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A new book interrogates how Rupert Murdoch's global media empire shapes politics and public opinion in Australia and beyond. Plus, as the current outbreak of Ebola in DRC grows, an annual report reminds us of the epidemics we've successfully averted.Guests:Andrew Robb and Matthew Ricketson, co-authors of Getting Murdoched: How Murdoch's Media Wields Power and PunishmentAmanda McClelland, global health director, Resolve to Save Lives 

UN peacekeepers will be leaving southern Lebanon after 40 years of service in the region, which dismays former peacekeeper, Professor Ray Murphy. Plus, "de-extinction" - the controversial science of reviving vanished species - raises myriad ethical and environmental questions. Guests:Ray Murphy, former UN peacekeeper with UNIFIL in Lebanon and Professor with the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the University of GalwaySadiah Qureshi, Chair of Modern British History, University of Manchester. Writer and historian of science, race, and empire

After Pauline Hanson declared Australia should be 'monocultural', Coalition leader Angus Taylor has refused to commit his support for a multicultural Australia. International economist Mariana Mazzucato urges a whole new approach to economics which prioritises the common good.  Plus Australia's passion for soccer goes back further than you might think.Guests:Anna Henderson, chief political correspondent, SBSMariana Mazzucato, author of ‘The Common Good Economy  - A New Compass”.  Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College LondonIan Syson, author of  The Game that Never Happened; The Vanishing History of Soccer in Australia 

After months of political pressure, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, has resigned. Late Night Live's UK correspondent, Ian Dunt, joins the show for breaking analysis on what's ahead for British Labour. Plus, what happened to Islamic State since the fall of their caliphate in 2019? Guests:Ian Dunt, iNews columnist and regular LNL commentatorGreg Barton, Chair In Global Islamic Politics, Deakin University

A new tell-all book recounts the colourful escapades of adult industry lobbyists Robbie Swan and Fiona Patten, in the lead up to the formation of the Australian Sex Party. Plus, a new book celebrates the rediscovery of some 800 beautiful crayon drawings, made by Indigenous stockmen on Birrundudu Station NT, 80 years ago. Guests:Robbie Swan and Fiona Patten, co-founders of the Australian Sex PartyDr John Carty, Professor of Museum and Curatorial Studies at the University of Adelaide ; Robert McKay, Djaru man and collaborator on the Birrundudu project

The rapid advance of artificial intelligence is making writer and musician Anna Goldsworthy feel both more human - valuing what it is that differentiates us from algorithms -  and simultaneously worried about the capacity of AI to reduce human agency. And, established in 1793, the Paris zoo captured the essence of enlightenment thinking, where science, spectacle, and shifting ideas about animals came together in one place.

Bruce Shapiro on the Iran-US deal, and where Benjamin Netanyahu sits within that. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is under pressure to confront Donald Trump after US strikes killed three Indian seafarers in the Strait of Hormuz. And why First Nations people in Brisbane are upset by the siting of Brisbane's key Olympic venue. Guests: Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor of The Nation; executive director of the Global Centre for Journalism and TraumaShruti Pandalai, India Chair, Lowy Institute  Ray Kerkhove, Adjunct Associate Professor of Histsory, University of QLD

ABC's Global Affairs editor, Laura Tingle returns to Late Night Live, to examine Israel's response to the US-Iran peace deal. Can it hold? And Donald Trump's decision to welcome white South Africans as refugees has become one of his most controversial immigration moves, raising questions about who qualifies for protection and whether politics is shaping refugee policy. Plus why is Google releasing millions of infected mosquitoes?Guests: Laura Tingle, ABC Global Affairs EditorLoren Landau, Professor of Migration at Oxford, and chair, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.  Associate Professor Gordana Rasic, Head of Mosquito Genomics, QIMR Berghofer

Biljana Plavšić  became the only woman convicted for mass atrocities in the Bosnian War. Still alive, in her 90s, a Bosnian-Australian law professor meets her face to face. And cultural historian, Dr. Fay Bound-Alberti explores the ways humans have interpreted faces and how they have shaped our ideas of morality, social hierarchy and psychology.GuestsOlivera Simic, Professor in Law, Griffith University and the author of, Madam War Criminal Biljana Plavšić, Serbia’s Iron LadyDr. Fay Bound-Alberti, Professor of Modern History at King’s College London, and the author of ‘The Face: A Cultural History’.

When a proposed mine threatens Papua New Guinea’s Sepik River, the Sepik people resist the mine on their own terms, but will they succeed? And fifty years since the Soweto uprising, how South Africa has reckoned with its past.Guests: Emmanuel Peni, director of the PNG NGO Project Sepik, and co-Producer of the film.Theonila Roka Matbob, former PNG MP from Bougainville and winner of the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize. Professor Noor Nieftagodien, Head of the History Workshop at the University of the WitwatersrandSeth Mazibuko, activist, former teacher and one of the original student leaders in the 1976 uprising

Ian Dunt on the continued fallout over the death of 18 year old Southampton University student Henry Nowak. In the US, a radical movement known as ‘masculinism’ wants to repel the advances of feminism. And this weekend (June 14), Switzerland will vote on a referendum proposal to cap its population at 10 million. But it remains unclear how such a “cap” would work, particularly in a nation with large companies that rely on skilled migrant labour. Guests:Ian Dunt, iNews columnist and regular LNL commentatorHelen Lewis, staff writer for the Atlantic Mercedes Ruehl , Switzerland and Austria correspondent for the Financial Times

Against the odds, the exterior of Antoni Gaudi's extraordinary Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona is finished, and Pope Leo will bless the newly completed final tower on the centenary of the famous architect's death. Plus, why Spam is considered a luxury good in Korea and is a beloved staple across Asia and the Pacific. The answer lies with the US military. Guests: Professor Mark Burry, Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University of Technology's School of Design and Architecture, and Senior Faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. Kelly Spring, food historian, co-presenter of the Hungry Historians podcast and author of ‘SPAM: a global history’ (2025, Reaktion/New South)

Teenage vaping, pill testing, injecting rooms, medicinal cannabis and the opioid crisis: a look at Australia's efforts to manage illicit drug use. And the little boat of East Timorese asylum seekers that strained Australia's relationship with Indonesia.GuestsProfessor Des Manderson., Director of the Centre for Law, Arts and Humanities at the ANU. Author of 'High time: how Australia changed its mind about illegal drug use' (Black Inc Books)Associate Professor Vannessa Hearman, historian, Curtin University. Author of ‘The Good Sea: the journey of Tasi Diak and the Politics of Refugee Protection in Australia’ (MUP) Jose da Costa, Timorese-Australian writer, film director, actor, who was onboard the Tasi Diak

Elon Musk looks set to become the world's first trillionaire when his company SpaceX goes public on the stock exchange. A new book asks if we're living in an age of 'Muskism'. Plus, the story of Dr Ian Stevenson, the distinguished 1950s psychiatrist who become a leading figure in the controversial field of 'parapsychology'' where he tried to prove the existence of consciousness after death. Guests: Ben Tarnoff, writer and technologist, co-author of Muskism: A guide for the perplexedJesse Bering, professor of psychology at University of Otago, author of The Incredible Afterlives of Dr. Stevenson: One Scientist’s Epic Quest for Evidence of Reincarnation, Apparitions, Poltergeists, and Other Matters of the Soul

Bruce Shapiro looks at the Republican backlash to Donald Trump's so-called IRS slush fund. How Ethiopian runners win over performance enhanced athletes and a protest in Glasgow took over Kenmure Street, and stopped immigration officers in their van. Guests:Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with the Nation, Executive Director at the Global Centre for Journalism and TraumaFelipe Bustos Sierra, Director Everybody to Kenmure st plus Tabassum Niamat, Executive Director, Bowling Green Together Community Centre and Kenmure St protesterMichael Crawley, social anthropologist at Durham University, UK and marathon runner.

A new poll published in the Australian Financial Review has Pauline Hanson's One Nation ahead of Labor and the Coalition on primary vote, and Mark Kenny says political parties can't agree on how to respond. Meanwhile the government is bogged down in budget backlash. Millions of Syrians forced to flee the brutal Assad regime are now returning home, but with much of Syria destroyed what’s left to return to? Plus insect life on Lord Howe Island has significantly increased since the eradication of invasive rodents in 2019. Guests:Prof. Mark Kenny, Director of the Australian Studies Institute, host of Democracy Sausage podcastKholoud Helmi, Syrian journalist and Managing Director of Enab Baladi news publications’s Daraya edition Maxim Adams, PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, co-lead in a new study with the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, published in Biological Invasions

Historian and author John Ghazvinian argues that the past fifty years of hostility between the U.S. and Iran are an exception in a much longer relationship marked by fascination, cooperation, and mutual admiration. And an American journalist embeds with a group of young Republican conservationists, to try to pin down what they really value. GuestsJohn Ghazvinian, historian, former journalist and author of America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the PresentGaby del Valle, journalist, article in Harper's Magazine about the American Conservation Coalition

Veteran war correspondent Janine di Giovanni has set up a project that trains journalists and researchers to gather evidence that can be used to prosecute war crimes in Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan and Syria. And the women who played a critical role behind the scenes at the Nuremberg trials.Guests: Janine di Giovanni, war correspondent, CEO and co-founder of The Reckoning ProjectNatalie Livingstone, author, The Nuremberg Women, At the trial that brought the Nazis to justice

Ian Dunt surveys the unfathomable political turmoil in the United Kingdom, as a monumental by-election looms for Andy Burnham, the key Labour rival of embattled Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. Journalist Maria Ramirez examines the left-wing Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. a defiant political voice on the world stage. Plus, it's been 100 years since Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova first toured Australia, captivating audiences across the country.Guests:Ian Dunt, columnist for i-news, cohost of Origin Story podcastMaria Ramirez, journalist for elDiario, SpainEmma Sandall, Australian dance artist, producer, writer

Anna Henderson looks at how likely it is that independents like the Teals could form  a new centrist party. Does the success of New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani herald a new era of popular Leftist politics in America? US socialist Bhaskar Sunkara surveys the future. And far from being worthless trivia, the gossip of Ancient Romans revealed a lot about the society and politics of the time. Guests: Anna Henderson, chief political correspondent, SBS World NewsBhaskar Sunkara, founding editor of Jacobin magazineCaillan Davenport, Professor of Classics and head of the Centre for Classical Studies at ANU.

Global financial analyst Satyajit Das looks at how the double whammy of Trump's economic warfare and the war on Iran is playing out here and around the world. Writer Tareq Baconi reflects on life growing up as Palestinian refugee in Jordan, coming to terms with being gay. Guests: Satyajit Das, global financial analystTareq Baconi, Hamas expert and author of Fire in Every Direction: A Memoir 

Roddy Doyle reflects on a lifetime telling the stories of working-class people in Dublin, with themes of domestic violence, unplanned pregnancy and life in the IRA. Guest: Roddy Doyle, author of The women behind the door, published by Penguin Random House. Roddy is in Australia for Sydney Writers' FestivalProducer: Catherine Zengerer

Bruce Shapiro looks at the Republicans' shaping of South Carolina's congressional districts, in an effort to win the November mid-terms. John Safran's new documentary for SBS explores the notion of offence, and what can and cannot be said in Australia today.  A new book says he may have been an aristocratic Aussie trooper. Guests:Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor for The Nation, executive director of the Global Centre for Journalism and TraumaJohn Safran, satirist, documentary maker, journalist, and authorAdrian Mitchell, author of ‘Blind Freddy: the Pottinger Attainment’ (Wakefield Press)

Anna Henderson looks at why the government remains unpopular despite popular support for changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax in the budget.Dr. Guy Shalev, CEO of Physicians for Human Rights Israel, on why the IDF continues to hold fourteen Palestinian doctors in detention, including Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. And Daniel Hahn discusses the art and the magic of translating Shakespeare into other languages, and the difficulties of getting those puns to land. Guests: Anna Henderson, SBS World News Chief Political CorrespondentDr. Guy Shalev, CEO of Physicians for Human Rights, IsraelDaniel Hahn, author of ‘If This Be Magic - The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation’, published by Allen and Unwin

There have been 141 royal commissions in Australia since Federation, but not all of them have brought about meaningful policy change. Plus, a new book tells the stories of people who have struggled to protect their food culture in the face of war, genocide, and violence.Guests: Michael Mintrom, Professor of public policy at Monash UniversityMichael Shaikh, author of The Last Sweet Bite: when war changes the menu

Ian Dunt on the political demise of Keir Starmer: even if he hasn't yet resigned, Ian says, he's already dead. How Antoinette Lattouf found inspiration in the stories of other Australian women who challenged power structures when she was fighting her own case against the ABC. And Australia is celebrating fifty years at the Cannes film festival, so why are there no Aussie films in competition this year?Guests: Ian Dunt, columnist with i-news; co-host of the Origin Story podcast Antoinette Lattouf, journalist and author of Women Who Win John Doggett-Williams, freelance video journalist and documentary maker 

Journalist Debbie Whitmont revisits the 1994 murder of John Newman MP - a crime billed as Australia's first political assassination - and the man still behind bars, Vietnamese refugee and political aspirant Phuong Ngo. Plus, a new biography of Hideki Tojo challenges assumptions about Japan's ruthless wartime leader. Guests:Debbie Whitmont, journalist and author of The Man Who Couldn't Wait: The true story of Australia's first political assassinationDr Peter Mauch, historian and author of Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Most Controversial World War II General

Anna Henderson looks at One Nation's victory in the Farrer by-election. What does the result say about the growing frustration with the major parties? The British nuclear submarine that's spent a record-breaking six months submerged and a look at the ethics of reporting in a crisis zone. Guests: Anna Henderson, SBS World News Chief Political Correspondent | National Press Club DirectorJosh Glancy, associate editor of The Sunday TimesCathy Otten, journalist and a visiting assistant professor of Media Ethics and Journalism at Rutgers University in New Jersey, US

Acclaimed journalist and author, Fintan O'Toole argues Trump’s political power lies in projecting the “right amount of crazy”. Plus how to help an Afghan woman and her five daughters escape the Taliban. Guests: Fintan O'Toole, regular contributor to the Irish Times and advising editor to the New York Review of Books.Mij Tanith, playwright, teacher, refugee advocate and author of Laila’s Story (Spinifex Press, March 2026) 

The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu may come up against a rightwing-centrist super coalition in elections later this year, after two of his biggest political rivals - former Prime Ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid - combined forces to form a new party. Plus, the Australian writer Nadia Wheatley's new book sheds light on the ordeals experienced by prisoners liberated from the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in April 1945. Guests:Irris Makler, veteran Middle East correspondentNadia Wheatley, writer and historian, author of Strange New World: Belsen's first year of freedom (Monash University Press)

Our regular US commentator looks at recent political attempts to use defamation law to silence American media. 2SER, a Sydney community radio station with a long history of training professional broadcasters, is under threat. And descendants of the Bounty mutineers, who lived on Pitcairn Island in the Pacific, crowdfunded to get an important document returned to them from London. Guests: Bruce Shapiro, Contributing Editor at the Nation, Executive Director of the Global Centre for Journalism and TraumaChris Nash, founding Professor of Journalism at Monash University, Former Director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ) at UTS in SydneyJon Bisset, CEO of the Community Broadcasting Association of AustraliaHelen Mears, Head of Curatorship & Research at Royal Museums GreenwichDr Pauline Reynolds, Chair, Norfolk Island Museums Trust

Anna Henderson on the Japanese PM's visit and the tragedy of Kumanjayi Little Baby's death in Alice Springs. Plus 2020 wasn’t a good year for North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un - there were reports he was seriously ill, and speculation ran wild about his future. But nearly six years later, Kim has defied the doubters, exploiting global instability, drawing closer to both Putin and Xi, and testing the limits with South Korea. Also, were ancient marble statues actually painted?Guests: Anna Henderson, SBS World News Chief Political Correspondent | National Press Club DirectorDr Jung H. Pak, historian and analyst, former officer with the CIA and the US State Department, author of Becoming Kim Jong UnMark Bradley, Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham 

David Malouf, who died last week at 92, was a hugely influential figure in Australian culture. A novelist, poet, teacher, arts advisor and board member, 'Boyer lecturer, and enormously generous mentor to many other writers. His friends and peers pay tribute.Guests: Peter Goldsworthy, Adelaide-based poetNicholas Jose, Adelaide-based novelistKate Grenville, Melbourne-based novelistOmar Sakr, western Sydney-based poetThe one David Malouf book our guests would recommend readingKate Grenville: JohnnoOmar Sakr: An Open BookNicholas Jose: 12 Edmonstone StreetPeter Goldsworthy: Ransom

Ian Dunt looks at King Charles' address to US Congress and the subtle anti-Trump messages within it. Plus, a new biography details the life of Richard 'Dick' Meagher - a talented young Australian solicitor with political ambitions in Federation-era Australia, who was embroiled in scandal for his handling of a high-profile murder trial. For the rest of his life, Meagher worked to scrub this stain from his reputation. Guests: Ian Dunt, columnist with i-news; co-host of the Origin Story podcastPatrick Mullins, author of The Stained Man: a crime, a scandal, and the making of a nation, published by Scribe

Why is Pakistan the new deal broker in the US-Iran war? And what do cryptocurrency and critical minerals deals have to do with their new-found role? And the ethics of media coverage of mass shootings, or attempted shootings, as with President Trump over the weekend.Guests: Dr Farzana Shaikh, Associate Fellow with the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House, author of MAKING SENSE OF PAKISTAN (2018)Dr Glynn Greensmith, senior lecturer in journalism at Curtin University (WA); former ABC broadcaster, author of Mass Shootings, Media and Motive – How Changing Coverage Can Change Lives (2026)

Indigenous soldiers who fought in WW felt betrayed when they returned, then formed the first radical Aboriginal political organisation. And, before the Pacific War, Australia had a strong business relationship with Japan. But were there spies in the mix? Guests:John Maynard, historian, author, Emeritus Professor at Newcastle University. Contributor to the book ‘Challenging Anzac: stories that don’t fit the legend’ (NewSouth) Nick Hordern, author, former diplomat, former policy advisor, former journalist. New book ‘Loyalty: Australians, Japanese and Espionage, on the eve of the Pacific War’ (Australian Scholarly Publishing)  

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

New Zealand PM Christopher Luxon survives a no confidence vote, but how long can he hang on to the leadership? Plus why the Musician's Union of Australia put an end to the career of popular 1930's Jewish jazz band, The Weintraubs' Syncopators.Guests: Henry Cooke, Deputy political editor, The Post, based in WellingtonAlbrecht Duemling, historian and author of From Berlin to Sydney: The Weintraubs Syncopators’ Jazz Legacy (1924–1940)

Trump contemplates his next move on Iran as the ceasefire deadline looms, while at home his administration is dealing with yet more scandal, this time in the FBI. 40 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster,  the Exclusion Zone has become a thriving wildlife refuge. Plus the story of Australians most daring convict escape on the whaling ship Catalpa, which sailed from America to pick up six Irish convicts in Fremantle. Guests: Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with The Nation magazine and Director of the Global Center for Journalism and Trauma. Germán Orizaola, Associate Professor in Zoology, Department of Biology of Organisms and Systems, University of Oviedo.Tony Moore, Professor of Media and Communications, Monash University, and author of ‘Death or liberty: rebels and radicals transported to Australia 1788 – 1868'. 

Our regular Canberra correspondent on the latest polling, and Independent David Pocock's new focus on taxing gas. Historian Peter Stanley argues for a new way to do war commemoration, and the spectacle of a flooded Lake Eyre/Kathi-Thanda is alluring, but fuel anxiety may limit the number of visitors. GuestsAnna Henderson, SBS chief political correspondentPeter Stanley, former Australian War  Memorial historianTrevor Wright, owner of the William Creek pub and Wrightsair, which does Lake Eyre joy flights

The Melbourne legal scholar Marika Sosnowski spent many years researching violence and the law in Syria. Now she reckons with her own family's proximity to state violence in 1950s Palestine. Plus, it's easy to be cynical about the impunity of corporations that commit great financial crimes. But political scientist Pepper Culpepper thinks that, in the long run, corporate scandals can help restore democracy. Guests:Marika Sosnowski,  Melbourne University. Author of ‘58 facets – on law, violence and revolution’ (Melbourne University Publishing)Professor Pepper Culpepper, Oxford University. Co-author of Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How It Could Save Democracy (Bloomsbury)

Ian Dunt examines what Viktor Orban's loss in Hungary means for the EU and looks at questions around Donald Trump's mental capacity. There once was a plan that brought disparate countries together, to work for their common good, in Asia and the Pacific. And an author and scholar has been getting some very flattering emails from 'people' keen to promote his books.Guests: Ian Dunt, iNews columnist and regular LNL commentatorProfessor David Lowe, Deakin University, author of 'The Colombo Plan: development internationalism in Cold War Asia' (Cambridge University Press) Dennis Altman, article on literary AI in the April issue of Australian Book Review 

Cuba's leader is defiant in the face of the country's worst humanitarian crisis in decades, while President Trump hints at inflicting more pain. And the Strait of Hormuz is the latest of many maritime chokepoints which, in the past, have destroyed or saved civilisations.         Guests:Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer with The New YorkerDamien Valdez, historian from the University of Cambridge

Professor Mark Kenny reflects on Australia's record fuel price hike and the Australian government's unfolding response. We meet the Log Cabin Republicans, a prominent organisation of gay conservatives that continues to support US President Donald Trump. Plus, amid reports of damage to cultural heritage sites in Iran, Australian archaeologist John Tidmarsh reflects on the beauty of damaged and destroyed sites across the Middle East region. Professor Mark Kenny reflects on Australia's record fuel price hike and the Australian government's unfolding response. We meet the Log Cabin Republicans, a prominent organisation of gay conservatives that continues to support US President Donald Trump. Plus, amid reports of damage to cultural heritage sites in Iran, Australian archaeologist John Tidmarsh reflects on the beauty of damaged and destroyed sites across the Middle East region. Prof. Mark Kenny, former national affairs journalist and Director of the Australian Studies Institute, ANUEd Williams, executive director of Log Cabin Republicans, USADr John Tidmarsh, archaeologist and tour leader

Alec Derwent Hope (1907–2000) was one of Australia's most acclaimed poets. His first collection was not published until he was 48 years old, but its release cemented his reputation as the pre-eminent Australian poet of his time. The literary scholar Susan Lever knew Hope, and has written the first biography of his life - from rural Tasmania, to the halls of Oxford, and the heights of Australia's literary scene.Guest: Susan Lever, author of A.D. Hope - A life, published by LaTrobeSusan's recommended reading:The Coast of CerigoMoschus Moschiferus. A Song for St Cecilia's DayAn Epistle: Edward Sackville to Venetia DigbyImperial AdamThe Death of the BirdInscription for a WarThe Return of Persephone 

Pulitzer prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee, recently laid off by Jeff Bezos's Washington Post, looks at the state of the arts in Trump's America., Plus, the story of Daniel Defoe's secret life as a spy, against Scottish independence, in the early 1700s, before he became the author of the famous 'Robinson Crusoe'.Guests:Sebastian Smee, writer and art critic, formerly with The Washington PostMarc Mierowsky, author of 'A spy amongst us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the plot to end Scottish Independence' (Yale University Press)   

Bruce Shaprio on the US President's latest ultimatum for Iran.  Prof.Assa Doron reveals how India has become the global epicentre for the world's antibiotic resistance problem. And anthropologist Luke Taylor celebrates the artistic legacy of the late Peter Marralwanga, the master bark painter of West Arnhem Land. Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director at the Global Centre for Journalism and Trauma, Contributing Editor with The NationProfessor Assa Doron, anthropologist at Australian National University, co-author of A world of resistance: India and the global antibiotic crisis (with Alex Broom), Harvard University PressLuke Taylor, anthropologist and co-author of Peter Marralwanga: Painter of the Djang of Western Arnhem Land (with Ivan Namirrkki), ANU Press

The writing of Australian history has tended to focus on the south-eastern corner of the continent, but the story of colonisation north of the Tropic of Capricorn paints a vastly different picture of this country, its people, politics and ambitions. Guest: Henry Reynolds, historian and author of Looking from the North: Australian History from the Top Down

In his new memoir, Former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, Robert Reich, traces how the Democrats lost the working class and paved the way for Donald Trump. Plus ten years on since the release of the Panama Papers, has anything changed in the global financial system?

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces his plan to address fuel prices. And 'The Shah's party, and the Iranian revolution that followed'. Bob Templer on how Iran's recent history explains the deep divisions and violence that occurred in February, leading to the current war. Guests: Ian Dunt: iNews columnist and regular LNL commentatorRobert Templar, author of 'The Shah's last party, and the Iranian Revolution that followed' (Hurst)