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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Ian Dunt's UK: Labour's trade plans for the EU, Starmer says no to Hormuz blockade, and Orban's loss a blow to the European far right
Keir Starmer is proposing legislation that would let the UK quickly adopt certain future EU rules using secondary legislation, meaning less parliament...
Hormuz as a chokepoint of power: the narrow seas that shaped global wars
Control of maritime chokepoints helped decide conflicts like the Gallipoli Campaign and the Suez Crisis; now, renewed tensions and shipping disruption...
US 'may stop by Cuba' after Iran, says Trump
US President Donald Trump has continued to threaten an American invasion of Cuba, telling reporters that US forces 'may stop by Cuba' after they deal...
Magnificent heritage sites damaged in Iran
Last month, US and Israel bombing of Iran caused significant damage to cultural heritage sites - the most serious confirmed damage has been to Tehran’...
The gay conservatives out, loud and proud to vote Trump
The Log Cabin Republicans is a group of LGBTQ+ conservatives in the United States who support Republican policies while also advocating for LGBTQ+ inc...
Australia's fuel import dependency exposed
The Albanese government is seeking to reassure Australians of the nation's fuel security, with multiple supply missions to Asia, and a new $20m ad cam...
The making of poet A.D. Hope, Australian literary giant
Alec Derwent Hope (1907–2000) was one of Australia's most acclaimed poets. His first collection was not published until he was 48 years old, but its r...
Daniel Defoe, writer and spy
Daniel Defoe, the writer of 'Robinson Crusoe' and 'Moll Flanders', was a spy in Scotland in the early 1700s, sending information to England, to help E...
Arts under attack in Trump's America
Not much has remained untouched in Trump’s second term: the East Wing of the White House torn down, the Kennedy Center board stripped back—the list go...
The art of Peter Marralwanga - Old Master and ritual leader
Peter Marralwanga was a leading figure in traditional bark paintings from Western Arnhem Land which depicted important ceremonies and creation storie...
The antibiotic explosion in India
India is the world's biggest exporter of, and consumer of, antibiotics. Their overuse and misuse is on the brink of triggering systemic failures acros...
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Will Trump follow through on his latest Iran threat?
US President Donald Trump has published an expletive-laden post on social media in which he threatened to destroy Iran's power plants and bridges if t...
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...
A decade after the leak: The lasting impact of the Panama Papers
It’s been ten years since the Panama Papers exposed a global network of hidden offshore accounts used by politicians, celebrities, and corporations to...
Robert Reich on how the Democrats lost the working class
In October 1994 then US Labor Secretary Robert Reich wrote his old friend and now boss, Bill Clinton, a letter with an urgent warning. “We’re in dange...
The Shahs and the Ayatollahs - Iran's extreme leaders
The division and deep discontent in Iran gave Israel and the US a public rationale for attacking its brutal leadership. How did this nation become so...
Ian Dunt's UK: Starmer's plan to address the fuel crisis
Just one hour after Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese addressed the nation about oil supply issues, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer gave a pre...
Mapping the wilderness
An environmental scientist and his colleagues have just finished mapping Australia's remaining wilderness areas - the first time it has been done in 4...
Israel to use death penalty for West Bank Palestinians
Israel's parliament has passed a law that makes the death penalty the default punishment for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank who have been foun...
Why should WA get so much of the GST?
This year Western Australia will once again be the big winner in the GST carve-up, with $6.6 billion from taxpayers heading its way as part of a sweet...
Daylight savings forever? Why B.C, Canada has ditched clock changes
The province of British Columbia, Canada has officially ditched its biannual seasonal clock changes, embracing daylight savings time forever - renamed...
Ash Sarker's message to the Left - get a grip
In her book, Minority Rule, Ash Sarkar argues that parts of the modern left have drifted away from focusing on material issues like wages, housing, an...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: fuel tax halved, as global energy crisis deepens
The Albanese government will halve the fuel excise for three months at a cost of $2.5b, to provide some petrol and diesel price relief to consumers. T...
How the National Library digitises millions of archives, with Dr Marie-Louise Ayres
The longstanding Director-General of the National Library of Australia Dr Marie-Louise Ayres has just retired after a long career, overseeing the digi...
How the Strait of Hormuz closure is threatening aid and food security
The wars on Iran, Gaza and Lebanon have seen millions left without shelter or food. People are fleeing into neighbouring Syria, Turkiye and Iraq and a...
The museum that celebrates famous flops and failures
The Museum of Failure, founded by psychologist Dr. Samuel West, is a celebration of innovation gone wrong. It showcases a wide range of failed product...
Skyscrapers to sand dunes: Trump’s business ventures in the Gulf
Donald Trump’s private business footprint in the Gulf spans luxury real estate, golf courses, and high-profile partnerships. The Trump administration...
Bruce Shapiro's America: Is Trump really negotiating with Iran?
Donald Trump told the press his Middle East special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner conducted talks with Iran on Sunday. The US s...
The dark side of floristry
Pretty flowers often carry a dark side. Pesticides that harm the florists who handle them. Thousands of travel miles for the many imported flowers. An...
Remembering Rhoda Roberts AO
Trailblazing Arts executive and Widjabul Wieybal woman of the Bundjalung Nation Rhoda Roberts AO has died, aged 66. Alongside her vast accomplishments...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: what the SA election result means for the nation
Why One Nation appealed to South Australians, plus the looming fuel shortage - is Australia moving fast enough to prepare for it?
Research that claimed Roundup herbicide is safe, retracted by US journal
In 2017, a lawsuit uncovered internal emails from chemical giant Monsanto that suggested its employees helped ghostwrite an influential paper that cla...
Evangelical Christians are manufacturing the guns used in mass shootings
In the USA today the Americans who own the most guns are not military veterans or hunters. They are white evangelical Christians, and there are 60 mil...
Please explain: Niki Savva, Paul Kelly and Antony Green on the resurgence of Pauline Hanson
Pauline Hanson rose from Ipswich City Council in 1994, to win the federal seat of Oxley in 1996, as a disendorsed Liberal turned independent. Her maid...
How presidential pardons are being used as a political tool
On the day of his inauguration, US President Donald Trump issued a mass pardon covering over a thousand people charged or convicted in connection with...
Not satisfactory at all: Geoffrey Watson on the NACC'S Robodebt findings
"I don't feel like it's satisfactory at all." Geoffrey Watson SC, has compared the sealed section of the Holmes Royal Commission into Robodebt with th...
Ian Dunt's UK: Trump pressures Starmer on Iran war
US President Donald Trump has renewed his criticism of the UK government over its response to the Iran conflict, after Prime Minister Keir Starmer sai...
Why pensioners are still protesting in their seventies
Adelaide writer Margaret Merilees has spent her life protesting: from Pine Gap in the 1980 through to the Rising Tide protests against coal exports, t...
Will Saudi Arabia be the winners in the war on Iran?
Saudi Arabia has long sought to be the dominant power in the Middle East and there is speculation Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman himself urged...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Matt Canavan and his Nationals' front bench
The new Nationals' leader has announced his front bench. Our weekly correspondent analyses what the reshaped Nationals will offer, and how they will d...