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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Why do we fixate on the human face?
What's in a face? The face is where all our senses come together, but we also perceive each other's faces through the prisms of culture and technology...
Madame War Criminal: Serbia's Iron lady
Before the Bosnian war, Biljana Plavšić was a renowned biologist and university dean. She later became the only woman convicted by an international t...
Soweto: the uprising that changed South Africa
In June 1976, thousands of students took to the streets of Soweto, South Africa, to protest a government decision to make Afrikaans a compulsory langu...
The campaign to save PNG's Sepik river from an Australian mining company
Deep in the rainforests of Papua New Guinea winds the Sepik river. Rich with crocodiles, eels, turtles, prawns and fish, it’s one of the largest unpol...
Ian Dunt's UK: Henry Nowak's murder sparks immigration backlash
The murder of Henry Nowak by a Sikh man in Southampton last year has sparked protests encouraged by anti-immigration Reform Party leader, Nigel Farage...
Will Switzerland vote to cap its population?
This weekend, the Swiss will vote on a proposal to cap the nation's population at 10 million (it's already at 9.1 million). Polling suggests the resul...
The men who want women to be quiet: America's 'masculinist' movement
Journalist for The Atlantic Helen Lewis speaks with key figures of the so-called 'masculinist' movement in the United States - a movement pushing back...
Spam spam spam! Why the luncheon meat is still loved in many countries
Spam may be derided in Western countries but in Asia and the Pacific it's still a beloved staple. It was created by Hormel Foods in 1937 to utilise su...
Barcelona's magnificent Sagrada Familia Basilica to be blessed by the Pope
This week, the Pope will be in Barcelona to officially bless the final tower of La Sagrada Familia, the monumental Catholic basilica, which was 144 ye...
The forgotten Timorese boat people
In 1995, long before the 2001 'Tampa' refugee crisis, a small fishing boat arrived in Darwin, carrying eighteen East Timorese asylum seekers, includin...
The great illicit drug debate: How Australia changed course
Heroin, cocaine, cannabis and opiates — it’s hard to imagine now, but in 19th-century Australia there were few restrictions on the use of these substa...
The psychiatrist who investigated reincarnation
While Ian Stevenson (1918–2007) was an academic psychiatrist with a strong professional reputation, he became known for researching an unusual topic f...
Is 'Muskism' the new Fordism?
Elon Musk is tipped to become the world’s first trillionaire when his company SpaceX goes public on the stock exchange as early as next week. To some...
How nature is the performance enhancer for Ethiopian runners
There are many ways to attain endurance and high performance. The ethos of Ethiopian collective running contrasts sharply with the testosterone supple...
How Glasgow stopped an immigration raid
In 2021 UK immigration officers carried out a dawn raid in Kenmure St in the culturally diverse Pollokshields area of Glasgow's Southside. They arres...
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Republicans finally stand up to Trump
Republican Senators are rebelling against Donald Trump using funds from his settlement of a legal case against the IRS, which is being labelled a slus...
Why Lord Howe Island is celebrating a cockroach boom
A new study shows that insect life on Lord Howe Island has significantly increased since the eradication of invasive rodents in 2019. Experts say inve...
What are Syrian refugees returning home to?
When the brutal Assad regime fell in Syria in 2024 it offered an opportunity for the millions of people displaced by the regime to return home – inclu...
Will the government hold its nerve on tax reform?
A new poll published in the Australian Financial Review has Pauline Hanson's One Nation ahead of Labor and the Coalition on primary vote. Meanwhile, t...
The young US conservatives trying to redefine environmentalism
The American Conservation Coalition was formed in 2017 to try to attract younger people to the Republican Party. But the Coalition doesn’t seem to be...
Long before 1979: A very different Iran–US relationship
While negotiations over a lasting peace deal remain unpredictable, historian and author, John Ghazvinian argues that the past fifty years of hostility...
The women at Nuremberg
Just after World War Two, leading figures from Nazi Germany were tried before an International military tribunal for their crimes against humanity - t...
Janine di Giovanni's reckoning with war criminals
Janine di Giovanni has been a war correspondent for more than thirty years. She's been shot at, kidnapped and held at gunpoint. She’s written about m...
Pedro Sanchez, Spain's defiant PM
Despite mounting pressure at home after his Socialist Party suffered heavy losses in its former Andalusian stronghold, Pedro Sánchez has emerged as on...
Ian Dunt's UK: Andy Burnham's big gamble, plus what's wrong with British leadership?
All eyes are on the Makerfield by-election as Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, puts his reputation on the line. Burnham has thrown his w...
Ballerina Anna Pavlova's sensational tour of Australia, 100 years on
100 years ago, Russian ballerina and global megastar Anna Pavlova toured Australia and New Zealand, filling theatres and newspaper columns wherever sh...
Ancient Roman gossip and why it mattered
The Romans were merciless in the way they talked about their rulers. Baldness and body hair, sexual positions and partners, and inebriation and indole...
Does Mamdani offer a 'progressive playbook' for the Left?
The victory of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani in New York's mayoral elections has some heralding the arrival of a new 'progressive playbook' for...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Could the Teals form a new political party?
Teal independents are reportedly in talks to form a new political party amid voter disillusionment that has sparked the resurgence of Pauline Hanson...
Tareq Baqoni on being a gay Palestinian Hamas expert
Tareq Baconi grew up in Jordan after his family was expelled first from Palestine and then from Lebanon during the civil war. He became an academic an...
Satyajit Das on the economic fallout from Trump’s war on Iran
Since the US-Israel war on Iran broke out three months ago, the price of oil has jumped at least fifty percent, causing economic pain around the world...
Roddy Doyle on a lifetime of writing the characters of Dublin
Roddy Doyle reflects on a lifetime telling the stories of working-class people in Dublin, with themes of domestic violence, unplanned pregnancy and li...
Who was Blind Freddy?
The common Australian term 'Blind Freddy', as in 'Blind Freddy could see that', spread quickly and comprehensively. But who was Blind Freddy? An autho...
What made John Safran question the right to offend?
John Safran has made a career out of blasphemy and offence. With his gonzo-style journalism he placed a “fatwa” on Rove McManus, streaked naked throug...
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Trump's rush to redistrict the South, as polls slump
Ahead of November's midterm elections, Republicans are looking to reshape South Carolina's congressional districts, in an effort to create a US House...
Where is Gazan doctor Hussam Abu Safiya?
Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, was repeatedly warned to evacuate during the war between Israel and Hamas, but chose to r...
The joys and travails of translating Shakespeare
All over the world, people are encountering the timeless work of Shakespeare for the first time, thanks to translators who have managed to distil the...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: battle lines drawn over tax
In the wake of treasurer Jim Chalmers' budget - and opposition leader Angus Taylor's budget reply - the political battle lines have been drawn over ta...
Why food traditions matter in times of conflict
Food traditions are at the core of a culture's history, storytelling and community - but these traditions are continually threatened by conflict, war...
Royal commissions in Australia - when have they made a difference?
Since Federation, there have been 141 royal commissions in Australia into various crises and tragedies. Some have brought about meaningful policy chan...