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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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100 years of Route 66 - is it worth celebrating?
It's 100 years since America's fabled highway 'Route 66' was commissioned - the road from Chicago to L.A celebrated in literature and song. But behin...
AI, chips and drones- a new kind of geopolitics
The next great power struggle may not be won on the battlefield, but in semiconductor factories, AI labs and satellite networks. In Bytes and Bullets,...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Pauline Hanson loses appeal over racist tweet
One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson has lost her appeal against a court ruling which found she racially discriminated against Greens Senator Mehreen Faru...
The Donald Trump school of architecture
From tearing into the White House to make way for a 650-seat ballroom, to declaring war on modern architecture, Donald Trump is remaking America’s sym...
How British slave money flowed to colonial Australia
In 1833, slavery in the British Empire was abolished, but not without a massive compensation scheme paid out to slave owners. Some of that money flowe...
Fierce feminists: the trailblazing women who built democracy
Until the early 1900s men did their best to keep women out of parliaments around the world. But the social disruptions of the twentieth century, like...
One Nation's internal challenges
One Nation is having the most success it's ever had, but to build on that, it is having to do some rapid re-organising and skill development behind th...
Is Australia too generous to the rich? The case for tighter means-testing
Why has means-testing fallen out of favour in Australian public policymaking? The idea of means-testing is to direct government support to those who n...
Naomi Smith's UK: Can Andy Burnham deliver?
Andy Burnham has become the UK's fifth Prime Minister in five years, promising to reset Labour and end the cycle of political turmoil. His first messa...
The Pentagon is the biggest polluter on the planet
Journalist Abby Martin and her husband Mike Prysner – a US war veteran - have spent years drawing attention to the wrongdoings of the US military. Bu...
Should a Nazi bunker in Berlin be demolished?
Today, the site of Hitler's bunker is little more than a car park. But nearby, another former Nazi bunker is facing demolition, reigniting debate over...
Did the US kill civilians in Somalia?
An investigation by The Guardian has found that a US air strike in Somalia last November, killed and injured 12 civilians, including eight children. T...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: AI and the ALP national conference
Anna Henderson looks at the government's decision to go on the front foot with their AI policy, and whether the opposition has been able to prosecute...
Uprooting olive trees in the West Bank
Palestinians in the West Bank say that Israeli forces are razing olive trees at an unprecedented pace. Prominent writer and lawyer Raja Shehadeh descr...
Why India is threatening to cut water supplies to Pakistan
After a terror attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir in 2025, tensions between India and Pakistan exploded into a four-day war, with the threat of nuclear war p...
Colonising space is for lunatics
If Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have their way, the new space age will bring holidays in orbit, asteroid mining and human colonies on Mars. Musk says huma...
Are Australia's new Pacific treaties built to last?
Australia has just signed new bilateral treaties with Fiji and Vanuatu, which is widely viewed as a diplomatic triumph. But what are the pro's and con...
The Dead can't Sue - a podcast
Two historians throw open the archives and leave the dusty corridors of academia behind, hunting through the mess and intrigue of Australia’s past for...
How sustainable is IKEA?
Every second a tree is cut down to become an affordable IKEA product. The Swedish mega-company claims it's sustainable, but is that really the case? I...
Bruce Shapiro's USA
Bruce Shapiro looks at how the sudden death of US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham will affect the Senate, Trump's attack on several New York Times j...
Why are more of us watching TV with subtitles?
More of us are using subtitles while watching TV and movies - particularly amongst Gen Z and Millennials. Is this a sign of our shrinking attention...
The US legal battle over nitrogen gas executions
'Nitrogen hypoxia' has been used by the US state of Alabama at least seven times to execute prisoners on death row. Human rights experts say the metho...
Mark Kenny's Canberra: Angus Taylor takes on Pauline Hanson
Canberra columnist Professor Mark Kenny looks at why Liberal leader Angus Taylor has finally begun to criticise Pauline Hanson and One Nation. Plus a...
Songs and stories with Roger Knox, the 'Koori King of Country'
Uncle Roger Knox joins David Marr in the studio for an hour of stories and songs: from growing up on the mission, to making his name in Tamworth, surv...
Thomas Jefferson's troubling views on race
Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the USA, drafted the words 'all men are created equal', in the US Declaration of Independence. He wanted slav...
Jonathan Swan on the astonishing inner workings of Trump's second presidency
The rules have changed. Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman's Regime Change takes readers inside Donald Trump's second presidency, arguing it marks the...
India’s forgotten pedestrians
In India, walking the streets can be a dangerous daily challenge. For decades, roads have been designed around cars and motorbikes, leaving pedestrian...
Ian Dunt's UK: Nigel Farage resigns as MP to force by-election
Ian Dunt joins David Marr moments before Reform UK's Nigel Farage announces his resignation as MP. Farage is under investigation from Parliament's st...
African anti-gay laws on the rise
The criminalising of homosexuality is being either adopted, or strengthened, in one country after another in Africa. That continent has the biggest cl...
Ancient coins reveal more than the faces of dead emperors
Australia is home to one of the world's premier collections of ancient coins, held at The Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies (ACANS), pa...
From violence to manipulation: how modern tyrants wield power
Where authoritarian leaders once coerced their citizens with brute force, they increasingly rely on public support through manipulation. Misinformatio...
Liberal Party struggling to handle Hanson
Liberal frontbenchers say a coalition with One Nation is not part of party discussions, amid a rise in the minor party's popularity. MPs are distancin...
America's first president was an aggressive land speculator
As the United States celebrates 250 years of Independence, what were the driving motivations of America's revolutionary leader - and first president -...
How the American Revolution drove Britain's colonisation of Australia
Even before the North American colonies declared independence 250 years ago this week, they refused to take Britain's convicts. After losing America,...
How tiny gardens can feed the world
In the 1800s, 5,000 French farmers working in tiny urban courtyards grew enough food to feed two million Parisians with enough surplus left over to se...
When the NT introduced world-first euthanasia laws
30 years ago (July 1, 1996) the Northern Territory became the first place in the world where eligible terminally-ill patients could access a medically...
Meet the 'vigilante' cactus hunters
Writer Charlie McCann takes us into the booming global trade in rare succulents and cacti, and the unusual subculture of people who hunt them. Travell...
Who will defend Japan?
Japan's ageing population and declining birth rate have left its Self-Defence Forces facing a growing recruitment crisis. As security tensions rise ac...
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Trump gets more firing power
Bruce Shapiro looks back at key points in the last 250 years of the USA's history ahead of its birthday celebration on July4. Plus a new Supreme Court...
Italy has the most forests since the Middle Ages, but it's not an environmental win
Italy’s countryside is like a giant garden, one that’s been carefully cultivated for thousands of years. But now a third of Italy is covered by forest...