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Long Nights LNL podcast gives you the whole of Late Night Live from start to finish in a continuous mp3 file, as Phillip Adams invites you to eavesdrop on his conversations with the world's brilliant and controversial thinkers.
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Download Now · | Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:00
CLASSIC LNL: History Maker - Ken Burns Originally broadcast on 10/10/2002. An extended discussion with American historian and film maker, Ken Burns, whose trilogy on America - "The Civil War", "Baseball" and "Jazz" - proved that historical detail can make for great television. They constituted 50 plus hours of television in which the drama was in the text, the evocative old photos, and the archival footage.
Download Now · | Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:00
New Orleans: the 'backwash' A conversation on the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with New Orleans writer, Michael Tisserand and his wife, paediatrician Tami Hinz, about returning to live and work in New Orleans; and preparing for possible evacuation again as Hurricane Gustav looms in the Gulf of Mexico. Shakespeare's Language In his book, 'Think On My Words', David Crystal shows, through a forensic examination of Shakespeare's vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar and punctuation, how we can gain a greater appreciation of Shakespeare's linguistic creativity.
Download Now · | Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:00
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.
Download Now · | Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:00
Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce talks about the Democratic National Convention and Barack Obama's choice of vice-president, Joe Biden. Climate Wars: Gwynne Dyer Climate change is happening sooner than we thought it would and while most of us focus on not wasting energy or driving less, US and UK military strategists have already started planning to deal with the threats posed by climate change: failed states, famines, floods, new warzones, and millions and millions of refugees. Gwynne Dyer's book gives a number of different scenarios for the future based on conversations with military experts...
Download Now · | Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:00
Canberra Babylon This week, Christian Kerr talks about the focus on the Senate in the coming weeks and months, where Kevin Rudd will seek to co-opt rather than sideline the Opposition in attempting to pass its first four major pieces of legislation -- the Medicare surcharge, the tax on alcopops, removing the fuel condensate subsidy, and increasing the luxury car tax. Queensland the new epicentre of power From Bisvegas to epicentre of power - how did the state of Queensland rise above its redneck politics and draconian laws to produce the current Prime Minister and Treasurer, not to mention countless...
Download Now · | Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:00
CLASSIC LNL: Sir David Frost originally broadcast on 22/12/93. A conversation with the ubiquitous British television interviewer, Sir David Frost, whose Richard Nixon interview was the most widely watched news interview in the history of television. Frost began his television career presenting the 60s late night show, "That Was The Week That Was". This conversation is from 1993, at the time of the publication of part 1 of Frost's autobiography, "From Congregations to Audiences".
Download Now · | Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:00
Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce talks about the shifting poll results, which show John McCain gaining support in the lead-up to the Democratic and Republican conventions. Bruce argues the stakes for Barack Obama going into next week's convention are enormous: If he wants to regain his lead, he needs to come out roaring. Jazz musicians talk about 'woodshedding' - disappearing to work up new riffs and refresh the act. The question which Obama needs the convention to answer: Has he been woodshedding, or just running out of gas? Islamist Terrorism in India On 31 May this year, Mullahs in India issued...
Download Now · | Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:00
Prague Spring 40th A conversation on the 40th anniversary of the Soviet crackdown on the 'Prague Spring' where the Communists in Czechoslovakia tried to achieve 'socialism with a human face'. But how important is the legacy of the Prague Spring to Czechs and Slovaks? Nepal: Maoists in Charge After a decade of civil war, Nepal's Maoist guerillas have won power through the ballot box. Can the new prime minister, who still goes by his nom de guerre Pranchandra, or 'The Fierce One', set the impoverished Himalayan nation back on course? David Rakoff New York satirist David Rakoff discusses the culture...
Download Now · | Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:00
The loss of sadness A repeat of a program first broadcast on 24/3/2008. As levels of depression and anxiety in the western world rise, so too do the numbers of people taking antidepressant medication. But one psychiatrist claims we are increasingly medicating for what was once viewed as normal sadness. So are we overlooking something fundamental about ourselves in our desire to avoid bad feelings?
Download Now · | Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:00
Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle discusses the quandary facing the Rudd government over workers -- and this isn´t just the shortfall in the horticultural sector where vacancies will now be filled by Pacific Island workers, but within its own sector. Initial cuts in the size of the ministerial staff, coupled with the extent of its reform commitments, has left the federal government struggling to get the work done. Torture Team A conversation with international lawyer and author Philippe Sands about the process by which the Bush administration authorised torture techniques for use on detainees at...
Download Now · | Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:00
CLASSIC LNL: Platypus Originally broadcast on 2/5/2001. Science historian Ann Moyal discusses the discovery of that great Australian icon, the platypus. This fascinating animal completely baffled early British and French naturalists, and overturned prevailing theories of species evolution and taxonomy. Reputations were won and lost over whether the animal was mammal, reptile or birds -- and, crucially, whether or not it laid eggs. CLASSIC LNL: Wombats Originally broadcast on 30/7/2001. In his book The Secret Life of Wombats, James Woodford, writes: 'Wombats are the hobbits of the Australian...
Download Now · | Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:00
Sir Tipene O'Regan A conversation with the traditional Maori chief who was a keynote speaker at the 2008 Garma Festival of Traditional Culture. Sir Tipene argues that indigenous people should try not to hold on to their grievances and should make sure they don't give away their aspirations. Is it time to scrap the CDEP? From the 2008 Garma Festival of Traditional Culture. A debate about the merits of the Community Development Employment Project, which operates in Aboriginal communities across the country and is currently being reviewed by the Rudd government. Aboriginal historian Marcia Langton...
Download Now · | Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:00
John Milton: 400 Years On 2008 is the 400th anniversary of the birth of John Milton: poet, polemicist, radical. Milton's 'Paradise Lost' is one of the greatest poems in the English language, but Milton's significance extends beyond literature to his ideas on free will, authority, love and sexual liberty, and the nature of divinity.
Download Now · | Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:00
Bruce Shapiro This week Bruce briefly talks about the American presidential campaign. Bin Laden's former driver was convicted at Guantanamo Bay on a minimal material-support-for terrorism charge, finishing his sentence in five months instead of the thirty years demanded by prosecutors. But what will eventually happen to Salid Ahmed Hamdan once his sentence has been served? Finally, Bruce discusses the Bush Administration's setting up the Georgians for the Georgian President's catastrophic miscalculation in last Thursday's assault in South Ossetia - training and arming Georgian troops, egging...
Download Now · | Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:00
Climate change and Indigenous knowledge From the 2008 Garma Festival of Traditional Culture, a discussion about the dangers and challenges facing remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities with rapid climate change -- from salt water destruction of freshwater wetlands, to the preservation of sea turtle and dugong habitat, to the need to shift away from reliance on diesel fuel. There are efforts underway to incorporate traditional knowledge and land use systems into climate change management strategies. Aboriginal astronomy From the 2008 Garma Festival of Traditional Culture. CSIRO...
Download Now · | Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:00
CLASSIC LNL: Globalisation and the City Saskia Sassen talks about globalisation and the city - does the notion of the city change in a global environment? Is physical location still important? What happens to cities as economic centres when so much business goes on in cyberspace? Originally broadcast on 22/11/2001. CLASSIC LNL: Ben Chifley: What a Life Originally broadcast on 22/11/2001. RG Menzies said there wouldn't be a dry eye left in Australia after news of the death of his political foe, Ben Chifley, in 1951. Chifley's new biographer, David Day, talks to Phillip about Australia's wartime...
Download Now · | Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:00
Rwandan Government Report into the 1994 Genocide A conversation about the Rwandan Government's new report, following two years of investigations, which accuses France of being directly involved in the killing of nearly a million Tutsis and Hutu moderates in 1994. Uighurs: a threat to the games ? A discussion about the people of China's huge, remote and restive province of Xinjiang. The Uighurs of Xinjiang are predominantly Muslim and a local separatist movement - the East Turkestan Islamic Movement - is being described by the Chinese Communist Party as a significant terrorist threat to the Beijing...
Download Now · | Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:00
Eddin Khoo Southeast Asia correspondent Eddin Khoo talks about the latest border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand near the Preah Vihear Temple, which has recently been named a World Heritage Site by the United Nations. He also updates the situation with former Opposition Leader, Anwar Ibrahim, who will be charged in court tomorrow over sodomy accusations. And the recent Cambodian elections. Fiji: dealing with a 'coup culture' A former senior Fijian public servant talks about an entrenched 'coup culture' in Fiji, where more than half the population was born since the first 1987 coup and...
Download Now · | Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:00
Bruce Shapiro Bruce discusses the HIV/AIDS in the USA. In one of the most devastating scientific papers in years, the Centers for Disease Control reported this week that AIDS has been underreported in the US by 40 percent, which means as many as 15,000 cases a year. And, the death of Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Northern Ireland: A Model for Peace? The peace process in Northern Ireland has been held up as a model for ending conflict around the world - from the Middle East, to Kashmir, Sri Lanka, and East Timor. But what exactly constitutes the Northern Irish 'model', and how exportable...
Download Now · | Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:00
Canberra Babylon This week, Christian Kerr discusses missed opportunities for the Liberal party. For Brendan Nelson, any chance to score points against the Government end up in speculation over his leadership qualities, and no wonder, with voices within the Liberal camp calling for Peter Costello to contest the position. Will he finally rise to the challenge? Andrew Murray The former Democrats senator talks about the dynamic of the new Senate and the challenges facing the two independents; and he discusses his ongoing advocacy for a national reparations scheme for children who were abused in institutional...
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Download Now · | Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:48
CLASSIC LNL: For the Love of Place - Chorophiliac Passions and Topoleptic Visions Originally broadcast on 15/8/2001. A passion for particular places is powerful enough for nations to battle over. Place is central to the Australian identity, but is it a constructed sense of place? This program explores the different ways of relating to, engaging with and depicting space, place and landscape, roaming from Ancient Greece to Aboriginal Australia, Macedonia to the Blue Mountains.
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Download Now · | Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:24
Fareed Zakaria Indian born editor and columnist for Newsweek International, Fareed Zakaria, comments on the implications of the collapse of the World Trade Organisation discussions and on US foreign policy in the Middle East. Judy Small Judy Small is an icon in the Australian folk music scene. She has released twelve albums over several decades, and her songs are protest classics - sung around campfires and political rallies around the world. War Ghosts of Vietnam Korean anthropologist, Heonik Kwon, takes an unusual approach when exploring how the Vietnamese people have moved towards reconciling...
Late Night Live: Late Night Live - 2008-07-30
Download Now · | Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:12
China Postcard A conversation about the increasingly nervous and insecure disposition of Chinese authorities with the Olympic Games opening ceremony less than two weeks away. Anti-pollution measures are being constantly ramped up - with little apparent effect - and security is tight and aggressive. Australian Art in Asia Without a doubt the biggest thing to hit the Australian art market in recent years has been Chinese art. But what about Australian art in Asia? What sort of profile does it have? Do our neighbours still see Australia as a cultural outcrop of Europe - or as having a distinct creative...
Late Night Live: Late Night Live: Late Night Live - 2008-07-29
Download Now · | Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:12
Bruce Shapiro Bruce joins Phillip in the Sydney studio to answer a range of questions sent in by Late Night Live listeners.
Late Night Live: Late Night Live: Late Night Live - 2008-07-28
Download Now · | Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:12
Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle continues to discuss the ongoing political difficulties for the government and the opposition of climate change. Martin Indyk - US policy in the Middle East The Bush administration will come to an end in November 2008, and the new president will inherit a host of foreign policy challenges in the Middle East: sectarian conflict in Iraq, Iran´s pursuit of nuclear capabilities, failing Palestinian and Lebanese governments, a dormant peace process, and the ongoing war against terror. What is the best way through this minefield of policy mistakes? Chief Mandla Mandela A...
