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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Stephen Miller: the architect of Trump’s immigration agenda
Stephen Miller, often described as the architect of Donald Trump’s immigration policy, has been a defining force behind some of the administration’s m...
Ian Dunt on pulling out of Adelaide Writer's Week and the challenge of tackling Trump's increasing threats
Ian Dunt talks about his decision to withdraw from Adelaide Writer's Week and examines the fraying trans-Atlantic relationship between the US and UK,...
Where does King Charles get his money?
King Charles is worth more than $3 billion — although it's hard to put an exact figure on his fortune, because royal records aren't published and payi...
Bruce Shapiro's America: what's next after Trump's year of chaos?
One year since US President Donald Trump's inauguration and the global order has been completely shifted, while the United States is now a country whe...
Do the hate speech laws go too far?
As the Albanese government drops key provisions from its hate speech legislation, Late Night Live takes a deep dive into what's left of the laws, and...
Bernard Keane's Canberra: can Albanese get hate speech laws through parliament?
Crikey's political editor traces the path to the hate speech legislation being debated in Parliament this week, and looks at why One Nation is outpoll...
LNL Summer: Tim Minchin on music, fatherhoood, the Internet... and nipples
Tim Minchin turned fifty this year and just ran a marathon for the first time. He's returned home to Australia, with his new album Time Machine, and h...
LNL Summer: The murderous rampage of Joe and Jimmy Governor in 1900 New South Wales
In the winter of 1900, Wiradjuri man Jimmy Governor and his brother Joe murdered nine people across New South Wales, in a rampage that caused panic in...
LNL Summer: Cooperating over space resources
Some of the same countries that are in conflict right now are sitting in United Nations meetings together to discuss the future of outer space. Steven...
LNL Summer: Zane Grey's shark-hunting adventures in 1930s Australia
Zane Grey was an American western writer, celebrity and big game-fisherman. In so many ways, his life was larger than most. But it was in Australia, i...
LNL Summer: Why Pompeii keeps revealing new secrets
The largest excavation in a lifetime is underway at the famous archaeological site of Pompeii — the Roman city buried in ash when Mount Vesuvius erupt...
LNL Summer: Philippe Sands on war crimes and impunity - from Pinochet to now
In 1998, the former Chilean head of state Augusto Pinochet was arrested on charges of crimes against humanity and genocide. Philippe Sands was called...
LNL Summer: A rich man obsessed with Mars? Welcome to the 1890s
At the turn of the 20th century, one American became obsessed with the idea of life on Mars. He carried his obsessions into a public movement that may...
LNL Summer: Is a river alive?
In the last decade, courts around the globe have granted legal personhood or explicit rights to rivers, largely driven by environmental activism. In h...
LNL Summer: Fleeced: a story of wool and warfare
For millennia, wool has been more than just a textile fibre for cold climates—it has played a strategic role in warfare, both supporting armies with e...
LNL Summer: Palestinian psychiatrist Dr Samah Jabr on dealing with trauma in Gaza
Dr Samah Jabr is a world-renowned psychiatrist who has spent over twenty years practising in the West Bank and Gaza. In a powerful interview, she desc...
LNL Summer: Have we forgotten the value of shade?
On a warming planet, heatwaves are proving increasingly deadly. But in the cities where most of us live shade can be hard to come by. In ancient times...
LNL Summer: Deep history, an Indigenous way of seeing the past
This nation’s past can be understood a whole lot better if Indigenous perspectives on history are listened to. It means considering rock art and other...
LNL Summer: From Utopia to the Tate - the art of Emily Kam Kngwarray
Emily Kam Kngwarray, from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory, picked up a paintbrush in her 70s for the first time, and now her work will...
LNL Summer: The woman who solved crimes with birds
Author Chris Sweeney tells the remarkable story of Roxie Laybourne, the Smithsonian ornithologist who became the nation's leading expert in feather fo...
LNL Summer: Why do we use the QWERTY keyboard?
The QWERTY keyboard wasn't designed to be fast or logical. It was created in the 1870s to stop typewriter keys from jamming - and to suit telegraph op...
LNL Summer: Is it time to decriminalise jaywalking?
In recent years, a number of states and cities in the US have decriminalised 'jaywalking', relaxing laws that campaigners argue have been disproportio...
LNL Summer: How prison architecture can change lives
Should prison architecture be used for punishment, or could it be used to create hope, instead. Criminologist Yvonne Jewkes has helped design prisons...
LNL Summer: Abolishing terra nullius - the legacy of Chief Justice Gerard Brennan
Sir Gerard Brennan served as the 10th Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest judicial position in the country. He was involved in s...
LNL Summer:Australia's love of cinema, indoors and outdoors
Australia has a surprisingly long history of cinema enjoyment. It takes many forms, and pops up in a wide range of settings.
*This show origina...
LNL Summer: Farewell Laura Tingle
After 30 years of appearances on Late Night Live - spanning nine Australian Prime Ministers - Laura Tingle bade farewell to LNL as its political corre...
LNL Summer: Harriet Walter on what Shakespeare's women might have said
Actor Dame Harriet Walter — known for her recent roles in TV hits like Succession and Killing Eve — has been performing Shakespeare on-stage for half...
Is it ethical to holiday in Antarctica?
One hundred and twenty five thousand people visited Antarctica last year. Can the region cope with an ever growing tourism industry?
Originally...
LNL Summer: AI. Don't believe the hype
AI, we’re told, has the potential to free us from mundane tasks, revolutionise industries, and solve global problems. Linguistics Professor Emily Bend...
LNL Summer: The Roosevelts deadly hunt for a giant panda
During the 1920s, dozens of expeditions scoured the Chinese and Tibetan wilderness in search of the panda bear, a beast that many believed did not exi...
LNL Summer: Kate Grenville confronts her settler ancestry
20 years on from her famous novel The Secret River, writer Kate Grenville retraces the footsteps of her settler ancestors, and asks what it means to b...
LNL Summer: A no-frills history of the Australian beach shack
Along the coast of Australia are hundreds of humble shacks, often with interesting stories to tell. Basic shelters for no-frills fishing, or homes for...
LNL Summer: The feminist publishing house that launched Australia's best writers
In the early seventies two Melbourne feminists hatched an idea to set up their own publishing house. Diana Gribble was a socialite working in advertis...
LNL Summer: Geraldine Brooks, Rachel Kushner and Julia Baird at Adelaide Writers Week 2025
Despite the promise that we were “all in it together”, the COVID-19 pandemic led to a flight from sociability. While that escape may have been a relie...
LNL Summer: Robert Dessaix's life reflections
Writer Robert Dessaix, now based in Hobart, was named Thomas Robert Jones by his adoptive parents. His name change to Dessaix, to reflect his French f...
LNL Summer: Alan Rusbridger on Trump's threats to journalism
Veteran British journalist and editor Alan Rusbridger discusses Donald Trump’s attacks on the US press, Jeff Bezos’s editorial about-face at the Washi...
LNL Summer: Societies collapse. Will ours?
We're living in unusual times, with political history being made every week and the seemingly imminent collapse of a certain global super power on the...
LNL Summer: The Australian workers the union movement left behind
A new history of the union movement in Australia says marginalised groups like migrants, women, Indigenous Australians and LGBTQIA+ people were often...
LNL Summer: Radio propaganda wars in the Middle East
Before the 1967 war, radio ruled the Middle East—TV was a rare luxury. For the people of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Israel, the airwaves bu...
LNL Summer: Omar El Akkad reckons with the West
'One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone wil...