Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast

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.

David Runciman thinks children should have the right to vote
Jun 9, 2025 – 0:22:59
Land power: who has it, who doesn't, and how it will shape our future
Jun 9, 2025 – 0:25:53
How the US got so divided
Jun 5, 2025 – 0:26:20
What is China's agenda in Myanmar?
Jun 5, 2025 – 0:25:26
PIE: the world's most important language
Jun 4, 2025 – 0:27:25
Haiti hires ex-Blackwater CEO Erik Prince to deal with armed gangs
Jun 4, 2025 – 0:24:20
Bodypedia: who named the parts of our anatomy?
Jun 3, 2025 – 0:17:30
Water is the new battlefront for India and Pakistan
Jun 3, 2025 – 0:17:53
Ian Dunt's UK: Britain boosts defence spending
Jun 3, 2025 – 0:15:28
Have food critics become too nice?
Jun 2, 2025 – 0:15:57
The rise and rise of the comfort class in the US
Jun 2, 2025 – 0:18:36
Bernard Keane's Canberra: Albanese dismisses US call to up defence spending
Jun 2, 2025 – 0:15:59
Merle Oberon's false identity
May 29, 2025 – 0:22:44
National security - how it started and how it's changed
May 29, 2025 – 0:29:10
The engineer who derailed Tenerife’s port plans to save an undersea paradise
May 28, 2025 – 0:21:18
Abalone cultural heritage acknowledged in Tasmania
May 28, 2025 – 0:27:44
Feasting Like a Roman: The tastes of the ancient elite
May 27, 2025 – 0:12:56
The money behind the Enhanced Games - an "Olympics on steroids"
May 27, 2025 – 0:21:19
Bruce Shapiro's America: Trump's deportations campaign
May 27, 2025 – 0:17:42
Late Night Live farewells Laura Tingle
May 26, 2025 – 0:45:21
Hunting and gathering wild food in New Zealand
May 22, 2025 – 0:26:40
Possible Burrup gas extension and the rock art that might be at risk
May 22, 2025 – 0:25:03
How can societal collapses of the past guide us in these uncertain times
May 21, 2025 – 0:26:42
The Australian workers the union movement left behind
May 21, 2025 – 0:26:41
Floodwaters are filling Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, creating rare outback spectacle
May 20, 2025 – 0:19:56
What's behind the Ukraine-US minerals deal?
May 20, 2025 – 0:13:04
US ports and logistics suffer from tariff chaos
May 20, 2025 – 0:18:51
🚨 Bonus Laura Tingle: the Coalition splits 🚨
May 20, 2025 – 0:16:40
Harriet Walter on what Shakespeare's women might have said
May 19, 2025 – 0:35:06
Laura Tingle's Canberra: where to next for the Coalition?
May 19, 2025 – 0:14:28
The Antarctic - an extension of Australia?
May 15, 2025 – 0:30:27
The 'Red Hats' - Brazil's landless workers movement
May 15, 2025 – 0:22:06
Is a river alive?
May 14, 2025 – 0:26:09
Which countries are selling arms to Israel?
May 14, 2025 – 0:27:33
Message sticks: small items with big cultural power
May 13, 2025 – 0:23:32
Meta’s mega data centres are creating a water crisis in Spain, while Europe faces similar challenges
May 13, 2025 – 0:20:05
Ian Dunt's UK: Starmer vows to 'take back control' of borders
May 13, 2025 – 0:13:29
The sketchy future of the courtroom artist
May 12, 2025 – 0:16:11
China and US trade breakthrough
May 12, 2025 – 0:19:29
Laura Tingle's Canberra: Labor's factional power plays
May 12, 2025 – 0:15:24
Plant hunters: the 19th century orchid mania
May 8, 2025 – 0:25:46
Rutger Bregman wants you to stop wasting your talents and show some 'moral ambition'
May 8, 2025 – 0:26:42
The rogue maps of the world
May 7, 2025 – 0:22:06
The destruction of universities in Gaza
May 7, 2025 – 0:27:03
A tribute to Ted Kotcheff and his Oz horror classic 'Wake in Fright'
May 6, 2025 – 0:17:07
How did Kerala get rich?
May 6, 2025 – 0:19:47
Bruce Shapiro's America: Trump's first 100 days - how much damage has been done?
May 6, 2025 – 0:15:30
State of the Australian wine industry
May 5, 2025 – 0:12:06
Laura Tingle and Niki Savva dissect the election results
May 5, 2025 – 0:41:36
Was Hitler's filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl complicit in Nazi atrocities?
May 1, 2025 – 0:54:04

Recent Reviews

Palunargar

Great podcast. My new favorite podcast.

The program has interesting topics. Excellent questions. I enjoy the host who for me is the David Attenborough of Australian journalism. Definitely, experience can’t be improvised.
Project Pratt

Great Broadcaster-Left Wing Absurdity

I love Phillip as a broadcaster. Great topics. If you want to hear ridiculous left wing arguments please tune in. One of my faves is bashing borders as if we are supposed to let people free flow in to our systems which citizens have a vested interest. Supposed to just pick up the tab for the nomads….