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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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Gerontocracy - how the dominance of the old is holding America back
The wealth and power of American elders was epitomised in the US 2024 election, with Joe Biden vs Donald Trump. But elder power spreads beyond politic...
Simon Sebag Montefiore on the making of the modern Middle East
Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore traces 125 years of war, revolution, upheaval and revival in the Middle East. From the final days of the Ottoman Empi...
The camera in the colony: Australia's oldest surviving photographs
In May 1841, French sea captain Augustin Lucas arrived in Sydney with the first camera ever seen in colonial Australia. A new book offers a comprehens...
Are Australian weapons being used in Sudan's civil war?
A UN Security Council report has found 'credible' evidence that weapons and ammunition are making their way from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) into S...
Bruce Shapiro's USA: has Trump betrayed American beef farmers?
Our regular commentator on US politics explains why American cattle producers have a beef with President Trump. Many of them Trump supporters, they fe...
Bruce Shapiro's USA: has Trump betrayed American beef farmers?
Our regular commentator on US politics explains why American cattle producers have a beef with President Trump. Many of them Trump supporters, they fe...
What's in the 'sound' of a name?
Parents generally choose the name of their child based on familial or cultural ties, or for the way a name looks in writing. But perhaps more importan...
Calls for Israeli ambassador to Australia to be sent home
Israel's Ambassador to Australia Hillel Newman has defended the IDF probe into the death of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom, which recently cleare...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: One Nation gets confused on migration
One Nation's Barnaby Joyce and Pauline Hanson have been busy trying to correct what fellow One Nation MP David Farley said the party's immigration fig...
Wyndham Native Hospital - apartheid in Australia
Until the mid-20th century the Wyndham Native Hospital, on the far north coast of Western Australia, was an apartheid institution where Indigenous men...
John Cameron Mitchell on punk, cancel culture, and how to navigate a dystopian world
John Cameron Mitchell wrote and starred in punk musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch – the tale of a gender queer east German rock and roll singer. He’s...
Unmasking the Cambridge Five spies
The Cambridge Five have gone down in history as the most notorious spies of the 20th century. For seventeen years, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Anthony Bl...
Is a classless society impossible?
Is true social equality an impossible dream? The German philosopher Dr Hanno Sauer argues that class hierarchy is a permanent feature of human societi...
Going out - a colourful history of nightlife
From Shogun era Japan to the techno bunkers of 90s Berlin, people across time and cultures have always looked to let loose at night.
KPMG's trouble and strife
An expert guide to the commercial sins that have put the big consultancy under the spotlight, after more information emerged in a parliamentary hearin...
Ian Dunt's UK: the death of Cambridge scholar Jason Arday
Ian Dunt examines the fallout from the death of Cambridge academic Jason Arday. And Nigel Farage’s Clacton by election victory - what does it say abo...
How Gina Rinehart defends her public image
In recent weeks, the ABC has removed references to the Australian mining executive Gina Rinehart, following complaints. Guardian reporter Sarah Martin...
Jordan's difficult position in US-Iran war
Jordan has been trying to maintain neutrality in the Middle East war, but with a pre-existing military agreement with the US, that is proving increasi...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: will Labor pass its NDIS reforms?
SBS political correspondent Anna Henderson surveys a busy week ahead in federal parliament, with the government eager to broker a deal to reform the N...
Vale Kris Short
Late Night Live is sad to hear of the passing of Kris Short, who was one of LNL’s most enduring producers. She worked on the show between 1996-2015. L...
Nocturnes - the magic of night music
The popularity of calming 'night' music to help people sleep is the latest iteration of compositions that reflect the coming of the night. It was comp...
The secret way out: Inside the world of sovereign citizens
What if your mortgage was illegal, your taxes were voluntary and you could simply opt out of the law? Sovereign citizens believe they’ve discovered a...
James Baldwin: The loves that shaped a literary giant
James Baldwin’s writing was inseparable from the people he loved, mentored and collaborated with. A new biography explores the intimate relationships...
Agatha's Cantata - giving voice to a forgotten orphan composer
Born in 1712 without the fingers of her left hand, Agatha spent her life at the Venetian orphanage known as the Ospedale della Pietà. Her Cantata, ‘Ec...
Marwan Barghouti to run for president of the Palestinian Authority, from prison
The last time a presidential election was held by the Palestinian Authority was in 2005, when Mahmoud Abbas was elected to a four-year term following...
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Democrat factions and Fauci on trial
A deep split is emerging inside the Democrats as yet another progressive populist wins in Michigan, while a more conservative group called The Third W...
From hieroglyphs to hashtags: the hidden history of punctuation
Punctuation marks have crept into the spaces between our words over thousands of years. But we rarely reflect on why they look the way they do or how...
What’s behind Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan forming a new defence pact?
Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan have just signed a new NATO-like defence pact. The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement commits each country to respond i...
Anna Henderson's Canberra
Are the PM and the Opposition Leader on the verge of agreeing on gambling reform? Plus where Labor is heading on the issue of immigration. And the mea...
Blackbirding: the Australian slavery that nobody stopped
Decades after Britain abolished slavery in its colonies, an industry built on indentured labour from the Pacific quietly grew in Queensland. Workers w...
Peter Garrrett on what the public think of AUKUS
The crowdfunded AUKUS public inquiry has so far had over 500 submissions, including from former ministers Gareth Evans, Linda Reynolds and Christopher...
How wine made the modern world
Across 8,000 years, wine has shaped religion, power, trade and culture. Wine is more than a drink — it’s a story of civilisation itself. Historian Kat...
Bernard Keane on Australia’s real opportunities in an unstable world
In his new book, Crikey’s political editor, Bernard Keane, turns his eye not just to where Australia has gone wrong, but to how we can best position o...
The last cats on Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island could soon achieve its goal of feral cat eradication, with approximately 150 cats left to catch. Feral cats have devastated wildlife p...
Odyssey filming controversy on indigenous land in Moroccan region
The Odyssey blockbuster makes clear the colonisation and exploitation of Homer's time, but it was partly filmed in an indigenous area which Morocco oc...
Ian Dunt's UK: Can Count Binface beat Farage? And just what is 'Operation Fortress?'
Nigel Farage's call to adopt Australia’s 'stop the boats' policy has divided opinion, while new Prime Minister Andy Burnham faces the challenge of res...
Butterfly collecting is no longer allowed
Butterfly populations have been declining since the 1960s. Butterfly collectors are also declining in number, because the practice is discouraged and...
What's behind the push for Cyprus reunifcation?
Nearly ten years after they last collapsed, UN Secretary António Guterres has been in Cyprus, pressing for reunification talks to recommence. Cyprus...
Anna Henderson at Garma: Noel Pearson calls for Aboriginal affairs overhaul
Three years since the defeat of the Voice referendum, Noel Pearson returned to the Garma festival to deliver a blistering speech, which included a pro...
Encore: Oscar Wilde's grandson on the scandal that ruined him
The famous writer Oscar Wilde died alone in a French hotel in 1900. Since that time, so much has been written about the man - much of it rumour and sp...