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| Other names | LNL |
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| Genre | Interview based talk radio |
| Running time | 1 hour (10:00 pm – 11:00 pm) Monday to Thursday Repeated 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tuesday to Friday |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | Radio National (ABC) |
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| Opening theme | From 1st movement of Violin Concerto in E minor by Giuseppe Brescianello |
| Website | ABC Radio webpage |
| Podcast | Podcast feed |
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.[1][2] Over 33 years from 1991 to July 2024, the program was hosted by writer and public intellectual Phillip Adams.[3] Previous hosts include publisher and journalist Richard Ackland, and Virginia Bell, who later became a justice of the High Court of Australia.[4] 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.[5]
The programme is broadcast from 10:05 pm until 11 pm Mondays to Thursdays, and is repeat-broadcast at 3:05 pm from Tuesdays to Fridays. 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 the best interviews from these years are now available to listen and download.[6]
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,[7] outlining why he decided to join RN, his early experiences with producers, talent and what the time has meant to him personally.
- ^ "David Marr to host RN Late Night Live" (Press release). Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 24 May 2024.
- ^ Maddox, Garry (24 May 2024). "'It's going to be different': David Marr set to replace ABC doyen Phillip Adams". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ Laura Todd (6 February 2024). "Phillip Adams to farewell his Gladdies and Poddies" (press release). Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ Adams P. "Twenty years before the mast". The Australian. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
- ^ Luker, Philip (20 April 2011). Phillip Adams: The Ideas Man – A Life Revealed. JoJo Publishing. pp. 189–206. ISBN 978-0-9870734-6-4.
- ^ "In Bed With Phillip", 20 years of Late Night Live on ABC Radio National
- ^ "Bedtime Stories". HarperCollins Australia. Retrieved 10 July 2021.