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.

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
Mexico's formidable president
Apr 30, 2025 – 0:22:59
Why are the major parties dodging serious tax reform?
Apr 30, 2025 – 0:28:02
Australia's arts sector faces generational challenges
Apr 29, 2025 – 0:17:16
John Lyons' Bunker in Kyiv
Apr 29, 2025 – 0:20:53
Ian Dunt's UK: gender wars escalate and House of Lords reform stalls
Apr 29, 2025 – 0:14:11
History from the ballot box
Apr 28, 2025 – 0:15:03
1945: the bloody year that changed the world
Apr 28, 2025 – 0:22:36
Laura Tingle's Election: polls and culture wars in the final week
Apr 28, 2025 – 0:12:54
Whiskerology: the meaning of hair in colonial America
Apr 24, 2025 – 0:28:23
The Australians who fought Franco
Apr 24, 2025 – 0:24:38
Feisty Beatrice Faust
Apr 23, 2025 – 0:30:04
Elon Musk's DOGE raids United States Institute of Peace
Apr 23, 2025 – 0:22:03
Once revered, now reviled: how pigeons became 'pests'
Apr 22, 2025 – 0:18:33
Does NATO have a future?
Apr 22, 2025 – 0:19:23
Laura Tingle's Election 2025: the pope's death, and another leader's debate
Apr 22, 2025 – 0:13:01
Taiwan and its chips: the colourful history of this strategically important nation
Apr 21, 2025 – 0:54:05
Philippe Sands on war crimes and impunity - from Pinochet to now
Apr 17, 2025 – 0:54:04
The secret history of the rape kit
Apr 16, 2025 – 0:22:49
Disclosures: how much should our politicians tell us about their money?
Apr 16, 2025 – 0:28:40
The folklore of the Stawell Gift: Australia's oldest footrace
Apr 15, 2025 – 0:10:46
Yanis Varoufakis on Trump's shock plan for the global economy
Apr 15, 2025 – 0:23:05
Bruce Shapiro's America: Harvard will not 'yield' to Trump threats
Apr 15, 2025 – 0:16:25
The power of hand gestures
Apr 14, 2025 – 0:17:27
LGBTQI rights in Australian schools
Apr 14, 2025 – 0:17:31
Laura Tingle's Election 2025: hope for first homebuyers?
Apr 14, 2025 – 0:15:47
'Sorrow, grief, horror': Kate Grenville confronts her settler ancestry
Apr 10, 2025 – 0:54:04
From jihadist to statesman - can Syria's new leader unite the country?
Apr 9, 2025 – 0:23:04
Last dance at the tallyboard: ABC election analyst Antony Green calls time on a legendary career
Apr 9, 2025 – 0:29:00
Why has the theatre interval gone out of style?
Apr 8, 2025 – 0:11:53
How is the Gaza war playing out in Israel?
Apr 8, 2025 – 0:19:37
Bruce Shapiro's Trumpland: who's getting rich from Trump's tariffs?
Apr 8, 2025 – 0:19:22
Tariffs are as old as the Roman Empire
Apr 7, 2025 – 0:19:16
Should the UK review its relationship with the US as well as AUKUS?
Apr 7, 2025 – 0:17:14
Laura Tingle's Election 2025: blunders and backtracks
Apr 7, 2025 – 0:15:43
Peter Rose departs the Australian Book Review after 24 years
Apr 3, 2025 – 0:26:14
Did John Howard approve the 1998 war on the waterfront?
Apr 3, 2025 – 0:25:36
The bliss and the perils of ignorance
Apr 2, 2025 – 0:24:27
How First Nations resisted colonisation in the River Country
Apr 2, 2025 – 0:26:10
Australia's rabbit invasion
Apr 1, 2025 – 0:21:34
Does Peter Dutton's gas policy stack up?
Apr 1, 2025 – 0:21:56
Ian Dunt's UK: why did London police arrest activists in a Quaker meeting house?
Apr 1, 2025 – 0:11:53
Laura Tingle's Election 2025: Dutton falls behind
Mar 31, 2025 – 0:09:54
Defining antisemitism on university campuses
Mar 31, 2025 – 0:41:45
Calls for law reform after High Court ruling that Catholic Church is not 'vicariously liable' for abuse
Mar 27, 2025 – 0:23:03
Reckoning with the West
Mar 27, 2025 – 0:29:21
Lost in the jungle
Mar 26, 2025 – 0:26:16
Perpetrators of sexual violence are getting younger
Mar 26, 2025 – 0:25:11
Crime in extreme places: from Antarctica to space
Mar 25, 2025 – 0:20:53

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….