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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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Ian Dunt: Trump’s tariff strategy and the limits of UK influence, and just who is Stephen Miller?
As US President Donald Trump eyes the UK with tariff threats over Greenland, i Paper columnist and UK correspondent, Ian Dunt, examines Keir Starmer’s...
Bruce Shapiro on Trump's first year plus a Royal finance scandal
Bruce Shapiro looks back at how US President Donald Trump has changed the world in one year, and how the world is responding to his plans for a "Board...
Crikey editor Bernard Keane on the political response to the Bondi shooting, and two legal analysts discuss the hate speech legislation
Bernard Keane looks at the political ramifications of the Bondi shooting, and legal experts Katharine Gelber and Greg Barns discuss the limitations of...
LNL Summer: Preventing war in space, plus the rampage of Australia's last outlaws
While we've all been distracted with what's happening on Earth, an Australian lawyer has been helping the United Nations to draft the rules of resourc...
LNL Summer: Unearthing more of Pompeii, and a Hollywood shark-hunter in 1930s Australia
The Director of Pompeii Archaeological Park, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, shares some of the latest discoveries from the buried Roman city, as new areas are e...
LNL Summer: John Menadue critiques Australia's media and our relationship with the United States
John Menadue has been at the heart of Australian public life for over fifty years, working for the Whitlam, Fraser and Hawke governments. He oversaw t...
LNL Summer: Living rivers, and our obsession with Mars
Environmental lawyers around the world have successfully made the case that rivers have rights, a movement that renowned science writer Dr. Robert Mac...
LNL Summer: Journalists Hanna Rosin and Lauren Ober on seeking truth in Trump's America
Acclaimed US journalists and podcast collaborators with The Atlantic Hanna Rosin and Lauren Ober join David Marr in-studio to discuss the MAGA women w...
LNL Summer: Palestinian psychiatrist on the trauma in Gaza, and a yarn about wool and war
Drawing on her expertise in mental health and trauma studies, Palestinian psychiatrist, Doctor Samah Jabr, explores how the trauma of displacement and...
LNL Summer: An Indigenous way of seeing the past, plus making shade cool again
What can we learn from Indigenous perspectives on Australian history? Two historians, one Indigenous and one not, explore new and very, very old ways...
LNL Summer: The feather detective, and the life of Emily Kam Kngwarray
If you left a feather at an American crime scene during the 20th century, chances are that Roxie Laybourne would be called. Laybourne was "The Feather...
LNL Summer: prison architecture, who invented 'jaywalking', and why keyboards are QWERTY
Should prison architecture be used for punishment, or could it be used to create hope, instead? 'Jaywalking' is being decriminalised in some US states...
LNL Summer: farewell Laura Tingle plus our love of outdoor cinema
After 30 years of appearances on Late Night Live Laura Tingle shared her memories of Australian politics and her favourite LNL appearances before she...
LNL Summer: Antarctica; tourist hotspot? And Harriet Walker on Shakespeare's women
Is over-tourism coming for Antarctica? As more and more people travel south for awe and adventure, our guest has some proposals to keep Antarctica pri...
LNL Summer: The Roosevelts deadly panda quest, plus is AI a con?
Linguistics Professor Emily Bender, warns that the big tech companies who promote AI, with an almost spiritual zeal, may be off the mark. Plus the biz...
LNL Summer: Was Hitler's filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl complicit in Nazi atrocities?
Leni Riefenstahl has been hailed as one of the greatest directors of all time, even though her most famous films were works of propaganda for Hitler's...
LNL Summer: A legendary Australian publisher, and saving the beach shack
Australian literature was never the same after McPhee Gribble Publishing, the revolutionary women-owned publishing house. The venture was started in 1...
LNL Summer: Trump's war on journalism, plus Robert Dessaix's chameleonic life
Alan Rusbridger, the former editor in chief of The Guardian UK on Trump's push to silence dissenting voices in the media; and writer Robert Dessaix ha...
LNL Summer: Trans poet and comedian Alok Vaid-Menon on being banned by Trump
One of US President Donald Trump's first executive orders was to declare there are only two genders and to ban transgender women from participating in...
LNL Summer: The Aussies the union movement left behind, and what causes a society to collapse?
A new history of the union movement in Australia looks at those often left out of the picture: migrants, women, Indigenous Australians and LGBTQIA+ pe...
LNL Summer: Reckoning with the West, and radio propaganda wars in the Middle East
Journalist Omar El Akkad examines what he sees as the moral contradictions of the West in the face of the Gaza war. And historian Margaret Peacock tra...
LNL Summer: How Australia bought Pollock's 'Blue Poles', plus when America went hair crazy
Political reporter Tom McIlroy tells the story of Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles - the vast paint-splattered canvas, controversially acquired by the Whi...
Geoffrey Robertson on war crimes impunity, plus how bush medicine saved Allied soldiers in WWII
Renowned human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson KC says the killing of two people who survived a US strike on a speed boat off the coast of Venezuela...
Bruce Shapiro and Ian Dunt dissect a wild year in US and UK politics
Late Night Live regulars Bruce Shapiro (USA) and Ian Dunt (UK) reflect on a turbulent, torrid and at times bizarre year in politics on both sides of t...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, Indian Maoists surrender and neglected pools
Anna Henderson looks at the government's control of defence budgets and the blossoming relationship between Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce. In India...
Who was the oldest prisoner in history? Plus the breathtaking Birrundudu drawings revealed
Author and journalist Gideon Haigh uncovers the intriguing tale of Australian man William Richard Wallace - the oldest prisoner in recorded history. W...
What happened to Nauru's riches? Transgender troops fight Trump and antique prosthetics
Nauru briefly had one of the highest per-capita incomes on earth, thanks to phosphate mining - so where did all the money go? Transgender troops kicke...
Anna Henderson's Canberra plus Netanyahu's political survival
Pauline Hanson's burka stunt stymies the Senate while the Labor government is deep in negotiations with the Greens and the Coalition to get changes to...
Simon Winchester on wind: the invisble force that we can't live without
The acclaimed writer Simon Winchester turns his eye to the wind - the invisible force with the power to sustain, relieve, inspire, irritate and destro...
Bruce Shapiro's USA, climate and slavery justice for Jamaica and feral foxes
Bruce Shapiro looks at why Donald Trump has finally agreed to release the Epstein files. After being devastated by yet another hurricane, Jamaica is s...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, inside Myanmar's civil war, and traffic jams in space
After the Liberal Party joined the Nationals in ditching net zero, what is the fate of remaining Liberal Party moderates in city seats? A new document...
Gareth Evans: Australia should do more on nuclear control plus Joseph Stiglitz on income inequality
As Russia and the US both threaten resume nuclear testing and China has tripled its stock of nuclear arms, former foreign minister Gareth Evans says A...
Ian Dunt's UK, police brutality in Brazil, and Australia's earliest computer
What caused the latest drama at the BBC, and what does it say about the state of British media? Ian Dunt explains. As Brazil tries to present its best...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, Sudan's genocidal gold rush and the missing dismissal footage mystery
The Liberal Party looks likely to drop their net zero policy this week, but what will that do for their base? At the heart of the genocide in Sudan is...
Do modern Liberals still back Whitlam's dismissal? Plus, the courageous life of 'Weary' Dunlop
50 years since the Governor-General sacked sitting Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, do modern Liberal MPs still back the Dismissal? Plus, Peter Fitzsimon...
Bruce Shapiro on Mamdani's victory, Trump's obsession with grand buildings, plus an author's win over AI
New Yorkers have shaken the United States's political establishment and delivered 34-year-old socialist Zohran Mamdani a thumping victory in the city'...
The legacy of U Thant plus what Australia's earliest photographs can tell us
U Thant went from being a Buddhist teacher to playing a pivotal role in resolving some of the most dangerous international crises of his time as UN Se...
Anna Henderson's Canberra, banning kids from social media and cracking the Kryptos code
Anna Henderson looks at the political implications for both the Nationals and the Liberals of the Nats' decision to abandon its net zero policy. Can b...
Francesca Albanese: Australia complicit in the Gaza genocide, plus how our polticians got hooked on gambling money
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese says that rather than ensuring Israel respects the basic human rights and self-determination of the Palestini...
The power of Patrick White plus why we should forgive
A new book looks at author Patrick White's startling use of language, his mythic depiction of the Australian landscape and the people who inhabit it,...