Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast

Author of multiple books, and longstanding writer for The New Yorker magazine, Susan Orlean is passionate about telling the stories of ordinary people, and showing why they are interesting. She is in Australia this week on a speaking tour.
Guest: Susan Orlean. Most recent book 'Joyride: a memoir' (Allen & Unwin) One of her better known books is The Orchid Thief, later made into the Academy Award winning film Adaptation, starring Meryl Streep as Susan.
Producer: Ann Arnold

A new book claims the snow gum, with its twisting form and multi-coloured bark, is the most exquisite tree in Australia. It plays many important roles – storing water, holding back snow to prevent drift and melt, food for birds, condensation which creates rain that ends up in rivers. But the trees are dying, killed by rogue beetles, fires, and climate change more broadly.
Guests: Anthony Sharwood, journalist and author of several books about Australia's High Country. Co-author with Anna Langford of ‘The last snow gum’ (Hachette, Sept 2026)
Anna Langford, co-author of 'The last snow gum'. Climate activist
Producer: Ann Arnold

Zero is one of mathematics’ most profound inventions: a symbol for nothing that made new ways of thinking about numbers possible. Clemency Montelle traces its evolution across civilisations, from an empty placeholder to a number in its own right.
Guest: Clemency Montelle, Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Producer: Ali Benton

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was on a mission when he visited Greece last week: to shore up defence ties between the two countries, to make new energy routes for US LNG exports and to use Greece as an example of a model NATO ally to the rest of Europe. Greece had its own agenda: deterrence against Turkiye who recently stepped up their global positioning with a defence pact with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. 
Guest: Yanis Varoufakis - Greece’s former finance minister, leader of the Democracy in Europe Movement and co-host The Econoclasts podcast.
Producer: Catherine Zengerer

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is pushing for a reset in Britain’s relationship with the EU, arguing Brexit has left the UK worse off and calling for closer economic ties. 
Guest: Ian Dunt, iNews columnist and regular LNL commentator
Producer: Ali Benton