Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast

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

In the early hours of March 10th 1945, Tokyo became the target of the most destructive single air raid in history - a low-altitude US attack that set the city alight and claimed an estimated 100,000 civilian lives. Whilst the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be commemorated in Japan later this year, the firebombing of Tokyo holds a more complex place in Japan's war memory. The elderly survivors of that night continue their struggle to be heard, acknowledged and compensated. Guest: Adrian Francis, Australian filmmaker living in Tokyo, director of Paper City (2021)

Before the 1967 war, radio ruled the Middle East—TV was a rare luxury. For the people of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Israel, the airwaves buzzed with news, and more often than not, propaganda. Alongside the giants like the BBC, hundreds of smaller stations across the region churned out their own political messages.GUEST: Margaret Peacock, Professor of History, University of Alabama and Frequencies of Deceit: How Global Propaganda Wars Shaped the Middle East PRODUCER: Ali Benton

Poland has unveiled its first queer museum, which chronicles the history of the LGBTQ+ community from the 16th century to the present. The museum showcases nearly 150 artefacts, including letters, photographs and a pair of high heels from the country's oldest drag queen, Lulla La Polaca.GUEST: Milosz Przepiórkowski, Board President, Lambda Warsaw, Poland’s oldest LGBTQI + AssociationPRODUCER: Ali Benton

In 2012 US President Barack Obama introduced laws allowing them to sanction Russians involved in human rights violations and high-level corruption. Known as the Magnitsky laws, they have been enacted by numerous countries, including Australia. Now the man behind the global campaign is worried President Donald Trump will roll them back. GUEST: Sir William (Bill) Browder, CEO Hermitage Capital, Head of Global Magnitsky Justice campaign. PRODUCER: Catherine Zengerer

As Europe looks to become much more self-sufficient on defence, how will the Starmer government find the funds? Plus, relationships sour within Nigel Farage's Reform party.