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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.
ABC listen hosts Best of the Festivals, a society show with 47 episodes published.
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At the 2024 Sydney Writers Festival, host George Haddad is on stage with three memoirists who have mined their family's experiences in their professional lives: comedian Rhys Nicholson, writer and presenter Benjamin Law,
At the Byron Writers Festival, Radio National’s Claire Nichols spoke with Menna Kandasamy about her life growing up in a house of academics and rebels, the challenge of being an activist, and why she continues despite th
At the 2024 Sorrento Writers Festival in Victoria, Australian author and poet Nam Le, speaking with Radio National’s Sarah L'Estrange about his latest literary offering 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem.
At the 2024 Sydney Writers Festival, Jemma Birrell speaks with three award-winning translators who have introduced anglophone audiences to some of the most celebrated writers in French, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spani
From deep sea mining to illegal fishing on the high seas, who is the boss of the ocean? And why are scientists-turned-entrepreneurs singing the praises of seaweed? Natasha Mitchell and guests at the 2024 Ocean Lovers Fes
At the 2024 Sydney Writers Festival, a conversation with three authors of historical fiction: Francesca de Tores author of Saltblood, Mirandi Riwoe author of Sunbirds and Abraham Verghese author of The Covenant of Water.
US based Nigerian born author Chigozie Obioma speaks with Radio National’s Claire Nichols about his third novel The Road to the Country, which chronicles the Biafran War that tore through Nigeria from 1967 to 1970.
At Adelaide Writers Week, Radio National’s Sarah L’Estrange is in conversation with author Jonathan Lethem about his book Brooklyn Crime Novel -- a portrait of Brooklyn and how it's been affected by race, class and gentr
At the 2024 Sydney Writers Festival a conversation between writer Sisonke Msimang and Nobel Prize winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah about Afterlives – an intergenerational portrait of love and loss under German occupation
Radio National’s Kate Evans in conversation about memory and fable with the writers Yumna Kassab, Zoya Patel and memoirist Abbas El-Zein.
At the Words on the Waves literary festival, Radio National’s Annika Blau talks to three women about their books: Stephanie Wood’s Fake, about a man she thought was a sheep farmer turns out to be anything.Jeanne Ryckmans
Holly Ringland speaks about her new book The House That Joy Built and finding Joy through creativity. Julia Baird’s new book Bright Shining focuses on what grace looks like in the world, and how we can nurture it. They a
At the Melbourne Writers Festival, Radio National’s Sarah L’Estrange in conversation with two authors about their novels which expose the unholy connection between money, art and power. Bri Lee’s The Work and Liam Peiper
At Adelaide Writers Week, Jonathan Rosen speaks to Radio National’s Sarah Kanowski about this recent book The Best Minds: a story of friendship, madness, and the tragedy of good intentions. His childhood best friend Mich
At a packed Sydney Opera House, a conversation with the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry co-winner, Professor Jennifer Doudna. She talks to Radio National’s Natasha Mitchell about the huge social, ethical, and scientific i
At the 2024 Sydney Writers Festival, author Viet Thanh Nguyen is in conversation with Benjamin Law talking about his memoir, A Man of Two Faces. The book details the dual identity of a Vietnamese refugee growing up in No
Robyn Davidson is the author of Tracks, which documented her 2,700 kilometre trek across the Australian desert with four camels and her dog Diggity in tow. She's now written a memoir -- Unfinished Woman -- which brings t
At the 2024 Sydney Writers Festival Sebastian Barry talks to Kate Evans about his novel, Old God’s Time, which is a portrait of a good man haunted by a traumatic past. Includes a performance by members of the Australian
A panel discussion with Rosemarie Milsom about whether ethics should be considered when writing about crime. Featuring: Matthew Condon, author and journalist at The Australian.Candice Fox, crime fiction author.Benjamin S
Rhys Nicholson
comedian
1 appearance on this show
Daniel Hahn
author
1 appearance on this show
Abraham Verghese
author and physician
1 appearance on this show
Jonathan Lethem
1 appearance on this show
Abdulrazak Gurnah
author of Afterlives
1 appearance on this show
Stephanie Wood
Newsletter Queen and Author of Fake · Coal Build Construction
1 appearance on this show
Tracy Hall
senior marketing executive · Healing Centered Restorative Engagement
1 appearance on this show
Julia Baird
broadcaster, journalist, and bestselling author · Toronto Tech Week
1 appearance on this show
Holly Ringland
best-selling Australian author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart and The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
1 appearance on this show
Bri Lee
prolific author, advocate and change maker
1 appearance on this show
Jonathan Rosen
1 appearance on this show
Jennifer Doudna
Nobel Laureate · Innovative Genomics Institute
1 appearance on this show
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