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Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast — 415 episodes
World globes, empire, and the making of the world
Kim Sajet, the Smithsonian director targeted by Trump
Ian Dunt's UK: Miliband's Israel sanctions, and Farage recieves record donations
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on what Netanyahu knew before October 7
The hidden meanings in wine labels
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Hanson offends again, migration debate heats up
The secret dinners behind Cold War journalism
How Big Tobacco still wields influence in Australia
Rivers are Europe's lifeblood. Now they're dying
How can you trust news generated by AI?
Why America wants its Greenland airbase back
Stop the chop: the fight for Adelaide's parklands
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Gloria Steinem's legacy plus 25 years since 9/11
Giorgia Meloni's four years in power
Humboldt - the philosopher who started the ecology movement
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Falling house prices
Unearthing a dark past - the campsites of Queensland's Native Mounted Police
Why we're not all eating lab-grown meat
'Dynamite Doug' - the man who looted Cambodia's treasures
The real-life horrors of corporate crimes
Lesbia Harford: Australia’s anti-war, socialist poet
Ian Dunt's UK: the great Tory reshuffle
Our reliance on GPS makes us vulnerable
Why is Canada still battling separatist movements?
Anna Henderson's Canberra: One Nation's WA win
Alice's dreaming - a girl's extraordinary encounter with Indigenous life in the 1900s
Gerontocracy - how the dominance of the old is holding America back
Simon Sebag Montefiore on the making of the modern Middle East
The camera in the colony: Australia's oldest surviving photographs
Are Australian weapons being used in Sudan's civil war?
Bruce Shapiro's USA: has Trump betrayed American beef farmers?
What's in the 'sound' of a name?
Calls for Israeli ambassador to Australia to be sent home
Anna Henderson's Canberra: One Nation gets confused on migration
Wyndham Native Hospital - apartheid in Australia
John Cameron Mitchell on punk, cancel culture, and how to navigate a dystopian world
Unmasking the Cambridge Five spies
Is a classless society impossible?
Going out - a colourful history of nightlife
KPMG's trouble and strife
Ian Dunt's UK: the death of Cambridge scholar Jason Arday
How Gina Rinehart defends her public image
Jordan's difficult position in US-Iran war
Anna Henderson's Canberra: will Labor pass its NDIS reforms?
Nocturnes - the magic of night music
Vale Kris Short
The secret way out: Inside the world of sovereign citizens
Agatha's Cantata - giving voice to a forgotten orphan composer
Marwan Barghouti to run for president of the Palestinian Authority, from prison
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Democrat divisions and Fauci on trial
From hieroglyphs to hashtags: the hidden history of punctuation
What’s behind Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan forming a new defence pact?
Anna Henderson's Canberra: bipartisanship on gambling reforms?
Blackbirding: the Australian slavery that nobody stopped
Peter Garrrett on what the public think of AUKUS
How wine made the modern world
Bernard Keane on Australia’s real opportunities in an unstable world
The last cats on Kangaroo Island
Odyssey filming controversy on indigenous land in Moroccan region
Ian Dunt's UK: Can Count Binface beat Farage? And just what is 'Operation Fortress?'
Butterfly collecting is no longer allowed
What's behind the push for Cyprus reunifcation?
Anna Henderson at Garma: Noel Pearson calls for Aboriginal affairs overhaul
Sarah Baartman: a life, a body, a battle over memory
Who are Russia's Night Wolves?
The changes to spot in this year's Census survey
Australia's dependence on the controversial weedkiller paraquat
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Netanyahu's Iran war pressure
100 years of Route 66 - is it worth celebrating?
AI, chips and drones- a new kind of geopolitics
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Pauline Hanson loses appeal over racist tweet
The Donald Trump school of architecture
How British slave money flowed to colonial Australia
Fierce feminists: the trailblazing women who built democracy
One Nation's internal challenges
Is Australia too generous to the rich? The case for tighter means-testing
The Pentagon is the biggest polluter on the planet
Naomi Smith's UK: Can Andy Burnham deliver?
Should a Nazi bunker in Berlin be demolished?
Did the US kill civilians in Somalia?
Anna Henderson's Canberra: AI and the ALP national conference
Uprooting olive trees in the West Bank
Why India is threatening to cut water supplies to Pakistan
Colonising space is for lunatics
Are Australia's new Pacific treaties built to last?
The scandals history books forgot
How sustainable is IKEA?
Bruce Shapiro's USA: the death of Senator Lindsey Graham
Why are more of us watching TV with subtitles?
The US legal battle over nitrogen gas executions
Mark Kenny's Canberra: Angus Taylor takes on Pauline Hanson
Songs and stories with Roger Knox, the 'Koori King of Country'
Thomas Jefferson's troubling views on race
Jonathan Swan on the astonishing inner workings of Trump's second presidency
India’s forgotten pedestrians
African anti-gay laws on the rise
Ian Dunt's UK: Nigel Farage resigns as MP to force by-election
Ancient coins reveal more than the faces of dead emperors
From violence to manipulation: how modern tyrants wield power
Liberal Party struggling to handle Hanson
America's first president was an aggressive land speculator
How the American Revolution drove Britain's colonisation of Australia
How tiny gardens can feed the world
When the NT introduced world-first euthanasia laws
Meet the 'vigilante' cactus hunters
Who will defend Japan?
Bruce Shapiro's USA: turning 250 and Tump gets more fire power
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Trump gets more firing power
Why France is ditching tech giants Palantir and Microsoft
Italy has the most forests since the Middle Ages, but it's not an environmental win
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Does the Liberal party need a rebrand?
On the hunt for the next epidemic
How Murdoch's media wields power and punishment
Reverse extinction: do we want that?
What's next for Lebanon, as UN Peacekeepers prepare to leave?
Mariana Mazzucato on making economies work for the common good
The soccer-playing Anzacs
Anna Henderson's Canberra: most Australians don't want a 'monoculture'
The evolution of Islamic State
Ian Dunt's UK: Keir Starmer resigns
Rediscovered Birrundudu drawings rewrite the timeline of Aboriginal art
Whatever happened to the Australian Sex Party?
The first public zoo: what the world learned from the Paris menagerie
Being human under the AI advance
Why First Nations people are dismayed at Brisbane's new Olympic stadium
US-India tensions after strikes kill seafarers in Hormuz
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Trump's agenda on the line in Supreme Court
Trump opens America's doors to white South Africans
Why is Google releasing millions of infected mosquitoes?
Why do we fixate on the human face?
Madam War Criminal: 'Serbia's Iron lady' unrepentant at 95
Soweto: the uprising that changed South Africa
The campaign to save PNG's Sepik river from an Australian mining company
Ian Dunt's UK: Henry Nowak's murder sparks immigration backlash
Will Switzerland vote to cap its population?
The men who want women to be quiet: America's 'masculinist' movement
Spam spam spam! Why the luncheon meat is still loved in many countries
Barcelona's magnificent Sagrada Familia Basilica to be blessed by the Pope
The forgotten Timorese boat people
The great illicit drug debate: How Australia changed course
The psychiatrist who investigated reincarnation
Is 'Muskism' the new Fordism?
How Glasgow stopped an immigration raid
How nature is the performance enhancer for Ethiopian runners
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Republicans slam Trump's 'slush fund'
Why Lord Howe Island is celebrating a cockroach boom
What are Syrian refugees returning home to?
Will the government hold its nerve on tax reform?
The young US conservatives trying to redefine environmentalism
Long before 1979: A very different Iran–US relationship
The women at Nuremberg
Janine di Giovanni's reckoning with war criminals
Pedro Sanchez, Spain's defiant PM
Ian Dunt's UK: Andy Burnham's big gamble, plus what's wrong with British leadership?
Ballerina Anna Pavlova's sensational tour of Australia, 100 years on
Ancient Roman gossip and why it mattered
Does Mamdani offer a 'progressive playbook' for the Left?
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Could the Teals form a new political party?
Palestinian writer Tareq Baconi on identity, displacement and home
Satyajit Das on the economic fallout from Trump’s war on Iran
Who was Blind Freddy?
What made John Safran question the right to offend?
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Trump's rush to redistrict the South, as polls slump
Where is Gazan doctor Hussam Abu Safiya?
The joys and travails of translating Shakespeare
Anna Henderson's Canberra: battle lines drawn over tax
Why food traditions matter in times of conflict
Royal commissions in Australia - when have they made a difference?
Antoinette Lattouf on women who challenged power and won
Fifty years of Australian film at Cannes
Ian Dunt's UK: Starmer on the brink as the King opens parliament
Tojo Hideki, the Japanese wartime leader we know little about
Australia's first political assassination, and the man still behind bars
The trauma trope: can humanitarian journalism do better?
Six months underwater in a submarine
Anna Henderson's Canberra: budget expecations, Farrer fall-out
Laila’s story: how to save a mother and her five daughters from the Taliban
Fintan O'Toole on Trump's madman strategy
What happened to the survivors of Belsen concentration camp?
Netanyahu rivals join forces ahead of Israeli election
An old register forges new relations on Norfolk Island
Keeping the signal alive: 2SER’s uncertain future
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Supreme Court weakens voter rights
Colouring the classical past: Mark Bradley and the rediscovery of painted sculpture
The unlikely resurgence of Kim Jong Un
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Japan PM's visit, plus Alice Springs mourns
Richard Meagher was at the centre of early Australian politics. But he had a scandalous past
Ian Dunt's UK: The King's speech to Congress. Will Trump get the message?
Port Arthur reminds us how the media should cover mass shootings
What does Pakistan gain from its role in the US-Iran peace talks?
The fear of Japanese espionage in wartime Australia
How WWI radicalised Indigenous soldiers
Silence, stigma and survival: polio in postwar Australia
The false stories the British elite tell about themselves
The German Jazz band that got stuck in wartime Australia
Why did New Zealand's PM call a leadership vote on himself?
The great escape from WA, on the Catalpa ship
40 years on, wildlife is thriving in Chernobyl
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Another Trump cabinet member departs, and FBI's Kash Patel sues The Atlantic
Does Australia's culture of remembrance need updating?
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Pocock piles on gas tax pressure
Kati-Thanda Lake Eyre is filling up - but will tourists have fuel to get there?
What if corporate scandals are actually good for the world?
A family reckoning on law and violence in the Middle East
Dennis Altman's bizarre encounters with AI scam book promoters
The forgotten achievements of the Colombo Plan
Ian Dunt's UK: Orban's loss a blow for Europe's far right
Hormuz as a chokepoint of power: the narrow seas that shaped global wars
US 'may stop by Cuba' after Iran, says Trump
Magnificent heritage sites damaged in Iran
The gay conservatives out, loud and proud to vote Trump
Australia's fuel import dependency exposed
Daniel Defoe, writer and spy
Arts under attack in Trump's America
The art of Peter Marralwanga - Old Master and ritual leader
The antibiotic explosion in India
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Will Trump follow through on his latest Iran threat?
A decade after the leak: The lasting impact of the Panama Papers
Robert Reich on how the Democrats lost the working class
The Shahs and the Ayatollahs - Iran's extreme leaders
Ian Dunt's UK: Starmer's plan to address the fuel crisis
Mapping the wilderness
Israel to use death penalty for West Bank Palestinians
Why should WA get so much of the GST?
Daylight savings forever? Why B.C, Canada has ditched clock changes
Ash Sarkar's message to the Left - get a grip
Anna Henderson's Canberra: fuel tax halved, as global energy crisis deepens
How the National Library digitises millions of archives, with Dr Marie-Louise Ayres
How the Strait of Hormuz closure is threatening aid and food security
The museum that celebrates famous flops and failures
Skyscrapers to sand dunes: Trump’s business ventures in the Gulf
Bruce Shapiro's America: Is Trump really negotiating with Iran?
The dark side of floristry
Remembering Rhoda Roberts AO
Anna Henderson's Canberra: what the SA election result means for the nation
Research that claimed Roundup herbicide is safe, retracted by US journal
Evangelical Christians are manufacturing the guns used in mass shootings
How US presidential pardons are being used as a political tool
Not satisfactory at all: Geoffrey Watson on the NACC'S Robodebt findings
Ian Dunt's UK: Trump pressures Starmer on Iran war
Why pensioners are still protesting in their seventies
Will Saudi Arabia be the winners in the war on Iran?
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Matt Canavan and his Nationals' front bench
Porn, AI, and the internet: social media's new frontier
Mystic, manipulator, catalyst: Rasputin and Russia’s Last Tsar
Psst: the Irish love a conspiracy theory
Why is it so hard to make Australian TV?
Lost Vanuatu numbering system
Armageddon briefings: US Troops told Iran war is 'God’s plan'
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Noem, no more
Power, crime, and money: the rise of the global mafia
Why France is backing Lebanon in the Middle East War
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Albanese's call for de-escalation in Middle East
Australia's oldest continuously used library turns 200
Yanis Varoufakis on the Iran war, drug charges & cancelling Adelaide Writers' Week
Australia's first desert people
Batteries, and the power they have over us
Gideon Levy on Israel's objectives in Iran, Lebanon, and the broader Middle East
Behind the bestseller: feuds, failures, and publishing mishaps
Trump attacks Iran: the view from inside America
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Australia and the Iran war
High Court rules the Catholic Church is liable for a priest's abuse
Water in 2026: will Australia learn from our mistakes?
Bruce Shapiro's USA: the State of the Union address
What do Mawson's diaries reveal about the Flinders Ranges in South Australia?
A new treaty for the High Seas
What can and can't the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion decide?
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark: The UN has a woman problem
Anna Henderson's Canberra: ISIS women and children, One Nation policies, and Australian values
The end of the gay rights revolution?
Immigrant labour from the Pacific: are we getting it right?
Deflect, distract, deny: how politicians avoid direct answers
The return of Germany as a military power
Ian Dunt's UK: is Keir Starmer's leadership is risk?
How green are green burials?
Washington tightens grip as Cuba faces mounting crisis
Democracy for sale: gambling’s grip on politics
The music of the stars, with the "founding mother" of asteroseismology
Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong's voice of freedom, will die in prison
Anna Henderson's Canberra: what to expect from the new Liberal leadership
Steven Pinker on common knowledge... and common delusion
The memes are the politics: Charlie Warzel on Trump's Extremely Online administration
An old book, a hidden drawing: how Sydney held the answer to an Italian Renaissance mystery
How journalists are tackling three million Epstein files - and what they're finding
"A moment of reckoning" - NSW police response to Sydney Herzog protest under spotlight
Toads most feral: what can Australia do?
Indonesia and Australia sign a security pact: what are we worried about?
Bernard Keane's Canberra: A Coalition reunification, even as the Liberals contemplate "non-existence"
Winnie-the-Pooh: how the gentle bear left a complicated legacy
Tucker Carlson, the influential broadcaster admired by President Trump
Trade Secret: Polar Bears for sale in a warming world
Why is everyone rushing to do trade deals with India?
Ian Dunt's UK: Anger over Mandelson's Epstein links and a new candidate for Reform
Peter Drew, the 'AUSSIE' poster artist who wants to engage with young right wing men
Iran expert says war is likely with the US if Trump gets bored with negotiations
Bruce Shapiro's America - are the Epstein files another distraction?
Australia's secret indigenous circus royalty
The Rafah crossing reopens, and Isaac Herzog visits Australia
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Littleproud hangs on, One Nation surges, and Parliament returns
America's first central banker was a reluctant revolutionary
The Nationals' impact on the Coalition
Springtails - the tiniest critters you've never heard of
Mark Carney was the hero of Davos, but what is he positioning Canada for?
Bruce Shapiro: is the killing of Alex Pretti in Minnesota a tipping point?
We've had 237 Straya Days: what do they say about us?
The expansion of Indigenous Protected Areas
Multicultural Australia under strain
Stephen Miller: the architect of Trump’s immigration agenda
Ian Dunt on pulling out of Adelaide Writer's Week and the challenge of tackling Trump's increasing threats
Where does King Charles get his money?
Bruce Shapiro's America: what's next after Trump's year of chaos?
Do the hate speech laws go too far?
Bernard Keane's Canberra: can Albanese get hate speech laws through parliament?
LNL Summer: The murderous rampage of Joe and Jimmy Governor in 1900 New South Wales
LNL Summer: Cooperating over space resources
LNL Summer: Zane Grey's shark-hunting adventures in 1930s Australia
LNL Summer: Why Pompeii keeps revealing new secrets
LNL Summer: A rich man obsessed with Mars? Welcome to the 1890s
LNL Summer: Is a river alive?
LNL Summer: Fleeced: a story of wool and warfare
LNL Summer: Palestinian psychiatrist Dr Samah Jabr on dealing with trauma in Gaza
LNL Summer: Have we forgotten the value of shade?
LNL Summer: Deep history, an Indigenous way of seeing the past
LNL Summer: From Utopia to the Tate - the art of Emily Kam Kngwarray
LNL Summer: The woman who solved crimes with birds
LNL Summer: Why do we use the QWERTY keyboard?
LNL Summer: Is it time to decriminalise jaywalking?
LNL Summer: How prison architecture can change lives
LNL Summer:Australia's love of cinema, indoors and outdoors
LNL Summer: Farewell Laura Tingle
LNL Summer: Harriet Walter on what Shakespeare's women might have said
Is it ethical to holiday in Antarctica?
LNL Summer: AI. Don't believe the hype
LNL Summer: The Roosevelts deadly hunt for a giant panda
LNL Summer: A no-frills history of the Australian beach shack
LNL Summer: The feminist publishing house that launched Australia's best writers
LNL Summer: Robert Dessaix's life reflections
LNL Summer: Alan Rusbridger on Trump's threats to journalism
LNL Summer: Societies collapse. Will ours?
LNL Summer: The Australian workers the union movement left behind
LNL Summer: Radio propaganda wars in the Middle East
LNL Summer: Omar El Akkad reckons with the West
LNL Summer: how 19th Century Americans thought about hair
LNL Summer: Blue Poles, when a painting shocked Australia
Bush medicine: how Indigenous practice has survived millennia
Geoffrey Robertson on the world's failures to prosecute war crimes
Ian Dunt's UK: Budget woes and a look back at 2025
Bruce Shapiro's USA: how Trump has changed America in 2025
The uncertain future of Australia's public pools
Anna Henderson's Canberra: a Defence overhaul, a Lodge wedding, plus Hanson and Joyce
India's Maoist guerillas surrender after fifty year struggle
Crayons in the desert: the breathtaking Birrundudu drawings of 1945, revealed
Bill Wallace: the world’s oldest prisoner, who died at 107 in an asylum in Ararat
Wooden toes, iron hands: the ancient artistry of prosthetics
America's transgender troops take Donald Trump to court
How Nauru got rich
Haaretz editor, Aluf Benn, on Netanyahu's political survival
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Pauline Hanson's burka stunt and environment laws final push
Jenny Hocking AM calls for free access to Dismissal archives
How the Quarterly Essay reached its 100th edition
Wind: the invisble force of nature that we can't live without
When foxes went feral
Hurricane devastated Jamaica seeks reparations for climate damage and years of slavery
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Trump's backflip on the Epstein files
Can we stop space from filling up with junk?
Calls to reject Myanmar's "sham" election as evidence revealed of torture by the Junta
Anna Henderson's Canberra: what next for the Liberal moderates?
Nobel Laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz warns of 'inequality emergency'
Gareth Evans says Australia should lead nuclear arms control talks
Australia's (very, very) early computer: CSIRAC
Ian Dunt's UK: Trump threatens to sue the BBC
Brutal police killings in Rio's favelas shock the world as Brazil hosts climate summit
The mysterious lost footage of Whitlam's dismissal
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Gough Whitlam's statue and net zero fallout continues
The fight for gold at the heart of Sudan’s genocide
Peter FitzSimons on the life of Weary Dunlop
50 years on, do modern Liberals still back Whitlam's dismissal?
Author takes on AI company who pirated her book
Trump's ballroom blitz
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Zohran and a wave of Democrats put Trump on notice
The camera in the colony: Australia's oldest photographs
From Buddhist teacher to UN Secretary-General: The legacy of U Thant
Kryptos: the 30-year code that was accidentally cracked
Kids are about to be booted off social media
Anna Henderson's Canberra: will the Libs follow the Nationals and abandon net zero?
How Australia’s politicians got hooked on gambling
Francesca Albanese: genocide in Gaza would not be happening without the complicity of other countries
Forgiveness: do we need more or less?
Reflecting on the power Patrick White's prose still holds today
One hundreds years of Australian anthropology: what have we learned?
Locals disrupt Trump's deportation blitz in Chicago
Ian Dunt's UK: Prince Andrew fallout and British Labour loses big in Wales
Can AI help us talk to whales?
The Indonesian surveillance company tracking phones all over the world
Anna Henderson's Canberra: why does the Coalition want to split the environment bill in two?
The ghost of Stalin
Paul Kelly on the political chaos before The Dismissal
Did the ancients love like us?
Looted Benin Bronzes are returning to West Africa. But will they go on display?
Why is the world running out of sand?
Suriname – the little South American country that overthrew a despot, elected a woman and discovered oil
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Albanese goes to Washington
Why did two Australian hospitals cancel Gaza-related speaking events?
Bernard Keane's Canberra: What is Barnaby Joyce up to?
Journalist Chris Hedges on being cancelled by the National Press Club
A way forward for Israel
The strategy behind Trump's foreign policy chaos - and where it leaves Australia
Come fly with me: women in aviation
Madagascar has its own Gen Z protesters
Ian Dunt's UK: Keir Starmer in Egypt, and the word on Brexit
Esperanto: what happened to the language of optimism?
Are cloud patterns changing with the climate?
Labor waters down its super tax plan
LNL update: Irris Makler on the Gaza peace process
Have we forgotten the value of shade?