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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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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...
The Australian who was key to the creation of Israel
IN 1947, Herbert Vere "Doc" Evatt was Australia's external affairs minister and the appointed chair of the United Nation's Ad-Hoc Committee on the Pal...
A rich man obsessed with Mars: welcome to the 1890s
At the turn of the 20th century, one American became obsessed with the idea of life on Mars, and carried his obsessions into a public movement that ma...
Surviving Malka Leifer: a decades-long struggle for justice
The new documentary Surviving Malka Leifer reveals the inside-story of the Malka Leifer saga, when three sisters from Melbourne's ultra-Orthodox Jewis...
The man who brought salmon to Tasmania
In the mid-1800s, Tasmanian sheep farmer James Youl embarked on a fanciful mission, to transport live Atlantic salmon eggs from the northern hemispher...
Nila Ibrahimi: a girl's right to sing in Afghanistan
When Nila Ibrahimi was 13 and living in Kabul, the local government banned girls from singing. She sang anyway, and was part of a protest movement tha...
Ian Dunt's UK: British Labour conference, Farage in the polls and Tony Blair
Ian Dunt explores the political culture surrounding the UK’s party conference season, considers whether Reform’s Nigel Farage has become the default O...
Threads of Empire: history's most coveted carpets
For centuries, carpets have been coveted by shahs, emperors, conquerors and chieftains. Historian Dorothy Armstrong tells the stories of twelve fascin...
ASIC licenses a stablecoin for the first time. Wait... what's a stablecoin?
ASIC, the Australian financial regulator, has licensed a stablecoin for the first time in its history. A stablecoin is a type of cryptocurrency, and w...
Mark Kenny's Canberra: Albanese champions Australia's role on the world stage
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is on his way home after announcing Australia's intention to run for a position on the UN Security Council at his spee...
Why people loved - and feared - Adelaide's first policewoman, Kate Cocks
Kate Cocks was a formidable woman. Appointed to the South Australian Police Force in 1915 at the age of 40, she was given the same salary and powers o...
Bandung 1955: when the Global South united to prevent war between China and the US
The 1955 Bandung Conference in Indonesia, was an historic meeting of 29 Asian and African nations - the largest gathering of non-European nations the...
What happened to NGOs?
In the 1990s, NGOs (non government organisations) delivered more official development assistance than the entire U.N. system. Now, increasing anti-NGO...
What the data actually says about young Australian voters
When Australians went to the polls in May's federal election, Generation Z and Millennials outnumbered baby boomers at the ballot box. What does this...
How privacy law is taking over from defamation suits
Journalist and former presenter of Media Watch, Richard Ackland, looks at how Australia's privacy laws are being used in place of expensive defamation...
Where does Nepal go from here?
A flash revolution toppled Nepal's government earlier this month, as protests from young people over a social media ban quickly escalated into violenc...
Bruce Shapiro's USA: More Kirk fallout tests America's commitment to free speech
Returning: Jimmy Kimmel. Not returning: the dozens of academics fired for comments on Charlie Kirk. America's love of free speech is being tested by K...
Donald Trump is letting US corporations off the hook - Public Citizen report
US President Donald Trump was elected on a law and order platform, but consumer and public affairs watch organisation, Public Citizen, Trump’s adminis...
Mark Kenny's Canberra: Australia recognises Palestine as Albanese heads to the UN General Assembly
Mark Kenny examines the political path to Australia recognising Palestine ahead of the UN General Assembly and what it means for our relationship with...
Ritual: the world’s first collection of Muslim-Australian poetry
Poetry has been part of Muslim expression since ancient times; from the 8th century, poetry flourished in Arabic, Persian, and later Urdu and Turkish....
Has the CIA lost its way?
Founded in 1947, the CIA was established under the mission 'know thine enemy'. Now, under US President Donald Trump, the agency is being gutted. Pulit...
Australian war memorial withdraws literary prize awarded to author and journalist Chris Masters
The Australian War Memorial has decided not to award a prestigious literary prize to journalist Chris Masters for a book about alleged war criminal Be...
Humiliation — the "nasty edge" of politics
Many emotions drive politics and culture: ambition, greed, altruism, anger. But what about humiliation? An Australian anthropologist makes the case th...
The Patagonia story: how to make a fortune and give it all away
Patagonia is an outdoor clothing retailer than has grown into a global giant with a hundred stores around the world and an enormous online business, p...