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Late Night Live — Full program podcast
Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr.
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- Late Night Live — Full program podcast
Bruce Shapiro's USA; Did the Saudis kill Jamal Khashoggi? China's long struggle over the South China sea
Kavanaugh, Democrats are 'evil' and the midterms approach. Death or disappearance in Istanbul, the disturbing disappearance of Saudi journalist, Jamal…
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Laura Tingle on the politics of advertising on the Sydney Opera House and Australian film-maker James Ricketson gives his first in-depth post-prison interview.
Laura discusses why federal politicians are buying into the Sydney Opera House stoush and Australian film-maker James Ricketson reveals what life was like…
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Daniel McCarthy, Balkan politics, the story of Tasmania
Can the GOP hope to attract working class and black voters in large numbers? As an election approaches, confusion is the order of the day in the Balkans…
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Deep fakes: Who can you trust; The cascading impacts of climate change; Jho Low - the whale that got away
As natural disasters become wilder and more regular their impacts will go well beyond immediate displacement and death; Former Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib…
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Bruce Shapiro's USA; Mexico 1968; Daughters of freedom
Kavanaugh's FBI investigation, NAFTA has gone but is USCMA that different, and why did Trump and Kim Jong-Un 'fall in love'? Students protesting in Mexico City…
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Jack Thompson
Jack Thompson sits down with Phillip for a wide ranging interview
- Late Night Live — Full program podcast
The rise of smug politics; Ian Dunt on the UK; The natural wildness of English
-How did the Left alienate the working class it once claimed to represent?
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Trade war - or not? Spyware to fear. Wendy Whiteley
A conspiracy theory grows in Beijing around the trade war. Is there a spy hiding in Peter Dutton's new Access and Assistance Bill - and how afraid should we…
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Bruce Shapiro's USA; Palestinians; Citrus Mafia
Kavanaugh's accusers, has Rosenstein resigned as Deputy AG or will Trump fire him? The Trump administration is making good on its promise to reset policy…
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Canberra capers, a new look at foreign policy and the Myers Briggs personality test exposed.
Laura Tingle tries to keep up with action man, Prime Minister Scott Morrison, the history of Australian foreign policy from before the Europeans arrived and…
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Daniel McCarthy, the future of emerging markets, all about fungi
A quarter century ago political scientist Samuel Huntington published an essay which may explain the rise of populism. Was Turkey the canary in the coalmine…
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Australian architecture's problem with homegrown talent, Puerto Rico one year on and imagining interstellar travel.
We ask why Australian architects are highly regarded abroad but under-recognised at home, discuss Puerto Rican politics post-Hurricane Maria and imagine the…
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Bruce Shapiro's USA; Bougainville; Hugh Stretton's legacy
Bruce Shapiro reports from the USA on the latest news in politics. Is the future financial independence of Bougainville inextricably tied to mining? The social…
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Leadership, lobbying and life in Hydra in the 1960s
Laura Tingle talks about our search for leadership, do lobbyists have too much influence in Canberra and we delve into the literary commune established on the…
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Bruce Shapiro, how dinosaurs died, Samuel Beckett
Bruce Shapiro on the week in Trump's USA. The theory that a giant asteroid struck earth 66 million years ago and wiped out dinosaurs and other species has…
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UK report, Brazil's museum fire and political uncertainty, Spying on whales
Have Boris Johnson's extra-marital affair, and his controversial 'suicide vest' comments about Brexit dashed his leadership ambitions? Was Brazil's National…
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Germaine Greer and Bob Carr in conversation
Germaine Greer and Bob Carr talk about politics, society and everything in between with Phillip
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Canberra capers, Tasmanian Devils face new challenge, should we be heading to the moon?
Laura Tingle reports on the new Scott Morrison led government, we find out the latest in the battle to save the Tasmanian Devils and we discuss the benefits of…
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Churchill and Brexit; the enduring power of Little Women
Where do Brexiteers like Boris Johnson get the idea that Britain is a super power, able to bend the world to its will? Well, one source is in the mythology…
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India's Urban Naxals, Russia's super-rich and 1890s German radicals.
We find out the reasons behind the recent arrests of Indian activists, ask how Russia's 'robber barons' morphed into a new social class and delve into the…
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Bruce Shapiro's USA; Diesel laws; Laurie Matheson, Spy
Bruce Shapiro's regular report on the week's news and politics from the US. As the health impacts of diesel fuel become more well known, countries from Korea…
- Late Night Live — Full program podcast
Another week in Canberra, Australian links to the UAE and the Blue Lake of Melbourne
How clean are the new Prime Minister's hands in the coup against Malcolm Turnbull, how much involvement has Australia had in assisting the UAE to prepare for…
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Daniel McCarthy's USA, deaths in custody, the billionaires Raj
Daniel McCarthy on the outcome of this week's primaries and whether Google favours the left; why are there still so many indigenous deaths in custody 27 years…
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Bruce Shapiro's USA; History of Broken Politics in Australia; What the value of culture?
John McCain in life, politics and death.
- Late Night Live — Full program podcast
A new Prime Minister, Venezuela and the churches after the Royal Commission
What can we expect from a Scott Morrison Primer Ministership, the crisis deepens in Venezuela, the churches look to the future after the Royal Commission.
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Ian Dunt's UK; Israel's targeted assassinations
Ian Dunt on the week in politics and news in the UK; author Ronen Bergman on the secret history of Israel's targeted assassinations.
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Trump's worst hour; what's up with Elon Musk and the obsessive search for Shakespeare's library.
Bruce Shapiro brings us the latest on Paul Manafort's conviction and Michael Cohen's guilty plea, we investigate Elon Musk's troubled Tesla tweets and join the…
- Late Night Live — Full program podcast
Bruce Shapiro's USA; Britain's struggle with America in the Middle East; Chicken nuggets and the decline of capitalism
Bruce Shapiro's regular report on the week's news and politics from the US. How Britain lost its dominance of the Middle East after World War 2.Could the…
- Late Night Live — Full program podcast
Canberra chaos, Indigenous theatre debate, Napoleon's Australie
Malcolm Turnbull faces another difficult day as leader, we discuss whether it is time for a National Indigenous Theatre Company and we find out just how close…
- Late Night Live — Full program podcast
Daniel McCarthy's week in US politics, superbugs versus super drugs; the rise of alt-right America
Ahead of the November mid term elections, the polls are all over the place. The man who discovered penicillin warned against its over-use, now what he feared…
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James Ricketson's jail sentence; data wars; white racism
James Ricketson is still in jail in Cambodia. How bad for our health is big data? The woman helping white people own their own racism.
- Late Night Live — Full program podcast
Bruce Shapiro; Currency Chaos ;Tibet and Climate change
Bruce Shapiro's regular report on the week's news and politics from the US.As the Turkish lira keeps falling in value, the fear of financial contagion returns…
- Late Night Live — Full program podcast
The NEG explained, Turkish tariff tweets and algorithms you can trust.
Laura Tingle does her best to explain the politics of the NEG, the Turkish economy goes into freefall and we find out just which algorithms you can trust.
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Ian Dunt, where is Sky going? illuminated manuscripts
Ian Dunt talks burquas and Boris; does Sky News have a plan - and what is it? the pleasures of manuscripts.
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The Dark Art of Super: Scrap yard planet - what really happens to your recycling?: Willi Davies on the last 100 days of World War One.
The Banking Royal Commission is attempting to shine a spotlight into the murky corners of super. Australia's superannuation industry is worth $2.6 trillion…
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Bruce Shapiro; Long history of drought assistance in Australia
Bruce Shapiro's regular report on the week's news and politics from the US. Can we have a new national drought policy in Australia , or do we simply repackage…
- Late Night Live — Full program podcast
Canberra capers, Zimbabwe election and the German culture wars
The Prime Minister faces numerous climate challenges, the Zimbabwean elections turned violent after the polls closed and Berlin's theatre scene is under attack…
- Late Night Live — Full program podcast
Daniel McCarthy's USA, what really drove Australia to war in 1914 and architecture's first responders.
Daniel McCarthy explains how lobbying and Paul Manafort's luxe lifestyle came to be on trial in Washington DC, we ask what motivated Australia's participation…
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Iran Showdown; Decline of the US century?;Indian Magic
Trump promises a showdown with Iran, but then promises to talk 'without preconditions'. As the US withdraws from global leadership, the big question is what -…
- Late Night Live — Full program podcast
Bruce Shapiro, Julie Bindel, Jonestown revisited
Bruce Shapiro on all the news from the US. Feminist and human rights campaigner Julie Bindel says sex work is badly paid, exploitative and a poor choice for…
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Analysis of Super Saturday results, the China-USA trade war and the history of the Nobel Prize
Laura Tingle joins us for her analysis of Super Saturday, we find out what the Chinese take on the US-China trade war is and the scandal that has rocked the…
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Fairfax meets Nine; the forgotten war in Yemen; author Majok Tulba
Just months after media laws were changed, Fairfax Media and Nine Entertainment have announced a planned merger - who wins and who loses from the deal? Few…
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Bruce Shapiro's US, South Sudanese gangs and the al-Qaeda super-spy
Bruce decodes the US and Iran's mother of all Twitter wars, we uncover the truth about South Sudanese 'crime gangs' and meet the former al-Qaeda bomb-maker who…
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Canberra, Pakistan and how birds have been named.
Laura Tingle joins us from the campaign trail in Longman, the election in Pakistan is unravelled and we explore the curious history of how birds were named.
- Late Night Live — Full program podcast
On curiosity
Curiosity can lead to danger, but also into discovery.
- Late Night Live — Full program podcast
Shashi Tharoor on empire; the rise of Amazon
Shashi Tharoor describes the de-industrialisation of India under British rule and Lina Khan discusses the rise and rise of Amazon.
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Journalism and crime
Kate Summerscale has won the prestigious Samuel Johnson Award for non-fiction. Her recent book covers Victorian era crimes including child murder.
- Late Night Live — Full program podcast
The Great Strike of 1917
In August 1917 around 100,000 workers went on strike to protest against changes to working conditions. This panel of experts discuss the causes and…
- Late Night Live — Full program podcast
A look back at Frankenstein
The questions raised in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein remain relevant today.
- Late Night Live — Full program podcast
Washington update, US socialism and a very English scandal
Bruce profiles new Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett M Kavanaugh, we ask what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's win means for US socialism and backtrack to one of…
- Late Night Live — Full program podcast
Canberra capers, legislating the national interest, fierce Australia
What's going on with the polls, a look at legislation passed and proposed to protect us from terrorists and cyber attack and the spookiness of the wide open…
- Late Night Live — Full program podcast
Daniel McCarthy; Germany's migration crisis; the swimming suffragettes
NATO, the trade war and Charles Krauthammer - Daniel McCarthy's USA report. Is a decades-old alliance between the two major parties in Germany about to come…
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Will the Ramsay Centre find a new home?; Big brother is watching; Finding Nessie
Will the Ramsay Centre find a new home?
- Late Night Live — Full program podcast
Bruce Shapiro's US update, can Mexico's new President deliver radical change and forensic crime-solving in Asia.
Bruce discusses Supreme Court prospects, we ask who is Mexico's AMLO and find out how forensic evidence is playing a vital role in modern crime-solving in Asia.
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Canberra capers, being a doctor on Nauru, and a new book about the men of the Dunera
Laura Tingle joins Phillip to decipher the latest from Canberra, Dr Nick Martin shares his experiences as a doctor on Nauru and Jay Winter brings new…
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Ian Dunt's UK; the aftermath of the Malaysian elections; the history of the piano
Ian Dunt takes us through what's making news in the UK. After the Malaysian election questions remain about whether Mahathir can re-establish independent state…
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Saudi update; gay hate crimes and Hernando Colón's 'Library of Everything'
Is Saudi Arabia really driving change for women, Sydney's gay-hate murders re-examined and how a sixteenth-century library in Seville became the world's first…