Commercial aviation really took off after World War Two. Many countries established their own national airlines and women became an integral part of the flying experience. Historian Phil Tiemeyer has collated a history about the role of women in the skies.

• GUEST: Phil Tiemeyer, Associate Professor of History, Kansas State University, US.
• PRODUCER: Ali Benton

Women and the Jet Age: A Global History of Aviation and Flight Attendants 

A military coup is underway in Madagascar after nationwide protests triggered by chronic power and water outages, poverty and government corruption. The protests have been led by Gen Z Madagascar, an amorphous group of young people inspired by the Gen Z movement in Nepal. Now the army has switched sides to join the movement and the President has fled the country.

• Guest: Dr Luke Freeman, Madagascar expert at University College London
• Producer: Catherine Zengerer

Ian Dunt looks at the UK's role in the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, and examines why British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is slamming Brexit.

• GUEST: Ian Dunt: iNews columnist and regular LNL commentator
• PRODUCER: Ali Benton

With a common tongue, could the world solve its problems? In 1887, a Polish eye doctor tried to answer that question by creating a new, easy-to-learn world language, which came to be known as "Esperanto" — literally, "one who hopes". A century later, what can be said for Esperanto's utopian project?

• Guest: Jonathan Cooper, art educator and president of Esperanto NSW
• Producer: Alex Tighe

Gavin Pretor-Pinney is the founder of an organisation called the Cloud Appreciation Society, which boasts thousands of members online. His passion has taken him all over the world, including to remote corners of Australia. Gavin celebrates the importance of clouds and ponders how patterns might change as our climate shifts.

• Guest: Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Cloud Appreciation Society
• Producer: Catherine Zengerer, Rebecca Metcalf
• Guest: Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Cloud Appreciation Society
• Producer: Catherine Zengerer, Rebecca Metcalf

The treasurer has reworked the government's stalled superannuation tax plan, in an effort to push it through the parliament. New polling paints a sorry picture for Opposition leader Sussan Ley. Plus, what is the government attempting to do to freedom of information laws? 

• Guest: Tom McIlroy, Chief Political Correspondent, The Guardian Australia

Journalist Irris Makler returns to Late Night Live in the wake of Israel, Hamas and the negotiating parties reaching an agreement on the 'first phase' of the Gaza peace proposal. 

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, shade was prioritised for urban comfort, but in the age of the air-conditioner its value is often overlooked. 

• Guest: Sam Bloch, journalist and author of Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
• Producer: Jack Schmidt

Gisele Pelicot became a feminist hero when she waived her right to anonymity after being drugged and raped by her husband and at least fifty other men. She famously said the shame should be on those men, not on the women they rape. This week one of the convicted men is appealing, arguing he didn’t know that she hadn’t given her consent. So what does sexual consent look like? Are we living in a society that builds in 'cultural scaffolding of rape'? And how do we build healthy sexual and loving relationships?

• Guest: Manon Garcia, Junior Professor of Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin and author of Living With Men: Reflections on the Pelicot Trial, published by Polity
• Producer: Catherine Zengerer

Warning: This interview may contain details that may be distressing for some listeners.

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Sir Mark Oliphant hasn't had a billion-dollar movie made about him, but — according to the author Roland Perry — maybe he should have. Oliphant was an Australian physicist who played a crucial role in convincing Oppenheimer and the Americans that a nuclear bomb was possible, and necessary. Without Oliphant, Perry says, it's possible the Germans would have built the bomb first.

• Guest: Roland Perry, author of more than 40 books
• Producer: Alex Tighe