Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast

The indigenous underpinnings and contradictory accounts behind the incredible tale of four children lost after a plane crash in the Amazon jungle in Colombia, in 2023. Guest: Mat Youkee, author of 'Forty days in the jungle: behind the extraordinary survival and rescue of four children lost in the Amazon' (Scribe)Producer: Ann Arnold

Specialist reporter on family and sexual violence, Jess Hill, says perpetrators are getting younger, and the messaging campaigns aimed at men are only causing a backlash as they often create a sense of shame. In her latest Quarterly Essay, Hill looks back at the last fifteen years of policy on dealing with violence against women and children, and why it seems to be failing. GUEST: Jess Hill, journalist and author of the Quarterly Essay 'Losing It - Can we stop violence against women and children?'PRODUCER: Catherine Zengerer

An alleged physical assault at the South African Antarctic research station SENAE IV has underlined how these extreme, isolated work environments can become hotbeds of stress and human conflict.  

As the US retreats from its NATO commitments Poland is looking at gaining access to nuclear weapons from France and ensuring that every man undergoes military training as part of an effort to build a 500,000-strong army to face off the threat of war from Russia. But how real is that threat? GUEST: Jan Cienski, Senior Policy Editor, PoliticoPRODUCER: Catherine Zengerer 

The prestigious American law firm Paul Weiss is under fire for negotiating a deal with the Trump administration to avoid losing lucrative federal contracts. Meanwhile, Columbia University is also negotiating with the administration to unfreeze $400 million worth of federal funding. 

Historian and Director of the Australian National Dictionary Centre Amanda Laugesen has chronicled the linguistic history of Australia, in 100 words.Guest: Amanda Laugesen, lexicographer, ANUProducer: Helen Pitt

The largest protests in decades erupted across Turkiye following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor and Opposition Leader Ekrem İmamoğlu on corruption charges and allegations of ties with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Now there are fears the Turkish president will use the protests to extend his political reign – and take a further step towards dictatorship.  GUEST: Ece Temelkuran, Turkish journalist and author of ‘How to lose a country: the seven warning signs of Rising Populism’, published by 4th Estate.PRODUCER: Catherine Zengerer

Laura Tingle looks at how the two major parties have watered down environmental protection laws on the even of the federal budget, and in the face of yet another disaster in the Tasmanian salmon industry. GUEST: Laura Tingle, 7.30 Political EditorPRODUCER: Catherine Zengerer

The green cities movement is based on the notion that green spaces are healthier for our bodies and our minds. But Des Fitzgerald says the movement hides a dark past - where these ideas were connected to eugenics, and where the inspiration for green cities was tied to making a more docile, compliant worker to feed the needs of industrial capital. GUEST: Des Fitzgerald, Professor of Medical Humanities at the Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork; author of ‘The City of Today Is a Dying Thing’ published by Faber. PRODUCER: Catherine Zengerer

Three years since the great American writer Joan Didion died, her publishers are putting a new work on the market. It’s called Notes to John, a diary of her time in therapy with her husband. Her fans will soon be queuing to buy, but the ethics of publishing such private material are being questioned. GUEST: Andrew Biswell – the biographer of Anthony Burgess and now Professor of Modern Literature at Manchester UniversityPRODUCER: Ali Benton