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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. 15H AGO

    Porn, AI, and the internet: social media's new frontier

    In January, AI-generated pornography flooded the social media site X, owned by Elon Musk. X's AI chatbot turned anybody into pornography, and brought millions of eyeballs to the site. What should we make of this new frontier of pornography? Guest: Jo Bartosch, journalist and assistant editor at The Critic, and co-author of PornocracyProducer: Alex Tighe

    22 min

  2. 16H AGO

    Mystic, manipulator, catalyst: Rasputin and Russia’s Last Tsar

    Grigory Rasputin rose from a humble Siberian peasant to become one of the most influential figures at the court of Tsar Nicholas II. A mystic and self-proclaimed holy man, he won the trust of the Romanov family and gained extraordinary access to power. But his growing influence, scandals and enemies at court deepened the crisis facing imperial Russia. In Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs, historian Antony Beevor explores how the “mad monk” became entangled in the empire’s final collapse. Guest: Antony Beevor, historianProducer: Ali Benton

    28 min

  3. 1D AGO

    Psst: the Irish love a conspiracy theory

    The Irish have high trust in government, and, also, a surprisingly widespread belief in conspiracy theories. What explains the Irish appetite for conspiracies, and how can damaging beliefs be slowed down? Plus: a digression about bouncy castles. Guest: Jane Suiter, Professor in the School of Communications at Dublin City University (DCU) and director of DCU's Institute for Future Media, Democracy and SocietyProducer: Alex Tighe

    24 min

  4. 1D AGO

    Why is it so hard to make Australian TV?

    The amount of money going towards subsidising Australian film and TV has gone way up over the last two decades. The number of hours being made has gone way down. Why? Guests: Professor Anna Potter, a professor in Digital Media and Cultural Studies in Queensland University of Technology’s School of Communication; and Simon Nasht, a former political journalist for The Age and the ABC, and now a documentary producer and filmmakerProducer: Alex Tighe

    30 min

  5. 2D AGO

    Lost Vanuatu numbering system

    In the early 2000s, esteemed Australian archaeologist Matthew Spriggs made a promise to the community of Aneityum, an island of Vanuatu: he would try to recover their lost numbering system, erased by English missionaries in the mid-1800s. He has now found it, and is returning the knowledge to the community. Guest: Matthew Spriggs, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at The Australian National University (ANU).  Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Honorary Curator of Archaeology at the National Museum of Vanuatu, and Honorary Librarian of the Vanuatu and Pacific Collections at the National Library of Vanuatu.  Producer: Ann Arnold

    15 min

  6. 2D AGO

    Armageddon briefings: US Troops told Iran war is 'God’s plan'

    US military commanders have been invoking extremist Christian rhetoric about biblical “end times” to justify involvement in the Iran war to troops. A group called the Military Religious Freedom Foundation based in the US, says it has received more than 200 complaints from service members across the armed forces, about the rise of Christian nationalist rhetoric in the military. Guest: Mikey Weinstein, founder and President of the Military Religious Freedom FoundationProducer: Ali Benton

    17 min

  7. 2D AGO

    Bruce Shapiro's USA: Noem, no more

    Will the war in Iran be long or short? According to Donald Trump: both, depending on what day you ask him. Plus, new and scandalous allegations from the Epstein files about Trump, which haven't made the front page due to all the other news. And: the firing of Kristi Noem. Guest: Bruce Shapiro, Contributing Editor with The Nation, and Executive Director at the Global Centre for Journalism and Trauma

    19 min

  8. 3D AGO

    Power, crime, and money: the rise of the global mafia

    In Mafia: A Global History, Ryan Gingeras draws on more than a decade of research to uncover this suppressed underworld history. Crossing centuries and continents, he introduces legendary figures – Al Capone, Pablo Escobar, Du Yuesheng – and explores the conditions, cultures and locales that gave birth to modern mafias. Guest: Ryan Gingeras, author, Mafia: A Global historyProducer: Ali Benton

    18 min
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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.

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