David Marr

Australia

Host, Late Night Live at ABC Radio National

Not really.

Articles

How the US got so divided

2 days ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Ann Arnold

An anthropologist set out to talk to his fellow Americans, to try and understand why so many fear people who are different to them; and why people want to separate themselves, in gated communities and big cars. Guest: Anand Pandian, professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.
What is China's agenda in Myanmar?

2 days ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Ali Benton

It’s just over two months since an earthquake hit Myanmar, where more than three thousand people died. Just after the earthquake, the country's Military Junta, declared a temporary ceasefire to help the recovery effort. That ceasefire has now been extended, but the wider concern is China's political agenda in the region.
PIE: the world's most important language

3 days ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Ann Arnold

The English language, and Sanskrit, have some elements in common. So do Hindustani and Spanish. And Russian and Greek. They all, it is now becoming clear, evolved from a very early language, known as PIE – Proto-Indo-European. More than half the world's population speak languages stemming from PIE. Guest: Laura Spinney, Paris-based writer and science journalist. Author of ''Proto: how one ancient language went global' (Harper Collins) Producer: Ann ArnoldHistory, Language, Science, Immigration
Merle Oberon's false identity

1 week ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Ann Arnold

Hollywood actress Merle Oberon was born in poverty in India. To make it in the movies, first in London and then Hollywood, she had to invent a new life story that concealed her race. Her advisors came up with Tasmania as her birth place.
National security - how it started and how it's changed

1 week ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Ann Arnold

It was Franklin Roosevelt who came up with the notion of national security, to persuade Americans to get involved in World War ll. His pitch was that Americans had social security, domestically, under the New Deal. But to keep the world's instability at bay, and protect the 'American way of life', participation in world affairs was necessary.
Feasting Like a Roman: The tastes of the ancient elite

1 week ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Ali Benton

One of the world's oldest surviving cookbooks is a collection of recipes from ancient Rome called De Re Coquinaria (“On the Topic of Cooking”). Whether it be braised flamingos, stuffed door mouse or roast parrot, Roman elites spared no expense when it came to fine dining. • GUEST: Christopher D Parkinson, PhD Candidate in Classics at the University of Melbourne
Late Night Live farewells Laura Tingle

1 week ago | abc.net.au | David Marr

After 30 years of appearances on Late Night Live - spanning nine Australian Prime Ministers - Laura Tingle bids farewell to LNL as its political correspondent in Canberra, before commencing her ABC Global Affairs role. In a sprawling conversation, Laura recounts her early beginnings in journalism, the ebbs and flows of Canberra politics through the decades, and what she's come to admire in our representatives.
Hunting and gathering wild food in New Zealand

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Sarah Allely

Terressa Kollat is a New Zealand hunter, diver, fisher and gatherer of wild food, with many millions of views on Tik Tok. She grew up looking after lighthouses and learned from her Māori mum and her Scottish dad how to be self-sufficient. Terressa's son killed his first wild pig when he was four. Word spread about the family's skills, and now Terressa donates her time to teach troubled teens, ex-gang members, people with trauma and curious citizens to hunt, fish and gather their own food.
Possible Burrup gas extension and the rock art that might be at risk

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | David Marr |Ann Arnold

May 31 is the due date for a Federal Government decision on granting another 40 years to the controversial North West Shelf gas operations on the Burrup Peninsular in WA. Its operators, Woodside, are also looking to expand their activities in the area, where critics say over 1 million pieces of world-famous rock art could be damaged. Guest: Marian Wilkinson, celebrated investigative journalist, writing a Quarterly Essay on Woodside and its Kimberley operations.
D-day looms for Woodside's Burrup gas plant, and teaching troubled teens to hunt in the New Zealand wilderness

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | David Marr

Australia's Commonwealth government is due to make a decision on the proposed 50-year extension of Woodside's gas lease on Western Australia's Burrup Peninsula. Marian Wilkinson investigates. And David meets the New Zealand hunter, fisher and gatherer Terressa Kollatt, now teaching troubled teens to forage for their own wild food.