AWW25: No Place Like Home - Brooke Boland, Winnie Dunn and Lia Hills
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Carody Culver.There’s no place like home, although home isn’t always a place. It could be a...
AWW25: Leaps of Faith - Ceridwen Dovey and Zeynab Gamieldien
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Carody Culver.Whether it’s religious, political, societal, philosophical or spiritual in natu...
AWW25: Putin’s War on Women - Sofi Oksanen
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Jo Case.Sofi Oksanen, librettist for Innocence, acclaimed Finnish playwright and bestselling n...
AWW25: How Johnny Voghel Escaped a Dead-End Job - Leo Robson
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Lauren Oyler.Leo Robson is a well-known British essayist and critic who has just written his fi...
AWW25: Grief - Nova Weetman
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Jonathan Green.According to Marcel Proust, “grief develops the power of the mind.” Jonathan...
AWW25: "We Were Elsewhere People” - André Aciman
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Richard Buckham.Bestselling author André Aciman (live stream) shares with Richard Buckham his ...
AWW25: What Will Survive of Us? - Howard Jacobson
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Georgina Godwin.Booker Prize–winning author Howard Jacobson (live stream) talks to Georgina G...
AWW25: When Betty Turned One Hundred - Debra Oswald
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Helen Pitt.With One Hundred Years of Betty, Debra Oswald has written a ‘whole of life’ nov...
AWW25: Hazel Rowley Memorial Lecture 2025: Legend v Facts: A Biographical Dilemma - Matthew Lamb and Geordie Williamson
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Australian writer Frank Moorhouse was legendary in Australian literary and cultural life.But what if...
AWW25: From Publisher, to Agent, to Author - Deborah Callaghan
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Mark Dapin.Former publisher and literary agent extraordinaire Deborah Callaghan talks to Mark D...
AWW25: The Silent Service - Mike Carlton
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Bob Carr.Mike Carlton shares stories of the little-known Australian submariners of the 20th cen...
AWW25: Datsun Angel - Anna Broinowski
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Jo Case.Anna Broinowski chats to Jo Case to talk about her new memoir, Datsun Angel, the confr...
AWW25: Exile, Nostalgia and Letting Go - Téa Obreht
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Jo Case.The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife and Inland, Téa O...
AWW25: Iconic Women - Daisy Goodwin and Dava Sobel
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Katrina Strickland.Marie Curie and Maria Callas were legends in both their professional and pri...
AWW25: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain - Matthew Longo
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Annabelle Quince.The winner of the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political Writing, Matthew Longo, talk...
AWW25: Robodebt: A Moral Vacuum and a Multi-Billion-Dollar Government Shakedown - Rick Morton
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Tory Shepherd.Award-winning journalist Rick Morton talks to Tory Shepherd about his book, Mean...
AWW25: 2025 MUD Literary Prize
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The MUD Literary Prize celebrates a debut novel of literary fiction. Past winners have included Tren...
AWW25: What’s Next? - Thomas Mayo and Jared Thomas
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Voice to Parliament referendum was an opportunity for meaningful Indigenous recognition. Thomas ...
AWW25: Self-Interested, Controlling, Delusional: The Problem of Public Writing - Lauren Oyler
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Nicole Abadee.Critic and Novelist Lauren Oyler joins Nicole Abadee to explore the self-aggrandi...
AWW25: A One-Man Anthology - Shaun Micallef
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Alexander Ward AM.Shaun Micallef talks to Alexander Ward AM about his new anthology, Slivers, ...
AWW25: Blurring the Boundaries between Fact and Fiction - Jamieson Webster (live stream)
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Leo Robson.What does the rise and fall of autofiction suggest about contemporary subjectivity? ...
AWW25: Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza - Peter Beinart (live stream)
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Debbie Whitmont.Columnist and journalist Peter Beinart says, “I still believe in the metaphor...
AWW25: The Future of Mainstream Media - Alan Rusbridger and Mark Scott
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Jonathan Green.Legendary former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and Mark Scott, former managing...
AWW25: Lord of the Flies Meets Picnic at Hanging Rock - Nikki Gemmell
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In conversation with Natasha Stott Despoja, award-winning and bestselling author Nikki Gemmell discu...
AWW25: The Men of the Media - Martin Baron (live stream), Eric Beecher and Alan Rusbridger
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Kim Williams.Kim Williams chairs a discussion with Martin Baron, Eric Beecher and Alan Rusbridg...
AWW25: Writing to Change the World - Anna Spargo-Ryan (live stream), Clare Wright and Jonathan Green
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Alice Grundy.When some of the institutions fundamental to democracy are struggling both here an...
AWW25: The United States: Down and Out? - Allan Behm, Nick Bryant, Dr Prudence Flowers and Emma Shortis
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Natasha Mitchell.The international community is busy coming to terms with the re-election of Pr...
AWW25: Australia’s Carbon Capture: Releasing Fossil Fuels’ Grip on Our Democracy - Ross Garnaut, Sarah Hanson-Young, Polly Hemming and Royce Kurmelovs
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Natasha Mitchell.The influence of the gas and coal industry on our politicians and policymakers...
AWW25: How to Fix the Housing Crisis - Maiy Azize, Alan Kohler, Amy Remeikis and Jordan van den Lamb
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Natasha Mitchell.The Australian Dream used to be to own your own home, but young people are bei...
AWW25: Depraved New World - John Crace
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Tory Shepherd.Bestselling author John Crace and his much-loved companion Herbert Hound offer a ...
AWW25: Australia’s Housing Mess and How to Fix It - Alan Kohler
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Richard Denniss.Australia’s favourite financial journalist, Alan Kohler, has much to say abou...
AWW25: Keir Starmer: The Biography - Tom Baldwin
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Steve Bracks.Journalist and former Labour Party senior policy adviser Tom Baldwin explains the ...
AWW25: Unravelling Memories and Buried Secrets - Diana Reid
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Nicole Abadee.In Signs of Damage, bestselling and multi-award-winning novelist Diana Reid writ...
AWW25: What's Good for Your Kids? - Norman Swan
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Sarah Martin.A call-out to anxious parents and grandparents to join Sarah Martin as she asks Dr...
AWW25: Uses for Obsession - Ben Shewry
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Annabel Crabb.Acclaimed chef Ben Shewry of Attica opens up to Annabel Crabb about his memoir U...
AWW25: The World After Gaza: A History - Pankaj Mishra
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Michelle de Kretser.Pankaj Mishra sees the polarised response to Gaza as a clash between the We...
AWW25: Voyagers: Our Journey into the Anthropocene - Lauren Fuge
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Farrin Foster.Lauren Fuge, a science writer and traveller, explores with Farrin Foster what it ...
AWW25: The Wedding Party - Rebecca Heath
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Walter Marsh.A group of old friends, a grieving mother, a lying bride and a sweltering Australi...
AWW25: The End and Everything Before It - Finegan Kruckemeyer
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Farrin Foster.Finegan Kruckemeyer is an award-winning playwright, whose works have been perform...
AWW25: Shining Like the Sun - Stephen Orr
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Walter Marsh.Stephen Orr discusses the complex interconnections of family and community, memory...
AWW25: The Death of Dora Black - Lainie Anderson
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Jane Howard.Lainie Anderson talks to Jane Howard about her immersive three-year investigation o...
AWW25: Writing Home: Writers on Place
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Place is more than a setting. It is an evocation, a provocation and possibly a temptation. In both f...
AWW25: Splinter Journal: Unravelling Reality - Writers SA
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can a literary journal help us understand or even change our reality? Editor of new Tarntanya-based ...
AWW25: 2025 Stella Prize Longlist Announcement
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Be among the first to discover the 2025 Stella Prize longlist. Join the Judging Panel – Debra Dank...
AWW25: Preventing Crime - Rick Sarre
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Dr, Rachel Spencer.Emeritus Professor Rick Sarre, in conversation with Dr. Rachel Spencer, disc...
AWW25: The Story of a Girl-Pope - Emily Maguire
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Beejay Silcox.What can a legendary woman from the medieval past teach us about our present? Emi...
AWW25: Solitude, Friendship and the Vagaries of Life - Brian Castro
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Molly Murn.The hero of Brian Castro’s 10th novel is in his mid-70s, a migrant, thrice-divorce...
AWW25: The Laws of Synchronicity - Ruby Todd
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Sian Cain.It is 1997 and in a small Australian town in the back of beyond, a young funeral atte...
AWW25: Bullet, Paper, Rock: A Memoir of Words and Wars - Abbas El-Zein
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Molly Murn.In Bullet, Paper, Rock, award-winning author Abbas El-Zein discusses the political,...
AWW25: The Autistic Experience and the Power of Storytelling - Clem Bastow and Jo Case
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Clem Bastow and Jo Case as they talk about their co-edited anthology of autistic gender-diverse...
AWW25: Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss and Occasional Wars - Peter Godwin
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Georgina Godwin.Award-winning foreign correspondent and writer Peter Godwin and his sister Geor...
AWW25: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell - Lucia Osborne-Crowley
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Fran Kelly.Author, essayist and journalist Lucia Osborne-Crowley talks to Fran Kelly about her ...
AWW25: For the Love of a Small Patch of Land - Christine Breen and Niall Williams
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Amanda Vanstone.After co-writing four memoirs, Christine Breen and Niall Williams decided to wr...
AWW25: Between Colonial Archives and Indigenous Memory - Natalie Harkin and Jackie Huggins
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Natalie Harkin talks with Jackie Huggins and Jo Case about her new work Apron-Sorrow/Sovereign-Tea,...
AWW25: Return of the Repressed - Michael Robotham
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Sue Turnbull. Master storyteller Michael Robotham talks to Sue Turnbull about his latest thrill...
AWW25: Love, Loss and MDMA Therapy - Rebecca Huntley
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Maxine McKew.Rebecca Huntley talks about her new memoir, Sassafras, an account of her quest to...
AWW25: Conscious Coupling - Christine Breen, Anne Buist, Graeme Simsion and Niall Williams
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Katrina Strickland talks to with Niall Williams, Christine Breen, Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion abou...
AWW25: Immortal Dark - Tigest Girma
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join debut and NY Times best-selling author, Tigest Girma, as she shares her fantastical elements of...
AWW25: The Order of Masks - Alina Bellchambers with Audrey Menz
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Step into the cut-throat Ravalian Court where alliances shift in a heartbeat and seduction is the pr...
AWW25: Talking About Love - Sophie Gonzales and Erin Gough with Anthony Nocera
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sophie Gonzales and Erin Gough talk romance and very real feelings felt by characters in their books...
AWW25: Unhallowed Halls - Lili Wilkinson with Claire Mabey
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lili Wilkinson's latest book is a wonderfully captivating dark academia fantasy perfect for fans...
AWW25: The World Between Blinks - Amie Kaufman
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever blinked, and thought you saw something that was gone a moment later? Have you ever tur...
AWW25: Is My Phone Reading My Mind? - Dr Matt Agnew
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI can seem scary at times, so working out where we use AI and why is an important part of making t...
AWW25: When a Killer Stalks a City - Mandy Beaumont
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Sue Turnbull.Award-winning writer Mandy Beaumont takes us inside the mind of a killer and the t...
AWW25: Words to Sing the World Alive - Anita Heiss, Cheryl Leavy, Thomas Mayo and Jared Thomas
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
First Nations thinkers and writers Anita Heiss, Cheryl Leavy, Thomas Mayo and Jared Thomas share wor...
AWW25: What's the Big Idea? - Richard Denniss
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Senator Barbara Pocock.Australia faces myriad challenges, with climate change, housing affordab...
AWW25: Why is What Women Want Still a Question? - Alyx Gorman and Lucia Osborne-Crowley
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Journalists Lucia Osborne-Crowly and Alyx Gorman reflect on this hardy perennial with The Guardian’...
AWW25: A Woman's Worst Nightmare - Louise Milligan
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Sue Turnbull.Multi-award-winning investigative journalist Louise Milligan talks with Sue Turnbu...
AWW25: Love, War and Friendship - Catherine McKinnon
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Sarah L'Estrange.Catherine McKinnon, a Miles Franklin Award–shortlisted author, talks to ...
AWW25: Paranoia, Mania and Monsters in the Soviet Union - Malcolm Knox
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Sue Turnbull.In Malcolm Knox’s chilling black comedy The First Friend, a gangster mob is in ...
AWW25: Writing a Childhood - Tom Lamont and Téa Obreht (live stream)
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Jonathan Green.Is there something special or distinctive about the child narrator? As readers, ...
AWW25: The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - Bettany Hughes
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Georgina Godwin.Award-winning historian, author and broadcaster Bettany Hughes talks to Georgin...
AWW25: Guns, Drugs and a Young Woman Dead on the Money - Ronni Salt (live stream)
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Wendy Harmer.Ronni Salt talks to Wendy Harmer about her new book, Gunnawah, a crime thriller s...
AWW25: Diva: Reimagining Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis’ Scandalous Affair - Daisy Goodwin
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Pip Williams.Bestselling author Daisy Goodwin talks to Pip Williams about her epic novel Diva,...
AWW25: American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress - Wesley Lowery
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Rachel Perkins.Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wesley Lowery and Rachel Perkins discuss the v...
AWW25: Europe and the Challenge of Russia - Orlando Figes
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Robert Dessaix.Award-winning author Orlando Figes hopes to remind us of “the unifying force o...
AWW25: The Chairman’s Lounge: The Inside Story of How Qantas Sold Us Out - Joe Aston
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With David Penberthy.Joe Aston, award-winning journalist and author of The Chairman’s Lounge, joi...
AWW25: The Circus Returns - Nick Harkaway (live stream)
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Michael Robotham.Nick Harkaway, the son of John le Carré, is the author of eight novels. His l...
AWW25: Fiction is Poetry - Miranda Cowley Heller and Daisy Goodwin
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Miranda Cowley Heller became an international bestseller in 2021 with her first novel The Paper Pal...
AWW25: Chameleon: A Memoir of Art, Travel, Ideas and Love - Robert Dessaix
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Susan Wyndham.Writer, translator and broadcaster Robert Dessaix talks to Susan Wyndham about hi...
AWW25: Working for the Brand: How Corporations are Destroying Free Speech - Josh Bornstein
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Joe Aston.Josh Bornstein and Joe Aston consider the subject of Bornstein’s book Working for ...
AWW25: History Lessons - Orlando Figes, Bettany Hughes, Matthew Longo and Dava Sobel
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Annabelle Quince.Judging by the death and destruction we are witnessing in the 21st century, it...
AWW25: The Men Who Killed the News - Eric Beecher
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Bob Carr.Crikey owner and former News Corp and Fairfax editor Eric Beecher talks to fellow jou...
AWW25: “Paki, Writer, Cripple: Who Am I Now?” - Hanif Kureishi and Dr. Michelle Johnston
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Julia Baird.In a two-part conversation, Hanif Kureishi first will join Julia Baird to discuss h...
AWW25: Narcissistic Villains and Asphyxiating Families - Charlotte Mendelson
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Sarah L’Estrange.Marriages are fascinating to the nosy, according to the writer Charlotte Men...
AWW25: Hazzard and Harrower: The Letters - Brigitta Olubas and Susan Wyndham
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Richard Buckham.Brigitta Olubas and Susan Wyndham talk to Richard Buckham about the 40-year cor...
AWW25: A Tech Love Story - Kara Swisher
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Eliza Harvey.Award-winning journalist Kara Swisher takes us inside Silicon Valley and the legac...
AWW25: Race and Racism - Wesley Lowery and Kirstie Parker
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Larissa Behrendt.Not so long ago, some imagined we had arrived at a post-racial world. It turne...
AWW25: The Art of Misremembering - Geraldine Brooks and Peter Godwin
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Richard Buckham.Memoirs are an opportunity to rewrite history. Geraldine Brooks and Peter Godwi...
AWW25: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science - Dava Sobel
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Sarah Kanowski.Bestselling writer Dava Sobel reflects on about the genius, politics and passion...
AWW25: Final Verdict: A 21st-Century Holocaust Trial - Tobias Buck
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Debbie Whitmont.Tobias Buck talks to fellow journalist Debbie Whitmont about reporting on the t...
AWW25: Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations - Sir Simon Schama
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Norman Swan.Sir Simon Schama talks to Norman Swan about his latest cultural history, Foreign B...
AWW25: When the Tech Bros Come to Town - Kara Swisher
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Marc Fennell.We have arrived at a disturbing global inflection point where a handful of compani...
AWW25: The State of the World - John Crace and Wesley Lowery
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With David Marr.Has the rise of leaders like Orbán, Trump and Netanyahu finally put paid to the lib...
AWW25: The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself - Nick Bryant
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Richard Fidler.Nick Bryant, author of The Forever War, discusses with Richard Fidler the histo...
AWW25: Espionage, Seduction and Intrigue - Rachel Kushner
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Claire Nichols.Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize-shortlisted author, talks to Claire Nichols about...
AWW25: On Grief - Geraldine Brooks
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Bob Carr.In conversation with Bob Carr, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Geraldine Brooks talks ...
AWW25: Righting Wrongs - Geoffrey Robertson, Kenneth Roth and Stephanie Palmer
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Gareth Evans.Is shaming an effective weapon in the fight to protect human rights from the whims...
AWW25: What’s on Your Bookshelf? - Charlotte Mendelson, Brian Castro and Niall Williams
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh ask Niall Williams, Charlotte Mendelson and Brian Castro about which...
AWW25: Politics: Is It a Laughing Matter? - John Crace and Annabel Crabb
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Cathy Wilcox.Is the political sketch a form of truth-telling, a way to hold politicians to acco...