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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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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...
Why France is ditching tech giants Palantir and Microsoft
Both France and Germany are switching from US tech surveillance company, Palantir to French firm ChapsVision, citing a need for digital sovereignty am...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Does the Liberal party need a rebrand?
Liberal frontbencher Melissa McIntosh says her party needs a rebrand after support for the Coalition hit a new low in the latest opinion polls. The op...
On the hunt for the next epidemic
An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is once again drawing attention to the threat of infectious diseases. But a new report from the...
How Murdoch's media wields power and punishment
For many decades, Rupert Murdoch's global media empire has wielded immense power and political influence in Australia and abroad. A new book examines...
Reverse extinction: do we want that?
Last month a company in Texas announced it had made an artificial egg, with the hope of bringing back to life extinct birds like the dodo. But there a...
What's next for Lebanon, as UN Peacekeepers prepare to leave?
After nearly five decades, United Nations peacekeepers are preparing to leave Lebanon, bringing one of the organisation's longest-running missions to...
The soccer-playing Anzacs
Soccer fever is consuming the world right now, and for lots of Australians the game has a strong association with the many cultures who came to Austra...
Mariana Mazzucato on making economies work for the common good
Countries around the world are grappling with how to handle the cost of housing, providing health care for an aging population and how to fund the big...
Anna Henderson's Canberra: most Australians don't want a 'monoculture'
In her recent address to the National Press Club, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson said Australia should be 'monocultural' rather than multicultural....
The evolution of Islamic State
At its peak between 2015 and 2017, the Islamic State attracted tens of thousands of foreign fighters and inspired attacks worldwide. Today, its caliph...
Ian Dunt's UK: Keir Starmer resigns
After months of turmoil inside the Labour party, plummeting polls and the Reform Party making major gains in local elections, UK Prime Minister Keir S...
Rediscovered Birrundudu drawings rewrite the timeline of Aboriginal art
In 1945, sixteen Aboriginal men working at Birrundudu Station created 810 crayon drawings, commissioned by anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt...
Whatever happened to the Australian Sex Party?
Before Robbie Swan and Fiona Patten co-founded the Australian Sex Party in 2009, they worked the halls of parliament, lobbying against the 1990s censo...
The Paris menagerie that made the modern world
Founded during the French Revolution, the Paris menagerie was one of the earliest modern zoos and a model for later European institutions. It grew int...
Being human under the AI advance
As artificial intelligence increasingly does what humans can do, and begins to possibly rise above human capabilities, the question is 'what does bein...
Why First Nations people are dismayed at Brisbane's new Olympic stadium
This month, earthworks commenced on a new stadium for Brisbane's 2032 Olympic Games. After years of debate, reviews, and a political backflip, Victori...
US-India tensions after strikes kill seafarers in Hormuz
The US has refused to apologise for the deaths of Indian sailors killed by US strikes in the strait of Hormuz, straining relations between the two cou...
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Trump's agenda on the line in Supreme Court
The US and Iran have announced an interim peace deal, but is the deal more spin than substance? Plus, the Supreme Court will reach a series of massive...
Why is Google releasing millions of infected mosquitoes?
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has asked the US government for permission to release millions of mosquitoes in California and Florida which have b...
Trump opens America's doors to white South Africans
Why are white South Africans being fast-tracked for refugee status in the US, while millions of other refugees wait in line? Donald Trump's South Afri...
Laura Tingle on why Israel isn't backing Trump's Iran peace deal
The terms of the peace deal between the United States and Iran included an immediate halt to fighting on all fronts, including in Lebanon; the reopeni...
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...