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Late Night Live — Full program podcast
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- Late Night Live — Full program podcast
Bruce Shapiro's USA; Korean war MIAs; Artic
Bruce Shapiro's report from the US. Over 7,000 military personnel are still unaccounted for from the Korean war - including 43 Australians - and newly…
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Canberra capers, sharing financial risk and moving on from torture
Laura Tingle joins us to talk tax again - this time company tax, how and why is financial risk being passed around and the story behind the torture of Sekai…
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Daniel McCarthy's USA; Commemorating Loss; Climate Fiction
The immigration debate; Trump's space force; has the FBI become politicised? In recent years we have seen heated debates over who and what we choose to…
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Bruce Shapiro's state of the nation; Comcast versus Disney; the history and future of fingerprints
Bruce Shapiro on what's happening in the United Sates of Trump; who will win the media battle of the giants and win Fox away from Rupert Murdoch - Comcast or…
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Laura Tingle's week in politics; reporting under Duterte; how post-racial is the US?
Will tax cuts get through a Senate which is ever-changing - and is the ABC for sale or not? Maria Resse winner of the Golden Pen of Freedom is a reporter in…
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Ian Dunt's UK report; the Sultan's feminist revolution; women in film
Ian Dunt on all the week's news from the UK; in Yogyakarta a Sultan's proposal that his daughter succeed him to the throne has caused stirs but is this a…
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The Good Muslim debate, weaponising space and the history of pneumatic tubes
Should the government decide what makes a good Muslim, do we need a space army and the cutting-edge technology of pneumatic tubes.
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Bruce Shapiro's USA; The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia: World Cup and geopolitics
Two very different summits in Canada and Singapore. The history and rise to political and business power of Russia's criminal gangs.
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The new encryption bill, Mark Oliphant's secrets, censorship in the age of Me Too.
Should we allow law enforcement to break into encrypted information on our phones? The secrets scientist Mark Oliphant shared that had a huge impact on the…
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The big news story that's not in the news, How neoliberalism ate itself, Expats and existentialists in post-war Paris
A sting operation in India has uncovered the collusions between the mainstream media and vested interests. But you won't be reading about it.
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Laura Tingle, Yanis Varoufakis and a look inside dogs brains
The latest from Canberra from Laura Tingle, Yanis Varoufakis on the Italian political chaos, and in an MRI breakthrough - how dogs brains are wired?
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Public Broadcasting; Benjamin Netanyahu biography
What's the role of public broadcasters - and how is it affected by a changing media landscape? Netanyahu's story is Israel's story
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Ian Dunt's UK, US press unions and algae's green revolution
Ian Dunt rounds up the latest news from Little Britain, US newsrooms vote to unionise and could algae save the world?
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Bruce Shapiro's USA; the start up which fooled the world; Oscar Wilde's later years
This week in the United States of Trumplandia; How Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos conned politicians and investors to build a ten billion dollar company based on…
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Canberra capers and psychedelics under the spotlight
How committed are the coalition to corporate tax cuts and Michael Pollan looks asks whether psychedelics can change our world view?
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Saudi women's driving debacle; Blackwater in China; Phillip Roth
When Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman came to power in Saudi Arabia there were great hopes for reform but the arrest of activists who campaigned for the right…
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Banking and Franchising - a dangerous mix; The transformation of a radical cleric; Swarm intelligence and insect infrastructure
Small business has been the focus of the Banking Royal Commission this week. Who is in the hot seat? Newsweek once branded Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr the most…
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22nd May, 2018
'Sultan Erdogan' rallies the Turkish diaspora in Bosnia. Bruce Shapiro reports on US politics.
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Canberra capers, Ireland's abortion vote, the Africans living in Guangzhou
Laura Tingle joins us for the latest from Canberra, as Ireland's vote on abortion gets closer, so is the result according to polls and the fascinating life of…
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Ian Dunt's UK, Google Duplex, life on a cow farm
Ian Dunt on all the new from the UK; is Google Duplex able to replicate the human brain? Going back to the family cow farm.
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Gaza; New Caledonia's independence referendum and why bats are misunderstood.
Is there any chance of peace in Gaza? Do voters in New Caledonia's independence debate want 'Frexit'? And, last but not least, we get to the deep, dark root of…
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Bruce Shapiro's USA; How curiosity can change the world; Marcia Langton's Welcome to Country
American Jews, Israel and Trump's Middle East policy. Can a love of certainty lead to nationalism, xenophobia and fundamentalism. Where do you want to go for…
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Canberra capers, the Iranian deal and the ethics of adopting heritage in India
Laura joins us to interpret the polls which are telling us wildly divergent stories, is regime change Trump's goal behind pulling out of the Iran deal, and in…
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David Christian on the idea of Big History
David Christian's new book explores the idea of a shared humanity in which our Paleolithic ancestors and Neolithic farmers play as important a role as the…
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On shaky ground: PNG's natural gas project: Hopes fade on Manus for Behrouz Boochani: The science of jellyfish
1. PNG’s LNG project was supposed to deliver billions to PNG’s economy and people. Instead it’s delivered billions to western operators and the local…
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Bruce Shapiro; Bangladesh; Dictator literature
New York Resignations, West Virginia Senate campaign and waiting on the Iran deal decision. The indigenous people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts are facing…
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Laura Tingle's budget preview and the importance of precision engineering
Laura Tingle explains why Santa is coming early this year and Simon Winchester explains the significance of precision engineering in getting us to where we are…
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Ian Dunt's UK, Johann Hari uncovers the causes of depression; Steve Coll on Pakistan's Directorate S
The fallout from the Windrush scandal and all the other news from the UK with Ian Dunt; Steve Coll's new book about the US's wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan…
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Iran Nuclear deal; Richard Lloyd Parry; An Ethiopian tale
Can the Iran nuclear deal survive after May 12th? Richard Lloyd Parry's book, Ghosts of the Tsunami, tackles the giant story of Japan's 2011 catastrophe by…
- Late Night Live — Full program podcast
Washington update; Rastas in Ethiopia and twentieth-century peacemakers.
Bruce Shapiro brings us the latest from the U.S., we find out why Jamaican Rastafarians are returning home to Africa and ask what lessons can be learnt from…
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Canberra capers, the trial of an African dictator and the new glamourous CEO society
Laura Tingle joins us with the latest from Canberra in the lead up to the May budget, we find out what are the repercussions of the trial of the former…
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Daniel McCarthy's America; Why the incel movement hates women; Netflix: The battle for our eyeballs
As the mid term elections approach both parties seem stuck in a vision of the past. Why is President Trump attracting such strong backing from conservative…
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Mystery aeroplanes; The Secret wonders of structures
Dreaming of war, seeing aeroplanes, the mystery aeroplane panic in Australia 1918."Engineering," says Indian-born structural engineer Roma Agrawal, "has…
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Washington washup, West Papuan violence and the original Siamese twins
Bruce Shapiro dissects whether the Democratic Party's decision to sue is a good one, we find out the sources of the continuing violence in West Papua and we…
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Laura Tingle reports on the week in politics, Europe shuts down on migration and India Now, the great democratic experiment
Fallout from the banking Royal Commission continues. The number of migrants arriving in Europe has abated, so why does anti-migrant sentiment continue to drive…
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Ian Dunt's UK; the long history of expelling diplomats; populism
Theresa May faces the heat on several fronts as she tries to navigate the strikes against Syria and CHOGM; does expelling diplomats have any actual effect - or…
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18th April, 2018
Wife to one president, mother to another, Barbara Bush who died today was in her own way an unconventional political figure. Can liberals and conservatives…
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Cohen and Comey, blasphemy in Indonesia on the rise and what happened when NZ sent us their convicts
Former FBI Director James Comey reveals all in his book while Michael Cohen tries unsuccessfully to hide all, the complaints of blasphemy against Sukwamati…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra update; what did the bombings in Syria accomplish? India now - building cities for a billion people
In its second phase, the banking commission took on financial planners and uncovered some uncomfortable truths. What are the political legal and human…
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Daniel McCarthy's US report; The bureaucracy behind ISIS; The architectural sacking of Paris
The announcement by Paul Ryan, Republican speaker of the House, that he is quitting politics, has implications for the mid term elections and for the factions…
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Lula's arrest; China: end of an era?; Death of Stalin
The political consequences of the conviction and imprisonment of former president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Is it possible that China, the world's…
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Bruce Shapiro's USA report; the cultural history of mesmerism; Shokoofeh Azar
Bruce Shapiro on the state of the nation; in 19th century America, putting people into trances for fun or profit became a fast spreading fad and a central part…
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Ian Dunt on the state of UK politics, the Malaysian election, the long history of Saudi-US relations
In a chaotic week for the UK, Jeremy Corbyn faced accusations his party is anti-semitic and Boris Johnson faced charges he may have misled the public. The…
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4th April , 2018
This week untouchable communities across India turned out to protest the watering down of a law designed to protect them. The very curious history of the Big…
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Daniel McCarthy's USA; Muslim women and the economy; who needs the Commonwealth?
Trump's constant reshuffling raises fears that his policies are also changing with each new appointment. Are those fears overblown? In last decade millions of…
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Cambridge Analytica's Indian adventure: History and Australia's Future
Among the claims Cambridge Analytica has made is that it swung elections in India and helped its clients achieve landslide victories. But one of their Indian…
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Bruce Shapiro; TPP and Free Trade; Swarming drones
The stormy politics of the Trump administration. What are the fair alternatives to free trade agreements? Drone warfare: the death of precision
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Ian Dunt's UK report, the factories that shaped us, school for scandal in Japan
Russian spies, Boris Johnson, John Pilger; the intrigue and the conspiracies never stop in the UK. A new book shows how the history of factories is the history…
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Homelessness; Geoffrey Robertson's autobiography
For over 25 years artist and photographer Andres Serrano has been documenting homeless people on the streets of New York and elsewhere.
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Washington wash up, Cambridge Analytica explained and Anne Aly tells her story.
More firings in Washington, the Cambridge Analytica data breach explained and Senator Anne Aly tells the story of her journey form Cairo to Canberra.
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Australia's ties to Vietnam; Saudi Arabia's anti-corruption drive; Living the low carbon life in India
As the regional dynamics of South East Asia shift, and the tension over the South China Sea continues, the Vietnamese Prime Minister Mr Phuc and Malcolm…