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From razor-sharp analysis of current events to the hottest debates in politics, science, philosophy and culture, Late Night Live puts you firmly in the big picture. This LNL podcast contains the stories in separate episodes.
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Upon discovering that sex work is decriminalised in New Zealand, Antonia Murphy decided to build her own business: an ethical escort agency called The Bach.
Learning how birds communicate could help us to better understand the health of our natural ecosystems. This story originally aired on 17 October 2024.
Journalist Gareth Gore investigates the finances and political influence of the conservative Catholic order, Opus Dei. This story originally aired on 17 October 2024.
Alfred Dreyfus was an officer in the French Army when he was arrested 130 years ago for treason, convicted and sent to Devils Island for 5 years in solitary confinement. His battle for justice divided the population of France and fascinated people across the globe.
Journalist Evan Rail investigates the lucrative market for vintage "pre ban" bottles of absinthe, from before WWI. Most bottles are genuine, but some are fake. This story originally aired on 30 October 2024.
In 1788 there were at least fifteen convicts of African descent on board the First Fleet, and hundreds more followed.Who were they, and how were the Black convicts transported to Australia linked to the slave trade?Guest: Santilla Chingaipe, author of Black Convicts: How slavery shaped Australia.This story originally aired on 30 October 2024.
From requesting cross bows to fight invaders in Norfolk, to a southern Italian cosmetic recipe for removing hair dye: a British Library exhibition reveals the worlds of women in the Middle Ages.
Madrid, the Spanish capital in the centre of the country, has long lived under the shadow of coastal Barcelona, with its spectacular Gaudi architecture. But Australian author Luke Stegemann, who has lived in Madrid on and off for many years, is passionate about the place and its significance.
‘To do a Houdini’ is still used to describe remarkable feats of escapes, yet the great escapologist Harry Houdini was born 150 years ago.In 1910, Houdini visited Australia for a 3 month sell-out tour. He also claimed the title of the first person to successfully fly a powered aircraft in Australia.GUEST: Leann Richards, author of 'Houdini's Tour of Australia'.This story originally aired on 24 September 2024.
The passport - if you can get one - gives freedom, but it also means state surveillance. This is one of the many passport paradoxes observed by author Patrick Bixby, in an account that ranges from indigenous passports to literary references to passport 'rankings'. Guest: Patrick Bixby, Professor of English at Arizona State UniversityAuthor of ‘License to Travel: A Cultural History of th Passport’ (University of California Press) This story originally aired on 18 July 2024.
Islands are the location of two extremes: they hold the greatest concentration on earth of both biodiversity and species extinctions. The challenge to save them and their inhabitants from the triple threat threat of invasive species, sea level rises and global heating seems immense, But the results when rescue teams are sent in are remarkably quick - a gecko thought be extinct reappears. Giant tortoises thriving in the wild once again. Now the not-for-profit organisation Island Conservation is running a challenge to begin restoring at least 40 globally significant island-ocean ecosystems by 2030.Guest: Cameron Diver, Vice-President, Island Conservation. This story originally aired on 22 August 2024.
Author Henry Savery is credited with being Australia's first novelist, for his work 'Quintus Servinton', but author and historian Sean Doyle says in fact the first Autralian-born novelist was John Lang. Lang was born in a Parramatta pub in 1816 and his 1836 novel called 'Violet; Or, the Danseuse: A Portraiture of Human Passion and Character' was published anonymously in London. It was quite a feat for a twenty-year old. Lang went on to write twenty novels, a number of serials, a travelogue of India and to run a newspaper that would eventually hire a young Rudyard Kipling. Now his extraordinary life has been chronicled in a new biography. Guest: Sean Doyle, author of ‘Australia’s trail-blazing first novelist - John Lang”, published by Big Sky publishing.This story originally aired on 15 August 2024.
A rookie farmer, who happens to be a neuroscientist who has specialised in studying dogs, gets a few cows to eat the grass down. He learns about their lives and personalities, and soon considers them friends. Guest Gregory Berns
The largest known population of the Australian night parrot was recently discovered in the Great Sandy Desert in WA. Ornithologist Dr Penny Olsen recounts our long fascination with this elusive nocturnal bird. Guest: Dr Penny Olsen, ornithologist and Honorary Professor at ANU
Simon Armitage was a sleepy ten-year old kid in West Yorkshire when he was awakened by poetry.
1With changing the name of Australia's highest peak still undecided, Mount Kosciuszko remains named after a Polish revolutionary. Who was this man, and why was he so revered — not only in his native Poland, but across continents?This story originally aired on 26 September 2024.
A war historian accompanies a group on a pilgrimage to the Indonesian island of Ambon, where hundreds of Australian soldiers died in WWll. Joan Beaumont ponders the meaning of memory, and connection to past war traumas. Guest: Joan Beaumont, Emerita Professor in the ANU's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. Author of 'I never knew my uncle', an article in the July edition of Australian Book ReviewThis story originally aired on 17 July 2024.
It seems that people either love or hate the humble anchovy. But it has been flavouring our food for millennia although in many different forms - from the Roman sauce 'garum' to various pastes and preserved forms to the centrepiece of a pizza, tapas or caesar salad. Guest: Christopher Beckman, author of A Twist in the Tail – How the Humble Anchovy Flavoured Western Cuisine published by HurstThis story originally aired on 26 August 2024.
In 1870, Paris was surrounded by German troops, cut off from the world, and a bitter, ugly place of chaos. It's known as 'The Terrible Year', and the 'Siege of Paris'. Out of this arose the Impressionists, whose paintings shone with light and beauty. Guest: Sebastian Smee, art critic at The Washington Post and author of ‘Paris in Ruins: Love, war and the birth of Impressionism’ (Text Publishing) This story originally aired on 11 September 2024.
80 years ago, an exciting new poet by the name of Ern Malley burst onto the Australian literary scene. As it turned out, Ern was a hoax, concocted by two conservative poets intent on humiliating the country’s literary avante garde. This story originally aired on 20 August 2024.
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sava needs medical help
The left just cannot face facts. Women do not have a penis and Harris was hopeless
a wonderful interview a worthy successor to PA
cops hate dv, because the complainer often turn on them when the partner is arrested. added to this in remote communities half the folks are on the perps side. this dv predates captn cook, and its about time the abs started some introspection. stop blaming others
thanks PA. rarely agreed with you, but your little wireless program was gentle entertainment and thought provoking
not much diversity in this ABC discussion
she has gone to join her heroes Lenin and Stalin as well as Hitler, Mao and polpot
wow Tingle and Adams can't find any positives in albo and the alp l
I could listen to this episode over and over again. Terrific.
proven heritage and elected. so different to the voice then.
I agree, I thought he sounded different.
even the rain that falls will not fill up our dams
I've not heard Phillip's splendid voice sound this clear and sonorous like it did 10 years ago ... I thought I was listening to an old episode.
shame it wasn't the women who had guns. they would have Beeb braver
Joe and Hunter are also feeling the heat
His car? Nadel didn't have a driving license, the car had polish plates and he tried to drive off. So it's not just nasty Aus that is racist?
Peter Frankopan, wow! What a mesmerising historian. Great interview 💯
who has a bigger audience, Inews or gb news
brits took things back to museums, other enemies would have just burnt things or use them to wipe their bittoms
voting for something that the polies will then define the details. are they living in the real world?