Synopsis
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.
Episodes
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Indigenous update, carbon justice, the children of ancient Rome.
03/11/2021 Duration: 53minSarah Collard, NITV's political correspondent, has an update on Indigenous news and issues. Political philosopher Jeremy Moss explains why Australia's major carbon exporters have a moral responsibility to share the burden of climate transition. Archaeologist Tamara Lewit goes in search of the children largely missing from the history of ancient Rome.
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Bruce Shapiro on US politics and Lara Marlowe on Robert Fisk
02/11/2021 Duration: 53minBruce Shapiro on the latest court case out of Guantanamo and also Texas where a new law challenging the right to an abortion is heading to the Supreme Court. Lara Marlowe reminisces about her life as a foreign correspondent with Robert Fisk, a regular on Late Night Live who died last year.
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, Julian Assange's trial and Film Noir
01/11/2021 Duration: 53minLaura Tingle has the latest from Canberra, Rebecca Vincent reports from Julian Assange's extradition appeal and Eddie Mueller discusses the endurance of film noir.
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East meets West during the Ottoman Empire and in Sicily
28/10/2021 Duration: 53minMarc David Baer explains why the history of the Ottoman Empire should be considered part of European history and Jamie Mackay takes us through the many empires that left a mark on the island of Sicily
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Ian Dunt's Britain, Australia's growing Indian population and Cairo's much loved Diwan bookstores
27/10/2021 Duration: 53minIan Dunt sets the UK scene for COP26 starting on Sunday,and discusses the rising Covid hospitalisations. The burgeoning Indian Australian population could reshape ties between the two countries. And Nadia Wassef, one of the founders of the Diwan bookstores in Cairo, has written a book about these iconic cultural oases.
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Joe's woes, Iraq's upcoming election and the stately homes controversy
26/10/2021 Duration: 53minBruce Shapiro on President Joe Biden's struggle to get his climate policy in place before Glasgow, Rasha Al-Aqeedi on the upcoming Iraqi elections and Sam Knight on the dark side of Britain's stately homes.
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, a Syrian seed bank and letters to Robert Menzies
25/10/2021 Duration: 53minLaura Tingle has the latest from Canberra, Helen Sullivan discusses a Syrian seed bank and Martyn Lyons examines the thousands of letters written to Prime Minister Robert Menzies.
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Shashi Tharoor on Indian nationalism and Paul van Reyk on Australia's food history
21/10/2021 Duration: 53minShashi Tharoor on how post-colonial nationalism in India has been perverted under Prime Minister Modi and Paul van Reyk looks at what the history of food in Australia tells us about ourselves.
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Pacific update, Northern Territory water pressures, and insights into mysterious illnesses
20/10/2021 Duration: 52minThe realities of PNG's Covid situation in the provinces are emerging. Development plans in the NT are creating controversies over water. And UK writer Alice Hattrick has been examining mystery illness - an experience she knows well.
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Colin Powell's legacy, the sinking of the SIEV-X, recreating the woolly mammoth
19/10/2021 Duration: 53minBruce Shapiro looks back over the achievements of Colin Powell, Tony Kevin looks back at the sinking of the SIEV-X twenty years ago and Ross Barnett discusses the risks and rewards of bringing the woolly mammoth back to life.
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Laura Tingle's Canberra, farm succession and lost in Larrimah
18/10/2021 Duration: 53minLaura Tingle has the latest on Canberra politics, Lucie Newsome discusses why sons are favoured to inherit the family farm and journalists Caroline Graham and Kylie Stevenson examine the disappearance of a man from a tiny outback town.
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When Einstein meets Curie at the Solvay Conference and the complexity of ancient civilisations
14/10/2021 Duration: 53minWhat happened in 1911 when many brilliant minds of the era like Marie Cure and Albert Einstein meet at a conference in Brussels and what we can learn from ancient civilisations about how to live with nature.
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Ian Dunt's Britain, and Lech Blaine on Australian larrikins
13/10/2021 Duration: 53minThe UK's early response to Covid has been condemned, but life now under Covid is relatively 'normal'. Lech Blaine's Quarterly Essay looks at elites' misuse of the larrikin identity.
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Bruce Shapiro, update from Afghanistan and "Fat Leonard" sings
12/10/2021 Duration: 53minBruce Shapiro on the journalists who have won the Nobel Peace Prize, Andrew Quilty and Nadene Ghouri report on the latest from Afghanistan and Tom Wright tells the story of Leonard Francis, the scandalous US Navy contractor.
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Canberra politics, Glasgow talks and prosperity in the Gulags
11/10/2021 Duration: 53minAmy Remeikis on the latest from Canberra, Tim Buckley looks at the consequences of Australia not engaging at the COP26 meeting in Glasgow and Gerhard Toews examines the legacy of dissidents sent to Gulag camps.
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America's increasing inequality and polarisation with Evan Osnos and Alec MacGillis
07/10/2021 Duration: 53minEvan Osnos looks at three cities in America to investigate the increasing polarisation of the country that was already happening before President Trump inflamed the situation and Alec MacGillis talks about the huge influence Amazon has in increasing inequality in America and reducing quality of life.
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Indigenous update with Amy McQuire, asteroids past and future, and Victoria's convicts
06/10/2021 Duration: 53minWilcannia's covid disaster was featured on the front page of The Washington Post. Asteroids have had major impacts in the long ago past, and there will be more to come. More information is only now emerging about Victoria's convicts.
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Laura Tingle on the Berejiklian exit, Ben Noble on Alexei Navalny and Lisa Sullivan on Frederick McCubbin
05/10/2021 Duration: 53minLaura Tingle discusses the controversial resignation of Gladys Berejiklian, Ben Noble on the threat Alexei Navalny poses to Putin, and Lisa Sullivan previews the McCubbin exhibition at the Geelong Gallery in Victoria.
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Gillian Mears, novelist and euthanasia advocate
04/10/2021 Duration: 50minGillian Mears, in a program-length feature interview, is frank, funny and flirtatious as she discusses her life, family, work and facing death.
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Bernadette Brennan on her biography of Gillian Mears
30/09/2021 Duration: 53minBernadette Brennan discusses her biography of the brilliant but enigmatic author, Gillian Mears.