Throughout the year, Radio National brings you coverage of major festivals held around Australia. From books and ideas to music, Best of the Festivals gives you a front row seat at the highlight events. Presented by Cassie McCullagh.
Journalist and historian Gwynne Dyer speaks with RN's Richard Fidler at the 2018 Canberra Writers Festival. He tells Richard that there is much to be hopeful about as the world enters a new phase of automation.
Many of the tales we loved as children are based on gothic, magical and violent true stories. Join RN's Richard Fidler and author Kate Forsyth, as they unpick and and expose the roots of our fairy tales.
Fatima Bhutto says she's one of those people who thinks everything you do is political. But in her latest book, The Runaways, about Muslim identity, she wanted to know what it felt like to be young in a world on fire.
Reflect on fiction's ability to defy the conventional wisdom of Australia's past and present with Felicity Castagna, Melanie Cheng, Claire G Coleman and ABC RN's Kate Evans. Recorded live at the 2018 Sydney Writers' Festival.
Recent surveys show that trust in journalists in Australia has increased. Yet at the same time public trust in the media has seriously declined. What can we make of this?
Archie Roach and Jack Charles are two elder statesmen of Australian Indigenous culture – Uncle Archie is one of the country’s most treasured singer-songwriters, and Uncle Jack an award-winning stage and screen actor.
Kevin Kwan’s satirical novel Crazy Rich Asians became an international bestseller in 2013 and is now being made into a major motion picture. Meet the man behind the hit and discover his latest novel, Rich People Problems, which is as brilliantly abundant in drama and glitz as his previous works.
Back in 1975 a new ABC radio show caused a bit of a revolution. It was called The Coming Out Show, a weekly program made by women, for women.
Marty Natalegawa - Can Democracy Deliver?
One of the most respected foreign policy and international security thinkers of his generation on the health of democracy and the international rules-based order.
In this blistering post-colonial reassessment, Shashi Tharoor exposes the sins of an empire. Tracking the real story of the British in India - from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj.