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Jul 9, 2024 • 56min
Classic LNL: composer Elena Kats-Chernin AO
The brilliance of Elena Kats-Chernin was first discovered when she was only four years old and from that moment she has been unable to imagine a life without composing music. She's since forged an international career as a composer across a huge range of genres. Elena even scored our LNL opening theme! In 2019 she was awarded an Order of Australia for her distinguished service to music as a composer.First broadcast in 2019.

Jul 8, 2024 • 54min
Classic LNL: Magda Szubanski
One of Australia's most beloved performers, Magda Szubanski, star of Kath & Kim, Fast Forward and films including Babe and Goddess, talks to Phillip about her life and her extraordinary 'mongrel family history', which includes Irish, Polish, Italian and Scottish backgrounds. This was first broadcast in 2013.

Jul 4, 2024 • 54min
Classic LNL: Paul Keating on the first dismissal
'The Big Fella', Jack Lang, twice premier of NSW, was one of Australia's most controversial politicians and loved and hated with a visceral intensity. During the Great Depression he was dismissed from office by the NSW Governor for refusing to repay interest on Commonwealth loans. He was expelled from the Labor party in 1942 and re-admitted in 1971 with the support of his young protégé, Paul Keating. Paul Keating, former Labor prime minister, and Frank Cain, historian.First broadcast on November 17, 2005.

Jul 3, 2024 • 54min
Classic LNL: The revolutionary women of the Whitlam era
The Whitlam era saw a great leap forward for women's rights in Australia, driven by Women’s Adviser Elizabeth Reid and a host of female activists, backed by a grass roots movement across the country. Their work is recognised in a book released to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Reid’s appointment. Guests:- Dr Elizabeth Reid, former Women's Adviser to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, feminist development worker, academic and writer.- Michelle Arrow, Professor in Modern History at Macquarie University and editor of 'Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the Revolution,' published by New South Books.- Ranuka Tandan from the Whitlam Institute's Public Affairs Team.First broadcast in 2023.

Jul 2, 2024 • 54min
Classic LNL: Isabel Allende on feminism and Finding Fibonacci
Phillip and best-selling Chilean author Isabel Allende explores how feminism has shaped her life over the past seven decades. Originally broadcast in 2021.Mathematician Keith Devlin from Stanford University is on a crusade to get the world to recognise Fibonacci as the man who introduced Hindu-Arabic numbers to the West. Originally broadcast in 2017.

Jul 1, 2024 • 53min
Classic LNL: The life of Deborah Cheetham-Fraillon
Deborah Cheetham-Fraillon AO talks to Phillip about composing Australia's first Indigenous opera, Pecan Summer, founding her Short Black Opera Company and her work encouraging Indigenous kids to get more involved in singing and the arts.

Jun 27, 2024 • 57min
Phillip Adams farewells Late Night Live
In Phillip Adams' last Late Night Live, Laura Tingle turns the tables and interviews Phillip. They discuss how the political conversations and media landscape has changed since Phillip started at the ABC back in 1991, and what his hopes are for Australia.You can also watch this interview on I-View by clicking here.Host: Laura Tingle, Chief Political Correspondent, 7.30Guest: Phillip Adams, host of Late Night Live

Jun 26, 2024 • 54min
Naomi Klein’s Doppleganger. Untangling the big ethical issues of our time with Peter Singer.
Naomi Klein on doppelgangers, conspiracy theories and getting mistaken for Naomi Wolf. Plus Philosopher Peter Singer's advice on how we can make our lives worth living by making the right choices.

Jun 25, 2024 • 54min
Phillip's swansong with Laura Tingle, Bruce Shapiro and Ian Dunt
In Phillip's last show with his regular contributors, Laura Tingle, Bruce Shapiro and Ian Dunt look at the release of Julian Assange, the importance of the AUKUS alliance, and the big stories they have covered over their many years on the little wireless program. Guests: Laura Tingle, Chief Political Correspondent, 7.30Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with The Nation magazine; Executive Director of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia UniversityIan Dunt, Columnist with the “I” newspaper.

Jun 24, 2024 • 1h 1min
Left for dead? The Australian left, then and now
Phillip Adams is joined by comrades Frank Bongiorno, Jon Piccini and Meredith Burgmann for a romp through the history of the political left in Australia and an assessment of what's left of the left today.