Late Night Live Tuesday 2 October 2012

** Bruce Shapiro reports on U.S. politics

** Fallout from Fukushima: only one in ten evacuees from towns close to the Fukushima nuclear plant has returned home, a year after it was declared safe to do so.  Former Australian diplomat Richard Broinowski looks at what the disaster means for the future of the nuclear power industry.

** Forensic pathologist Xanthe Mallett discusses her work on the BBC program 'History Cold Case'.

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Recent highlights:

* Charles Kingsford Smith was a national hero, however his co-pilot, business organiser and companion on his adventures, Charles Ulm, has been overlooked by history. This program, featuring Ulm's 91-year-old son John, and historian Michael Molkentin, with some gems from the archives, revisits Australia's remarkable aviation history and the role played by Charles Ulm. http://bit.ly/SvnolN

* Edinburgh's medical history http://bit.ly/Sj4ikB

 * 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

 

 

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