Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast

Author Chris Sweeney tells the remarkable story of Roxie Laybourne, the Smithsonian ornithologist who became the nation's leading expert in feather forensics. Laybourne investigated thousands of aeroplane bird-strikes, but was also called as an expert witness at trials for murder, poaching and even a Klu Klux Klan hate crime. Guest: Chris Sweeney, author of The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem and the Magnificent Life of Roxie LaybourneProducer: Jack Schmidt

In a new documentary for Al Jazeera, Jewish-Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein return to his ancestral home, Germany, to investigate how the country’s impulse never to repeat the horrendous anti-Semitism that led to the Holocaust has resulted in the suppression of any criticism of Israel and its actions in Gaza.Guest: Antony Loewenstein, Independent journalist, author and film-makerProducer: Catherine Zengerer

Collective memory is storytelling on a massive scale. Every nation, every community, has a master narrative—the ‘official’ story about who they are, who they aren’t, what has happened to them, and why it all matters. If you control the memory, you control the narrative; if you control the narrative, you control the power.GUEST:  Dr Richard Latham Lechowick, Research Associate with the Global History Lab at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of CambridgePRODUCER: Ali Benton

The San Gabriel Valley on the outskirts of LA is the largest 'ethnoburb' of the Chinese diaspora in the United States. Long beset by poverty, issues with affordable housing, environmental and public safety concerns, it’s now seeing the rise of Chinese far-right MAGA groups backing Donald Trump, whose rhetoric on making the streets safe has a growing appeal. Guest: Promise Li, writer and tenant organiser in Los Angeles' ChinatownProducer: Catherine Zengerer

After 85 years, Melbounre University Publishing has shut down Meanjin on "purely financial grounds". The decision sees the end of the platform and publication that gave us the term "cultural cringe" and has published generations of Australian writers. If a journal like Meanjin can't survive, what does that mean for the place of culture in Australian life?Guest: Ben ElthamProducer: Rebecca Metcalf

Papua New Guinea was an Australian territory until 16 September 1975, when the country gained independence. Few Australians even know that we were the colonial rulers of Papua New Guinea. Are we too embarrassed to grapple with our colonial history? Where does the country sit in our imagination?Guest: Dr Jonathan Ritchie, who teaches the history of Papua New Guinea at Deakin University as a member of the Centre for Contemporary Histories. Producer: Alex Tighe

After Trump sent federal forces into Washington, DC, those troops and police began to charge individuals with federal crimes. But an extraordinary source of civilian pushback has emerged: grand juries are refusing to indict the individuals. Elsewhere in US courts, Harvard won a case saying that the administration's funding freeze was unconstitutional retaliation. And decidedly outside of the courts, Trump's renamed "Department of War" has killed 11 people on a Venezuelan boat, alleging that the individuals were ferrying drugs across borders.Guest: Bruce Shapiro, Contributing Editor for The Nation and Executive Director of the Global Centre for Journalism and TraumaProducer: Alex Tighe

Since Europeans first landed in Australia, the country has been a net importer of languages. Not all of those languages make it, and Gaelic was one of the early languages that died out. What did the loss of language mean for Australia's earliest Gaelic speakers?Guest: Dr Pamela O'Neill, the Sir Warwick Fairfax Lecturer in Celtic Studies at The University of SydneyProducer: Alex Tighe

Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi met with Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time on Chinese soil in seven years at the recent Shanghai Cooperation Summit in Tianjin. Burned by Trump’s 50 percent tariffs, and offended by his claims to have resolved the recent clash with Pakistan, India is seeking to put aside past tensions over border disputes and develop a closer relationship with both China and Russia. And Modi’s move fits perfectly into China’s plan to assert itself as a more attractive – and more stable - global leader than the USA. Guest: Mary Gallagher, professor of global affairs and the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Producer: Catherine Zengerer

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's comments on migration continue to cause headaches for the Coalition. Opposition Leader Sussan Ley is in damage control, and senior Liberal Alex Hawke, has encouraged the NT senator to apologise.GUEST: Anna Henderson, SBS World News Chief Political Correspondent | National Press Club Director