Late Night Live - Full Program Podcast

The Pacific Forum chair has made a direct jibe at Australia over climate change. Exxon is running a highly risky oil drilling project off the coast of Guyana. And in public health everything old is new again; preventative disease measures like social distancing and masks were used in medieval times.

Bruce Shapiro on the latest in US politics, James Chin on Malaysia's new Prime Minister and Grahame Webb on Australian crocodiles killing East Timorese fisherman.

Laura Tingle on the new geopolitics of Afghanistan, Quentin Beresford on the Murray Darling and Frank Westerman on finding humanity in pre-historic skulls.

Why is is the land locked country of San Marino joining the club of countries offering Flags of Convenience? And Emily Midorikawa introduces us to some 19th century spiritualists who used their fame to push progressive agendas in surprising ways.

There is anger and distress in Britain over Afghanistan and whether enough is being done to help those left behind. Carillo Gantner, arts patron and former cultural attache to the Beijing embassy, says arts and culture could reboot Australia's relationship with China. And the BBC's Zaria Gorvett has been looking into the very long walks of some British eccentrics in the 1800s.

Bruce Shapiro on the unravelling of Afghanistan, Jane Gleeson-White discusses how women are missing from economics and Mitzi Goldman warns of funding threats to documentaries.

Laura Tingle with the latest from Canberra, Bilal Sarwary on the Taliban's arrival in Kabul and Ian Lowe asks why nuclear energy and uranium mining are continuing in the current energy market.

Oliver Stone discusses his early life and career with Phillip Adams including the huge influence his father had on him in choosing his career as a storyteller and film maker.

COVID_19 has arrived at two NSW towns with large Aboriginal populations. There have been unprecedented anti-Government protests in Cuba. And Little Lonsdale Street - 'Little Lon' - was the setting for a thriving sex work trade in Melbourne in the 19th century.

Bruce Shapiro with the latest on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's sexual assault scandal, as law makers prepare to impeach. University of Sydney lecture Dr Aim Sinpeng discusses the role that COVID-19 and Facebook have had on ongoing unrest in Thailand. David Goldblatt recounts the origins of the Olympics, which are far darker than expected.

Laura Tingle with the latest on the disputes over vaccination, Heidi Nicholl on responding truthfully on religion in the census and Jo Willett on the innoculation pioneer, Lady Mary Montagu.

Dennis Altman debates the benefits of monarchies whilst remaining a republican and Patrick Nunn reveals that there may be some truth behind the myths of underwater worlds.

The British right attacked the main lifeboat charity, and got some major backlash. Australia's diplomacy on climate change has been fuelled by.. fossil fuels. And author Nicolas Rothwell on the role of mentors - particularly two different women - in his new novel.

Bruce Shapiro on the divisions among the Democrats, Manal al-Sharif explains why we should care about Pegasus and David Potter on why some disruptions manage to join the mainstream and others do not.

Laura Tingle has the latest from Canberra, The Economist correspondent John Hooper on a sensational Vatican trial and architect Mark Major on the light and dark of architecture.

The complicated history of humanity's relationship to fire with Stephen Pyne and Nick Horne and Ryan Cropp discuss the legacy of Donald Horne on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Fiji's escalating Covid crisis is being met with 'no jab, no job'. The far right in France has a new poster boy, Eric Zammour. And why the best way to improve something might be not to add, but to subtract.

Bruce Shapiro on the latest in US politics, political economist John Rapley on pandemics and empires and historian Nicholas Clements on First Nations leader Tongelongeter.

Laura Tingle with the latest from Canberra, Julian Cribb explains why we should be worried about chemical pollution and Alastair Leithead on living off the grid in Portugal.

The Dominic Cummings interview and why everyone's getting 'pinged'; the longtime secret Assange/Moris relationship, and his possible extradition; and did the ancestors of a German prince help Hitler take power?