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05.02.2024
Letter writing with Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower
What can two of Australia's literary greats teach us about letter writing? Brigitta Olubas and Susan Wyndham joined Phillip Adams in the studio to discuss an extraordinary new book of letters penned over forty years by novelists Shirley Hazzard and...
05.02.2024
Lorraine and Shaan Peeters on healing the Stolen Generation
Lorraine Peeters, herself a stolen child and survivor of Cootamundra Home for Girls, has spent her life healing herself and others, creating the organisation Marumali which provides culturally powerful training to service providers. Her daughter, Shaan Peeters, is now taking...
05.01.2024
Indigenous claims to Murray-Darling water rights
Water rights were promised to Indigenous communities in the Murray Darling Basin a year ago. What has happened to those commitments from the Federal Government? Guest: Uncle Brendan Kennedy is a Wadi Wadi and Tati Tati traditional owner from Robinvale in Victoria
05.01.2024
Johann Hari and the magic weight loss drugs
Johann Hari discusses the health risks and rewards of the new weight loss drugs. What does the huge demand for these drugs say about our troubled relationship with food? Guest: Johann Hari, author of Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks...
04.30.2024
Bruce Shapiro's America
Bruce Shapiro has been watching the protests taking place at Columbia University over the last ten days from his office window. 100 students were arrested at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment which has triggered similar protests at campuses across America. Guest: Bruce...
04.30.2024
Wild Quests: Journeys into Ecotourism and the Future for Animals
Over the last thirty years, watching wildlife in nature became Satyajit Das' gravitational centre. His new book Wild Quests is a literal and metaphorical record of these travels.
04.29.2024
Exploring the world through the ocean with James Bradley
Could the ocean offer us a way to make ethical and emotional sense of the past, and help us re-imagine our relationship to the world? Australian writer James Bradley thinks so. James joined Phillip Adams to talk about his new book...
04.29.2024
Laura Tingle's Canberra: Albanese's attendance at women's march backfires
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's attendance at a rally against gendered violence has backfired as one of the rally organisers claimed he lied about not being asked to speak at the event. Sarah Williams, founder of the 'What Were You Wearing’...
04.25.2024
Melanie Oppenheimer on the commemoration of Australian women in war
The tradition of the ANZAC is almost always gendered male (and white). But what about women? They served and died for their country. Historian Melanie Oppenheimer believes they are yet to receive the commemorations they are due. Author of: The Power...
04.25.2024
Ross McMullin's 'Life so full of promise'
In his latest book, Life so Full of Promise: further biographies of Australia lost generation , Historian Ross McMullin documents and remembers the lives of three outstanding young Australians who served and lost their lives in World War 1.
04.24.2024
A little Greek island had a very big role in the Anzac story
A new documentary reveals the little-known role of the Greek Island of Lemnos in the Anzac story, and the multicultural mateship that developed between the Indian, Sikh and Gurkha forces who fought alongside Australia and New Zealand's diggers. Guest: Elizabeth Kaydos, Producer/Researcher of...
04.24.2024
Is there any hope for a two-state solution?
Palestinian lawyer Hiba Husseini and Israeli politician Yossi Beilin have spent decades working towards a political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They share why they remain hopeful that peace can be achieved and what it might realistically take to get...
04.23.2024
Reclaiming the Greek godesses with Natalie Haynes
Natalie Haynes has been called a ‘very modern classicist’ for her work bringing the Greek myths to a wide audience through fiction, non-fiction and even comedy. In her new book Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth, Natalie reclaims and re-imagines the...
04.23.2024
Ian Dunt's UK
PM Rishi Sunak's looks like he has finally got his Rwanda bill through, but will it remain in place if there is a change of government?
04.22.2024
Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942 - 2022
How did Germany transform itself from a fascist dictatorship and European pariah post World War 2 to a democratic and economic powerhouse? Author Frank Trentmann joins LNL for a look at this gripping history and the role of contemporary Germany...
04.22.2024
Laura Tingle's Canberra: PM heads to Kokoda, and the government vs Elon Musk
In the tradition of Prime Ministers past, Anthony Albanese heads off to walk the Kokoda trail and shore up relations with PNG. The Treasurer hints at hits to our economic growth forecasts ahead of the budget, and the Opposition changes...
04.18.2024
From the LNL Archive: Andrew O'Hagan and Karl Miller
Two of the most impressive Scottish writers and thinkers are also great friends. Andrew O'Hagan and Professor Karl Miller discuss the power of landscape and history in shaping Scottish imagination and writing, and why Scotland's consistently punched above its weight...
04.18.2024
Tony Birch on First Nations writing
Long before the satirical film American Fiction made it to our screens, writers and publishers have grappled with the idea of the ‘race novel’. And just as the Black American characters in the film confronted race and class expectations, First Nation...
04.17.2024
The world's most expensive spice threatened by climate change
The world’s most expensive spice appears in the written record as early as 2300 BCE, and is revered by cultures around the globe. It takes between 70,000 and 200,000 flowers to produce just one kilogram of dried saffron threads. But...
04.17.2024
Could the ANC lose power in South Africa?
South Africa goes to the polls on May 29 and the ANC - the party of Nelson Mandela - which has ruled South Africa unchallenged for thirty years, is in trouble electorally. Guest: John Matisonn, journalist and author of God, Spies...
04.16.2024
Meet China's underground historians
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ian Johnson introduces us to the brave people inside China that are challenging the Chinese Communist Party on its most sensitive ground: its control of history.
04.16.2024
Bruce Shapiro's America
Donald Trump spent his first day in the dock as a criminal defendant. Bruce Shapiro talks us through the day, including the reported snooze from the former President. Guest: Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with The Nation magazine; Executive Director of the Dart...
04.15.2024
Is free will an illusion?
Our lives are full of choices, but what if they aren't really an exercise in free will? Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky argues that we are slaves to our biology and wrestles with what this might mean for how we govern ourselves...
04.15.2024
Laura Tingle's Canberra: media misbehaviour, and Labor losing votes over Gaza
Laura Tingle on how the media found itself in hot water over its reporting on the Bondi Junction killings and its involvement in the Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial. Plus why Labor is fast losing support in key seats over its...
04.11.2024
The evolution of the chapter
Have you ever paused to think how and when books and text became divided into chapters? Nicholas Dames has. Nicholas Dames: Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. Author of The Chapter; a segmented history from antiquity to the 21st century (...
04.11.2024
What really happened to John and Jane Franklin and why was indigenous knowledge overlooked?
In 2014 and 2016, two shipwrecks were found which answered a lengthy mystery – what happened to Sir John Franklin’s North-West Passage expedition, which had been missing since 1845? The wrecks were found thanks to Inuit testimony, and now people...
04.10.2024
Anne Manne on sex abuse of children in the Newcastle Anglican Church
The Anglican Church systematically buried complaints about sex abusers in Newcastle during the 1970’s onwards. Author and social philosopher Anne Mann's new book looks at this infamous era in the Anglican Church. Author of: Crimes of the Cross: The Anglican Paedophile Network...
04.10.2024
Tim Faulkner's wild vision for our national parks
Tim Faulkner dreams of a day when national parks across mainland Australia are free of feral predators, and where now-extinct mammals like the eastern quoll or Tassie devil roam freely. That dream may soon come one step closer to reality when...
04.09.2024
Remembering the Spanish Civil war
The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) is remembered as a dress rehearsal for World War 2, a class struggle, a religious struggle, a battle between left and right, between fascism and communism. While the conflict left deep scars on Spanish society,...
04.09.2024
Are koalas being traded for carbon credits?
The NSW Labor government promised to establish a huge koala sanctuary on the mid North Coast to be known as the Great Koala National Park. A desperately needed habitat to shore up rapidly dwindling koala numbers. Now a year into office,...
04.09.2024
Ian Dunt's UK
The debate over British arms sales to Israel, Tory MP William Wragg resigns after a honey trap blackmail scandal. Rishi Sunak's inappropriate laugh. Keir Starmer marks 4th year as opposition leader. Ian Dunt: Regular LNL commentator and iNews columnist.
04.08.2024
David Williamson laments the great divide which sees many Australians unable to afford a home
Playwright David Williamson has come out of retirement to write a new play about the housing crisis and the increasing divide between the haves and have-nots in Australia. He says neoliberal ideology, which has been embraced by both major parties, has...
04.08.2024
Bernard Keane's Canberra: IDF review unsatisfactory, Israeli military contracts and supermarket powers
The Prime Minister has responded to the Israeli Defence Force inquiry into the death of aid worker Zomi Frankcom and her colleagues, saying their explanations are unsatisfactory. Meanwhile former Labor Minister Craig Emerson recommends multi-million dollar fines for the supermarket...
04.04.2024
Vandana Shiva on ecocide, ecological apartheid and food as a tool of war
Eco-feminist and food sovereignty activist Dr Vandana Shiva welcomes the news that the International Criminal Court will this year consider whether it can add ecocide as a prosecutable crime under international law. She says ecocide is a form of genocide...
04.03.2024
The problems with parking
Finding a car park can sometimes seem a challenge, particularly in big cities, but could there actually be too many car parks in the world? Henry Grabar argues that there are many unintended costs and impacts of parking your car...
04.03.2024
Educable: a new theory of human uniqueness
It sets our species apart and has enabled us to create great civilisations but if our most defining characteristic is our intelligence and capacity to learn - should we keep it for ourselves or should we develop, program and teach...
04.03.2024
A man of two faces
We last spoke with Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen nine years ago about his debut novel The Sympathizer, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His new memoir covers his family's journey from Vietnam in the 1970's fleeing war,...
04.02.2024
Anna Funder's 'intervention in history' wins her more acclaim
Anna Funder's interventions in history have seen her notch up numerous literary accolades - a Miles Franklin, the Samuel Johnson Prize, and now a long-listing for the inaugural Women's Prize for Non-fiction. Anna Funder is the author of Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's...
04.02.2024
Bruce Shapiro's America - the Comstock Act
Bruce Shapiro explains the significance of the Comstock Act from 1871 and how it is being used in arguments about contraception and abortion in 2024. And Robert F Kennedy chooses a running mate. Guest: Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with The Nation magazine;...
04.01.2024
Jack Thompson on his films, poetry, activism and life on dialysis
Jack Thompson, actor, activist, poetry aficionado, Bob Dylan fan, sits down with Phillip to talk about family and films and living with dialysis. This program was originally broadcast on 1 October 2018.
03.28.2024
Why Rupert Read says Extinction Rebellion is not enough and we need a 'Climate Majority'
The man who helped launch Extinction Rebellion, Rupert Read, says for too long the choices on climate action have been limited to either consumer choices or radical protests. He says there needs to be a space for action between these...
03.28.2024
Cubes, bergs and blocks: how ice changed the world
Ice, ice baby... Max Leonard explores how we have interacted with ice through the ages.
03.27.2024
Surrealism turns 100: moving beyond lobsters and melting clocks
Surrealism, the movement that gave us disembodied eyeballs, melting clocks and lobster phones, turns 100 this year. Mark Polizzotti, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, argues that Surrealism was much more than an artistic or literary phenomenon. The Surrealists also...
03.27.2024
Why the border crisis could determine the next US president
With more and more migrants and asylum seekers showing up at the US-Mexico border everyday and no solution to America's broken immigration system in sight, this could be the single most important issue in the US presidential race. Guest: Dara Lind -...
03.26.2024
Dick and Dara – Indonesia’s first 60’s girl band and their legendary producer and gold-smuggling pilot
Dick Tamimi was an Indonesian pilot who was caught for smuggling gold into Thailand to buy the fledgling Indonesian government’s first plane in the 1950s. He went on to become a legendary record producer in Jakarta in the 1960s, producing...
03.26.2024
Ian Dunt's UK
After a string of losses there's yet another by- election for PM Rishi Sunak. Labour's Keir Starmer is poised for victory in the next UK election. What is he offering voters and who is he hoping will be his new...
03.25.2024
From resistance to a life of service: Timor-Leste then and now
Dr Kirsty Sword Gusmao’s life has been marked by the most astonishing, cinematic twists and turns. From a quiet childhood in regional Victoria to clandestine work smuggling East Timorese men to safety, from falling in love with an imprisoned resistance...
03.25.2024
Laura Tingle's Canberra: Gas stoushes and the state elections
Laura Tingle analyses state election results in Tasmania and South Australia, and what they might mean for the major parties. Plus Labor conflict over gas project permissions legislation. Guest: Laura Tingle, Chief Political Correspondent, 7.30
03.21.2024
Historic volcano chasers: the enduring draw of Vesuvius
Vesuvius has attracted many visitors over the years, from Goethe, Mozart and Lord Byron to a host of lesser-known lava-chasers who trooped to the summit, scorching their shoes and quaffing the local wine. Guest: John Brewer, Emeritus Professor at the California...
03.21.2024
Bad Cop: Lech Blaine's take on Peter Dutton’s strongman politics
In his new Quarterly Essay, journalist Lech Blaine delves into Opposition Leader Peter Dutton's family history, his work as a Queensland police officer, his life as a property developer and politician, and how these experiences have shaped him as a...

What's Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast about?

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Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast episodes:

Letter writing with Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower

Lorraine and Shaan Peeters on healing the Stolen Generation

Indigenous claims to Murray-Darling water rights

Johann Hari and the magic weight loss drugs

Bruce Shapiro's America

Wild Quests: Journeys into Ecotourism and the Future for Animals

Exploring the world through the ocean with James Bradley

Laura Tingle's Canberra: Albanese's attendance at women's march backfires

Melanie Oppenheimer on the commemoration of Australian women in war

Ross McMullin's 'Life so full of promise'

A little Greek island had a very big role in the Anzac story

Is there any hope for a two-state solution?

Reclaiming the Greek godesses with Natalie Haynes

Ian Dunt's UK

Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942 - 2022

Laura Tingle's Canberra: PM heads to Kokoda, and the government vs Elon Musk

From the LNL Archive: Andrew O'Hagan and Karl Miller

Tony Birch on First Nations writing

The world's most expensive spice threatened by climate change

Could the ANC lose power in South Africa?

Meet China's underground historians

Bruce Shapiro's America

Is free will an illusion?

Laura Tingle's Canberra: media misbehaviour, and Labor losing votes over Gaza

The evolution of the chapter

What really happened to John and Jane Franklin and why was indigenous knowledge overlooked?

Anne Manne on sex abuse of children in the Newcastle Anglican Church

Tim Faulkner's wild vision for our national parks

Remembering the Spanish Civil war

Are koalas being traded for carbon credits?

Ian Dunt's UK

David Williamson laments the great divide which sees many Australians unable to afford a home

Bernard Keane's Canberra: IDF review unsatisfactory, Israeli military contracts and supermarket powers

Vandana Shiva on ecocide, ecological apartheid and food as a tool of war

The problems with parking

Educable: a new theory of human uniqueness

A man of two faces

Anna Funder's 'intervention in history' wins her more acclaim

Bruce Shapiro's America - the Comstock Act

Jack Thompson on his films, poetry, activism and life on dialysis

Why Rupert Read says Extinction Rebellion is not enough and we need a 'Climate Majority'

Cubes, bergs and blocks: how ice changed the world

Surrealism turns 100: moving beyond lobsters and melting clocks

Why the border crisis could determine the next US president

Dick and Dara – Indonesia’s first 60’s girl band and their legendary producer and gold-smuggling pilot

Ian Dunt's UK

From resistance to a life of service: Timor-Leste then and now

Laura Tingle's Canberra: Gas stoushes and the state elections

Historic volcano chasers: the enduring draw of Vesuvius

Bad Cop: Lech Blaine's take on Peter Dutton’s strongman politics