Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast
Episodes
David Runciman thinks children should have the right to vote
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Political philosopher David Runciman sits down with David Marr to discuss why democracy is in such a state of disrepair, and the scintillating idea h...
Land power: who has it, who doesn't, and how it will shape our future
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past two centuries, nearly every society has reallocated land ownership and property rights. If humanity is to flourish over the next centur...
How the US got so divided
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An anthropologist set out to talk to his fellow Americans, to try and understand why so many fear people who are different to them. Guest: Anand Pand...
What is China's agenda in Myanmar?
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s just over two months since an earthquake hit Myanmar, where more than three thousand people died. Just after the earthquake, the country's Mil...
PIE: the world's most important language
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The English language, and Sanskrit, have some elements in common. So do Hindustani and Spanish. And Russian and Greek. They all, it is now becomin...
Haiti hires ex-Blackwater CEO Erik Prince to deal with armed gangs
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Authorities are so concerned about gang violence in Haiti, they’ve hired Erik Prince, a private military contractor who founded Blackwater, the co...
Bodypedia: who named the parts of our anatomy?
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The human body is made up of thousands of intricate components - each with their own medical name. But who are the people behind these names? For the...
Water is the new battlefront for India and Pakistan
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Water and the rivers that carry it are becoming increasingly prized. Our warming planet, increased droughts and burgeoning populations make control ...
Ian Dunt's UK: Britain boosts defence spending
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Britain will increase its defence spending from 2.3% of GDP per annum to 2.7% by 2027, but is all the talk of "war-readiness" proportionate at this m...
Have food critics become too nice?
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Food criticism has changed a lot since John Lethlean wrote for publications like The Age and The Australian. Over a 25 year career, John chronicled A...
The rise and rise of the comfort class in the US
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Right now, there are 902 billionaires in the US and almost half of the representatives in Congress are millionaires. Described as ‘ the comfort cla...
Bernard Keane's Canberra: Albanese dismisses US call to up defence spending
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth calls on Australia to significantly increase its military spending, journalist Bernard Keane asks if the US rema...
Merle Oberon's false identity
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hollywood actress Merle Oberon was born in poverty in India. To make it in the movies, first in London and then Hollywood, she had to invent a new li...
National security - how it started and how it's changed
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It was Franklin Roosevelt who came up with the notion of national security, to persuade Americans to get involved in World War ll. His pitch was that...
The engineer who derailed Tenerife’s port plans to save an undersea paradise
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2016, Spanish civil engineer and avid scuba diver, Carlos Mallo Molina quit his job to protest the plans for a huge recreational boat and ferry te...
Abalone cultural heritage acknowledged in Tasmania
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
100 words plus Guests name & book
Feasting Like a Roman: The tastes of the ancient elite
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of the world's oldest surviving cookbooks is a collection of recipes from ancient Rome called De Re Coquinaria (“On the Topic of Cooking”). W...
The money behind the Enhanced Games - an "Olympics on steroids"
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In May 2026, a resort in Las Vegas will host the inaugural Enhanced Games, where athletes will be free to use performance enhancing drugs. The contro...
Bruce Shapiro's America: Trump's deportations campaign
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump administration wants to send a group of migrants to war torn South Sudan. Some say it's to instil fear into would-be US immigrants. Guest: ...
Late Night Live farewells Laura Tingle
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After 30 years of appearances on Late Night Live - spanning nine Australian Prime Ministers - Laura Tingle bids farewell to LNL as its political corr...
Hunting and gathering wild food in New Zealand
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Terressa Kollat is a New Zealand hunter, diver, fisher and gatherer of wild food, with many millions of views on Tik Tok. She grew up looking after l...
Possible Burrup gas extension and the rock art that might be at risk
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
May 31 is the due date for a Federal Government decision on granting another 40 years to Woodside's controversial Northwest Shelf gas operations on t...
How can societal collapses of the past guide us in these uncertain times
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're living in unusual times, with political history being made every week, the seemingly imminent collapse of a certain global super power and seri...