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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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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...
Sarah Baartman: a life, a body, a battle over memory
Sarah Baartman’s body was used by European scientists to promote racist ideas that endured for generations. A new essay in Griffith Review revisits he...
Who are Russia's Night Wolves?
The Night Wolves are a Kremlin-linked, far-right Russian motorcycle club that has served as a paramilitary proxy and propaganda tool for the Russian s...
The changes to spot in this year's Census survey
Census night is just two weeks away, and this year, Australians will have the opportunity to answer new questions on sexual orientation and gender. Th...
Australia's dependence on the controversial weedkiller paraquat
Last month, after a nearly 30-year review, Australia's chemical regulator finally decided that the herbicide paraquat can continue to be used on Austr...
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Netanyahu's Iran war pressure
LNL's US correspondent Bruce Shapiro looks at whether the latest pause in hostilities with Iran will lead to any outcome as the mid-terms approach and...
100 years of Route 66 - is it worth celebrating?
It's 100 years since America's fabled highway 'Route 66' was commissioned - the road from Chicago to L.A celebrated in literature and song. But behin...
AI, chips and drones- a new kind of geopolitics
The next great power struggle may not be won on the battlefield, but in semiconductor factories, AI labs and satellite networks. In Bytes and Bullets,...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Pauline Hanson loses appeal over racist tweet
One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson has lost her appeal against a court ruling which found she racially discriminated against Greens Senator Mehreen Faru...
The Donald Trump school of architecture
From tearing into the White House to make way for a 650-seat ballroom, to declaring war on modern architecture, Donald Trump is remaking America’s sym...
How British slave money flowed to colonial Australia
In 1833, slavery in the British Empire was abolished, but not without a massive compensation scheme paid out to slave owners. Some of that money flowe...
Fierce feminists: the trailblazing women who built democracy
Until the early 1900s men did their best to keep women out of parliaments around the world. But the social disruptions of the twentieth century, like...
One Nation's internal challenges
One Nation is having the most success it's ever had, but to build on that, it is having to do some rapid re-organising and skill development behind th...
Is Australia too generous to the rich? The case for tighter means-testing
Why has means-testing fallen out of favour in Australian public policymaking? The idea of means-testing is to direct government support to those who n...
Naomi Smith's UK: Can Andy Burnham deliver?
Andy Burnham has become the UK's fifth Prime Minister in five years, promising to reset Labour and end the cycle of political turmoil. His first messa...
The Pentagon is the biggest polluter on the planet
Journalist Abby Martin and her husband Mike Prysner – a US war veteran - have spent years drawing attention to the wrongdoings of the US military. Bu...
Should a Nazi bunker in Berlin be demolished?
Today, the site of Hitler's bunker is little more than a car park. But nearby, another former Nazi bunker is facing demolition, reigniting debate over...
Did the US kill civilians in Somalia?
An investigation by The Guardian has found that a US air strike in Somalia last November, killed and injured 12 civilians, including eight children. T...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: AI and the ALP national conference
Anna Henderson looks at the government's decision to go on the front foot with their AI policy, and whether the opposition has been able to prosecute...
Uprooting olive trees in the West Bank
Palestinians in the West Bank say that Israeli forces are razing olive trees at an unprecedented pace. Prominent writer and lawyer Raja Shehadeh descr...