Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr.
Robert Reich's America and ten years since the release of the Panama papers
54 mins; April 02, 2026
Ian Dunt's UK, and the Shahs and Ayatollahs of Iran
54 mins; April 01, 2026
Western Australia's GST wins, Israel death penalty for West Bank, and mapping the wilderness
53 mins; March 31, 2026
Anna Henderson's Canberra, Ash Sarkar critques the modern Left, and should daylight savings be permanent?
54 mins; March 30, 2026
The struggle to get aid into the Middle East, plus a great Australian librarian retires
54 mins; March 26, 2026
Bruce Shapiro's USA, Trump’s business in the Gulf, plus the Museum of Failure
54 mins; March 24, 2026
Anna Henderson's Canberra, a tribute to Rhoda Roberts, and making floristry more sustainable
53 mins; March 23, 2026
Guns and God in the USA, plus fresh scrutiny on weedkiller Roundup
54 mins; March 19, 2026
Please explain: Niki Savva, Paul Kelly and Antony Green on the resurgence of Pauline Hanson
54 mins; March 18, 2026
Ian Dunt's UK, Geoffrey Watson finds the NACC wanting and the power of presidential pardons
54 mins; March 17, 2026
The new Nationals' front bench, where Saudi Arabia sits in the Middle East war, and meet veteran protestor Mag Merrilees
54 mins; March 16, 2026
Acclaimed historian and author Antony Beevor on Rasputin, and Elon Musk's facilitation of making fake porn with unauthorised images
54 mins; March 12, 2026
Funding Australian TV, and conspiracy theories in Irish politics
54 mins; March 11, 2026
Bruce Shapiro's USA, Christian rhetoric in the US military, and Vanuatu's lost numbering system
54 mins; March 10, 2026
Anna Henderson's Canberra, Economist journalist Sophie Pedder on President Macron's support for Lebanon, and why the power of the mafia - in multiple cultures - still prevails.
54 mins; March 09, 2026
Yanis Varoufakis on war and drugs, and 200 years of the State Library of NSW
54 mins; March 05, 2026
In conversation with the UK's Ian Dunt
54 mins; March 04, 2026
Gideon Levy on Israel's objectives in Iran, the secret life of batteries, and Australia's earliest desert people
54 mins; March 03, 2026
Anna Henderson's Canberra, Bruce Shapiro on the US attack on Iran, and when books go bad
54 mins; March 02, 2026
Bob Carr on suddenly losing his wife Helena
54 mins; February 26, 2026
Bruce Shapiro on Trump's State of the Union, Catholic Church High Court loss and do Australian cities have a guaranteed water supply?
54 mins; February 25, 2026
Richard Ackland on the antisemitism Royal Commission, the biodiversity of the high seas, and Mawson's scrawled diaries
54 mins; February 24, 2026
Anna Henderson's Canberra, and Helen Clark on the UN's missing senior women
54 mins; February 23, 2026
A review of the Pacific labour scheme in Australia, and rethinking the gay rights movement
54 mins; February 19, 2026
A review of the Pacific labour scheme in Australia, and rethinking the gay rights movement
54 mins; February 19, 2026
Ian Dunt's UK, Germany rearms and politicians who dodge questions.
54 mins; February 18, 2026
Gambling's grip on politicians, Cuba's invasion threat and greenwashing green burials
54 mins; February 17, 2026
Meet the new Liberal Party leaders, what future for Hong Kong, and making music from stars
54 mins; February 16, 2026
The US is run by meme lords, and Steven Pinker on common knowledge... and common delusions
54 mins; February 12, 2026
Gaza is a nightmare, but once it was a dream
54 mins; February 11, 2026
What the NSW State response to the Herzog protest represents, the challenge of digging through the Epstein files, and discovering a very old, very famous Italian artist
54 mins; February 10, 2026
Bernard Keane's Canberra, a security pact with Indonesia, and toads most feral
54 mins; February 09, 2026
A portrait of the powerful right wing commentator Tucker Carlson, and celebrating Winnie the Pooh
53 mins; February 05, 2026
Ian Dunt's UK, India cuts trade deals, and the black market in polar bear fur
54 mins; February 04, 2026
Bruce Shapiro's USA, where to now for Iran, and 'Aussie' poster artist Peter Drew
54 mins; February 03, 2026
Anna Henderson's Canberra, Herzog in Australia, and Indigenous circus stars
54 mins; February 02, 2026
Barry Jones on a life of public service and the state of politics today
54 mins; January 29, 2026
The Nationals' split and spill, and American history's banker hero
54 mins; January 28, 2026
Bruce Shapiro's America: backlash over Minnesota shootings, Mark Carney's Davos moment, and the tiny world of springtails
54 mins; January 27, 2026
Australian politics by the numbers, an expansion of Indigenous Protected Areas, and January 26 throughout history
54 mins; January 26, 2026
How Oscar Wilde was reclaimed by his grandson
54 mins; January 22, 2026
Ian Dunt: Trump’s tariff strategy and the limits of UK influence, and just who is Stephen Miller?
54 mins; January 21, 2026
Bruce Shapiro on Trump's first year plus a Royal finance scandal
54 mins; January 20, 2026
Crikey editor Bernard Keane on the political response to the Bondi shooting, and two legal analysts discuss the hate speech legislation
54 mins; January 19, 2026
LNL Summer: Tim Minchin on music, fatherhoood, the Internet... and nipples
54 mins; January 15, 2026
LNL Summer: Preventing war in space, plus the rampage of Australia's last outlaws
54 mins; January 14, 2026
LNL Summer: Unearthing more of Pompeii, and a Hollywood shark-hunter in 1930s Australia
54 mins; January 13, 2026
LNL Summer: John Menadue critiques Australia's media and our relationship with the United States
54 mins; January 12, 2026
LNL Summer: Philippe Sands on war crimes and impunity - from Pinochet to now
54 mins; January 08, 2026
LNL Summer: Living rivers, and our obsession with Mars
54 mins; January 07, 2026
LNL Summer: Journalists Hanna Rosin and Lauren Ober on seeking truth in Trump's America
54 mins; January 06, 2026
LNL Summer: Palestinian psychiatrist on the trauma in Gaza, and a yarn about wool and war
54 mins; January 05, 2026
LNL Summer: An Indigenous way of seeing the past, plus making shade cool again
54 mins; January 01, 2026
LNL Summer: The feather detective, and the life of Emily Kam Kngwarray
54 mins; December 31, 2025
LNL Summer: prison architecture, who invented 'jaywalking', and why keyboards are QWERTY
54 mins; December 30, 2025
LNL Summer: Abolishing terra nullius - the legacy of Chief Justice Gerard Brennan
54 mins; December 29, 2025
LNL Summer: farewell Laura Tingle plus our love of outdoor cinema
54 mins; December 25, 2025
LNL Summer: Antarctica, a tourist hotspot? And Dame Harriet Walter on Shakespeare's women
54 mins; December 24, 2025
LNL Summer: The Roosevelts deadly panda quest, plus is AI a con?
54 mins; December 23, 2025
LNL Summer: Kate Grenville confronts her settler ancestry
54 mins; December 22, 2025
LNL Summer: Was Hitler's filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl complicit in Nazi atrocities?
54 mins; December 18, 2025
LNL Summer: A legendary Australian publisher, and saving the beach shack
54 mins; December 17, 2025
LNL Summer: Geraldine Brooks, Rachel Kushner and Julia Baird at Adelaide Writers Week 2025
54 mins; December 16, 2025
LNL Summer: Trump's war on journalism, plus Robert Dessaix's chameleonic life
54 mins; December 15, 2025
LNL Summer: Trans poet and comedian Alok Vaid-Menon on being banned by Trump
54 mins; December 11, 2025
LNL Summer: The Aussies the union movement left behind, and what causes a society to collapse?
54 mins; December 10, 2025
LNL Summer: Reckoning with the West, and radio propaganda wars in the Middle East
54 mins; December 09, 2025
LNL Summer: How Australia bought Pollock's 'Blue Poles', plus when America went hair crazy
54 mins; December 08, 2025
Laura Tingle, Hannah Ferguson and Craig Reucassel farewell 2025
54 mins; December 04, 2025
Geoffrey Robertson on war crimes impunity, plus how bush medicine saved Allied soldiers in WWII
54 mins; December 03, 2025
Bruce Shapiro and Ian Dunt dissect a wild year in US and UK politics
54 mins; December 02, 2025
Anna Henderson's Canberra, Indian Maoists surrender, plus are public pools doomed?
54 mins; December 01, 2025
Who was the oldest prisoner in history? Plus the breathtaking Birrundudu drawings revealed
54 mins; November 27, 2025
Niki Savva on why the 2025 federal election was a political 'earthquake' in Australia
54 mins; November 26, 2025
What happened to Nauru's riches? Transgender troops fight Trump, plus the world's oldest prosthetics
54 mins; November 25, 2025
Anna Henderson's Canberra plus Netanyahu's political survival
54 mins; November 24, 2025
Simon Winchester on wind: the invisble force that we can't live without
54 mins; November 20, 2025
Bruce Shapiro's USA, climate and slavery justice for Jamaica and feral foxes
54 mins; November 19, 2025
Helen Garner on Erin Patterson's trial and a lifetime of keeping diaries
54 mins; November 18, 2025
Anna Henderson's Canberra, inside Myanmar's civil war, and traffic jams in space
54 mins; November 17, 2025
Gareth Evans: Australia should do more on nuclear control, plus Joseph Stiglitz warns of 'inequality emergency'
54 mins; November 13, 2025
Henry Reynolds turns Australian history upside-down
54 mins; November 12, 2025
Ian Dunt's UK, police brutality in Brazil, and Australia's earliest computer
54 mins; November 11, 2025
Anna Henderson's Canberra, Sudan's genocidal gold rush and the missing dismissal footage mystery
54 mins; November 10, 2025
Do modern Liberals still back Whitlam's dismissal? Plus, the courageous life of 'Weary' Dunlop
54 mins; November 06, 2025
Bruce Shapiro on Mamdani's victory, Trump's ballroom blitz, plus an author's win over AI
54 mins; November 05, 2025
The legacy of U Thant plus what Australia's earliest photographs can tell us
54 mins; November 04, 2025
Anna Henderson's Canberra, banning kids from social media and cracking the Kryptos code
54 mins; November 03, 2025
Francesca Albanese: Australia complicit in the Gaza genocide, plus how our polticians got hooked on gambling money
54 mins; October 30, 2025
The power of Patrick White plus why we should forgive
54 mins; October 29, 2025
Ian Dunt's UK, how Chicago is resisting ICE, and Australian anthropology turns 100
54 mins; October 28, 2025
Anna Henderson's Canberra, global surveillance network exposed, and can AI speak whale?
54 mins; October 27, 2025
The political drama before the Dismissal, and communing with Stalin's ghost
54 mins; October 23, 2025
Looted bronzes returning to Africa, plus love in antiquity
54 mins; October 22, 2025
Bruce Shapiro's USA, Suriname's first female president, and a world without sand?
54 mins; October 21, 2025
Bernard Keane's Canberra, Chris Hedges slams Western media's coverage of Gaza, and Fiona Stanley's cancelled hospital event
54 mins; October 20, 2025
Tim Minchin's nipples are just fine, thanks
54 mins; October 16, 2025
Australia's foreign policy in the age of Trump, plus Ilan Pappe on Israel's future
54 mins; October 15, 2025
Ian Dunt's UK, trouble in Madagascar, and women in the skies
54 mins; October 14, 2025
Tom McIlroy's Canberra, the wonder of clouds, and who speaks Esperanto?
