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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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Roddy Doyle on a lifetime of writing the characters of Dublin
Roddy Doyle reflects on a lifetime telling the stories of working-class people in Dublin, with themes of domestic violence, unplanned pregnancy and li...
Who was Blind Freddy?
The common Australian term 'Blind Freddy', as in 'Blind Freddy could see that', spread quickly and comprehensively. But who was Blind Freddy? An autho...
What made John Safran question the right to offend?
John Safran has made a career out of blasphemy and offence. With his gonzo-style journalism he placed a “fatwa” on Rove McManus, streaked naked throug...
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Trump's rush to redistrict the South, as polls slump
Ahead of November's midterm elections, Republicans are looking to reshape South Carolina's congressional districts, in an effort to create a US House...
Where is Gazan doctor Hussam Abu Safiya?
Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, was repeatedly warned to evacuate during the war between Israel and Hamas, but chose to r...
The joys and travails of translating Shakespeare
All over the world, people are encountering the timeless work of Shakespeare for the first time, thanks to translators who have managed to distil the...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: battle lines drawn over tax
In the wake of treasurer Jim Chalmers' budget - and opposition leader Angus Taylor's budget reply - the political battle lines have been drawn over ta...
Why food traditions matter in times of conflict
Food traditions are at the core of a culture's history, storytelling and community - but these traditions are continually threatened by conflict, war...
Royal commissions in Australia - when have they made a difference?
Since Federation, there have been 141 royal commissions in Australia into various crises and tragedies. Some have brought about meaningful policy chan...
Fifty years of Australian film at Cannes
For the last fifty years Australians have been making their mark at the Cannes film festival. Spearheaded by people like Phillip Adams and David Strat...
Antoinette Lattouf on women who challenged power and won
When Antoinette Lattouf was fighting her own unfair dismissal case against the ABC, she faced some dark moments and intense anxiety. For help and insp...
Ian Dunt's UK: Starmer on the brink as the King opens parliament
The King has proceeded with his scheduled speech to open the UK parliament, despite the desperate situation of his Prime Minister Keir Starmer, as Lab...
Tojo Hideki, the Japanese wartime leader we know little about
Hideki Tojo, a senior military officer who was Prime Minister of Japan from 1941 - 1942, as well as Minister for the Army, had advocated for Japan's a...
Australia's first political assassination, and the man still behind bars
In 1994, Cabramatta MP John Newman was shot dead outside his home in a crime billed as Australia's first political assassination. But could the convic...
The trauma trope: can humanitarian journalism do better?
Whether it’s Ukraine, Gaza, Yemen or Sudan, journalists reporting on conflict zones across the world, want their stories of human suffering on the fro...
Six months underwater in a submarine
A British nuclear-armed submarine returned home recently after six months submerged, with no fresh air. Its mission is deterrence, with the threat of...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: budget expecations, Farrer fall-out
Anna Henderson looks ahead to the big expectations on Labor to deliver a budget that will appeal to One Nation voters on issues like migration and hou...
Lalia’s story: how to save a mother and her five daughters from the Taliban
When refugee activist and author Mij Tanith was asked to help an Afghan woman and her five daughters escape the Taliban, she hesitated, burned out aft...
Fintan O'Toole on Trump's madman strategy.
That power sends men mad, is a rule of politics and of history that goes way way back before Dr Freud. When riding in triumph through Rome, Caesar’s s...
What happened to the survivors of Belsen concentration camp?
Three weeks before the end of WWII, the Germans invited the British to liberate the 60,000 prisoners - mostly Jews - being held at Belsen. But for the...
Netanyahu rivals join forces ahead of Israeli election
The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing the prospect of running against a rightwing-centrist super coalition in elections later this y...
An old register forges new relations on Norfolk Island
After the infamous mutiny on the Bounty the mutineers settled on remote Pitcairn Island. The Pitcairn Island Register is the original record of births...
Keeping the signal alive: 2SER’s uncertain future
One of Sydney’s leading community radio stations faces possible closure as early as July, as it works to close a funding gap left by the departure of...
Bruce Shapiro's America: US Supreme Court undermines voting rights; defamation intimidation tactics continue
In another regressive move, the US Supreme Court has made a ruling weakening America's 1965 Voting Rights Act which helped Black and other minority vo...
Colouring the classical past: Mark Bradley and the rediscovery of painted sculpture
Conventional perceptions of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture tend to emphasise the purity of white marble surfaces. However, as classicist Mark Bradl...
The unlikely resurgence of Kim Jong Un
In 2020, North Korea was at a low point. Crippled by COVID border closures, its Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un tried and failed to negotiate sanctions rel...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Japan PM's visit, plus Alice Springs mourns
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is on her first official visit to Australia to sign agreements on energy, defence and critical minerals. Takaich...
Australian writers celebrate David Malouf - friend, mentor, inspiration
David Malouf, who died last week at 92, was a hugely influential figure in Australian culture. A novelist, poet, teacher, arts advisor and board membe...
Richard Meagher was at the centre of early Australian politics. But he had a scandalous past
In 1895 Sydney solicitor Richard Meagher incited a campaign to free George Dean, a handsome, popular ferryman accused of attempting to poison his own...
Ian Dunt's UK: The King's speech to Congress. Will Trump get the message?
King Charles has address the US Congress with messages in favour of the rule of law, checks and balances on executive power and an anti-war message. M...
The White House shooting attempt, and the 30th anniversary of Port Arthur, remind us how the media should cover mass shootings
On the 30th anniversary of the Port Arthur massacre - and in the wake of the Bondi Beach terror attack - media scholar Dr Glynn Greensmith's timely n...
What does Pakistan gain from its role in the US-Iran peace talks?
Pakistan has taken over from Qatar as the mediator in the US-Iran peace talks. So how did this happen? What's the relationship between Pakistan's Army...
Japanese espionage in Australia
In the years before Pearl Harbour, Australian authorities were convinced that members of the Japanese diplomatic and business community were spying, a...
Radicalised indigenous soldiers
Australian indigenous soldiers who served in World War l were radicalised by the experience. They were shaken and angered by the injustices they exper...
Silence, stigma and survival: polio in postwar Australia
In the 1950s, Australia endured several dangerous outbreaks of polio - a highly infectious disease that threatened lifelong paralysis. Many aging surv...
Silence, stigma and survival: polio in postwar Australia
In the 1950s thousands of Australians contracted polio. Many aging survivors are still living with its impacts, including the mother of Professor Cath...
The false stories the British elite tell about themselves
The British elite present themselves as part of a new, open, dynamic meritocracy. Is that true? Of course not, and two sociologists have the data to p...
The German Jazz band that got stuck in wartime Australia
The Weintraubs Syncopators were Germany's most popular jazz band until 1933, recording much of the music for Marlene Dietrich’s films. As Jewish music...
Why did New Zealand's PM call a leadership vote on himself?
New Zealand PM Christopher Luxon says his leadership is secure after the National Party caucus backed him in an unexpected confidence vote on Monday....
The great escape from WA, on the Catalpa ship
It is 150 years since one of the greatest convict escapes in Australian history. In 1876, a whaling ship called the Catalpa picked up six Irish politi...