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Late Night Live — Full program podcast

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Late Night Live — Full program podcast
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    Bruce Shapiro's USA: Marwan Barghouti to run for Palestinian president and a lost cantata

    11/08/2026 | 54 mins.
    Bruce Shapiro looks at the fight inside the Democrats between emerging populists and a conservative group called The Third Way. Imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti's son talks about his father plans to run for president of the Palestinian Authority, from jail.  Plus how an Australian harpsichord player discovered a three-hundred-year-old cantata by a Venetian contemporary of Antonio Vivaldi, who was a disabled female orphan. 
    Guests: 
    Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with The Nation magazine and Director of the Global Center for Journalism and Trauma. 
    Arab Barghouti, son of Fatah party leader, Marwan Barghouti
    Elizabeth Anderson, Assistant Artistic Director, Australian Chamber Choir
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    Anna Henderson's Canberra, the Mecca defence pact, and the history of punctuation

    10/08/2026 | 54 mins.
    PM Albanese and Opposition Leader AngusTaylor are doing a deal on gambling. Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan have just signed a new NATO-like defence pact which commits each country to respond in the event of an attack on the other. So what are the implications for the Gulf conflict? Plus, from hieroglyphs to hashtags, the hidden history of punctuation and the tiny marks that have shaped how we communicate.
    Guests: 
    Anna Henderson, SBS World News Chief Political Correspondent | National Press Club Director
    Professor Simon Mabon, Professor of International Politics at Lancaster University
    Florence Hazrat, author, On the Mark
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    Peter Garrett on AUKUS, plus Australia's sugar slaves

    06/08/2026 | 54 mins.
    Peter Garrent discusses the testimonies being presented at the crowdfunded AUKUS public inquiry which has so far recieved over 500 submissions, and heard from former PMs and ministers. Plus decades after Britain abolished slavery in its colonies, Australia was using Pacific island workers to harvest sugar, with many essentially held captive.
    Guests:
    Peter Garrett, Lead Commissioner, AUKUS public inquiry, former Labor Minister
    Ryan Butta, author of 'Blackbirding: a reckoning with the Australian Slave Trade'
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    Bernard Keane on Australia's opportunities, plus how wine shaped civilisation

    05/08/2026 | 54 mins.
    In his new book, Crikey’s political editor, Bernard Keane, turns his eye not just to where Australia has gone wrong, but to how we can best position ourselves to navigate the triple threat of Trump, China and AI. Plus the eight thousand year history of wine - from Georgia to the present day.
    Guests: 
    Bernard Keane, political editor, Crikey, and author of ‘Seize the Moment - Australia’s real opportunities in an unstable world,’
    Kathleen Burk, Professor Emerita of Modern and Contemporary history at University College London and author of  Wine, A global history
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    Ian Dunt's UK, boycotting The Odyssey, and the last cats of Kangaroo Island

    04/08/2026 | 53 mins.
    Ian Dunt on Nigel Farage's planned 'Operation Fortress', stopping all illegal boats. The Odyssey film-makers caused offence in an indigenous-owned region that Morocco claims as its own. And the push to rid Kangaroo Island of cats, both feral and pet.
    Guests: 
    Ian Dunt, columnist with i-news, co-host of Origin Story podcast
    Sarah Yerkes, North Africa specialist and senior fellow with the Middle East program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peac
    Michael Pengilly, Mayor of Kangaroo Island
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About Late Night Live — Full program podcast
Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr.
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