Late Night Live — Full program podcast

Phillip Adams sits down for a wide ranging discussion about Australia, its democracy and its future.

Tess Newton Cain surveys the issues, politics and people of the Pacific. Stan Grant discusses his new book With the Falling of the Dusk: A Chronicle of the World in Crisis. Background Briefing journalist Alex Mann previews his report on white right wing extremists.

Bruce Shapiro has the latest from the US, Journalist Farid Farid and International Chamber of Shipping's Guy Platten discuss the Suez saga and Alexander Bell's misguided war on sign language and deaf culture.

Amy Remeikis from the Guardian on Canberra politics, Andrew Quilty reports on the Afghan perspective on the Brereton Report and Hal Whitehead on sperm whales.

The growing popularity of 'Doughnut Economics', and the story of rebel West Indian cricketers who toured apartheid South Africa.

Ian Dunt on the Scottish election, Mustafa Qadri on the millions of migrant workers in the Gulf and bringing artist A H Fullwood back to life

Bruce Shapiro on the latest from the US, journalist and author Gavin Esler on how Britain ends and we remember writer and activist Nawal El Saadawi.

Against a backdrop of reports of lewd behaviour in Parliament House - Laura Tingle reviews the week in national politics. PNG's health system struggles as COVID cases soar. The stories of two overlooked members of an 1872 expedition to Cape York as told by their descendants.

How is it that the world's richest country, the United States, also has the highest levels of poverty? And how the past is remembered in Spain and in Australia.

Jack Latimore's update on Indigenous news and issues. Trevor Todd tells the story of Edith Cowan's centenary as Australia's first female member of Parliament. Lisandro Claudio examines the rise of authoritarianism in South-East Asia and discusses liberalism and the push back against the autocrats.

Bruce Shapiro discusses the latest from the US, author Richard Beasley on the Murray Darling and Palaeontologist Anne-Marie Tosolini on fossils in Antarctica.

Bruce Shapiro surveys another week in US politics. Richard Beasley's lively and provocative account of what has gone wrong with the water plan for the Murray Darling basin. Anne- Marie Tosolini discusses her research on the fossil record in the Antarctic and it's relevance for climate change today.

Laura Tingle on the marches across Australia, Eliot Higgins on Bellingcat and Mahmood Fazal on Omar bin Laden

Ten years after the Fukushima earthquake disaster, Japan plans to expand its nuclear power sector; and the impossible history of Australia's Argyle diamonds, its 'pinks' in particular.

Ian Dunt's update on British politics and society. Fadzie Mushonga observes the effect that the militarisation of conservation is having on workers and local populations. Jane Montgomery previews an epic 8 hour performance of Homer's Illiad this weekend in Melbourne.

Bruce Shapiro with the latest from the US, Andrew Wilson on the politics of Belarus and Giovanni Catelli discusses the death of French philosopher Albert Camus.

Laura Tingle on the latest from Canberra, a new doco on the pioneer women of surfing and the women journalists who reported from the Vietnam War

They're very resource hungry and yet skyscrapers are, and will remain essential to future living, and the hounding of singer Billie Holiday by the FBI

Tess Newton Cain on what is happening in the Pacific and Ioan Grillo on the black market for guns in America.

Commentator Bruce Shapiro discusses the latest from the US, including President Joe Biden's response to the declassified report into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Financial markets guru Satyajit Das talks about the future, casting his eye over our economic system, resource scarcity and the democracy deficit. 

Laura Tingle discusses women, politics and a toxic culture. Michelle Lhooq considers the impact of drug legalisation on American counter culture.

A new theory on the fate of MH370 with journalist Florence de Changy and Isabel Allende on her life as a feminist.

Ian Dunt's commentary and update on UK politics and society. Kamal Fadel and Randi Irwin discuss geopolitics and the long standing claim for independence for the Western Sahara. Lynette Russell explains why a conference in 1914 was such a pivotal moment for Australian science.

Bruce Shapiro on the legacy of Rush Limbaugh, Jon Lee Anderson on conservation in Kenya and Richard Grinkler on the changing stigma of mental illness.

Canberra update; Angus Grigg on insider trading; and the reality of life as a spy