Tonight on Late Night Live with Phillip Adams - Thursday 29 November 2012

**As Leader of the Opposition, with an Australian population that feared China and communism, Whitlam took the gamble of a visit in 1971 to try to establish formal diplomatic relations with the People's Republic. 

**Alexander III of Macedon owes his description 'the Great' to the enormous territory that he dominated, from Greece in the west to the river Indus in the east.  But are there other factors that made Alexander 'Great'?

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