Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast

Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast

ABC Australia

Episodes 250
Avg. Duration 21m
Activity Moderate
Apple Rating 4.5 (36)
Since Nov 2025
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Daily
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About This 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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Recent Episodes

Why do we fixate on the human face?

Jun 11, 2026 26m

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. Historian Fay Bound-Alberti's new book examines…

Madam War Criminal: 'Serbia's Iron lady' unrepentant at 95

Jun 11, 2026 23m

Before the Bosnian war, Biljana Plavšić  was a renowned biologist and university dean. She later became the only woman convicted by an international tribunal for mass atrocities. So how did a…

Soweto: the uprising that changed South Africa

Jun 10, 2026 25m

In June 1976, thousands of students took to the streets of Soweto, South Africa, to protest a government decision to make Afrikaans a compulsory language of instruction in Black schools. When police…

The campaign to save PNG's Sepik river from an Australian mining company

Jun 10, 2026 26m

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 unpolluted freshwater systems in the world. The river…

Ian Dunt's UK: Henry Nowak's murder sparks immigration backlash

Jun 09, 2026 13m

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. Now Us Vice President JD Vance and US War…

Will Switzerland vote to cap its population?

Jun 09, 2026 15m

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 result will be tight, but how the cap would work for…

The men who want women to be quiet: America's 'masculinist' movement

Jun 09, 2026 22m

Journalist for The Atlantic Helen Lewis speaks with key figures of the so-called 'masculinist' movement in the United States - a movement pushing back against feminism, and advocating for a society…

Spam spam spam! Why the luncheon meat is still loved in many countries

Jun 08, 2026 27m

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 surplus pork during the Great Depression, and…

Barcelona's magnificent Sagrada Familia Basilica to be blessed by the Pope

Jun 08, 2026 25m

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 years in the making. The blessing will coincide…

The forgotten Timorese boat people

Jun 04, 2026 26m

In 1995, long before the 2001 'Tampa' refugee crisis, a small fishing boat arrived in Darwin, carrying eighteen East Timorese asylum seekers, including a six-month-old baby. The boat's arrival, and…

The great illicit drug debate: How Australia changed course

Jun 04, 2026 24m

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 substances. As social attitudes shifted, so did the…

The psychiatrist who investigated reincarnation

Jun 03, 2026 27m

While Ian Stevenson (1918–2007) was an academic psychiatrist with a strong professional reputation, he became known for researching an unusual topic for a behavioural scientist: the afterlife.…

Is 'Muskism' the new Fordism?

Jun 03, 2026 27m

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, Musk is a genius entrepreneur propelling us…

How Glasgow stopped an immigration raid

Jun 02, 2026 20m

In 2021 UK immigration officers carried out a dawn raid in Kenmure St in the culturally diverse Pollokshields area of Glasgow's Southside.  They arrested two Sikh men who’d been members of the…

How nature is the performance enhancer for Ethiopian runners

Jun 02, 2026 19m

There are many ways to attain endurance and high performance. The ethos of Ethiopian collective running contrasts sharply with the testosterone supplements, and focus on the individual, in last…

Bruce Shapiro's USA: Republicans slam Trump's 'slush fund'

Jun 02, 2026 13m

Republican Senators are rebelling against Donald Trump using funds from his settlement of a legal case against the IRS, which is being labelled a slush fund, to compensate individuals claiming…

Why Lord Howe Island is celebrating a cockroach boom

Jun 01, 2026 15m

A new study shows that insect life on Lord Howe Island has significantly increased since the eradication of invasive rodents in 2019. Experts say invertebrates like native island cockroaches, are…

What are Syrian refugees returning home to?

Jun 01, 2026 23m

When the brutal Assad regime fell in Syria in 2024 it offered an opportunity for the millions of people displaced by the regime to return home – including the so-called ISIS brides. And those who…

Will the government hold its nerve on tax reform?

Jun 01, 2026 13m

A new poll published in the Australian Financial Review has Pauline Hanson's One Nation ahead of Labor and the Coalition on primary vote. Meanwhile, the government is persevering with the tax reforms…

The young US conservatives trying to redefine environmentalism

May 28, 2026 25m

The American Conservation Coalition was formed in 2017 to try to attract younger people to the Republican Party. But the Coalition doesn’t seem to be able to claim any actual outcomes for the…

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