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Late Night Live — Full program podcast
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    Bruce Shapiro's USA, Chernobyl's wildlife thriving and the great convict escape on the Catalpa

    21/04/2026 | 54 mins.
    Trump contemplates his next move on Iran as the ceasefire deadline looms, while at home his administration is dealing with yet more scandal, this time in the FBI. 40 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster,  the Exclusion Zone has become a thriving wildlife refuge. Plus the story of Australians most daring convict escape on the whaling ship Catalpa, which sailed from America to pick up six Irish convicts in Fremantle. 
    Guests: 
    Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with The Nation magazine and Director of the Global Center for Journalism and Trauma. 
    Germán Orizaola, Associate Professor in Zoology, Department of Biology of Organisms and Systems, University of Oviedo.
    Tony Moore, Professor of Media and Communications, Monash University, and author of ‘Death or liberty: rebels and radicals transported to Australia 1788 – 1868'.
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    Anna Henderson's Canberra, how best to commemorate war, plus Lake Eyre tourists need fuel

    20/04/2026 | 54 mins.
    Our regular Canberra correspondent on the latest polling, and Independent David Pocock's new focus on taxing gas. Historian Peter Stanley argues for a new way to do war commemoration, and the spectacle of a flooded Lake Eyre/Kathi-Thanda is alluring, but fuel anxiety may limit the number of visitors. 
    Guests
    Anna Henderson, SBS chief political correspondent
    Peter Stanley, former Australian War  Memorial historian
    Trevor Wright, owner of the William Creek pub and Wrightsair, which does Lake Eyre joy flights
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    A Jewish Australian lawyer reckons with state violence. Plus, can corporate scandals be good for the world?

    16/04/2026 | 54 mins.
    The Melbourne legal scholar Marika Sosnowski spent many years researching violence and the law in Syria. Now she reckons with her own family's proximity to state violence in 1950s Palestine. Plus, it's easy to be cynical about the impunity of corporations that commit great financial crimes. But political scientist Pepper Culpepper thinks that, in the long run, corporate scandals can help restore democracy. 
    Guests:
    Marika Sosnowski,  Melbourne University. Author of ‘58 facets – on law, violence and revolution’ (Melbourne University Publishing)
    Professor Pepper Culpepper, Oxford University. Co-author of Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How It Could Save Democracy (Bloomsbury)
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    Ian Dunt's UK, the Colombo plan, and AI publishing scams

    15/04/2026 | 54 mins.
    Ian Dunt examines what Viktor Orban's loss in Hungary means for the EU and looks at questions around Donald Trump's mental capacity. There once was a plan that brought disparate countries together, to work for their common good, in Asia and the Pacific. And an author and scholar has been getting some very flattering emails from 'people' keen to promote his books.
    Guests: 
    Ian Dunt, iNews columnist and regular LNL commentator
    Professor David Lowe, Deakin University, author of 'The Colombo Plan: development internationalism in Cold War Asia' (Cambridge University Press) 
    Dennis Altman, article on literary AI in the April issue of Australian Book Review
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    Jon Lee Anderson on Trump's Cuba threats, plus how chokepoints like Hormuz have shaped history

    14/04/2026 | 54 mins.
    Cuba's leader is defiant in the face of the country's worst humanitarian crisis in decades, while President Trump hints at inflicting more pain. And the Strait of Hormuz is the latest of many maritime chokepoints which, in the past, have destroyed or saved civilisations. 
            Guests:
    Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer with The New Yorker
    Damien Valdez, historian from the University of Cambridge

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