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: Have we forgotten the value of shade?
On a warming planet, heatwaves are proving increasingly deadly. But in the cities where most of us live shade can be hard to come by. In ancient times...
LNL Summer: Deep history, an Indigenous way of seeing the past
This nation’s past can be understood a whole lot better if Indigenous perspectives on history are listened to. It means considering rock art and other...
LNL Summer: From Utopia to the Tate - the art of Emily Kam Kngwarray
Emily Kam Kngwarray, from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory, picked up a paintbrush in her 70s for the first time, and now her work will...
LNL Summer: The woman who solved crimes with birds
Author Chris Sweeney tells the remarkable story of Roxie Laybourne, the Smithsonian ornithologist who became the nation's leading expert in feather fo...
LNL Summer: Why do we use the QWERTY keyboard?
The QWERTY keyboard wasn't designed to be fast or logical. It was created in the 1870s to stop typewriter keys from jamming - and to suit telegraph op...
LNL Summer: Is it time to decriminalise jaywalking?
In recent years, a number of states and cities in the US have decriminalised 'jaywalking', relaxing laws that campaigners argue have been disproportio...
LNL Summer: How prison architecture can change lives
Should prison architecture be used for punishment, or could it be used to create hope, instead. Criminologist Yvonne Jewkes has helped design prisons...
LNL Summer: Abolishing terra nullius - the legacy of Chief Justice Gerard Brennan
Sir Gerard Brennan served as the 10th Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest judicial position in the country. He was involved in s...
LNL Summer:Australia's love of cinema, indoors and outdoors
Australia has a surprisingly long history of cinema enjoyment. It takes many forms, and pops up in a wide range of settings.
*This show origina...
LNL Summer: Farewell Laura Tingle
After 30 years of appearances on Late Night Live - spanning nine Australian Prime Ministers - Laura Tingle bade farewell to LNL as its political corre...
LNL Summer: Harriet Walter on what Shakespeare's women might have said
Actor Dame Harriet Walter — known for her recent roles in TV hits like Succession and Killing Eve — has been performing Shakespeare on-stage for half...
Is it ethical to holiday in Antarctica?
One hundred and twenty five thousand people visited Antarctica last year. Can the region cope with an ever growing tourism industry?
Originally...
LNL Summer: AI. Don't believe the hype
AI, we’re told, has the potential to free us from mundane tasks, revolutionise industries, and solve global problems. Linguistics Professor Emily Bend...
LNL Summer: The Roosevelts deadly hunt for a giant panda
During the 1920s, dozens of expeditions scoured the Chinese and Tibetan wilderness in search of the panda bear, a beast that many believed did not exi...
LNL Summer: Kate Grenville confronts her settler ancestry
20 years on from her famous novel The Secret River, writer Kate Grenville retraces the footsteps of her settler ancestors, and asks what it means to b...
LNL Summer: A no-frills history of the Australian beach shack
Along the coast of Australia are hundreds of humble shacks, often with interesting stories to tell. Basic shelters for no-frills fishing, or homes for...
LNL Summer: The feminist publishing house that launched Australia's best writers
In the early seventies two Melbourne feminists hatched an idea to set up their own publishing house. Diana Gribble was a socialite working in advertis...
LNL Summer: Geraldine Brooks, Rachel Kushner and Julia Baird at Adelaide Writers Week 2025
Despite the promise that we were “all in it together”, the COVID-19 pandemic led to a flight from sociability. While that escape may have been a relie...
LNL Summer: Robert Dessaix's life reflections
Writer Robert Dessaix, now based in Hobart, was named Thomas Robert Jones by his adoptive parents. His name change to Dessaix, to reflect his French f...
LNL Summer: Alan Rusbridger on Trump's threats to journalism
Veteran British journalist and editor Alan Rusbridger discusses Donald Trump’s attacks on the US press, Jeff Bezos’s editorial about-face at the Washi...
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...