Tonight on Late Night Live with Phillip Adams – Wednesday 28 November 2012

Tonight on Late Night Live with Phillip Adams – Wednesday 28 November 2012

* Often overlooked in the roll call of great American Presidents, Dwight Eisenhower's latest biographer argues that Ike was the most successful president of the 20^th century.  In an hour long special Jean Edward Smith, details the flaws and the achievements of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during WW2.

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Recent highlights:

*The asylum-seeker debate is once again all about the 'Pacific solution', 'Nauru', and 'temporary protection visas'. In the hunt for solutions, we're revisiting all that we've done before   http://goo.gl/lDhvS .

*Mikita Brottman presents a detailed history of the hyena, including the magic, myths and rituals surrounding this remarkable, but much maligned animal http://goo.gl/S5W03 .

*Peng Liyuan, the new first lady of China is politically savvy, smart, beautiful, glamorous, a great folk singer and more famous than her husband, Xi Jingping. So has China's Jackie Kennedy moment finally arrived? http://goo.gl/wfrWu .

*A fascinating journey into the human brain with psychiatrist Dr Iain McGilchrist, to understand how our brains have shaped the modern world we live in today http://goo.gl/0Ixgq .

*A reflective hour with Barry Owen Jones, Australian Living Treasure, writer and former Federal Minister for Science http://bit.ly/WmMIZM

* Oceans: our last frontier, and our greatest hope as a food source http://bit.ly/Y3RD74

*The ethics of live-tweeting a violent conflict   http://bit.ly/TaQBAc

* Tim Flannery on the dangers of extinction, and of our national parks and nature reserves becoming 'marsupial ghost towns' http://bit.ly/XVee5T

* A quirky take on frogs. And toads. http://bit.ly/TMqd08

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