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Laura Tingle's Canberra, Trump and Netanyahu discuss the West Bank, and Australia's love of cinema

Peter Dutton's political point-scoring on national security and antisemitism. Will Benjamin Netanyahu get what he wants from the second phase of the ceasefire deal. And cinema indoors and out - Australia has a longstanding cinema tradition.

Published: 14h agoMon 3 Feb 2025 at 11:00amwith David Marr

Illustrations of a koala, lighthouse, books and a radio on a blue background.

Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

Laura Tingle's Canberra: Opposition hammers "weakness" message

Artistic image of man in suit and black framed spectacles, looking at camera

Duration: 16 minutes 4 seconds

What do Netanyahu and Trump have planned for the West Bank and Gaza?

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Duration: 21 minutes 10 seconds

Australia's love of cinema, indoors and outdoors

colourful striped deck chairs with raw wooden walls and rafters

Duration: 16 minutes 17 seconds

America's history of expelling migrants, and factchecking in a "post-truth" world

US President Donald Trump’s threatened deportation of up to twenty million immigrants brings back tough memories for Japanese Americans who were deported in World War Two. Plus the New Yorker's head fact checker, Fergus McIntosh.

Published: ThuThu 30 Jan 2025 at 11:00amwith David Marr

Duration: 54 minutes 4 seconds

Vancouver's fentanyl epidemic plus the lost languages of Tibet

Vancouver decriminalised possession of small quantities of drugs for personal use in 2023. Then drug deaths sky-rocketed. So did the experiment fail, or were there other factors at play?

Published: WedWed 29 Jan 2025 at 11:00amwith David Marr

Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

Elon Musk and Nigel Farage fall out, plus can Trump really buy Greenland?

Ian Dunt on the fall-out between Nigel Farage and Elon Musk. Plus what Greenlanders think of Trump's push to the buy the icy island.

Published: 28 Jan 2025Tue 28 Jan 2025 at 11:00amwith David Marr

Duration: 54 minutes 19 seconds

Australia by numbers, and a history of the beach shack

As the Australia Day weekend comes to a close, leading social researchers Rebecca Huntley and Anthea Hancocks break down what the latest data says about who we are as a nation in 2025.

Published: 27 Jan 2025Mon 27 Jan 2025 at 11:00amwith David Marr

Duration: 54 minutes 4 seconds

When child soldiers grow up and April Ashley - glamour model and trans pioneer

What happens when child soldiers grow up and have children of their own? A new inter-generational study looks at the former child soldiers of Sierra Leone. Plus when a glamorous life is revealed to be a lie.

Published: 23 Jan 2025Thu 23 Jan 2025 at 11:00amwith David Marr

Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

Peter Beinart on being Jewish after the destruction of Gaza, and Coca-Cola's power in China

While anti-Semitic attacks in Australia and America appear to be on the rise, Jewish journalism professor and author Peter Beinart argues that Israel's actions in Gaza and the West Bank have made Jews around the world a target.

Published: 22 Jan 2025Wed 22 Jan 2025 at 11:00amwith David Marr

Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

Bruce Shapiro on Trump's America Mark ll and a journalist returns to Syria

Regular US commentator Bruce Shapiro in an extended segment to talk inauguration and more. And journalist Dima Khatib was on the first commercial flight back into her home city of Damascus, after the fall of the Assad regime.

Published: 21 Jan 2025Tue 21 Jan 2025 at 11:00amwith David Marr

Illustrations of a koala, lighthouse, books and a radio on a blue background.

Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

Laura Tingle's Canberra, a fishy deal and eucalypts taking over the world

Laura Tingle looks at how the major parties spent their summer as the shadow election campaign takes off. A landmark agreement for workers on Pacific fishing boats.

Published: 20 Jan 2025Mon 20 Jan 2025 at 11:00amwith David Marr

Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

LNL Summer: Stephen Fry on life, last words and the things he can't do

Stephen Fry reflects on the power of story-telling, how to counter impostor syndrome and the things he absolutely can’t do. Guest: Stephen Fry Originally broadcast: 28 October 2024

Published: 16 Jan 2025Thu 16 Jan 2025 at 11:00amwith David Marr

Duration: 54 minutes 5 seconds

Feature articles

How a fish once associated with the poor reached the 'very heights of gastronomic greatness'

How this little fish was once central to the cuisine in the Roman Empire.

canned anchovy fillets and slices of baguette on wooden kitchen table.

Published: 2 Jan 2025Thu 2 Jan 2025 at 8:00pmby Sophie Kesteven

A century ago, these Australian women 'pursued adventure' in America

In a time when few Australian women travelled or lived overseas, this group ventured into the unknown.

A 1920s black and white photo of a well-dressed woman on a couch.

Published: 10 Dec 2024Tue 10 Dec 2024 at 8:00pmby Nick Baker and Ann Arnold

Absinthe was once banned around the world and the reasons behind this are murky

Absinthe was once banned in some countries. It's back on shelves, but still courting controversy.

A smiling woman dressed as a green fairy, complete with green wings

Published: 4 Dec 2024Wed 4 Dec 2024 at 8:00pmby Nick Baker and Sarah Allely

'Fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes': How LSD was discovered and where it all went wrong

LSD is a relatively new drug, compared to many others. And its history has been influenced by some unlikely groups.

A photograph of Adolf Hitler against a colourful background

Published: 31 Oct 2024Thu 31 Oct 2024 at 10:43pmby Nick Baker and Jack Schmidt

In Bed With Phillip

Phillip Adams has presented Late Night Live on RN since 1991. To thank our listeners, the LNL team have revisited the ten thousand interviews in our vault, and picked out the very best.

Published: 5 Jun 2014Thu 5 Jun 2014 at 5:31am

Phillip Adams: 30 years of Close Encounters

Playwright Arthur Miller on Death of a Salesman and other triumphs

One of the most prolific voices of the 20th Century is that of essayist and playwright, Arthur Miller. In 1949, Death of a Salesman, probably Miller's best-known play (and the one he says he likes the most), premiered and won the Pulitzer Prize.

Arthur Miller

Duration: 28 minutes 23 seconds

Published: 15 Jul 2024Mon 15 Jul 2024 at 3:42amwith Phillip Adams

Gillian Armstrong's path to success

One of Australia’s most successful and revered filmmakers, Gillian Armstrong is a multiple award winning director, and her most successful films include “My Brilliant Career”, “Little Women”, “Oscar and Lucinda”, and “Charlotte Grey” among many more.

Gillian Armstrong photo

Duration: 53 minutes

Published: 29 May 2024Wed 29 May 2024 at 11:57pmwith Phillip Adams

The greatest speeches never heard

For every speech that is delivered, there exists an undelivered opposite. Jeff Nussbaum discusses the speeches the world never got to hear, and why.

B&W John F Kennedy behind a desk surrounded by television cameras

Duration: 31 minutes

Published: 10 Jun 2024Mon 10 Jun 2024 at 6:32amwith Phillip Adams

How the modern dog was invented

Designer dogs are all the rage today, but the modern way of ordering and breeding dogs is an English invention which started in 1860.

drawing of an early dalmatian dog covered in spots

Duration: 18 minutes

Published: 24 Jun 2024Mon 24 Jun 2024 at 7:00amwith Phillip Adams

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