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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.

  1. 3 DAYS AGO

    Laila’s story: how to save a mother and her five daughters from the Taliban

    When refugee activist and author Mij Tanith was asked to help an Afghan woman and her five daughters escape the Taliban, she hesitated, burned out after years of emotional toil. But once Mij heard her voice over the phone she couldn't say no. The clock was ticking for 'Laila' - not her real name. She had escaped to Iran, but only had 12 months before she would be deported back to Afghanistan, where girls' schools were being bombed. Mij got a group of supporters together through a not-for profit called the Circle of Friends and they set out about raising the $140,000 they would need to get her visa approved, and get Laila and her daughters on a plane and safely housed in Adelaide.  Guest: Mij Tanith, playwright, teacher, author of Laila’s Story (Spinifex Press, March 2026) and member of the Circle of Friends Australia refugee support networkProducer: Catherine Zengerer

    24 min

  2. 3 DAYS AGO

    Fintan O'Toole on Trump's madman strategy

    That power sends men mad, is a rule of politics and of history that goes way way back before Dr Freud. When riding in triumph through Rome, Caesar’s slave stood behind him in the chariot whispering into the Emperor’s ear: “Remember - you are a man.” No one as far as we know, is keeping Donald Trump’s pride in check as he parades through Washington in the back of the Beast. He lives surrounded by sycophants who tell him he is indeed the omnipotent leader he imagines himself to be. Fintan O’Toole’s diagnosis is - that while not mentally ill - Trump is in a broader sense, mad.  Guest: Fintan O'Toole, regular contributor to the Irish Times and advising editor to the New York Review of Books.Producer: Ali Benton

    27 min

  3. 4 DAYS AGO

    What happened to the survivors of Belsen concentration camp?

    Three weeks before the end of WWII, the Germans invited the British to liberate the 60,000 prisoners - mostly Jews - being held at Belsen. But for the starving men, women and children of the camp, many seriously ill with typhus, liberation was not what they imagined or hoped for. The British initially refused to recognise them as Jews, and didn't know what to do with the thousands of displaced people who didn't want to go home.  Guest: Nadia Wheatley, historian and author of Strange New World - Belsen's first year of freedom Producer: Catherine Zengerer

    32 min

  4. 4 DAYS AGO

    Netanyahu rivals join forces ahead of Israeli election

    The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing the prospect of running against a rightwing-centrist super coalition in elections later this year, after two of his biggest political rivals - Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid - combined forces to form the new party Beyachad (Together) -  inviting a third party leader to join them. It's not the first time Bennett and Lapid have worked together, and questions remain about the longevity of their new political merger.  Guest: Irris Makler, former Middle East correspondent

    20 min

  5. 5 DAYS AGO

    An old register forges new relations on Norfolk Island

    After the infamous mutiny on the Bounty the mutineers settled on remote Pitcairn Island. The Pitcairn Island Register is the original record of births, deaths, and marriages from the Bounty and it also records their fate. It dates back to 1790 and has, until now, been kept in the National Maritime Museum in London. Their descendants, now living on Norfolk Island, crowdfunded to have it returned and the Museum agreed their museum could have it on a three year loan. The register doesn't throw much light on what happened to the Tahitian women on the island, but one of their descendants has been discovering their stories via the cloth they weaved from bark. Guests: Helen Mears, Head of Curatorship & Research at Royal Museums Greenwich; plus Dr Pauline Reynolds, Chair, Norfolk Island Museums Trust and descendant of the original Pitcairn inhabitantsProducer: Catherine Zengerer

    22 min

  6. 5 DAYS AGO

    Keeping the signal alive: 2SER’s uncertain future

    One of Sydney’s leading community radio stations faces possible closure as early as July, as it works to close a funding gap left by the departure of a key financial backer last year. The situation reflects broader financial pressures across the media sector, where falling advertising revenue, rising operating costs and shifting audience habits are forcing many outlets to cut back or rethink how they operate. Guest: Chris Nash, founding Professor of journalism at Monash University, and member of 2SER working groupGuest: Jon Bisset, CEO of the Community Broadcasting Association of AustraliaProducer: Ali Benton

    16 min

  7. 5 DAYS AGO

    Bruce Shapiro's USA: Supreme Court weakens voter rights

    In another regressive move, the US Supreme Court has made a ruling weakening America's 1965 Voting Rights Act which helped Black and other minority voters to gain stronger representation in places where they form a large minority. Bruce Shapiro says the decision will see an historic fall in Black political representation. Meanwhile FBI Director Kash Patel is following Trump's footsteps in filing a defamation suit against The Atlantic for a story detailing alleged excessive drinking and unexplained absences. Bruce says the courts are becoming 'another vehicle for the Trump circus' in the United States.  Guest: Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with The Nation magazine and Director of the Global Center for Journalism and Trauma. Producer: Catherine Zengerer

    14 min

  8. 6 DAYS AGO

    Colouring the classical past: Mark Bradley and the rediscovery of painted sculpture

    Conventional perceptions of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture tend to emphasise the purity of white marble surfaces. However, as classicist Mark Bradley argues, this view is fundamentally misleading. In antiquity, statues were not conceived as monochrome objects but were instead richly painted in a wide range of vivid colours. Guest: Mark Bradley, Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham Producer: Ali Benton

    16 min
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