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Visual art, theatre, film and literature. Segments include: - 'Art Attack' - fortnightly visual arts reviews with Ace Wagstaff and Tai Snaith. - 'Shoot the Messenger' - fortnightly theatre news & reviews with Fleur Kilpatrick. - 'Drawn Out' - monthly chat about comic books and graphic novels with Bernard Caleo. Please email talks@rrr.org.au for all interview requests. About the Presenter Richard Watts has many years experience working in the arts industry, including five years as the Artisti ...
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The Secret Life of Writers is a series of rambling conversations with some of the world’s most interesting and visionary writers and creative icons about how they got where they are, what they’re working on now, and how they balance art and life. These warm and personal interviews take you behind-the-scenes of the writing world. Hosted by Jemma Birrell, formerly of the Sydney Writers' Festival and Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and now the Creative Director at Tablo. Subscribe to hear a new ...
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The Sentinel Speakeasy is the official podcast of the Sydney Sentinel; an independent, progressive voice in Sydney's media landscape, offering a fresh and inclusive take on Sydney. Featuring the best in local arts, entertainment, news and opinion joined by dedicated queer, vegan and youth sections, it is an online publication for the 2020s and beyond. Free to read and access at https://sydneysentinel.com.au
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From feisty debates and discussion from major writers festivals, to folk and hip hop from some of the past year’s great musical events. An RN summer season program.
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Great conversations with authors from Australia and around the world.
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This series hosted by Tribeca's Davy Gardner brings the identity of The Tribeca Festival into the world of sound. Tribeca Audio Premieres releases the first episode of a brand new podcast after an exclusive interview with the writers, actors, journalists, or musicians behind the making of it. It's a place to discover the greatest stories and storytellers.
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On the vanguard of Australian filmmaking since his acclaimed debut feature Beneath Clouds, Ivan Sen is no stranger to the Sydney Film Festival; his previous film Toomelah screened in SFF’s 2011 Official Competition. His highly anticipated Mystery Road was SFF’s Opening Night film in 2013. In this Meet The Filmmaker, Ivan Sen together with David Jowsey, discuss the making of Mystery Road.
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Former Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard presents a podcast in her role as Chair of the Global Institute for Women's Leadership. In each episode Julia leads a thoughtful but fun discussion with well-known female (and some male) leaders from the worlds of business, entertainment, media, sport and many more. By celebrating their stories and learning the lessons from their lives, the podcast gives us insight into what needs to be done so more women get to lead. Earnings from the podcas ...
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Sydney Writers Festival 2024 Program Launch with Artistic Director Ann Mossop
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The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Today SWF Artistic Director Ann Mossop joins Andrew to discuss the Sydney Writers Fest…
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2024 Program Announcement: Annabel Crabb and Ann Mossop
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Join Annabel Crabb and Artistic Director Ann Mossop as they discuss the 2024 Sydney Writers’ Festival program. The pair talk about the 2024 Festival theme, Take Me Away, and how books let us escape into different worlds, live other lives and travel in time and space. The 2024 Sydney Writers' Festival is out now. Head to our website to explore the p…
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Vikki Wakefield is an author of fiction for young adults and adults. Her novel This Is How We Change the Ending was a Book of the Year in the 2020 CBCA Awards. Vikki’s new novel is To the River. Twelve Years ago a fire in a remote town rocked the country, killing nine people. The Caravan Murders, as they came to be known, were never solved. The sus…
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The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Elizabeth Coleman is a screenwriter and playwright. Her play Secret Bridesmaids Busine…
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Yumna Kassab is a writer from Western Sydney. Her novels include Australiana and The Lovers. Yumna’s writing has been listed for prizes including the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, Queensland Literary Awards, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and The Stella Prize. Yumna Kassab is also Parramatta’s first laureate in literature In Politica the rea…
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The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. David Brooks is an award winning essayist, short-fiction writer, novelist and poet. Hi…
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Arts Project Australia, State of Australian Regions Report, Akaraka and Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons!
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Join Richard Watts in the studio with Liz Knowles, the new Executive Director of Arts Project Australia about their upcoming 50th Anniversary, Tai Snaith for the fortnightly review of current Melbourne exhibitions, and Director Charlotte Rogers and Hazel Pigrim on their production called Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons. Richard is also joine…
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Book Club - Sharlene Allsop’s The Great Undoing.
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Sharlene Allsop is the debut author of The Great Undoing. The Great Undoing offers up a speculative future where our endless drive for connectivity and security threatens to turn society on its head. Scarlet Friday is a truth teller in a hyper connected world. Her job is to explore archives and provide context for the official narrative of history.…
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Palestinian Film Festival 2024, The Mary Wallopers, Dungeons & Dragons 50th anniversary, PHOTO 2024, and theatre theatre theatre!
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Richard kicks off this week’s epic show with Irish band, The Mary Wallopers. The cheeky, rowing brothers, Charles and Andrew Hendy, talk sibling rivalry, genre shifting, and their anticipation of Ireland’s global domination… Professor Lisa Given is on the line to celebrate Dungeons & Dragons 50th Birthday. What is the legacy of DnD and tabletop rol…
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Book Club - David Brooks’ The other side of daylight
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One of the pure pleasures that I have in sharing great Australian literature is bringing in a new poetry collection and the poet gives us an opportunity to hear them read some of their work in their own words. Today I have for you David Brooks new collection. David is an award winning essayist. He's a short fiction writer. He's a novelist. He is a …
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The Final Draft Great Conversations podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Dr Mykaela Saunders is a Koori/Goori and Lebanese writer, teacher …
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Today I’m bringing you a debut novel. It’s called Tidelines and it’s by Sarah Sasson. Sarah Sasson is an Australian physician and writer. Her poetry, short stories and non-fiction have been published in Australia, the United Kingdom and USA. On a suburban street in the south of Sydney Grub waits in her car. In the house opposite lives the man who w…
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Yentl, Counting and Cracking, When We Were Young, Back to Back and Not Natural!
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Richard Watts is back in the studio to chat to director Gary Abrahams and actress Evelyn Krape on the production of Yentl, an adaptation of a Yiddish short story. Plus, S.Shakthidharan, the writer and associate director of Counting and Cracking for the 2024 RISING festival; conductor Carlo Antonioli visits the studio to discuss the new performance …
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Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival
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The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Jane Harrison is a playwright & author descended from the Muruwari people. She is the …
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Book Club - Grace Chan’s Every Version of You
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Grace Chan is a speculative fiction writer and psychiatrist. Her short fiction has appeared in Going Down Swinging, Aurealis, amongst many others, and she has been shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards, the Norma K Hemming Award, and Viva la Novella. Today I’ve brought in Grace Chan’s techno-futurist novel Every Version of You. In the not too distant…
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Povo - The New Anthology from Sweatshop Western Sydney Literary Movement
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The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Povo is the latest anthology from Sweatshop. Sweatshop is a literacy movement based in…
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Robert Skinner is the author of I’d Rather Not. To delve much further into his biography would be risk spoilers for I’d Rather Not which reads something like the autobiography of someone you’d love to meet at a party, but definitely before the beer runs out. Robert is also the founding editor of The Canary Press, Australia’s greatest and possibly o…
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[Content warning: Child sexual abuse] Join internet darling Daniel Lavery as he lifts the lid on his writing life and Dear Prudence, a collection of the weirdest and wildest questions received during his tenure as Slate’s agony aunt. Filled with his always sympathetic, thoughtful and good-humoured advice, it offers a good dose of sense and compassi…
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Tabitha Carvan on Finding Your Passion (For Benedict Cumberbatch)
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The Curiosity Lecture series returns to the Festival with a line-up of our most thought-provoking speakers delivering one-time talks on topics of intrigue, interest and importance. In this entertaining talk, author Tabitha Carvan shares the story of how falling for Benedict Cumberbatch while stuck at home with two young children became an unlikely …
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The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Sarah Sasson is an Australian physician and writer. Her poetry, short stories and non-…
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Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author of novels and short fiction. Her fantasy writing has won a British Fantasy Award and has been a finalist for amongst others the World Fantasy awards and the Aurealis. Today I’m bringing you her latest novel Serengotti. (I’m just going to note that Eugen’s protagonist Ch’anzu uses the gender neutral pronou…
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The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. A.W. Hammond is the author of The Paris Collaborator and today we are seeing a return …
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Randolf Stow's Tourmaline in the Australian Classics Book Club
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The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. All Summer Long we are exploring great works in the Australian Classics Book Club. Tod…
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[Content warning: Sexual assault and paedophilia] Women and girls have long been pressured to conform to written and unwritten rules about how to think, act, look and feel. But a new generation of writers and activists are breaking down barriers to allow women and girls to show their real selves. Hear from Wadjanbarra Yidinji, Jirrbal and African-…
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Kate Jennings' Moral Hazard in the Australian Classics Book Club
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The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. All Summer Long we are exploring great works in the Australian Classics Book Club. Tod…
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Rock Musicals, Northern Irish Chavs, and 7 Hours of Theatre
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Jess McEvoy talks about their solo rock musical, 'The Show,' and the way that the show came about naturally after years of performing as a singer-songwriter between Naarm and New York City. Sandrine Lescourant, dancer and performer in Oona Doherty's piece 'Hope Hunt and the Acension into Lazarus', discusses the way the work looks at suburban youth …
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Celebrated Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov has been one of the most important voices throughout the Russian invasion of his adopted homeland, releasing frequent dispatches from Kyiv and the remote countryside. See him in conversation about Diary of an Invasion, his searing on-the-ground account of the human toll of the war, the interrelated histor…
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Amy Whitting's I for Isobel in the Australian Classics Book Club
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The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. All Summer Long we are exploring great works in the Australian Classics Book Club. Tod…
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The intergalactic search for Exoplanets and the Goldilocks Zone, from the 2023 World Science Festival in Brisbane
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Astronomers and astrophysicists are looking for exoplanets, that orbit around stars beyond our solar system in what is known as the Goldilocks Zone — the zone with conditions that might be just right for creating life. A fascinating discussion from the 2023 World Science Festival in Brisbane.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Kate Evans hosts a session about bringing the past to life, at the 2023 Sydney Writers Festival
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At the 2023 Sydney Writers Festival, Kate Evans discusses historical fiction with the celebrated authors — Geraldine Brooks, Pip Williams and Sally Colin-James.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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When Ghassan Hage’s seminal study on racism in Australia, White Nation, was published 25 years ago, the Cronulla riots, Christchurch massacre and Black Lives Matter movement all lay ahead. Hear from a lively panel of writers and thinkers as they consider how racism and white privilege have changed here since then and what lies ahead. Anthropologist…
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Robin Klein's Came Back to Show You I could Fly in the Australian Classics Book Club
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The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. All summer long discover incredible writers in the Australian Classics Book Club. This…
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Claire Nicholls is on stage with three authors to discuss mothers and motherhood in their works
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At Perth Festival's Writers Weekend, Claire Nichols talks mothers & motherhood with Alice Pung author of 100 Days, Larissa Behrendt who's latest book is After Story, and Chloe Hooper who examines parenting in her memoir Bedtime Story.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Son of Francis and brother of Sophia, Roman Coppola talks about being a member of one of cinema's most successful families
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At Melbourne's inaugural Now or Never Festival in 2023, Roman Coppola talks about how he grew up in the industry, his love of collaboration and setting up a fund to develop new talent in the industry.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Boyd Oxlade's Death in Brunswick in the Australian Classics Book Club
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The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. All summer long we are exploring great works in the Australian Classics Book Club. Tod…
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A session hosted by Kate Evans at the 2023 Sydney Writers Festival that asks, "what is the current state of the novel?"
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At the 2023 Sydney Writers Festival, Kate Evans hosts a discussion featuring: Pulitzer Prize winning writer Colson Whitehead, Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton, Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan and acclaimed debut novelist Tracey Lien.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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A panel of writers discuss the deeper meaning of travel, at the 2023 Melbourne Writers Festival
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At the 2023 Melbourne Writers Festival, writers speak about of how travel shapes our identity and gives us a better understanding of other cultures. Features Richard Fidler, Kris Kneen, chef Adam Liaw and artist & researcher Vicky Shukuroglou.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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At the 2023 Sydney Writers Festival, two-time world debating champion Bo Seo is speaking with former High Court judge, Michael Kirby
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Two-time world debating champion Bo Seo and former High Court judge Michael Kirby, discuss how we might better listen to and disagree with each other, and Seo's new book, Good Arguments.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Best-selling crime novelist Jane Harper speaks to Sarah L'Estrange at the 2023 Melbourne Writers Festival
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Since 2016 Jane Harper has published five bestselling novels, including The Dry and The Lost Man, and her latest Exiles. We'll hear why she's finishing up with one of her most popular characters in this conversation with Sarah L'Estrange, at the 2023 Melbourne Writers Festival.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Criena Rohan's The Delinquents in the Australian Classics Book Club
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The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. All summer long we are diving back into the archives and exploring great work's of Aus…
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An entertaining session at the 2023 Sydney Writers Festival, that asks - can a dinner change the course of a person's life?
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A session hosted by Adam Liaw and Annabel Crabb at the 2023 Sydney Writers Festival, which features well known chefs revealing how an extraordinary meal had a huge impact on who they've become.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Kate Evans is at the 2023 Canberra Writers Festival speaking with historical novelist Lauren Groff
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Best-selling author Lauren Groff's is in conversation with Kate Evans at the 2023 Canberra Writers Festival. Lauren Groff’s books include Arcadia, Fates and Furies, Matrix, and her latest novel The Vaster Wilds.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Two of Australia's best-known commentators on true crime: Helen Garner & Hedley Thomas at the 2023 Sydney Writers Festival
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At the 2023 Sydney Writers Festival, writer Sarah Krasnostein is in conversation with veteran journalist and podcaster Hedley Thomas, and the renowned author Helen Garner.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Debut novelists Tracey Lien and Nina Wan in a delightful conversation with Sarah L'Estrange, at the 2023 Melbourne Writers Festival
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Sarah L'Estrange speaks to Tracey Lien about her book All That's Left Unsaid, which tells of the aftermath of a shocking murder; and to Nina Wan's - who's novel The Albatross, explores love, duty and belonging.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Madeleine St John's The Women in Black in the Australian Classics Book Club
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The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. All across the summer we are looking back into the archives and discovering great work…
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At the 2023 Sydney Writers Festival, former PM Julia Gillard is in conversation with Indira Naidoo
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Australia's first female Prime Minister talks about the infamous Misogyny Speech, how she feels about it ten years on, and what the future look like for the next generation of female leaders.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Tune in to discover the Final Draft - Australian Classics Book Club delivering you inc…
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Paul Barclay hosts a session at the 2023 World Science Festival which asks - Can Science Save the World?
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Paul Barclay hosts a panel that asks can science save the world and does the world actually need saving? Hear from four big thinkers that are transforming extraordinary ideas into life changing discoveries.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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A thought provoking discussion about hope and climate change at the 2023 Sydney Writers Festival
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Simon Holmes a Court hosts a challenging but ultimately optimistic panel discussion. He asks the panel for their insights into where we are at with climate change, and what are their hopes are for the future?By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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In the final episode of 2023, Julia takes a look back at the incredible conversations of Season 5. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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