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Late Night Live
Late Night Live (LNL) is an Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio program, broadcast on Radio National and also available as a podcast. It covers a wide variety of topics through interviews with the host, including current affairs, politics, science, philosophy and culture.
On 15 July 2024, David Marr became the program's new host. Over 33 years from 1991 to July 2024, the program was hosted by writer and public intellectual Phillip Adams. Previous hosts include publisher and journalist Richard Ackland, and Virginia Bell, who later became a justice of the High Court of Australia. Other guest hosts include: Tracey Holmes, Jonathan Green, Elizabeth Jackson, and Andrew West.[citation needed]
Often the setting for a serious and learned discussion of politics, science, philosophy and culture, the program aims to host cutting-edge discussion of public debate, and present ideas and issues not yet covered by other Australian media.
The programme is broadcast from 10:05 pm until 11 pm Mondays to Thursdays and, since the start of 2025, is repeat-broadcast from Tuesdays to Fridays at 4:05 pm. During January of each year, selected segments from the previous 10 or 11 months are re-broadcast, in lieu of fresh programming.
In 2011 a special online retrospective was compiled to celebrate 20 years behind the LNL microphone, called "In Bed With Phillip". Over 200 of selected interviews from these years are now available to listen and download.
To coincide with Adams' 20th anniversary at LNL he wrote Bedtime Stories: Tales from My 21 Years at RN's Late Night Live, published by HarperCollins, outlining why he decided to join RN, his early experiences with producers and talent, and what the time has meant to him personally.
Regular contributors include Laura Tingle, chief political correspondent for the ABC's current affairs TV show 7.30, who each Monday night discusses the most recent national political issues. Each Tuesday, American journalist Bruce Shapiro, director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, is on board to discuss contemporary USA politics, though the discussion can often be wide-ranging and include global politics. Every second Wednesday, a guest spot is held by Ian Dunt, editor-at-large of politics.co.uk, to discuss the latest political, cultural and economic news from Britain, Ireland and Europe. Less frequent regular contributors include the economist Satyajit Das and Tess Newton Cain, from Griffith University, who reports monthly on the Asia-Pacific region.
In earlier years, prominent regular contributors have included Margo Kingston and Beatrix Campbell, discussing the political culture of Australia and Britain respectively, while one of Kingston's successors was the conservative Liberal Party staffer and commentator Christian Kerr, who gained notoriety when revealed as the author of the pseudonymous Hillary Bray political gossip column published by Crikey (which he helped establish).[citation needed]
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Late Night Live
Late Night Live (LNL) is an Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio program, broadcast on Radio National and also available as a podcast. It covers a wide variety of topics through interviews with the host, including current affairs, politics, science, philosophy and culture.
On 15 July 2024, David Marr became the program's new host. Over 33 years from 1991 to July 2024, the program was hosted by writer and public intellectual Phillip Adams. Previous hosts include publisher and journalist Richard Ackland, and Virginia Bell, who later became a justice of the High Court of Australia. Other guest hosts include: Tracey Holmes, Jonathan Green, Elizabeth Jackson, and Andrew West.[citation needed]
Often the setting for a serious and learned discussion of politics, science, philosophy and culture, the program aims to host cutting-edge discussion of public debate, and present ideas and issues not yet covered by other Australian media.
The programme is broadcast from 10:05 pm until 11 pm Mondays to Thursdays and, since the start of 2025, is repeat-broadcast from Tuesdays to Fridays at 4:05 pm. During January of each year, selected segments from the previous 10 or 11 months are re-broadcast, in lieu of fresh programming.
In 2011 a special online retrospective was compiled to celebrate 20 years behind the LNL microphone, called "In Bed With Phillip". Over 200 of selected interviews from these years are now available to listen and download.
To coincide with Adams' 20th anniversary at LNL he wrote Bedtime Stories: Tales from My 21 Years at RN's Late Night Live, published by HarperCollins, outlining why he decided to join RN, his early experiences with producers and talent, and what the time has meant to him personally.
Regular contributors include Laura Tingle, chief political correspondent for the ABC's current affairs TV show 7.30, who each Monday night discusses the most recent national political issues. Each Tuesday, American journalist Bruce Shapiro, director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, is on board to discuss contemporary USA politics, though the discussion can often be wide-ranging and include global politics. Every second Wednesday, a guest spot is held by Ian Dunt, editor-at-large of politics.co.uk, to discuss the latest political, cultural and economic news from Britain, Ireland and Europe. Less frequent regular contributors include the economist Satyajit Das and Tess Newton Cain, from Griffith University, who reports monthly on the Asia-Pacific region.
In earlier years, prominent regular contributors have included Margo Kingston and Beatrix Campbell, discussing the political culture of Australia and Britain respectively, while one of Kingston's successors was the conservative Liberal Party staffer and commentator Christian Kerr, who gained notoriety when revealed as the author of the pseudonymous Hillary Bray political gossip column published by Crikey (which he helped establish).[citation needed]