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Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast
Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr. This LNL podcast contains the stories in separate episodes. Subscribe to the full podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
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How Australia’s politicians got hooked on gambling
Aussies love to gamble, whether it’s on the horses, down the pokies, at a fancy casino, or, increasingly, betting on their favourite sports team from...
Francesca Albanese: genocide in Gaza would not be happening without the complicity of other countries
'The genocide in Gaza was not committed in isolation, but as part of a system of global complicity.' That's the conclusion of the UN Special Rapporteu...
Forgiveness: do we need more or less?
The Pope forgave the man who shot him in the stomach. Erika Kirk forgave the assassin who killed her husband, Charlie. But what, exactly, is forgivene...
Reflecting on the power Patrick White's prose still holds today
Patrick White was Australia's only Nobel Prize-winning author, renowned for novels like Voss, The Tree of Man, and The Vivisector. His work explored s...
One hundreds years of Australian anthropology: what have we learned?
Anthropology is the study of human cultures, with a strained culture of its own: its practitioners have often been involved in colonial control of nat...
Locals disrupt Trump's deportation blitz in Chicago
On the streets of Chicago, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are busy arresting, detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants as...
Ian Dunt's UK: Prince Andrew fallout and British Labour loses big in Wales
King Charles wants Prince Andrew out of the Royal Lodge, UK Conservatives launch an extreme immigration policy and Labour has suffered its first parli...
Can AI help us talk to whales?
If AI language models can "learn" human languages, and translate between them, could AI also help us to decode what animals are saying? Off the coast...
The Indonesian surveillance company tracking phones all over the world
International investigative journalism outfit ‘Lighthouse Reporter’ found a vast archive of data on the deep web containing thousands of phone numbers...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: why does the Coalition want to split the environment bill in two?
As parliament resumes, Labor has a big bill to push through: changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act, which has...
The ghost of Stalin
Josef Stalin left this earthly realm on March 5, 1953. The circumstances of his death were deeply chaotic – his guards and inner circle were too afrai...
Paul Kelly on the political chaos before The Dismissal
It was 1974 and Canberra was in turmoil. A young Paul Kelly was the chief political correspondent for The Australian newspaper, and covered the mounti...
Did the ancients love like us?
Love is the big emotion, the one that drives our literature and our lives. It has done since antiquity. But when the Greeks and Romans wrote about lov...
Looted Benin Bronzes are returning to West Africa. But will they go on display?
The new Museum of West African Art will open in Benin City, Nigeria next month. It was hoped that the new galleries would display the world's most com...
Why is the world running out of sand?
After water, sand is the most-exploited natural resource in the world, but its use is largely ungoverned, meaning we are consuming it faster than it c...
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Albanese goes to Washington
This week, Australia went to Washington. Our PM, Anthony Albanese, met with Donald Trump in the White House, where Trump signed an agreement about cri...
Suriname – the little South American country that overthrew a despot, elected a woman and discovered oil
Suriname is a small Dutch speaking country in South America. It’s been run by a despot racking up debt and oppressing its citizens. But now they’ve el...
Why did two Australian hospitals cancel Gaza-related speaking events?
Last month, the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne cancelled a scheduled speaking event entitled 'Children and War' amid concerns about staff safety...
Bernard Keane's Canberra: What is Barnaby Joyce up to?
Nationals MP and former leader, Barnaby Joyce has announced he won't run for the seat of New England at the next election. Rumours about that he'll jo...
Journalist Chris Hedges on being cancelled by the National Press Club
Australia’s National Press Club was due to host Pulitzer prize winning journalist, the former Middle East Bureau Chief for the New York Times, Chris H...
Tim Minchin's nipples are just fine, thanks
Tim Minchin turned fifty this year and just ran a marathon for the first time. He's returned home to Australia, with his new album Time Machine, and h...
A way forward for Israel
Israeli-British historian Ilan Pappé, warns that political fractures in Israel are wider than ever. In his new book, he highlights the 2022 right-wing...
The strategy behind Trump's foreign policy chaos - and where it leaves Australia
While Donald Trump’s presidency might seem chaotic from the outside as the US appears to be retreating from its former role as a global superpower, in...
Come fly with me: women in aviation
Commercial aviation really took off after World War Two. Many countries established their own national airlines and women became an integral part of t...
Madagascar has its own Gen Z protesters
A military coup is underway in Madagascar after nationwide protests triggered by chronic power and water outages, poverty and government corruption. T...
Ian Dunt's UK: Keir Starmer in Egypt, and the word on Brexit
Ian Dunt looks at the UK's role in the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, and examines why British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is slamming Brexit.
Esperanto: what happened to the language of optimism?
With a common tongue, could the world solve its problems? In 1887, a Polish eye doctor tried to answer that question by creating a new, easy-to-learn...
Are cloud patterns changing with the climate?
Gavin Pretor-Pinney is the founder of an organisation called the Cloud Appreciation Society, which boasts thousands of members online. His passion has...
Labor waters down its super tax plan
The treasurer has reworked the government's stalled superannuation tax plan, in an effort to push it through the parliament. New polling paints a sorr...
LNL update: Irris Makler on the Gaza peace process
Journalist Irris Makler returns to Late Night Live in the wake of Israel, Hamas and the negotiating parties reaching an agreement on the 'first phase'...
Have we forgotten the value of shade?
On a warming planet, heatwaves are proving increasingly deadly. But in the cities where most of us live, shade can be hard to come by. In ancient time...
Consent on trial: inside the Gisele Pelicot case
Gisele Pelicot became a feminist hero when she waived her right to anonymity after being drugged and raped by her husband and at least fifty other men...
Oliphant: the Australian behind the bomb
Sir Mark Oliphant hasn't had a billion-dollar movie made about him, but — according to the author Roland Perry — maybe he should have. Oliphant was an...
Sanctions and bombing pushing Iran towards China
In June Israel launched a surprise 12 day long attack on Iran. The US joined in, damaging much of their nuclear infrastructure and large parts of Tehr...
Predator-Free by 2050: New Zealand’s high-stakes bid to reclaim its natural heritage
New Zealand has an ambitious mission to become predator-free by 2050, aiming to eradicate all invasive species—such as rats, stoats, and possums—that...
How two years has changed Israel and Gaza
Two years on from Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7th, Israel and Gaza are irrevocably changed. Journalist Irris Makler reflects on the profound so...
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Trump turns troops on "enemy within"
US President Donald Trump is determined to deploy the National Guard in more American cities to support deportation efforts, but a Trump-appointed jud...
Plant hunters: the 19th century orchid mania
'Plant hunting required cunning, resilience, and a seemingly unshakeable sense of entitlement to the resources of other nations.' An account of the hu...
Rutger Bregman wants you to stop wasting your talents and show some 'moral ambition'
Dutch historian and writer Rutger Bregman is good at making wealthy people uncomfortable. In 2019, he called out the billionaires at Davos for their t...
The twisted history of rope
Rope weaves together the fascinating story of one of humanity’s oldest inventions — a simple twist of fibres that literally held the world together. F...