already happening before President Trump…
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Indigenous update with Amy McQuire, asteroids past and future, and Victoria's convicts
Wilcannia's covid disaster was featured on the front page of The Washington Post. Asteroids have had major impacts in the long ago past, and there will be more…
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Laura Tingle on the Berejiklian exit, Ben Noble on Alexei Navalny and Lisa Sullivan on Frederick McCubbin
Laura Tingle discusses the controversial resignation of Gladys Berejiklian, Ben Noble on the threat Alexei Navalny poses to Putin, and Lisa Sullivan previews…
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Gillian Mears, novelist and euthanasia advocate
Gillian Mears, in a program-length feature interview, is frank, funny and flirtatious as she discusses her life, family, work and facing death.
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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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Ian Dunt's Britain, and lessons from a devastating bush fire
There are some pressure points in the Australian/UK relationship, and the UK is dealing with a major fuel crisis. Plus, a feature interview with journalist…
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US politics, the military's use of social media and the state of food in the world
Bruce Shapiro on yet another possible government shutdown, how the military use and misuse social media and facing the opposing problems of malnourishment and…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, elections in Japan and shipping containers
Laura Tingle with the latest from Canberra, Roger Pulvers and Koichi Nakano on Japan's upcoming elections and Anna Nagurney on the great shipping container…
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JFK, Sukarno and Dulles and socially engaged art
Greg Poulgrain explains how JFK's support for Sukarno threatened the CIA strategy in the region and Gretchen Coombs introduces us to some of the best socially…
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Pacific update, security legislation, and travel writers
Pacific wariness of the new AUKUS alliance and the nuclear element. Digital surveillance capacity has been increased by new national security legislation. And…
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US take on AUKUS, Lebanon's new PM and the James Webb telescope
Bruce Shapiro on the US analysis of the AUKUS submarine deal, Kareem Chehayeb on the new government in Lebanon and the launch of the James Webb telescope
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, the new AUKUS alliance and the rise of stoicism
Laura Tingle has the latest from Canberra, Richard Tanter discusses the strategic implications of the new AUKUS deal and Matthew Sharpe looks at the increasing…
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Sewing to survive in Auschwitz and the fate of the displaced colonial ayahs and amahs
Lucy Adlington recounts the story of 25 women who sewed to survive in Auschwitz. And the ayahs and amahs who travelled to their colonial employers' home…
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Ian Dunt's Britain, Angela Merkel's legacy, and clocks in history
A UK Cabinet shuffle is hours away, and there's a Brexit-related goods shortage due to a lack of truck drivers. An analysis of the contribution of the…
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Bruce Shapiro, Myanmar's prodemocracy movement and the work of a colonial illustrator
The latest on the recall election in California, the current state of the pro-democracy movement in Myanmar and the life and work of George French Angas, a…
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Laura Tingle, doing business in China and a 9/11 musical
Laura Tingle on the latest from Canberra, Chinese entrepreneur and author Desmond Shum on doing business in China and school teacher Diane Davis on a how her…
Late Night Live — Full program podcastRemembering 9-11 and its aftermath
Sharon Premoli tells the remarkable story of her escape from the 80th floor of the World Trade Tower and how it set her on a path for justice. Mahmood Fazal's…
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Indigenous update, talking to science deniers and researching ancient worlds in Western Australia
Shahni Wellington reports on vaccination in indigenous communities, and the new indigenous member of The Wiggles. Boston University philosopher Lee McIntyre…
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US politics, General Soeharto and unravelling jeans
Bruce Shapiro on the latest in US politics, journalist David Jenkins on his new book about former Indonesian President General Soeharto and fashion activist…
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Laura Tingle on Canberra, Emily O'Gorman on the Murray Darling and Arnold Zable on PEN
Laura Tingle on the lack of transparency in Canberra, Emily O'Gorman on the Murray Darling wetlands and Arnold Zable on the 100th anniversary of PEN
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The brumby wars and modern art and madness
The Australian Alps are the location of a bitter battle over the increasing number of brumbies in the area and the story of when modern art and madness meet a…
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UK politics, rural GPs in Australia and a land title fight in the Pilbara
Ian Dunt on the latest UK politics, Dr Michael Clements on the pressure on rural GPs and a David and Goliath battle over mining in the Pilbara.
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US politics, future nature and talking rabbits
Bruce Shapiro on the latest from the US, Elizabeth Kolbert on flawed attempts to control nature and Madlen Ziege on how animals and plants talk to each other
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Canberra capers, water trading and Paralympian Kevin Coombs
Laura Tingle on the latest divisions in Canberra, Stuart Kells on the high risks of water trading and Kevin Coombs on his Paralympic career as a wheelchair…
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The Taliban: their identity and how they will govern
We catch up with Afghan journalist Bilal Sarwary who has left Afghanistan and talk to three researchers on Afghanistan who look to the history of the Taliban…
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Pacific update, Exxon at Guyana and medieval public health
The Pacific Forum chair has made a direct jibe at Australia over climate change. Exxon is running a highly risky oil drilling project off the coast of Guyana…