Late Night Live — Full program podcast

Ian Dunt reflects on an eventful year in UK politics and looks ahead to the 2024 election. Joseph Sikulu and Wesley Morgan preview COP28 from a Pacific perspective and Zahra Hankir explains why kohl eyeliner has long been a marker for the intersection between beauty and power.

Laura Tingle on the sacking of Mike Pezzullo, and Tanya Plibersek's win on the Murray Darling Basin Plan. And what a close study of oil paintings from the past couple of centuries tells us about colonial, and later, times. 

Why focusing on identity groups is the wrong prescription to overcome injustice and build a fairer society. Also, moral philosophy and how love can lead to hope.

Phillip spends an hour revisiting the life of Charlie Chaplin with biographer Scott Eyman, author of Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex and Politics Collided.

Bruce Shapiro asks whether Joe Biden's influence on the Prime Minster of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu is waning while Dahlia Scheindlin discusses the political ramifications of the war in Gaza on Netanyahu's future. Historian Jim Haynes recounts the stories of some of the more notorious convicts that were transported to Australia. 

Laura Tingle discusses the political fallout from the sonar incident in the South China Sea. Could China help to negotiate a Palestinian peace deal? Plus, what role did the CIA play in the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Congo. 

Richard Flanagan talks with Phillip Adams about his latest book Question Seven which addresses the questions we should be asking as both writers and readers in the nuclear era. 

What the huge advances in facial recognition technology mean for privacy. How the ancient city of Alexandria  shaped modern philosophy, science and religion.

'I' news columnist Ian Dunt unpacks the explosive UK cabinet reshuffle, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese talks about the human rights violations occurring on both sides of the Israel-Gaza war and author Yepoka Yeebo reveals the story of one of the 20th century's most unbelievable financial scams. 

Laura Tingle on Penny Wong's fine line on Israel-Gaza. And Australian economist Sean Turnell in a long chat about his 650 days of imprisonment in Gaza, and what Myanmar could be like under a democracy.