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Late Night Live is talk radio with a difference. Phillip Adams invites you to sit in on his conversations with the world's most controversial thinkers.
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Late Night Live - 2009-01-08
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Jan 08, 2009
The Elephant Hunters: Chronicles of the Moneymen
A discussion about the culture and practices of financiers, brokers and investment bankers around the world - a culture which makes the boom-bust cycle inevitable, and tends to ignore the lessons of past market crashes.
First Broadcast on 14 October 2008
The Snowball: Warren Buffett
In these days of economic crisis, invoking the name 'Warren Bufffet' has a kind of talismanic quality that bestows economic credibility on those who utter it. Both Presidential candidates have mentioned him as a possible Treasury Secretary - thought Buffett, a Democrat, has endorsed Obama. Earlier this year, the 78 year old 'Sage of Omaha', who still lives in the modest suburban home he bought in 1958, knocked Bill Gates off the top of list of world's richest people. His personal wealth is valued somewhere between $58 and $62 billion dollars.
He predicted the financial meltdown, and once told a reporter 'Ultimately, Wall Street will be eliminated', but he personally bailed out investment banking form Goldman Sachs and is currently urging confidence in the US markets. Now is a great time to buy, according to Buffet.
Not noted in the past for his largesse or philanthropy, in 2006, Buffet announced a plan to gradually give away his fortune to charity - with 83% of it going to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Former investment analyst Alice Schroeder gained unprecedented access to Buffett to write his biography.
Originally Broadcast on 20 October 2008
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Late Night Live - 2009-01-07
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Jan 07, 2009
Belarus, Censorship and Free Theatre
Clandestine performances in private homes, cafes and outside amongst the trees sounds like something reminiscent of the Cold War. Well, despite the iron curtain being pulled back, censorship is still prolific in the former republic state of the USSR, Belarus, forcing the "Free Theatre" to perform anywhere but under the spotlight of the authorities.
First Broadcast 26 February 2008
Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners.
In twentieth century America, the name Emily Post became a by-word for manners and morality. Her book Etiquette was first published 1922. The 'Blue Bible' as it came to be known, went through 10 editions and was in its 89th printing when she died in 1960.
Emily Post was an institution, she had a syndicated column in 160 newspapers, received 3,000 letters a week seeking advice, and she hosted her own radio program three times a week. She also designed her own high-fashion clothes and endorsed everything from cigarettes to gingerbread.
Yet until now, there has never been a full length biography of Mrs Post.
First Broadcast 6 November 2008
Don Dunstan on Stage
They may not be Don Dunstan's legs the pink shorts are covering but the flamboyant and controversial character who was the former South Australian Premier hits the stage in a new play about the scandals that marked the Dunstan Decade.
First Broadcast 20 February 2008
Lovers and Haters: The Turbulent Times of Don Dunstan
Premieres at the Adelaide Festival of Arts
Norwood Concert Hall
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Late Night Live - 2009-01-06
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Jan 06, 2009
The Last Days of the Romanovs
In 1991 the remains of five of the members of the Romanov family were dug up, formally identified using DNA samples, and reburied in a St Petersburg cathedral. But two of the Romanovs were never found. That is until July last year, when a builder and amateur historian stepped on some bones while searching for them.
And just recently it's been confirmed that those bones were indeed those of missing Prince Alexee and his sister Princess Maria. Mystery solved.
But what about the last days of the Romanovs? Under what conditions were they held and what do their diaries tell us about what day-to-day life was like up until their murders 90 years ago this month.
Getting the dirt on being clean
From soaking in Roman baths to centuries of filth, the reasons why we clean ourselves, or don't, have been influenced by the prevailing thoughts of the day, be that religious, medical, or commercial. Today, in the western world, we live in a state we believe is sanitised, but is it good for us?
First Broadcast 30 July 2008
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Late Night Live - 2009-01-05
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Jan 05, 2009
Nigerian writer: Chris Abani
Nigerian writer, poet, philosopher and teacher Chris Abani was born and raised in Nigeria before fleeing in 1991 to the UK and then to the US. He was incarcerated three times in Nigeria for his novels and plays, the third time charged with treason and sent to death row. He has won numerous awards for his writing and Harold Pinter remarked of his prison poetry 'reading them is like being singed with a red hot iron.'
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Late Night Live - 2009-01-01
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Jan 01, 2009
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.
Originally broadcast, 15 August 2008.
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Late Night Live - 2008-12-31
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Dec 31, 2008
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.
Originally broadcast, 14 August 2008.
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 believes it is a welfare trap and should be scrapped, while economist Jon Altman says getting rid of the CDEP would be a terrible mistake.
Originally broadcast, 14 August 2008.
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Late Night Live - 2008-12-30
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Dec 30, 2008
The humble elevator
This conversation, first broadcast on 30/4/2008, is a tribute to the humble elevator, or lift, a symbol of human progress and an object of fear and frustration. As writer Nick Paumgarten says: 'The elevator, underrated and overlooked, is to the city what paper is to reading and gunpowder is to war. While anthems have been written to jet travel, locomotives, and the lure of the open road, the poetry of vertical transportation is scant.'
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Late Night Live - 2008-12-29
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Dec 29, 2008
Hitchens on waterboarding
In this conversation, first broadcast on 9/7/2008, writer Christopher Hitchens describes his experience of being 'waterboarded' -- the controversial torture technique sanctioned by former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld -- which Hitchens undertook for a feature article in Vanity Fair magazine.
Casanova: the myth and the man
A leading authority on Casanova separates the man from the myth. Not only was Casanova a world famous seducer, he was also an adventurer, a writer, an entrepreneur and even spent time in prison. First broadcast on 9/4/2008.
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Late Night Live - 2008-12-25
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Dec 25, 2008
Richard Flanagan
Acclaimed Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan discusses his new novel Wanting, along with his experience of co-writing the film script for Australia and the strange nature of the writer's life, in a conversation recorded at Hobart's historic Theatre Royal.
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Late Night Live - 2008-12-24
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Dec 24, 2008
Rupert Murdoch in China
Did media mogul Rupert Murdoch meet his match in China? Murdoch spent years and much money trying to gain entry to the world's biggest potential audience in China. While he connected China through the internet and transformed its bland television standards forever, it was certainly not success using Murdoch's own definition.
The convict stain
Generations of Australians sought for years to remove or deny any links to their convict past. The fear of the so-called convict stain began with the anti-transportationist movement in the mid 1850s which shamed convict society into silence. But could Australia have become a different nation without this legacy?
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Late Night Live - 2008-12-23
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Dec 23, 2008
Ahmadinejad: The Miracle of the Third Millenium
After his suprise election as President of Iran in 2005, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad quickly passed into caricature in the Western media - mocked as a diminutive blacksmith's son with a beaming grin, and demonised as an apocalyptic visionary who denies the Holocaust and seems intent on playing a game of nuclear 'chicken' with the US.
Who is Ahmadinejad really? And how much of a threat does he pose to his country and the rest of the world?
Noel Coward, Shakespeare and Barrie Ingham
All the world's a stage, particularly in the UK, as British theatre and film actor Barrie Ingham discusses two of the great playwrights, William Shakespeare and Noel Coward and their influences.
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Late Night Live - 2008-12-22
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Dec 22, 2008
American Journeys: Don Watson
In his latest book, American Journeys, Don Watson travels arond America by train and hire car, eavesdropping on conversations, relating various histories and writing about his impressions of a country both loved and loathed by many.
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Late Night Live - 2008-12-19
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Dec 19, 2008
CLASSIC LNL: Enron's Spectacular Collapse
A discussion about the collapse of the U.S. energy giant, Enron - first broadcast on 31/1/2002. The Enron Affair reverberated throughout America for a number of reasons; it raised questions about the links between big business and government, the role of the auditors, Arthur Anderson, who were also consultants to Enron, and the Bush Administration's policy on deregulation.
CLASSIC LNL: The Keystone Kommandos
In the wake of 9/11, George W Bush declared that suspected terrorists would be tried by military tribunal rather than through the civil court system. The precedent given for this was a little-known trial of eight German saboteurs captured on US soil in 1942. In this conversation - first broadcast on 31/1/2002 - journalist Gary Cohen pieces together the story of the botched sabotage mission and the political machinations surrounding the trial.
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Late Night Live - 2008-12-18
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Dec 18, 2008
Reading the classics
'Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?' According to Harold Bloom and Bob Carr, it is to be found in books that can enrich your mind and spirit.
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Late Night Live - 2008-12-17
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Dec 17, 2008
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 Guantanamo Bay. At the end of 2002, Donald Rumsfeld signed off on an 'Action Memo', which contained a request, 'for approval of counter-resistance techniques to aid in the interrogation of detainees at Guantanamo Bay'. This memo led to the sanctioning of a raft of new interrogation techniques which contravened the Geneva Convention guidelines, as well as the American interrogators' bible, the US Army Field Manual.
Tarab
At the urging of friends and fans, singer/songwriter Carl Cleves has written a book about his thirty or so years travelling through Africa, Egypt, Afghanistan, Turkey, India, the Pacific and South America in search of a place the Arabs call 'Tarab'. 'Tarab' is where poety and music bestow ecstasy and true bliss upon the lucky one.
First Broadcast on 1 October 2008
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Late Night Live - 2008-12-16
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Dec 16, 2008
Angela Davis
Angela Davis became a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States during the 60s and 70s. She studied in France, Germany and the US, joined the Communist Party, the Black Panther Party, was on the FBI's top ten most wanted list and spent eighteen months in prison - all before she was thirty. Since then, Angela has been a great advocate for change in the way we perceive prisons, gender and race.
First Broadcast on Thursday 20 March 2008
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Late Night Live - 2008-12-15
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Dec 15, 2008
Fear and Fantasy in post 9/11 America
Despite the 9/11 attacks in America coming from an Islamic militant organisation based in the Middle East, Americans turned on themselves to apportion blame. Why? According to Susan Faludi the answer lies in the Great American Myth.
Originally broadcast, 14 April 2008.
Schizophrenia and Talk Therapy
Psychotherapy or talk therapy is not regarded by mental health professionals as a necessary part of treatment for those suffering from schizophrenia. However Elyn R. Saks, a highly accomplished academic and writer, credits ongoing psychotherapy for her ability to function successfully at a professional and personal level.
Originally broadcst 14 April, 2008
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