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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 - 2008-07-24
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Jul 24, 2008
The Struggle to Control World Population
A conversation with historian Matthew Connelly, who has written the first global history of the population control movement. It is a movement, he says, that has sought to remake humanity with seemingly good intentions but succeeded in causing untold suffering, through unpleasant policies that have not worked.
Prince of Australian vaudeville
Walking the tightrope, breathing fire, throwing knives at people and having blocks of ice broken on your chest—it´s just an ordinary job for some, as they travel around the countryside visiting country shows and regional festivals. You´re also able to gauge how rural communities are coping with the drought-stricken times.
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Late Night Live - 2008-07-23
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Jul 23, 2008
Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed
The history of Algeria has been turbulent with the transition from colonialism to revolution to socialism to Islamic insurgency. Today it is viewed as a breeding ground for terrorists. How has Algeria´s history—and the manipulation of it—contributed to the state it´s in today, and what does the future hold?
Rediscovering the New World
Tony Horwitz believes most Americans are confused about American history. It's almost like they think Christopher Columbus sailed to America, dropped off the Pilgrims and sailed home. When he began pondering his own knowledge of the founding of America by Europeans he realised that he'd 'mislaid an entire century'.
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Late Night Live - 2008-07-22
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Jul 22, 2008
Bruce Shapiro
Bruce discusses Barack Obama's tour of the Middle East.
Radovan Karadzic arrested
Balkans specialist Tim Judah and lawyer and barrister Gideon Boas discuss the arrest on Monday of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, the man at the top of the most-wanted list of the UN Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Xenophobia refugees
A discussion about the plight of thousands of victims of recent xenophobic violence in South Africa. The victims are generally refugees from other African countries and have been living for months in tents, community halls and other temporary centres. The South African authorities are insisting these displaced people move back into the community or face deportation to the countries and circumstances from which they initially fled.
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Late Night Live - 2008-07-21
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Jul 21, 2008
Canberra Babylon
This week, Christian Kerr discusses the two looming by elections - in Lyne and Mayo - following the resignations of Mark Vaile and Alexander Downer. And he reports on the first of the departmental briefings for businesses on how they will have to comply with reporting on their greenhouse gas emissions.
Civil War from Rome to Iraq
Civil war has been the most common and the most savage form of human conflict. From ancient Rome to the rebellions in England and the United States and the current crisis in Iraq, the history of civil war reveals much about our future.
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Late Night Live - 2008-07-18
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Jul 18, 2008
CLASSIC LNL: Bronislaw Geremek
A discussion with one of Poland's most distinguished public intellectuals, first broadcast on 13/10/2003. Geremek survived the Warsaw Ghetto as a child and went on to become a prominent historian, a key player in the Solidarity movement, a senior negotiator with the Communist government and then foreign minister in a democratically elected government of Poland. Bronislaw Geremek was killed in a car accident last week.
CLASSIC LNL: Lech Walesa
A rare interview with one of the most important figures from 20th century Europe—Lech Walesa, first broadcast on 4/11/2003. Timothy Garton Ash says of Lech Walesa ... 'His legacy is a huge gain in freedom, not just for the Poles. Without the Polish ice-breaking, Eastern Europe might still be frozen in a Soviet sphere of influence and the world would be a very different place.'
Lech Walesa led the Solidarity movement that pushed the Communists from power, then became the first democratically elected president of Poland, and a Nobel peace prize winner. Now, through the Lech Walesa Institute, he's an advocate of United Nations global governance.
The interpreter for the interview is Peter Gulczynski, president of the Lech Walesa Institute.
CLASSIC LNL: Solidarity's 25th
The Polish union, Solidarity, was born on August 31, 1980. It became a social movement that transformed the country and began to undermine the entire communist political apparatus of the Eastern Bloc. In this discussion, first broadcast on 31/8/2005, the Polish-Australian writer and academic Martin Krygier talks about one of the lasting legacies of the Solidarity movement, within Poland and beyond -- the rebirth of the notion of `civil society´.
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Late Night Live - 2008-07-17
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Jul 17, 2008
Music and the Brain
Oliver Sacks's latest book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain is a collection of 29 essays on subjects ranging from musical seizures, the fear of music, musical savants, music and blindness, dementia and music therapy, and musical dreams.
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Late Night Live - 2008-07-16
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Jul 16, 2008
Anwar Ibrahim arrested
Southeast Asia correspondent Eddin Khoo provides a brief update following the arrest today of Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on sodomy charges.
Bea Campbell
Bea Campbell discusses the recent spate of knife attacks, many of them fatal, in British towns and cities.
Shadow Warrior: from the SAS to Australia's most wanted
Back in the late 1970s, David Everett joined the army, he moved on to the SAS—and then he got bored.
He travelled to Burma, where he trained Karen resistance fighters, and then returned to Australia where he committed armed robberies to raise funds for them.
He ended up becoming one of Australia's most fearsome and dangerous armed robbers, faking his own death to escape the police.
It´s a compelling story of misguided youth, adrenaline, idealism, testosterone and a lot of very bad choices.
Mother Land: Dmetri Kakmi
Dmetri Kakmi spent his childhood on the small Aegean island of Bozcaada. It was a time when the historical animosity between resident Greeks and Turks was intensifying, and Dmetri's family eventually fled to Australia.
As an adult Dmetri returns to Bozcaada to write the history of its vanishing Greek culture, but also finds an unexpected story of family secrets.
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Late Night Live - 2008-07-15
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Jul 15, 2008
Bruce Shapiro
This week Bruce talks about the investigative reports from a small Boston newspaper that first exposed the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, and he discusses the financial bail-out of the two giant American mortgage providers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Global remittances: Dilip Ratha
Remittances sent home by migrant workers are the single biggest income source for developing nations. The total amount sent home by foreign workers exceeds the amount that the whole world spends on foreign aid.
World Bank economist Dilip Ratha is the leading authority on remittances and he is in Australia to discuss their importance in the global economy.
Notebooks and Note-taking
Historians have only recently begun to study note-taking as a historical phenomenon. Almost no notes survive before the Renaissance, but from then on a number of large collections that survive.
In this discussion Ann Blair and Richard Yeo discuss what note-taking is, who took notes, the shift from notebooks to loose pieces of paper, and the methods of note storing.
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Late Night Live - 2008-07-14
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Jul 14, 2008
Canberra Babylon
Laura Tingle discusses the difficult politics of climate change for the government and the opposition.
Health, race and the NT intervention
A conversation about the key measurements of success of the Northern Territory intervention, and the importance of evidence to support such long term policies.
Living off the land
As a continuing array of reports outline worsening conditions in rural Australia, we talk to two men who have lived and worked off the land - one as a shearer and the other a cattle and wheat farmer.
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Late Night Live - 2008-07-11 - UPDATED
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Jul 11, 2008
CLASSIC LNL: Women In Asia
Originally broadcast on 14/9/98.
An interview about Asian women and their place in Asian society. For many in the West it seems incredible that countries whose social structure, education system and family life discriminate against women and girls at every turn, should be progressive enough to give political power to women.
CLASSIC LNL: Hair Symbols in Asia
Originally broadcast on 3/8/98.
In this discussion Patrick Olivelle discusses the various rituals that involve either a shaving or growing of the hair in both traditional Indian society and other South Asian regions. Barbara Miller looks at the intersection of traditional ideas of hair in multicultural America and also the absence of pubic hair in Japanese erotica and the theory in China that the 'superior race' is marked by less body hair.
CLASSIC LNL: Cyber Books
Originally broadcast on 26/8/98.
A discussion about electronic books and how they are set to revolutionise publishing and the way we read.
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Late Night Live - 2008-07-10
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Jul 10, 2008
Distracted
In America a study has found that workers not only switch tasks every three minutes during their work day, but nearly half the time they interrupt themselves. Moreover, once someone´s been interrupted it can take up to 25 minutes to return to the main task.
Maggie Jackson has been researching this syndrome and other ways we get distracted and has written a book about it. The premise of her book is that the way we live is eroding our capacity for deep, sustained, perceptive attention. In other words it´s attention that is the greatest casualty of our high-tech age.
US Covert Operations in Iran
As tension increases over Iran's uranium enrichment program and threats of an Israeli attack, it's being reported that the US Government is funding covert operations within Iran.
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Late Night Live - 2008-07-09
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Jul 09, 2008
The Wisdom of Whores
Politics, ideology and money have misdirected the fight against HIV, with tragic consequences. The world knows how to stop the virus, so what's stopping us?
Hitchens on Waterboarding
Writer Christopher Hitchens describes his experience of being 'waterboarded' - the controversial torture technique sanctioned by former US Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld - which he undertook for a feature article in Vanity Fair magazine. Hitchens argues that while waterboarding cannot be compared to torture techniques using thumbscrews, pincers, electrodes or racks, neither can it ever be justified as a legitimate form of interrogation procedure.
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Late Night Live - 2008-07-08
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Jul 08, 2008
Bruce Shapiro
This week Bruce discusses the life and legacy of Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina. Helms, who died on Independece Day (July 4th) at the age of 86, was a standard bearer of the Right in US politics. He opposed desegregation and the civil rights movement; was a tireless anti-communist campaigner; and a supporter of big tobacco.
The Uses and Abuses of History
The philosopher George Santanyana said, 'Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.'
But how much does history really teach us? Can we draw clear lessons from the past when so much of what has been written is coloured by political agendas and the interpretations of previous generations?
A new book by prize-winning Oxford University historian Margaret Macmillan explores the way nations use -- and abuse -- history to shape their decisions and justify their actions.
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Late Night Live - 2008-07-07
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Jul 07, 2008
Canberra Babylon
This week, Christian Kerr discusses the political implications of The Garnaut Climate Change Review that was handed down last Friday.
Climate change policy and the Garnaut Report
Three guests respond to the release of the Garnaut Report and look ahead to the significant challenges in putting together government policies to tackle climate change.
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Late Night Live - 2008-07-04
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Jul 04, 2008
CLASSIC LNL: evil or ill
Originally broadcast in 1999, this is a story about the psychiatry and psychology of killing.
CLASSIC LNL: nanoscience
Originally broadcast in 1999, a discussion about the potential for nanotechnology to transform our lives, or not.
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Late Night Live - 2008-07-03
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Jul 03, 2008
Children in Zimbabwe
According to UNICEF, Zimbabwe has a higher number of orphans in proportion to its population than any other country in the world, and most of these cases are as a result of parents dying from AIDS. What sort of effect will the recent political violence in Zimbabwe, coupled with the Mugabe regime's ban on the distribution of food aid a month ago, have on these children?
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?
Central Arnhem Land student
A conversation Phillip recorded at the North Australia Forum in Darwin with a young traditional man from Central Arnhem Land whose ambition is to become a renowned film maker.
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Late Night Live - 2008-07-02
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Jul 02, 2008
Eddin Khoo
Southeast Asia correspondent Eddin Khoo talks about the latest allegations of sodomy and sexual assault against Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim. Anwar insists these are a repeat of previous concocted charges, designed to thwart his political ambitions.
Anti-Semitism in the United Nations
In September 2001, the United States and Israel walked out of the United Nations sponsored Conference Against Racism in Durban, over what they called hateful and anti-Israel language in a draft declaration. Both the US and Israel alleged anti-Semitism was behind much of the anti-Israeli rhetoric.
According to Professor Anne Bayefsky, an international legal scholar and human rights activist, this conference was indicative of a human rights system corrupted beyond recognition. She argues that the United Nations hijacks the language of human rights to discriminate and demonise Jews.
Fred Smith
'Texas' CD launches:
SYDNEY: Saturday 5 July: The Harp in Tempe;
MELBOURNE: Saturday 12 July: The Boite in Fitzroy;
BRISBANE: Thursday 17 July: The Clovely Cellar Door in Red Hill.
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Late Night Live - 2008-07-01
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Jul 01, 2008
Bruce Shapiro - US Politics
This week Bruce marks the passing of comedian, actor and author George Carlin; discusses the hundreds of people claiming the middle name Hussein to protest anti-Muslim smears against Barack Obama; and in Bruce's words, 'Obama's quick switcheroo' on public financing of campaigns and his step to the right on the death penalty.
The Hebrew Republic
What does it mean for Israel to be both 'Jewish' and 'democratic'? And how much longer will Arab Israelis accept their second-class status? Political economist Bernard Avishai argues that economic globalisation is offering Israel a way out of its current paradox: an economy like Singapore's and an ethno-religious conflict like Serbia's.
Bitter Chocolate
Bitter Chocolate traces the history of the cocoa bean from its origins in the Mayan and Aztec cultures through to the current-day use of children as slave labour on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast in West Africa.
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Late Night Live - 2008-06-30
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Jun 30, 2008
Canberra Babylon
Laura Tingle discusses the significance of the Gippsland by-election result for the government and the opposition, the release later in the week of the Garnaut report, and the climate change policy challenge for the government as fuel costs continue to soar.
The Post-American World
The United States has held the dominant role in shaping international policies; it has been the sole super power. But what happens when the gap between the US and other countries begins to narrow, when countries such as China, India and Brazil begin to catch up? What happens to America´s foreign policies?
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Late Night Live - 2008-06-27
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Jun 27, 2008
CLASSIC LNL: Update USA
Originally broadcast on 8/9/99.
David Brooks reports from Washington, D.C.
CLASSIC LNL: Wild Minds
Originally broadcast on 8/9/99.
This discussion focuses on outsiders and their creative process, societal values of the outsider and the psychology of the misfit.
CLASSIC LNL: History of Gangs in Australia
Originally broadcast on 18/8/99.
This story is about, particularly, the first 100 years of gang activity in Australia....and counter to the usual claims that gang warfare and activity is spiralling out of control, it's always been around, and quite violently too.
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