All Episodes

How Murdoch's media wields power, plus the epidemics we've averted

UN to leave Lebanon, and should we ever bring lost species back to life?

Anna Henderson's Canberra, economist Mariana Mazzucato on the common good, and Australia's first soccer match

Ian Dunt on Keir Starmer's resignation, plus the rise and fall of Islamic State

Whatever happened to the Australian Sex Party? Plus, the drawings that rewrite Aboriginal art history

Anna Goldsworthy on being human in the era of AI, plus the wonders of the Paris Menagerie

Bruce Shapiro's USA, the Indian sailors killed by the US, and First Nations anger at Brisbane Olympic site

Laura Tingle on Israel's response to the US-Iran deal, Trump vs South Africa, and Google's mosquito hunt

'Serbia's Iron Lady' unrepentant for war crimes, plus how humans read faces

Saving the Sepik river, and remembering the Soweto uprising

Ian Dunt's UK, America's 'masculinist' movement, and could Switzerland cap its population?

Finishing La Sagrada Familia, plus why people still love Spam

How Australia changed course on drug policy, and the forgotten boat people of East Timor

Is Muskism the new Fordism? Plus, the maverick psychiatrist who studied life after death

Bruce Shapiro's USA, an Ethiopian philosophy of running, and a Glasgow protest gives hope

Mark Kenny's Canberra, Syrians return home and Lord Howe Island cockroaches

When America admired Iran, plus what are conservative environmentalists fighting for?

Reckoning with war crimes, plus the women at the Nuremburg trials

Ian Dunt's UK, Spain's defiant PM, and Pavlova's tour of Oz

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Bhaskar Sunkara on the Left in America, plus why ancient Roman gossip mattered

Satayjit Das on how the war in Iran has rocked global markets, plus queer Palestinian writer Tareq Baconi on finding home

Roddy Doyle on a lifetime of writing the characters of Dublin

Bruce Shapiro's USA, John Safran on when offending goes too far, and was Blind Freddy real?

Anna Henderson's Canberra, and translating Shakespeare

How royal commissions make a difference, plus cuisine in conflict zones

Ian Dunt on Starmer's demise, Antoinette Lattouf on women who win, plus 50 years of Australian film at Cannes

Australia's first political assassination, plus the man who led Japan into war

Anna Henderson's Canberra, six months in a submarine and the ethics of crisis reporting

Fintan O'Toole on Trump's brand of 'crazy,' plus how to escape the Taliban

Netanyahu faces a new opposition party, plus the lives of those liberated from the Nazi camp Bergen-Belsen

Bruce Shapiro's USA, why community radio matters, and an historic Pitcairn Island document returned

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Kim Jong Un's comeback and classical marble statues - in colour

Australian writers celebrate David Malouf - friend, mentor, inspiration

Ian Dunt on the King's speech to Congress, plus the scandalous life of Dick Meagher

Pakistan the negotiator, and reporting mass shootings

How war fired up indigenous soldiers, and Japanese espionage - fact or fiction?

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

NZ PM's leadership struggle, and the Weintraubs Syncopators' sad end

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Chernobyl's wildlife thriving and the great convict escape on the Catalpa

Anna Henderson's Canberra, how best to commemorate war, plus Lake Eyre tourists need fuel

A Jewish Australian lawyer reckons with state violence. Plus, can corporate scandals be good for the world?

Ian Dunt's UK, the Colombo plan, and AI publishing scams

Jon Lee Anderson on Trump's Cuba threats, plus how chokepoints like Hormuz have shaped history

Australia's fuel import dependency, gay conservatives backing Trump, plus damaged treasures in Iran

The making of poet A.D. Hope, Australian literary giant

Sebastian Smee on being laid off by the Washington Post, plus the secret life of famous author Daniel Defoe

Bruce Shapiro's USA, antibiotic resistance in India, plus Marralwanga's bark paintings

Henry Reynolds turns Australian history upside down

Robert Reich's America, plus ten years since the release of the Panama papers

Ian Dunt's UK, and the Shahs and Ayatollahs of Iran

Western Australia's GST wins, Israel death penalty for West Bank, and mapping the wilderness

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Ash Sarkar critques the modern Left, and should daylight savings be permanent?

The struggle to get aid into the Middle East, plus a great Australian librarian retires

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Trump’s business in the Gulf, plus the Museum of Failure

Anna Henderson's Canberra, a tribute to Rhoda Roberts, and making floristry more sustainable

Guns and God in the USA, plus fresh scrutiny on weedkiller Roundup

Please explain: Niki Savva, Paul Kelly and Antony Green on the resurgence of Pauline Hanson

Ian Dunt's UK, Geoffrey Watson finds the NACC wanting and the power of presidential pardons

The new Nationals' front bench, where Saudi Arabia sits in the Middle East war, and meet veteran protestor Mag Merrilees

Acclaimed historian and author Antony Beevor on Rasputin, and Elon Musk's facilitation of making fake porn with unauthorised images

Funding Australian TV, and conspiracy theories in Irish politics

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Christian rhetoric in the US military, and Vanuatu's lost numbering system

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Economist journalist Sophie Pedder on President Macron's support for Lebanon, and why the power of the mafia - in multiple cultures - still prevails.

Yanis Varoufakis on war and drugs, and 200 years of the State Library of NSW

In conversation with the UK's Ian Dunt

Gideon Levy on Israel's objectives in Iran, the secret life of batteries, and Australia's earliest desert people

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Bruce Shapiro on the US attack on Iran, and when books go bad

Bob Carr on suddenly losing his wife Helena

Bruce Shapiro on Trump's State of the Union, Catholic Church High Court loss and do Australian cities have a guaranteed water supply?

Richard Ackland on the antisemitism Royal Commission, the biodiversity of the high seas, and Mawson's scrawled diaries

Anna Henderson's Canberra, and Helen Clark on the UN's missing senior women

A review of the Pacific labour scheme in Australia, and rethinking the gay rights movement

Ian Dunt's UK, Germany rearms and politicians who dodge questions.

Gambling's grip on politicians, Cuba's invasion threat and greenwashing green burials

Meet the new Liberal Party leaders, what future for Hong Kong, and making music from stars

The US is run by meme lords, and Steven Pinker on common knowledge... and common delusions

Gaza is a nightmare, but once it was a dream

What the NSW State response to the Herzog protest represents, the challenge of digging through the Epstein files, and discovering a very old, very famous Italian artist

Bernard Keane's Canberra, a security pact with Indonesia, and toads most feral

A portrait of the powerful right wing commentator Tucker Carlson, and celebrating Winnie the Pooh

Ian Dunt's UK, India cuts trade deals, and the black market in polar bear fur

Bruce Shapiro's USA, where to now for Iran, and 'Aussie' poster artist Peter Drew

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Herzog in Australia, and Indigenous circus stars

Barry Jones on a life of public service and the state of politics today

The Nationals' split and spill, and American history's banker hero

Bruce Shapiro's America: backlash over Minnesota shootings, Mark Carney's Davos moment, and the tiny world of springtails

Australian politics by the numbers, an expansion of Indigenous Protected Areas, and January 26 throughout history

How Oscar Wilde was reclaimed by his grandson

Ian Dunt: Trump’s tariff strategy and the limits of UK influence, and just who is Stephen Miller?

Bruce Shapiro on Trump's first year plus a Royal finance scandal

Crikey editor Bernard Keane on the political response to the Bondi shooting, and two legal analysts discuss the hate speech legislation

LNL Summer: Tim Minchin on music, fatherhood, the Internet... and nipples

LNL Summer: Preventing war in space, plus the rampage of Australia's last outlaws

LNL Summer: Unearthing more of Pompeii, and a Hollywood shark-hunter in 1930s Australia

LNL Summer: John Menadue critiques Australia's media and our relationship with the United States

LNL Summer: Philippe Sands on war crimes and impunity - from Pinochet to now

LNL Summer: Living rivers, and our obsession with Mars

LNL Summer: Journalists Hanna Rosin and Lauren Ober on seeking truth in Trump's America

LNL Summer: Palestinian psychiatrist on the trauma in Gaza, and a yarn about wool and war

LNL Summer: An Indigenous way of seeing the past, plus making shade cool again

LNL Summer: The feather detective, and the life of Emily Kam Kngwarray

LNL Summer: prison architecture, who invented 'jaywalking', and why keyboards are QWERTY

LNL Summer: Abolishing terra nullius - the legacy of Chief Justice Gerard Brennan

LNL Summer: farewell Laura Tingle plus our love of outdoor cinema

LNL Summer: Antarctica, a tourist hotspot? And Dame Harriet Walter on Shakespeare's women

LNL Summer: The Roosevelts deadly panda quest, plus is AI a con?

LNL Summer: Kate Grenville confronts her settler ancestry

LNL Summer: Was Hitler's filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl complicit in Nazi atrocities?

LNL Summer: A legendary Australian publisher, and saving the beach shack

LNL Summer: Geraldine Brooks, Rachel Kushner and Julia Baird at Adelaide Writers Week 2025

LNL Summer: Trump's war on journalism, plus Robert Dessaix's chameleonic life

LNL Summer: Trans poet and comedian Alok Vaid-Menon on being banned by Trump

LNL Summer: The Aussies the union movement left behind, and what causes a society to collapse?

LNL Summer: Reckoning with the West, and radio propaganda wars in the Middle East

LNL Summer: How Australia bought Pollock's 'Blue Poles', plus when America went hair crazy

Laura Tingle, Hannah Ferguson and Craig Reucassel farewell 2025

Geoffrey Robertson on war crimes impunity, plus how bush medicine saved Allied soldiers in WWII

Bruce Shapiro and Ian Dunt dissect a wild year in US and UK politics

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Indian Maoists surrender, plus are public pools doomed?

Who was the oldest prisoner in history? Plus the breathtaking Birrundudu drawings revealed

Niki Savva on why the 2025 federal election was a political 'earthquake' in Australia

What happened to Nauru's riches? Transgender troops fight Trump, plus the world's oldest prosthetics

Anna Henderson's Canberra plus Netanyahu's political survival

Simon Winchester on wind: the invisble force that we can't live without

Bruce Shapiro's USA, climate and slavery justice for Jamaica and feral foxes

Helen Garner on Erin Patterson's trial and a lifetime of keeping diaries

Anna Henderson's Canberra, inside Myanmar's civil war, and traffic jams in space

Gareth Evans: Australia should do more on nuclear control, plus Joseph Stiglitz warns of 'inequality emergency'

Henry Reynolds turns Australian history upside-down

Ian Dunt's UK, police brutality in Brazil, and Australia's earliest computer

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Sudan's genocidal gold rush and the missing dismissal footage mystery

Do modern Liberals still back Whitlam's dismissal? Plus, the courageous life of 'Weary' Dunlop

Bruce Shapiro on Mamdani's victory, Trump's ballroom blitz, plus an author's win over AI

The legacy of U Thant plus what Australia's earliest photographs can tell us

Anna Henderson's Canberra, banning kids from social media and cracking the Kryptos code

Francesca Albanese: Australia complicit in the Gaza genocide, plus how our polticians got hooked on gambling money

The power of Patrick White plus why we should forgive

Ian Dunt's UK, how Chicago is resisting ICE, and Australian anthropology turns 100

Anna Henderson's Canberra, global surveillance network exposed, and can AI speak whale?

The political drama before the Dismissal, and communing with Stalin's ghost

Looted bronzes returning to Africa, plus love in antiquity

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Suriname's first female president, and a world without sand?

Bernard Keane's Canberra, Chris Hedges slams Western media's coverage of Gaza, and Fiona Stanley's cancelled hospital event

Tim Minchin's nipples are just fine, thanks

Australia's foreign policy in the age of Trump, plus Ilan Pappe on Israel's future

Ian Dunt's UK, trouble in Madagascar, and women in the skies

Tom McIlroy's Canberra, the wonder of clouds, and who speaks Esperanto?

Inside the Gisele Pelicot trial, plus how our cities lost their shade

Could sanctions on Iran backfire? Plus the Australian father of the bomb

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Irris Makler on October 7, and New Zealand's crusade on feral predators

Does our world lack moral ambition? And the Victorian obsession with orchids

Doc Evatt and the making of Israel, plus the twisted history of rope

How Malka Leifer was brought to justice, plus when America went mad for Mars

Ian Dunt's UK, the right to sing in Afghanistan, and how salmon got to Tasmania

Mark Kenny's Canberra, ASIC and Stablecoin, and the threads of empire

When 29 nations defied the world's superpowers, plus the pioneering SA cop Kate Cocks

Busting myths about young Australian voters, plus the decline of NGOs

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Nepal in the aftermath of revolution, and Ackland on defamation

Mark Kenny's Canberra, Trump's corporate clemency, and Muslim-Australian poetry

Questions over the Australian War Memorial literary prize, and trouble for the CIA

The politics of humiliation, plus the billionaire outdoorsman who gave it all away

The UN's report on genocide in Gaza, Donald Trump heads to the UK, and Anguilla's internet jackpot

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Bruce Shapiro on the killing of Charlie Kirk, plus why are we keeping QWERTY?

Germany's Gaza protest crackdown plus solving crimes using feathers

The rise of the Chinese right wing in the US and how memory shapes geopolitics

Bruce Shapiro's USA, 50 years of independent Papua New Guinea, and the closure of Meanjin

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Modi's pivot to China and the death of Aussie gaelic

Abolishing terra nullius: the legacy of Chief Justice Gerard Brennan

Behrouz Boochani on Iran's Revolutionary Guard, plus why Trump is targeting libraries

Ian Dunt's UK, the journalists killed in Gaza, and why we're mesmerised by gold

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Project Esther's antisemitism crackdown, and the dandy as working-class rebel

Liberal Party lost: can the party of Menzies recover?

Robyn Williams' 50 years of science shows, and the French philosopher guiding Silicon Valley

Bruce Shapiro's USA, future Palestinian leadership, and Sydney's old street photography

Anna Henderson's Canberra, Sudan's famine crisis, and Australia's missing poet laureate

Palestinian psychiatrist on the trauma in Gaza, and a yarn about wool and war

John Menadue critiques Australia's media and our relationship with the United States

Ian Dunt's UK, Imran Kahn's defiance in prison, and rebuilding the past

Laura Tingle on Trump & Putin in Alaska, Tuvalu's climate refugees, and why do we have surnames?

How evangelicals transformed Brazil, plus the last letters of French resistance fighters

Journalists Hanna Rosin and Lauren Ober on seeking truth in Trump's America

Bruce Shapiro's USA, why the Egyptians aren't doing more on Gaza, and deer gone feral

Australia to recognise Palestinian statehood, and the first Tasmanians

Satyajit Das on the US debt crisis, plus 100 years of Mein Kampf

Hiroshima and the new nuclear threat, plus inside London's exclusive clubs

Ian Dunt's UK, can peace last between Thailand and Cambodia? Plus, remembering the mad cow crisis

LNL's new theme, lessons from the bridge walk, and Ukraine's corruption woes

Future warfare is already here, plus the Chinese survivors of the Titanic

Unearthing the real Pompeii, plus when Zane Grey went shark-hunting in Australia

Bruce Shapiro's USA, the lost Israeli Left, and Iraq's 'Garden of Eden' marshlands

Annabel Crabb's Canberra, plus Fintan O'Toole on Gaza and the state of global politics

John Hewson says sack the NACC, plus the Roosevelts' giant panda hunt

Starvation in Gaza, China's clean energy boom and Putin's sledgehammer

Ian Dunt's UK, the USA's plans to deport Afghan allies, and the death of the chequebook

Annabel Crabb's Canberra, Saudi drug executions, and Japan's rice shortage

The decline of history teaching, and abortion through the ages

What next when climate litigation fails? And tales of tourists lost in the bush

Bruce Shapiro on US politics, Bill Bowtell surveys 40 years of HIV, and the world's richest shipwreck

Annabel Crabb on Albanese's China trip, Gaza's future, and the genius of feathers

President Trump's war on science, and the value of indigenous history telling

Why the future of Europe depends on the Baltics, plus how might the universe die?

Ian Dunt's UK, the strange world of biohacking, and the flight of the bogong moth

Telling the truth about Victoria's past, plus a US critique of 'woke' elites

Tracing the trajectory of the Christchurch killer, and is AI a con?

The twins separated by foreign adoption, plus the ancient allure of isolationism

Could the world have two Dalai Lamas? And a marathon vote on Trump's 'big beautiful bill'

Albanese's second term ambitions, a new MI6 chief, and the forgotten Flinders brother

How to share resources in space, and the true crimes of Wiradjuri brothers Jimmy and Joe Governor

What is France's role in the world? Plus, a trailblazing, rebellious Māori Professor

Ian Dunt's UK, one year on from Julian Assange's release, and how classical statues lost their noses

Will MAGA Republicans split over Iran strikes? And does Israel have its own nuclear weapons?

The fallacies of the fertility crisis, and a gritty history of Macau

A shambolic expedition to Arnhem Land, and the first despot of North Korea

Bruce Shapiro's USA, Dutch politics in crisis, and the Inca language of knotted strings

Albanese to meet Trump, a history of the Iran nuclear deal, and how the sweet potato crossed oceans

Who is America? And Australia's most successful female artist Emily Kngwarray

Young US men are joining Russian churches, plus an infamous brawl over the haka

Bruce Shapiro's America, and hunting down the Myall Creek murderers

The true power of land ownership, plus giving children the right to vote

Two months on from Myanmar's earthquake, and healing a divided United States

Haiti's gang crisis takes a dark turn, plus the mother of all languages

Ian Dunt's UK, Pakistan and India's war over water, and who named our body parts?

Bernard Keane's Canberra, what America's 'comfort class' doesn't get, and the life of a food critic

The origins of the term 'national security', and actress Merle Oberon's false identity

Abalone cultural heritage in Tasmania and overtourism in the Canary Islands

Bruce Shapiro's America, the money behind the 'Enhanced Games', and an ancient Roman cookbook

Late Night Live farewells Laura Tingle

D-day looms for Woodside's Burrup gas plant, and teaching troubled teens to hunt in the New Zealand wilderness

The Aussies the union movement left behind, and what causes a society to collapse?

Tariff chaos on American shelves, Ukraine minerals deal and Lake Eyre in flood

Laura Tingle's Canberra, and Harriet Walter re-writes Shakespeare's women

The Brazilian Marxists claiming unused land, and Australia's Antarctic obsession

Who's still selling arms to Israel? And the legal rights of nature

Ian Dunt's UK, Europe's thirsty data centres, and the survival of Indigenous message sticks

Laura Tingle's Canberra, US-China trade talks and the art of the courtroom sketch

Does our world lack moral ambition? And the Victorian obsession with orchids

The destruction of Gaza's universities, and Donald Trump's fantasy maps

Bruce Shapiro's America, How Kerala got rich and vale Ted Kotcheff of Wake in Fright

Labor's stunning landslide, plus the hangover from Australia's wine boom

Was Hitler's filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl complicit in Nazi atrocities?

Australia's biggest tax lurks, and Mexico stares down Donald Trump

Ian Dunt on UK's gender wars, John Lyons on Ukraine's resistance, and arts funding under pressure

Laura Tingle's election, and the year that changed the world

Australians in the Spanish Civil War, and when hair was thought to indicate character

What it's like to be raided by DOGE, and the fearless feminist Beatrice Faust

Laura Tingle's election, the survival of NATO, and the misunderstood pigeon

Taiwan and its chips: the colourful history of this strategically important nation

Philippe Sands on war crimes and impunity - from Pinochet to now

Pollies and their private interests, and a forgotten hero in forensics

Harvard defies the White House, Yanis Varoufakis on 'Trump Shock', and Australia's oldest footrace

Laura Tingle's Canberra, the broken promise of religious discrimination reform, and a history of hand gestures

'Sorrow, grief, horror': Kate Grenville confronts her settler ancestry

Antony Green's last election broadcast, and the path ahead for Syria

Bruce Shapiro's Trumpland, Netanyahu's latest scandal, and the death of the interval

Laura Tingle's Canberra, the Brits baulk on AUKUS, and tariffs in the ancient world

John Howard and the 1998 waterfront dispute, plus Peter Rose on life as a literary editor

First Nations resistance in the River Country, and is ignorance always bliss?

Ian Dunt's UK, does the Coalition's gas policy stack up, and Australia's endless rabbit problem

Laura Tingle's federal election, plus defining antisemitism at universities

Gaza and the contradictions of the West, and are priests employees of the Church?

Sexual violence perpetrators getting younger, and lost in the Amazon for forty days

Bruce Shapiro's America, Poland digging trenches, and crime in the Antarctic

Laura Tingle's Canberra, mass protests in Turkiye and Australia's own vernacular

The ethics of posthumous publishing plus the dark side of green cities

Radio propaganda wars in the Middle East, and the firebombing of Tokyo

Ian Dunt's UK, Russia's frozen assets, and Poland confronts its queer history

Laura Tingle's Canberra, Satyajit Das on how to survive a trade war, and trolling before the Internet

The most trusting nation on Earth, and the rise and fall of Trudeau

A new age of nuclear peril, and the Caribbean countries lining up to leave the monarchy

Bruce Shapiro's America, the potential of prison architecture, and Queensland's rebellious first female doctor

Laura Tingle's Canberra, the origins of DEI, and who really discovered gold in Australia?

Alan Rusbridger on the perils of political journalism, and Robert Dessaix on life, death, sexuality and more

The State of the World: the rise of Orbán, Trump and Netanyahu

The State of the Self: Have we lost a sense of community in a post pandemic world?

The State of the Nation: has the myth of the 'fair go' been broken?

Trans poet and comedian Alok Vaid-Menon on being banned by Trump

The story of Russia through Putin's eyes, and the painting that rocked Australian politics

Ian Dunt's UK, NT mining royalties slump and how to rescue a hummingbird

Laura Tingle's Canberra, the money behind far-right young voices and the charlatan geologist from WA

Calls to audit Welcomes to Country, and who pays for climate disasters when insurance folds?

A Catholic Bishop's take on the US Immigration crackdown, and the women who revolutionised Australian publishing