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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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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...
The fight for gold at the heart of Sudan’s genocide
Rebel forces in Sudan have captured the city of el-Fasher in a coup so violent the blood stains could be seen from space. The RSF rebel army is led by...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Gough Whitlam's statue and net zero fall-out continues
As the 50th anniversary of the Whitlam dismissal approaches, Prime Minister Albanese announces the commissioning of a statue of Gough Whitlam for Can...
Peter FitzSimons on the life of Weary Dunlop
The war medic Edward 'Weary' Dunlop became legendary in the POW camps of World War II for his courage and leadership, including putting his body betwe...
50 years on, do modern Liberals still back Whitlam's dismissal?
The dismissal of Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam by the Governor-General on November 11, 1975 is perhaps the most dramatic and most contentious mom...
Author takes on AI company who pirated her book
When New York based, Queer thriller writer Andrea Bartz, discovered the AI company Anthropic, had pirated her book to train its AI large language mode...
Trump's ballroom blitz
Despite lacking approval for construction from the federal agency that oversees building projects, US President Donald Trump has commenced major renov...
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Zohran and a wave of Democrats put Trump on notice
After a stunning ascent, Zohran Mamdani is the youngest mayor of New York in more than a century. Mamdani is a fierce critic of Donald Trump, and Trum...
The camera in the colony: Australia's oldest photographs
The emergence of commercial photography technology in the mid-19th Century coincided with the rise of imperial control in the Pacific, including the B...
From Buddhist teacher to UN Secretary-General: The legacy of U Thant
During his decade as UN Secretary-General, U Thant played a pivotal role in resolving some of the most dangerous international crises of his time. Fro...
Kryptos: the 30-year code that was accidentally cracked
When the CIA was building its new headquarters, they commissioned a statue designed to pay homage to the spy agency. 'Krytpos' was both a sculpture an...
Kids are about to be booted off social media
On 10 December, the government's new law banning under-16s from having social media accounts will be enforced. It's a world-first attempt to rein in t...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: will the Libs follow the Nationals and abandon net zero?
Pressure is building inside the Liberal party to follow the Nationals' decision to abandon its commitment to net zero carbon emissions. Anna Henderson...
How Australia’s politicians got hooked on gambling
Aussies love to gamble, whether it’s on the horses, down the pokies, at a fancy casino, or, increasingly, betting on their favourite sports team from...
Francesca Albanese: genocide in Gaza would not be happening without the complicity of other countries
'The genocide in Gaza was not committed in isolation, but as part of a system of global complicity.' That's the conclusion of the UN Special Rapporteu...
Forgiveness: do we need more or less?
The Pope forgave the man who shot him in the stomach. Erika Kirk forgave the assassin who killed her husband, Charlie. But what, exactly, is forgivene...
Reflecting on the power Patrick White's prose still holds today
Patrick White was Australia's only Nobel Prize-winning author, renowned for novels like Voss, The Tree of Man, and The Vivisector. His work explored s...
One hundreds years of Australian anthropology: what have we learned?
Anthropology is the study of human cultures, with a strained culture of its own: its practitioners have often been involved in colonial control of nat...
Locals disrupt Trump's deportation blitz in Chicago
On the streets of Chicago, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are busy arresting, detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants as...
Ian Dunt's UK: Prince Andrew fallout and British Labour loses big in Wales
King Charles wants Prince Andrew out of the Royal Lodge, as allegations against Andrew resurface in Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir. The Prince c...
Can AI help us talk to whales?
If AI language models can "learn" human languages, and translate between them, could AI also help us to decode what animals are saying? Off the coast...
The Indonesian surveillance company tracking phones all over the world
International investigative journalism outfit ‘Lighthouse Reporter’ found a vast archive of data on the deep web containing thousands of phone numbers...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: why does the Coalition want to split the environment bill in two?
As parliament resumes, Labor has a big bill to push through: changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act, which has...
The ghost of Stalin
Josef Stalin left this earthly realm on March 5, 1953. The circumstances of his death were deeply chaotic – his guards and inner circle were too afrai...
Paul Kelly on the political chaos before The Dismissal
It was 1974 and Canberra was in turmoil. A young Paul Kelly was the chief political correspondent for The Australian newspaper, and covered the mounti...
Did the ancients love like us?
Love is the big emotion, the one that drives our literature and our lives. It has done since antiquity. But when the Greeks and Romans wrote about lov...
Looted Benin Bronzes are returning to West Africa. But will they go on display?
The new Museum of West African Art will open in Benin City, Nigeria next month. It was hoped that the new galleries would display the world's most com...