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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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Trump's plan to 'take over' Gaza, Brazil's feud with tech titans, and Antarctica's tourism boom
ABC Global Affairs Editor John Lyons digests US President Donald Trump's extraordinary declaration that the United States will 'take over' the Gaza Strip. Why…
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Bruce Shapiro's America, Belarus’ secret program to undermine the EU, and moral panic over female cyclists
Bruce Shapiro on Trump's tariff backtrack. How Belarus is weaponising migrants to destabilise the EU. And moral panic over cycling women in Victorian England.
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, Trump and Netanyahu discuss the West Bank, and Australia's love of cinema
Peter Dutton's political point-scoring on national security and antisemitism. Will Benjamin Netanyahu get what he wants from the second phase of the ceasefire…
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America's history of expelling migrants, and factchecking in a "post-truth" world
US President Donald Trump’s threatened deportation of up to twenty million immigrants brings back tough memories for Japanese Americans who were deported in…
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Vancouver's fentanyl epidemic plus the lost languages of Tibet
Vancouver decriminalised possession of small quantities of drugs for personal use in 2023. Then drug deaths sky-rocketed. So did the experiment fail, or were…
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Elon Musk and Nigel Farage fall out, plus can Trump really buy Greenland?
Ian Dunt on the fall-out between Nigel Farage and Elon Musk. Plus what Greenlanders think of Trump's push to the buy the icy island.
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Australia by numbers, and a history of the beach shack
As the Australia Day weekend comes to a close, leading social researchers Rebecca Huntley and Anthea Hancocks break down what the latest data says about who we…
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When child soldiers grow up and April Ashley - glamour model and trans pioneer
What happens when child soldiers grow up and have children of their own? A new inter-generational study looks at the former child soldiers of Sierra Leone…
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Peter Beinart on being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza, and Coca-Cola's power in China
While anti-Semitic attacks in Australia and America appear to be on the rise, Jewish journalism professor and author Peter Beinart argues that Israel's actions…
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Bruce Shapiro on Trump's America Mark ll and a journalist returns to Syria
Regular US commentator Bruce Shapiro in an extended segment to talk inauguration and more. And journalist Dima Khatib was on the first commercial flight back…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, a fishy deal and eucalypts taking over the world
Laura Tingle looks at how the major parties spent their summer as the shadow election campaign takes off. A landmark agreement for workers on Pacific fishing…
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LNL Summer: Stephen Fry on life, last words and the things he can't do
Stephen Fry (UK) ets candid on storytelling, impostor syndrome, and the things he’s hilariously hopeless at. Wise, witty, and wonderfully self-deprecating—this…
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LNL Summer: Can copyright protect Indigenous art, and the downfall of the Maharajas
Since the 1980s, lawyers have used copyright law to protect Indigenous Art, but is it fit for purpose? When India gained its independence, a huge part of the…
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LNL Summer: New Zealand's ethical escort agency, and pen pals across the Iron Curtain
Antonia Murphy recounts her stranger-than-fiction experience, running an ethical escort agency in New Zealand. And historian Alexis Peris uncovers a bundle of…
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LNL Summer: Opus Dei and the banks, plus the million-year history of birdsong in Australia
The deep connections between banks and the conservative Catholic order, Opus Dei. Plus how Australia's birds had songs millions of years before they reached…
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LNL Summer: Wy the Dreyfus Affair still matters
Alfred Dreyfus was an officer in the French Army when he was arrested 130 years ago for treason, convicted and sent to Devils Island for 5 years in solitary…
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LNL Summer: Who were Australia's black convicts and the truth about absinthe
Santilla Chingaipe tells the stories of the 15 convicts of African descent that came with the first fleet, and the hundreds that followed. How does their story…
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LNL Summer: A biography of Madrid, and the lives of medieval women
Australian-born writer and honorary madrileño Luke Stegemann celebrates the remarkable and under-appreciated Spanish capital of Madrid. And a new exhibition…
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LNL Summer: The paradox of passports, plus Harry Houdini's Australian hijinks
Did you know passports can be ranked, and can be different even within nations? Patrick Bixby examines the history of passports. Plus what Harry Houdini got up…
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LNL Summer: Australia's first novelist revealed plus the race to save the world's islands
Author Henry Savery is credited with being Australia's first novelist, for his work 'Quintus Servinton', but in his new book author and historian Sean Doyle…
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LNL Summer: Celebrating First Nations languages, and a neuroscientist gets to know some cattle
Insights into some of the hundreds of Australian indigenous languages, which continue to evolve. And what can be learnt from spending a lot of time with a…
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LNL Summer: The UK's poet laureate, and the return of the night parrot
UK poet laureate Simon Armitage reflects on his Yorkshire upbringing, writing great royal deaths and coronations, and his fear and love for nature. Plus…
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LNL Summer: Ambon pilgrimage and remembering Kosciuscko
War historian Joan Beaumont makes a pilgrimage to the Indonesian island of Ambon, where hundreds of Australian soldiers died in WWll, and ponders the meaning…
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LNL Summer: the year Paris was in ruins plus why we're hooked on salty fish
Art critic Sebastian Smee on why 1870 was an "annus horribilis" for Paris, but one which produced breathtaking art. Plus, love them or hate them, the humble…
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LNL Summer: Frontline nurses in the AIDS crisis plus the Erm Malley hoax
In the early years of AIDS, nurses were stigmatised along with their patients. Now, their story has been told. Plus the great Australian poetry hoax, eighty…
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LNL Summer: Pamela Churchill Harriman, kingmaker plus Balkan food fight
Writer Sonia Purnell reveals the astonishing life of Pamela Churchill Harriman, one of the most significant women in 20th century politics. Plus why are Balkan…
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LNL Summer: Guatemalan adoption & Wyballena memorials
In Guatemala private adoption agencies sent huge numbers of babies overseas - with many of them indigenous. And on Flinders Island in the Bass Strait…
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LNL Summer: Searching for the soul
What is the soul? Is it a substance, your conscience or simply a creation of the mind? Most societies and religions have some concept of the soul. Historian…
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Exposing Pine Gap, the scam of academic publishing and the brilliance of the notebook
Des Ball had a long and complicated relationship with Pine Gap, which is explored in a new documentary, we ask whether academic publishing should be making big…
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LNL Summer: Lobbying in the US and Captain Cooks last voyage
Brody Mullins investigates how lobbyists have changed politics and society in America and Hamilton Sides tells the story of how and why James Cook's last…
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LNL Summer: William Dalrymple on India's Golden Road
For more than 1000 years, India was a trading powerhouse across the globe - not only of spices, wild animals and gemstones but also of language, philosophy…
Late Night Live — Full program podcast2024 Year in Review
Chas Licciardello, Sashi Perera and First Dog on the Moon - aka Andrew Marlton - join David Marr to survey the profound and the ridiculous from the year we've…
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What made Cyprus rich, and the secrets of the deep oceans
A history of Cyprus that's equal parts epic and personal. Plus, Susan Casey on the life that thrives thousands of metres below the surface of the ocean.
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Bruce Shapiro's America, Syria's uncertain future, and our love of Mars
Bruce Shapiro's take on a remarkable year in American politics - and what to expect in the year to come. What's next for Syria after the stunning fall of the…
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Canberra Politics, Belgium compensation & Bulgarian villages
Laura Tingle and Niki Savva bring their incisive analysis on the year in politics, why the world is looking at a compensation case playing out in Belgium over…
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Robert Manne's intellectual combat, and a history of sex and Christianity
Robert Manne is one of Australia’s foremost public intellectuals. His new memoir traces his intellectual roots, and his own political shifts over 40 years. And…
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The Fairfax dynasty's last hurrah plus what Australia's trees can tell us
The life of James Fairfax, philanthropist, art collector and heir to the Fairfax media dynasty, told through eleven objects, plus what Australia's ancient…
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Ian Dunt's UK, Bob Hawke and the Balibo Five, and the patron saint of the Internet
Ian Dunt's final UK report for 2024 looks at UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's pre-Christmas political re-set and the Irish election results. Historian Shannon…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, North Korean troops in Russia, and poetry's place in Australia
Laura Tingle casts her eye over the last week in Parliament, and the Prime Minister's relationship with his Environment Minister. Why is North Korea sending…
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Why humans think they can subdue nature, and Helen Garner's love of football
Historian Philipp Blom deciphers why humans continue to believe they can subjugate the Earth, tracing ancient stories of dominion back to the Bronze Age. Plus…
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Essays that changed Australia, and beware the Christmas creep
Can an essay change a nation? Meanjin editor Esther Anatolitis believes that some of the essays published over the journal's long history have - including one…
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Bruce Shapiro's America, Australia's submarine fiasco, and the rise of Britishisms
Bruce Shapiro on the dismissal of President-elect Donald Trump's federal cases. We revisit Andrew Fowler's study of Australia's "nuked" submarine deal…
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Laura Tingle and George Megalogenis
Laura Tingle gives her analysis of Labor's plans for the last sitting week of 2024, while George Megalogenis looks forward to 2025, and what the parliament may…
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Imagining a better Australia, and Lech Blaine's miraculous life
Former federal MPs John Brumby and Cheryl Kernot discuss how Australia can make policy progress and find bipartisanship in a world of growing political…
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Marcia Langton on truth telling and Sidney Nolan's African paintings
Marcia Langton on the dashed hopes for truth telling in Australia and Sidney Nolan's paintings of Africa tell a deeper story about his concerns for the future…
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Ian Dunt's UK, who is Barron Trump, and the shark that lives forever
Ian Dunt on what the US election result means for security in the UK and Europe. Journalist Jamie Tahsin investigates the online "manosphere" and Trump's…
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Laura Tingle on the Greens' compromise, and Jon Ronson dissects the politics of conspiracy theories
The Australian Greens have dropped their demand for a climate trigger in the Government's proposed environmental reforms. And British/American journalist and…
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How Australia writes its war history, and the lives of medieval women
Acclaimed historian Peter Stanley on how Australia writes its war histories, and our complicated relationship with memorialisation. And a new exhibition at the…
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How will Trump handle China and Virginia Woolf's brilliant hoax
China expert Geoff Raby says we are seeing a significant global power shift away from Russia and towards China - but how will Donald Trump handle it? In 1910…
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Bruce Shapiro's America, reporting from crisis zones, and the last witch of England
Bruce Shapiro on why the Democrats lost last week's US presidential election. Veteran Al Jazeera reporter Drew Ambrose calls for a greater focus on Asia. And…
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, backtrack at the NACC, and Francesca Albanese's latest report
Laura Tingle on how the Australian parliament is preparing for a second Trump presidency. Geoffrey Watson SC on the National Anti-Corruption Commission's…
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Gaza's damaged heritage, and a biography of Madrid
Archaeologist Ayman Warasnah on the damaged and destroyed cultural sites in Gaza. And a new biography of the the city of Madrid, in which Luke Stegemann argues…
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Late Night Live's US election special 2024
Late Night Live's team of experts bring you their analysis of the US election 2024. What went right for Donald Trump? What went wrong for Kamala Harris?
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Ian Dunt's UK, Japan's gender gap, and a precious bible torn apart
Ian Dunt on the UK Conservative party's new leader and the government's bold new budget. Japan recently elected a record number of female representatives, but…
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Bernard Keane's Canberra, and will Shaun Micallef ever retire?
Bernard Keane says unless we fix housing young people still face huge disadvantage in Australia, even with lower student debt. Plus Shaun Micallef on writing…
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Running an ethical escort agency, and the pen pals across the Iron Curtain
Antonia Murphy recounts how she became the Madam of an escort agency in small town New Zealand. And historian Alexis Peri uncovers ten years of pen pal…
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Who were Australia's black convicts and the truth about absinthe
What truth is there to the mystical powers of absinthe both in the past and its current form? Is it more myth than magic? Evan Rail investigates. And Santilla…
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Bruce Shapiro's America, when chatbot relationships turn sour, and cave painting in the dark
Bruce Shapiro on Trump's Madison Square Garden rally and the final week of the campaign. Also in the US, a mother is suing a chatbot company for deceptive…
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Stephen Fry on life, last words and the things he can't do
Stephen Fry reflects on the power of story-telling, how to counter impostor syndrome and the things he absolutely can’t do.
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Yemen's fight to be free of foreign interference and the Snowy Hydro scheme's 75th birthday
Journalist and human rights advocate Tawakkol Karman Yemen must have self-determination, free of foreign interference, to achieve true democracy and freedom…