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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 state of the USA; the nuclear arms race heats up again; Monopoly and the dangers of taxation
Bruce Shapiro brings us the week's news from the US. While all eyes are on the meeting between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin's announcement that…
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Ian Dunt's UK report, Poland's new historical memory law, Kamila Shamsie.
Poisoned Russian spies and Theresa May's speech - Ian Dunt on all the news from the UK; what is behind Poland's new historical memory laws and is the…
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Italian elections; The Killing Season; Islands under threat
Anti-establishment parties in Italy have won the lion's share of the vote, making the creation of a coalition with centre left and conservative parties quite a…
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Washington wash up, President Xi for life and psychology and atonement.
Bruce Shapiro brings us the latest from Washington and we find out if President Xi can change the Chinese constitution to extend his Presidency and also about…
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Laura Tingle's state of the nation; India Now: making (and faking) the news
The figures are mind boggling - India publishes 16,000 daily papers and boasts 600 TV channels. Around 80 per cent of its population reads at least one paper a…
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An economics for the 21st Century; India Now: the problem is caste
What if economics didn't start and end with money, but prioritised the health of human beings and the planet? Economist Kate Raworth argues that the way…
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Corporate Tax cuts; God and State ; Pan-Indian superstar
Who pays and who profits in the Corporate tax debate? Following the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, what is the standing…
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Bruce Shapiro's USA postcard; is the Amazon forest still under threat? Urban farming
Bruce Shapiro on all that's happened Stateside this week. A road trip through the rainforest in the Amazon reveals how it remains under grave threat. Kimbal…
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Class and the digital age; how democracies die
Why have we stopped discussing class in Australia even though it seems key to the disparities in education, housing and health care? A new book argues that you…
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Shapirouette, Asma Jahangir, quantum computing
The latest from Washington and Florida, the remarkable life of Asma Jahangir and who are the winners in the world of quantum computing?
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Tunisia's democracy under pressure; back to the future for Australian IR? The cultural and social history of pockets
In Tunisia mass arrests signal blows against a fragile democracy. The Australian model for industrial relations is under fire from both sides - one calls it…
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Ireland and Brexit; the Tyranny of metrics; Australia's extinction crisis
Managing Ireland and Brexit must be giving Theresa May a headache. Metric fixation: Our obsession with measurement and numbers. With over 1,800 plant and…
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Washington, defence oversight and sex scandals
The revolving door at the Whitehouse continues as more staff leave and many positions remain unfilled, as Australia embarks on a huge defence spend, the risk…
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The road to Modi; Forever Young
The forces of change - economic, social and religious that brought Narendra Modi to power in India. The forces of change - economic, social and religious that…
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Ian Dunt's UK; Robots; Kitchen tales from Egypt and Morocco
The mind-blowing cost of Brexit, the NHS Twitter war and will Cheddar Man redefine what it means to be British? Heavy investment in robot and AI technology is…
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Washington update, is Zuma on the way out and the science of swearing
Bruce Shapiro explains the mysterious Nunes memo, South African President Jacob Zuma faces his biggest challenge and we find out if swearing can be good for…
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Canberra politics; An immigration nation no more?; Yemen war continues
Geopolitics and foreign policy dominated federal politics last week , but with Parliament in session, it's back to jobs and growth. Despite large numbers of…
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Death of Liberalism; Secret Twenties
Conservative academic Patrick J. Deneen’s scorching new book on the demise of Liberalism’s ultimate project: The United States. How Russian spies confused…
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Shapiro on Donald Trump's first State of the Union: China's new radio telescope: On the Couch
From the Dreamers to North Korea, and the 'biggest tax cuts in American history'. This was the most tweeted State of the Union, and according to CNN polling…
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FBI Deputy resigns, kleptocracy on the rise and the Tet offensive 50 years on.
Was the Deputy Director of the FBI forced to resign? How the west facilitates kleptocracy and corruption and we remember the significance of the Tet offensive…
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Ian Dunt's UK report, the TPP - it's alive! The man who escaped execution
Ian Dunt on the tone deaf President's Club and other UK news. After a near death experience the Trans Pacific Partnership has been revived, leaving Trump's US…
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A new year for Zimbabwe; Germ warfare debate reignited; Republican debate
After a coup which deposed Robert Mugabe comes the hard job of getting Zimbabwe back on track. What did reporter Wilfred Burchett and US army scientist Frank…
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Bruce is back, the latest from the Korean peninsular and Indian call centre scams
The US government shut down has been revoked but for how long, can the Winter Olympic Games bring the Korean peninsular closer to peace and how India became…
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Trace: part two
We continue our broadcast of Trace, the true crime podcast that gripped Australians in 2017. A second person of interest emerges within the church. Rachael…
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Trace: part one
In a special Late Night Live Summer special, we bring you Trace. Maria James was stabbed 68 times in her own home. For 37 years, police have failed to solve…
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Catching a serial killer and America's white trash
Detective Steve Fulcher says the system is broken when it comes to catching a serial killer and Nancy Isenberg traces the history of America's white underclass.
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Mobile retirees; Richard Nixon biography
On the road with America's downwardly mobile retirees. Nixon, the President who invented the politics of grievance.
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Nordic nationalism and the agricultural insurgency
What is the relationship between music and the rise of Nordic nationalism and Charles Massey calls for a complete rethink of agricultural practices.
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Kushnerville, Malek Jandali, the history of ABC news
Jared Kushner's tenants complain to the New York Times, Syrian born pianist Malek Jandali tells his story and the history of the ABC news in Australia.
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Behind jihadi lines, women and the law and the birth of the FBI.
Souad Mekhennet describes life reporting from behind jihadi lines, Bri Lee talks about the challenges for women in the law and David Grann tells the remarkable…
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Michael Gorbachev and the history of word processing
Michael Gorbachev was lauded internationally but at home his legacy is not so revered and how did the invention of the word processor affect literature.
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Anne Boleyn, Mata Hari and Hong Kong
What was the impact of Anne Boleyn's early days in the court in the Netherlands, was Mata Hari a villain or victim and the history of protest in Hong Kong.
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Christian women reformers, the concept of the Muslim world and Andrew Jackson re-examined
Surprisingly Christian women organisations were behind some Australian social reforms, what is the history behind the idea of the Muslim world and is Donald…
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Our post-capitalist future and the remarkable Mr Parkinson.
Could the IT revolution be the downfall of capitalism and James Parkinson discovered so much more than the shaky palsy that bears his name.
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The new news, who can press the nukes button and Osama on the lam
How will we get the news in the future, just who can press the nuclear button to instigate a nuclear strike and the fascinating story of Osama bin Laden on the…
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Finding Fibonacci and the great Queen of Spain, Isabella
Leonardo Fibonacci contributed much more to Western civilisation than his infamous sequence and young Queen Isabella transformed Spain into a global power.
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The papal report card
After four years in the papacy, how is the Pope faring on the critical issues of the role of women in the church and the continuing child abuse scandal.
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Valerie Hudson on feminism and terrorism, a history of the Assad dynasty, and the death of Hugh Hefner.
Valerie Hudson explores the link between a country's oppression of women and their likelihood of being involved in international conflict, the long…
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Paul Robeson and Patrick Cockburn
Paul Robeson managed to push his political beliefs on the strength of his prodigious talents and Patrick Cockburn shares his insights on journalism and the…
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Lyndal Roper on Martin Luther and Yuri Slezkine on the House of Government in Moscow.
Lyndal Roper joins us to mark 500 years since Martin Luther pinned his theses to the castle door in Wittenberg and Yuri Slezkine gives the perspective on the…
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David Marr on Pauline Hanson and the life and times of Chuck Berry
David Marr on Pauline Hanson and the early adventures of the remarkable Chuck Berry.
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Joe Turow on privacy and Anne Applebaum on the Red Famine
Joe Turow explains how retailers know a lot about you through your smart phone use and Anne Applebaum takes us back to the famine in Ukraine created by Stalin…
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Empathy, Saddam Hussein and Pupfluencers
Paul Bloom believes there is an argument against empathy, John Nixon recounts his debriefing of the surprisingly charming Saddam Hussein and how to become a…
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Alberto Manguel on curiosity
Curiosity can lead to danger, but also into discovery.
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Shashi Tharoor and the Amazon economy
Shashi Tharoor describes the de-industralisation of India under British rule and Lina Khan discusses the rise and rise of Amazon.
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Kate Summerscale on true crime reporting
Kate Summerscale has won the prestigious Samuel Johnson Award for non-fiction. Her recent book covers Victorian era crimes including child murder.
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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…
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Our panel of opinionated experts looks back at 2017
2017 was a year like no other; bringing in change on macro and micro levels. How much of what happened really mattered? Our panel weighs in
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The great derangement; Mosquitoes; US nukes
India's great novelist Amitav Ghosh investigates our inability to deal directly with the crisis presented by climate change. Two scientists weigh in on how…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra capers; the war in Yemen; Pentridge jail's latest incarnation
The government gets a new spring its step with a much needed boost in the polls. The split between the anti-Saud coalition opens up one more deadly complexity…
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What will the banking inquiry look into? The National party's identity crisis. The history of dissent in Australian universities.
At long last the Turnbull government announces a 'regrettable but necessary' royal commission into the state of the banks. What will the inquiry uncover and…