Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast
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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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LNL Summer: Societies collapse. Will ours?
We're living in unusual times, with political history being made every week and the seemingly imminent collapse of a certain global super power on the...
LNL Summer: The Australian workers the union movement left behind
A new history of the union movement in Australia says marginalised groups like migrants, women, Indigenous Australians and LGBTQIA+ people were often...
LNL Summer: Radio propaganda wars in the Middle East
Before the 1967 war, radio ruled the Middle East—TV was a rare luxury. For the people of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Israel, the airwaves bu...
LNL Summer: Omar El Akkad reckons with the West
'One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone wil...
LNL Summer: how 19th Century Americans thought about hair
The thickness, colour and texture of facial and head hair showed character traits about men and women, it was believed in 19th century America. The as...
LNL Summer: Blue Poles, when a painting shocked Australia
In 1973, the Australian government acquired the painting Blue Poles by Jackson Pollock for $1.3 million AUD. It created huge division in Australia, an...
Laura Tingle, Hannah Ferguson and Craig Reucassel farewell 2025
David Marr is joined by Laura Tingle, Hannah Ferguson and Craig Reucassel to review the monumental year of 2025 - including its weirdest moments - and...
Bush medicine: how Indigenous practice has survived millenia
A new exhibition at the University of Melbourne's Medical History Museum, Cultural Medicine: The Art of Indigenous Healing celebrates 65,000 years of...
Geoffrey Robertson on the world's failures to prosecute war crimes
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...
Ian Dunt's UK: Budget woes and a look back at 2025
This year in British politics was defined by constant upheaval: leaders under pressure, parties fractured over strategy, major policies overturned or...
Bruce Shapiro's USA: how Trump has changed America in 2025
Late Night Live regular Bruce Shapiro looks back at a remarkable, often febrile year in US politics, under President Donald Trump's second administrat...
Draining the great Australian swimming pool
As the mercury rises for another summer, millions of Australians will flock to the local municipal pool. There are some 1300 public pools across the c...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: a Defence overhaul, a Lodge wedding, plus Hanson and Joyce
The government has taken much greater control of the defence budget and tries to marry defence land acquisitions with their housing targets; Prime Min...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: defence, weddings and alliances
The government has taken much greater control of the defence budget and tries to marry defence land acquisitions with their housing targets; Prime Min...
India's Maoist guerillas surrender after fifty year struggle
In the 1960s when counter-culture and unrest was peaking around the world, India's left-wing protest movement took the form of a group of militant Mao...
Crayons in the desert: the breathtaking Birrundudu drawings of 1945, revealed
In 1945, sixteen Aboriginal men working at Birrundudu Station created 810 crayon drawings, commissioned by anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt...
Bill Wallace: the world’s oldest prisoner, who died at 106 in an asylum in Ararat
In 1925 in Melbourne, two young men were having lunch in a cafe in King Street, Melbourne when one of them lit a cigarette. Another diner confronted t...
Niki Savva on why the 2025 federal election was a political 'earthquake' in Australia
The veteran Canberra journalist Niki Savva dissects the monumental result of the 2025 federal election. Where has it left both the Coalition in opposi...
Wooden toes, iron hands: the ancient artistry of prosthetics
In ancient times, limb loss was not uncommon, and often deadly. For those that survived - and had money to spend - commissioning a bespoke prosthetic...
America's transgender troops take Donald Trump to court.
In January, US President Donald Trump passed an executive order that banned transgender troops from serving in the American military. Now, several of...
How Nauru got rich
Nauru became rich because it sat on one of the world’s purest and most valuable phosphate deposits — the key ingredient in fertiliser. When Nauruans t...
Haaretz' editor, Aluf Benn, on Netanyahu's political survival
Golda Meir fell after the Yom Kippur War. Menachem Begin quit after the disaster of the 1982 Lebanon invasion. But despite the trauma of October 7, Be...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Pauline Hanson's burka stunt and environment laws final push
The Senate was suspended after One Nation's Pauline Hanson wore a burka in the chamber. The Senator claimed it was a national security issue, but Anna...
Jenny Hocking AM calls for free access to Dismissal archives
In the wake of 50th anniversary commemorations of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's dismissal, the historian and biographer Professor Jenny Hocking AM sa...
How the Quarterly Essay reached its 100th edition
25 years in the making, the Australian publication Quarterly Essay has reached its 100th edition. Editor Chris Feik shares how QE was born, and how it...
Wind: the invisble force of nature that we can't live without
It's invisible, it drives us crazy, and we couldn't live without it: the wind has been a constant presence for all of history, and was one of the firs...
When foxes went feral
Seventy years after foxes were first introduced to Australia in 1870, they had managed to spread across the continent. For the first time, their colon...
Hurricane devastated Jamaica seeks reparations for climate damage and years of slavery
Jamaica was devastated when Hurricane Melissa hit. Hundreds of thousands of homes were flattened, and whole towns were destroyed by one of the most po...
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Trump's backflip on the Epstein files
Bruce Shapiro joins Late Night Live as the US Senate approves the release of the Epstein documents, after a confounding backflip from the US President...
Helen Garner on Erin Patterson's trial and a lifetime of keeping diaries
Author Helen Garner sat through the trial of Erin Patterson, who was convicted of murdering members of her family with deadly mushrooms. She reflects...
Can we stop space from filling up with junk?
Space is big... but not infinite. The area around the Earth is populated by thousands of satellites and a million pieces of space debris, and those ob...
Calls to reject Myanmar's "sham" election as evidence revealed of torture by the Junta
As Myanmar prepares for its first elections since the military junta took over in 2021, a new documentary from Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has rev...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: what next for the Liberal moderates?
As the Liberal Party joins the Nationals in ditching a net zero emissions target for 2050, what is the fate of the remaining moderate MPs in the Liber...
A warning from Nobel Laureate economist, Joseph Stiglitz.
In 1966, Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz wrote his PhD thesis on inequality. Almost sixty years later, after decades of research, numerous books, and i...
Gareth Evans says Australia should lead nuclear arms control talks
As Russia and the US both threaten to resume nuclear testing and China has tripled its stock of nuclear arms, former foreign minister Gareth Evans has...
Henry Reynolds turns Australian history upside-down
The writing of Australian history has tended to focus on the south-eastern corner of the continent, but the story of colonisation north of the Tropic...
Australia's (very, very) early computer: CSIRAC
The University of Melbourne is celebrating 70 years of Australian computer classes, which were first taught on CSIRAC, the earliest computer ever buil...
Brutal police killings in Rio's favelas shock the world as Brazil hosts climate summit
On October 28, conservative Governor of Rio, Cláudio Castro, ordered over 2,500 police officers and soldiers to storm the city’s favelas at dawn. The...
Ian Dunt's UK: Trump threatens to sue the BBC
U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for 1.6 million dollars, over an inaccurate clip aired on its flagship documentary program,...
The mysterious lost footage of Whitlam's dismissal
Fifty years on, the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on November 11th 1975 remains the most dramatic day in Australian political history. But...