Tonight on Late Night Live with Phillip Adams - Thursday 27 September 2012

Tonight on Late Night Live with Phillip Adams - Thursday 27 September 2012

**Broadcaster, Labor peer and outspoken advocate for the rights of the elderly, Joan Bakewell on life and politics.

**Dr David Purdie discusses Scotland's unique history of medicine - right back to King James IV, an amateur eye surgeon of questionable expertise.

**Author Michael Frayn discusses his latest book Skios , and his masterpiece Copenhagen.

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Recent highlights:

* George Monbiot looks at a group of mostly young, dispossessed people, who call themselves Diggers 2012. Their aim is simple: to remove themselves from the corporate economy, to house themselves, grow food and build a community on abandoned land.   http://bit.ly/NSoRC4 .

*Palestinian lawyer and writer Raja Shehadeh, one of the guests at this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival, talks about life in the West Bank under Israeli occupation and about his love for the Palestinian landscape that's being overtaken by Israeli settlements.   http://bit.ly/UGp3XG .

*The future of cartoons in the digital age, or the post newspaper age.  Featuring Steve Bell and Andrew Marlton.    http://bit.ly/P0urPK .

*With nearly twenty five per cent of the Australian continent indigenous-owned and managed, conservation challenges are forging new partnerships between owners, researchers and philanthropic organisations.    http://bit.ly/SynYv9 .

*The contributions of Frank Thring Snr to Australia's fledgling film industry and his relationship with his famous actor son Frank Thring Jnr.  http://bit.ly/PBXgS5 .

*Tom Pow, Scottish author and poet talks about his travels among the dying villages of Europe - in Spain, Italy and across vast swathes of Russia.  http:// bit.ly/Ud47po.
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