Late Night Live — Full program podcast

Dan Egan explores the history of 'The Devil's Element' and how we've come to the point where we're running out of this essential element, and yet it's polluting our waterways. Plus, we look at the remarkable women who used art to fight fascism during the Spanish Civil War.

We get the latest on the Voice debates and hear what an Indigenous Voice might mean from a public health perspective. Plus, the G7 is being held in Japan, but will Asian priorities be top of the agenda? And Harvard professor Martin Puchner looks back at 37,000 years of culture and asks: can anyone really own culture and should that be the goal?

Is the US government about to run out of cash? Bruce Shapiro dishes the latest on the dreaded debt ceiling. Plus, we meet two female journalists risking life and limb in South Africa and Bry the Fly Guy reveals why flies are our friends. 

Amy Remeikis on the tension between our need for more workers and the national housing crisis, security deteriorates in Afghanistan and the chess robot that fooled the western world, 250 years ago.   

A small band of adventurers have navigated the entire length of the magnificent Tigris River - through Iraq, Türkiye and Syria. And a new documentary on the Australian literary giant Geoffrey Dutton sheds light on his life and loves.

We kick off with a fortnightly Asia update, looking at the upcoming elections in Thailand and Cambodia. Plus, why Bangladesh is becoming a dumping ground for the world's fossil fuels and we bring a memorable interview with writer E Jean Carroll out of the archives. 

DISCLAIMER: Our interview with E Jean Carroll was originally broadcast in 1993 and contains references to sex, drug use and domestic violence. 

The UK has a newly anointed king and queen, and a new law curtailing the right to protest. Plus, what's behind the escalating gang violence in Haiti? And the hidden scroll that spawned a literary ponzi scheme. 

Analysis of current events to the hottest debates in politics, science, philosophy and culture.

Plus, we meet the 19th century scientists whose experiments with mind-altering drugs gave us modern medicine, psychology and philosophy. 

For our Pacific update, a special focus on deep sea mining, and some of the dilemmas it presents for Pacific countries. And what animal biology can teach us about staying well and recovery.