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Thursday 22 December 2011 Amos Oz, and the consciousness of the secular state. (20 years of Phillip Adams) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday 21 December 2011 The life and career of Alex Mitchell, and the Paris wife of Ernest Hemingway. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-12-20 Late Night Live Summer - Medical experiments How relevant are clinical trials for new drugs, conducted in less developed countries, to Americans? Donald Barlett and James B. Steele write that this practice is the next big step in globalisation. Late Night Live Summer - The Emperor of all Maladies When one of Siddhartha Mukherjee's cancer patients told him that she was willing to keep on fighting if only she knew what it was she was battling, it was an embarrassing moment for him because h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 19/12/2011 Phillip Adams last interview with Christopher Hitchens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday 16 December 2011 Phillip's first face-to-face interview with LNL regular correspondent Bruce Shapiro. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 15/12/2011 Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States, and post-mortem photography of deceased family members during the late 19th and early 20th century. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 14/12/2011 The inquisition in Mexico and swallowing and the father of endoscopy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday 13 December 2011 The Holocaust in Eastern Europe and the collapse of bee colonies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday 12 December 2011 George Friedman, author of The Next Decade, Dimitri Shostakovich's string quartets, and Ira Glass, creator and presenter of This American Life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 9 Decamber 2011 Classic LNL from 1996 with writers E. Annie Proulx and Sue Woolfe Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday 8 December 2011 Qatar University's majority female student population and Charles Dickens' 200th birthday Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday 7 December 2011 Indian Ocean politics and security, Nigeria and mining, the biography of Boris Johnson Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 6 Decamber 2011 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday 05 December 2011 Discussions on the future of journalism and how the Renaissance began. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday 02 December 2011 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday 01 December 2011 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wednesday 30 November 2011 A distinctly Russia theme tonight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Apology for duplicate podcasts We have just upgraded to a new website, and the move has caused some podcast subscribers to download duplicate mp3s. We apologise for this issue and hope you continue to listen to Radio National podcasts in the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesday 29 November 2011 List brief line about each segment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monday 28 November 2011 In this episode we talk federal politics with Laura Tingle, the IKEA phenomenon and a new film called Decadence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-11-25 CLASSIC LNL: My Brother's Eyes The Zion Full Salvation Ministry operated on the lower North Shore and the Northern Beaches areas of Sydney. For sixteen years, David Ayliffe was a senior member of this destructive cult, run by Violet Pryor. David and his brother, John tell the story of Violet Pryor and her ministry, of losing each other and redeeming their relationship, culminating in the writing of their book, 'My Brother's Eyes'. Originally broadcast on 24/9/2009. CLASSIC LNL: Norman ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-11-24 Egypt update Protests in Tahrir Square have become increasingly violent as Egyptian riot police continue to shoot tear gas at demonstrators who are demanding Egypt´s military council surrender power and be replaced by a council of elders. The Walsh Street murders revisited On the 12th of October 1988 two young policemen were ambushed in a suburban street in South Yarra in Melbourne. They´d stopped to investigate what looked like an abandoned stolen car parked in the middle of the road a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-11-23 Tibet's burning martyrs They are being called `the burning martyrs´. It's been reported that at least eleven Tibetan monks, nuns and former monks have set themselves on fire since March in a desperate protest against the persecution of Tibetans under Chinese rule. But exactly what policies are the Tibetans protesting against? And will human rights agencies and international governments intervene? Phillip Adams speaks to foreign correspondent Paul Mooney in China to find out exactly why ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-11-22 Bruce Shapiro Yesterday was the deadline for the joint Republican-Democrat Congressional committee charged with crafting a deficit plan. They didn't even get past first base. Burma: change is in the air Burma could be a country that is slowly but surely emerging from a long period of repression. In the past seven days there have been a string of encouraging developments. These included the registration of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party as a political party, the anno ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-11-21 Canberra Babylon with Laura Tingle Laura provides an update from the political capital, including today's debate on Afghanistan and whether or not the Government may come in with a budget surplus after all. Teaching the Humanities Educating the Nation: The Humanities in the New Australian Curriculum was the topic of the 42nd Annual symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. President of the academy, Joe Lo Biano discusses some of the issues that came out of that symposium held ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-11-18 CLASSIC LNL: Peter Pan Peter Pan, written 100 years ago by J.M. Barrie, is a tale that has captured the imagination of generations of children, and with the release in 2003 of the latest Hollywood film version, Peter Pan is guaranteed to remain with us for some time to come. There is, however, another story to be told - a story that is as fascinating and as strange as Peter Pan itself - the story of J.M. Barrie. Originally broadcast on 10/2/2004. CLASSIC LNL: Body Culture Considered by ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-11-17 Canberra Babylon In less than a month, Prime Minister Gillard has hosted the Queen, President Obama and numerous foreign dignitaries on our shores. Christian Kerr discusses Gillard´s role on the international stage. Women of Juarez The Mexican city of Juarez sits nestled on the US/Mexico border and holds claim to one of the highest murder rates in the world, including more than 100 young women whose random murders can't be explained or solved. These murders are commonly known as 'femicid ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-11-16 Israel's future Israel is right in the thick of the momentous changes happening in the Arab world, and it is very anxious about Iran´s nuclear weapon intentions. But internally it is also damaging its own society, according to David Landau, a prominent Israeli political commentator and author. Extremism and madness As Anders Breivik, the man who confessed to the massacre of 77 people in Norway, makes his first public court appearance, we discuss why madness is used as a way of not unders ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-11-15 Bruce Shapiro Bruce looks at two big stories this week - NYPD has moved into Zuccotti Park to clear Occupy Wall Street. There have been about 100 arrests but not many reports of violence beyond an overwhelming police presence. Meanwhile the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to President Obama's health care law. It is shaping up as a once-in-a-generation blockbuster case in legal, policy and political terms. Europe in crisis Crisis, catastrophe, contagion .... these are all words ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-11-14 Obama in Australia As US President Barack Obama heads to Australia, we will revisit the 1979 classic, `The frightened country´, in which diplomat, Alan Renouf, argued that Australia exhibited a strong penchant for seeking out a `great and powerful friend´ to compensate for its perceived strategic insecurities. Journalists Peter Hartcher and Greg Sheridan will discuss if our position in the region has now changed. The Siege of Leningrad The siege of Leningrad lasted over 900 days and wa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-11-11 CLASSIC LNL: Climate Change and Human Security Until a few years ago the issue of the effects of climate change on human security was barely being discussed. Nowadays it's being seen by some as far more important than terrorism in terms of the impact on human life. Originally broadcast on 21/2/07. CLASSIC LNL: Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars From 1945 until his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin paid special attention to the disputes and debates going on in the scientific community, weighin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-11-10 Robert Jay Lifton - Witness to an Extreme Century Robert Jay Lifton has devoted his entire career to understanding the traumatic aftermath of extreme events. As a pioneer of psychohistory, the study of the interaction of individual psychology and ideological and historical forces, he was the first psychiatrist to interview US victims of Chinese thought control following WW2, the first American to interview Japanese victims of the Hiroshima bomb, as well as survivors of the Holocaust and nu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-11-09 Syria Uprising President, Bashar al-Assad, has warned that western action against Syria would result in another Afghanistan: "It is the faultline, and if you play with the ground, you will cause an earthquake because Syria sits at the heart of the volatile Middle East". What makes the riots in Syria different to the rest of the Arab Spring? Aboriginal art: the ongoing debates According to Ian McLean´s introductory chapter in How Aborigines invented the idea of contemporary art, the West ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-11-08 Bruce Shapiro Herman Cain, running for the Republican presidential nomination, has gone from being an attention-getting asset to the Republican race to an enormous liability in just a week, following further claims of sexual harassment. Bruce talks about this and also looks at another runner in the Republican campaign, Mitt Romney, and discusses how a guy who was a moderate governor of America's most liberal state will sell himself to red-meat conservatives? Death in Perugia Not many crime ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-11-07 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle predicts that Tuesday's Newspoll will be significant, and looks at the IR debate provoked by the Qantas and Victorian nurses' disputes. She also discusses the politics of the superannuation reforms, the Budget surplus forecast, and the carbon tax in the Senate. The Keynes Hayek debate The debate between economists John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek began eighty years ago, but continues to this day. Put simply, Keynes believed that when an economy is stuc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-11-04 CLASSIC LNL: Timor Leste: Maria do Ceu Lopes da Silva A conversation with Late Night Live's interpreter and guide in East Timor about her eventful life. The daughter of a dissident lawyer and journalist, Ceu grew up in East Timor, studied in Jakarta, raised a family in Australia, was an active member of the resistance (moving between Australia and East Timor) and co-founded the NGO Timor Aid. She speaks six languages and is currently writing a book of short stories on some of the unsung he ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-11-03 Death by Elegy Author Dick Gross has written about what he regards as the blockbuster of all elegies. It's called 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard´, and was written over 250 years ago in Britain by Thomas Gray, a man who was the sole surviving child of a family of twelve children, who grew up in a village where the burial ground was at the centre of village life, and where every death had meaning for the community as a whole. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-11-02 Noam Chomsky wins Sydney Peace Prize Noam Chomsky is the recipient of this year's Sydney Peace Prize. In this interview he talks about his childhood, his education and his passion of linguistics, science as well as American foreign and domestic politics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-11-01 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro reports on the police and local government backlash against Occupy protests in the US, beyond New York, in Oakland, Denver, Richmond and other places. He believes these protests are coming to an important decision point about its path forward. Bruce also talks about the Republican presidential field, particularly the status of Herman Cain who has faced serious questions about sexual harassment. BRIC universities The future success of the emerging economies - th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-10-31 Peter Hartcher on 'The Sweet Spot' Hartcher gives us the rundown on what's been happening in Canberra, and talks about his book on Australia's economic success. War stories There seems to be a growing appetite for stories of the two world wars, in particular. A new batch of war books has just been published, targetting a general readership which wants to better understand, and perhaps vicariously experience, the extremes of past conflicts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-10-28 CLASSIC LNL: The Mormons A discussion about the history of the Mormons in both America and Australia, including a look at some of the current issues affecting the Mormons. Originally broadcast in December 1997. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-10-27 Eurozone latest European leaders today have settled on a plan that they believe will ease the continent´s debt crisis. Satyajit Das explains the plan and analyses its workability. Life and Career of Alex Mitchell At the age of 14 Alex Mitchell took a Saturday job on the Townsville Daily Bulletin (known locally as the Townsville Bully) in the printing press room. It was here that he decided it was love, and a far from ordinary career in journalism began. He worked for a young Rupert Mur ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-10-26 George's love city Painter, photographer and filmmaker George Gittoes is often an eyewitness to the world's contact zones, visiting the battle and killing fields of Rwanda, Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. George has released three critically-acclaimed feature films covering the war on terror since 2004. His latest project is a five-part film series called Love City, and has been filmed entirely in the Pashto language. A case for nuclear power George Monbiot was nuclear-neutral until the d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-10-25 Bruce Shapiro Bruce discusses the racial profiling legislation introduced in the Senate recently. Racial profiling in the US has taken on new wrinkles because along with the traditional "driving while black" issues, there are massive law enforcement efforts targeting Latino immigrants on the one hand and surveillance of Middle Eastern Communities on the other. Uganda: Food, farming and women in Uganda Florence Apuri is a Ugandan activist who says that without land ownership and more supp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-10-24 Canberra Babylon: Laura Tingle Laura talks about how leaks from the cabinet room concerning discussions over the government's asylum-seeker policy have changed the relationship between the Prime Minister and the cabinet, for the better. Post colonial nationalism Following the death of Muammar Gaddafi, we look at how the Arab rebels of today should avoid the pitfalls of the old nationalist movements. Why Muriel Matters? On October 28th, 1908, an extraordinary event took place in the ladies ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-10-21 CLASSIC LNL: Does Politics Matter? The widespread discontent with the functioning of modern democracy is a theme LNL has returned to over this year. Political scientist Gerry Stoker believes that politics does matter but argues that we need to become more realistic about the nature of democracy and what it can achieve. Originally broadcast on 25/10/06. CLASSIC LNL: The Buddha of Boundless Light meets the Glaswegian In the eighteenth century the British were desperate to open trade rela ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-10-20 An Inconvenient Youth - Julius Malema A new book on Julius Malema, the president of the youth league of the African National Congress in South Africa, seeks to understand this controversial - but also very popular - leader. Author of the book Fiona Forde and South Africa analyst Bill Johnson discuss Malema - and the future of the ANC itself. The Murray Darling: Perceptions and Players Expatriate writer Kate Jennings, who grew up in the Coleambally Irrigation Area in the Riverina district o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-10-19 Smuggling out of Afghanistan Chromite and lumber smuggling are part of a large shadow political economy that is fuelling conflict and state disintegration in the tribal borderland between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The trading of goods across the border has always taken place, but with the increasing violence, smuggling syndicates on both sides of the line are able to make much of their income from this cross-border trade. Coco Chanel's Secret War In a controversial new book titled `Sleepi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-10-18 His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose A new book about Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose, written by his great-nephew historian Sugata Bose, tries to put to rest conflicting accounts of his life and to explain how a socialist leader could go to the Nazis in Germany and to Imperial Japan to seek support for his struggle for Indian independence. Butterflies When the naturalist Joseph Banks returned to England after his arduous 1770 voyage to New Holland with Captain James ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-10-17 Canberra Babylon with Christian Kerr Christian Kerr talks about leadership tensions within the Federal Labor government following cabinet leaks and a public reprimand by Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Religion and developmental aid Should religion and developmental aid be connected? We look at the role of faith-based organisations in providing assistance to those in need. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-10-14 CLASSIC LNL: Farmer suicides in India Farmers all around the world are committing suicide, and it is not uncommon in Australia. However, the suicide rate of farmers in India, both men and woman, who are so crushed by circumstances beyond their control, is increasing. P. Sainath has spent years covering the Indian countryside and he's been described as one of the world's greatest experts on famine and hunger. He discusses the ongoing situation for farmers, and the huge disparity betwee ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-10-13 Thomas Faunce Thomas Faunce discusses how nanotechnology has provided the key to the development of artificial photosynthesis, a process that could solve our future energy needs. Bryan Gaensler Bryan Gaensler talks about the importance of the language scientists use to communicate what they do, and about his spiritual beliefs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-10-12 Cities One of the popular themes at this year's Adelaide Festival of Ideas was Architecture, Planning and Urban Design. The issue of what to do with our urban environments to cater for increasing populations and the need to reduce our cities' carbon footprints is one that´s been talked about for years and will be discussed into the future. New Confucianism in China The teachings and philosophies of Confucius,the great Chinese sage, held sway across China for centuries, until Mao Zedong ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-10-11 Papua New Guinea politics Dame Carol Kidu discusses Papua New Guinea politics, the absence of women in government across the Pacific and her work on community development in PNG. Australian politics, past and present Amanda Vanstone reflects on her time as a member of the Australian Federal Parliament and discusses the state of politics in Australia today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-10-10 2011 Adelaide Festival of Ideas Opening Night: Uncertainty and Science Following Professor Penny Sackett's opening address at this year's Adelaide Festival of Ideas, she was joined by Professor Peter Doherty and Barbara Hardy in conversation with Phillip Adams, who questioned them on why we are so fearful of uncertainty, and how well or badly scientists convey the work they do to a lay audience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-10-07 CLASSIC LNL: Aboriginal lives: Wayne Bergmann The first in a series of conversations to mark 40 years since the 1967 referendum that effectively recognised Aboriginal people as citizens of Australia. Wayne Bergmann was born two years after the referendum - in 1969 - in the Kimberley region. He grew up with his grandparents, dropped out of school early and as a young adult he could hardly spell or write, but today he is an experienced lawyer and as Executive Director of the Kimberley Land ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-10-06 Bahrain developments As protests for reform continue in Bahrain, the government makes a concession in response to international pressure over its arrest of doctors who treated wounded demonstrators. But as more arrests are made of opponents of the regime, human rights activist Zainab al-Khawaja tells the program there is no real desire by the government for change. The story of Lashkar-e-Taiba A look at how the complex and powerful organisation, Lashkar-e-Taiba, rose to prominence with Pak ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-10-05 Afghanistan Afghanistan's President, Hamid Karzai spoke to Afghans in a televised address on Monday and announced that a traditional meeting of tribal elders from all over the country, known as a Loya Jirga, will be held to address the direction of Afghanistan´s peace efforts. Who will be involved in this meeting and should Hamid Karzai continue negotiations with the Taliban? Why the hunter-gatherer holds the key to our survival Pandora´s Seed: Why The Hunter-Gatherer Holds the Key to O ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-10-04 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses the protests in New York against Wall Street and corporate greed as it enters its 18th day. Australian poetry since 1788 The English poet Philip Larkin said a pleasure-seeking audience is the only audience for poetry worth having. The co-editors of a new anthology of Australian poems used this as their guiding principal in their selection, which is contained within 1086 pages. They cover the time span of Australian poetry from before settlement with Ab ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-10-03 Death and the US Civil War The death toll for the American Civil War still overshadows any other war in which Americans have participated. Eminent civil war historian Drew Gilpin Faust argues that the real impact of this death toll extended far beyond the numbers of dead, and profoundly changed America in many ways. Originally broadcast on 10/2/2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-09-30 CLASSIC LNL: Jane Goodall In this conversation, first broadcast in 1997, Jane Goodall talks about her 40 years of work with chimpanzees in Tanzania, and the relationship between chimpanzee behaviour and human behaviour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-09-29 Hitler's Hangman One of the most dangerous men in Nazi Germany, Reinhard Heydrich, was described as the "soul of the Nazi terror machinery" and his aim was to become `Hitler´s successor´. While Heydrich was a key figure for both the Holocaust and the bloody re-ordering of ethnicities in East-Central Europe, he was also an accomplished musician who was very fond of all major German romantic composers and often wept while listening or playing a Mozart sonata. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-09-28 Constitutional Recognition for Indigenous Australians in December last year the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard appointed a panel of Indigenous and community leaders, as well as constitutional experts and members of parliament to consult widely with the Australian people to get their opinions on changing the constitution to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. So far over 80 consultations have been held across Australia and public submissions close on Friday. Then the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-09-27 The Dalai Lama's Succession plan The current Dalai Lama recently announced he'll make a decision when he is 'about 90' whether he should be reincarnated and will lay down plans on how to choose his successor. This hasn't gone down too well with China who has their own succession plans in place, which of course hasn't gone down too well with the current Dalai Lama. What does this all mean for Chinese - Tibetan relations? Rethinking asylum seeker policy Former Immigration Department head Joh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-09-26 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle discusses the speculation of an early federal election and the mounting campaign against the Government´s pokie legislation. Slavoj Zizek Slavoj Zizek has been described as more a phenomenon than a philosopher. He packs auditoriums and lecture halls wherever he speaks and is one of Europe´s foremost Marxist theorists. He´s said to have an opinion on every subject from decaffeinated coffee to sex, from seagulls and swearing to the end of the world. China ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-09-23 Classic LNL: Francis Wheen Originally broadcast 24 November 2005. A wide ranging discussion with the British journalist and author Francis Wheen. Wheen's book is subtitled, 'A Short History of Modern Delusions', in which he challenges the rise in superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria over the past quarter of a century. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-09-22 Cash for Cans Controversy The controversy over the Northern Territory Government's decision to bring in a container deposit scheme, similar to that of South Australia´s, is attracting even more players. Coca Cola Amatil are launching a legal attack against the government in an attempt to prevent the scheme, meanwhile the Founder and Chair of Clean Up Australia is launching an awareness attack against Coca Cola Amatil. How-to guide for making a constitution This year, so far, we've witnes ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-09-21 William Chafe US historian William Chafe looks at the role of race and gender in the 2012 presidential election, and talks about his soon-to-be-released biography of the Clintons. A secret history of Australian poetry Over the last 20 years, David Brooks has been researching what he suspected to be a precedent for the Ern Malley Hoax. And he´s found it in 19th century French poetry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-09-20 Bruce Shapiro Indigenous Health Lisa Jackson Pulver is the first Indigenous person to be awarded a PhD in Medicine from the University of Sydney, and this year she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for service to medical education, particularly through the Muru Marri Indigenous Health Unit at the University of New South Wales and as a supporter of education opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people. Lisa founded the Shalom Gamarada Indigenous Scholarship Pr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-09-19 Canberra Babylon Christian Kerr discusses the Coalition's rejection of the Government's re-drafted Migration Act and the Tony Abbott´s tactics to split the Labor party. Miko Peled Miko Peled talks about how the state of Israel today is governed in a way that cannot be sustained and says that for the good of both Israel and Palestine, the Separation Wall must come down. Tropical Amsterdam `Tropical Amsterdam´, a documentary by film maker Alexa Schulz looks at the little known Dutch Burgh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-09-16 Classic LNL: The End of John Major? Originally broadcast 31 March 1994. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown discusses what British prime minister John Major was doing wrong, leading to his unpopularity. Classic LNL: Information Super Highways Originally broadcast 31 March 1994. A discussion on the public and corporate reaction to the promise and the possible dangers of an information superhighway, touted by super-geek Bill Gates. At this stage there was a lot of misunderstanding about what it would of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-09-15 A History of Ballet How did ballet evolve from a Royal courtly etiquette, a standard of physical comportment, performed by men in the French Court of Louis XIV, to an ethereal art form? Former ballet dancer, dance critic and academic Jennifer Homans has written an accomplished history of ballet's evolution over 400 years, revealing its importance as an expression of a way of life or a philosophy of life. Unfortunately she does not see a strong future for ballet. Originally broadcast on 24 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-09-14 The Age of Greed Was the rise of greed the root cause of the global economic meltdown of 2008? A historical look at what lead to the present crisis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-09-13 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses the latest news and current affairs in the US. Arnold Zable - Violin Lessons Arnold Zable speaks about his new book Violin Lessons, a collection of true stories which weaves the role of music into accounts of hardship and tragedy in several countries - including the extraordinary story of a woman who survived the sinking of the SIEV X, full of asylum seekers, as it was trying to reach Christmas Island in 2001. Ismay and the Titanic In her intriguing t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-09-12 Canberra Babylon: Laura Tingle Laura discusses the Labor Caucus's backing of offshore processing of asylum seekers coming by boat to Australia. Professor Minik Rosing Visiting geologist Minik Rosing gives insights into the impacts of climate change in Greenland and tells how Denmark has worked to reduce its dependence on carbon-based energy. Israeli Archaeology The Land of Israel is where civilisations rose and fell and where religions were founded. It's also a valuable source for archaeo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-09-09 CLASSIC LNL: USA Update: Bruce Shapiro This week, Bruce Shapiro discusses the role fear is going to play in this year's U.S. Presidential Race. Originally broadcast on 21/7/2004. CLASSIC LNL: Khrushchev: The Man and His Era Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev led the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964. William Taubman received the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for his biography. Originally broadcast on 21/7/2004. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-09-08 PNG after Somare Papua New Guinea is at a critical crossroads as founding father Sir Michael Somare's era comes to an end. What does the future hold for the country and how is the next generation of politicians going to deal with its multiple problems? Richard Flanagan: politics and power Novelist, film-maker and essayist Richard Flanagan's latest book is a collection of essays and journalism. Many of the pieces explore notions of politics and power, through the arts, and through environm ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-09-07 Columbia´s Santos Colombia has often been used as a role model for the way the US is dealing with countries like Afghanistan and Mexico. But journalist Jeremy McDermott thinks this idea that Columbia has experienced a complete turnaround needs to be debunked. There are enormous challenges ahead for President Juan Manuel Santos as he celebrates his first year in office. `Nine-eleven-itis´ Shakira Hussein, in her Griffith Review essay titled "Crossing the borders of belonging" reminisces ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-09-06 Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce reflected on 9/11 - ten years on. What next for the Labor leadership? Leadership speculation within the Labor party is intensifying following the High Court rebuff to the Malaysian solution and the latest Newspoll in which Kevin Rudd surged ahead of Julia Gillard as preferred Labor leader. Midnight in Peking On 8 January 1937 in Peking, the body of a nineteen-year-old schoolgirl called Pamela Werner was found near what was known as the Fox tower, a superstiti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-09-05 Canberra Babylon: Christian Kerr Christian Kerr talks about the air of incompetence hanging around the government, following last week's High Court decision on the proposed Malaysian solution. 'Bad News': Quarterly Essay The Australian newspaper is ruthless in its pursuit of those who oppose its worldview. It is driven by contempt for its rivals. And it is Australia´s most important newspaper. So argues Robert Manne in the latest Quarterly Essay, called 'Bad News'. China update: censorsh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-09-02 CLASSIC LNL: Cultural Appropriation Originally broadcast 17 May 1994. In the Australian film industry in particular, is it racist for white Australians to represent Indigenous culture, however well intentioned? Should only Indigenous producers represent Indigenous culture in film and the arts? A public forum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-09-01 Libya after Gadaffi As Libya faces a major power crisis, and the National Transitional Council tries to make a transition from rebels to rulers, we discuss how most Libyans like to refer to their tribal connections rather than their Libyan-ness´..... and these divisions along regional lines and also between secularists and Islamists will be the biggest challenge for a post-Gaddafi regime. What's happening to Egypt's Revolution? Mona Eltahawy believes that the Egyptian uprising is not real ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-08-31 The Future of the ABC Recent cuts to internally produced ABC-TV programs have sparked debate about the role of the public broadcaster, and a Senate committee enquiry. Former chairman Donald McDonald says the ABC has a problem with the quality of some of its programs, and the Friends of the ABC say the national broadcaster is being turned into nothing more than a conduit for funnelling taxpayer funds to the private sector. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-08-30 Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce discussed two things: the first was Hurricane Irene, which hit New England quite badly; and his interview with Dan Malloy, Governor of Connecticut, where they discussed the economy and jobs and how to be a progressive Democrat at a time like this. Woman of the Wall While Israeli activist, Anat Hoffman, will discuss how the Arab Spring is influencing the social protest movement sweeping Israel, she will also talk about how in a city where women are traditional ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-08-29 Canberra Babylon - Laura Tingle Laura Tingle discusses an article in today's Australian newspaper, written by Glenn Milne implicating Julia Gillard in union fraud. An apology was posted on the Australian's website. Bernie Madoff Until his arrest in New York City in December 2008, most of us had never heard of Bernie Madoff, the operator of the largest Ponzi scheme in history. His losses and fabricated gains added up to a staggering $65 billion dollars and for his trouble he´s now servin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-08-26 CLASSIC LNL: The Sisters A discussion with three sisters from the Mary MacKillop Institute of East Timorese Studies at St. Mary´s in Sydney, Sister Josephine Mitchell, Sister Kathleen O´Connor and Sister Susan Connelly. Originally broadcast 12/4/2004. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-08-25 We'll leave it there: Jay Rosen on political journalism If journalism kept up with Jay Rosen's ideas, it would be continually re-inventing itself. One of the best-known proponents of 'citizen journalism', Rosen's current pre-occupation is with political journalism. He is speaking in five different sessions at the Melbourne Writers Festival. Henri Cartier-Bresson in Brisbane He was described as the eye of the century when he died aged 95 in 2004. Now a major exhibition of 250 of Henri Car ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-08-24 The 'new Gandhi' of India? A 74-year-old frail man, Anna Hazare, has gone on a hunger-strike to fight corruption in India. More than 10,000 people have rallied to his cause and are calling him `the new Gandhi´ of India? Psychoanalysis and culture In this discussion Claudio Eizirik talks about psychoanalysis and the process or ageing and its social and emotional expressions; and the relationship between psychoanalysis and culture. Changing China Two Sydney-based scholars are asking us t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-08-23 Bruce Shapiro Bruce this week acknowledged his failure, last week, to mention that Ron Paul finished second in the Iowa Straw Poll and discussed the fall of the Gaddafi regime in Libya. Tottenham aftermath When MP David Lammy received a phone call from the Tottenham police to say that Mark Duggan had been shot .... by the police .... he immediately rushed home from holidays knowing that the incident would cause tension at the very least. Well, there was that and a whole lot more, and the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-08-22 Canberra Babylon - Christian Kerr As the 'convoy of no confidence' by hundreds of truckies takes place in Canberra and the manufacturing sector continues to struggle, Christian Kerr looks at a government that hangs on a knife edge. Libya after Gaddafi As rebel forces surround Libyan leader Colonel Moamar Gaddafi´s compound we look at how the rebels will run the country in a 'new Libyan era'. Islam, multiculturalism, and contemporary dance theatre Maryam Namazie is an Iranian-born human r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-08-19 CLASSIC LNL: Bea Campbell The unmasking of a British mole inside the IRA. First Broadcast on 19 May 2003. CLASSIC LNL: Western Sahara First broadcast on 19 May 2003. The people of Western Sahara were celebrating 30 years since the armed struggle for independence began, first against the Spanish, then the Mauritanians, now the Moroccans. CLASSIC LNL: The Fall of Berlin First broadcast on 19 May 2003. Historian Anthony Beevor discusses his book Berlin: The Dowfall, 1945. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-08-18 Phillip Adams' Travels in China - tour of Peace Hotel, Shanghai Historian Jenny Laing-Peach takes Phillip on a guided tour of Sir Victor Sassoon's 1929 art-deco masterpiece The Peace Hotel, located on what used to be called The Wall Street of the East - the Bund, Shanghai. It has recently been reopened after extensive refurbishment. Phillip Adams' Travels in China - artist Guo Jian Before China opened its doors to the rest of the world, Beijing artist Guo Jian wanted to mix with like minde ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-08-17 The American Crucible Robin Blackburn, one of the world's foremost authorities on slavery, argues in his new book that the slave plantation, more than any other institution, underpinned the extraordinary expansion of western power. The Great Disruption According to Paul Gilding, former CEO of Greenpeace International, there will be a global economic crash in 2018. But the global population will mobilise. There will be a herculean effort, the likes of which have not been seen since World Wa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-08-16 Bruce Shapiro This week, Bruce reviews the results of the Iowa straw poll. Roger Pulvers Roger Pulvers gives us an update on how the Japanese are coping with life, four months after being hit by a massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown. History of rioting in Britain Donald Thomas talks about criminality in Britain, boing back to the eighteenth century and puts the recent London riots into a historical context. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-08-15 A second Global Financial meltdown? The president of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick says the global economy has moved into a "new and more dangerous phase". The London-based Centre for Economics and Business Research says that "realistically, Italy is bound to default" on its sovereign debt. What would that mean for the world economy, and for Australia? The House of Saud and 9/11 A decade after the 9/11 attacks, authors Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan discuss 'The Special Relationship´ b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-08-12 CLASSIC LNL: David Marr on refugees, asylum seekers and the 2001 federal election David Marr discusses Dark Victory, the book he co-authored with journalist Marian Wilkinson about the Children Overboard case. CLASSIC LNL: Mary Magdalene: The First Apostle The story of one of the most loved of all Christian saints. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-08-11 A Conversation with Pierre Ryckmans Pierre Ryckmans is an internationally renowned scholar, sinologist, essayist, literary critic, calligrapher and, as Phillip discovered when he visited his home in Canberra recently, an accomplished painter. Born in Belgium, Pierre Ryckmans studied Chinese in Taiwan and Hong Kong before working as a diplomat in China and finally moving to Canberra in 1970. He´s written many penetrating books on the impact of Maoism in China and has translated the Analect ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-08-10 Ethics Classes in Public Schools Professor Peter Vardy from Heythrop College at London University is a regular visitor to Australia and a passionate promoter of the importance of ethics is the school curriculum. He's incensed by Rev Fred Nile's opposition to ethics classes in NSW public schools and his argument that "situation ethics" were responsible for 20th century totalitarianism. The future of news In his special report for The Economist on the future of news, Tom Standage writes abou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-08-09 Bruce Shapiro This week, the USA's credit rating downgrade by Standard and Poor's and the challenge it poses for President Obama. And a new emerging Republican presidential candidate - Governor Rick Perry of Texas. London riots In a press conference today British Prime Minister David Cameron described the three days of rioting in London and other major English cities as "criminality pure and simple". He says the police presence on the streets will be increased to 16,000 and that parliament ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-08-08 Canberra Babylon - Laura Tingle Laura Tingle has the latest political news from Canberra - including the fact that there has been "a deeply alarming outbreak of policy" in the national capital while Tony Abbott is away on a short holiday. Breaking the Sheep's Back Wool had been Australia´s major export earner for over a century when the industry created a reserve price scheme in the early 1970s. Its spectacular collapse in 1991 was the most costly failure of any commodity program in histo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-08-05 CLASSIC LNL: Postcard from Kuwait A look at what was going on inside Kuwait as President George W Bush made his final preparations for his invasion of Iraq. CLASSIC LNL: The Division of West Papua What's happening inside West Papua as the largely Christian independence movement continues its struggle 35 years after Indonesia took control. CLASSIC LNL: The Devil's Rope: A History of Barbed Wire A cultural history of barbed wire. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-08-04 Phillip Adams' Travels in China - Shanghai culture, history and architecture Dr Jonathan Hutt unravels the cultural, political and architectural history of Shanghai to explain the historical antagonism between Shanghai and Beijing which created the enigmatic city of Shanghai and also helped shape the China we know today. But where is it headed and how much of that unique Shanghai sophistication remains today? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-08-03 The High Court Challenge to School Chaplains Queensland parent Ron Williams is challenging the constitutional validity of the National School Chaplaincy Program, which now receives almost a billion dollars in federal government funding. The case will be heard next week. Poverty in the Philippines The anti-poverty movement in the Philippines, Gawad Kalinga, is recognised as Asia's leading model for building sustainable communities in some of the world's most impoverished regions. The organ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-08-02 Bruce Shapiro The latest on the last minute deal to get Congress to agree to raise the debt ceiling in the US. India's Hereditary Democracy As we've watched it grow in prominence over the last decade or so, India has been celebrated for the one thing China lacks - democracy. This key feature, argue most experts, gives India a long term political edge over China - because in an open society where ideas flourish, commerce will thrive, institutions will be robust, and the meritorious - rath ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-08-01 Canberra Babylon: Christian Kerr The latest from Canberra with our regular commentator Christian Kerr. 'Oxford Thinking' The Vice Chancellor of Oxford University, Professor Andrew Hamilton, on his global campaign to raise funds from the university's alumni. The Duke of Montagu Author Marcus Scriven on the latest scandal to hit the already scandal-ridden aristocratic Montagu family. Alex Montagu who has profound and enduring Australian links..... has just been exposed as a bigamist in the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-07-29 CLASSIC LNL: Peter Conrad Literature academic and critic Peter Conrad was the 2004 Boyer lecturer. In this interview, he discusses his childhood in Hobart, Australian culture and his next project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-07-28 Phillip Adams' Travels in China - Renmin University Students A wide ranging talk with six students from Renmin University give their personal reasons for going against the grain by choosing Australian studies instead of US studies and how they view the future in the 'New China'. Their lives vary greatly from that of their parents and so what are the opportunities and pitfalls ahead? Phillip Adams' Travels in China - Professor Zhang Yongxian How did a young man from Inner Mongolia become Di ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-07-27 The dispute over the town of Abyei A look at the small town of Abyei, once considered a historical bridge between North and South Sudan, now a bone of contention between the two countries. Eucalyptus - Mapping the Genome of the world´s favourite tree The genome of the world´s favourite tree - the eucalyptus has just been mapped. What does it mean for Australia? The Rose Two histories are intertwined in Jennifer Potter's lavishly illustrated book: the history of the rose as a cultural s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-07-26 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro has the latest from the United States - the debt ceiling crisis, and a UN Security Council debate on whether Palestine should become the world's next state. Precious Life "Precious Life" is a documentary about the struggle by one Palestinian mother and father from the Gaza strip to save their four-month-old son, Mohammad who was born without an immune system. They´d already lost two of their daughters to the same disease and only a bone marrow transplant in an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-07-25 Canberra Babylon with Laura Tingle Laura Tingle talks about the Gillard government's Tasmanian forestry deal, and the agreement with Malaysia over asylum seekers. Wilful Blindness Were the Murdochs "wilfully blind" to the practice of phone hacking at the News of the World? Europe´s next wave of terrorism The discussion looks at how Europe's next wave of terrorism will come, not from Al-Qaeda affliated groups, but from right-wing extremist groups that want to respond to Muslim fundamental ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-07-22 CLASSIC LNL: David Denby In 1991, David Denby re-enrolled at Columbia University to take the same courses he had when he first went there in 1961. At the time and in the recent preceeding years, the great books of the Western tradition had been the subject of much intellectual debate; from the generally academic left, one heard that Western classics empowered white males and disempowered everybody else because they did not represent African-Americans and women and other groups. From the r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-07-21 Phillip Adams' Travels in China - investing in culture In the past five years China's investment in the arts has resulted in the completion of 20 new, large scale opera houses and multi-purpose arts centres around the country. Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts is the largest and most expensive, costing 3.2 billion RMB or $US 500 million and it is by far the most impressive. Phillip Adams is taken on a personal backstage tour and interviews the Deputy Director of the NCPA. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-07-20 Murdochs' phone hacking scandal Regular commentator Bea Campbell with the latest on the phone hacking scandal. Mental Health and general practitioners Last week, Brisbane GP Dr Christine McAuliffe resigned from the federal government's Expert Advistory Committee on Mental Health, following a $405-million cut in the May budget to GP rebates for providing mental health services. She says the cuts put back the fight for mental health services by fifteen years. But is she right? Middle East ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-07-19 Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce discuss the ongoing U.S. debt crisis and News International's phone-hacking scandal that is beginning to morph into a genuine U.S. issue, thanks to an interesting Watergate-era law, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Marshall McLuhan All this week Radio National is celebrating the centenary of the birth of Canadian communications theorist, Marshall McLuhan. McLuhan scholar Paul Levinson talks about the man and his work. Singapore's Death Row Update When Brit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-07-18 Canberra Babylon with Christian Kerr Christian Kerr with the latest from Canberra. Murdoch's Watergate A discussion about 'the Murdochs moment of truth' as they face lawmakers at the parliamentary committee investigating phone hacking and corruption tomorrow. "Harnessed" - Mark Changizi Why should we humans have evolved to have produce things such as language, music and the arts as distinct from our cousins? Evolutionary biologist Mark Changizi believes the answer lies in the fact tha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-07-15 CLASSIC LNL: Charlie Chaplin A look at the life of one of film's most enduring figures, Charlie Chaplin. Our guest Jeffrey Vance has put together a photographic biography of Chaplin's life and work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-07-14 Phillip Adams' Travels in China - Future Political Directions As celebrations for the 90th anniversary of the Communist Party of China subside, internal debates continue over the need for further reform and jostling for next year's leadership change continues to be played out. How ready is the Communist Party for change? Phillip Adams' Travels in China - Beauty & Fashion Once upon a time when everybody got around in Chairman Mao suits, China seemed a sexless society. However until now onl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-07-13 Will Ahmadinejad survive in office? For several months Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been locked in a power struggle with his boss, Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. Middle East analyst Meir Javedanfar says he may not last to the end of his presidential term and the international community should be preparing to bid him farewell. Herb Feith - from Vienna to Yogyakarta Through his work as an highly respected academic at Monash University, and his other life as an activi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-07-12 - UPDATED Bruce Shapiro Bruce joins Phillip live in the studio to discuss the stalemate over the US budget. 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia Tasmanian historian James Boyce's new book tells the story of the illegal squatters camp founded on the banks of the Yarra River in 1835, and how it sparked a "frenzied" land rush that transformed Australia and wiped out 80 percent of the local Aborigines. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-07-11 Canberra Babylon with Laura Tingle Laura Tingle talks about how the Government fared on its first day off selling its carbon tax package to the electorate. Thank you and goodbye Is society´s appetite for a diet of sensational sex scandals and ruthless gossip partly to blame for the death of the `News of the World´? Emergency Architecture A discussion about the work of Emergency Architects Australia in disaster zones in Australasia and the Pacific. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-07-08 CLASSIC LNL: Tariq Ramadan Interaction between Islam and Europe has been going on for centuries. Both cultures have suffered and benefited as a result - the best example being the rebirth of Europe in the period after the Crusades (1095-1291). It was contact with the Islamic world that introduced Europe to medicine, astronomy and mathematics and to values rarely seen in Europe at the time, like pluralism, tolerance, understanding, compassion and self-sacrifice. And at the heart of this rel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-07-07 Phillip Adams' Travels in China - Jeremy Goldkorn Special guest is Jeremy Goldkorn, founder and editor of Danwei.com, a website first started up dedicated to cover the news in English in China to reflect what was really going on in the lives of real people. How do ordinary people feel about continued economic growth, insecurity regarding land-tenure, religion and the direction the country is going. We visit a 500 year old village near a wild part of the Great Wall near Chen Jia Pu, to spe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-07-06 Adam Hochschild Best-selling author Adam Hochschild looks at the pacifist movements, conscientious objectors, dissent and deserters during World War 1 in his new book To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918. Blood Brotherhoods - the rise of the Italian mafias Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-07-05 Rural-urban divide in Australia? Is there a rural-urban divide in Australia? If so how does it manifest itself? And how well does the ABC do in attempting to bridge that divide? Late Night Live broadcasts a special talk back discussion from the Port Lincoln studios. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-07-04 Canberra Babylon with Christian Kerr Christian Kerr with the latest from Canberra. The Pentagon's Invisible Army As the Obama Administration winds down the US military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, the use of non-military personnel is becoming more important. Already, more than sixty per cent of the Pentagon´s employees in Iraq are non-military personnel - amounting to an "invisible army" of seventy thousand people. Many of these Third Country Nationals (or TCNs) are employed by shady ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-07-01 CLASSIC LNL: The Twilight of American Culture Among the signs that America is a culture in decline, Morris Berman cites its citizens' love of capitalism, their belief in globalisation, the increasingly large gap between rich and poor, people's fascination with celebrity culture, and their inability to distinguish quality from kitsch. Originally broadcast on 21/10/2003. CLASSIC LNL: Gimme Shelter How do two award winning architects and a social planner interpret 'space', and how do they r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-06-30 Phillip Adams' Travels in China - Village near Guilin This program goes off the beaten track to a small village on the outskirts of Guilin. Phillip learns first hand about local agricultural produce, visits a local school, meets the local mayor and learns how to make tofu under the watchful eye of Michael the tour guide. Phillip Adams' Travels in China - Sculpture Park, Guilin About 45 minutes outside of Guilin is an extraordinary sculpture park called Yuzi Paradise - or Fool's Paradise - ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-06-29 The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek In 1937, LIFE Magazine called her 'the most powerful woman in the world'. Beautiful, powerful and many say simply irresistible, May-Ling Soong, who became Madame Chiang-Kai-Shek, the wife of China´s Nationalist leader, was at the epicentre of the founding of modern China. But she wasn´t just a political wife, she was a full partner in her husband´s project, throwing herself wholeheartedly into their joint project of transforming China. A new biogr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-06-28 Bruce Shapiro Bruce discusses New York's massively important gay marriage law. He says that people may think of New York as a leftish state but "in fact upstate is quite conservative, Republican, and religious". The Next Decade Geopolitical intelligence expert George Friedman writes in his new book 'The Next Decade' that America must face the realities of its position as a global empire without losing its republican soul. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-06-27 Vienna Art and Design Tonight we review the dazzling Vienna Art and Design exhibition - chockablock with Klimts and Egon Schieles and glorious silver work from the Wiener Werkstaette. Canberra Babylon with Laura Tingle The latest from Canberra with Laura Tingle, political editor at the Australian Financial Review. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-06-24 - UPDATED CLASSIC LNL: TAG Hungerford One of Australia´s most significant and celebrated writers, Thomas Arthur Guy Hungerford was born in Perth, WA, on 5 May 1915. He wrote novels, literary criticism, short stories, children's fiction, journalism, radio plays and autobiographical works. Tom's awards are many, including the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1952, the Western Australia Week Literary Award in 1984, the Order of Australia for services to Australian Literature in 1987 and the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-06-23 Phillip Adams' Travels in China - Hong Kong Hong Kong's handover to the Chinese in 1997 was the last time Phillip Adams and Late Night Live were in China. But Phillip observes that little has changed and Hong Kong has become a template for the rest of China. Music used in this programme by Chui Jian, known as the father of rock 'n' roll in China. Phillip Adams' Travels in China - Guangzhou China is pouring billions of yuan into building entertainment and cultural venues right around the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-06-22 Revisiting Picasso's Guernica Guernica, the painting by Pablo Picasso, took five weeks to complete from first sketch to finished product in 1937. After more than 70 years, it remains a touchstone for protest against the horrors of war. Aboriginal art in China An interview with Gary Proctor, curator of an extremely successful travelling Australian Indigenous art exhibition called Land and Body, part of the Warburton Arts Project. Sri Lanka As Sri Lanka celebrated the second anniversary of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-06-21 Bruce Shapiro Bruce looks at a new Republican contender who has emerged recently: President Obama's former China ambassador and ex-Utah governor, Jon Huntsman. The 15 String Quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich came to the string quartet form relatively late. His fifteen quartets are masterpieces of the chamber music repertoire and a window into the soul of one of the most anguished artists of the 20th century. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-06-20 Canberra Babylon: Christian Kerr Christian Kerr discusses the first anniversary of the ousting of Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister by Julia Gillard. US spies lose valued allies in Middle East Following the Arab Spring, US spies have lost many of their most valued allies in the war on terrorism. Journalist and Author Christopher Dickey writes in `Newsweek´ magazine that a quick tour of the counterterrorism horizon suggests just how unprepared the CIA and the U.S. Defence Department are for th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-06-17 CLASSIC LNL: Corrupting The Youth A discussion about the history of philosophical argument in Australia, the impact on social and political movements and the way it has helped shape the Australian character. Originally broadcast on 19/2/2004. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-06-16 Canberra Babylon with Laura Tingle The latest from Canberra with Laura Tingle, political editor at the Australian Financial Review. Naomi Chazan For over 35 years, Naomi Chazan has been a bulwark of the human rights movement in Israel - she was an early and vocal advocate of women´s rights, and she has been a tireless campaigner on a number of progressive issues. She was also one of the first Israelis to back a two-state solution. She is a former senior member and Deputy Speaker of the Is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-06-15 Sovereign Debt, the EU and the IMF Satyajit Das discusses the continuing sovereign debt crisis plaguing Europe and talks about the remaining candidates for the job of chief of the IMF. Bismarck: A Life In his magnificent new biography, Professor Jonathan Steinberg describes the Iron Chancellor not only as one of the greatest political figures of all times, but "one of the most interesting, gifted and contradictory human beings that ever lived." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-06-14 Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce discusses the first big debate among the seven declared Republican presidential nominees. Ross Garnaut on the Climate Change Review The Federal Government's climate change advisor discusses his final report. Anzac myth One of the founding myths of Australia protects a great deception -- one that centres on a secret undertaking by Australian ministers to prepare an expeditionary force for military service outside the country. The myth goes back to 1914 and lo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-06-13 The Origins of Political Order How did democracy evolve? In his new book The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, Francis Fukuyama writes that we take institutions for granted, 'but in fact have no idea where they come from. Just as tribes are based on the deep-seated human instinct of looking out for one´s family and relatives, states depend on the human propensity to create and follow social rules.' The Invisible Line In America race has always bee ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-06-10 CLASSIC LNL: A.B.C. Tribal Elders A discussion with two of the ABC's pioneering producers (both have since retired and published memoirs), about the history and evolution of public affairs/current affairs coverage on ABC TV and ABC Radio. Originally broadcast on 9/6/2003. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-06-09 Cambodian war crimes In 1974, Marxist revolutionaries known as the Khmer Rouge took control of Cambodia. Led by the charismatic Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge later declared a new beginning for Cambodia, known as the 'Year Zero'. They forcibly evacuated urban residents to countryside where they were press-ganged into working the land. Pol Pot´s reign lasted almost four years, and during that time at least 1.7 million people died of starvation and disease or were executed. Dame Silvia Cartwrig ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-06-08 President Paul Kagame of Rwanda Is President Paul Kagame of Rwanda a visionary leader or an authoritarian ruler? President Kagame, who is renowned for his role in helping end the 1994 Rwandan genocide during which more than 800,000 died, is lately being criticised for his increasingly authoritarian rule. James Fallows A discussion about American politics, China, Japan and India and the balance of power in the Asian region. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-06-07 Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce discusses the sexting scandal involving Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner; the indictment of former Senator and Presidental candidate John Edwards over the use of campaign funds to cover up an extra-marital affair; and, Sarah Palin's latest historcal gaffe. The September 11 decade In his latest book, Paul McGeough writes about the fallout from the September 11 attacks on the U.S. a decade after the events, through his accounts of the conflict in Iraq, Afgh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-06-06 Canberra Babylon with Christian Kerr Christian Kerr posits that the federal government has conceded the high ground to the coalition over its policy to send asylum seekers to Malaysia. He describes the Labour government's policy-making as short-term and reactive. Deborah Lipstadt on the 50th anniversary of the Eichmann trial Adolf Eichmann was one of the main organisers of the Holocaust: he was responsible for the logistics behind the ghettos and the deportations and the extermination cam ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-06-03 CLASSIC LNL: The Elements Of India Program 5 - Space The final program in a five-part series on the Elements of India, featuring interview gathered when Philip Admas went to India in 1998. Originally broadcast on 4/3/99. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-06-02 Coltan Coltan is the ubiquitous mineral in all our modern communication devices -- from our computers to our mobile phones. But coltan mining is inextricably linked to the ongoing conflict in Congo, and the use of it has been likened to the trade in blood diamonds. Michael Nest argues that the politics of coltan mining is dogged by myths and misinterpretation -- most originating in the well intentioned activist community. He says that if we want to create responsible trade in the mineral, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-06-01 The Holocaust in Poland and Ukraine when we think of the holocaust we tend to think of Jews transported across Europe by train to the gas chambers. But in Eastern europe at least 1.5 million died in 'the Holocaust of Bullets', mostly shot by German troops moving from village to village, and buried in mass graves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-05-31 Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce discusses the difficulties faced by journalists when covering events such as the tornado devastated town of Joplin in Missouri. He also talks about the way Barack Obama is dealing with Syria and the ongoing killing of protesters. Internet and computer security Last week Australian banks cancelled 8000 credit cards because of a security breach. This follows the still unsolved hacking of Sony´s Playstation Network and the breach at Lockheed Martin and probabl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-05-30 Canberra Babylon with Laura Tingle Laura discusses how unpopular the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition are and the current 'brawling' amongst members of the Coalition. Also, Ross Garnaut hands in his final Climate Change Review on Tuesday and Kevin Rudd speaks at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday. Super Cooperators Why is cooperation a defining human trait? The authors look at the molecular, animal and human kingdoms to unravel the mystery of cooperation and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-05-27 CLASSIC LNL: The Elements of India program 4 - Water The fourth in a five-part series on the Elements of India, featuring interviews gathered when Phillip Adams went to India in 1998. Originally broadcast on 25/2/99. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-05-26 Pakistan: A Hard Country Anatol Lieven's new book on Pakistan is an extensive study of the history of the country, its people, its political and military structures and threats from terrorism. Archie Roach When the 'Bringing Them Home' report was handed to the federal government on 26 May 1997, it was decided that the 26th of May every year would be 'Sorry Day', where Australians could express regret over the historical mistreatment of our Indigenous people. Late Night Live acknowledges t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-05-25 Rise of Ideas A conversation on the growing popularity of talk-fests on ideas - covering everything from the Brisbane Ideas Festival to TEDx. Crossing a Continent: Margaret Somerville In 1942 Margaret Somerville was a missionary, based on Croker Island, who travelled with 95 Aboriginal children across the continent to escape the Japanese invasion. Margaret celebrates her 99th birthday this year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-05-24 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro looks at upstate New York, outside of Buffalo, where there is a special congressional election to replace the congressman who sent naked pics of himself on Craigslist. The Information How has our relationship to information altered our lives? The author of bestselling books `Chaos´ and `Genius', James Gleick, looks at the history of information in his new book - from its earliest forms to the emergence of a theory of information. Moya Henderson's Anna Akhmato ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-05-23 Canberra Babylon with Christian Kerr Christian discusses The Australian Climate Commission´s report. Peter Shergold Why is it that in spite of all the research they do and the papers they write, few of our university academics have much influence on 'real world' public policy formulation? Centenary of the Northern Territory Historian Jack Cross and journalist Nicolas Rothwell discuss the history of the Northern Territory. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-05-20 CLASSIC LNL: The Elements of India 3 - Fire This program features Mr. Ram, a member of the family which has been the official caretaker at the largest burning Ghat in Varanasi; Khojespie Mistry, one of India's leading Zoroastrian scholars; and Dasturje Kotwal, the High Priest of the Wadio Fire Temple in Mombai. Originally broadcast on 18/2/99. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-05-19 A preview of President Obama's Middle East speech President Obama is due to make a major policy speech on the Middle East at the State Department on Thursday (US time). There has been speculation that he will urge Israel to accept a peace deal with the Palestinians based on the 1967 borders. Brush Off! with George Dreyfus George Dreyfus talks about his struggles with Opera Australia to get his opera Gilt-Edged Kid performed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-05-18 Manning Clark Manning Clark was one of Australia's most well-known and loved historians whose six-volume History of Australia became the benchmark work on the subject. Clark's writing though, never aroused simple responses: and many historians have expressed profoundly conflicting reactions to him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-05-17 Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce Shapiro talks about the growing political influence on the Republican Party of the right-wing pseudo-historian David Barton. Outrageous Fortunes Economics writer Daniel Altman looks at the long-term prospects for the global economy in his new book 'Outrageous Fortunes'. Amal bin Laden Following the killing of Osama bin Laden, journalist Tim McGirk has carried out some intriguing research on a vital clue for both the White House and the Pakistani authorities.. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-05-16 Canberra Babylon with Laura Tingle Laura's analysis of the media and Opposition's response to last week's federal budget. Western Sahara Western Sahara is one of the world´s longest running conflicts and one of the longest running independence struggles, often overlooked by the wider world. For 15 years, war raged between Morocco and the Western Saharan people. In 1991, a cease-fire was agreed under a U.N. peace plan. That plan included a referendum enabling the Saharawi people to dec ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-05-13 CLASSIC LNL The Elements of India - Earth First broadcast on 11th February, 1999, this is the second in a series on India. The first interview looks at the politics and economics of land reform. CLASSIC LNL - The Origins of the Indian Sari First broadcast 11th February, 1999, textile historian Jasleen Dhamija exlains the origins and uses of the sari. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-05-12 Can we prevent the collapse of bee colonies? Last month, the UN Environment Programme released a report warning that the disastrous decline in honeybee populations around the world is unlikely to stop. New research in Australia provides a glimmer of hope. The Troubled State of Cambodia For all the success of the United Nations run democratic elections in Cambodia during the 1990s, the rest of the world has since moved on, leaving Cambodia to fall back into the hands of self-interested, co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-05-11 Referendum on alternative vote Bea Campbell looks at the aftermath of the 'Alternative Vote' system referendum in the UK. World Development Report 2011 This year's World Development Report from the World Bank focusses on the links between chronic violence and economic and social under-development, and on the rise of violence related to organised crime. Anna Karenina Tolstoy specialist Judith Armstrong distills the essence of the 800-page epic Anna Karenina, into a spellbinding night of th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-05-10 Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce talks about Newt Gingrich who will be announcing his 2012 presidential campaign today. He also talks about the aftermath of the killing of Osama bin Laden and its effect on President Barack Obama's popularity. Terrorism after bin Laden The killing of Osama bin Laden in the Pakistani town of Abbotabad this week ahs raised more questions than answers and relations between the U.S. and Pakistan are stretched very tightly over this. why did it take a decade to f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-05-09 Canberra Babylon with Christian Kerr On the eve of the federal budget Christian Kerr, takes a long term view of the Government and the Prime Minister's ability to strike the right tone with the rest of the country. Sacking of Toowoomba Bishop William Morris The Catholic bishop of Toowoomba, William Morris, has been forced to resign over a letter he wrote in 2006 in which he proposed the ordaining women might be one possible solution to the severe priest shortage in his diocese. Surveillan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-05-06 CLASSIC LNL: The elements of India program 1 - Air - Indian TV Malvika Singh talks about the difficulties in setting up and operating India's first independent news and current affairs TV channel. Originally broadcast on 4/2/99. CLASSIC LNL: The elements of India program 1 - Air - Indian music An interview about the history of music in India and the emphasis on performance in Indian music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-05-05 An innovative approach to climate change Two scientists from Europe discuss an innovative approach to climate change. They argue that little attention, in media and political debate, has been given to the third climate change position - and one that just might help us cut to the real ecological problems concerned. That is the role of water management and land use changes in creating climate instability and extremes in weather. Part 2 - Small farming community forum in Tasmania We bring y ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-05-04 Small farming community forum inTasmania Tasmania boasts some of Australia's richest agricultural land, in fact the Tasmanian government boasts that the state has a big future as a food bowl for the nation. But Tasmania's small farmers are finding it more and more difficult to get a fair price for what they produce. To coincide with Tasmania's Agfest, Phillip Adams and the Late Night Live team are taking the show on the road for the second of this year's community forums. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-05-03 Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce discusses America's reaction to Osama bin Laden's death. Sideshow - the trivialisation of politics Lindsay Tanner, former Federal Finance Minister analyses the relentless downward slide of our national political discourse by politicians and the media alike. He describes this as the Sideshow Syndrome. Preventing Future Food Crises Four years after the global food crisis first struck and there´s been no significant return to cheaper prices. In fact, food pri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-05-02 Aftermath of Osama bin Laden's death. The death of the founder of al-Qaeda by American forces was announced today by President Barack Obama. What does this mean for the fight against extremism? How to treat violent children Judith Jackson and John McClean are keynote speakers at this year's Freud Conference. They will be discussing violence in children, working with a violent child, parental indulgence and the relationships between psychoanalysis and literature and film. For bookings or ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-04-28 Syria Human rights groups estimate that over four hundred people have been killed in Syria since pro-democracy demonstrators took to the streets five weeks ago. Joshua Landis gives an update on the situation and discusses what would happen if the Assad regime was toppled. The distinctiveness of Indian secularism A discussion about how secularism is manifested in different countries and what might be the best model to deal with an expanding religiously diverse Europe. Some animals we love ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-04-27 The republican debate While the trajectory of the Australian Republican debate since the 1999 referendum has been non-existent or generally flat, the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton, and the possible visit by the Queen to Australia in October, has triggered the debate once again. Security strategy for the Royal Wedding Stratfor´s Scott Stewart, who worked as a protective intelligence agent on the details of Princess Diana´s wedding to Prince Charles and Prince And ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-04-26 The Enemy at Home In `The Enemy at Home´, authors Gerard Fisher and Nadine Helmi, look at never-before-published photographs and excerpts from the diaries of some of the 7,000 people with German and Austrian heritage who were detained by the Australian authorities following the outbreak of World War I. These unlikely prisoners-of-war came from all walks of life - photographers like Paul Dubotzki, merchant sailors, visiting academics - and many, including beer baron Edmund Resch and acclaim ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-04-25 Against Remembrance Acclaimed journalist David Rieff´s book `Against Remembrance´ looks at the role of memory in the defining events of recent times. David writes that humanity simply cannot cope with the true ambivalence of historical events:"If we remember only partially, how can our memories serve us, or our society, as well as we hope?" Australia's forgotten Vietnam battle An assault by Australian forces in Vietnam, known as the The Bunkers Action, was in fact the longest, sustained ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-04-22 CLASSIC LNL: Traditions of religious pilgrimage, past and present First broadcast 3 May 1995. On Easter Friday a discussion about the history of religious pilgrimage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-04-21 Jerusalem: The Biography According to historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem is a city "with no natural industries except holiness". But his new history of the city is dripping with bloodshed, war, looting, destruction and vice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-04-20 'Inspire' magazine A look at Al Qaeda´s English language magazine`Inspire´.... its range of stories, the target audience, details of the publishers and the impact it has on the hip, western educated, middle class future `jihadists´ living in the US, Britain and Canada. Baghdad to Beirut - Survival of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage Iraqi archaeologist, Donny George, has been hailed by many as the saviour of Iraq's antiquities for the vital role he played in the recovery of artefacts l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-04-19 Bruce Shapiro Bruce begins this week acknowledging the 50th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs and reflecting on the long legacy of that, both in foreign policy and US domestic policies. President Obama talked about shifting the tax burden upwards in his address on the budget last week. Bruce believes there might be a real debate about economic alternatives for the first time in years in America. Empires at War: Asia Since World War Two A compelling new history of the modern Asian nations that ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-04-18 Canberra Babylon with Laura Tingle What's behind another set of low opinion polls for Labor and Prime Minister Julia Gillard? And why is she getting tough on the unemployed? A political history of common sense How did the notion of common sense become tied up with political populism and our modern form of democracy? We need to go back to post-revolutionary Europe and America to find the answer. Buffy Sainte-Marie 1960s icon and anti-war activist Buffy Sainte-Marie is in Australia to perf ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-04-15 CLASSIC LNL: Germaine Greer First broadcast 18 May 1995. Christine Wallace, the unauthorised biographer of Germaine Greer, reports on the story behind her resignation as a columnist from The Guardian. CLASSIC LNL: Biography of RD Laing First broadcast 18 May 1995. A discussion of the legacy of famous psychiatrist RD Laing. CLASSIC LNL: Eccentrics First broadcast 18 May 1995. A study of eccentricity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-04-14 Pakistan and US relations This week Pakistan told America that it has to sharply cut the activities of the CIA, as well as halt the drone attacks aimed at militants in North West Pakistan. Is this a sign of the near collapse of cooperation between the two nations? Tales from the Cancer Ward In early 2009, Paul Cox was diagnosed with cancer of the liver and received a liver transplant in December of the same year. In Tales from the Cancer Ward he writes about his experience of coming close ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-04-13 UK: Alternative vote referendum A discussion about the upcoming referendum in the UK where the British public will be asked to vote yes or no for electoral reform. The question they will be asked is 'At present the UK uses the first-past-the-post system to elect MPs to the House of Commons. Should the `alternative vote´ system be used instead? Yes or no? The Churchills Author Mary Lovell writes about the Churchill dynasty, from the First Duke of Marlborough, John Churchill, to the towe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-04-12 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro outlines the compromise reached between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner over the U.S. budget, pointing out that there are many frustrated and furious Democrats because more than half the $38 billion are in education, labor and health programs. Afghanistan's ancient treasures The story of how the extraordinary first century gold treasures from Tillya Tepe in Afghanistan were rescued by Russian authorities from the Taliban, escaping the fate of the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-04-11 Senator Christine Milne on the carbon tax At the weekend the gas industry began a campaign to get itself exempted from the carbon tax on the basis that gas is cleaner than coal. The second in a series of conversations about the proposed carbon tax. The Paris Wife of Ernest Hemingway The Paris Wife is the story of one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, Ernest Hemingway, told through the eyes of his first wife Hadley Richardson. Ernest and Hadley are thrust into a lif ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-04-08 CLASSIC LNL: A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror Professor Alfred W.McCoy has been studying the CIA for twenty years, in his new book he traces the the evolution of CIA interrogation methods back to the failed mind control experiments of the Cold War, and argues that the images from Abu Ghraib reveal a systematic and deliberate application of those methods. Originally broadcast on 16/3/96. CLASSIC LNL: Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-04-07 Templeton Prize 2011 One of the world's leading astrophysicists, Lord Martin Rees, is the winner of this year's Templeton Prize. Yemen: President Saleh´s double game President Saleh of Yemen lives on the edge. On the one hand he releases members of al-Qaeda from prison, a group that actively threatens him, on the other hand he gives his blessings for US air-strikes against these same men. Cyril Wyndham Cyril Wyndham was the first paid, full-time federal general secretary of the Australia ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-04-06 Future of the State John Micklethwait argues that instead of being the people's servant, the State has become their master and the kinds of disruptive reforms that have so changed the private sector should now be let loose on the public sector. Julia Gillard's China visit The Prime Minister is heading to China later this month, the first time an Australian leader has been to China since Kevin Rudd went to the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Frida Kahlo Although she produced over 200 paintings, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-04-05 Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce discusses the federal budget, with Congress and the President on the brink of either a shutdown or a compromise. The other issue is the announcement by Attorney General Holder that the alleged mastermind behind 9/11 Khalid Sheik Mohammed will not be tried in a civilian Federal cort but by a military commission at Guantanamo Bay; a major defeat for both the AG and for President Obama. War and the Illusion of Victory Is a victory in war ever a deterrent to futu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-04-04 Canberra Babylon: Laura Tingle Laura discusses what's behind the deteriorating relationship between the Gillard government and the Greens. Syria: reform or repression? As thousands of Syrians bury the eight victims of the crackdown following the protests on Friday, we look at how President Bashar al-Assad is tackling the anti-government demonstrations. Will the president go ahead with the reforms being demanded by the protesters or are we likely to see a repeat of the 1982 repression in t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-04-01 CLASSIC LNL: Irish Reconciliation In this interview broadcast a month after the Northern Ireland Good Friday Peace Agreement was signed, Richard O'Brien discusses the way forward for Irish reconciliation. Originally broadcast on 7/5/98. CLASSIC LNL: Drug use and the politics of its regulation In their book Madame Joy, Monique Berkhout and Francesca Robinson look at the long history of drug-taking and question the so-called war on drugs. Originally broadcaast on 7/5/98. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-03-31 The animated life of Yoram Gross Internationally acclaimed for his animated films for children, including Blinky Bill and Dot and the Kangaroo, Yoram Gross has published a memoir focussing on his own childhood in Nazi-occupied Poland. Ramparts Magazine In 1962 in California, a magazine was launched which had a very short life span, but at its peak, repeatedly scooped the New York Times, and changed American journalism forever. Ramparts magazine had humble aims - to provide a forum for th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-03-30 Carbon Tax Woes Economist Geoff Carmody favours a carbon tax over an Emissions Trading Scheme but says choosing between the two is "a tenth order issue". Far more important is the choice between a consumption model and a production model. How to rebuild a political party - Audience Q & A Following on from Monday's public forum looking at how to rebuild a political party (see program from Monday 28 March)we play extra questions from the audience at the Eugene Goosens Hall in Sydney. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-03-29 Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce talks about the U.S. intervention in Libya and marks the 100th anniversary on 25 March of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, which killed 146 women garment workers and helped spur the American labor movement and shaped workplace safety laws. Election aftermath Editor Peter Botsman and journalist Andrew West provide their analysis of last weekend´s New South Wales election. They discuss union intervention, the Labor `machinery´ and the second great migration for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-03-28 How to rebuild a political party In the wake of the NSW election, Phillip Adams hosts a public forum, to examine the challenges now facing the Australian Labor Party. How does Australia´s oldest political party begin to rebuild itself? Is it a matter of minor adjustment, or radical reinvention? And what are the ramifications of its further demise for our democratic and political processes? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-03-25 CLASSIC LNL: Update USA LNL's former US correspondent Herb Boyd talks about his trip to Western Sahara and about the death of the prominent African-American civil rights advocate, author and federal appeals court judge, A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. Originally broadcast on 16/12/98. CLASSIC LNL: Rwanda A discussion about the failure of the United Nations to deal with the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Originally broadcast on 16/12/98. CLASSIC LNL: Dennis Potter In his authorised biography of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-03-24 A History of Ballet How did ballet evolve from a Royal courtly etiquette, a standard of physical comportment, performed by men in the French Court of Louis XIV, to an ethereal art form? Former ballet dancer, dance critic and academic Jennifer Homans has written an accomplished history of ballet's evolution over 400 years, revealing its importance as an expression of a way of life or a philosophy of life. Unfortunately she does not see a strong future for ballet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-03-23 Infrastructure, Planning and Climate Change Adaptation The recent spate of floods, eathquakes, tsunamis and the nuclear accident in Japan are a reminder of how interconnected our energy, transport, water and communications systems have become. Which is why future infrastructure investment needs to take climate change into account. The BBC's changing role As director of the BBC´s Global News Service, Peter Horrocks recently announced to staff that more than 650 jobs would be lost over the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-03-22 Bruce Shapiro President Barack Obama has got to be hoping that the Middle East crisis ends quickly, because the US entering a third war is stirring enormous skepticism and opposition, uniting Democratic liberals and the libertarian right. Economic impacts of the Japanese earthquake Satyajit Das this time discusses how the recent earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power crisis might affect Japan's economy and the global financial situation. Malaysian politics Malaysian politician and vice-pre ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-03-21 Canberra Babylon with Laura Tingle The latest from Canberra in its final sitting week until it returns early May for the federal budget. Egyptian Update Egypt's constitutional referendum was a success with a resounding yes vote. This means that a Parliamentary vote could now take place as soon as next September. Pro-democracy supporters believe that not enough time was given to give political groups to form, but the military council and the Muslim Brotherhood were happy with the result. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-03-18 CLASSIC LNL: Colombia The Colombian President has declared the peace process dead - and civil war is looming in a country that has been at war for 39 years. We talk about US involvement in the conflict and new attempts to get American taxpayers to pay for oil pipeline security in Colombia. Originally broadcast on 28/2/2002. CLASSIC LNL: Violent Children In this discussion, Dr Twemlow focuses particularly on the bully-victim-bystander interaction at school. He says such roles are inter ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-03-17 Japan; Comparisons with Chernobyl It's almost 25 years since the world's first full scale nuclear reactor disaster at Chernobyl and the similarites with Japan are numerous. Merilyn Fairskye visited Chernobyl twice in the past two years to produce her documentary film Precarious, about the aftermath of the explosion. Israel's response to the Arab Democracy Movement Yoram Meital says the Netanyahu government and Israeli intelligence were completely taken by surprise by what happaned in Tuni ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-03-16 Libya no-fly zone? Part One With the looming prospect of a bloody battle for Benghazi, calls for a no-fly zone have been unsuccessful so far. Former British MP Paddy Ashdown was UN high representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina between 2002 and 2006. He says it is difficult not to feel a sense of deja vu watching European leaders saying something needs to be done, but failing completely to say what. Libya no-fly zone? Part Two Professor El-Kikhia feels that the United States should level ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-03-15 Afghan women In Afghanistan, although the statistics of violence against women remain dire, concerted efforts are being taken towards educating women about their rights and options. A key component of the program is being run by the ActionAid agency, which has already trained 30 women paralegals to work in communities to support survivors of gender based violence. Violence Against Women in Afghanistan Although the statistics of violence against women in Afghanistan remain dire, concerted ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-03-14 Canberra Babylon with Christian Kerr Do we really understand the reasons for Julia Gillard's two negative polls? Japanese earthquake Is Japan less reluctant than it once was to accept assistance from the outside world? And what will be the political implications of the Japanese earthquake? RH Mathews, anthropologist Robert Hamilton Mathews was born in 1841, not long after his parents had emigrated from Ireland to Australia. He began his working life as a surveyor and when he turned 50 ha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-03-11 CLASSIC LNL: Japan: Corruption and Rice Shortage In 1994, Japan faced its first serious rice shortage since the bleak days of the late 1940s. Consumers swept shelves bare of all varieties of rice. CLASSIC LNL: Mateship and police corruption A discussion of the film The Custodian, which looked at police culture and mateship. The timing of the film's release on March 7, 1994, coincided with ICAC's latest report about revelations of police corruption. CLASSIC LNL: The Earth in Chaos Dr Pete ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-03-10 Bruce Shapiro The Wisconsin labor confrontation, took a dramatic new turn last night - the Republicans in the legislature did a procedural end-run to strip public workers of their collective-bargaining rights even without the quorum denied by the self-exiled Democrats. Iranium How dangerous is a nuclear Iran, even if it never detonates a weapon? A new film titled: 'Iranium' tracks the development of Iran´s nuclear capabilities.... beginning with the Islamic Revolution of 1979 to the ide ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-03-09 Has Osama bin Laden failed? In the tenth year since the attacks of September 11, terrorism expert Peter Bergen compares the early ambitions of Osama bin Laden with the reality that al-Qaeda and groups that share its ideology are now on the wrong side of history. The true story of the Batavia Peter FitzSimons brings the story of the wreck of the Dutch ship the Batavia to life: a story of betrayal, murder, mayhem, sexual slavery and courage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-03-08 Bollywood Film Festival The Indian Film Festival arrives in Sydney tomorrow, also travelling to Melbourne and Adelaide, and showcases the best in new Indian film releases. Traditional Bollywood films have focussed on fantasy and romance, but the recent economic and social changes within India are now being reflected in the film industry, with much more edgy, even violent films. Coal Mining and Health For the last 15 years Dick van Steenis has been carrying out extensive research into indu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-03-07 Canberra Babylon: Laura Tingle Laura discusses the fallout over Julia Gillard's announcement that the government would be introducing a carbon tax in 2012. Laura Tingle Alex Ross, music critic, The New Yorker Alex Ross, the author of The Rest is Noise, a history of 20th century music, is in Australia curating a concert program being toured by the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-03-04 CLASSIC LNL: Tim Flannery Tim Flannery discusses the state of the environmental movement in the United States, which he says has become more and more dispirited. He also takes the Howard government to task over its energy policy, reiterating that Australia is following the Bush White House. Originally broadcast on 12/9/2005. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-03-03 Guatemala's Dirty War In 1982, at the height of the dirty war in Guatemala, a young American documentary maker went there to make what turned out to be an award-winning film called, "When the Mountains Tremble". Almost three decades later Pamela Yates returned to Guatemala and has since testified to what she witnessed. Her film documenting this is called "Granito". Fire and Song: the Inquisiton in Mexico The story of an entire Sephardic Jewish family caught up in the Mexican inquisition ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-03-02 The needs and rights of people with diabilities Tom Shakespeare talks about his experiences with his own disability - he was born with achondroplasia or dwarfism - and his work in campaigning for the disabled. The Raymond Davis spy saga The CIA spy scandal that could damage relations between Washington and Islamabad. The untold story of Julian Assange Robert Manne has been investigating what is was about Julian Assange that caused him to set up WikiLeaks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-03-01 Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce talks about the U.S. federal budget. The current budget expires on Friday and there are fears that many essential services may shut down if the 78 new Republicans and Tea Partiers elected in November decide to push their leadership hard. A two-week interim budget has been proposed to allow for further negotiations. Rudd in the Middle East Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd is in the Middle East offering Australia's assistance to the fledgling democracies in Egypt ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-02-28 NSW Election Preview The upcoming NSW election looks like being a shattering defeat for the Australian Labor Party, but after so many years in opposition are the Liberals ready to govern? Dictator Watch How are dictators like Mubarak of Egypt, Ben Ali of Tunisia and Colonel Gaddafi of Libya able to squirrel away millions of dollars in respected foreign banks? A Unique Migration Should Australia feel guilty in the knowledge that while there is an acute shortage of doctors in Asia, South Am ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-02-25 CLASSIC LNL: Canberra Babylon: Christian Kerr Christian talks about the value of Cabinet reshuffles, the lack of accountability in the process of appointing Ambassadors, the political impact of the death of Kerry Packer, and who decides who gets a state funeral. Originally broadcast on 23/1/06. CLASSIC LNL: Australian Multiculturalism An interview with Jerzy Zubrzycki, who is often referred to as `the father of Australian multiculturalism´. Jerzy came to Australia to study migration ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-02-24 Revival of the Jewish community in Poland Ninety per cent of Poland's Jews perished in the Holocaust, and the vast majority of those who survived left Poland to make new lives in Israel, the United States, Canada and Australia. Now a community which recently numbered as few as 20,000 members is slowly re-emerging. The Discovery of Jeanne Baret Why did the journey of the first woman to circumnavigate the globe in 1766 go unremarked, along with her pioneering contribution to the scientific k ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-02-23 Egypt's military & business interests What are the prospects for true democracy in Egypt when the domestic economic interests of the military are so strong? And what role does the military play in the rest of the region? Cleaner Coal and Water in China A discussion looking at some of the environmental challenges facing China as it seeks to double the size of its economy over the next decade or so. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-02-22 Bruce Shapiro Madison, Wisconsin was the scene of extraordinary protests this week. The newly-elected Republican governor, Scott Walker is trying to push through a bill that would take away public employee unions' right to bargain, as well as cutting pensions and wages. Meanwhile in Chicago, it's election day for the successor to Mayor Daley. Rahm Emmanuel, Barack Obama's former Chief of Staff, is the leading candidate. A more secure world? A new Human Security Report published by the S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-02-21 Canberra Babylon: Laura Tingle Federal Parliament resumes today with the Coalition in all sorts of trouble. Libyan Unrest The uprising spreading across the Middle East has met with violent state resistance in Libya. As the forty year rule of Muammar Gaddafi is challenged by thousands of demonstrators, his son Seif al-Islam addressed the country on state television saying that 'we will take up arms and fight until the last bullet'. Libya, he said, is not Egypt. I Shall Not Hate - A Gaza ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-02-18 Classic LNL Death of Sir John Kerr Diamond Jim McClelland, former Minister in the Whitlam Government discusses Sir John Kerr on his death. First broadcast 25th March, 1991. Classic LNL Robert Fisk on Lebanon Veteran Middle East reporter Robert Fisk discusses his book on Lebanon. First broadcast March 1991. Classic LNL Mary Wilson One of the founding members of sixties singing sensation The Supremes talks about her music and her life. First broadcast 20th March, 1991. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-02-17 Update on the European Debt Crisis The European Debt Crisis is set to worsen. Now it's Portugal that needs a bailout. And we take a look at the recently released Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission report. Roz Savage, Ocean Rower What makes a high-flying maanagement consultant want to throw in the towel and take up solo ocean rowing? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-02-16 The Rise of the Mezzanine Rulers Governments across the Middle East and South Asia are increasingly losing power to sub-state actors - Mezzanine rulers - who aren't quite states, but often behave like they are. The Panic Virus In 1998, London gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield co-authored a study in Lancet magazine, linking autism to the measles, mumps and rubella shot. His research was immediately challenged but it was not until last year that the study was retracted. Author Seth Mnooki ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-02-15 Bruce Shapiro Bruce talks about the continued fallout from Egypt's revolution - in particular, the internal rift within the Obama White House, which saw Hillary Clinton, Egypt envoy Frank Wisener and Joe Biden on the go-slow side, and younger national security aides - particularly human-rights scholar Samantha Power and speechwriter Ben Rhodes - on the other. Democracy in Egypt The Egyptian revolution came not from the intellectual elite or opposition parties, but via Facebook and the Twit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-02-14 Egypt and women's rights Egyptian women have played a central role in the revolution which led to President Mubarak's departure. What will change in Egypt mean for half its population -- women? Can women's rights be preserved and extended in the future? The Royal Society and the decline of magic Professor Michael Hunter on the ambiguous role of the Royal Society in discrediting belief in witchcraft, alchemy, astrology and other forms of magical thinking. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-02-11 CLASSIC LNL: Public Forum on Disability Phillip hosts a public forum on disability to mark 35 years of the work of the E.W. Tipping Foundation, a community-based, not-for-profit charity that provides accommodation and support to people with various types of disability. What is the outlook for the next 35 years, given the massive pressures that a rapidly ageing population is going to bring to bear on the community, across the range of disability services? Originally boroadcast on 26/1/2 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-02-10 Death and the US Civil War The death toll for the American Civil War still overshadows any other war in which Americans have participated. Eminent civil war historian Drew Gilpin Faust argues that the real impact of this death toll extended far beyond the numbers of dead and profoundly changed America in many ways. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-02-09 Protecting national treasures Suzanne Mubarak is the first Lady of Egypt and the Chairperson of Alexandria Library, so when looters entered the Cairo Museum last week and broke a statue of King Tutankhamen she watched on in horror. Minimum damage was done to the museum, but how can these treasures be protected during times of unrest? Iran's reaction to the Egypt crisis How are the Ayatollahs in Iran reacting to the unrest in Egypt? Are they concerned that events in Egypt could reignite pro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-02-08 Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce talks about the attacks on journalists in Egypt and the embarrassment caused to President Obama by the remarks made by the U.S. special envoy to the Egyptian government. He told them that "President Mubarak's continued leadership is critical: it's his opportunity to write his own legacy." Australia's commitment to the Cluster Munitions Treaty Australia has signed the 2008 international treaty against the use and stockpiling of Cluster Munitions. Parliament n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-02-07 Canberra Babylon The week ahead in federal politics with Laura Tingle, chief political correspondent with the Australian Financial Review. Impressions from the war zone A former journalist discusses his visit to the war zone in Sri Lanka. He travels to the tiny strip of land where thousands of civilians were sandwiched between the army and the Tamil Tigers during the last days of the bloody war. "The Emperor of all Maladies" When one of Siddhartha Mukherjee's cancer patients told him tha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-02-04 CLASSIC LNL: When a Crocodile Eats the Sun In 1996, Peter Godwin published his first memoir Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa, which was an excellent account of the Rhodesian war from the point of view of a white conscript; it´s also a story of the dying years of colonialism and about growing up white in Africa. The next instalment of Peter's memoir picks up in 1996 and chronicles the increasing chaos of Zimbabwe under the presidency of Robert Mugabe, and the slow deterioration in his parents ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-02-03 Alan Ramsey Alan Ramsey has just released a new edition of essays published over a 42 year career as a Canberra political columnist - and it includes his views on the past twelve months in federal politics. Blewett Review of Food Labelling in Australia Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-02-02 Cyclone Yasi The latest on Cyclone Yasi with journalists James Woodford in Townsville and Annie Guest in Cairns. Egypt As the uprising in Egypt continues, we get an Israeli view on the situation. National Gallery of Victoria's 150th birthday Australia's oldest public art gallery turns 150 this year, and a year of major exhibitions and gifts to the NGV is planned in celebration. Phillip speaks to the NGV's director, Gerard Vaughan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-02-01 Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce began by talking about the pressure that bad weather puts on U.S. politicians - "snow the great force for change". He then moved onto Egypt and the balancing act this uprising means for Washington. Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa The Worldwatch Institute has released its annual State of the World report for 2011. This year the report focusses on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa, and a range of small but groundbreaking projects to raise yields, restore degr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-01-31 Canberra Babylon with Christian Kerr One week before Federal Parliament begins Christian Kerr talks about staff changes within Prime Minister Gillard's office which signals a return to policy and rigour and candour we saw during her time as Deputy PM. Egypt - what next? Award winning Middle East Correspondent for The Independent, Robert Fisk is calling the crisis in Egypt a `revolution by face book´. He says that "the barren, horrible truth, is that save for its brutal police force and i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-01-28 CLASSIC LNL: Media Bias Discussion The managing director of the ABC, Mr David hill has pledged continued uncensored coverage of the Gulf war. This is despite the Prime Minister's strong criticism of inependent experts used by the ABC for Gulf war analysis. Originally broadcast on 28/1/91. CLASSIC LNL: End of the Gulf War George H.W. Bush has announced the end of the Gulf War. What happens now? Originally broadcast on 28/2/91. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-01-27 Beatification and Pope John Paul II The Vatican has announced that the late Pope John Paul II is to be beatified in May, but this is likely to be a controversial move given the worldwide scandal of clerical sexual abuse which was covered up while he was Pope. Reimagining Don's Party 2010 Forty-one years after the first Don's Party was staged in Melbourne's Pram Factory, playwright David Williamson has staged another production revisiting the same group, this time watching the 2010 election ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-01-26 Sudan Referendum The result of the referendum in southern Sudan has yet to be formally announced, but already it is clear that there has been a landslide in favour of independence. But there are many problems facing the world's newest state. C Street Jeff Sharlet has been writing about The Family, the most influential fundamentalist Christian political organisation in America, since 2003. In his latest book, C Street, he looks at the influence The Family is having internationally, particu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-01-25 Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce previews President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, and discusses how he may go about facing the enormous economic challenges ahead. Bloodlands - the Holocaust in Eastern Europe Most people tend to think of Auschwitz when the Holocaust is mentioned. However, Timothy Snyder believes that our concept of the Holocaust needs to be much broader. If we include the murderous policies of Stalin and Hitler towards the people in the lands between Russia and G ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-01-24 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle takes a philosophical look at the year ahead in federal politics. Floods How freakish are the recent heavy rainfalls in eastern Australia that caused devastating flooding in Queensland and Victoria? Is the idea of a 100-year flood event still valid, given the warnings about climate change? Ian Lowe addresses these and other questions. Botany Bay - The Real Story Contrary to what our history books have said, Britain´s need to get rid of its convicts was not ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-01-20 Singing Saltwater Country At the age of twenty, John Bradley went to teach Aboriginal children in the remote town of Borroloola, on the Gulf of Carpentaria. However, he very soon became the student as the Yanyuwa elders and their families decided to educate him on their language, culture and songlines. Originally broadcast on 3 August 2010. The Finger In his book The Finger, Angus Trumble has looked at the digit in history and culture and in art and science. Originally broadcast on Aug ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-01-19 The Morality of Mortality Public Forum As part of the Matter of Life and Death series with the Melbourne International Arts Festival,Phillip Adams hosted a public forum to explore questions surrounding Mortality - whether we have a right to choose the manner of our own death, and does it matter whether we believe in God or an afterlife? Originally broadcast on 14 October 2010. Download an extended version of the Morality of Mortality Public Forum. [Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 31 MB] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-01-18 Truth and Lies Public Forum This public forum, part of the Don Dunstan Leadership Dialogues explores truth and lies in public life. Annabel Crabb from The Drum, Political Insider Cathie King and Luke Stegemann from `The Adelaide Review´ take part in an analysis of the quality of dialogue which takes place among political leaders, the media and public figures. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-01-17 The Presidential Preacher Professor Jack Miles discusses President Barack Obama's America in the world religious context. Originally broadcast on 8 September 2010. Shall the religious inherit? Religious identification and church attendance is in steep decline in the West. But it turns out that this trend, coupled with other currents such as the drop in fertility rates in the West and global migration, could see the forces of religious fundamentalism dramatically alter the world as we kno ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-01-13 'Skyful of lies' BBC Presenter Nik Gowing has carried out a study titled `Skyful of Lies´ and Black Swans in which he investigates how changes to technology is making institutions of power, from the media to government, more vulnerable. Originally broadcast on 13 January 2010. Hitler's Children in Post-War Germany: Manfred Jurgensen A unique memoir from Manfred Jurgensen, who grew up in post-war Germany, a period which often posed much more danger than the war itself. Severe deprivation, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-01-12 The Good Soldiers In January 2007, when the war was all but lost, President George W. Bush announced that he´d be committing another 21,000 troops to Iraq to help the Iraqis with their campaign to stop sectarian violence and bring security to the country. Eight hundred of those troops belonged to the Second Battalion, Sixteenth Infantry Regiment of the Fourth Brigade Combat Team, First Infantry Division—or the 2-16 for short. Washington Post reporter David Finkel tells about his tim ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-01-11 Cyber attack threat Australia's leading cybersecurity expert Dr Paul Twomey wants Australian business leaders to step up to the plate and do more to reduce the threat of cyber attacks. Originally broadcast on 9 September 2010. How North Koreans see themselves Brian Myers says that much of the world is mistaken to view North Korea as a communist state. In his book The Cleanest Race, he traces the regime's official culture back to the Japanese fascism of the 1930s. Originally broadcast on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-01-10 Labor's Flaws During the leadership spill last year, Former Labor Party Leader Mark Latham wrote in The Australian Financial Review that the great leaders of the ALP, "like Ben Chifley, earned their positions based on the progressive ideas they held for Australia. Today´s party bears little resemblance to that". Originally broadcast on 4 August 2010. Nine Hypochondriac Lives Brian Dillon has used letters, diaries, autobiographies, interviews and the testimony of intimate witnesses to the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-01-06 The Tea Party´s Cold War roots Historian Sean Wilentz traces the origins of the Tea Party back to the John Birch Society in the 1960s, and the introduction of granduated income tax in the early twentieth century. A food lover's pilgrimage Authors Dee Nolan and Lucy Malouf take us on a food lover´s pilgrimage through the culinary landscapes of ancient Persia and to the tiny villages of Santiago de Compostela. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-01-05 Wilbert Rideau - A Life Wilbert Rideau spent 44 years in Louisiana state prisons, 12 of those in solitary confinement. Sentenced to death in 1961 for the murder of a white woman, this was later commuted to life. This is a story of personal transformation and the transformation of one of America's most notorious prisons into one of the safest. Originally broadcast on 5 August 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-01-04 Population, sustainability and the viability of a VFT The federal election put the issues facing regional Australia back on the agenda, including transport, infrastructure, and what constitutes a sustainable population. But whether we want a bigger Australia or not, is it necessary to look at the option of a very fast train linking up regions with cities? A group of business leaders, academics and transport experts join a public forum to discuss these issues. Originally broadcast on 21 Sep ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2011-01-03 My Lie: A True Story Of False Memory In the 1980s stories of child sexual abuse were all over the headlines - child care centre workers were put on trial for sexually abusing dozens of children, daughters accused their fathers of sexually abusing them. Perhaps the most chilling part of the story was how horribly common this was, and how close to home the perpetrators were. The bogeyman wasn't lurking in a darkened street any more: he was working at your child's school. Or worse, he was thei ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-12-29 Pornography As increasing numbers of people gain access to internet pornography, the type of porn available has become more extreme with a much more violent edge. Gail Dines believes this has not only hijacked our sexuality, but is having a poisonous effect on the entire culture. Originally broadcast on October 27 2010. Schlomo Sand on the Jewish Land Professor Schlomo Sand, the author of The Invention of the Jewish People, is a tenured professor of European History at the University of T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-12-27 Bill Leak - Part 1 Australian writer Bob Ellis once described Australian political cartoonist and artist Bill Leak as 'a lighthouse of clear flashing truth in a dark night' and 'a bearer of Gospel wisdom and faith in man's propensity to sneer at the vile and to praise the good.' Bill reflects on where this propensity came from. First Broadcast 14th June, 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-12-23 Profile of Bill Moss: Chairman of Moss Capital and FSHD sufferer At the age of 28 Bill Moss was diagnosed with FSHD, a rare form of muscular dystrophy. This saw Moss set out to achieve in 20 years what others took 40 years to complete. In 2007 he resigned from Macquarie Bank after 22 years and devotes his time to the disabled and research into FSHD. First broadcast 23th September, 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-12-22 Secret World of China's Communist Rulers Richard McGregor details the inside machinations and operations of China's Communist Party rulers. He says the Communist Party and the Vatican share much in terms of how a few people at the top have total control, as well as their addiction to ritual and secrecy. Contesting William Shakespeare A look at the mad, bad world of alternative Shakespeare scholarship, and the people behind the various competing theories suggesting that somebody other than ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-12-21 Feminism turns 100 It's 100 years since the establishment of International Women's Day and the movement behind it has changed our world beyond recognition. In a world bookended by raunch culture and burquas, Hillary and Sarah, maximum opportunity and lagging wages, we look at where feminism has been and where it still has to go. First broadcast 25th March, 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-12-20 Christopher Hitchens autobiography An extended interview with one of our very regular guests, Christopher Hitchens, whose first appearance dates back to 1991 when he wasn´t as well known as he is today. Journalist, author, and essayist has just completed his memoir called Hitch-22, published by Allen and Unwin. This interview was first broadcast 27 May 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-12-16 New Orleans Part 4 - Inside Treme with Lolis Elie Lolis Eric Elie is a journalist, filmmaker, and expert on the history and cultural life of one of New Orleans' most historic neighbourhoods - Faubourg Treme. In the French colonial period free blacks from around the Francophone world settled in the district, and made it a site of early civil rights activity. On Sundays the French allowed slaves to gather at Congo Square to hold markets and dance, a tradition which led to the birth of jazz. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-12-15 New Orleans Part 3 - New Orleans East In this program, Phillip travels to New Orleans East, on the outskirts of the city. It's an area which was hit hard by Hurricane Katrina and five years later, many houses are still abandoned. New Orleans East boasts the 'highest concentration of Vietnamese outside Vietnam', it's a tight-knit community, anchored by strong Catholic leadership. But many people work in the fishing industry and have been unable to work since the BP oil spill in the Gulf of M ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-12-13 New Orleans - Part 1 Three New Orleans locals join Phillip to discuss the politics and culture of the city. They also talk about issues affecting the people in both the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the recent Gulf oil spill. Originally broadcast on 15 July 2010 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-12-09 Lost Dreams of Iraq; Tamara Chalabi Tamara Chalabi, daughter of the controversial Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi, lived her life in exile before her first encounter with Iraq in 2003. She found it dismal. In a new memoir she interweaves the history of her prominent family with that of the country, seeking to reclaim Iraq from a war which has reduced the country to a desert of tanks and screaming people. Addicted to the silver screen From a very young age Brian McFarlane was an avid film f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-12-07 The Big O: Oprah Winfrey's politics On the eve of Oprah Winfrey's visit to Australia, Phillip discusses her influence on American culture. Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro on why we ought to be grateful to Julian Assange for Wikileaks and President Barack Obama's deal with the Republicans over taxes. Political protest Were the British student protests last month a game changer or simply an ineffective form of protest? The austerity measures introduced by the government are in response to the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-12-06 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle discusses Wikileaks, labour force participation and the year that was. John Pilger on Wikileaks Veteran Australian journalist John Pilger discusses the latest twists and turns in the Wikileaks case. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-12-02 China bubble about to burst? Is China's enormous credit bubble about to burst? Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement - Part 2 Trade expert Professor Ann Capling and media expert Professor Jock Given on the potential and the dangers of the Trans-Pacific free trade negotiations. The Boy: a Holocaust story A photograph of a frightened little boy with his arms raised, and a Nazi soldier pointing a gun at him is an iconic image from the Holocaust. But this photograph, and about fifty others, wer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-12-01 North Korea Is China really ready to abandon North Korea and support reunification of the two Koreas? Zimbabwe Part 2: The Last Resort President Robert Mugabe´s post election violence of 2008 has prompted some remarkable books. Last week, author Peter Godwin, discussed his book `The Fear: The Last Days of Robert Mugabe´. Today, Author Douglas Rogers discusses his new book 'The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe'. When diamonds were found in a field near his ageing parents' farm in Zim ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-11-30 A Farewell to Social Democracy? German academic Wolfgang Merkel discusses the slump in popularity for Social Democratic parties across Europe. Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro reports on the response to the latest Wikileaks release of diplomatic cable; and two threats to civil liberties in the US - both real and imagined. The imagined coming from the Tea Party's hysterical response to body scanning at airports, the other from the arrest of a Somali teenager in Portland. Cricket's serial sledg ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-11-29 Canberra Babylon Results of the Victorian state election and the last report of the year from Christian Kerr. Fiji Water in Fiji In US, the bottles of 'Fiji' are as ubiquitous as coca-cola; Fiji is the number one bottled water in the country. And although the water comes from an aquifer in Fiji, the company which owns the "Fiji" brand and takes all the profits is American. Over the last couple of years, the company has been criticised doing business with Fiji´s military dictatorship, but ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-11-26 CLASSIC LNL: On Robert McNamara Christopher Hitchens and Michael Sexton discuss the life and times of America's controversial Vietnam War-era defence secretary. First broadcast 25 March 1995 CLASSIC LNL: Play and politics Richard Neville, Tariq Ali and Angela McRobbie discuss the rebellious and fun-poking counter-culture that helped change politics in the 60s and 70s. First broadcast 25 April 1995 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-11-25 Irish financial and political crisis Once the European economic miracle, Ireland now faces a financial and political crisis without precedent. As a huge bailout package is being negotiated and the country braces itself for huge spending cuts, what will the fallout be for Europe and the rest of the world? Griftopia - who controls America's political and economic life? Rolling Stone magazine contributing editor Matt Taibbi says that the global financial crisis is not past, but prologue and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-11-24 Zimbabwe Part 1: The Fear After three decades of tyrannical rule, President Robert Mugabe, lost the election in 2008. But the dictator did not concede power. Instead he called for a meeting with his politburo and got his thugs to unleash a brutal campaign of terror. The outcome: The country was ransacked and Mugabe continues to be as powerful as ever. But something else has come out of the 2008 violence. It has prompted some remarkable books. One such book is by Peter Godwin, a jour ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-11-23 William Charles Wentowrth: Australia's greatest native son? Former politician, Andrew Tink has written the first biography of one of Australia's most interesting historical figures: William Charles Wentworth . The son of convict and an aristocrat, Wentworth was a huge presence in colonial New South Wales - half the population turned out to pay their respects when his funeral procession wound it´s way through Sydney. Wentworth he started up New South Wales' first independent newspaper; and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-11-22 Aung San Suu Kyi interview from 1996 An interview with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from the Late Night Live 1996 archive. The philosophy of Aung San Suu Kyi The philosophy, religion and personal life of the lady of Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi with Peter Carey, a long-time family friend. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-11-19 CLASSIC LNL: Death of Yitzak Rabin Interview with Robert Fisk following the assassination of Israeli prime minister Yitzak Rabin, first broadcast 6 November 1995. CLASSIC LNL: The Dismissal Editor of The Australian, Paul Kelly, talks about his new book on the Dismissal, first broadcast 6 November 1995. CLASSIC LNL: The science of complexity The new science of complexity is about understanding the drive of systems such as ecologies and economies and life itself -- systems that have up unti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-11-18 Jane Hawking: My Life with Stephen Jane Hawking is the author of Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, an updated memoir to reflect the healing of the rift with her former husband following their widely publicised divorce in 1990. Proposed Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement If negotiations for a multilateral free trade deal are successful, what effect will this have on Australia and the trade rules affecting the Asia-Pacific region? Would this pose any threat to Australia's PBS, o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-11-17 The making of Mr Xi - China's Next Leader At a secretive meeting recently, the Chinese Communist Party appointed Vice-President Xi Jinping to a senior military post. China watchers predict this to mean that Mr Xi is now being groomed to take over the leadership of the party in two years time. Terminal Decline: a diagnosis of Australia's health care system When it comes to our health, we are faced with a doubled edged sword: because of medical advances, people are living much longer than ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-11-16 Bruce Shapiro Bruce talks about the historical links between the CIA and the Nazi Party. The 2010 Federal Election Author Bob Ellis followed the 2010 federal election campaign and its major players very closely. These are his unique views. William Dobell - an artist's life Sir William Dobell was one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. He won the Archibald Prize three times and the controversy which erupted following his first win with his portrait of Joshua Smith, not only ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-11-15 Canberra with Christian Kerr As the parliamentary year comes to an end, Christian finds out if either of the two major parties is showing any sign of coming to grips with the challenges and opportunities posed by the 'new paradigm'. Why momentum rules our world Mark Roeder believes that momentum, or The Big Mo was the real driver of the global financial crisis and affects everything from religion to climate change via the decision to invade Iraq. He explains why momentum is shaping our li ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-11-12 CLASSIC LNL: Cultural Memory A special edition of Classic LNL to mark Australia Day 1995. CLASSIC LNL: Spirit Stories The cultural significance of ghost stories, first broadcast in January 1995. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-11-11 After the floods Pakistani journalist Mustafa Qadri has done extensive research on the political and social implications following the floods, including the link between civil politics and gang warfare in Karachi. In memory of The Great Franquin A conversation with the veteran showman and hypnotist, Francis (Pat) Quinn. This interview was part of the Century Series, broadcast on Late Night Live in 1999. The Great Franquin died recently. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-11-10 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle discusses the Government's difficulty with communicating its strategy in spite of the overall economic success story. Obama's Asia mission President Barack Obama visited India, South Korea, Indonesia and Japan this week. Is the President returning to the practice of protecting America´s long standing interests in the region or is this an 'anti-China voyage´? Garry McDonald Actor of screen and stage Garry McDonald's comic roles have often overshadowed his d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-11-09 Remembering the Holocaust On the 72nd anniversary of Kristallnacht, the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, Dr Piotr Cwyinski, is in Australia. Last year international visitors to the Museum totalled 1.3 million, but what are the challenges faced in conserving the material evidence of Nazi crimes and saving the memory of the victims? At a time when a new museum narrative style is being created, what are the specific difficulties in building a clear message about one of the hardest ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-11-08 The Betrayal of Papunya Journalist Russell Skelton´s new book is called King Brown Country: The Betrayal of Papunya. It's the product of a five-year investigation into decades of rorting and mismanagement in the Central Desert community of Papunya prior to the Northern Territory Intervention. What makes a good leader? The first in-depth study by the Lowy Institute of the education, family background and traditions that go to make leaders in the Pacific States. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-11-04 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro analyses the mid-term elections. He says that the Republicans won thanks to white, middle-class males in the Midwest and South. A lot of Obama's 2008 constituency - women and the young and minorities - stayed home. In fact where African-Americans and Latinos turned out in large numbers, Democrats defied the sweep and won close victories. Koori Courts County Court Judge John Smallwood presides over the County Koori Court in Victoria. He talks about the aims o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-11-03 Truth and Lies Public Forum This public forum, part of the Don Dunstan Leadership Dialogues explores truth and lies in public life. Annabel Crabb from The Drum, Political Insider Cathie King and Luke Stegemann from `The Adelaide Review´ take part in an analysis of the quality of dialogue which takes place among political leaders, the media and public figures. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-11-02 The Tea Party´s Cold War roots Historian Sean Wilentz traces the origins of the Tea Party back to the John Birch Society in the 1960s, and the introduction of granduated income tax in the early twentieth century. A food lover's pilgrimage Authors Dee Nolan and Lucy Malouf take us on a food lover´s pilgrimage through the culinary landscapes of ancient Persia and to the tiny villages of Santiago de Compostela. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-11-01 Canberra Babylon The latest from Canberra with Christian Kerr How Wars End Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs magazine, writes about the final stages of battle in his new book How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle. The life of Cecil B. De Mille Scott Eyman has written a biography of the man who mastered the psychological power of moving pictures before anyone else, Cecil B De Mille. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-10-29 CLASSIC LNL: Australian Institutions - Part 3 The final of our series on women, work and institutions of the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-10-28 Whitefella justice, Blackfella justice Across the country,a system of Aboriginal courts promise to re-engage Aboriginal people with the legal system and to lower the high rates of crime in indigenous communities. But do we need a separate form of justice? And how should the success of the Koori courts be measured? Contesting William Shakespeare A look at the mad, mad world of the Shakespeare doubters, from the late 18th century onwards. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-10-27 British austerity The political implications of the British coalition government's drastic new austerity measures. Has pornography hijacked our sexuality? As increasing numbers of people gain access to internet pornography and the type of porn available has become more extreme. In the multi-billion-dollar world of pornography what's now mainstream is 'gonzo porn', which depicts hard-core body-punishing sex in which women are demeaned and debased. Gail Dines believes this has not only hija ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-10-26 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro says that with a week to go before the U.S. midterms, the landscape is still murky. "The smart pollsters give Republicans a 4:1 likelihood of taking a majority in the House, and some startling Democrats like Barney Frank are facing a tough fight. But things have shifted in the last week of a campaign before and no one feels confident. In the Senate, the chances of a Republican victory seem to be slipping away". North Korea: 'A Communist Monarchy'? Sociologist, A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-10-25 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle discusses the latest arrival of asylum seekers to Christmas Island and next month's mid-year budget review. Anna Baltzer: Witness in Palestine Anna Baltzer is a young American Jew - the granddaughter of holocaust survivors, who grew up thinking Israel could do no wrong. A backpacking trip to the Middle East changed her mind, and she became an activist for the Palestinian cause. Street Fight in Naples Art and uprising in Naples from the 17th Century to today w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-10-22 CLASSIC LNL: Australian Institutions Part 2 The second of three lectures on Australian Institutions first broadcast 1 March 1994. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-10-21 Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl With worldwide book sales topping the 100 million mark British author Roald Dahl is arguably the greatest force in children´s literature in the 20th century. The dark fantasy world he created in books like The BFG, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, The Witches and of course, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, left an indelible mark on his young readers, and influenced a generation of children´s writers like JK Rowling. Dahl prided himself on being ab ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-10-20 Report from two HIV-AIDS frontlines A report from two different HIV-AIDS frontlines, sub-Saharan Africa and the urban United States. Biography of Barry Humphries The first biography of Barry Humphries to fully document his life and his creative and artistic contribution to Australian culture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-10-19 Bruce Shapiro - latest from the United States Conversations With Myself: Nelson Mandela We discuss Nelson Mandela's new book Conversations With Myself with journalist and historian RW Johnson. It's a collection of notes, letters, diaries and recordings from prison which reveal in moving detail the intimate cost of Mandela's epic battle for freedom. Fixing the Sky: The chequered history of playing with the weather As the world continues to stall on dealing with global warming, the idea th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-10-18 Canberra with Christian Kerr Christian discusses the private members bills which were introduced in parliament today. Philanthropy in Australia and USA Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-10-15 CLASSIC LNL: Australian Institutions Part 1 First broadcast in February 1994, this programme features a public forum with then Prime Minister Paul Keating, Constitutional Expert Cheryle Saunders and Father Frank Brennan on future directions for Australia's institutions. This is Part 1 of a three part series. CLASSIC LNL: Australian Institutions Part 1 This is discussion on Australia´s institutions was recorded in Canberra in February 1994. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-10-14 The Morality of Mortality Public Forum As part of the Matter of Life and Death series with the Melbourne International Arts Festival,Phillip Adams hosted a public forum to explore questions surrounding Mortality - whether we have a right to choose the manner of our own death, and does it matter whether we believe in God or an afterlife? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-10-13 Late Night Live Music Sting 1: Track: Heat Haze Artist: NARDOO CD: Beyond The Fields Label: Orpheus Music #: OM402 Sting 2: Track: Mermen Sound Artist: ISAN CD: Glow in the Dark Safari Set Label: Morr Music #: MM099 Irish Stew When the global financial crisis started, Iceland´s total economic meltdown surprised the world. This was not the kind of catastrophe expected from a European country. Now it´s Ireland´s turn. The Emerald Isle was once celebrated as the miracle economy of E ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-10-12 Power Crisis Written by former Minister and Labor Historian, Rodney Cavalier, Power Crisis is an explosive account of the self-destruction of the New South Wales Labor government and why Australia's oldest political party is in desperate trouble at a national level. The Battling Baroness Caroline Cox was made a peer by Margaret Thatcher back in the 1980s, and since then she has been using her seat in Britain's House of Lords to speak out against injustices around the world on issues rangin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-10-08 CLASSIC LNL; The Politics of Commemoration The politics of memory and commemoration, first broadcast 141th February, 1995. Both the end of the war in the Pacific, the bombing of Dresden, the liberation of Auschwitz, are all events linked to the war, but are remembered and commemorated in different ways. Debate about how events should be remembered often accompanies these anniversaries and Museums, installations, shrines and official ceremonies have all become part of the way we commemora ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-10-06 'Words and Ideas' The book looks at the different philosophies associated with words. It helps explain the history and implications of a number of 'isms' bandied around in the Humanist movement. Words like atheism, agnosticism, capitalism, individualism, liberalism, socialism and postmodernism. 'Unmaking War, Remaking Men' How do we learn and teach violence? Kathleen Barry examines the experiences of soldiers in training and combat, as well as their victims, through a politics of empathy ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-10-05 Bruce Shapiro Bruce discusses the case of Tyler Clementi, the gay Rutgers University student who committed suicide after his roommate webcast one of his sexual encounters. Tariq Ali on Palestine and President Obama British historian, author, essayist, filmmaker and political commentator Tariq Ali discusses the question of Palestine and the performance of US President Barack Obama Judgement Day: Paul Collins Former Catholic priest Paul Collins has a radical plan to reinvent Christianity to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-09-30 President for Life? The Sri Lankan government amended the constitution earlier this month removing the article that limits a president to two six year terms. Ayodhya verdict The long-awaited legal decision over the future of the Ayodhya site which has been disputed by Muslims and Hindus in India will be announced today. art and soul With a new series, a new book and a new exhibition, curator Hetti Perkins, is putting the past and present of indigenous art on the map in a big way. She talk ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-09-29 The Miliband brothers Does Ed Milibands appointment as the leader of the British Labour Party mean the death knell for new labour? Shall the Religious Inherit? Religious identification and church attendance is in steep decline in the West. But it turns out that this trend coupled with other currents such as the drop in fertility rates in the West and global migration, could see the forces of religious fundamentalism dramatically alter the world as we know it. In fact as the population of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-09-28 Bruce Shapiro The mid-term election season has reached its peak with five weeks to go and probably the craziest climate in an election Bruce Shapiro can think of. It's got everything from the loony candidates, like Carl Paladino or Christine O'Donnell to the anti-masturbation Tea Party insurgent in Delaware. It's the poll - which is all over the place, with enormous differences between local and national polls, sudden surges for dark horse candidates and generally a sense that the outcome i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-09-27 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle looks ahead at the likely performance and stability of the new Federal Government War and Robotics How the United States is remaking warfare through the use of robotics and unmanned aircraft. But most of this is progressing without serious debate or regulations to govern their use. Can it make warfare much more precise, or does it raise too many ethical questions? Pygmonia Since the confirmation that several tribes of Pygmy Aboriginal people really did liv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-09-24 CLASSIC LNL: Black leadership in USA On the anniversary of the death of Malcolm X, a discussion on the state of black leadership in the United States, first broadcast 23 February 1995. CLASSIC LNL; Robert Mapplethorpe Exhibition A discussion about an exhibition of the work by controversial American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. First broadcast 23.2.95. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-09-23 Profile of Bill Moss: Chairman of Moss Capital and FSHD sufferer At the age of 28 Bill Moss was diagnosed with FSHD, a rare form of muscular dystrophy. Many might have heeded instructions to slow down, however for Bill Moss it meant that he had to achieve in 20 years what others took 40 years to complete. In 2007 he resigned from Macquarie Bank after 22 years spent developing its property arm into one of the most lucrative in the business. Now he devotes his time to the disabled and rese ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-09-22 City or Bush? Policies to get people to move from cities to regional areas have been tried and failed before. If we look at the history of the past 100 years, what are the chances of the government's agreement with the independents to get the delivery of services in regional areas underway? Beyond the Global Financial Crisis Are there danger signs post the Global Financial Crisis for the US, Europe and Australia? Death of Murray Sayle Veteran Australian journalist Murray Sayle, who was ba ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-09-21 Population, Sustainability and the viability of a VFT The federal election put the issues facing regional Australia back on the agenda inlcuding, transport, infrastructure and what constitutes a sustainable population. But whether we want a bigger Australia or not, is it necessary to look at the option of a very fast train linking up regions with cities? A group of business leaders, academics and transport experts join a public forum to discuss these issues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-09-20 Canberra with Christian Kerr We discuss Rob Oakeshott's parliamentary reform deal with the two leaders. Punch & Judy In his new book Punch & Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010 author Mungo MacCallum writes that September 7 was an auspicious day for red-headed Sheilas. 'The most celebrated of them all, Elizabeth I, England´s Gloriana, had been born on that date just 477 years earlier. She too had had the odd run-in with a Mad Monk or two, but was generally thought to have done p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-09-17 CLASSIC LNL: Canberra Babylon Classic Canberra on Late Night Live with Geoff Kitney, back when Mr Paul Keating was prime minister and John Hewson the leader of the Opposition. Classic LNL: On sex, rape and responsibility A discussion on the complexity of negotiating sex, rules and responsibility. Classic LNL: Fred Paterson A discussion on the legacy of Fred Paterson, the first and only Communist elected to a state or federal parliament. He was elected as member for the north Queensland ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-09-16 China's one-child policy: what next? China's one-child policy, which has accelerated the onset of labour shortages and the world's most rapidly increasing ageing population, is expected to be relaxed next year. Living Islam in America Professor Akbar Ahmed travelled to over seventy-five cities across the United States and visited over one hundred mosques for his new book `Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam´, which explores and documents how Muslims are fitting into U.S. society ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-09-15 Iran and Ahmadinejad Allegations of fraud in last year's Iranian presidential election led to massive street demonstrations. Since the subsequent crackdown, signs of dissent and street demonstrations are a rarity. Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer with the New Yorker magazine just conducted a face-to-face interview with President Ahmadinejad. The true story of Jim McNeil, violent criminal and brilliant playwright Jim McNeil spent most of his life in an out of the prison system. After he was ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-09-14 Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce tells us that a Freedom of Information Act request just revealed that the great photographer of the civil rights movement, Ernest Withers was a paid FBI informant. Bruce also discussed the challenges both the Democratic and the Republican parties are facing going into the midterm elections in ten weeks time. Coalminers' world tour The Australian coal mining boom isn't just happening here in Australia. Australian companies are doing a roaring trade in develop ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-09-13 Canberra Babylon An analysis of the new ministerial line-up of Julia Gillard's government. Koctopus: the billionaires behind the Tea Party Brothers David and Chris Koch together own most of Koch Industries - the second largest privately owned company in America, and what David Koch calls "the largest company that you´ve never heard of." Together, they are spending hundreds of millions of dollars waging a highly organised - and often secretive - campaign against progressive politics in th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-09-10 CLASSIC LNL: 50th anniversary of the Liberals A discussion looking at the founding ideals of the Australian Liberal Party and how far the party has come. CLASSIC LNL: Will Self An interview with British author Will Self. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-09-09 Cyber attack threat Australia's leading cybersecurity expert Dr Paul Twomey wants Australian business leaders to step up to the plate and do more to reduce the threat of cyber attacks. Biography of Queen Mother Consistently the most popular member of Britain's royal family, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, came relucantly to the throne following the abdication of King Edward VI, but became a symbol of the nation's resistance to the Nazis during World War II. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-09-08 The Presidential Preacher Professor Jack Miles discusses President Barack Obama's America in the world religious context. The world that never was: a true story of dreamers, schemers, anarchists and secret agents. The story of the world´s first international terrorist campaign -- and the world's first international war on terror. It's a story of intrigue, spying, secrecy and deception so bad, it would make George Bush and Dick Cheney blush. The terrorists in question were operating all ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-09-07 The Decision Australia finally has a new government. So how exactly will it work? America's white underclass In his new book Rainbow Pie, Joe Bageant writes about the white underclass, which has become the biggest class in the U.S. today. Creative Innovation Tani de Jong believes that creativity is the strategic tool of the 21st century and that it must be a crucial part of leadership and management equations if Australian companies are to remain competitive in a global world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-09-06 Canberra with Christian Kerr Is the new role of the country independents a modern phenomenon in Australian politics? The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War Ben Shephard argues that the Second World War's most important legacy was a refugee crisis. His book deals with the Allies´ attempts to deal with hundreds of thousands of Displaced Persons, through the creation of a new international agency: the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-09-03 CLASSIC LNL: Hurricane Katrina This month marks the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, this program was broadcast just days after the event. --------------------------------- As the days since Hurricane Katrina go by, more and more issues are rising to the surface. Refugees from New Orleans, like Michael Tisserand have poured into neighbouring towns where they are trying to rebuild their lives, and contact friends and family. But there are also serious race, class and environmental di ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-09-02 Blair's Way It´s been described as the most anticipated political biography of all time. No newspaper extracts or serialisations appeared before this week´s publication, producing maximum media competition - and if the reports are correct, it appears that Tony Blair has managed to write a reflective, frank and personal account of his ten years as Britain´s Prime Minister. Terror &Charity The collapse of state authority in Pakistan following the floods is allowing power to pass to NGOs l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-09-01 America's medical-industrial complex Dr Walter Bortz is an expert on ageing and longevity who has spent many years railing against the way America has become so seduced by the big pharmaceutical companies that it's spending trillion of dollars on repair, rather than education leading to prevention. The Atlantic Ocean - A Biography The Atlantic Ocean is a vast body of water covering 33 million square miles. Its biographer argues that it has its very own psychology, and over the centuries th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-08-31 The match fixing scandal - what next? Match fixing raises its ugly head once again as an alleged Pakistani match fixer pockets millions and says that he fixed cricket matches in England and Australia. Bruce Shapiro A new national arts curriculum A proposed new national arts curriculum for schools is expected to be launched in the coming months. Some teachers, especially those in the area of visual arts, are appalled. The authors of the new curriculum, however, feel that the new syllab ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-08-30 Canberra Babylon This week Laura discusses the situation after the Federal election; a hung parliament and what the various Independents are demanding in exchange for their support. Cyber war Cyber war is real and cyber war is already with us. It is different to conventional warfare or even the nuclear threat. It is beyond the battlefield and it happens at the speed of light and it is capable of devastating a modern nation. But is it possible to avoid? The Possessed: Adventures with Ru ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-08-27 CLASSIC LNL: Indulgence and intoxication A pre-Christmas program from 1993, featuring William Burroughs reading "The Junky's Christmas" and a discussion about the use and abuse of drugs and alcohol throughout history. Originally broadcast on 23/12/93. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-08-26 Pakistan floods With twenty million Pakistanis homeless, and floods continuing to devastate the country, humanitarian help is desperately needed. Terrorism and the economy There have been many complex reasons given for the cause of the global financial crisis, but Italian economist and journalist Loretta Napoleoni argues that the US-led war on terrorism was a major factor. Making Books for the Blind Alex and Sarah are computer narrators of thousands of books which are no longer subject t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-08-25 'Skyful of lies' BBC Presenter Nik Gowing has carried out a study titled `Skyful of Lies´ and Black Swans in which he investigates how changes to technology is making institutions of power, from the media to government, more vulnerable. The Icarus Syndrome Peter Beinart looks at three times in American history where the success of America internationally has made it susceptible to outbreaks of political hubris. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-08-24 Bruce Shapiro This week, Bruce talks about a number of Democrats in Congress who are currently under ethics investigations, a central dilemma facing President Obama and 21st Century Democrats as they try to remake their party. Global leaders? Kishore Mahbubani writes in Newsweek magazine that politicians are elected in local constituencies to take care of local concerns. 'Those who try to save the world will not last long.' The Eagle Watchers The Eagle Watchers is an anthology of field st ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-08-23 Election post-mortem An election post-mortem with Lenore Taylor, Peter Van Onselen, and Christian Kerr. An Exclusive Love The true story of Johanna Adorjan's grandparents, two Hungarian Jews who survived the Holocaust, fled Budapest in 1956 during the uprising, started a new life in Denmark, but who decided to take their own lives at the same time in October 1991. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-08-20 CLASSIC LNL: Canberra Watch This week was the first for Alexander Downer as the new leader of the Federal Opposition. Paul Keating was still Prime Minister. Originally broadcast on 31/5/94. CLASSIC LNL: Prisoner Reform Garry Lynch talks about his work with both the perpetrators and the victims of crime. Originally broadcast on 31/5/94. CLASSIC LNL: Irish Politics and Nationalism Conor Cruise O'Brien, in Australia for Bloomsday celebrations, discusses his ideas of Irish nationalism. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-08-19 Iraq's Future As the last US combat brigade pulls out of Iraq, their presence has been largely regarded as a military success story. However, Iraq remains seriously divided and unstable. Continued violence culminated in another suicide bombing in Baghdad this week and both political parties have suspended talks about a new government. What is the future for democracy and stability in Iraq? The Responsible Scientist This week, John Forge won the Eureka Prize for Ethics for his book The R ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-08-18 Senator Bob Brown The outcome of this election might be on knife´s edge for the two major parties, but one thing we do know is that whoever wins government, the balance of power in the Senate will almost certainly be held by The Greens. Phillip talks to Greens leader about how he will use that leverage the Senate. How to Disappear In an electronic world where your personal information is no longer your own, and everything is now online, is it possible to hide? Learn how to prevent iden ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-08-17 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses the on-again, off-again, court hearing surrounding same-sex marriage in California. The power of opinion polls The discussion looks at what opinion polls are doing to modern election campaigns. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-08-16 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle reports on the ALP's election campaign launch in Brisbane, with less than one week to go before the federal election. The China Syndrome It´s impossible to talk about Australia´s current and future prosperity without factoring in China. But there´s still a lot we don´t know about China´s financial sector, especially it´s colossal banking sector, which makes Wall Street before the GFC look like a model of transparency. Just how solid are the foundations ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-08-13 CLASSIC LNL: USA Update, Bruce Shapiro This week, Bruce Shapiro talks about Samuel Alito, the latest George Bush nominee for the US Supreme Court. Originally broadcast on 24/1/2006. CLASSIC LNL: Postwar: Europe Since 1945 Tony Judt's book Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 is a magisterial examination of everything from the Soviet purges to Scandinavian social democracy, from the Greek civil war to the German film industry, and from the rise of the fridge to the decline of the pub ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-08-12 New Orleans Part 5 - Inside Treme with Lolis Elie Lolis Eric Elie is a journalist, filmmaker, and expert on the history and cultural life of one of New Orleans´ most historic neighbourhoods - Faubourg Treme. In the French colonial period free blacks from around the Francophone world settled in the district, and made it a site of early civil rights activity. On Sundays the French allowed slaves to gather at Congo Square to hold markets and dance, a tradition which led to the birth of jazz. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-08-11 South Korean suicides Over the past 30 years South Korea has undergone dramatic economic, cultural and social change. It has been transformed from a country living under strict authoritarian government rule, steeped in rural tradition and Confucian family values, to emerge as a shining example of modern democracy. However the dark side to this success is a spate of celebrity suicides over the past three years which has seen South Korea top the suicide rate among the 31 most wealthy nations ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-08-10 The Dynastic Democrat As Pakistan's flooding crisis worsened, President Asif Ali Zardari travelled to Europe where he was scheduled to launch his son Bilawal Bhutto´s political career. Bilawal Bhutto, the heir to the Bhutto-Zardari dynasty, however, pulled out of the scheduled rally at the last minute because of the controversy surrounding his father's visit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-08-09 Canberra with Christian Kerr What are the historical parallels in this federal election, and their indications? 2010 Election: The Battle for Queensland A panel discussion looking at why the State of Queensland is so crucial to the outcome of this federal election. The Finger In his book, The Finger, Angus Trumble has looked at the digit in history and culture and in art and science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-08-06 CLASSIC LNL: A white perspective on the South African elections A discussion held on the eve of the election that saw the end to 342 years of white domination in South Africa. Originally broadcast on 25/4/94. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-08-05 New Orleans Part 4 - Wilbert Rideau Wilbert Rideau spent 44 years in Louisiana state prisons, 12 of those in solitary confinement. He was sentenced to death in 1961 for the murder of a white woman, and his sentence was later commuted to life. He was determined to make a meaningful life for himself: this is a story of personal transformation, and the transformation of one of America's most notorious prisons into the safest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-08-04 Interview with Kevin Rudd Phillip Adams speaks to former Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, the first media interview since he stepped aside for Julia Gillard. Labor's Flaws Former Labor Party Leader, Mark Latham, wrote in the Australian Financial Review recently that the great leaders of the ALP, like Ben Chiefly earned their positions based on the progressive ideas they held for Australia. Today´s party bears little resemblance to that. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-08-03 'The Shame Games' New Delhi will host the Commonwealth Games from October 2010. While it is more than likely that India will host an incredible opening ceremony with the spectacle, colour and razzle dazzle of the Bollywood film industry, questions are being asked about the shoddy building work, the corruption and the political bureaucracy surrounding the Games. Singing Saltwater Country At the age of twenty, John Bradley went to teach Aboriginal children in the remote town of Borroloola, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-08-02 Canberra Babylon Laura discusses the latest poll results, which show that Labor is in trouble and that according to the Nielsen poll if an election was held today, the Coalition would win. What could we expect from an Abbott-led government? The trials of Cambodia When she was a child, Theary Seng's parents were murdered by the Khmer Rouge and she was forced to flee the country of her birth. Returning 20 years later as a young US-trained lawyer, she found a devastated country, unable to pr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-07-30 CLASSIC LNL: The Cold War Martin Walker witnessed the last decade of The Cold War from both sides of the fence. In his book "The cold War" he analyuses it as "a war between social and economic systems", which had as its aim the economic destruction of the enemy. Originally broadcast on 21/3/94. CLASSIC LNL: Oscars: Fact versus fiction in Hollywood A discussion, mainly focusing on the films up for best picture at the 1994 Oscar awards that are based on historical events. Originally ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-07-29 New Orleans Program # 3: New Orleans East In this program, Phillip travels to New Orleans East, on the outskirts of the city. It´s an area which was hit hard by Hurricane Katrina and five years later, many houses are still abandoned. New Orleans East boasts the `highest concentration of Vietnamese outside Vietnam´, it´s a tight-knit community, anchored by strong Catholic leadership. But many people work in the fishing industry and have been unable to work since the BP oil spill in the Gu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-07-27 Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce talks about the Wikileaks Afghanistan document case and puts it in the context of leaks in American history. Indonesian Military Politics Not many of us can claim to be part of history. But David Jenkins, the former Foreign Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, was banned by the late Indonesian President Suharto from entering the country for eight years from 1984 to 1994. His book titled `Suharto and his Generals: Indonesian Military Politics 1975-1983" and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-07-26 Canberra Babylon Christian Kerr analysis last night's debate between Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott and discusses the preference deal between Labor and The Greens. Will China challenge US power? According to all predictors, China will overtake the American economy within the next 30 years. One of the world´s leading proponents of the `realist´ school of international relations believes that the balance of power in Asia will change significantly over that time and that China's ascent is l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-03-22 Canberra Babylon Christian Kerr reviews last Saturday's State elections in Tasmania and South Australia and looks forward to Tuesday's debate on Health Reform. The Invention of the Jewish People Professor Shlomo Sand has triggered a debate with his new book which argues that one of the founding myths of Israel - the exile and return of the Jews from their ancestral land - is a myth. The Poisoner´s Handbook In The Poisoner's Handbook, Deborah Blum tells the story of how modern forensic me ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-03-19 CLASSIC LNL: In the corridors of power After years of talking to journalists working in the press gallery at Parliament House in Canberra, Late Night Live decided it was time to gain a bit of inside information on how the House works and what really goes on inside it. In this program Phillip wanders the corridors of power talking to politicians, journalists and the Clerk of the Senate. Originally broadcast on 30/11/04. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-03-18 Future of conservatism in Australia The term 'conservative' gets thrown around quite a lot when referring to conservatives and even some media commentators. But do we really know what a conservative philosophy is? When looking at the policies from both the government and the opposition today, is there any resemblance to a political philosophy that embraces gradual change and one that is against ideology? The Rich Man Journalist, Charles Stewart grew up without his father but believed him t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-03-17 Translating The Sorrow of War For anyone who has been to Vietnam in the last fifteen years, you're bound to have seen copies of The Sorrow of War being sold in the streets. It is, as the sub title states, a novel of North Vietnam. How it was translated into English is a story within itself. And the man behind the translation, Frank Palmos, has his own tale to tell and account of his experience covering the Vietnam War as a young Australian foreign correspondent. The Sorrow of War has been r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-03-16 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses the health care plan that is keeping President Obama temporarily in Washington as the voting heats up amongst the Democrats. There's opposition on the right from anti-abortion Democrats and on the left from Democrats who argue that the bill needs to include a public insurance scheme. There is also trouble abroad as the rift between the US administration and Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu widens over the settlements dispute. Australia's Oldest House ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-03-15 Justice in Afghanistan and Iraq In both Iraq and Afghanistan, the international community has been busy building judicial systems in those countries. Meanwhile violence against women continues to increase. How effective have the judicial projects been in these past years? Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle discusses the Government's health reforms; Tony Abbott's parental leave policy and the continuing fallout from the Government's home insulation scheme. The Politics of Happiness Over the pas ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-03-12 CLASSIC LNL: Solomon Islands: Peace on the Weathercoast In this program, first broadcast in May 2004, Late Night Live visits the Weathercoast, a beautiful, rugged and remote area on the southern side of the island of Guadalcanal, which was regarded as the front line during the civil war in the Solomons. It was the scene of some horrific human rights abuses, committed by Harold Keke and his out-of-control followers, and the equally out-of-control Solomon Islands police-led operation sent to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-03-11 Iceland: From banking crisis to protector of free speech The failure of Iceland's banks in October 2008 has resulted in critical changes in the tiny nation of 330,000 people, including bringing down a government. The present government is negotiating with Britain and the Netherlands over how to repay debts and a referendum last weekend over the terms and conditions of that repayment was rejected with a resounding no by 93 per cent of the population. In the midst of these economic woes, Icel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-03-10 Canberra Babylon Christian Kerr discusses the visit by Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the agreement made between him and the prime minister, Kevin Rudd, on how to stop people-smuggling and why the government is so fixated on attacking the opposition leader, Tony Abbott. Communicating Science Last month the government launched the first national science commuication report titled "Inspiring Australia: a national strategy for engaging with the sciences". The recommendatio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-03-09 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro reports from Haiti where the country is struggling with the devastation brought on by an earthquake two months ago. Bruce has been working with local journalists, seeing the experience through their eyes. He also discusses the politics of food and shelter and the state of the Preval government. How North Koreans See Themselves Brian Myers says that much of the world is mistaken to view North Korea as a communist state. In his book, The Cleanest Race, he traces ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-03-08 The storms of James Hansen A discussion with the prominent NASA climate scientist about his journey of scientific discovery, the gradual process by which he became convinced of the science of global warming, and how he believes scientists need to address current public doubt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-03-04 Open Government: ideals & realities of 2.0 A conversation about 'open government' in light of the recent report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce. The report says that by using the collaborative tools of the internet (Web 2.0) government will be more democratic, participatory and informed, government policy more relevant and public servants more engaged. It would unlock vast amounts of information held by governments. The benefits are many but there are political and practical impediments. D ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-03-03 Why We Lie Following on from our discussion last week on lying in politics, psychologist Dorothy Rowe discusses her upcoming book Why We Lie. Rowe argues that there is no separation between personal and public lives - the two are indivisible. She says, when we lie to others, we are also lying to ourselves. We might think we `get away´ with a lie, but all Lies destroy mutual trust, and fragment our sense of who we are. Food critic Jonathan Gold In the US, food critic Jonathan Gold has a cu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-03-02 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses new parliamentary techniques being used by the U.S. President to get his health reform through as well as the troubles plaguing another Democrat, David Paterson, the Governor of New York. Pakistan cuts Taliban loose A conversation about the Pakistan military's apparent change of policy towards the Taliban. After years of accommodating and supporting the Taliban inside their own borders, the Pakistan establishment appears to be cutting the Islamists adr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-03-01 The rise of mega-farms in the developing world Here in Australia we´ve seen a wave of new corporate investments, often foreign originated, emphasising large-scale farming. But this trend for large-scale farming is also happening in the developing world. In fact, the largest farms for crop production are now in developing and transition countries. Some of these mega-farms are as big as half a million hectares. Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle discusses Kevin Rudd's attempts to mitigate negat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-02-26 CLASSIC LNL: Justice, Redemption, Forgiveness and Vengeance A discussion that explores the issues of restorative justice, redemption, retribution & forgiveness. It was first broadcast 16th September, 2004. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-02-25 The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics Martin Jay argues we shouldn´t be so attached to the idea of honesty in politics. Lying, he says, is woven into the very fabric of our democracies. And far from being an aberration, it can actually be quite virtuous. The Mark Twain You Don´t Know This year is the hundredth anniversary of the death of one of America´s greatest writers and humorists: Mark Twain. Books like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-02-23 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro reflects on the political career of Al Haig who died over the weekend at the age of 85. Al Haig, a US Army General, served as Richard Nixon's and Gerald Ford's chief of staff as well as Ronald Regan's secretary of state. Also, the legal exoneration of John Yoo and Jay Bybee, who were the authors of the Bush administration´s torture-memo. Renegade Priest: Peter Kennedy Twelve months ago, Father Peter Kennedy was sacked by the Archbishop of Brisbane and removed f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-02-22 Canberra Babylon Christian Kerr discusses the growing pressure on the Environment Minister, Peter Garrett and the Prime Minister over the collapse of the enormous roof insulation roll-out. He also talks about the potential for the health insurance rebate policy to damage the government's standing in middle and upper-middle class electorates. Asbestos Boom Despite conclusive evidence of the deadly effects of asbestos, the industry has boomed in recent years - putting hundreds of thousands o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-02-18 Burma's Secret News Army A conversation about the undercover army of newsmen and women who make up the Democratic Voice of Burma network. These VJs and citizen journalists produced the footage for the critically acclaimed Burma VJ and for a more recent documentary, Orphans of the Burmese Cyclone, which is yet to be broadcast. Their work has been made even more dangerous by the introduction of the Electronic Act by Burma's ruling junta. If you leave us here we will die A conversation with G ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-02-17 John Wood: Room to Read Ten years ago, John Wood was a corporate warrior, a Microsoft executive who enjoyed fine wine, good times and a fast-paced life. Then, a chance encounter in an under-stocked school library in Nepal caused him to change his life. John is now the CEO of Room to Read, a charity which delivers much needed books to the developing world. He's using the tricks he learned as an executive to make sure his non-profit foundation is as effective, responsive and entreprenurial as ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-02-16 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses the comprehensive shift in the US military, and public opinion, over the acceptance of homosexual recruits. Walking the Globe Ten years ago, Jean Béliveau bid farewell to his family in Montreal to embark on his mission: to spread the message of peace and non-violence for children, part of a decade long UN proclamation. This mission has taken him to over sixty countries, including some of the most volatile areas. He has walked so far 64,500 kilometres. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-02-15 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle discusses Tony Abbott's health reform plans and the Government's announcement to give licence fee rebates worth more than $250 million dollars to free-to-air television. Emancipation: How Liberating Europe´s Jews from the Ghetto led to Revolution and Renaissance For almost a half a millennium, the Jews of Europe were segregated from the rest of the population. Confined to ghettos in towns and cities and to small villages in the countryside their lives were re ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-02-12 CLASSIC LNL: Googie Withers & John McCallum A conversation, first broadcast on 5 April 1999, with the veteran thespian couple. Married in Britain in the late 40s, they became household names of the stage and screen in their adopted country, Australia. John McCallum died on 3 February this year, aged 91. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-02-11 British Columbia treaties As were the Sydney Olympics, the Winter Games in British Columbia are an opportunity for the many indigenous peoples of the BC province to gain wider recognition. British Columbia is one of the few provinces in Canada where treaties were not settled historically with Aboriginal people, and negotiations for modern treaties have been long and fraught. Putting a Price on the Environment Climate change sceptics aside, most of us accept that as a planet, and as individ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-02-10 Is this the end to free-market capitalism? Economics became central to the way we live our lives, it became the central theme to governments, over health and education, and yet, most of us don't understand how the financial markets work. And why would we when a lot of the bankers didn't understand what was happening either. Is it any surprise then that the financial crisis happened? A Changing China Country Driving is the final in a trilogy of books by Peter Hessler looking at different as ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-02-09 Taming the speculators This week, Bruce Shapiro is joined by Satyajit Das to discuss the economic and political implications of a range of proposals being forward to address chronic global banking deficiencies. All eyes are on the White House to see how the Obama administration will deal with this. Narco-Mexico The estimated number of people who have died in drug-related violence in Mexico since 2007 stands at 9,903. Investigative journalist Colm McNaughton has just returned from visiting ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-02-08 Canberra Babylon Christian Kerr discuss Malcolm Turnbull's speech in support of the government's Emission's Trading Scheme. Bushfire Arson After the weekend anniversary of the Black Saturday bushfires, this discussion concentrates on developments in tackling bushfire arson. Although we have come a long way in our understanding of how many bushfires are deliberately lit, there is a far bigger challenge involved in making advances in prevention, and the treatment programs for perpetrators. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-02-05 CLASSIC LNL: Forum: The Nature of Faith In The 3rd Millennium The notion of a millennium is based on the Christian world view, but questions of faith and spirituality are discussed across all traditions, and increasingly, the notion of secular faith is as important as religious faith. What is it that grounds us spiritually in the modern world? Originally broadcast on 26/7/2000. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-02-04 How much carbon can we store in soil? After declaring the ETS to be just a `great big tax´, and calling climate change science `absolute crap´, Opposition leader Tony Abbott has released his new climate change policy. In place of an emissions trading scheme he has proposed awarding major polluters billions of dollars in incentives to cut emissions, while stressing there should be no penalties for failure to reduce carbon output. He says companies have a right to conduct `business as usua ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-02-03 Bea Campbell Bea discusses the continuing problems plaguing the power-sharing government in Northern Ireland. Embedded in Haiti A conversation with a reporter - who is also a doctor with experience in war zones - about her experiences 'embedded' with American medical teams in earthquake-devastated Haiti. She talks frankly about the medical and ethical decisions that had to be made immediately and with minimal resources, and about the problems with getting supplies in, patients out, and the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-02-02 Bruce Shapiro This week, Bruce discusses the life and work of reclusive author JD Salinger and left-wing historian Howard Zinn, both of whom died recently. History Wars 3.0 Author, historian and ABC Board member, Keith Windschuttle has opened up a new front in the history wars. He has taken aim at historians who he says have distorted the historical record by falsely claiming that the Commonwealth government supported a policy of `breeding out colour´ during the 1930s. Windschuttle has si ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-01-29 CLASSIC LNL: Harold Bloom Harold Bloom was born in 1930 to a Yiddish-speaking family in the Bronx in New York. Bloom has written over twenty books and written the introduction to another five hundred. Originally broadcast on 8/7/1999. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-01-28 Charles Birch Charles Birch, the Australian biologist, ecologist and theologian, passed away December last year at the age of 91. The American ecologist, Paul Ehrlich, described him as "Australia´s most distinguished single scientist". His work with the Council of Churches led to a breakthrough in ecological sustainability and in 1990 he won the prestigious Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. His way of thinking influenced many prominent Australians. This is a discussion about Charle ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-01-27 Bruce Shapiro This week, Bruce discusses what he sees as the most important political news in the U.S. Following last week's Massachusetts election the Supreme Court has voted to undo many of the previous limits on corporate campaign funding. He also previews Barack Obama's first State of the Union address. China: The panda in the room A discussion about the implications of China 'hijacking' the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen; the growing disputes around intellectual property ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-01-26 The Eucalypt We devote this episode of LNL to the gum tree; its biology and history, its uses, and the ambitious project to decode its genome. Originally broadcast on 26/2/2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-01-25 Canberra Babylon Christian Kerr previews the political year ahead - an election year. He talks about the uphill battle for the government with its ETS legislation; what we can expect from the Intergenerational Report and the Henry Tax Review; and the personal narratives Tony Abbott and Kevin Rudd will try to develop for themselves in the lead-up to the election. Earthquakes and preparedness The blanket coverage of the earthquake in Haiti over the last couple of weeks has highlighted the la ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-01-21 Paul Ehrlich Paul Ehrlich's book, The Population Bomb (1968), caused great controversy with its predictions of mass starvation in the 70s and 80s due to over-population. Forty years later, with the world's population almost doubled in that time, Ehrlich's main message is increasingly relevant - that the earth has a finite carrying capacity and it cannot sustain the current rate of human population growth and resource depletion. In this conversation, Paul Ehrlich talks about the escalating e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-01-20 Somalia's al Shabab A conversation first broadcast on 19/8/09 about the rise of the al-Shabab Islamist army in Somalia, which is alleged to have links to a group of men arrested in Australia. The al-Shabab have been introducing increasingly harsh laws in areas they control in Somalia, and they've vowed to overthrow the UN-backed transitional government. 'Her Deepness' Dr Sylvia Earle A conversation first broadcast on 28/7/09 with the veteran oceanographer and recent TED prize winner about ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-01-18 - UPDATED Edward Albee In this program-length conversation, Edward Albee, now 81, talks about his early life, his plays, including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? and his thoughts on death and dying. Originally broadcast on 9/7/2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-01-14 Alan Ramsey An extended interview first broadcast on 29/10/09 with veteran political journalist Alan Ramsey, recorded in his Canberra home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-01-13 Fit To Print Joris Luyendijk spent five years between 1998 and 2003 as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East. He writes about those years in Fit to Print, and concludes that the concept of good journalism in the Arab world is a contradiction in terms. Originally broadcast on 10/9/2009. Indigenous housing: myths and realities Paul Pholeros has spent three decades working on indigenous housing. He talks about why housing for Aboriginal Australians is still in such a dire state and wha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-01-12 Poseidon's Steed: The Story of Seahorses, from Myth to Reality Seahorses aren't an animal that one comes across on the average trip to the beach, and yet for thousands of years, across of number of different cultures, it's been a potent symbol of the sea. Marine biologist Helen Scales searched the oceans of the globe for years before she spotted her first seahorse in the wild, and she was so enraptured that she decided to write a book about it. First broadcast 26th October 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-01-11 God Is Back There are now more Christians in China than there are members of the Communist party and while Pentecostalism has been growing like crazy in Latin America, it's South Korea where you'll find five of the world's ten biggest mega-churches. In 'God is Back', John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge track the revival of religion in a world where previously, intellectuals assumed that modernism would kill religion. Originally broadcast on 29/7/2009. Methland Crystal methamphetamin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-01-07 Searching for a European Identity One of the main objectives for the expanding European Union is to present to the world a common European identity. But on a continent with a multitude of cultures, what is that identity? Does the key lie in the successful integration of nationalities found in the few remaining European enclaves? First broadcast on 8th July 2009. A Survivor's Tale: Jack Charles Indigenous actor Jack Charles has been performing in theatre and film for over forty years. He an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-01-06 Reclaiming Hypatia In the International Year of Astronomy, it's time to recall one of the first female astronomers, Hypatia. Born in the 4th centruy AD, Hypatia's merits and influence reached further then the stars and the planets. She was also one of the first female mathematicians, a philosopher and a respected teacher. She came to an untimely death as she rode home on her chariot one evening. She was attacked by a group of zealot Christians, and it's believed by some that her death marke ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-01-05 Writing Obituaries The obituary has had a relatively short life, becoming a regular fixture in Australian newspapers in the early 1990s. However, obituaries have become almost mandatory reading, offering up a celebration of life amid the usual gloom. But how do obituary writers get such an insight into the dearly departed? First broadcast 14 July 2009. In search of the extinct Labrador Duck The Labrador Duck has the dubious title of the first species of bird endemic to North America to be ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-01-04 Micky Burn: Commando to Colditz In March 1942 there was a daring raid on a dry dock in St Nazaire, France, in an attempt to stop the Germans from using their battleships in destroying the much needed convoys supplying Britain during this time. The raid was successful but at a huge cost. One particular troop lost half of their men through either death or capture. Over the next few years, the families of these men kept in contact, swapping what information they were able to glean, offering ea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-12-31 Britain and Freedom of Speech A discussion recorded in October about an international corporation that attempted to prevent the media from reporting on a question tabled in the House of Commons in the United Kingdom and then tried to stifle parliamentary debate about freedom of speech and super-injunctions. The Informant A discussion broadcast in October about the real story behind the landmark court case that was launched against the American agricultural giant Archer Daniels Midland in t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-12-30 From Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan A discussion first broadcast on 27/8/09 with two of Australia´s most respected military and strategic thinkers, who have drawn on their own wartime experiences—a generation apart—to shape their thinking on the global conflicts of the day, from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-12-29 Origins of life and evolution of intelligence A panel discussion in front of a large audience at the 2009 Adelaide Festival of Ideas. In the broadcast program Phillip discusses the origins of life and the evolution of intelligence with four panel guests, and the podcast version includes an additional thirty minutes of questions from the audience to the panel guests. Originally broadcast on 3/8/2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-12-28 Katrina killing spree It has been more than three years since Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans and the Mississippi delta, killing almost two thousand people. But a story is now emerging of a killing spree that occurred in the wake of the hurricane—a killing spree in which the shooters were white and those shot were black. It´s not known how many people were killed as they attempted to pass through an area called Point Algiers, which is a white enclave in a predominantly ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-12-24 Peter Sculthorpe turns eighty A conversation with the celebrated Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe on his 80th birthday - 29/4/09. Sculthorpe talks about his first introduction to Eastern music as a child in Tasmania and about his determination to succeed as a composer. He describes his relationships with other cultural figures in Australia (Drysdale, Nolan, White) and the lure of Australia's Aboriginal 'Top End', as well as his attraction to Shintoism. He speaks frankly of his experien ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-12-23 The Brother Gardeners : Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession In this conversation, author Andrea Wulf explores the history of Britain's cultural obession with gardening. Originally broadcast on 3/2/09. Gardening and the human condition Robert Pogue Harrison argues that 'the gardens that have graced this mortal Eden of ours are the best evidence for humanity´s reason for being on Earth´. Originally broadcast on 8/9/09. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-12-22 Darwin & Co: The Anniversary of a Revolution 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin´s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. But rather than focusing on the famous scientist as a lone genius, this program examines him alongside the little armada of ambitious young naturalists who set sail from Britain in Darwin´s wake—and who together created a revolution in scientific thinking and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-12-21 Jill Tarter - the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence 2009 is an anniversary year for star gazers; it´s the four hundredth year since Galileo first used a telescope; the fortieth anniversary of the moon landing; and the twenty fifth anniversary year for SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). Astronomer Jill Tarter has devoted her career to hunting for signs of sentient beings elsewhere, and almost all aspects of this field have been affected by her work. Originally bro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-12-18 The Murray - The Coorong & the Mouth In the final program in the Murray River series, Phillip delves into the history of irrigation settlement in South Australia and takes a trip across the Coorong, at the Murray Mouth, with a fourth generation commercial fisherman. Originally broadcast on 9/9/2004. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-12-17 The Murray - Mildura & the Chowilla floodplain Continuing down the Murray River, Phillip talks to restauranteur and Mildura personality, Stefano de Pieri, about his personal history, his involvement in local politics and arts, his love of the river and his struggle to bring 'gastronomic appreciation' to this part of Australia. Standing on the Chowilla flood plain, Paul Sinclair points out a massive and unprecedented death of river red gums and laments what he calls the continuing 'myth of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-12-16 The Murray - The Great Red Gum Forest In the third program of the journey down the Murray River, Phillip visits the world's largest river red gum forest, the Barmah Forest, where he speaks with Yorta Yorta woman, Monica Morgan, about the historical and contemporary significance of the forest to indigenous people. There are up to ten distinct language groups along the Murray River and they have recently formed a confederacy to promote indigenous interests. Phillip also speaks with wetlands ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-12-14 The Murray - The River BeginsThe start of a week-long journey following the Murray River. Phillip heads into the mountain country on the NSW-Victoria border in search of the source of the Murray and he meets 82-year-old Lorna Hogg, who has lived by the nascent river all her life. The next stop is the Hume Weir for a brief history of the taming of the river, followed by a discussion of the politics of water sharing -- a topic that will be discussed in more detail as the river journey progres ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-12-11 CLASSIC LNL: Waiting for Christo In 1995, environmental artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped the Reichstag in Berlin. When Late Night Live broadcast from Berlin at the time, Phillip and his producer, Gail Boserio, went looking around and under the folds of polypropylene fabric, hoping to bump into the artists. Originally broadcast on 29/6/95. CLASSIC LNL: Civil War Hans Magnus Enzensberger is considered one of Germany's most important post-war voices. "Civil War" is a collection o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-12-10 Iranian artist: Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian is a highly respected figure in contemporary Iranian art, with an extraordinary and distinguished career spanning over 50 years. Born in 1924 Iran, she lived in New York as an art student and worked alongside Andy Warhol as a fashion illustrator at department store Bonwit Teller, later moving in the same circles as abstract expressionist artists like Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner and Mark Rothko. In the 1960s, s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-12-09 Satyajit Das - the GFC and Copenhagen In his final commentary spot for the year, Satyajit Das discusses the stabilisation of the banks but the lack of recovery from the GFC in the 'real economy'; the Copenhagen meeting and the global economic consequences of climate change mitigation; and his recent trip to Madagascar. Vision Revolution Mark Changizi asks, Why do we see in colour? Why do our eyes face forward? Why do we see illusions? Why are letters shaped the way they are? He argues that ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-12-08 Climate change and the Mekong Vietnam is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to sea level rises. This discussion looks at the potential climate change impacts on SE Asia´s food bowl, the Mekong Delta. Bruce Shapiro In his last report for the year, Bruce Shaprio talks about the politics climate change in the US, and President Obama´s low visibility at Copenhagen. Born in the English Colony of New South Wales: 1788 - 1800 Craig Smee has spent 40 years deliving into records a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-12-07 Canberra Babylon - Final 2009 Laura and Christian both reflect on the 2009 political year and look towards the year ahead. Copenhagen Climate Change update The deadline for the international climate change conference in Copenhagen has arrived with world leaders, negotiators and interest groups descending on the Danish capital. It´s been 21 years since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was established, and despite some optimism that countries are moving forward with emission re ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-12-04 CLASSIC LNL: Berlin 1995 - Berlin Architecture A conversation - at times an argument - about the architectural and planning approach to the redesigning of the capital of reunified Germany. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-12-03 Building fences for military defence and migration control Can you imagine a country going to the trouble to build a wall like the Ming Great Wall of China, covering over 8,000 kilometres over mountainous terrain? Well, they may not be as impressive or stand the testament of time as the Great Wall, but there are a number of walls or fences standing tall today and more being constructed, from Botswana to India, to the U.S. to Thailand. What are the purposes of these barriers and are they eff ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-12-02 Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce talks about President Barack Obama's West Point speech in which he announced a 30,000 strong troop surge for Afghanistan. At the same time Obama announced that the U.S. would begin to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan in July 2011. Northern Ireland's scarred children A discussion with the authors of a new report into the way children from the old frontlines of the sectarian conflict have been left to fend for themselves in the transition to a post-conflict ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-12-01 A Climate Change in the Coalition NSW farmer and Liberal Party Senator, Bill Heffernan talks about the change in the leadership and what it will mean for the Coalition's policy approach to climate change. A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty A story of one man who vanishes, and another who steals his identity. Set during an era when the Britain was in transition from aristocracy to democracy. When traditional ideas about status and hierarchy were in flux, presen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-11-30 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle talks about tomorrow's leadership spill and the contenders for the position. Rabbi Michael Lerner A conversation with the controversial progressive American Rabbi Michael Lerner about Israel, God and the Left, and President Obama´s drop in popularity at home. Eating with Emperors, Kings, Queens and the occasional Maharajah What can the menu cards of some of Europe and America's most influential people tell us about their eating habits as well as about histor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-11-27 CLASSIC LNL: Berlin 1995 - Heiner Muller In this conversation, first broadcast from Berlin in June 1995, Phillip speaks with the former East German poet, dramatist and theatre director, who at the time was Director at the Berliner Ensemble. Heiner Muller passed away in December, 1995. CLASSIC LNL: Berlin 1995 - Stefan Heym In this conversation, first broadcast from Berlin in June 1995, Phillip talks to the celebrated former East German writer about his life and work in the West (he fought ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-11-26 Gender Terrorism: the war against women in South Africa Last year, Eudy Simelane, former star of South Africa's national female football squad - and one of the first women to lead an openly gay life in South Africa, was found dead in a creek. She was gang-raped, brutally beaten and stabbed. Her death has drawn attention to a recent upsurge of so-called "corrective rapes" of lesbians in South Africa - a trend that reveals an ongoing culture of violence against women in post-apartheid South A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-11-25 Bea Campbell The much-awaited inquiry into how Britain came to be involved in the Iraq war has started in London. However, unlike with Iraq, there's a swell of feeling tihin the government for staying the course in Afghanistan, which is seen as a legitimate conflict. Beatrix discuss this and the issue of counter-insurgency in Afghanistan. Future of the UN in Afghanistan A conversation with the head of the UN elections team in Afghanistan, who is back in Sydney briefly as the UN works out ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-11-24 Bruce Shapiro Bruce reports that Democrats in the US Senate have finally managed to begin debate on Obama´s health care bill, despite fears the debate would be shut down at the outset by a GOP filibuster. The Ownership State In the UK public services are reeling from escalating public demand and a crisis in productivity. The situation is similar in many other countries. Phillip Blond is the intellectual force behind a new 'red Toryism' in Britain and he argues that improving the effective ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-11-23 Canberra Bablyon Christian Kerr discusses what could be the final deal on the Emissions Trading Scheme as the opposition prepares to vote. However, the Nationals may have a new tactic to delay its progress. Armenia-Turkey Rapprochement Last month the governments of Armenia and Turkey signed protocols that, if ratified, will see a resumption of diplomatic ties and the opening of the border between the two countries, closed by Turkey in 1993. What would the economic and social consequences ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-11-20 CLASSIC LNL: Berlin 1995 - Germany's past, present & future A discussion first broadcast from Berlin in June 1995, about historical, current and future factors shaping the reunification of Germany. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-11-19 Paul Ehrlich Paul Ehrlich's book, The Population Bomb (1968), caused great controversy with its predictions of mass starvation in the 70s and 80s due to over-population. Forty years later, with the world's population almost doubled in that time, Ehrlich's main message is increasingly relevant - that the earth has a finite carrying capacity and it cannot sustain the current rate of human population growth and resource depletion. In this conversation, Paul Ehrlich talks about the escalating e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-11-18 A sustainable economy Credit crunch, peak oil, dirty coal, crop failure, water pollution, global warming - if this is the end of the world economy as we know it, what is the new economic paradigm going to look like? It´s the conversation, the argument, the dilemma of the 21st century. A Philosophy of Pain Medical science promises us a future of a life free from pain -- but would you choose such a life if you really thought about it? What does living without pain mean for humanity? Would ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-11-17 Climate Solutions The much-anticipated UN talks on climate change in Copenhagen are almost upon us, and there´s no longer any hope that the world will establish a new legally binding treaty for emissions targets at the talks. It's becoming hard to see how we´ll be able to reduce global carbon emissions in time to stop some very serious planetary warming. Australian scientist Greg McRae works in the US at the cutting edge of energy issues - and he has some ideas which might be able to rest ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-11-16 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle talks about the national apology to the 'Forgotten Australians'; how the ETS has become politically bogged down with growing pessimism about the effectiveness of the Copenhagen summit; and the 'deal' to get asylum seekers off an Australian Customs ship, as three more boats are detected heading for Australia. After the War on Drugs Is it time for a war on the 'war on drugs'? No proper comparison of prohibition, legalisation and regulation of illicit drug use h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-11-13 CLASSIC LNL: Immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers A discussion, first broadcast on 26/9/2002, with three eminent Australians about their own migration experiences (two were child refugees and one an adult migrant); past and present immigration policies; people smuggling; refugees and asylum seekers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-11-12 Cultural Celebrations We mark milestones in our lives with celebrations, and it's an act that has lasted the distance of time and across cultures. So what are the similarities and differences in the way we celebrate life? How do we adapt our cultural celebrations to new lives made abroad? A Melbourne theatre production explores these elements with young migrants and refugees. Power-Sharing in Zimbabwe The unity government in Zimbabwe is in the process of breaking down. The power-sharing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-11-11 China update with Willy Lam Willy Lam discusses why the upcoming visit to China by the US President is historic and why the coverage of President Obama's visit will be recognised differently to that of the Dalai Lama's recent trip to the India-China border town of Tawang. Tales from SWAT Valley and other Pakistan Stories The Pakistan army recently defeated the Afghan Taliban in the Swat region of Pakistan, allowing many of the displaced civilian population to return to begin rebuilding the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-11-10 Oil Spill: response & responsibility A discussion about the response to the Montara oil leak in the Timor Sea. The leak has been plugged but the long term environmental implications are unknown. Australia lacks deep knowledge of the marine environment in the vicinity of the spill, and there is an international legal loophole around oil rig spills. Micky Burn: Commando to Colditz In March 1942 there was a daring raid on a dry dock in St Nazaire, France, in an attempt to stop the Germans fro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-11-09 Canberra Babylon Christian Kerr discusses recent data that presents conflicting versions of how strong the Australian economy is; why public concern over climate change is falling dramatically and the Prime Minister's trip this week to India and Singapore. Berlin Wall Anniversary The barbed wire, alarms, spot lights, dogs, and border guards with orders to shoot to kill, are long gone. On a night back in November 1989 a tsunami of popular opposition began the process of dismantling the huge ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-11-06 CLASSIC LNL: Germany: guilt, identity, memory The guests in this discussion -- first broadcast on 7/3/2002 -- explore the ramifications and outcomes of history's footsteps on Germany during and following WWII, touching on three important areas: the struggle for identity in the East and the West; the role of guilt, both now and immediately following the war; and the place of memory, then and now, in determining future directions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-11-05 The Defence of the Realm - An Authorised History of MI5 This year marks the centenary of MI5 - Britain´s clandestine domestic security organisation. Only these days it´s not so clandestine, because the service has authorised an official history of itself. That´s a very big turnaround for an organisation whose officials, as recently as the 1980s, refused to publicly admit even existed. Cambridge historian, Christopher Andrew has written a number of books on the history of intelligence g ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-11-04 The Future of California California is the eighth largest economy in the world. As one writer recently said, if California was a country it´d be in the G8. But if it was a company, it´d now be bankrupt. Rising debt, spending slashed on education and healthcare, vast numbers of workers laid off, soaring unemployment - the picture is grim. So is California cactus? A discussion with long-term California observers and an advisor to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on the future of California - ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-11-03 Afghanistan's deadly elections A conversation with a senior UN election official in Afghanistan about the decision to cancel the second round of elections and to declare Hamid Karzai re-elected as President. She also talks about the terrible death toll from election related violence in Kabul and elsewhere. Bruce Shapiro Bruce reflects on the one year anniversary since the election of President Barack Obama as local elections for mayors and city councils take place across the US. Bruce also ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-11-02 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle returns after a six week break to discuss the policy and political implications of the current refugee/asylum seeker pressures; the mid year economic review; and the politics of the Rudd government appointing Peter Costello to the Future Fund. Seeking refuge from Sri Lanka and Australia's response The number of people arriving in Australia seeking asylum has been increasingly from Sri Lanka over the past few months. At the end of the civil war that has plagued ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-10-30 Return of the Peaceniks In this discussion, first broadcast in February 2003, four guests debate the looming war in Iraq. The US led invasion of Iraq hadn't started yet, but millions of people had just marched in massive peace rallies around the world. The discussion featured four people who were united in their opposition to the Vietnam War, but not this one. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-10-29 Alan Ramsey An extended interview with veteran political journalist Alan Ramsey, recorded in his Canberra home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-10-28 Bruce Shapiro Bruce discusses David Shapiro, the ACLU and civil rights in America. He also gives an update on the story Army Lt. Eren Watada, who in 2006 became the first US officer to refuse a direct order to deploy to Iraq. Watada has now been given permission to resign from the army. In related case this week, foreign service officer and former Marine, Matthew Hoh. Hoh has become first US official to publicly resign over Afghanistan, saying he's come to the conclusion that the US and coa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-10-27 Britain and Freedom of Speech Questions are being raised in Britain about the level of power international corporations are acquiring when one such company, through their lawyers, attempted to prevent the well established newspaper, The Guardian, from reporting on a question tabled in the House of Commons and tried to stifle debate about issues of super-injunctions and freedom of speech. All was revealed though through Twitter. The Informant The real story behind the landmark court case th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-10-23 CLASSIC LNL: Jack Lang A discussion, first broadcast on 17/11/2005, about the life and legacy of Jack Lang, Premier of NSW during the Great Depression. 'The Big Fella' was one of Australia's most controversial politicians; he was loved and hated with a visceral intensity. Lang was twice Premier of NSW. During the depths of the Great Depression he was dismissed from office by the NSW Governor for refusing to repay interest on Commonwealth loans. He was expelled from the Labor party in 1942, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-10-22 News Safety A discussion about the growing dangers of reporting on war, conflict and corruption. The International News Safety Institute estimates that in the past decade more than one thousand journalists and other members of the news media around the world have died reporting the news. That's an average of two every week. Most are local reporters working in their own country. And in nine out of ten cases no one gets brought to justice. The Australian news media recently adopted a new Saf ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-10-21 Eddin Khoo Eddin discusses the cultural tensions between Malaysia and its neighbouring country, Indonesia, regarding the claim that Malaysia is stealing Indonesia's culture. Also an update on Malaysian politics, does the coalition party, led by Anwar Ibrahim, have common ground? Sri Lanka Update It´s been five months since the Tamil Tigers admitted defeat at the hands of the Sri Lankan army and still an estimated 260,000 displaced Tamils are being housed in internment camps. There´s bee ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-10-20 Bruce Shapiro Bruce takes us down south to Latin America and discusses some of the problems the United States neighbours are contending with, from the stalemate in negotiations to restore the Honduras government to the escalating violence not just in Mexico but also in El Salvador and the Brazilian Favelas. Sri Lanka Update It´s been five months since the Tamil Tigers admitted defeat at the hands of the Sri Lankan army and still an estimated 260,000 displaced Tamils are being housed in in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-10-19 Canberra Babylon Christian Kerr discusses what he describes as an extraordinary doorstop by outgoing Opposition backbencher, Peter Costello who claims that there was no need for stimulus spending at all because the automatic stabilisers would have kicked in. Christian also discusses the refugee issue. After canvassing various refugee advocates, he found they are very divided on how the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has been handling the issue. Under the Radar: Dutch strategy in Afghanista ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-10-16 CLASSIC LNL: American Vertigo: Bernard-Henri Levy Following in the steps of Alexis de Tocqueville, prominent French philosopher and writer Bernard-Henri Levy, spent a year travelling through America in an effort to describe this "magnificent, mad country" to his fellow Europeans. His meetings with everyone from Hilary Clinton, to Francis Fukuyama, to Woody Allen, and countless 'ordinary Americans', aims to counter the anti-American sentiment he sees on the rise in Europe and across the wo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-10-15 Nuclear fusion Plasma physicist, Dr Barry Green, calls nuclear fusion the 'philosopher's stone of energy', an energy source that could potentially do everything we want. Dr Green talks about the development of fusion energy (including Asutralia's contributions), its present status, the future, and Australia's possible involvement in the international nuclear fusion research programme. Swine Flu: to vaccinate or not to vaccinate? There is now a swine vaccine available for every Australian ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-10-14 Israel government spokesman The official spokesman for the government of Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu talks about Israel's response to the Goldstone report into war crimes during the 2009 Gaza War; the government's policy on settlements in the occupied territories; and Israel's approach to Iran. Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce discusses the U.S. Senate Finance Committee's decision to approve a version of Barack Obama's Health Care Reform Bill. Only one Republican senatorOlympia Snowe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-10-13 Bea Campbell The season of UK political party conferences has now finished and the parties and their leaders can now begin to gear up for next year's general elections. Bea Campbell assesses how they all performed. Berlusconi's Loss of Immunity Last week the Italian constitutional court stripped Italy's Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi off his immunity status. For most of his political career Berlusconi has faced allegations or charges of corruption, bribery, false accounting, illegally ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-10-12 Canberra Babylon This week Christian Kerr talks about Malcolm Turnbull and how, in the last little while, he's become much more ideological in critiquing Kevin Rudd's response to the global financial crisis. Mr. Turnbull has also become quite blunt in his criticism of the U.S. government guaranteed enterprises Freddy Mac and Fannie Mae for the sub-prime loans crisis. The Economics of Bad Debts: Can't pay, won't pay This former Wall St financial analyst - now a distinguished research profe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-10-09 CLASSIC LNL: Madame Secretary Madeleine Albright was always going to be a champion of democracy, but it was a matter of fate which nation she would argue it from. Her father was Czechoslavakia's representative on the United Nations, but he fled with his family to the US after it became clear the communists were taking over. In 1997 Madeleine Albright became the 67th US Secretary of State, but not before emulating her father as her country's representative at the UN, this time for the Unite ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-10-08 Disability Hate Crime A discussion looking at the prevalent but little recognised category of crime against disabled people. Life behind the facade of Venice Is Venice the Cinderella story of cities? How did a swamp develop into a city that attracts not just millions of tourists each year, but the world´s renowned artists, composers and writers? A city whose very name conjures up images unique to any other city. But will its own popularity be its demise, or will Venice simply survive beca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-10-07 Afghanistan Update It has been eight years since NATO forces launched attacks in Afghanistan in response to the September 11 attacks in the US. Like Iraq, it was to be a swift military operation. Eight years later, the troops are still there with debates raging over whether to increase numbers. Two Presidential elections have also been held during this time, both marred with allegations of mass fraud. How are the Afghans assessing events of these last eight years? How Physics Convicted a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-10-06 - UPDATED Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses the proposed federal "shield law" allowing reporters to protect confidential sources in court. He also talks about the deepening sense of division among Obama´s military and civilian advisors over Afghanistan. Samoa's Winds of Change In Samoa the funerals are being held for victims of last week´s tsunami, while plans are underway to rebuild communities that were literally washed away. The grieving has reached across the globe to the large Samoan dias ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-10-05 Encyclopedia of Religion in Australia A discussion with three of the contributors to a new encyclopedia documenting the sources and development of religion in Australia since European settlement. It looks at religion in a wide variety of contexts, including traditional Indigenous religions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-10-02 CLASSIC LNL: The Clinton Wars An interview with Sidney Blumenthal, who was senior adviser to former president Clinton. The book is part-history, part memoir, a complex tale which settles some scores, and seeks to put the Clinton presidency into historical perspective. It is also the subject of controversy, with several prominent critics accusing Blumenthal of producing a hagiography, insufficiently critical of a 'flawed' president. Originally broadcast on 16/7/2003. CLASSIC LNL: A Beaut ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-10-01 Natural disasters, climate change and food security A tsunami kills people and it ruins vital food crops - that's the story in Samoa today. Food security is compromised by natural disaster and the scenario is predicted to be worse with climate change. This is a conversation with two agricultural experts - one is currently in Samoa and the other has just co-authored a report looking at the impact of climate change on agriculture. The Changing Security Landscape Food security and the potenti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-09-30 China update Willy Lam talks about tomorrow's celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, which come amid internal divisions and infighting within the Communist Party. He also talks about the upcoming visit to North Korea by China's Premier, Wen Jiabao. Post G20: Satyajit Das Satyajit Das discusses the G20 meeting, which has now become the premier global economic forum; what was said and what wasn't discussed? Also, has there been any lessons l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-09-29 - UPDATED Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses US policy toward Iran. Gaddafi's Libya Colonel Gaddafi is Africa´s longest serving ruler - he just celebrated 40 years as Libya´s ruler with a lavish party. After decades of sanctions, Libya has been welcomed in from the cold, but last week, in his first ever appearance at the UN General Assembly he made a bizarre, rambling 95 minute speech attacking the US and the UN. Should we be keeping a closer eye on Libya's Brother Leader? Murray River Country ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-09-28 Canberra Babylon Christian Kerr discusses how the Prime Minister performed on the world stage last week at the United Nations General Assembly and the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh. Seeing Colour For most of us, we live in a colourful world and it's a world that we generally take for granted. But how does our brain compute the colours we see? Have we always been able to see the array of colours that surround us? And how does our colourful vision compare with our companions in this world, parti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-09-24 My Brother's Eyes The Zion Full Salvation Ministry operated on the lower North Shore and the Northern Beaches areas of Sydney. For sixteen years, David Ayliffe was a senior member of this destructive cult, run by Violet Pryor. David and his brother, John tell the story of Violet Pryor and her ministry, of losing each other and redeeming their relationship, culminating in the writing of their book, 'My Brother's Eyes'. Norman Borlaug's Green Revolution Plant pathologist Norman Borlaug was ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-09-23 Iran update Just over three months ago, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This ignited public anger and protesters took to the streets in numbers not seen since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Uncertainty over the presidency and the fate of the protesters was a topic of much speculation at the time. As President Ahmadinejad addresses the UN General Assembly in New York City, we return to Tehran. Medicine and the Trauma of Conflict A discussion with ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-09-22 - UPDATED Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses the death of 'the father of neo-conservatism' Irving Kristol. Also, theincreasing public outbursts of rascism, much of it directed at President Obama. And, the leak of General McChrystal's report on Afghanistan - which poses some serious challenges for Obama. Unscientific America Chris Mooney argues that rift between science and mainstream American culture so wide, that the appreciation of science could become confined to a small group of already dedic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-09-21 Canberra Babylon Christian Kerr discusses Kevin Rudd's attendance at the G20 meeting later this week in the U.S.; Malcolm Turnbull's visit to the U.K., and Liberal frontbencher, Andrew Robb's absence from parliament for three months to deal with his life-long suffering from depression. Avoiding a backlash: Indian students in Australia A discussion about the perceptions in Australian and India of the recent spate of attacks on Indian students, especially in Melbourne. Victoria's Premier Joh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-09-18 CLASSIC LNL: Media Overload and the New World of the Net We spend an hour looking at the question of the media torrent that dominates our lives. Is it a matter of information flow - or are we just addicted to sensation? Could the increase in form and content actually reflect a more interesting world, and can the internet teach us new ways of thinking about democracy and civic responsibility? We speak to three prominent American thinkers on the subject of media overload, new cyber-worlds ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-09-17 Frontier Violence in the Gulf Country: dealing with the historical legacy Frontier violence during the settlement of Australia has been well documented, although the extent of it has been disputed in recent years. In this discussion historian Tony Roberts describes his research, which reveals excessive violence against Aborigines in the Gulf country of northern Australia in the late 19th century. He claims massacres were carried with the complicity of various politicians and police at the t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-09-16 Saree Makdisi - Edward Said Memorial A conversation with the nephew of the late Edward Said, Professor Saree Makdisi, who will give the 2009 Edward Said Memorial Lecture in Adelaide. Professor Makdisi talks about the latest UN findings of war crimes in Gaza; what he describes as the bureaucratic occupation of the Palestinian territories; and his reasons for supporting a one-state solution. Angels of Arnhem Land Recording of a spiritual song by Aboriginal women from the Galpa clan in Arnhem ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-09-15 - UPDATED Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses the progress of Obama's health care plan after Congressman Joe Wilson's incediary outburst. And, the US Supreme Court debate over corporate advertising and elections. Spin the Bottle: Fiji water Fiji water is the biggest supplier of bottled water in United States, and one of Fiji´s biggest exports. The Fiji brand is owned by US argi-billionaires, and has strong connections to celebrity culture and progressive politics, especially the environmental mov ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-09-14 Canberra Babylon With the one year anniversary since US financial services firm Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, Laura Tingle discusses the "history war" tussle between Kevin Rudd and John Howard over the economic impact of the Howard Government. The Genesis Enigma A conversation with Oxford evolutionary scientist Andrew Parker about the claims in his book that the Bible is scientifically accurate - in other words, he has examined the Creation story in the Book of Genesis and concluded ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-09-11 CLASSIC LNL: Tom Critchley: in remembrance This program was originally broadcast 12 August 2004, Tom Critchley died in July 2009. A long and personal interview with one of the most important figures in Australia's engagement with Asia, Tom Critchley. The former Australian ambassador to Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand talks about his role in Indonesia's struggle for independence; the development of the Colombo Plan in the early 1950s; and Australia's deepening engagement with the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-09-10 Fit To Print Joris Luyendijk spent five years between 1998 and 2003 as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East. He writes about those years in 'Fit to Print', and concludes that the concept of good journalism in the Arab world is a contradiction in terms. The Riddle of Father Hackett Father William Hackett grew up during one of the most turbulent times in Irish history. He knew many of the leaders of the 1916 uprising that saw the execution of many of his friends. At the height of th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-09-08 U.S. Healthcare Reform Surrounding the current Healthcare Reform debate in Washington have been violent town hall meetings, misleading statements about what might happen if reform goes through, and comparisons between Barack Obama and Adolph Hitler. What's going on? Gardening and the human condition Robert Pogue Harrison argues that 'the gardens that have graced this mortal Eden of ours are the best evidence for humanity´s reason for being on Earth´. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-09-07 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle discusses the first day back in Parliament, where discussion focused on the stimulus package following the recent meeting of the G20 finance ministers. Also, what is the latest news about the West Atlas oil rig spill in the Timor Sea? Hurricane Hospital: medical ethics in a disaster A discussion about medical ethics at a time of disaster: the way doctors and nurses, under enormous pressure, make life and death decisions. When hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-09-04 CLASSIC LNL: Timor Leste: valley of widows and village of ashes In this program, first broadcast on 8/11/2007, Phillip visits two remote villages in the south-eastern district of Viqueque, both of which have been subjected to particularly brutal forms of collective punishment -- one at the hands of Indonesian soldiers in 1983, the other at the hands of their neighbouring village in 2007. Visit the Late Night Live in Timor-Leste feature site to view video interviews and image slideshows fro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-09-03 John Talbott on the US Economy We´re now about a year in to the global financial crisis and for Australia at least, it seems some of more gloomy prognostications seem to have been proved wrong. There´s been some growth in the economy over the last quarter, and things are looking conservatively optimistic. But it´s still not going so well in the epicentre of the GFC - the USA. California is so broke it´s had to have a garage sale, and economic growth across the country is still weak. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-09-02 Bea Campbell At least a thousand people have joined London's Climate Camp to protest against government, business and industry inaction over addressing climate change. Meanwhile other eco-protests are proliferating all over England. Bea Campbell talks about what the protesters are doing and wonders what sort of an impact on politics protests like this can have anymore. Arctic Oil and Gas Exploration A discussion about the extent of oil and gas reserves thought to exist within the Arctic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-09-01 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses the life and death of Senator Edward Kennedy. The Global Asbestos Story The battle for compensation from former employees of James Hardie has been a protracted and bitter fight and is well known to most Australians but the problem of asbestos related diseases is a global phenomenon. What and when asbestos companies found out about the deadly substance has been a point of contention, but company documents now in the public domain thanks to litigation ca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-08-31 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle discusses the economy and whether the Rudd Government has been too effective in protecting it from a recession and the recent bumpy ride Julia Gillard has experienced with her education portfolio. After ATSIC A discussion about the proposed new national body to represent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people - a replacement for ATSIC, which was decommissioned four years ago by a hostile government and with its credibility in tatters. The response to t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-08-28 CLASSIC LNL: Euthanasia Debate This program was originally broadcast on 3/2/97, as the Senate was debating the issue of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. In 1995 the Northern Territory legislated for the right for people to die with assistance. In 1996 Kevin Andrews, who was the federal member for Menzies in the Howard-led Coalition government, introduced the "Euthanasia Laws Bill" designed to overturn the NT´s new law. That bill was passed in the Senate in March 1997. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-08-27 From Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan A discussion with two of Australia´s most respected military and strategic thinkers, who have drawn on their own wartime experiences—a generation apart—to shape their thinking on the global conflicts of the day, from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-08-26 - UPDATED Satyajit Das LNL's financial crisis analyst explains how the Chinese economic growth model developed under Deng Xiaoping, and the way China used its export income to invest in US dollars and US Treasury bonds. This meant that by the beginning of the 21st Century, China was effectively providing the funds for Americans to use to purchase Chinese products. Post-election Afghanistan Surrounding the recent elections in Afghanistan are claims of fraud and corruption in the voting process. The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-08-25 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses the Attorney General Eric Holder´s decision to appoint a special prosecutor to look into detainee abuses by the CIA and talks of even more troops and resources needed in Afghanistan - what does this mean for the US President? Mini nuclear power reactors The ongoing threat of climate change has sparked the interest in small-scale nuclear power plants. They are simpler to construct than the convential ones and can be manufactured at a fraction of the c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-08-24 Canberra Babylon This week Laura Tingle discusses Malcolm Turnbull's leadership, given the National's distancing itself from Coalition policy on an ETS. Hapless is the word that's being used to describe Malcolm Turnbull at the moment. The Dark Sahara: America´s War on Terror in Africa On the eve of the Iraq Invasion in 2003, 32 European tourists were kidnapped in Algeria. At the time, it was thought to be the work of Al Qaeda linked terrorists, but British anthropologist Jeremy Keenan s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-08-20 North Korea Update Bill Clinton´s successful negotiation the release of two American journalists from a North Korean prison has been heralded as a sign that North Korea is interested in thawing out its relationship with the rest of the world. Clinton´s visit was also the first time in ages that Kim Il Jong has been seen alive. And this week, the North announced a few compromises with South Korea - including the resumption of limited tourism and a family reunion program A History of ASI ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-08-19 Somalia Postcard A conversation about the rise of the al-Shabab Islamist army in Somalia, which is alleged to have links to a group of men arrested recently in Australia. The al-Shabab have been introducing increasingly harsh laws in areas they control in Somalia, and they've vowed to overthrow the UN-backed transitional government. Dharavi Redevelopment In this discussion, Jeb Brugmann explains how Asia's largest slum, Dharavi in Mumbai, is an example of an economy that's vibrant and dive ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-08-18 Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce notes the death of Les Paul who invented the hard-body electric guitar and the multi-tracking of music. He also reflected on Hillary Clinton's recent tour of Africa. Clifford May A conversation with Conservative columnist and former Director of Communications for the Republican National Committee, Clifford May, about President Obama's domestic and foreign policy agenda, and the Republicans efforts to regain their political footing. Astronaut K. Megan McArthu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-08-17 Canberra Babylon Christian Kerr discusses the rather upbeat views on the Australian economy by the Federal Treasury Secretary, Ken Henry, and the implications for the federal government if they were to purchase the controversial irrigation property Cubbie Station in Queensland. Reclaiming Hypatia In the International Year of Astronomy, it's time to recall one of the first female astronomers, Hypatia. Born in the 4th centruy AD, Hypatia's merits and influence reached further then the stars ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-08-14 CLASSIC LNL: How the Pacific war changed the region This discussion looks at the way the end of the war in the Pacific ushered in the Pacific era for Australia and other Asian nations: the Pacific would never be the same again. Originally broadcast on 14/8/1995. CLASSIC LNL: The effects of war on Japan's postwar political and economic development In this discussion, first broadcast on 14/8/95 on the 50th anniversary of the end of the war in the Pacific, John Dower and Sodei Rinjiro arg ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-08-13 Carbon sequestration The capacity for appropriately managed soils to sequester atmospheric carbon is enormous, as is the planting and management of trees as forest carbon sinks. We talk to two practitioners and educators who are leading Australia, and possibly the world, in the area of carbon sequestration. Dolphin slaughter With the success of the television show Flipper in the 1960s, the popularity of dolphins soared and an industry was founded requiring the captivity of dolphins in aqu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-08-12 Missile City Postcard A conversation about the psychological effect of living under constant threat from missile attack, which is the everyday situation for the residents of Sderot in southern Israel. Last week we heard of the ongoing effects of trauma on Palestinian children in Gaza, and this describes the traumatic effect on children over the border in southern Israel, where a siren indicates there are just 15 seconds to find shelter. Japanese Elections Japan´s ruling Liberal Democrat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-08-11 Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce talks about healthcare reform, which is the all-consuming issue in Washington. He points out that unresolved conflicts within the Democratic Party, together with the intensity of the opposition to the reforms, threaten Obama's control of a central issue for the first time. The New Silk Road The old dichotomy between East and West has shaped the strategic balance of the world for years: it's the relationship between China and the US, or the US and the Middle E ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-08-10 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle discusses the Opposition's alternative ETS scheme and the undertaking by the Liberal party to split the renewable energy target legislation from the CPRS legislation. Remote area work: a case study in frustration The Remote Area Work Scheme, run by Milton James, has achieved some success in placing young Aboriginal men from remote communities into jobs in the fruit picking and meat processing industries. Since he's tried to expand the program to a number of ab ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-08-07 CLASSIC LNL: Terror in the Name of God; Why Religious Militants Kill Jessica Stern is an expert on terrorism. She teaches it as a subject at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and was recently the Superterrorism Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. In this conversation, first broadcast in 2003/4, Jessica talks about her book which is the result of 4 years research, interviewing a range of Jewish, Christian and Muslim terrorists. CLASSIC LNL: The New Economy of Terror ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-08-06 The View from Gaza Journalist Antony Loewenstein has just been to Gaza, six months on from the recent war where over a thousand Palestinians were killed and hundreds of thousands made homeless. Raft Melbourne-based GP Howard Goldenberg has spent some of each of the past 18 years working as a relief doctor in remote Aboriginal communities in Australia. In Raft he writes about his experiences and impressions. A moderate Muslim's message Growing up in Britain as a Pakistani-born Muslim durin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-08-05 Willy Lam A conversation about the lead-up to the 60th anniversary of the Peoples Republic of China. There has been a recent surge in military spending and China is committed to a space race with Japan and India to put a man on the moon by 2015. Burma's nuclear ambitions Rumours have been swirling for some time that the Burmese junta's desire for nuclear reactors might be for more than just producing medical isotopes. Evidence from two Burmese defectors has added to the suspicions that Bur ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-08-04 Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce talks about the 'Beer Summit', where Barack Obama invited the Cambridge police he'd called 'stupid' to the White House for a beer, thus avoiding a possible backlash from the police union. Bruce also discussed what he calls a 'certifiable brand of American lunacy', the 'birthers', who claim Obama wasn't really born in the US but in Kenya. Ben Kiernan It´s now 30 years since the Khmer Rouge regime was toppled. Almost 1.8 million people were killed in just fou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-08-03 Origins of life and evolution of intelligence A panel discussion in front of a large audience at the 2009 Adelaide Festival of Ideas. In the broadcast program Phillip discusses the origins of life and the evolution of intelligence with four panel guests, and the podcast version includes an additional thirty minutes of questions from the audience to the panel guests. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-07-31 CLASSIC LNL: Maningrida Maningrida is one of the only Aboriginal communities that didn't begin life as a mission station. It's about 300 kilometres east of Darwin and is nestled right on the edge of the Arafura Sea. It has an Aboriginal population of about 900 in the dry season, which increases to 1200 in the wet and there are at least 8 language groups at Maningrida; in fact some would put the estimate at 16 language groups. The community at Maningrida has a long history of trade with ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-07-29 God Is Back There are now more Christians in China than there are members of the Communist party and while Pentecostalism has been growing like crazy in Latin America, it's South Korea where you'll find five of the world's ten biggest mega-churches. In 'God is Back', John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge track the revival of religion in a world where previously, intellectuals assumed that modernism would kill religion. Methland Crystal methamphetamine, otherwise known as meth or crack, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-07-28 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses the maelstrom of racial politics unleashed by the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. 'Her Deepness' Dr Sylvia Earle A conversation with the veteran oceanographer and recent TED prize winner about her life's work observing the health of the earth's oceans. Sylvia Earle has been involved in more than 400 ocean expeditions and has racked up about 7,000 underwater hours as part of her scientific research. She argues that there needs to be a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-07-27 Canberra Babylon Christian Kerr discusses the implications of the Prime Minister´s public essay outlining the rocky financial road ahead for Australia; also health reform and the PM´s active involvement in the consultation process. And, the ongoing battle over the government´s emission trading scheme — where will it all lead? Buy Australian: job stimulus or protectionism? Two of Australia's biggest blue-collar unions have united in their call for a 'Buy Australian' policy when it ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-07-24 CLASSIC LNL: Peter Cabban and 'Voyager' Originally broadcast on 22/8/2005. Peter Cabban had been second-in-command on the ill-fated HMAS Voyager, until five weeks before it collided, near Jervis Bay in NSW, with the aircraft carrier, HMAS Melbourne in February 1964. He'd resigned from the navy over concerns for the safety of the Voyager crew and the ship itself, in the hands of the Captain, Duncan Stevens. The investigation into the voyager disaster, which resulted in the deaths of 82 m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-07-23 Heatwave deaths: an Australian social autopsy A discussion about the deaths attributed to heatwave conditions in SE Australia in late January, early February of 2009, and strategies that could be put in place to reduce the health dangers to vulnerable citizens. This discussion follows the recent conversation on LNL with Eric Klinenberg about the social and health effects of the 1995 heatwave in Chicago, USA. Goodbye Shanghai Sam Moshinsky was born in Shanghai in 1934 and lived there for th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-07-22 Black Saturday: Bushfire strategy in ruins An analysis of the evidence presented to the Royal Commission into the Victorian bushfires of February 2009. The evidence revealed communications failures between key emergency services personnel, which meant residents in the path of the fires were not warned of the imminent threat to their lives and property; and there are serious questions being asked about the previously established strategy of 'leave early or stay and defend'. The Aftermath - ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-07-21 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro reflects on the legacy of the moon landing; and the deaths of Walter Cronkite and Frank McCourt. Corruption Is corruption inevitable? Adam Graycar believes that it isn't. He says, 'Corruption may occur when inclination and opportunity meet and where there is no "capable guardian". Any starting diagnosis has to determine whether the corrupt act is done for greed, or whether it's done for survival.' In this discussion Adam Graycar defines corruption, talks abou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-07-20 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle reflects on the detention of Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu by the Chinese government, and the questions that the case raises about the appropriate relationship between big businesses operating in foreign countries and the Australian government. Jill Tarter - the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence 2009 is an anniversary year for star gazers; it´s the four hundredth year since Galileo first used a telescope; the fortieth anniversary of the moon landing; an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-07-17 CLASSIC LNL: Authenticity and Ownership in the Arts This discussion, first broadcast on 20/3/1997, followed the revelations that Perth artist, Elizabeth Durack painted under the name of a bogus Aboriginal man, Eddie Burrup; and that author Leon Carmen had an alter ego - Wanda Koolmatrie, the name he assumed to write 'In My Own Sweet Time', purporting to be the autobiography of an Aboroginal writer taken from her mother as a child. The revelations sparked outrage and condemnation, particul ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-07-16 The Making of Barack Obama How did a freshman senator, with an exotic name and no financial backing, beat the biggest names in the Democratic Party and eventually win the presidential election within 24 months? The meteoric rise to power of Barack Obama? Cape York castaway In late 1858, 14-year-old French cabin boy Narcisse Pelletier was abandoned on eastern Cape York by his captain after a shipwreck. He was discovered and rescued by an Aboriginal family and went on to live with the Uutaa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-07-15 Bea Campbell This month, Bea gives an update on the News of the World phone hacking scandal that was revealed last week in The Guardian newspaper. Honduras and Obama's Latin American policy The recent military coup in Honduras, described as the pyjama coup because the president was seized from his residence while still in his pyjamas, is being seen as President Obama's first test in gauging America's new approach to Latin America. The Mighty Wurlitzer: how the CIA played America Hugh Wil ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-07-14 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Arthur Chaskalson Arthur Chaskalson has had a long and distinguished career in human rights advocacy. In apartheid South Africa he was a member of former President Nelson Mandela´s defence team, and in 1978 he established the Legal Resources Centre which fought apartheid through the courts and legal system. He has been acknowledged by former South African President Thabo Mbeki a `giant ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-07-13 Where do big ideas come from? The opening session of the 2009 Adelaide Festival of Ideas, recorded on Thursday 9 July 2009 between 8pm and 10pm. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-07-10 CLASSIC LNL: Anwar Ibrahim The former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia spent six years in prison after being convicted of abuse of power and sexual misconduct, until these charges were overturned in 2004. The plays of Shakespeare were Professor Ibrahim's solace and companion during his years of solitary confinement, and they continue to inspire his advocacy of a moderate and progressive Islam. Originally broadcast on 19/7/2006. CLASSIC LNL: The Great Angkor Project A discussion about t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-07-09 - UPDATED Edward Albee In this program-length conversation, Edward Albee, now 81, talks about his early life, his plays, including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? and his thoughts on death and dying. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-07-08 - UPDATED Satyajit Das An update from LNL's financial crisis analyst who talks about the Ben Benanke coined phrase 'green shoots of recovery', which has come to mean that economists and financiers think the worst of the GFC is over. According to Das it means in reality that things are getting worse but at a slower rate. Unrest in Xinjiang China´s restive north western province of Xinjiang has seen an eruption in ethnically motivated violence this week. Violent protests on the weekend claimed 156 l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-07-07 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses the death of Robert McNamara, 'the architect' of the Vietnam War, and, Sarah Palin's political future in the wake of her resignation as governor of Alaska. US climate change legislation On 26 June the U.S. House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and Security legislation that binds the U.S. to cutting carbon emissions by 17% from 2005 levels in 2020 and 83% in 2050. The bill is yet to pass in the Senate. What does this legislation co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-07-06 - UPDATED Canberra Babylon Christian Kerr discusses the Prime Minister's attendance at the Major Economies Forum in Italy this week, and the problems with South Australian politics. Closing the Gap The Australian Prime Minister described the state of Indigenous affairs as 'devastating' following the Productivity Commission's report "Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage." For some people, this provides an opportunity to revise why the politics of Indigenous Australia has failed, to forget about ideolog ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-07-03 CLASSIC LNL: The essence of Victoria A panel of six guests join Phillip Adams in the George Pub in St Kilda, Melbourne, to discuss the vitality of Melbourne and the state of Victoria – the political scene both state and local, the architecture, the spiritual side, sporting attributes, the arts and the community. Originally broadcast 29/1/96. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-07-02 Inside America's Christian Military In Jeff Sharlet's most recent Harper's essay he chronicles his investigation into the rise of fundamentalist Christianity in the U.S. military. The Third Man Factor Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, Everest climber Edmund Hillary and scores of others have all experienced a mysterious presence known as 'The Third Man'. After facing imminent death in extreme circumstances, they've recalled being visited by a strange presence which has guided them out h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-07-01 Eddin Khoo South East Asian correspondent Eddin Khoo discusses the upcoming Indonesian presidential election – how far the country has come democratically since the days of Suharto, and how much further leading candidate and incumbent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono wants to take the country over the next ten years. As Indonesians go to the polls, in neighbouring Malaysia the country will once again be faced with the trial of Anwar Ibrahim on new allegations of sodomy. Amnesty International ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-06-30 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses the circus around the death of Michael Jackson, the sentencing of Bernie Madoff, an important Supreme Court ruling about racial discrimination in New Haven, and the coup in Honduras. Ethics: A business case A conversation about the business argument for the use of ethical labels to mark products made without the use of child labour, slavery and other forms of human exploitation, or environmental destruction. Michael Hiscox is involved in research on th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-06-29 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle talks about Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull's latest slump in the polls, and discusses exactly what Godwin Grech's job was in Treasury. An open market for books? Once again it is being debated whether the level of protection afforded to the Australian book industry should be removed. On one side of the debate is that the protection is a necessity as it allows Australian content and authors to flourish. The other side says an open and free market wou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-06-26 CLASSIC LNL: The History of Harlem The internationally acclaimed capital of Black America is Harlem, which stands as one of New York's most treasured communities. Long the focal point of Black politics, Harlem was and remains a centre for Black political involvement. Professor Basil Wilson talks about many aspects of Harlem including leadership within the Black Movement, the importance of Million Man Marches as a form of protest, and whether the government's encouragement of business inv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-06-25 Pandemics and International Law How effective has the World Health Organisation been in its response to the recent H1N1 influenza pandemic? Not that good says global health expert Lawrence Gospin. He explains that despite revised International Health Regulations, there remain significant gaps in the agency's authority and resources necessary for an effective global response. Cosmetic Neurology We all agree that athletes enhancing their performance with stimulants is wrong, but what do w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-06-18 Update from Tehran In what is being claimed the biggest wave of public anger since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, protests continue in the streets of Tehran against the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. A rally to mourn those have died in the last few days is being planned with the call for a `silent sea of green.´ Iran: Presidential Election Fall-out For some people the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may not be a total surprise. But what has captivated observers around the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-06-17 Gordon Brown's predicament Britain's prime minister, Gordon Brown, managed to cling on to his position despite seven of his ministers leaving the government and a rebel force of MPs plotting to oust him. Despite this, the precarious position of the Labour Party and the disunity among parliamentary members have commentators saying Brown's long-term chances of survival are pretty slim and, short of a miracle, the party is certain to lose the next general election. Animal Spirits and the G ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-06-16 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro commemorates the 200th anniversary of the death of English-American writer and revolutionary Thomas Paine. Bruce also ruminates on what Thomas would have made of last week´s Iranian elections. Rubbish A conversation about rubbish/garbage/waste. It may be universal, but it is little studied and poorly understood. Nobody knows how much of it the world generates or what is done with it. In many rich countries, and most poor ones, only the patchiest of records are ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-06-15 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle discusses Peter Costello's announcement that he'll be retiring from politics at the next election, and the upcoming Senate debate on the emissions trading scheme legislation. Emissions political trading A discussion about the Greens' and independents' opposition to the government's proposed emissions trading model, and why they are likely to vote down the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme when it goes before the Senate next week. Bearing Witness: Philip Blenk ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-06-12 CLASSIC LNL: Thomas Paine A conversation, first broadcast on 26/7/2006, with two of the biographers of the English-American writer and revolutionary Thomas Paine, who had a profound influence on the French revolution, the American Revolution and English radicalism. Paine's ideas shaped the way all of us understand the concept of rights, democracy, the welfare state, and the concept of the United States of America. Thomas Paine died 200 years ago this week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-06-11 Iranian Presidential Elections It what has been described as one of the most exciting and unpredictable election campaigns, Iranians cast their vote this Friday on who will be their new President. Conservative and controversial incumbent President Mahmound Ahmadinejad is contesting against a similar conservative candidate and two reformists. The world awaits the decision. Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element It´s the element known as the `father of the atom bomb´, a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-06-10 China's reaction to North Korea's Tests China is North Korea´s largest ally and, importantly for North Korea, their biggest trading partner and main source of food and fuel. However, these latest rounds of nuclear weapon and missile testings have provoked China to reconsider how it deals with their provocative neighbour. Also, what it's like to be a tourist in North Korea. The secret to happiness In 1937 Harvard researchers began a longitudinal study to determine the ingredients of a succ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-06-09 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro talks about President Obama's major speech in Cairo and his visit to a German concentration camp. And, the kidnapping of two American journalists by North Korea. Emissions trading future A conversation with the author of the Garnaut Climate Change Review. When parliament resumes next week the government will resume its efforts to get the emissions trading scheme through the Senate. It has passed the Lower House where the government has a majority but faces a bl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-06-08 Veronica Brady A conversation with Dr Veronica Brady on current issues affecting Australia and the world. Veronica is not only an academic, essayist, poet, author, biographer, political and social activist, she is also a Catholic nun. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-06-05 CLASSIC LNL: Eric Hobsbawm A discussion with the eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm when he was 85, following the publication of his biography. Originally broadcast 27/2/03 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-06-04 June 4, 1989 - the Polish anniversary A conversation with Martin Krygier in Warsaw, where celebrations are about to begin to mark the 20th anniversary of Solidarity´s electoral success on June 4th, 1989, which triggered a year of revolution and saw several former Soviet bloc countries overthrow their communist governments. Green law It's taken for granted, with all the attention on what governments are doing to curtail global warming, that legislation would be in place to protect the envi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-06-03 The Burning Season Carbon trading entrepreneur Dorjee Sun is on a mission to save Indonesia's rainforests – and the orang-utan. His work was awarded Environmental Finance's Carbon Finance Deal of the Year award and in April 2009 was honoured by the African Rainforest Conservancy for his work. Josef Penninger A conversation with the recipient of the Australian Society for Medical Research medal for 2009, about his life and work. Josef Penninger is from a humble Austrian farming family ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-06-02 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro talks about the assasination of US abortion doctor George Tiller. And, the bankruptcy filing - and effective nationalization - of General Motors. Indigenous housing: myths and realities Last week the minister for Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, announced that the town camps around Alice Springs were facing compulsory acquisition because of their 'horrific' conditions. Why is housing for Aboriginal Australians still in such a dire state and what's needed to im ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-06-01 - UPDATED Canberra Babylon Christian Kerr talks about the opposition ads attacking the government's debt projections; the government's attempts to get emissions trading though parliament and Malcolm Turnbull's problems in getting a consistent Liberal/National Party line on the ETS. Torture and Democracy: What Now? Despite claims by many intelligence officials that torture does not work and produces bad intelligence, former vice-president Dick Cheney has re-emerged to lead the pro-torture debate in t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-05-29 CLASSIC LNL: Shirley Shackleton A discussion with the tenacious campaigner for East Timor whose husband, Greg Shackleton, was one of five Australian based journalists killed by Indonesian forces in Balibo, in 1975, shortly before the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. Shackleton talks at length about her life, and more than a quarter of a century struggling to find the truth about the killings of her husband and colleagues. Shackleton's story is one filled with love and idealism, pain and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-05-28 Shooting Balibo In 1975, Tony Maniaty a bright-eyed young ABC reporter, flew in to East Timor to report on a growing conflict. What started as a simple news assignment soon changed tone. Indonesian troops were preparing to invade the former Portuguese colony. And in the lead up to that invasion, they murdered five journalists who had stuck around to cover the story. It was Tony who broke the story of the deaths of the `Balibo Five´ to the world. It´s an event that has haunted him ever sin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-05-27 Pub Philosophy A bit of philosophy to begin this program: Roger Sworder talks about the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, and his ideas about the universe - an accident or intelligent design? The Invisible Hook: Pirates, Economics and Democracy Atlantic pirates of the 16th and 17th centuries may not be the best group of society to study for their democratic or economic prowess but, then again, they did successfully rule the seas for centuries. How do today´s pirates compare? Zi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-05-26 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses California's Supreme Court's ruling on whether the state's gay-marriage ban will stand and Barack Obama's first Memorial Day as President and the honouring of African-American Civil War soldiers. North Korea Test: what does it mean? A conversation about how to interpret the recent actions of North Korea in testing a long-range missile and exploding an underground nuclear bomb. Is it an exercise to prove North Korea´s nuclear-readiness (a year or so af ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-05-25 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle analyses the first Question Time since the Budget. UK MPs and the Expenses Scandal Almost to a person, the British voters have been outraged by the revelations about how MPs have been spending public money. On 8 May, the Daily Telegraph began publishing the first in a series of damaging revelations about MPs' expenses. These expenses range from the lavish to the bizarre and while most of the MPs haven´t actually broken the law, they have been using a 'variet ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-05-22 CLASSIC LNL: Hans and Gina Hans Post grew up in Nazi Germany and became an SS officer in the latter stages of World War Two. Gina Behrens was born in England to Jewish parents; her early life was donimated by the war and its aftermath. So what would two such different people have in common? In this program Hans and Gina discuss their early lives, how they met, and their relationship together over the last 25 years. Originally broadcast on 14/8/03. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-05-21 Sri Lanka: deadly for journalists A conversation about the climate of intimidation, incarceration and assassination for Sri Lankan journalists - particularly Tamil journalists - who've tried to report on the civil war. What happens now, if the war is over? India's Search for Energy Security In the recent Indian elections one of the most important issues was addressing energy poverty - the fact that millions of Indians have no access to electricity. It´s a paradox that gets to the heart of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-05-20 A Filipino postcard Marjorie Evasco is a bilingual Filipino poet. Her decision to write not only in English but also in her mother tongue and translate her work into Spanish draws on the complexities and diversities of the Philippines. Transparency International The global financial issues unleashed a constellation of issues on how we govern global finance. Transparency International has been working at developing new frameworks to make public companies and governments more accountable. T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-05-19 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro joins Phillip in the Sydney studio, and discusses President Obama's U-turn on the issue of releasing pictures of prisoner abuse from Abu Ghraib. Uganda's former vice-president: Speciosa Wandira Former vice-president of the Republic of Uganda, Speciosa Wandira, was the first African woman to hold such a powerful position in politics. After nine years in the post, she has undertaken various projects, working at a grassroots level, with the objective of empowering ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-05-18 - UPDATED Canberra Babylon Christian Kerr discusses post budget spin and the infrastructure rollout. Nancy of Afghanistan A conversation with the veteran scholar of Afghanistan's history, art and archaeology. Over almost 50 years, Nancy Hatch Dupreee has witnessed the devastation of the country's living history, culture and people, and today she is trying to preserve an archive of important documents about Afghanistan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-05-15 LNL Classic: Gerry Adams This program was first broadcast in November 2003 with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, on the day of the Northern Ireland Assembly elections. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-05-14 Iran: a military history A conversation with Steven Ward - a senior, serving CIA analyst - about his just-published military history of Iran and its armed forces. Iran is currently at the centre of geopolitical tensions and the Persian empire has played a significant, if underrated role in world history. Obelisk A discussion about the original source and subsequent use of the familiar obelisk pillar or monument, which has been a symbol of status, power, piety and paganism for over four mil ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-05-13 Bea Campbell Bea discusses the British MP expenses scandal, and the findings in a new book that Britain under Gordon Brown is a more unequal country than at any time since modern records began in the early 1960s. Australia's Chief Scientist A conversation with Australia's Chief Scientist, Professor Penny Sackett - about her role and what she sees as the short and long term scientific priorities for Australia, particularly in relation to climate change. She also talks about her recent discu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-05-07 The Kiss of Saddam When Selma Masson's diplomat husband, Mohammad al Jabiri, was suddenly called back to Iraq from Spain, it would be two years before Selma knew where he was or if he was still alive. Apparently he'd gotten on the wrong side of Saddam Hussein and was being punished. Selma, and writer Michelle McDonald, tell the story in "The Kiss of Saddam". And So It Went Bob Ellis muses on national and world events, beginning in June 2007 and ending in November 2008. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-05-06 Eddin Khoo Eddin Khoo talks about how the global economic crisis is affecting Southeast Asian nation, many of which are trade dependent countries. Singapore, the region's leading ecomonic success story recently announced its worst recession in forty years. The Middle Classes A discussion about the global surge in the ranks of the 'middle class' - both in wealthy and developing nations - and how those people will be affected by the present worldwide economic downturn. Peace in Chechnya? L ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-05-05 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses Supreme Court Justice David Souter and Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania: both are defectors from GOP orthodoxy in a party that no longer seems able to accommodate moderates and reformers. Bill McKibben Al Gore said it was the work of environmentalist Bill McKibben that first alerted him to the dangers of global warming. McKibben is in Australia talking about the rapidly evolving politics of climate change and why the world should be aiming to red ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-05-04 Canberra Babylon Christian Kerr discusses the delay in the Rudd Government's Emissions Trading Scheme as well as what's being said a week out from the Federal Budget. Satyajit Das An update from LNL's financial crisis analyst who talks about the other side of the globalisation story -- the consequences of financial market cross-infection, swine flu pandemic panic, and the rapid international transmission of unemployment. Antisemitism and talking to Iran When President Barack Obama said h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-05-01 CLASSIC LNL: The Late Aileen Plant This program was first broadcast in April 2006 with Australian medical epidemiologist, the late Aileen Plant. CLASSIC LNL: Heritage Conservation in India This program was first broadcast in April 2006 on the restoration and protection of some of India's, particularly Mumbai's, heritage buildings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-04-30 Sri Lanka Update As the Sri Lanka government forces close in on the small patch of land still being held by the Tamil Tigers, the humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka just gets worse by the day. Today UNICEF has said that government refugee camps in and around the Sri Lanka battle zone now hold about two hundred thousand civilians. That is three times the number of only seven to ten days ago. Solomon Islands Truth & Reconciliation Commission A discussion about the hopes and expectations for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-04-29 Peter Sculthorpe turns eighty A conversation with the celebrated Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe on his 80th birthday. Sculthorpe talks about his first introduction to Eastern music as a child in Tasmania and about his determination to succeed as a composer. He describes his relationships with other cultural figures in Australia (Drysdale, Nolan, White) and the lure of Australia's Aboriginal 'Top End', as well as his attraction to Shintoism. He speaks frankly of his experience of clin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-04-28 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses two Supreme Court cases in the US, and asks what role affirmative action has in the age of Obama? Swine 'flu on the move A discussion about the urgent work underway in frontline communities and in medical laboratories to minimise the spread of the swine flu outbreak. Dark Energy Astronomer Brian Schmidt was part of a team of scientists who discovered that the universe is accelerating. Tonight he talks to Phillip about Dark Energy and Dark Matter --two ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-04-27 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle discusses the likely long-term political impact of the economic downturn. Fiji: sliding towards dictatorship? Earlier this month, the Fijian Court of Appeal ruled that the government of Commodore Frank Bainimarama was illegal, his response was to launch a further power grab. The Fijian constitution was scrapped, judiciary was sacked and press freedom severely curtailed. The president has now declared Bainimarama would be prime minister until 2014. Are we witne ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-04-24 CLASSIC LNL: Sight and Insight A conversation first broadcast in 1997 with academic and author, John Hull, about the process of gradually going blind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-04-23 China Update with Willy Lam The Chinese navy is showing off its firepower in Qingdao this week - Willy Lam argues this is all part of the shift in emphasis from land to sea based power in the People's Republic. Thomas Mann US commentator Tom Mann has been called "the king of the pundits", tonight he talks to Phillip about President Obama´s relationship with the US Congress, and argues that the unity of the Democrats will be seriously tested when high stakes legislation on energy, health c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-04-22 Olfat Mahmoud A conversation about the ongoing despair -- no rights, no work, no vote, no citizenship -- for hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees in camps in Lebanon. Dealing with natural disasters In the last forty years, almost five billion people have been affected by natural disasters. What exactly are they, and how can we learn from past disasters to reduce the devastation that's inevitable in the future? Being Kafka's Monkey: Kathryn Hunter Acclaimed British actress Kathryn ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-04-21 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses President Obama's release of the CIA torture memos. South African elections A conversation about the national elections in South Africa. The ANC is expected to win comfortably and extend its 15-year stretch in government, despite facing growing public disillusionment over claims of entrenched political corruption -- as well as its choice of leader. Energy alternatives A discussion from the Brisbane Festival of Ideas about the realistic potential for a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-04-20 Canberra Babylon Christian Kerr discusses Kevin Rudd's acknowledgement that the Austalian economy will inevitably go into recession; the politics of refugee boats and refugee policy; and the government's predicament over whether or not to push ahead with its Emissions Trading Scheme. Jefferson to Obama: Race in American history With the election of the first black president of the United States, all eyes are on Barack Obama and how race relations will proceed in what is often a divided so ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-04-17 CLASSIC LNL: Should we reassess our colonial history? Paul Carter gives another perspective on our history as a way of understanding contemporary Australian literature and culture. The Lie of the Land explores 'the necessity of a form of self-redefinition, which is poetic'. Originally broadcast 13/3/96. CLASSIC LNL: Urban Utopias A conversation pondering the nature of Utopian ideals; to what extent they've influenced and shaped our cities and the way we live now, and whether they have a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-04-15 The Accidental Guerrillas Under President Obama the USA is in the process of implementing a new strategy to fight terrorism and build stability across the Middle East and Central Asia. Key aspects of this strategy -- a refocusing on Afghanistan and Pakistan over Iraq; the employment of diplomatic and civilian means rather than simply military; and a commitment to counter Taliban propoganda reflect advice long given to the White House by one of the world's leading experts on guerilla warfar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-04-10 CLASSIC LNL: Shake Hands With the Devil - Rwanda Genocide Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire was appointed commander of the UN Assistance Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR) in October 1993. Six months later the slaughter of Tutsis and moderate Hutus began. General Dallaire tells his moving account of his experiences in Rwanda in his book, "Shake Hands With The Devil", which he describes as "a story of betrayal, failure, naivete, indifference, hatred, genocide, war, inhumanity and evil." Original ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-04-09 Germany: Reconciling East/West Divide in Film This year marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and Germany appears to be reflecting on its memories of the Cold War through a new genre of films exploring the complexities of this time. Also making a comeback are films made during this period in the former GDR. The German Film Festival in Australia showcases a range of these films. Netanyahu, Obama and the Peace Process Can there ever be a peaceful solution to the Israel-Pa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-04-08 Bea Campbell Bea talks about the life and death of Jade Goody, who became a public figure in the UK following her appearances on the TV reality program Big Brother. Dementia future A conversation about the social, economic and political implications of a rapidly ageing population in Australia, which will inevitably include an increasing population of people living with dementia. Made in Queensland Barry Humphries once quipped, 'Australia is the Brisbane of the world.' But that was befor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-04-07 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses President Obama's visit to the Europe. Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution Hugo Chavez came to power in Venezuela in 1998, initiating a self-styled Socialist Revolution. He is beloved by sections of the Left across the continent and beyond, but what has his `Bolivarian Revolution´ actually meant for Venezuelans? "Taliwood" Film-maker George Gittoes has returned to Australia after spending a year in total in Peshawar and the surrounding areas of the Nor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-04-06 Canberra Babylon Christian Kerr says now that Kevin Rudd has returned from overseas the focus is clearly on domestic issues; and while it's budget season for the Government, it's budget 'speculation' season for the media. Islam and Human Rights: perspectives from Saudi Arabia In recent years there has been increasing debate about the role of human rights in Saudi Arabia. King Abdullah introduced a series of political reforms earlier this year, but the country is still a long way from rece ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-04-03 Classic LNL: Feminism in Islam A program first broadcast on 27th July, 1995 on Islamic women. The discussion was held following two fatwas issued against Bangladeshi author, and guest on the program, Taslima Nasrin in 1994. Classic LNL: Irish Migration Stories A discussion originally broadcast on the 27th July 1995, looking at letters written by Irish migrants travelling to Australia between 1843 and 1909. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-04-02 Iceland's Meltdown Iceland was the first country to experience the ravages of the financial crisis. In October last year their banking system collapsed and in January this year, the government stepped aside as protestors took to the streets. As world leaders meet in London for the G20, we re-visit the tiny North Atlantic nation. The future of the European Union A conversation about the tensions within the EU over growing demands for protectionist policies in the face of the global economic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-04-01 Sunday Brunch from the 2009 Brisbane Festival of Ideas The Sunday Brunch session has become a tradition at the Brisbane Ideas Festival. A range of topics is covered by Phillip Adams and his national and international guests. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-03-31 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses President Obama's massive intervention into the American auto industry. Also; Obama's committment of 4000 new troops to Afghanistan on a mission which is evidently dividing his own administration, with Vice President Joe Biden emerging as the leading voice warning of quagmire. And, we remember the pioneering African-American historian of the south and slavery, John Hope Franklin, who died this week. Call to End Drug Prohibition There´s growing momentu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-03-30 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle discusses the 'China Affair', Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon's friendship with Chinese businesswoman Ms Liu and the Opposition's attempts to invoke the 'Yellow Peril'. Also, with the upcoming budget, will the government use the hard economic times to make structural changes? Secret Giving: Philanthropy in Australia Home-grown philanthropy has been booming in Australia over the last decade, but Elizabeth Cham says philanthropic organisations in Australia are ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-03-27 CLASSIC LNL: Dorothy Hewett A conversation with the Australian poet, playwright, novelist and activist about her life and work. This conversation was first broadcast in December 1997, five years before her death in 2002. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-03-26 WEH Stanner & The Great Australian Silence In the 1950s and 60s the anthropologist WEH Stanner changed the way Australians thought about ourselves and our country. His essays and lectures, notably his 1968 Boyer Lectures, revealed both the richness of Aboriginal culture, and also what he called the 'cult of forgetfulness' practised by white Australians about the fate of this unique culture following European settlement. But Stanner has been a victim of this same national amnesia—hi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-03-25 Are our cities sustainable? A discussion about the extent to which Australian cities, as we know them, are sustainable. Australia is a highly urbanised nation and yet when we talk about the potentially severe effects of climate change in Australia we tend not to talk about how our cities will cope, we tend to talk more about the damage to our iconic environmental assets—rivers, reefs and so on—and to our agricultural output. About eight out of ten Australians live and work in c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-03-24 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses the political fallout over AIG's decision to pay bonuses to its executives. And, Treasury Secretary Geithner's unveiling of the next stage of the economic recovery plan. Queensland's conservatives A discussion with two members of the merged Liberal National Party (LNP) - one is a supporter of the merger, the other opposed it - about the current and future political fortunes for Queensland's conservatives, following Labor's 5th successive state election ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-03-23 Canberra Babylon Christian Kerr discusses Kevin Rudd's trip to Washington for the G20 meetings, and the Queensland elections. Trouble in Madagascar After months-long political protests, last Saturday the military in Madagascar handed over power to thirty-four-year-old disc jockey, Andry Rajoelina. Former President Marc Ravalomanana resigned his position last week when soldiers stormed the presidential palace and the central bank. Will this be a smooth transition towards fresh elections i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-03-20 CLASSIC LNL: 1997 Brisbane Writers' Festival Forum - Who Owns Australia? In this 1997 forum the question of what is Australian culture? was discussed. Has Australia yet developed anything that can be defined as Australian culture or Australian identity, and more importantly, who defines and who owns that identity? Originally broadcast on 4/9/1997. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-03-19 Alexander Downer A conversation with the former minister for foreign affairs about his new role as UN special envoy for Cyprus, helping facilitate reunification talks between the Greek and Turkish communities. Mr Downer also talks about his grandfather, Sir John Downer, one of the 'founding fathers' of Australian Federation. The Vertigo Years Historians often consider the trenches of World War One as the birthplace of the modern era, but Philipp Blom argues that it was the years before 191 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-03-18 Satyajit Das An update from LNL's financial crisis analyst. He talks about the process by which oil and other commodity prices rose dramatically and then crashed, with huge consequences for the Australian economy; and he talks about his observations from a recent trip to Dubai, which is feeling the full effects of the global financial crisis. The Social Face of War What lessons can be drawn from the American Civil War on how cohesive social networks influenced soldiers' decisions to sacrif ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-03-17 Bruce Shapiro Bruce Shapiro discusses why former American ambassador to Saudi Arabia Chas Freeman announced he would not accept the post of chairman of the National Intelligence Council, a position he had previously accepted in the Obama administration, and what this might say about the administration´s Middle East policy. Likewise, what will the retention bonuses of US$165 million to executives of insurance company American International Group reveal about their ability to stabilise the U ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-03-16 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle discusses the contentious legislation currently going through the Senate, in particular the alcopops tax, disclosure of political donations and Industrial Relations reforms. Also, the pros and cons of calling an early Federal election. Pakistan's Long March A discussion about the growing protest movement in Pakistan -- started by lawyers and taken on by the main opposition leader -- which the government has tried to quell by announcing that it will reinstate t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-03-13 CLASSIC LNL: Disaster Soap Operas A discussion looking at why the media and the general public are so fascinated with disasters, whether natural or manmade, and how we respond to disasters on a personal and emotional level. Originally broadcast on 13/8/97. CLASSIC LNL: Orson Welles David Thomson talks about the amazing success of Orson Welles: what shaped his genius, his arrogance, charm and flamboyance, as well as his decline later in life. Originally broadcast on 13/8/97. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-03-12 Pakistan on the brink It is just a year since Pakistan´s military dictator General Musharaff was ousted and a democratic government elected, but instead of bright future, Pakistan is descending further into to chaos. Last week, the world watched on in horror as the Sri Lankan cricket team were attacked by extremists. Today, lawyers across the country are being rounded up and detained, as they begin a protest march in support of a Supreme Court justice. Is the government too distracted by ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-03-11 Bea Campbell It's been ten years this month since the murder of Northern Ireland human rights lawyer, Rosemary Nelson. This week Bea discusses the latest enquiry into her murder, an enquiry that has revealed a trail of scandal on the part of authorities. Policing Crime Through Anti-terrorism Laws A recent report by the International Commission of Jurists condemns the measures taken by many governments around the world in their response to the attacks on September 11, 2001. The report has ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-03-10 Bruce Shapiro This week, Bruce talks about the loss of jobs in the US newsmedia. And the latest Obama reversal of Bush policy: ending the ban on stem-cell research. ICC Indictment in Sudan Last week, Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, became the first serving head of state to be indicted by the International Criminal Court in the Hague. He's been charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur. But is this a major step towards international justice or is putting ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-03-09 Canberra Babylon Christian Kerr discusses the draft emissions trading legislation due to be released tomorrow and the Industrial Relations legislation, which begins debate in the Senate, also tomorrow. The Supreme Federalist A conversation with the biographer and the grandson of Sir John Downer, who was one of the founding fathers of the Australian federation. The Hell-Fire Clubs Eighteenth-century English society was scandalised by the Hell-Fire Clubs, with their rumoured orgies, Satan w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-03-06 CLASSIC LNL: John Ralston Saul A conversation with philosopher and social critic John Ralston Saul about 'the unconscious civilisation' and what's wrong with it. First broadcast on 3/11/1997. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-03-05 Eddin Khoo Southeast Asia correspondent Eddin Khoo on the recent ASEAN summit and how regional leaders are responding to the global economic crisis and human rights issues including the Rohingya refugees. He also discusses the alarming rates of death in Malaysian police custody for young Indian males. Overpopulation and Australia This month the Federal Government will be issuing its draft legislation on an emissions trading scheme. At the same time, our population is growing faster than ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-03-04 The pink knicker protest This is a story of social activism at its most irreverent and poetic. In the last few months a group of ultra-conservative Hindu nationalists known as the Hindu Sri Ram Sena have physically attacked women drinking in pubs and unwed couples—in a self-described effort to protect Hindu culture and traditional Indian morality. For a group of Indian women it was simply too much and, labelling themselves `A Consortium of Pub-going, Loose and Forward Women´, they ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-03-03 Victoria's bushfires: Jon Faine A discussion about the challenge of broadcasting live during the bushfire emergency. The Melbourne ABC 774 station became the key source of information for people in the fire zones on Black Saturday. Bruce Shapiro This week, Bruce talks about the weekend he spent at a conference at Harvard University sponsored by the Dart Centre. The keynote was a discussion between the historian Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard, and the psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-03-02 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle discusses a range of issues to do with finance, including the pressure on the federal government to help out the states' funding shortage, impending national accounts data, and whether or not interest rates will be cut again with the upcoming Reserve Bank meeting. Justice Richard Goldstone A conversation about the current state of the international criminal justice process, in a week when the International Criminal Court is expected to seek the arrest of the p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-02-27 CLASSIC LNL: Australian Film and TV - The Content Argument A discussion with two prominent Australian producers about the state of the local film and TV production industry - the cost, quality and commitment to local content, and the politics of incorporating controversial social issues. First broadcast on 21/11/2002. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-02-26 The Eucalypt No other continent is as characterised by a single genus of tree as Australia is by the eucalyptus. And no other tree has been so significant culturally and economically to the people who live here: gum trees are used to make everything from the didgeridoo to mosquito repellent to paper and they look set to have a future in sustainable energy. And of course the horrendous fires in Victoria, many raging through eucalyptus forest, remind us that the humble gum tree remains much ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-02-20 CLASSIC LNL: Public Debate: Should Australia go to war in Iraq? - Part 2 Part 2 of a public debate from the former House of Representatives chamber in Old Parliament House, Canberra. A guest panel of five and a 'live' audience debate whether Australia should be involved in a war in Iraq, and if so, under what circumstances. Originally broadcast on 7/2/03. Part 1   Listen Part 2   Listen Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-02-19 Dubai's Descent Christopher Davidson discusses the effects the global financial crisis has been having on the desert emirate of Dubai, where the economy has been dependent on 5-star tourism and expensive real estate purchases by foreigners. Disasters, Justice and Closure Phil Scraton has been working in the area of criminology and criminal justice for thirty years. His research includes deaths in controversial circumstances (public inquiries, inques ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-02-18 Iraq: journalists and interpreters As the Committee to Protect Journalists name Iraq, for the sixth consecutive year, the most dangerous country for the media to work in, British journalist Oliver Poole and Iraqi translator, Ahmed Ali, reflect on their time covering the war. Global warming underestimated A discussion around Christopher Field's comments to the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, where he argued that the IPCC's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-02-17 Bruce Shapiro This week, Bruce talks about Obama's announcement reassessing the Bush ban on images of returning soldiers' coffins, and the status of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Also, Bruce talks about the high standard of Australian news coverage of the Victorian bushfires. Kosovo's independence: one year on Twelve months ago Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia and, since that time, it has had a battle on its hands gaining recogni ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-02-16 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle discusses Julie Bishop's resignation as the Shadow Treasurer and the passing of the stimulus package. Consequences of climate change In his book Forecast, Stephan Faris looks at how climate change will affect the world, politically, economically and culturally. According to Faris, existing conflicts triggered by global warming provide a model that can be used to predict future crises. Our world is undeniably changing, F ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-02-13 CLASSIC LNL: Public Debate: Should Australia go to war in Iraq? - Part 1 A public debate from the former House of Representatives chamber in Old Parliament House, Canberra, which was first broadcast on 6/2/2003. A guest panel of five and a 'live' audience debate whether Australia should be involved in a war in Iraq, and if so, under what circumstances. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-02-12 Plight of the Rohingya A discussion about the terrible plight of the Rohingya people - persecuted in Burma, living in squalid and violent refugee camps in Bangladesh, fleeing by boat only to be detained, punished and then sent back to sea in unseaworthy boats by Thai authorities. Hundreds have subsequently died at sea. A pictorial anthology of Indigenous Australia Twelve months on from the Rudd government's Apology to the Stolen Generation, we trace ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-02-11 Guilt about the past Bernhard Schlink is probably best known for his book The Reader. Born in 1944, Schlink's identity has been defined by Hitler's Third Reich and the Holocaust. His latest book of essays explores the idea of collective guilt, how one lives with a guilt-laden past, how that guilt can be overcome, the idea of moral courage and of forgiveness and reconciliation. Revering and conserving elephants According to Aristotle, the elephant 'pa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-02-10 Bruce Shapiro This week, Bruce talks about President Obama's efforts to get bi-partisan support for his economic stimulus package. Victoria fires: the pros & cons of dugout bunkers A follow-up conversation about the use of dugouts to survive bushfires. Dugouts saved many lives in the 1939 Black Friday fires in Victoria but they have since been deemed either out of date or too dangerous to use. In this conversation a survivor of the 1939 fires describ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-02-09 Canberra Babylon Christian Kerr discusses the response of Parliament to the tragedy of the Victorian bushfires. Victoria fires: lessons from history The tragedy wreaked by bushfires in Victoria over the weekend echoes the devastation caused by the fires on Black Friday, 1939. What are the lessons we failed to learn from the 1939 fires? Israeli election It´s the eve of the election, and more than 20% of Israelis still sa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-02-06 CLASSIC LNL: U.S. Unilateralism and Power Imbalance A discussion, first broadcast on 19/9/2002 on the topic of U.S. supremacy, both military and economic, and the belief in Washington that the U.S. has the right to pursue and protect its interests without being constrained by the international community. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-02-05 Domestic Terrorism in Greece Last December in Greece, thousands took to the streets to demonstrate against the police shooting death of a 15 year-old student. They were the worst riots seen in Greece in over 30 years and the amount of damage inflicted on shops, banks and other businesses stunned the Greek authorities. While the streets of Athens and other cities have quietened down, the unrest took a worrying turn early in January when a domestic militant group called "Rev ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-02-04 Peter Singer: The Life You Can Save Imagine you are on your way to work when you pass a pond where you see a young child drowning. There is no one else around but you are wearing new shoes which will be ruined if you wade in to save him, and the rescue will make you late for work. What should you do? We don't hesitate to answer 'save the child!', but Peter Singer argues that when it comes to the plight of millions in the developing world we are all letting the child die. His n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-02-03 Bruce Shapiro This week, Bruce discusses the struggle in Congress over President Obama's economic stimulus package. Satyajit Das A conversation with LNL's financial crisis analyst about the Rudd government's latest stimulus package, as well as the Satyam scandal in India. The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession In this conversation, author Andrea Wulf explores the history of Britain's cultural o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-02-02 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle discusses the politics behind the government's response to the economic crisis facing Australia. Gordon Barton: Australia's maverick entrepreneur Sydney based entrepreneur Gordon Barton was a man whose life and passion mirrored those of the 1960s—sexual liberation, opposition to the Vietnam War and a passion for a more inclusive style of politics. He was also a successful businessman yet he died in relative obscuri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-01-30 CLASSIC LNL: The Great Franquin A conversation with the veteran showman and hypnotist, Francis (Pat) Quinn. This interview was part of the Century Series, broadcast on Late Night Live in 1999. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-01-29 Darwin & Co: The Anniversary of a Revolution 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin´s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. But rather than focusing on the famous scientist as a lone genius, this program examines him alongside the little armada of ambitious young naturalists who set sail from Britain in Darwin´s wake—and who together created a revolution in scientific ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-01-28 Iceland: financial and political meltdown Iceland was one of the first countries to feel the heat of the global financial crisis. Now it's the first to experience the political fallout, with the resignation of the Haarde government. How are the Icelanders faring? Overseas aid and abortion One of the first acts of the Obama administration was to overturn the Bush administration's policy that banned US foreign aid from being used to promote abortion as ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-01-27 Bruce Shapiro In his first appearance on Late Night Live for 2009, Bruce Shapiro talks about the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States. Hamas and the Arab world While it's probably too early to predict how the Israeli bombardment of Gaza will play out in the end, the reality of the toll the 22-day war has taken on the civilian population of the Gaza strip has been watched by millions around the world via the intenet ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-01-26 The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff A discussion about the world's worst maritime disaster and why, to this day, it is a little-known story. When the German cruise liner the Wilhelm Gustloff was sunk in the Baltic Sea in January 1945, an estimated 10,000 people perished. They were mostly refugees and mostly children. The Wilhelm Gustloff was once the pride and joy of the Nazi regime in Germany—a cruise ship named after a Hitler protégé—and she was absolutely cra ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-01-22 Dog Man The Akita is the traditional Japanese hunting dog, whose numbers were decimated during World War Two. Morie Sawataishi spent his life dedicated to restoring the breed. His passion for the dogs was matched by his love for the harsh snow country of Japan's north. 'Dog Man' explores Morie's life, and a vanishing Japan. Peggy Seeger Folk singer Peggy Seeger on her family, the famous musical Seeger clan, and her life in Britain with Ewan MacColl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-01-21 Guantanamo Diary A conversation with Afghan American lawyer Mahvish Khan about her experiences working as an interpreter and legal aide with Afghan detainees in Guantanamo Bay. Khan says ... 'Before I got involved with Guantanamo, I had no opinion about whether the detainees were guilty or innocent; I just thought they all deserved a fair hearing and due process. But after I met some and talked to them, and after I read their files, I came to believe that many, perhaps even mos ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-01-20 Rwanda and dispatches from the medical frontline A conversation with the former international president of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) about his experiences working in some of the world's worst trouble spots -- Rwanda, Somalia, Afghanistan -- and the big challenge facing humanitarianism, the blurring of boundaries between humanitarian assistance and the political objectives of military intervention. First broadcast on 27/8/2008. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-01-19 Reflections on mortality In her book Final Exam, Pauline Chen writes about how badly the medical profession deals with dying patients. Medicine is 'a profession made attractive by the power to cure,' says Chen. Yet during almost fifteen years of school and training she and her fellow students faced death over and over again. She hopes, through this book, for more communication between doctors, patients at end-of-life and their families, so that the best outcomes can be delivere ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-01-15 North Australia: Where the water is A discussion about the state of water resources in the north of Australia and whether the abundant supply of northern water can sustain a substantial increase in food production in the tropics. The guests discuss the importance of avoiding the same mistakes that have severely degraded water resources in the south, and whether transporting northern water to the south is a realistic proposition. First broadcast on 24/6/2008. The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-01-14 Living off the land As a continuing array of reports outline worsening conditions in rural Australia, we talk to two men who have lived and worked off the land - one as a shearer and the other a cattle and wheat farmer. Prince of Australian vaudeville Walking the tightrope, breathing fire, throwing knives at people and having blocks of ice broken on your chest-it's just an ordinary job for some, as they travel around the countryside visiting country ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-01-13 David Rieff David Rieff is best known for his reporting and writing on war, humanitarianism and aid. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Harpers, The Atlantic Monthly and Le Monde. In this program-length interview he talks about American politics, humanitarian intervention and about the death of his mother, the novelist, essayist and non-fiction writer, Susan Sontag. First Broadcast 9 June 2008 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-01-12 Chief Mandla Mandela A conversation with Nelson Mandela's grandson, who has taken over the traditional chiefly duties his grandfather once performed. Chief Mandlesizwe Zwelivelile 'Mandla' Mandela talks about his grandfather's 90th birthday celebration, his own relationship with his grandfather, HIV/AIDS, poverty, violence against refugees, and his own activities as a traditional chief. The Kit-Cat Club: friends who imagined a nation For most people ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-01-08 The Elephant Hunters: Chronicles of the Moneymen A discussion about the culture and practices of financiers, brokers and investment bankers around the world - a culture which makes the boom-bust cycle inevitable, and tends to ignore the lessons of past market crashes. First Broadcast on 14 October 2008 The Snowball: Warren Buffett In these days of economic crisis, invoking the name 'Warren Buffet' has a kind of talismanic quality that bestows economi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-01-07 Belarus, Censorship and Free Theatre Clandestine performances in private homes, cafes and outside amongst the trees sounds like something reminiscent of the Cold War. Well, despite the iron curtain being pulled back, censorship is still prolific in the former republic state of the USSR, Belarus, forcing the "Free Theatre" to perform anywhere but under the spotlight of the authorities. First Broadcast 26 February 2008 Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-01-06 The Last Days of the Romanovs In 1991 the remains of five of the members of the Romanov family were dug up, formally identified using DNA samples, and reburied in a St Petersburg cathedral. But two of the Romanovs were never found. That is until July last year, when a builder and amateur historian stepped on some bones while searching for them. And just recently it's been confirmed that those bones were indeed those of missing Prince Alexee and his sister Princess Maria. Myste ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-01-05 Nigerian writer: Chris Abani Nigerian writer, poet, philosopher and teacher Chris Abani was born and raised in Nigeria before fleeing in 1991 to the UK and then to the US. He was incarcerated three times in Nigeria for his novels and plays, the third time charged with treason and sent to death row. He has won numerous awards for his writing and Harold Pinter remarked of his prison poetry 'reading them is like being singed with a red hot iron.' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-10-04 Bill Leak Part 2Part 2 of an extended conversation with artist, author and editorial cartoonist with the Australian newspaper, Bill Leak. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-10-07 My Lie: A True Story Of False MemoryIn the 1980s stories of child sexual abuse were all over the headlines - child care centre workers were put on trial for sexually abusing dozens of children, daughters accused their fathers of sexually abusing them. Perhaps the most chilling part of the story was how horribly common this was, and how close to home the perpetrators were. The bogeyman wasn't lurking in a darkened street anymore: he was working at your child's school. Or worse, he was their ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-03-05 CLASSIC LNL: Rhonda GalballyA discussion with the veteran feminist, social and disability activist about her life and work, which includes long stints in the government, private and community sectors. Rhonda Galbally has been a pioneer in several areas: understanding of disability; establishment of a tobacco tax to fund health promotion and the development of community based childcare. Originally broadcast on 19/8/04. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-07-28 Ground Zero MosqueA plan to build an Islamic Cultural Centre, two blocks from the original World Trade Centre site, has unleashed sentiments which the New York Times has described as "vitriolic commentary, pitting Muslims against Christians, Tea parties against staunch liberals, and September 11 families against one another."Amnesty's ethical dilemmaEarlier this year, the head of Amnesty International's gender unit, Gita Sahgal, told a London newspaper that the organisation's reputation was ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-12-10 CLASSIC LNL: Millennium: A conversation with Felipe Fernandez-ArmestoHistorian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto discusses his book Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years, first broadcast 29 November 1995.CLASSIC LNL: Gitta Sereny on Albert SpeerJournalist Gitta Sereny on Albert Speer, Hitler's Architect. First broadcast 29 November 1995 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-05-12 Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle analyses the 2009 Federal Budget. Who's Your City? Richard Florida posits that finding the right place to live is as important as, if not more important than, finding the right job or partner. In his most recent book he explains why. The Life of Pies The meat pie in Australia is served at all fine sporting venues and can be found in bakeries, supermarkets and even at your local petrol station. It is such an institutional part of Australia that one Lord Mayor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-04-16 Refugee Influx: UNHCR In light of the refugee boat tragedy off northern Australia, the UNHCR represetative for Australia & the Pacific talks about the global trend in refugee movements. There was a 12% rise in refugee arrivals across the world's major industrialised nations. Some European nations have had huge increases in refugee numbers. In Australia the numbers rose from 3,980 in 2007 to 4,750 in 2008. See UNHCR report at - www.unhcr.org/statistics Refugees: Christmas Island A conversa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-12-28 Video: Bill Leak Part 2Part 2 of an extended conversation with artist, author and editorial cartoonist with The Australian newspaper, Bill Leak; first broadcast 4 October, 2010 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-12-03 CLASSIC LN: Robert Fisk on AlgeriaIn 1995 Algeria was being torn apart by Islamist violence. Journalist Robert Fisk presents a bleak assessment on the line from Algiers. First broadcast 8 March 1995.CLASSIC LNL: Boredom, a historyPatricia Meyer Spacks discusses her book Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind. First broadcast 8 March 1995.CLASSIC LNL: Robin HoodProfessor Stephen Knight discusses his new book on the shifting meanings of Robin Hood. First broadcast 8 March 1995 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-10-11 Canberra BaylonSilly season in Canberra: the PM and the Opposition leader trade insults over Afghanistan, the water debate gets wet and wild, and the dollar beats the greenback into submission.Simon Schama profileSimon Schama is a professor of history and art history but has also been writing for the past three decades on almost every conceivable topic. His latest publication brings together a a collection of his writings on topics as diverse as Obama, cooking, his mother and eloquence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-11-05 CLASSIC LNL: Marianne FaithfulAn interview with singer Marianne Faithful, first broadcast 13 May 1991. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-08-21 Classic LNL: Lillian HoltOriginally broadcast: 18/9/03An hour-long chat with Indigenous scholar Lillian Holt about her life journey from being born in the Cherbourg Aboriginal Mission in Queensland to being a Vice Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-09-09 Eddin KhooSouth East Asia correspondent Eddin Khoo discusses the political and social implications of a particularly nasty protest by Muslim activists against the building a Hindu temple near Kuala Lumpur.John AshtonJohn Ashton is the Special Representative for Climate Change for the UK Foreign Office. He says the future of a successful global response to climate change is hanging in the balance, and he is in Australia to try and build political momentum ahead of the Copenhagen Climate tal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-12-30 Australia's cyberwar threatsNo matter where you live, cyber attacks pose a serious threat to national security, business and economic interests, and civilian infrastructure. Dr Paul Twomey is a leading expert on the global information economy and he believes that Australian business can no longer afford to ignore this side of the digital age. First broadcast 9 September 2010.Cyber warCyber war is already with us, but the country that invented internet and the most wired nation in the world, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-04-14 Thailand's red revolt A discussion about the political turmoil in Thailand, brought on by the red-shirted supporters of the former Prime Minister, Mr Thaksin and aimed at the government of Abhisit Vejjajiva. This is the second major 'popular protest' against an incumbent government in a short period of time and may lead to significant political reforms in the Thai kingdom. What Would Marx Say? Is it time to dust off a copy of Das Kapital and revisit Marx´s analysis of capitalism's ills? ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-04-13 Ethical Eating - 2009 Brisbane Festival of Ideas Forum A lively public forum looking at the impact that the food we choose to buy and eat has on the environment, our health and the livelihoods of farmers in developing countries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-12-08 Planning for floodsMark Babister who specialises in floodplain modeling discusses the best planning strategies for flooded regions.The power of Asian literatureIf Australians are to understand Asian culture in any depth, and if they are to understand us, then we need to attend to their literature, and them to ours. Professor Dennis Haskell has looked at the advantages of greater cross-pollination.Video: Paul CapsisSinger and actor Paul Capsis has written his first play, Angela's Kitchen, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-10-01 CLASSIC LNL: A Cultural History of SmellA discussion with three experts on the cultural life of the senses; their latest book focuses on Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell. First broadcast 9th February, 1995.CLASSIC LNL: Alan DershowitzAlan Dershowitz discusses the extraordinary O.J.Simpson case, first broadcast on 14th February 1995. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-01-19 Inside America's Christian MilitaryIn Jeff Sharlet's most recent Harper's essay he chronicles his investigation into the rise of fundamentalist Christianity in the U.S. military. Originally broadcast on 2/7/2009.Adventures in SurinameWhen Andrew Westoll spent a year in Suriname as a biology graduate to study monkeys he couldn't wait to get home. But he couldn't get Suriname out of his mind and five years later, went back to find the soul of this Last Eden. Originally broadcast on 1/7/2 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-02-24 Postcard from a Greek strikeA conversation with Crikey correspondent Guy Rundle form the midst of a general strike in Athens, called to protest the austerity measures the Greek government will be forced to impose as a result of a national debt crisis.Greek debt and euro jittersA discussion about the reasons for Greece's national debt and the economic, political and social implications of its precarious finances. The crisis in Greece also has the potential to 'infect' the rest of the Europea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2009-12-15 The Murray - In the Irrigation ZoneIn the second program on the journey down the Murray, Phillip visits three farmers - all substantial water users - and the head of a key irrigation conglomerate. All have great affection for the Murray River and agree on the need for water use reform, but they have quite different views on how it should be achieved. Originally broadcast on 31/8/2004. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Night Live - 2010-12-14 New Orleans Part 2 - 'Mr Charlie'In this program, Phillip gets on the highway on a tour of South West Louisiana. The first stop is Morgan City, the oil capital of Louisiana and home of the annual Shrimp and Petroleum Festival. Here he visits 'Mr Charlie', a decommissioned oil rig on the banks of the Atchafalaya River.Originally broadcast on 22 July 2010New Orleans Part 2 - Cajun history and culturePhillip makes a stop in La Fayette, the capital of 'Cajun country' in Louisiana, to find out a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website