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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 - 2009-11-20
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Nov 20, 2009
CLASSIC LNL: Berlin 1995 - Germany's past, present & future
A discussion first broadcast from Berlin in June 1995, about historical, current and future factors shaping the reunification of Germany.
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Late Night Live - 2009-11-19
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Nov 19, 2009
Paul Ehrlich
Paul Ehrlich's book, The Population Bomb (1968), caused great controversy with its predictions of mass starvation in the 70s and 80s due to over-population. Forty years later, with the world's population almost doubled in that time, Ehrlich's main message is increasingly relevant - that the earth has a finite carrying capacity and it cannot sustain the current rate of human population growth and resource depletion. In this conversation, Paul Ehrlich talks about the escalating environment pressures and some potential solutions.
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Late Night Live - 2009-11-18
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Nov 18, 2009
A sustainable economy
Credit crunch, peak oil, dirty coal, crop failure, water pollution, global warming - if this is the end of the world economy as we know it, what is the new economic paradigm going to look like? Itīs the conversation, the argument, the dilemma of the 21st century.
A Philosophy of Pain
Medical science promises us a future of a life free from pain -- but would you choose such a life if you really thought about it? What does living without pain mean for humanity? Would it make us better people, or less tolerant ones? Norwegian philosopher Arne Johan Vetlesen is concerned about the consequences of a pain-free society, itīs one of the issues he explores in his book A Philosophy of Pain.
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Late Night Live - 2009-11-17
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Nov 17, 2009
Bruce Shapiro
Bruce talks about President Obama's decision to move 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheik Mohammed from Guantanamo Bay to New York in order to stand trial.
Climate Solutions
The much-anticipated UN talks on climate change in Copenhagen are almost upon us, and thereīs no longer any hope that the world will establish a new legally binding treaty for emissions targets at the talks. It's becoming hard to see how weīll be able to reduce global carbon emissions in time to stop some very serious planetary warming. Australian scientist Greg McRae works in the US at the cutting edge of energy issues - and he has some ideas which might be able to restore some of our optimism.
Breaker Morant and the historical case not to pardon
A petition has been made to have the court-martial trial of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, Peter Handcock and George Witton, three Australian soldiers who fought during the Boer War in South Africa, reviewed in the hope of establishing a pardon posthumously. Commander James Unkles argued for the legal case in the previous program. In this program, we hear why they should not be pardoned, as justice was served accordingly.
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Late Night Live - 2009-11-16
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Nov 16, 2009
Canberra Babylon
Laura Tingle talks about the national apology to the 'Forgotten Australians'; how the ETS has become politically bogged down with growing pessimism about the effectiveness of the Copenhagen summit; and the 'deal' to get asylum seekers off an Australian Customs ship, as three more boats are detected heading for Australia.
After the War on Drugs
Is it time for a war on the 'war on drugs'? No proper comparison of prohibition, legalisation and regulation of illicit drug use has ever been conducted. A leading British drug reform body says it is time to try new ways of regulating drug use.
Breaker Morant and the legal case for a pardon
The story of Breaker Morant and his court martial and execution during the Boer War is now part of our military memory, and the question of whether justice was served to Morant and fellow soldiers, Peter Handcock and George Witton, is still being discussed. However, for the first time there is a legal review of the case which aims to show that a grave miscarriage of justice occurred, and that all three men should be pardoned posthumously.
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Late Night Live - 2009-11-13
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Nov 13, 2009
CLASSIC LNL: Immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers
A discussion, first broadcast on 26/9/2002, with three eminent Australians about their own migration experiences (two were child refugees and one an adult migrant); past and present immigration policies; people smuggling; refugees and asylum seekers.
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Late Night Live - 2009-11-12
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Nov 12, 2009
Cultural Celebrations
We mark milestones in our lives with celebrations, and it's an act that has lasted the distance of time and across cultures. So what are the similarities and differences in the way we celebrate life? How do we adapt our cultural celebrations to new lives made abroad? A Melbourne theatre production explores these elements with young migrants and refugees.
Power-Sharing in Zimbabwe
The unity government in Zimbabwe is in the process of breaking down. The power-sharing agreement between Zanu-PF and the MDC was brokered by the Southern African Development Community, following the violent 2008 presidential and parliamentary elections. Three weeks ago Morgan Tsvangirai announced that the MDC was disengaging from Zanu-PF and in particular from Cabinet and the council of Ministers, citing outstanding, non-compliance and toxic issues that continue to impede the government.
Drawing the Global Colour Line
Henry Reynolds and Marilyn Lake were the joint winners of the 2009 Prime Ministerīs Prize for non-fiction for their book Drawing the Global Colour Line. The book places Australiaīs history of racial politics into a transnational history of `white menīs countriesī: South Africa, North America and New Zealand.
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Late Night Live - 2009-11-11
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Nov 11, 2009
China update with Willy Lam
Willy Lam discusses why the upcoming visit to China by the US president is historic and why the coverage of President Obama's visit will be recognised in a way that's different to the coverage of the Dalai Lama's recent trip to the India-China border town of Tawang.
Tales from Swat Valley and other Pakistan stories
The Pakistan army recently defeated the Afghan Taliban in the Swat region of Pakistan, allowing many of the displaced civilian population to return to begin rebuilding their lives. Now the army has taken on the Taliban in South Waziristan, the tribal area bordering Afghanistan, in an effort to end the 'scourge of terrorism' once and for all. But at what cost? Close to four million people have been displaced during the ongoing conflict in this very troubled country.
The Legacy of Claude Levi Strauss
Last week, the world lost one of the great thinkers of the 20th century when French anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss died at the age of 100. In France, Levi-Strauss was a national treasure whose intellectual worth ranked alongside Jean-Paul Sartre and Andre Malraux. French president Nicholas Sarkozy described him as an 'indefatigable humanist'. His ideas were so pervasive that, as one anthropologist put it, he 'was a profound influence even on his critics'.
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Late Night Live - 2009-11-10
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Nov 10, 2009
Bruce Shapiro
Bruce talks about the mass shooting in Fort Hood, Texas, by a Muslim army psychiatrist; and Obama's healthcare reform bill, which passed the House of Representatives this week.
Oil spill: response and responsibility
A discussion about the response to the Montara oil leak in the Timor Sea. The leak has been plugged but the long term environmental implications are unknown. Australia lacks deep knowledge of the marine environment in the vicinity of the spill, and there is an international legal loophole around oil rig spills.
Micky Burn: Commando to Colditz
In March 1942 there was a daring raid on a dry dock in St Nazaire, France, in an attempt to stop the Germans from using their battleships in destroying the much needed convoys supplying Britain during this time. The raid was successful but at a huge cost. One particular troop lost half of their men through either death or capture. Over the next few years, the families of these men kept in contact, swapping what information they were able to glean, offering each other much needed support. Central to this correspondence and support was Micky Burn, the Captain of Troop 6, no 2 Commando. He had been captured and was spending his time in Colditz, the notorious POW camp in the heart of Germany. His far reaching care for his men and their families, and his dreams for a better world, are the making of this extraordinary story.
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Late Night Live - 2009-11-09
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Nov 09, 2009
Canberra Babylon
Christian Kerr discusses recent data that presents conflicting versions of how strong the Australian economy is; why public concern over climate change is falling dramatically and the Prime Minister's trip this week to India and Singapore.
Berlin Wall Anniversary
The barbed wire, alarms, spot lights, dogs, and border guards with orders to shoot to kill, are long gone. On a night back in November 1989 a tsunami of popular opposition began the process of dismantling the huge 155 kilometre, concrete Wall that had separated West Berlin from Communist East Germany for nearly 30 years. Within 12 months pretty much the whole of the Berlin Wall had gone. Twenty years on we find out what has happened to the pieces of the Wall that remain, the fragments that were removed, and 'the death strip' - the no-man's land that existed in between.
The tyranny of email
A conversation about the enormous growth in email traffic and the effect it is having on our lives, our culture, our workplace and our psychological wellbeing.
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Late Night Live - 2009-11-06
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Nov 06, 2009
CLASSIC 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
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Nov 05, 2009
The Defence of the Realm - An Authorised History of MI5
This year marks the centenary of MI5 - Britainīs clandestine domestic security organisation. Only these days itīs not so clandestine, because the service has authorised an official history of itself. Thatīs 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 MI5īs 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
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Nov 04, 2009
The Future of California
California is the eighth largest economy in the world. As one writer recently said, if California was a country itīd be in the G8. But if it was a company, itīd 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
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Nov 03, 2009
Afghanistan'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
Sheīs 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 Sontagīs work and her personality, on the release of a new book.
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Late Night Live - 2009-11-02
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Nov 02, 2009
Canberra 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
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Oct 30, 2009
CLASSIC 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
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Oct 29, 2009
Alan 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
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Oct 28, 2009
Bruce 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
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Oct 27, 2009
Britain 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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