Late Night Live
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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Late Night Live - 2009-11-06
Published: 2009-11-05 09:00:00CLASSIC LNL: Germany: guilt, identity, memory The guests in this discussion -- first broadcast on 7/3/2002 -- explore the ramifications and outcomes of history's footsteps on Germany during and following WWII, touching on three important areas: the struggle for identity in the East and the West; the role of guilt, both now and immediately following the war; and the place of memory, then and now, in determining future directions.
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Late Night Live - 2009-11-05
Published: 2009-11-04 09:00:00The Defence of the Realm - An Authorised History of MI5 This year marks the centenary of MI5 - Britain´s clandestine domestic security organisation. Only these days it´s not so clandestine, because the service has authorised an official history of itself. That´s a very big turnaround for an organisation whose officials, as recently as the 1980s, refused to publicly admit even existed. Cambridge historian, Christopher Andrew has written a number of books on the history of intelligence gathering, and he was granted unprecedented access to MI5´s archives to write his book. House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann Phillip talks to Evelyn Juers about her 'collective biography' on the Manns, which was the joint winner for the Prime Minister's Prize for non-fiction.
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Late Night Live - 2009-11-04
Published: 2009-11-03 09:00:00The Future of California California is the eighth largest economy in the world. As one writer recently said, if California was a country it´d be in the G8. But if it was a company, it´d now be bankrupt. Rising debt, spending slashed on education and healthcare, vast numbers of workers laid off, soaring unemployment -- the picture is grim. So is California cactus? A discussion with long-term California observers and an adviser to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on the future of California -- how it came to be in such a mess, and what can be done to save it. People of post-Soviet Russia In 1991, Russia went through momentous changes as the Soviet Union broke apart, democracy replaced communism and an open market was ushered in. Since then, politics, the economy and the various conflicts in the area have been the focal points but what about the Russian people? How have those in particular who live in the regional provinces dealt with the changes made in Moscow?
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Late Night Live - 2009-11-03
Published: 2009-11-02 09:00:00Afghanistan's deadly elections A conversation with a senior UN election official in Afghanistan about the decision to cancel the second round of elections and to declare Hamid Karzai re-elected as president. She also talks about the terrible death toll from election related violence in Kabul and elsewhere. Bruce Shapiro Bruce reflects on the one year anniversary since the election of President Barack Obama as local elections for mayors and city councils take place across the US. Bruce also discusses 'J Street', the progressive Jewish lobby which held its first convention last week. The Scandal of Susan Sontag She´s been called the 'Beatnik Boadicea', the 'Paganini of criticism', and the 'dark lady of American letters'. Susan Sontag was a critic, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, a public intellectual and a celebrity, a magazine cover-girl, and a subject for TV impersonators and gossip columnists. The author of groundbreaking works like On Photography and Illness as Metaphor, she wrote about war, art, poverty, freedom, the meaning of history, and human suffering. She earned adulation, but also provoked scorn. We analyse the legacy of Sontag´s work and her personality, on the release of a new book.
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Late Night Live - 2009-11-02
Published: 2009-11-01 09:00:00Canberra Babylon Laura Tingle returns after a six week break to discuss the policy and political implications of the current refugee/asylum seeker pressures; the mid year economic review; and the politics of the Rudd government appointing Peter Costello to the Future Fund. Seeking refuge from Sri Lanka and Australia's response The number of people arriving in Australia seeking asylum has been increasingly from Sri Lanka over the past few months. At the end of the civil war that has plagued that country for a quarter of a century, why are not just the Tamils but other minority groups leaving their country? And why is there so much attention in Australia on those who seek refuge in boats, not planes? You Liar! Alan Ramsey Pt 2 The now-retired press gallery veteran talks to Phillip about an infamous incident in 1971, which ensured Alan Ramsey's name was etched into the political history books when he yelled 'you liar!' at the then prime minister, John Gorton, in parliament.
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Late Night Live - 2009-10-30
Published: 2009-10-29 10:00:00CLASSIC LNL: Return of the Peaceniks In this discussion, first broadcast in February 2003, four guests debate the looming war in Iraq. The US led invasion of Iraq hadn't started yet, but millions of people had just marched in massive peace rallies around the world. The discussion featured four people who were united in their opposition to the Vietnam War, but not this one.
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Late Night Live - 2009-10-29
Published: 2009-10-28 10:00:00Alan Ramsey An extended interview with veteran political journalist Alan Ramsey, recorded in his Canberra home.
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Late Night Live - 2009-10-28
Published: 2009-10-27 10:00:00Bruce Shapiro Bruce discusses David Shapiro, the ACLU and civil rights lawyer in America. He also gives an update on the story of army Lt. Ehren Watada, who in 2006 became the first US officer to refuse a direct order to deploy to Iraq. Watada has now been given permission to resign from the army. In a related case this week, Foreign Service official and former Marine, Matthew Hoh. Hoh has become first US official to publicly resign over Afghanistan, saying he's come to the conclusion that the US and coalition war is simply fuelling the insurgency. Afghanistan: engaging the Pashtun tribes This is officially the deadliest month for US troops in eight years of war in Afghanistan, and at the highest levels of the US military there is now a recognition of the importance of engaging tribes as a means of improving security in Afghanistan. But as yet, none of the major players in the situation has come up with a coherent and coordinated approach. Tom Gregg argues that tribal engagement won't work everywhere in Afghanistan, but there is a good chance it could work amongst the Pashtun tribes of Afghanistan's southeast—if it's started soon. In search of the extinct Labrador Duck The Labrador Duck has the dubious title of the first species of bird endemic to North America to be driven to extinction: this was sometime around 1875. The reason for their extinction is still unclear but you can find over 50 stuffed specimens located in museums around the northern hemisphere. But why would you want to visit all known specimens and then offer an award to find ever more? Maybe if you're an ornithologist, such a quest might appeal. But what's so distinctive about the Labrador Duck?
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Late Night Live - 2009-10-27
Published: 2009-10-26 10:00:00Britain and Freedom of Speech Questions are being raised in Britain about the level of power international corporations are acquiring when one such company, through their lawyers, attempted to prevent the well established newspaper, The Guardian, from reporting on a question tabled in the House of Commons and tried to stifle debate about issues of super-injunctions and freedom of speech. All was revealed though through Twitter. The Informant The real story behind the landmark court case that was launched against the American agricultural giant Archer Daniels Midland in the 1990s. The case against ADM was the biggest case of price-fixing the world had ever seen, and is now the subject of a major motion picture, The Informant, starring Matt Damon. The real informant, the company executive who blew the whistle on ADM and co-operated with the FBI for 3 years to gather evidence against the company, joins us for a discussion with award winning author and journalist Kurt Eichenwald, whose book the film is based on.
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Late Night Live - 2009-10-26
Published: 2009-10-25 10:00:00Canberra Babylon Christian Kerr discusses the merits or otherwise of the ALP declining to run a candidate in the Higgins by-election; desperate government rhetoric on people smugglers; and a possible hint from next year's concentrated parliamentary sitting dates. Who started the 2008 Georgia conflict? In August last year, the five day conflict involving Georgia, Russia and South Ossetia shocked the world with its violence and force. The Council of the European Union established its first-ever fact-finding mission into how the conflict started and what happened during the fighting, believing that these facts could help prevent further conflicts. The report has been published finding fault on all sides, yet tension continues to build up in the region. Where to now? Poseidon´s Steed: The Story of Seahorses, from Myth to Reality Seahorses aren´t an animal that one comes across on the average trip to the beach, and yet for thousands of years, across of number of different cultures, it´s been a potent symbol of the sea. Marine biologist Helen Scales searched the oceans of the globe for years before she spotted her first seahorse in the wild, and she was so enraptured that she decided to write a book about it.
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