AWW25: Dirrayawadha: Resistance, Resilience and Love During the Frontier Wars - Anita Heiss
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Nicole Abadee.Anita Heiss, the award-winning author of 23 books, talks to Nicole Abadee about h...
AWW25: Crimes Against Humanity - Tobias Buck (live stream), Geoffrey Robertson, and Dorcy Rugamba
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Gareth Evans.The catalogue of crimes against humanity should engender both collective and indiv...
AWW25: Dog Days - Markus Zusak
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Nicole Abadee.Markus Zusak’s family has taken on three feral dogs over the years. The author ...
AWW25: Drawing a Line - Mandy Beaumont, Louise Milligan, and Michael Robotham
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Beejay Silcox.Does a moral compass matter in crime fiction? What if a protagonist is untested b...
AWW25: The Stage of the Self - Julia Baird, Geraldine Brooks, and Rachel Kushner
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With David Marr.Despite the promise that we were “all in it together”, the COVID-19 pandemic led...
AWW25: We Are the Stars - Gina Chick
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With David Lesar.In conversation with David Leser, Alone Australia inaugural winner Gina Chick dis...
AWW25: How the People of Yirrkala Changed the Course of Australian Democracy - Clare Wright
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Kerry O'Brien.Professor Clare Wright discusses her latest work with Kerry O’Brien. Näku...
AWW25: The State of the Nation - Bob Carr, Rebecca Huntley, and Rick Morton
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Late Night Live's David Marr.Has the Australian myth of a fair go finally been broken? Are ...
AWW25: A Song of Time - Stan Grant
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Anton Enus.Journalist and author Stan Grant’s new book is Murriyang, a meditation on love, a...
AWW25: Fiction, Memoir and the Boundaries of Art - Michelle de Kretser
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Georgina Godwin.One of Australia’s most esteemed writers, Michelle de Kretser, discusses her ...
AWW25: It's Christmas 1962 and a Baby Arrives... - Niall Williams
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Kate EvansInternationally bestselling author Niall Williams talks to Kate Evans about his lates...
AWW25: Boys and Men and Aussie Rules – Helen Garner
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Nicole AbadeeAustralia’s most iconic author, Helen Garner, talks to Nicole Abadee about her l...
AWW24: Homecoming - Kate Morton
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Sarah Martin | Kate Morton is one of Australia’s best-selling authors. A fascination with sec...
AWW24: I Do, I Don't - Clementine Ford
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Susan Johnson | 'Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue' is t...
AWW24: Frank Moorhouse - Catharine Lumby
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Jo Case | Author Catharine Lumby knew Frank Moorhouse for many years. A decade before his dea...
AWW24: So I have been cancelled... - Umut Özkırımlı
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Amanda Vanstone | Umut Özkırımlı, the author of Cancelled: The Left Way Back from Woke, jo...
AWW24: Non-Essential Work - Omar Sakr
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Mike Ladd | Omar Sakr is an award-winning poet and novelist. His latest collection, Non-Essent...
AWW24: Tell Me What I Am - Una Mannion
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Helen Elliott | Una Mannion’s second novel, Tell Me What I Am, is a superbly literary novel ...
AWW24: Voices of Place - Jonathan Lethem & Nathan Thrall
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Jo Case | Brooklyn and Jerusalem are places that have powerfully informed the recent writing of...
AWW24: Cool Water - Myfanwy Jones
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Hannah Kent | Myfanwy Jones, the Miles Franklin-shortlisted author of Leap, has just published...
AWW24: The Israel/Palestine Question - Ilan Pappé
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Annabelle Quince | Ilan Pappé is one of the most influential historians writing today on the h...
AWW24: Wifedom - Anna Funder
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Nicole Abadee | Anna Funder’s Wifedom shines a light on the woman who George Orwell describ...
AWW24: An Uneasy Inheritance - Polly Toynbee
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Sarah Martin | Polly Toynbee has been a columnist for The Guardian for over twenty-five years...
AWW24: The Writing School
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Louise Adler and Sian Cain | By exploring an episode of her own life in the context of a reside...
AWW24: Tomorrow Perhaps the Future - Sarah Watling
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Tory Shepherd | Women have long been written out of history, marginalised and ignored. Tory She...
AWW24: The Rebel's Clinic - Adam Shatz
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Lucia Sorbera | Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and his most recent...
AWW24: The History of Hamas - Tareq Baconi
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Annabelle Quince | Understanding the Middle East conflict requires us to consider the origins o...
AWW24: A Revolution in Poetic Language
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Evelyn Araluen, Madison Godfrey, Jill Jones and Ellen van Neerven with Jessica Alice | Join renowned...
AWW24: Aphrodite's Breath - Susan Johnson
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Anne Pender | Susan Johnson is a brave writer. She is also a brave daughter. Johnson tells Anne...
AWW24: What Stays On Tour...
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Grenville, Susan Johnson, Una Mannion and Pip Williams with David Marr | Have you ever wondered...
AWW24: Eleven Letters to You - Helen Elliott
25 Mar 2024
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With Beejay Silcox | Helen Elliott, a wonderfully perceptive literary critic, finally decided to wri...
AWW24: The Rocks Remain: Blak Poetry and Story
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ali Cobby Eckermann, Brad Darkson, Dominic Guerrera and Karen Wyld | What remains after colonisation...
AWW24: Brooklyn Crime Novel - Jonathan Lethem
25 Mar 2024
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With Sarah L'Estrange | Jonathan Lethem is a genre agnostic – from sci-fi to detective fiction...
AWW24: Killing for Country - David Marr
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Rachel Perkins | David Marr confronts uncomfortable truths with his customary courage and acuit...
AWW24: All in the Mind - Lynne Malcolm
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Jo Case | Lynne Malcolm spent many years presenting Radio National’s All in the Mind. Now sh...
AWW24: Restless Dolly Maunder - Kate Grenville
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Nicole Abadee | Kate Grenville has been delighting readers since her very first collection, Be...
AWW24: Dangerous Women - Susanna Moore
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Lisa Temple | Susanna Moore joins Lisa Temple via live stream to talk about her new novel, The...
AWW24: The Bookbinder of Jericho - Pip Williams
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Jane Howard | Pip Williams, best-selling author of The Dictionary of Lost Words, tells Jane Ho...
AWW24: When Authors Took Sides - Anna Funder & Sarah Watling
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Sian Cain | Today the Spanish Civil War is remembered through writers like George Orwell and Er...
AWW24: Me, Me, Me - Martin Flanagan & Polly Toynbee
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Nicole Abadee | Blake Morrison advises memoirists to remember god is in the details. Nicole Aba...
AWW24: Trump, the Future and Global Influence - Bruce Wolpe
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With John Lyons | Bruce Wolpe has spent years studying America’s political culture, leadership and...
AWW24: Reality Bites - Gary Lonesborough
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Vikki Wakefield | Gary Lonesborough’s award-winning debut, The Boy From The Mish, is a power...
AWW24: The Company She Keeps - Lynette Noni
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Margot McGovern | Across her YA series, Lynette Noni has created a host of memorable characters...
AWW24: Personal Score - Ellen van Neerven
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Sian Cain | Racism and sexism continue to plague Australian sporting codes despite multiple rev...
AWW24: Writing the Future
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With DreamYard International Poetry Exchange Program | Join chair Ellen Hagan and teen poets from Au...
AWW24: Penance - Eliza Clark
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Helen Elliott | With the publication of her first book, Eliza Clark was named one of Granta mag...
AWW24: In the Air of an Afternoon Almost Past - Peter Goers
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Rick Sarre | The voice of nightly radio for legions of fans, Peter Goers has been called “the...
AWW24: The Idealist - Nicholas Jose
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With David Marr | In Nicholas Jose’s latest novel, East Timor’s fight for independence provides ...
AWW24: Muster Dogs - Lisa Millar
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Amanda Vanstone | When Muster Dogs first hit screens, the lively kelpie pups adopted into far...
AWW24: Birds with Personality - Georgia Angus & Darryl Jones
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Calling all twitchers for a conversation about Getting to Know the Birds in Your Neighbourhood and...
AWW24: The Art of Breaking Ice - Rachael Mead
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Sarah L'Estrange | Rachael Mead speaks with Sarah L’Estrange about the challenges of turn...
AWW24: Edenglassie - Melissa Lucashenko
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Claire Nichols | Miles Franklin winner Melissa Lucashenko joins The Book Show’s Claire Nicho...
AWW24: Dress Rehearsals - Madison Godfrey
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Sian Cain | Madison Godfrey describes their second poetry collection as a document of a decade ...
AWW24: Held - Anne Michaels
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Nicole Abadee | Anne Michaels, the acclaimed novelist and poet, joins Nicole Abadee via live st...
AWW24: The Past is Not Another Country
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Lyons, Ilan Pappé, Nathan Thrall and Bruce Wolpe with Debbie Whitmont | Edward Said described ...
AWW24: Going Gonzo: Immersive Research
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Royce Kurmelovs, Tory Shepherd and Ben Stubbs with Smriti Daniel | From reporting on the far right t...
AWW24: Has the Author Died, Again?
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, Richard King, Kate Mildenhall and Tracey Spicer with Ariel Bogle | Can AI p...
AWW24: A Dangerous Business - Jane Smiley
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Jonathan Green | In a writing life spanning over forty years, Jane Smiley has published sevente...
AWW24: Ask Me Anything: Book Publishing 101
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Melanie Ostell, Vanessa Radnidge and Jeanne Ryckmans with Jessica Alice | From bidding wars to MFA w...
AWW24: The Cancer Finishing School - Peter Goldsworthy
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With David Marr | Only Peter Goldsworthy could write a memoir titled The Cancer Finishing School. H...
AWW24: Mental Health Matters Patrick McGorry & Jonathan Rosen
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Natasha Mitchell | Mental illness is stigmatised, economic rationalism determines government fu...
AWW24: Writing Relationships: Authors and Their Editors
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Madison Godfrey, Kate Grenville and Anjum Hasan with Jessica Alice | Join Madison Godfrey, Kate Gren...
AWW24: France on Trial - Julian Jackson
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Andrew Clark | After his magisterial biography of Charles de Gaulle, Julian Jackson has turned ...
AWW24: Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
21 Mar 2024
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With Ariel Bogle | Award-winning short story writer Ted Chiang is often described as a humanist sci-...
AWW24: Insiders
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For more than twenty years, Insiders has been unmissable television for political tragics and anyone...
AWW24: 2024 Stella Prize Longlist Announcement
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Eleanor Jackson, Cheryl Leavy, Yves Rees and Beejay Silcox | Be among the first to discover the...
AWW24: Arab Jews and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Avi Shlaim
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Debbie Whitmont | Historian Avi Shlaim’s Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew combines a fa...
AWW24: Young Rupert - Walter Marsh
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Tom Wright | Rupert Murdoch has dominated the media for more than half a century. Walter Marsh ...
AWW24: Gender, Caste and Class
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anjali Joseph, Meena Kandasamy, Perumal Murugan and Nilanjana S. Roy with Roanna Gonsalves | Anjali ...
AWW24: 2024 MUD Literary Prize
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The MUD Literary Prize celebrates a debut novel of literary fiction. Hear from 2024 winner Kylie Nee...
AWW24: Sex, Love and Death
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eliza Clark, Patrick deWitt and Jonathan Lethem with Molly Murn | Three of life’s certainties are ...
AWW24: A Literary Resurrection - Perumal Murugan
21 Mar 2024
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With Roanna Gonsalves | In 2015, Perumal Murugan said: “Perumal Murugan the writer is dead. As he ...
AWW24: Change - Édouard Louis
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Ruth Mackenzie | Writing about the impoverished village of his childhood and the ramifications ...
AWW24: A Day in the Life of Abed Salama - Nathan Thrall
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Debbie Whitmont | Drawing on a decade spent as the director of the International Crisis Group’...
AWW24: Black River - Nilanjana S. Roy
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With John Zubrzycki | Set in a north Indian village, Nilanjana S. Roy’s new novel, Black River, t...
AWW24: The Grey Zone - Ian Buruma & Julian Jackson
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Bob Carr | The modern view is that we can’t judge the actions of others in extremis, so what ...
AWW24: Yeah, Nah! - William McInnes
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Chris Taylor | William McInnes may be known to television audiences for his role in SeaChange,...
AWW24: Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You - Meena Kandasamy
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Roanna Gonsalves | Poet, novelist and activist Meena Kandasamy has been described as a “one-w...
AWW24: "I don't read for comfort" - Richard Ford
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Beejay Silcox | Richard Ford says: “I don’t read for comfort. Comfort I source elsewhere. I...
AWW24: On Marriage - Devorah Baum
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Susan Johnson | Marriage, according to Devorah Baum, is a "formal relation that could argu...
AWW24: History's Angel - Anjum Hasan
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With John Zubrzycki | Anjum Hasan asks what happens if people cling to the once vaunted qualities of...
AWW24: Genres: Do the rules apply?
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Brandi, Una Mannion and Lucy Treloar with Tom Wright | Are there rules that govern writing hist...
AWW24: The Best Minds - Jonathan Rosen
20 Mar 2024
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With Sarah Kanowski | Jonathan Rosen tells Sarah Kanowski about his book The Best Minds – a hear...
AWW24: Keeping in Touch - Anjali Joseph
20 Mar 2024
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With Claire Nichols | Anjali Joseph’s fourth novel, Keeping in Touch, involves magical lightbulbs...
AWW24: Consent Laid Bare - Chanel Contos
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Katrina Strickland | In 2021, Chanel Contos asked young Australian women about their sexual exp...
AWW24: Lies My Mirror Told Me - Wendy Harmer
20 Mar 2024
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With Richard Fidler | Wendy Harmer’s memoir is the extraordinary story of a life lived in public –...
AWW24: Microstory Competition
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Rehn and Lauren DeCesare from Hello SA announce the winner of the 2024 Microstory Competition. ...
AWW24: Hear Me Roar!
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Madison Godfrey, Sara M. Saleh, Kirli Saunders, Katherine Sortini and Rob Waters | Writers’ Week’...
AWW24: On Giving Up - Adam Phillips
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Sarah Kanowski | British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips says we spend most of our lives anxiously ...
AWW24: The Future of News
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Rusbridger, Justin Stevens and Lenore Taylor with Laura Tingle | Publishing unverified informat...
AWW24: The Earth Transformed - Peter Frankopan
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Glyn Davis | In conversation with Glyn Davis, the bestselling author of The Earth Transformed,...
AWW24: Best Wishes - Richard Glover
20 Mar 2024
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With Leigh Sales | Richard Glover’s latest book is a hilarious manual for how to make the world a ...
AWW24: Inner Sanctum
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Evelyn Araluen, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Jazz Money and Ellen van Neerven | In conjunction with the 18t...
AWW24: Mary Beard: Empress of Rome
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Beard with Jonty Claypole | Mary Beard, one of the world’s most famous classicists, talks to ...
AWW24: Nevermoor - Jessica Townsend
20 Mar 2024
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With Clare Sawyer | In 2024, Jessica Townsend will publish the fourth book in her Nevermoor series...
AWW24: Ripples and Resilience: Navigating Our Rivers
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Beasley, Margaret Cook, Sarah Hanson-Young and Kate McBride with Natasha Mitchell | The rela...
AWW24: The Wren, The Wren - Anne Enright
20 Mar 2024
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With Claire Nichols | Anne Enright’s eighth novel is a brilliant report on one unhappy family; an ...
AWW24: Prima Facie - Suzie Miller
20 Mar 2024
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With Nicole Abadee | Prima Facie is the story of a brilliant barrister who finds herself defenceles...
AWW24: South Australia: Laboratory of Democracy
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Close, Royce Kurmelovs, Noah Schultz-Byard and Tory Shepherd with Jules Schiller | Whether it’...
AWW24: Storytellers - Leigh Sales
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Lisa Millar | Two of our most highly regarded journalists, Leigh Sales and Lisa Millar, discuss...