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Mark
 Mar 26, 2024
Loved Phillip and his inspiring guests since I became an adult 40+ years back

Gael Davis
 Aug 7, 2023
I'm a poddy and have been for years. Love Phillip and the show. It is so interesting and informative. We travel for extended periods overseas, so your podcasts keep me entertained and enlightened wherever we are in the world. Thank you 😊


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Mike K
 Oct 1, 2018
I've been a fan since the early'ish days of podcasting/on dad audio, I think since about 2005 and the quality hasn't wavered. From topical discussions to more eclectic topics this is a great show and the quality has never wavered

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 Aug 10, 2018

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Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr. This LNL podcast contains the stories in separate episodes. Subscribe to the full podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

Episode Date
America's first president was an aggressive land speculator
Jul 02, 2026
How the American Revolution drove Britain's colonisation of Australia
Jul 02, 2026
How tiny gardens can feed the world
Jul 01, 2026
When the NT introduced world-first euthanasia laws
Jul 01, 2026
Meet the 'vigilante' cactus hunters
Jun 30, 2026
Who will defend Japan?
Jun 30, 2026
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Trump gets more firing power
Jun 30, 2026
Italy has the most forests since the Middle Ages, but it's not an environmental win
Jun 29, 2026
Why France is ditching tech giants Palantir and Microsoft
Jun 29, 2026
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Does the Liberal party need a rebrand?
Jun 29, 2026
On the hunt for the next epidemic
Jun 25, 2026
How Murdoch's media wields power and punishment
Jun 25, 2026
Reverse extinction: do we want that?
Jun 24, 2026
What's next for Lebanon, as UN Peacekeepers prepare to leave?
Jun 24, 2026
The soccer-playing Anzacs
Jun 23, 2026
Mariana Mazzucato on making economies work for the common good
Jun 23, 2026
Anna Henderson's Canberra: most Australians don't want a 'monoculture'
Jun 23, 2026
The evolution of Islamic State
Jun 22, 2026
Ian Dunt's UK: Keir Starmer resigns
Jun 22, 2026
Rediscovered Birrundudu drawings rewrite the timeline of Aboriginal art
Jun 18, 2026
Whatever happened to the Australian Sex Party?
Jun 18, 2026
The first public zoo: what the world learned from the Paris menagerie
Jun 17, 2026
Being human under the AI advance
Jun 17, 2026
Why First Nations people are dismayed at Brisbane's new Olympic stadium
Jun 16, 2026
US-India tensions after strikes kill seafarers in Hormuz
Jun 16, 2026
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Trump's agenda on the line in Supreme Court
Jun 16, 2026
Why is Google releasing millions of infected mosquitoes?
Jun 15, 2026
Trump opens America's doors to white South Africans
Jun 15, 2026
Laura Tingle on why Israel isn't backing Trump's Iran peace deal
Jun 15, 2026
Why do we fixate on the human face?
Jun 11, 2026
Madam War Criminal: 'Serbia's Iron lady' unrepentant at 95
Jun 11, 2026
Soweto: the uprising that changed South Africa
Jun 10, 2026
The campaign to save PNG's Sepik river from an Australian mining company
Jun 10, 2026
Ian Dunt's UK: Henry Nowak's murder sparks immigration backlash
Jun 09, 2026
Will Switzerland vote to cap its population?
Jun 09, 2026
The men who want women to be quiet: America's 'masculinist' movement
Jun 09, 2026
Spam spam spam! Why the luncheon meat is still loved in many countries
Jun 08, 2026
Barcelona's magnificent Sagrada Familia Basilica to be blessed by the Pope
Jun 08, 2026
The forgotten Timorese boat people
Jun 04, 2026
The great illicit drug debate: How Australia changed course
Jun 04, 2026
The psychiatrist who investigated reincarnation
Jun 03, 2026
Is 'Muskism' the new Fordism?
Jun 03, 2026
How nature is the performance enhancer for Ethiopian runners
Jun 02, 2026
How Glasgow stopped an immigration raid
Jun 02, 2026
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Republicans slam Trump's 'slush fund'
Jun 02, 2026
Why Lord Howe Island is celebrating a cockroach boom
Jun 01, 2026
What are Syrian refugees returning home to?
Jun 01, 2026
Will the government hold its nerve on tax reform?
Jun 01, 2026
The young US conservatives trying to redefine environmentalism
May 28, 2026
Long before 1979: A very different Iran–US relationship
May 28, 2026
The women at Nuremberg
May 27, 2026
Janine di Giovanni's reckoning with war criminals
May 27, 2026
Pedro Sanchez, Spain's defiant PM
May 26, 2026
Ian Dunt's UK: Andy Burnham's big gamble, plus what's wrong with British leadership?
May 26, 2026
Ballerina Anna Pavlova's sensational tour of Australia, 100 years on
May 26, 2026
Ancient Roman gossip and why it mattered
May 25, 2026
Does Mamdani offer a 'progressive playbook' for the Left?
May 25, 2026
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Could the Teals form a new political party?
May 25, 2026
Palestinian writer Tareq Baconi on identity, displacement and home
May 21, 2026
Satyajit Das on the economic fallout from Trump’s war on Iran 
May 21, 2026
Roddy Doyle on a lifetime of writing the characters of Dublin
May 20, 2026
Who was Blind Freddy?
May 19, 2026
What made John Safran question the right to offend?
May 19, 2026
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Trump's rush to redistrict the South, as polls slump
May 19, 2026
Where is Gazan doctor Hussam Abu Safiya?
May 18, 2026
The joys and travails of translating Shakespeare
May 18, 2026
Anna Henderson's Canberra: battle lines drawn over tax
May 18, 2026
Why food traditions matter in times of conflict
May 14, 2026
Royal commissions in Australia - when have they made a difference?
May 14, 2026
Fifty years of Australian film at Cannes
May 13, 2026
Antoinette Lattouf on women who challenged power and won
May 13, 2026
Ian Dunt's UK: Starmer on the brink as the King opens parliament
May 13, 2026
Tojo Hideki, the Japanese wartime leader we know little about
May 12, 2026
Australia's first political assassination, and the man still behind bars
May 12, 2026
The trauma trope: can humanitarian journalism do better?
May 11, 2026
Six months underwater in a submarine
May 11, 2026
Anna Henderson's Canberra: budget expecations, Farrer fall-out
May 11, 2026
Laila’s story: how to save a mother and her five daughters from the Taliban
May 07, 2026
Fintan O'Toole on Trump's madman strategy
May 07, 2026
What happened to the survivors of Belsen concentration camp?
May 06, 2026
Netanyahu rivals join forces ahead of Israeli election
May 06, 2026
An old register forges new relations on Norfolk Island
May 05, 2026
Keeping the signal alive: 2SER’s uncertain future
May 05, 2026
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Supreme Court weakens voter rights
May 05, 2026
Colouring the classical past: Mark Bradley and the rediscovery of painted sculpture
May 04, 2026
The unlikely resurgence of Kim Jong Un
May 04, 2026
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Japan PM's visit, plus Alice Springs mourns
May 04, 2026
Australian writers celebrate David Malouf - friend, mentor, inspiration
Apr 30, 2026
Richard Meagher was at the centre of early Australian politics. But he had a scandalous past
Apr 29, 2026
Ian Dunt's UK: The King's speech to Congress. Will Trump get the message?
Apr 29, 2026
Port Arthur reminds us how the media should cover mass shootings
Apr 28, 2026
What does Pakistan gain from its role in the US-Iran peace talks?
Apr 28, 2026
The fear of Japanese espionage in wartime Australia
Apr 27, 2026
How WWI radicalised Indigenous soldiers
Apr 27, 2026
Silence, stigma and survival: polio in postwar Australia
Apr 23, 2026
The false stories the British elite tell about themselves
Apr 23, 2026
The German Jazz band that got stuck in wartime Australia
Apr 22, 2026
Why did New Zealand's PM call a leadership vote on himself?
Apr 22, 2026
The great escape from WA, on the Catalpa ship
Apr 21, 2026
40 years on, wildlife is thriving in Chernobyl
Apr 21, 2026
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Another Trump cabinet member departs, and FBI's Kash Patel sues The Atlantic
Apr 21, 2026
Does Australia's culture of remembrance need updating?
Apr 20, 2026
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Pocock piles on gas tax pressure
Apr 20, 2026
Kati-Thanda Lake Eyre is filling up - but will tourists have fuel to get there?
Apr 20, 2026
What if corporate scandals are actually good for the world?
Apr 16, 2026
A family reckoning on law and violence in the Middle East
Apr 16, 2026
Dennis Altman's bizarre encounters with AI scam book promoters
Apr 15, 2026
The forgotten achievements of the Colombo Plan
Apr 15, 2026
Ian Dunt's UK: Orban's loss a blow for Europe's far right
Apr 15, 2026
Hormuz as a chokepoint of power: the narrow seas that shaped global wars
Apr 14, 2026
US 'may stop by Cuba' after Iran, says Trump
Apr 14, 2026
Magnificent heritage sites damaged in Iran
Apr 13, 2026
The gay conservatives out, loud and proud to vote Trump
Apr 13, 2026
Australia's fuel import dependency exposed
Apr 13, 2026
The making of poet A.D. Hope, Australian literary giant
Apr 09, 2026
Daniel Defoe, writer and spy
Apr 08, 2026
Arts under attack in Trump's America
Apr 08, 2026
The art of Peter Marralwanga - Old Master and ritual leader
Apr 07, 2026
The antibiotic explosion in India
Apr 07, 2026
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Will Trump follow through on his latest Iran threat?
Apr 07, 2026
Henry Reynolds turns Australian history upside down
Apr 06, 2026
A decade after the leak: The lasting impact of the Panama Papers
Apr 02, 2026
Robert Reich on how the Democrats lost the working class
Apr 02, 2026
The Shahs and the Ayatollahs - Iran's extreme leaders
Apr 01, 2026
Ian Dunt's UK: Starmer's plan to address the fuel crisis
Apr 01, 2026
Mapping the wilderness
Mar 31, 2026
Israel to use death penalty for West Bank Palestinians
Mar 31, 2026
Why should WA get so much of the GST?
Mar 31, 2026
Daylight savings forever? Why B.C, Canada has ditched clock changes
Mar 30, 2026
Ash Sarkar's message to the Left - get a grip
Mar 30, 2026
Anna Henderson's Canberra: fuel tax halved, as global energy crisis deepens
Mar 30, 2026
How the National Library digitises millions of archives, with Dr Marie-Louise Ayres
Mar 26, 2026
How the Strait of Hormuz closure is threatening aid and food security
Mar 26, 2026
The museum that celebrates famous flops and failures
Mar 24, 2026
Skyscrapers to sand dunes: Trump’s business ventures in the Gulf
Mar 24, 2026
Bruce Shapiro's America: Is Trump really negotiating with Iran?
Mar 24, 2026
The dark side of floristry
Mar 23, 2026
Remembering Rhoda Roberts AO
Mar 23, 2026
Anna Henderson's Canberra: what the SA election result means for the nation
Mar 23, 2026
Research that claimed Roundup herbicide is safe, retracted by US journal
Mar 19, 2026
Evangelical Christians are manufacturing the guns used in mass shootings
Mar 19, 2026
Please explain: Niki Savva, Paul Kelly and Antony Green on the resurgence of Pauline Hanson
Mar 18, 2026
How US presidential pardons are being used as a political tool
Mar 17, 2026
Not satisfactory at all: Geoffrey Watson on the NACC'S Robodebt findings
Mar 17, 2026
Ian Dunt's UK: Trump pressures Starmer on Iran war
Mar 17, 2026
Why pensioners are still protesting in their seventies
Mar 16, 2026
Will Saudi Arabia be the winners in the war on Iran?
Mar 16, 2026
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Matt Canavan and his Nationals' front bench
Mar 16, 2026
Porn, AI, and the internet: social media's new frontier
Mar 12, 2026
Mystic, manipulator, catalyst: Rasputin and Russia’s Last Tsar
Mar 12, 2026
Psst: the Irish love a conspiracy theory
Mar 11, 2026
Why is it so hard to make Australian TV?
Mar 11, 2026
Lost Vanuatu numbering system
Mar 10, 2026
Armageddon briefings: US Troops told Iran war is 'God’s plan'
Mar 10, 2026
Bruce Shapiro's USA: Noem, no more
Mar 10, 2026
Power, crime, and money: the rise of the global mafia
Mar 09, 2026
Why France is backing Lebanon in the Middle East War
Mar 09, 2026
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Albanese's call for de-escalation in Middle East
Mar 09, 2026
Australia's oldest continuously used library turns 200
Mar 05, 2026
Yanis Varoufakis on the Iran war, drug charges & cancelling Adelaide Writers' Week
Mar 05, 2026
In conversation with the UK's Ian Dunt
Mar 04, 2026
Australia's first desert people
Mar 03, 2026
Batteries, and the power they have over us
Mar 03, 2026
Gideon Levy on Israel's objectives in Iran, Lebanon, and the broader Middle East
Mar 03, 2026
Behind the bestseller: feuds, failures, and publishing mishaps
Mar 02, 2026
Trump attacks Iran: the view from inside America
Mar 02, 2026
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Australia and the Iran war
Mar 02, 2026
Bob Carr on suddenly losing his wife Helena
Feb 26, 2026
High Court rules the Catholic Church is liable for a priest's abuse
Feb 25, 2026
Bruce Shapiro's USA: the State of the Union address
Feb 25, 2026
Water in 2026: will Australia learn from our mistakes?
Feb 25, 2026
What do Mawson's diaries reveal about the Flinders Ranges in South Australia?
Feb 24, 2026
A new treaty for the High Seas
Feb 24, 2026
What can and can't the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion decide?
Feb 24, 2026
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark: The UN has a woman problem
Feb 23, 2026
Anna Henderson's Canberra: ISIS women and children, One Nation policies, and Australian values
Feb 23, 2026
The end of the gay rights revolution?
Feb 19, 2026
Immigrant labour from the Pacific: are we getting it right?
Feb 19, 2026
Deflect, distract, deny: how politicians avoid direct answers
Feb 18, 2026
The return of Germany as a military power
Feb 18, 2026
Ian Dunt's UK: is Keir Starmer's leadership is risk?
Feb 18, 2026
How green are green burials?
Feb 17, 2026
Washington tightens grip as Cuba faces mounting crisis
Feb 17, 2026
Democracy for sale: gambling’s grip on politics
Feb 17, 2026
The music of the stars, with the "founding mother" of asteroseismology
Feb 16, 2026
Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong's voice of freedom, will die in prison
Feb 16, 2026
Anna Henderson's Canberra: what to expect from the new Liberal leadership
Feb 16, 2026
Steven Pinker on common knowledge... and common delusion
Feb 12, 2026
The memes are the politics: Charlie Warzel on Trump's Extremely Online administration
Feb 12, 2026
Gaza is a nightmare, but once it was a dream
Feb 11, 2026
An old book, a hidden drawing: how Sydney held the answer to an Italian Renaissance mystery
Feb 10, 2026
How journalists are tackling three million Epstein files - and what they're finding
Feb 10, 2026
"A moment of reckoning" - NSW police response to Sydney Herzog protest under spotlight
Feb 10, 2026
Toads most feral: what can Australia do?
Feb 09, 2026
Indonesia and Australia sign a security pact: what are we worried about?
Feb 09, 2026
Bernard Keane's Canberra: A Coalition reunification, even as the Liberals contemplate "non-existence"
Feb 09, 2026
Winnie-the-Pooh: how the gentle bear left a complicated legacy
Feb 05, 2026
Tucker Carlson, the influential broadcaster admired by President Trump
Feb 05, 2026
Trade Secret: Polar Bears for sale in a warming world
Feb 04, 2026
Why is everyone rushing to do trade deals with India?
Feb 04, 2026
Ian Dunt's UK: Anger over Mandelson's Epstein links and a new candidate for Reform
Feb 04, 2026
Peter Drew, the 'AUSSIE' poster artist who wants to engage with young right wing men
Feb 03, 2026
Iran expert says war is likely with the US if Trump gets bored with negotiations
Feb 03, 2026
Bruce Shapiro's America - are the Epstein files another distraction?
Feb 03, 2026
Australia's secret indigenous circus royalty
Feb 02, 2026
The Rafah crossing reopens, and Isaac Herzog visits Australia
Feb 02, 2026
Anna Henderson's Canberra: Littleproud hangs on, One Nation surges, and Parliament returns
Feb 02, 2026
Barry Jones on a life of public service and the state of politics today
Jan 29, 2026
America's first central banker was a reluctant revolutionary
Jan 28, 2026
The Nationals' impact on the Coalition
Jan 28, 2026
Springtails - the tiniest critters you've never heard of
Jan 27, 2026
Mark Carney was the hero of Davos, but what is he positioning Canada for?
Jan 27, 2026
Bruce Shapiro: is the killing of Alex Pretti in Minnesota a tipping point?
Jan 27, 2026
We've had 237 Straya Days: what do they say about us?
Jan 26, 2026
The expansion of Indigenous Protected Areas
Jan 26, 2026
Multicultural Australia under strain
Jan 26, 2026
How Oscar Wilde was reclaimed by his grandson
Jan 22, 2026
Stephen Miller: the architect of Trump’s immigration agenda
Jan 21, 2026
Ian Dunt on pulling out of Adelaide Writer's Week and the challenge of tackling Trump's increasing threats
Jan 21, 2026
Where does King Charles get his money?
Jan 20, 2026
Bruce Shapiro's America: what's next after Trump's year of chaos?
Jan 20, 2026
Do the hate speech laws go too far?
Jan 19, 2026
Bernard Keane's Canberra: can Albanese get hate speech laws through parliament?
Jan 19, 2026
LNL Summer: Tim Minchin on music, fatherhood, the Internet... and nipples
Jan 15, 2026
LNL Summer: The murderous rampage of Joe and Jimmy Governor in 1900 New South Wales
Jan 14, 2026
LNL Summer: Cooperating over space resources
Jan 14, 2026
LNL Summer: Zane Grey's shark-hunting adventures in 1930s Australia
Jan 13, 2026
LNL Summer: Why Pompeii keeps revealing new secrets
Jan 13, 2026
LNL Summer: John Menadue critiques Australia's media and our relationship with the United States
Jan 12, 2026
LNL Summer: Philippe Sands on war crimes and impunity - from Pinochet to now
Jan 08, 2026
LNL Summer: A rich man obsessed with Mars? Welcome to the 1890s
Jan 07, 2026
LNL Summer: Is a river alive?
Jan 07, 2026
LNL Summer: Fleeced: a story of wool and warfare
Jan 05, 2026
LNL Summer: Palestinian psychiatrist Dr Samah Jabr on dealing with trauma in Gaza
Jan 05, 2026
LNL Summer: Have we forgotten the value of shade?
Jan 01, 2026
LNL Summer: Deep history, an Indigenous way of seeing the past
Jan 01, 2026
LNL Summer: From Utopia to the Tate - the art of Emily Kam Kngwarray
Dec 31, 2025
LNL Summer: The woman who solved crimes with birds
Dec 31, 2025
LNL Summer: Why do we use the QWERTY keyboard?
Dec 30, 2025
LNL Summer: Is it time to decriminalise jaywalking?
Dec 30, 2025
LNL Summer: How prison architecture can change lives
Dec 30, 2025
LNL Summer: Abolishing terra nullius - the legacy of Chief Justice Gerard Brennan
Dec 29, 2025
LNL Summer:Australia's love of cinema, indoors and outdoors
Dec 25, 2025
LNL Summer: Farewell Laura Tingle
Dec 25, 2025
LNL Summer: Harriet Walter on what Shakespeare's women might have said
Dec 24, 2025
Is it ethical to holiday in Antarctica?
Dec 24, 2025
LNL Summer: AI. Don't believe the hype
Dec 23, 2025
LNL Summer: The Roosevelts deadly hunt for a giant panda
Dec 23, 2025
LNL Summer: Kate Grenville confronts her settler ancestry
Dec 22, 2025
LNL Summer: Was Hitler's filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl complicit in Nazi atrocities?
Dec 18, 2025