Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast

This author ate multiple breakfasts in each of ten Indian cities, with the aim of looking at India's diversity and layered societies through its breakfast foods, makers and consumers.Guest: Priyadarshini Chatterjee, Kolkata-based travel, culture and food writer.Author of ‘First Bite: Breakfast stories from urban India’ (Speaking Tiger Books, 2026)Producer: Ann Arnold

Confronted with a series of existential threats, like the climate crisis and the potential of AI to end life on earth, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor argue in their new book that wealthy billionaires, including the so-called "tech bros", have become focused not on how we can deal with those threats,  but who will best survive them. Leaders of tech companies are now warning they could soon lose control as super intelligence supersedes their understanding and is acting for itself. As an increasing number of people both inside and outside of governments believe we are facing the end of days, and are using AI assisted warfare to help bring it on, Klein and Taylor warn there is an urgent need for far more limits on dangerous technologies than US President Donald Trump's Whitehouse accord, which allows companies to regulate themselves. Guest: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, co-authors, End times fascism and the fight for the living world, published by PenguinProducer: Catherine Zengerer

The German Peasants' War was the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. In 1524 and 1525, it swept across Germany with astonishing speed as thousands of people massed in armed bands to demand a new and more egalitarian order. The response from feudal overlords was brutal, but while the rebellion was suppressed, it would continue to influence subsequent revolts, contribute to the emergence of peasant and worker movements in the following centuries and serve as a precursor to larger social and political transformations in Europe. Guest: Professor Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History at Oriel College, Oxford University and author of Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War, published by Hachette Producer: Catherine Zengerer

Trauma has become one of the defining languages of our age. Cultural theorist, Catherine Liu argues that our focus on individual suffering can obscure the deeper forces of class, inequality and power.So has trauma become a new form of political identity, and is it getting in the way of solidarity?Guest: Catherine Liu, Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Author of Traumatised: The New Politics of public sufferingProducer: Ali Benton 

Australian and Canadian-run companies, some with questionable credentials, are trying to cash in on Donald Trump's promotion of deep sea mining licences. The US licensing disregards the international regulator, the International Seabed Authority.  Plus, the US Administration is moving to open up a big slab of the seabed off American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands, despite those territories' objections. Guest: Todd Woody, reporter, Bloomberg News. Specialises in the environment, and oceans in particularProducer: Ann Arnold