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Mark Spedding
 Aug 6, 2020
I hope the Futurama bottle-head technology arrives in time to preserve this wonderful window into the world. Long may you warble you magnificent & unashamedly humanist!


 Jul 18, 2020

Ross B
 Jul 10, 2018
Adams is simply brilliant, the format allows a personal yet often forensic discussion with some amazing guests. His research team and producers must be really talented.

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From razor-sharp analysis of current events to the hottest debates in politics, science, philosophy and culture, Late Night Live puts you firmly in the big picture.

Episode Date
ANZAC day: Remembering Australia's lost generation and the contribution of women in war.
Apr 25, 2024
Yossi Beilin and Hiba Husseini on a possible two state solution plus the Anzac story on the Greek island of Lemnos
Apr 24, 2024
Ian Dunt on the Rwanda deal and Natalie Haynes updates the Greek goddesses
Apr 23, 2024
Laura Tingle's Canberra and the transformation of Germany
Apr 22, 2024
Indigenous authors are winning awards and selling books. Author Tony Birch explains why.
Apr 18, 2024
South Africa's ANC under political threat and saffron under attack from climate change
Apr 17, 2024
Trump's day in court and artists challenging history in China
Apr 16, 2024
Laura Tingle's Canberra and why free will might be an illusion
Apr 15, 2024
Late Night Live
Apr 11, 2024
Rewildng the Eastern quoll and Newcastle's paedophile ring exposed
Apr 10, 2024
UK politics, koala politics and the long reach of the Spanish Civil War
Apr 09, 2024
Bernard Keane's Canberra and David Williamson on our housing crisis
Apr 08, 2024
Vandana Shiva on ecocide and Henry Grabar on parking
Apr 04, 2024
Viet Thanh Nguyen's memoir and computer scientist Leslie Valiant
Apr 03, 2024
Bruce Shapiro on US politics and Anna Funder on Eileen Blair
Apr 02, 2024
A chat with Jack Thompson
Apr 01, 2024
Rupert Read on the Climate Majority Project plus the history of ice
Mar 28, 2024
The crisis on the US border and surrealism turns 100
Mar 27, 2024
The wild ride that was Dick Tamimi's life: from gold smuggler to gold records
Mar 26, 2024
Canberra politics and Timor then and now
Mar 25, 2024
Dutton demolition and victorious Vesuvius
Mar 21, 2024
Spies and sleuths
Mar 20, 2024
Bruce Shapiro and Shannon Smith on the mysterious Clive Williams
Mar 19, 2024
Canberra politics, 'Missing' Iraq war documents revealed and Joseph Conrad in Oz
Mar 18, 2024
Unshackled: true convict stories. Easey street murders: a cold case revisited
Mar 14, 2024
The art of ghost writing and a microhistory of the Edwin Fox
Mar 13, 2024
Ian Dunt on UK politics and Gideon Levy on reporting on the war in Gaza
Mar 12, 2024
Amy Remeikis on Canberra and Yanis Varoufakis
Mar 11, 2024
IWD special: the great trade union women of Australia's history
Mar 07, 2024
Bruce Shapiro's America and Peter Goldsworthy's 'Cancer Finishing School'
Mar 06, 2024
Bob Brown on a life of activism
Mar 05, 2024
Laura Tingle on Dunkley plus Matt Noffs on breaking the cycles of youth crime
Mar 04, 2024
Peter Frankopan and Polly Toynbee
Feb 29, 2024
Nathan Thrall investigates life in the West Bank plus Marwan Barghouti - the Palestinian Nelson Mandela?
Feb 28, 2024
Naomi Smith's UK and the global history of opium
Feb 27, 2024
Laura Tingle's Canberra and Margo Kingston on the rise of the independents
Feb 26, 2024
The moon unmasked and wealth inequality across the ages
Feb 22, 2024
Democratising Poland and a new film 'Damage'
Feb 21, 2024
Bruce Shapiro on US politics and film maker Anand Patwardhan
Feb 20, 2024
Laura Tingle's Canberra plus Kate MyClymont on a life investigating crime and corruption
Feb 19, 2024
Lorin Clarke on life with her dad, comedian John Clarke
Feb 15, 2024
Julian Assange's next appeal and the links between books and war
Feb 14, 2024
Power shifts in Northern Ireland, and the history of hitchhiking
Feb 13, 2024
Late Night Live
Feb 12, 2024
The rush to mine metals and a strange story of a solar pioneer
Feb 08, 2024
How should Australia respond to the ICJ finding and meet Sister Brigid Arthur
Feb 07, 2024
Bruce Shapiro on US politics and a panel discussion on the current state of press freedom
Feb 06, 2024
Laura Tingle's Canberra plus Marcia Langton on reconciliation and the life of Lowitja O'Donoghue
Feb 05, 2024
Détente and de-dollarisation plus the strange tale of a spy called Bill.
Feb 01, 2024
The rise of the right in Germany and the resurgence of the magazine
Jan 31, 2024
Ian Dunt's UK, psychedelic tests and stationery adventures
Jan 30, 2024
Bernard Keane's Canberra and an unsolved Australian mystery
Jan 29, 2024
Henry Reynolds on how the telling of Australia's history of frontier violence has changed
Jan 25, 2024
Cooking in the Kremlin and the Peking to Paris race of 1907
Jan 24, 2024
US politics and where the war in Ukraine heads in 2024
Jan 23, 2024
The multiple crises facing the government plus the history of politics and the pub
Jan 22, 2024
LNL Summer: Tom Holland on Rome's golden age of peace
Jan 18, 2024
Summer: A Wendy Harmer Special
Jan 17, 2024
LNL Summer: Simon Winchester on the history of sharing knowledge
Jan 16, 2024
LNL Summer: The suprising contributors to the Oxford Dictionary and the defence of the exclamation mark!
Jan 15, 2024
LNL Summer: The American obsession with conspiracy theories, plus the Dickens-led tourism trend
Jan 11, 2024
Summer: Journalist Chris Masters shares the highs and lows of his career
Jan 10, 2024
Phillip Adams' Histories of Everything: Organising words
Jan 09, 2024
Phillip Adams' Histories Of Everything: Taking the plunge
Jan 08, 2024
Phillip Adams’ Histories of Everything: Wearing It
Jan 04, 2024
Phillip Adams’ Histories of Everything: Taking Stock
Jan 03, 2024
Phillip Adams' Histories of Everything: connecting countries
Jan 02, 2024
Phillip Adams' Histories of Everything: social norms
Jan 01, 2024
LNL Summer: The phosphorus paradox and superpowers of trees
Dec 28, 2023
LNL Summer: What makes a national dish, and the world's first aquarium
Dec 27, 2023
LNL Summer: Peter Frankopan on climate and empire
Dec 26, 2023
LNL Summer: Sally Young on Australia's 'Media Monsters'
Dec 25, 2023
LNL Summer: Andrey Kurkov's diary from Ukraine, and the doctors who got high for science
Dec 21, 2023
LNL Summer: matriarchs and patriarchs
Dec 20, 2023
LNL Summer: medieval manuscripts and secret Soviet x-ray records
Dec 19, 2023
LNL Summer: the revolutionary women of the Whitlam era
Dec 18, 2023
Best of LNL: the invasion of Iraq, 20 years on
Dec 14, 2023
Best of LNL: Walter Marsh on the young Rupert Murdoch
Dec 13, 2023
Best of LNL: A tribute to Jimmy Carter, and why rats rule New York
Dec 12, 2023
Best of LNL: Influencers - Australia's political biographers
Dec 11, 2023
The Year in Review 2023: The black, the white and the downright colourful
Dec 07, 2023
International Day of Disability: Focus on blindness
Dec 06, 2023
Bruce Shapiro's America and the woman who challenged our social order
Dec 05, 2023
The politics of 2023 and celebrating 100 years of RN
Dec 04, 2023
Climate change and the "end of Eden", and the female aviator who became a spy
Nov 30, 2023
The long campaign for Indigenous Rangers and the real power of Roman emperors
Nov 29, 2023
Ian Dunt's UK, Pacific priorities at COP28 and the power of eyeliner
Nov 28, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra, and the stories told by the paintings of the State Library of NSW
Nov 27, 2023
Yascha Mounk's Identity Trap. Raimond Gaita on Justice and Hope
Nov 23, 2023
An hour with Charlie Chaplin
Nov 22, 2023
Bruce Shapiro's America, Netanyahu's political future and convict tales with Jim Haynes
Nov 21, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra, China's role in the Middle East, and the assassination of Lumumba
Nov 20, 2023
Richard Flanagan on life and love in the nuclear era
Nov 16, 2023
Facial recognition and privacy. Alexandria: The city that changed the world
Nov 15, 2023
Ian Dunt on the Big Reshuffle and UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
Nov 14, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra, and economist Sean Turnell on his imprisonment in Myanmar
Nov 13, 2023
Britain's empire on the brink
Nov 09, 2023
How swing was used for war propaganda and the Pacific Islands Forum meets in Rarotonga
Nov 08, 2023
Bruce Shapiro's America, the mass protest decade, and the WWII rescue of JFK
Nov 07, 2023
The PM visits China, Pacific nuclear legacies and the young whalers sent to Antarctica
Nov 06, 2023
Adelaide Ironside: The first Australian artist to astonish the world. Love: a curious history in 50 objects.
Nov 02, 2023
Wendy Harmer on 'Lies My Mirror Told Me'
Nov 01, 2023
UK Politics, a marine heatwave heads south and why people love saunas
Oct 31, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra, the international Atlas Network and the Mexican town that banned avocados
Oct 30, 2023
US-backed wars and their legacies, and Maria Sybilla Merian, the first ecologist
Oct 26, 2023
How we choked the Earth with dust, and Melbourne's orange-peel panic
Oct 25, 2023
Bruce Shapiro's America, Poland's surprise election result, and Australia's citizen scientists
Oct 24, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra, deadly cults in Kenya, and Jamaica's official language
Oct 23, 2023
1848: a most important revolutionary year. The history of silk.
Oct 19, 2023
Rory Stewart on his time as a Tory MP, and a clear-flowing Yarra River
Oct 18, 2023
Ian Dunt's UK, keeping Singapore cool, and Australia's soft power
Oct 17, 2023
Where to now for reconciliation?
Oct 16, 2023
Ed Yong on the world of animal senses, and why witches are still on trial
Oct 12, 2023
The Australian origins of the 8 hour workday, and the fateful relationship of Bennelong and Arthur Phillip
Oct 11, 2023
US response to Hamas attacks, the lucrative passport trade, and the sex worker who became a spy
Oct 10, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra, China's economic woes, and the convicts of New Caledonia
Oct 09, 2023
Michael Palin on his Great-Uncle Harry and Julia Ebner on extremism
Oct 05, 2023
Kevin McCarthy ousted, motherhood as glaciers melt, and history's greatest act of greenwashing
Oct 04, 2023
Ian Dunt's UK, Trinity's nuclear fallout, and the original Luddites
Oct 03, 2023
An LNL special: Historian Henry Reynolds reflects on the extraordinary gaps he discovered in Australian history telling
Oct 02, 2023
The lion breeding boom in South Africa and some fake heroes exposed
Sep 28, 2023
The spies that shaped history and a floating university
Sep 27, 2023
Bruce Shapiro's America, China's language police, and the legacy of the Bark Petitions
Sep 26, 2023
Payday for pensioners, waging war over undersea cables, and the art of Lonnie Holley
Sep 25, 2023
Yanis Varoufakis on Technofeudalism and the evolution of counting
Sep 21, 2023
The future of the Middle East and NASA's first female astronauts
Sep 20, 2023
Ian Dunt's UK, Israel-PNG relations, and cheerfulness in Art
Sep 19, 2023
Amy Remeikis' Canberra, the nuclear waste challenge, and one woman's passion for eating offal
Sep 18, 2023
What is it really like to be blind?
Sep 14, 2023
How the Sami voice is heard in Norway, 50 years since the Pinochet coup, a history of the Tiwi Islands
Sep 13, 2023
Bruce Shapiro's America, and the unsung heroes of the Oxford English Dictionary
Sep 12, 2023
Bernard Keane's Canberra, Taiwan from the inside and the myths of national dishes
Sep 11, 2023
The American obsession with conspiracy theories, plus the Dickens-led tourism trend
Sep 07, 2023
Reviving regional "news deserts", and humanity's interstellar future
Sep 06, 2023
Ian Dunt's UK and the life of Dorothea Mackellar
Sep 05, 2023
What makes a referendum successful? And growing up with an activist father
Sep 04, 2023
Fakes and frauds: A Jewish cookbook and a polar explorer
Aug 31, 2023
The 'echidna' strategy and the race to map the ocean floor
Aug 30, 2023
Bruce Shapiro's America, Australia's looming fire season, and the "tradwives" shunning feminism
Aug 29, 2023
Sean Kelly's Canberra, 21st Century virtues, and the mysterious Australian spy 'Dick' Ellis
Aug 28, 2023
Simon Winchester is worried about the future of human intelligence
Aug 24, 2023
The Megalodon, a peasant revolution and how the world became a sphere
Aug 23, 2023
Ian Dunt's UK, a new Murray-Darling deal, and America's changing graves
Aug 22, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra, Albanian migrants in the UK, and finding joy in prehistory
Aug 21, 2023
How to embrace failure and the consequences of the coup in Niger
Aug 17, 2023
The Evolution of Sound with David George Haskell
Aug 16, 2023
Bruce Shapiro's US and the fate of Afghan women
Aug 15, 2023
Laura Tingle's politics; threats to food security; snow monkeys in Texas
Aug 14, 2023
Tom Holland on Rome's Golden Age of Peace
Aug 10, 2023
Beirut blast anniversary; David Bridie and George Telek on their friendship
Aug 09, 2023
Ian Dunt's UK, the rise of online sports betting, and the Black Mambas
Aug 08, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra, saving the Amazon, and when the British tested the atomic bomb off WA
Aug 07, 2023
Walter Marsh on the young Rupert Murdoch
Aug 03, 2023
'Narcas': women of the drug cartels and The Angel Makers: the murderesses of Hungary
Aug 02, 2023
Foreign influence through social media, and what we get wrong about rural Americans
Aug 01, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra, Cambodia's Hun Sen to resign, and the colourful history of flour
Jul 31, 2023
Heat: the silent killer and the surprising practitioners of phrenology
Jul 27, 2023
Pacific update, an island prison in Honduras, and 4000 years of female monsters
Jul 26, 2023
Why the Voice is the right change for the Australian Constitution
Jul 25, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra, the 1960 Hollywood strike, and the Sami fight against windfarms
Jul 24, 2023
Who was the real J. Robert Oppenheimer?
Jul 20, 2023
NATO in Japan, German re-militarisation, and the power of owls
Jul 19, 2023
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the Ugandan President in trouble, and the Gurindji view on termites
Jul 18, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra, and how America conceals its perpetual war
Jul 17, 2023
Journalist Chris Masters on his storied career
Jul 13, 2023
Voice undecideds, Spain's tilt to the right, and the smelly origins of ambergris
Jul 12, 2023
Ian Dunt, Fukushima water release and the tale of Charlie Flannigan
Jul 11, 2023
Laura Tingle on Robodebt, and how Russian artists are responding to war
Jul 10, 2023
Protecting Indigenous art from exploitation and the history of tattoos
Jul 06, 2023
China and India compete for the Maldives, racial violence in France and Torres Strait treats
Jul 05, 2023
Bruce Shapiro's America, corruption in Indonesia, and why we take risks
Jul 04, 2023
Laura Tingle on the NACC, will Mexico's next president be female? And the casualties of war reporting
Jul 03, 2023
Australia's treatment of refugee children, and the complex figures of queer history
Jun 29, 2023
Bruce Wolpe on Trump's Australia and Shakespeare's first folio turns 400
Jun 28, 2023
Boris Johnson's exit, and North Korea's most powerful woman
Jun 27, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra, mutiny in Russia and pigment tales from art history
Jun 26, 2023
Tribute to Daniel Ellsberg, and Kiki the queen of bohemian Paris
Jun 22, 2023
Blinken in Beijing, the great financial crashes of history, and a grandfather's Nazi past
Jun 21, 2023
Bruce Shapiro on US politics, the human relationship with Ebola, and the bird-watching diplomat
Jun 20, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra, the Kakhova Dam disaster and a Spanish film-maker's commitment to art and music
Jun 19, 2023
Breathalysing volcanoes, and the real Catherine the Great
Jun 15, 2023
UFOs and the real archaeologists more daring than Indiana Jones
Jun 14, 2023
Sally Young on Australia's 'media monsters'
Jun 13, 2023
Simon Winchester in conversation about 'Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World'
Jun 12, 2023
Kenan Malik on race, culture and identity politics plus how timekeeping changed the world
Jun 08, 2023
Tensions over Taiwan, the rise of Islamist rule, and why it feels good to sulk
Jun 07, 2023
The history behind Kosovo-Serbia tensions and Wikipedia's gender problem
Jun 06, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra, why digital doesn't always trump paper, and putting the type into typography
Jun 05, 2023
The Martin Amis interview
Jun 01, 2023
Power plays in PNG, Hollywood writers fighting AI, and the art of blurbs
May 31, 2023
Big Tech and the global south, and the case for 'tragic' thinking
May 30, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra, Timor-Leste's future, and André Dao's powerful family history
May 29, 2023
How the KGB operates, and trees that learn and socialise
May 25, 2023
Regulating 'forever chemicals' and David Grann's shipwreck tale The Wager
May 24, 2023
Stan Grant exposes Australia's broken media landscape
May 23, 2023
One year of PM Albanese, love and inequality in China, and the trouble with human teeth
May 22, 2023
Too much yet too little: the phosphorus paradox
May 18, 2023
Indigenous update, Asia's G7 priorities and can anyone own culture?
May 17, 2023
US politics, South Africa's heroic journalists & why we should love flies
May 16, 2023
Amy Remeikis' Canberra, Afghanistan struggles under Talban rule and the 18th century AI chess hoax
May 15, 2023
An adventure down the Tigris River, and the life of writer Geoffrey Dutton
May 11, 2023
Bangladesh's looming carbon catastrophe and E Jean Carroll revisited
May 10, 2023
Ian Dunt's UK, unrest in Haiti and the curse of the Marquis de Sade
May 09, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra, Bob Carr on Assange and diplomacy, and weird and wonderful understandings of the alphabet
May 08, 2023
Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov reflects on the war in Ukraine
May 04, 2023
Deep sea mining in the Pacific, and the life-saving potential of animals
May 03, 2023
David Frum's America, the ticking Doomsday Clock, and Australia's botanic gardens
May 02, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra, ten years after the Bangladesh factory collapse, and histories of the heart
May 01, 2023
Matriarchs and Patriarchs
Apr 27, 2023
Asia update, Shirley Shackleton's East Timor, and Italy's Cinecittà Studios
Apr 26, 2023
ANZAC special: Frontier fighters and the truth about East Timor
Apr 25, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra, the uprising of Dutch farmers, and 'fairy circles' in the Pilbara
Apr 24, 2023
Charles Glass reflects on his time in Syria
Apr 20, 2023
Indigenous update, famine in Africa, and the story of slime
Apr 19, 2023
Bruce Shapiro's America, NZ on AUKUS, the father of skyscrapers
Apr 18, 2023
Canberra politics, Uganda's new anti-LGBT bill, Australia's convict 'orphans'
Apr 17, 2023
The revolutionary women of the Whitlam era
Apr 13, 2023
Asia update, Maja Göpel is rethinking our world, behind Gould's birds
Apr 12, 2023
Ian Dunt's UK, Don Winslow vs Donald Trump and a tribute to two Bruces
Apr 11, 2023
Easter special: Simon Sebag Montefiore on history's greatest dynasties
Apr 10, 2023
The medieval manuscripts club and secret Soviet x-ray records
Apr 06, 2023
Pacific's big climate win and Germany's anti-EV push
Apr 05, 2023
Trump is arraigned, Finland joins NATO and could humanism save us?
Apr 04, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra, the billionaires behind Israel's new laws, and the history of laundry
Apr 03, 2023
The journos who flew in WWII bombers, and the enduring power of string, nails and other simple inventions
Mar 30, 2023
Asia update, turmoil in Israel, secret lives of stones
Mar 29, 2023
UK politics, Sri Lanka update and the ancient Buddha found on an Aussie beach
Mar 28, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra, China in the Middle East, and the poetics of terra nullius
Mar 27, 2023
The American town that changed the world, and the history of coffee
Mar 23, 2023
Indigenous update; a broken Lebanon; rats of NYC
Mar 22, 2023
Bruce Shapiro on a possible Trump arrest, why the world is running out of fresh water and the feminist philosophies of Periyar
Mar 21, 2023
Laura Tingle on AUKUS and Paul Keating, Satyajit Das says another GFC looms and AFTRS turns 50
Mar 20, 2023
The invasion of Iraq, 20 years on
Mar 16, 2023
Asia and AUKUS and Margaret Simons on Tanya Plibersek
Mar 15, 2023
UK politics, unrest in Georgia, protecting Macquarie Island
Mar 14, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra, Scotland after Sturgeon and how borders make and break the world
Mar 13, 2023
Peter Frankopan on how climate has contributed to the rise and fall of empires
Mar 09, 2023
Pacific update, Indigenous rights and climate change, Cleopatra's daughter
Mar 08, 2023
Bruce Shapiro's US politics, Fatima Bhutto on the war on women & what needlepoint has to do with Ada Lovelace
Mar 07, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra, New Zealand after Ardern, and an Indigenous artist mystery solved
Mar 06, 2023
France's pension age controversy and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst on Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces
Mar 02, 2023
Asia update and a tribute to Jimmy Carter
Mar 01, 2023
Naomi Smith's UK, Asia's fisheries under threat, and the French archaeologist who saved Egypt's treasures
Feb 28, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra, Italy under Georgia Meloni and how advertising helped us kick the smoking habit
Feb 27, 2023
Truth and lies in the in the Kimberley plus a feminist revolution in Australian theatre
Feb 23, 2023
The 'Yes' campaign, Nigeria's election and a sensory exploration
Feb 22, 2023
Bruce Shapiro's US politics, Behrouz Boochani on freedom and unraveling the story of fabric
Feb 21, 2023
Laura Tingle's Canberra and why Gandhi's legacy is troubling Indian PM Modi
Feb 20, 2023
The evolving ethics of euthanasia and a global history of swimming
Feb 16, 2023
Asia update with Emily Feng, new insights into an ancient continent, and a stolen Ethiopian child prince
Feb 15, 2023