Late Night Live - Full program podcast

Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr.

Who is America? And Australia's most successful female artist Emily Kngwarray
Jun 12, 2025 – 0:54:01
Young US men are joining Russian churches, plus an infamous brawl over the haka
Jun 11, 2025 – 0:54:03
Bruce Shapiro's America, and hunting down the Myall Creek murderers
Jun 10, 2025 – 0:54:04
The true power of land ownership, plus giving children the right to vote
Jun 9, 2025 – 0:54:03
Two months on from Myanmar's earthquake, and healing a divided United States
Jun 5, 2025 – 0:54:04
Haiti's gang crisis takes a dark turn, plus the mother of all languages
Jun 4, 2025 – 0:54:04
Ian Dunt's UK, Pakistan and India's war over water, and who named our body parts?
Jun 3, 2025 – 0:53:54
Bernard Keane's Canberra, what America's 'comfort class' doesn't get, and the life of a food critic
Jun 2, 2025 – 0:54:04
The origins of the term 'national security', and actress Merle Oberon's false identity
May 29, 2025 – 0:54:02
Abalone cultural heritage in Tasmania and overtourism in the Canary Islands
May 28, 2025 – 0:54:02
Bruce Shapiro's America, the money behind the 'Enhanced Games', and an ancient Roman cookbook
May 27, 2025 – 0:54:04
Late Night Live farewells Laura Tingle
May 26, 2025 – 0:45:21
D-day looms for Woodside's Burrup gas plant, and teaching troubled teens to hunt in the New Zealand wilderness
May 22, 2025 – 0:54:01
The Aussies the union movement left behind, and what causes a society to collapse?
May 21, 2025 – 0:54:02
Tariff chaos on American shelves, Ukraine minerals deal and Lake Eyre in flood
May 20, 2025 – 0:54:03
Laura Tingle's Canberra, and Harriet Walter re-writes Shakespeare's women
May 19, 2025 – 0:54:04
The Brazilian Marxists claiming unused land, and Australia's Antarctic obsession
May 15, 2025 – 0:54:04
Who's still selling arms to Israel? And the legal rights of nature
May 14, 2025 – 0:54:00
Ian Dunt's UK, Europe's thirsty data centres, and the survival of Indigenous message sticks
May 13, 2025 – 0:54:03
Laura Tingle's Canberra, US-China trade talks and the art of the courtroom sketch
May 12, 2025 – 0:54:08
Does our world lack moral ambition? And the Victorian obsession with orchids
May 8, 2025 – 0:54:02
The destruction of Gaza's universities, and Donald Trump's fantasy maps
May 7, 2025 – 0:54:04
Bruce Shapiro's America, How Kerala got rich and vale Ted Kotcheff of Wake in Fright
May 6, 2025 – 0:54:06
Labor's stunning landslide, plus the hangover from Australia's wine boom
May 5, 2025 – 0:54:03
Was Hitler's filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl complicit in Nazi atrocities?
May 1, 2025 – 0:54:04
Australia's biggest tax lurks, and Mexico stares down Donald Trump
Apr 30, 2025 – 0:53:54
Ian Dunt on UK's gender wars, John Lyons on Ukraine's resistance, and arts funding under pressure
Apr 29, 2025 – 0:54:06
Laura Tingle's election, and the year that changed the world
Apr 28, 2025 – 0:54:08
Australians in the Spanish Civil War, and when hair was thought to indicate character
Apr 24, 2025 – 0:53:50
What it's like to be raided by DOGE, and the fearless feminist Beatrice Faust
Apr 23, 2025 – 0:54:04
Laura Tingle's election, the survival of NATO, and the misunderstood pigeon
Apr 22, 2025 – 0:54:05
Taiwan and its chips: the colourful history of this strategically important nation
Apr 21, 2025 – 0:54:05
Philippe Sands on war crimes and impunity - from Pinochet to now
Apr 17, 2025 – 0:54:04
Pollies and their private interests, and a forgotten hero in forensics
Apr 16, 2025 – 0:54:06
Harvard defies the White House, Yanis Varoufakis on 'Trump Shock', and Australia's oldest footrace
Apr 15, 2025 – 0:53:27
Laura Tingle's Canberra, the broken promise of religious discrimination reform, and a history of hand gestures
Apr 14, 2025 – 0:54:03
'Sorrow, grief, horror': Kate Grenville confronts her settler ancestry
Apr 10, 2025 – 0:54:04
Antony Green's last election broadcast, and the path ahead for Syria
Apr 9, 2025 – 0:54:07
Bruce Shapiro's Trumpland, Netanyahu's latest scandal, and the death of the interval
Apr 8, 2025 – 0:54:04
Laura Tingle's Canberra, the Brits baulk on AUKUS, and tariffs in the ancient world
Apr 7, 2025 – 0:54:04
John Howard and the 1998 waterfront dispute, plus Peter Rose on life as a literary editor
Apr 3, 2025 – 0:54:05
First Nations resistance in the River Country, and is ignorance always bliss?
Apr 2, 2025 – 0:54:03
Ian Dunt's UK, does the Coalition's gas policy stack up, and Australia's endless rabbit problem
Apr 1, 2025 – 0:54:06
Laura Tingle's federal election, plus defining antisemitism at universities
Mar 31, 2025 – 0:54:07
Gaza and the contradictions of the West, and are priests employees of the Church?
Mar 27, 2025 – 0:54:04
Sexual violence perpetrators getting younger, and lost in the Amazon for forty days
Mar 26, 2025 – 0:54:06
Bruce Shapiro's America, Poland digging trenches, and crime in the Antarctic
Mar 25, 2025 – 0:54:06
Laura Tingle's Canberra, mass protests in Turkiye and Australia's own vernacular
Mar 24, 2025 – 0:54:03
The ethics of posthumous publishing plus the dark side of green cities
Mar 20, 2025 – 0:54:07
Radio propaganda wars in the Middle East, and the firebombing of Tokyo
Mar 19, 2025 – 0:54:04

Recent Reviews

AAC10592

The host interrupts

I was looking forward to the interview with Dr. Saree Makdisi, whose books I very much enjoy, but all the host did was interrupt him, cut him off, and offer counterfactual hypothetical questions. Perhaps the host shouls go to journalism school and learn how to conduct an interview, instead of treating his guests as a screen for his biases.
Bilas Peles

Always informative

The topics are consistently interesting, from all over the world, with knowledgeable guest experts. The host is respectful and sounds like someone you’d love to have a yarn with. I just wish he’d stop interrupting his guests when they’re talking.
RN Diehard

Why Jonathan Green?

I am a big fan of LNL, but why has P Adams been replaced by Jonathan Green (on Wednesday and Thursday)? I understand that Philip’s health is possibly waning, but Jonathan Green? He giggle snorts his way through Blueprint for Living - which might be ok for a marshmallow take on life, but - HE IS TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE FOR LNL. Find someone better!
Jack_McCoy

Probably the best “conversation-style” show

This show is always an exciting listen. You never know what the subjects will be, but they are always interesting. The host is smart, engaged and knows what he’s talking about. Sometime he’s a bit TOO measured though... I tend to put the speed at 1.5x :)
Félix Culpa

Late Night Live with Phillip Adams

I’ve listened to this wireless show for years, first on short wave, now on line. Phillip Adams is a national treasure.
Primatepdx

Refreshing perspective

Phillip Adams has a wry and playful approach to every topic. He is never shy about telling you where he is coming from on any given issue and yet never comes off as dogmatic. As an American its fun to hear about Australian politics and his reports about things here in the U.S. with reporter Bruce Shapiro always go places that the American media never does. I am addicted to this show.