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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
Ian Dunt's UK, Bob Hawke and the Balibo Five, and the Catholics' teenage saint
Dec 03, 2024
Laura Tingle's Canberra, North Korean troops in Russia, and poetry's place in Australia
Dec 02, 2024
Why humans think they can subdue nature, and Helen Garner's love of football
Nov 28, 2024
Essays that changed Australia, and beware the Christmas creep
Nov 27, 2024
Bruce Shapiro's America, Australia's submarine fiasco, and the rise of Britishisms
Nov 26, 2024
Laura Tingle and George Megalogenis
Nov 25, 2024
Imagining a better Australia, and Lech Blaine's miraculous life
Nov 21, 2024
Marcia Langton on truth telling and Sidney Nolan's African paintings
Nov 20, 2024
Ian Dunt's UK, who is Barron Trump, and the shark that lives forever
Nov 19, 2024
Laura Tingle on the Greens' compromise, and Jon Ronson dissects the politics of conspiracy theories
Nov 18, 2024
How Australia writes its war history, and the lives of medieval women
Nov 14, 2024
How will Trump handle China and Virginia Woolf's brilliant hoax
Nov 13, 2024
Bruce Shapiro's America, reporting from crisis zones, and the last witch of England
Nov 12, 2024
Laura Tingle's Canberra, backtrack at the NACC, and Francesca Albanese's latest report
Nov 11, 2024
Gaza's damaged heritage, and a biography of Madrid
Nov 07, 2024
Late Night Live's US election special 2024
Nov 06, 2024
Ian Dunt's UK, Japan's gender gap, and a precious bible torn apart
Nov 05, 2024
Bernard Keane's Canberra, and will Shaun Micallef ever retire?
Nov 04, 2024
Running an ethical escort agency, and the pen pals across the Iron Curtain
Oct 31, 2024
Who were Australia's black convicts and the truth about absinthe
Oct 30, 2024
Bruce Shapiro's America, when chatbot relationships turn sour, and cave painting in the dark
Oct 29, 2024
Stephen Fry on life, last words and the things he can't do
Oct 28, 2024
Yemen's fight to be free of foreign interference and the Snowy Hydro scheme's 75th birthday
Oct 24, 2024
Nigel Biggar on colonialism, and a portrait of Bill Gates
Oct 23, 2024
The must-win state of Pennsylvania, and Antony Loewenstein on the weapons of war
Oct 22, 2024
Bernard Keane's Canberra, asylum seekers stranded on Nauru, and why we crave apocalypse stories
Oct 21, 2024
Exposing Opus Dei, and learning the language of birds
Oct 17, 2024
Why Russia's Constitution matters, and the Scottish poet hounded out of town
Oct 16, 2024
Ian Dunt's UK, Māori Muslims, and food culture in the Balkans
Oct 15, 2024
Hurricanes and campaigns in Florida, and Jennifer Robinson on Assange's freedom
Oct 14, 2024
Taiwan's kaleidoscopic story
Oct 10, 2024
The Palace Letters, Australia becomes the place of the unfair go and the scandals of the Moulin Rouge
Oct 09, 2024
US Politics, nature positivity, Wikipedia and AI
Oct 08, 2024
The family behind the Nobel prizes, and the life of political kingmaker Pamela Churchill Harriman
Oct 07, 2024
Can copyright protect Indigenous art and the downfall of the Maharajas
Oct 03, 2024
Sri Lanka's new President, America's love of dictators, and the cocaine hippos
Oct 02, 2024
Chasing votes in Georgia USA, discrimination in religious schools, and the elusive night parrot
Oct 01, 2024
Laura Tingle's Canberra, is Hezbollah finished and why we're bored with the space race
Sep 30, 2024
Artificial intelligence at the border, and who was Kosciuszko?
Sep 26, 2024
Ian Dunt's UK, and Fintan O'Toole on the perils of political tribalism
Sep 25, 2024
Bruce Shapiro's America, sedition in Hong Kong, and when Houdini visited Australia
Sep 24, 2024
Karen Middleton on Australian politics, Japan's next Prime Minister, and the feelings of plants
Sep 23, 2024
Cultural change in the Australian Defence Force, and the secret history of LSD
Sep 19, 2024
Wisconsin, hydrogen and the lost subways of America
Sep 18, 2024
The damning robodebt report and tea's significance in Iran's rich cultures
Sep 17, 2024
Niki Savva's Canberra, Iran's feminist uprising and opal mining under threat
Sep 16, 2024
Eric Beecher on media moguls and the broken promises at Wybalenna
Sep 12, 2024
Dissecting the Trump-Harris debate, and the rise of the French Impressionists
Sep 11, 2024
Ian Dunt on the Grenfell fire report, will Russia and Ukraine negotiate, and celebrating writer Janet Frame
Sep 10, 2024
Laura Tingle's Canberra, Vatican finances, and the politics of portraiture
Sep 09, 2024
Why did the Alfred Dreyfus affair capture the world's attention?
Sep 05, 2024
Support for Gaza war high, but not for Netanyahu, plus the Aussie women who just loved America
Sep 04, 2024
Historian William Dalrymple on India's Golden Road
Sep 03, 2024
Canberra Politics, Myanmar's fragmentation and fighting fire ants
Sep 02, 2024
The injustice of murdered Indigenous women and re-naming Kosciuszko
Aug 29, 2024
The big business of charitable trusts, the secret lives of cows, and who blew up the Nord Stream pipeline?
Aug 28, 2024
Will the Arab vote swing Michigan? And the UK's poet laureate - from Yorkshire
Aug 27, 2024
Laura Tingle's Canberra, Malaysia's economic ambitions, and the allure of anchovies
Aug 26, 2024
David Runciman on saving democracy, and the resilience of island ecosystems
Aug 22, 2024
Should artists have the right to freedom of political expression?
Aug 21, 2024
Bruce Shapiro on Biden's speech, what's actually happening in Sudan, and remembering the great Australian literary hoax
Aug 20, 2024
Laura Tingle on Gaza visas, and why the Voice Referendum failed
Aug 19, 2024
Cuba still on the terror blacklist plus the true identity of Australia's first novelist
Aug 15, 2024
Roxane Gay on dissent, despair and hope, plus marking 200 years since martial law was declared in Bathurst
Aug 14, 2024
Israeli censorship, inside Guantánamo Bay, and getting 'weird'
Aug 13, 2024
Laura Tingle's Canberra, and mapping First Nations languages in Australia
Aug 12, 2024
Maori rights rollback and Guatemalan adoption trade
Aug 08, 2024
Who is Tim Walz? The Murdoch succession battle, plus righting wrongs in Australian history
Aug 07, 2024
UK riots actually pogroms, suicide and brain injury in soldiers and the poetry pentathlon
Aug 06, 2024
Laura Tingle's Canberra and how sugar shaped the world
Aug 05, 2024
Searching for the soul
Aug 01, 2024
Venezuelan unrest, exposing the gas industry and celebrating James Baldwin
Jul 31, 2024
The power of US lobbyists and James Cook's fateful last voyage
Jul 30, 2024
Laura Tingle's Canberra, Robert Fisk's final work and Olympic myth busting
Jul 29, 2024
Pine Gap, academic publishing and the history of notebooks
Jul 25, 2024
Is Israel a liberal democracy and was William Shakespeare gay?
Jul 24, 2024
Bruce Shapiro on Kamala Harris, Paul Davies on the benefits of AI and the beauty of the Brisbane River
Jul 23, 2024
Laura Tingle's Canberra, the Brittany Higgins defamation case and was Gaudi a saint?
Jul 22, 2024
Who is the new President of Iran and passport paradoxes
Jul 18, 2024
France in flux and how should we remember the war dead
Jul 17, 2024
The challenge for Keir Starmer and pioneering nurses in the AIDS crisis
Jul 16, 2024
Laura Tingle's Canberra, Bruce Shapiro post Trump assassination attempt and French sub secrets
Jul 15, 2024
The young leftie Rupert Murdoch
Jul 11, 2024
Lara Marlowe on Robert Fisk, Azar Nafisi on reading dangerously
Jul 10, 2024
Classic LNL: composer Elena Kats-Chernin AO
Jul 09, 2024
Classic LNL: Magda Szubanski
Jul 08, 2024
Classic LNL: Paul Keating on the first dismissal
Jul 04, 2024
Classic LNL: The revolutionary women of the Whitlam era
Jul 03, 2024
Classic LNL: Isabel Allende on feminism and Finding Fibonacci
Jul 02, 2024
Classic LNL: The life of Deborah Cheetham-Fraillon
Jul 01, 2024
Phillip Adams farewells Late Night Live
Jun 27, 2024
Naomi Klein’s Doppleganger. Untangling the big ethical issues of our time with Peter Singer.
Jun 26, 2024
Phillip's swansong with Laura Tingle, Bruce Shapiro and Ian Dunt
Jun 25, 2024
Left for dead? The Australian left, then and now
Jun 24, 2024
The adventures of Simon Winchester
Jun 20, 2024
Is the world's most expensive painting the real thing? How twelve sheep can give life meaning.
Jun 19, 2024
Ian Dunt's UK plus what we can learn from the Inuit
Jun 18, 2024
Laura Tingle on Li Qiang and Linda Burney on reconciliation
Jun 17, 2024
George Monbiot on the invisible forces behind neoliberalism
Jun 13, 2024
The NACC disappoints on Robodebt and Paul Gauguin's Pacific works
Jun 12, 2024
Bruce Shapiro and the story of John S Jacobs - fugitive US slave
Jun 11, 2024
Kay Kinane: trailblazing broadcaster and educator
Jun 10, 2024
The lost history of Iranian Jews plus clearing the air - of emissions
Jun 06, 2024
Who are Amit Shah and Mary Astell?
Jun 05, 2024
Ian Dunt's UK, Mexico's anti-machismo president and preserving the Wollemi pine
Jun 04, 2024
Laura Tingle's Canberra and Australia's ongoing fight for equality
Jun 03, 2024
The autocrats teaming up with MAGA politicians and the Greek communists "rescued" by Stalin
May 30, 2024
Primatologist Jane Goodall and Rwanda under the spotlight
May 29, 2024
Bruce Shapiro explains what an upside-down US flag means.
May 28, 2024
Bernard Keane's Canberra plus Clive Hamilton on privilege
May 27, 2024
Jordan protests Gaza war plus AC Grayling on who owns the moon
May 23, 2024
Reporting 5km from the frontline and the history of undersea cables.
May 22, 2024
UK politics, Stella Assange and how to fix France
May 21, 2024
Laura Tingle's Canberra, bird flu scare and Paul Salopek on his world trek
May 20, 2024
Why some people have more luck than others and the most likely path to nuclear war.
May 16, 2024
Geoffrey Robinson on Putin and Boyan Slat on The Ocean Cleanup
May 15, 2024
Trump's policy platform and Russia's water problems
May 14, 2024
Laura Tingle's budget preview plus how India, Israel and Mexico are connected through spyware
May 13, 2024
Should women get extra seats in Pacific parliaments? And Hugh Mackay on a lifetime of observing Australians.
May 09, 2024
Roger Pulvers on Japan and Australia's long relationship and Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito
May 08, 2024
Ian Dunt's UK, diplomatic asylum dilemmas and author Robyn Davidson
May 07, 2024
Laura Tingle's Canberra and the murky business of food barons
May 06, 2024
Healing the stolen generation and letters from two literary giants
May 02, 2024
Johann Hari on the miracle weight loss drugs
May 01, 2024
Satyajit Das on the risks of ecotourism and Bruce Shapiro on the Columbia protests
Apr 30, 2024
Laura Tingle's Canberra and James Bradley's oceanic love affair
Apr 29, 2024
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