Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast

Behind every great book lies a story — and sometimes, it’s a disaster. In When Books Go Bad, Alexander Johnson uncovers the scandalous mishaps that have shaped literary history. From bitter author feuds and savage reviews, to catastrophic misprints and publishing blunders.
Guest Alexander Johnson, author, When books go bad
Producer Ali Benton

President Trump has put the United States, and the world, into an unpredictable situation: a war without a clear rationale, and without a clear end. In the week before Trump's attacks on Iran, lawmakers in the United States were attempting to rein Trump in. How is the country reacting now that America is at war with Iran?
Guest: Bruce Shapiro, contributing editor with The Nation and Executive Director at the Global Centre for Journalism and Trauma
Producer: Alex Tighe, Catherine Zengerer

Our regular Canberra correspondent dissects the careful language being used by the Australian Government, in the wake of the US and Israel's surprise attack on Iran.  
Guest: Anna Henderson, chief political correspondent with SBS

Former NSW Premier and former Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Bob Carr and his wife Helena were almost inseparable. When she suddenly died, while they were in Vienna on an opera and galleries tour of Europe, Bob was bereft. 
Back in Sydney, he took to walking the streets late at night.
His memoir 'Bring back yesterday' pays tribute to Helena, born to Chinese and Tamil parents in Taiping. Bob Carr reflects on their life together, and on the work and politics that they both, and separately, have been involved in.
Guest: Bob Carr
Producers: David Marr/Ann Arnold

A NSW man who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of a priest in the late 1960’s when he was 13, has won his High Court battle over liability, but had his compensation nearly halved. His lawyers argued the church had a responsibility for the actions of the priest and the High Court agreed. So what could this mean for other compensation cases? 
Guest: Judy Courtin, Principal and Advocate, Judy Courtin Legal
Warning: This story contains details that may be distressing