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EPISODE · Apr 23, 2026 · 54 MIN

Who are the British elite today? Plus, memories of polio in postwar Australia

from Late Night Live — Full program podcast · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

How the British elite see themselves is not what the data reveals. An historian of medicine, who's mother had polio, is revisiting the experiences of polio for thousands of people, via archival records. And a brief tribute to the Australian writer David Malouf.Guests:Professor Sam Friedman, a sociologist of class and inequality at the London School of EconomicsProfessor Catharine Coleborne, historian of health and medicine at the University of Newcastle, NSW

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