Sinopsis
Join Michael Cathcart and Sarah Kanowski for ABC Radio National's Books and Arts: Australia's only national broadcast devoted to literature and the arts.
Episodios
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's lost stories
11/01/2018 Duración: 21minA recently released collection of stories from the great American author show him in a new light; the flappers and the champagne are gone, and in their place are dark stories of war, sex and suicide.
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Top Shelf: James Morrison
11/01/2018 Duración: 06minLegendary jazz musician James Morrison with his Top Shelf picks.
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Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the Making of Make Me
11/01/2018 Duración: 29minA super fan and literary academic gets up close and personal with thriller writer, Lee Child.
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Colson Whitehead on his Pulitzer Prize winning novel
10/01/2018 Duración: 16minColson Whitehead on his brutal, playful, novel of slavery, The Underground Railroad, which won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Exhibition showcases homeless artists
10/01/2018 Duración: 16minBetween the Lines was an art exhibition by homeless artists in Melbourne.
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Lia Hills' novel The Crying Place
10/01/2018 Duración: 19minLia Hills on her novel The Crying Place that journeys into the Western Desert.
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Stuart Kells on The Library: A catalogue of wonders
09/01/2018 Duración: 17minBibliophile Stuart Kells on real and imagined libraries and the love of books.
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Michael Adams: In Praise of Profanity
09/01/2018 Duración: 16minIs swearing a sign of moral failing? Or an important mode of expression?
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Heard This and Thought of You: John Clarke
09/01/2018 Duración: 02minA letter that the late satirist John Clarke penned to his younger self, as he listened to some traditional Scottish airs, performed by Genevieve Lacey and James Crabb.
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2017 Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Jenny Éclair and James Veitch
09/01/2018 Duración: 15mind UK comedians Jenny Éclair and James Veitch told us about their 2017 Melbourne International Comedy Festival shows.
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In Search of Paul Robeson
08/01/2018 Duración: 15minPaul Robeson was one of the most famous actors in Hollywood. What brought his glittering career undone?
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Top Shelf: TextaQueen
08/01/2018 Duración: 03minArtist TextaQueen on what favourite artists inspire her works.
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Vernon Ah Kee: not an animal or a plant
08/01/2018 Duración: 17minNot an animal or a plant, a comprehensive show of Vernon Ah Kee's work from 2017, tackles racism in Australia head on.
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The evolution of emotion in literature
08/01/2018 Duración: 16minThe evolution of feelings in Western literature since the medieval period. How did it go from action to interiority?
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Jacqueline Rose's scandalous untamed feminism
07/01/2018 Duración: 53minAcademic and writer Jacqueline Rose on why it’s time for a scandalous, untamed feminism, in conversation at the 2017 Sydney Writers' Festival.
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Arts Project Australia Girt By Sea exhibition
04/01/2018 Duración: 11minArts Project Australia is an arts organisation for people who are intellectually disabled. One of their 2017 shows was Girt By Sea, Michael Cathcart visited the studio to meet some of the artists.
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Randa Abdel-Fattah on diversity in Australian literature
04/01/2018 Duración: 13minRanda Abdel-Fattah, author of When Michael Met Mina, reveals her love for The Babysitters Club and why the power of stories and diverse representation in Australian literature matters more than ever.
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Poet Naomi Shihab Nye
04/01/2018 Duración: 28minNaomi Shihab Nye grew up between the Midwest and the West Bank, and her poetry makes connections between places and people that seem beyond connection.
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Noel Tovey's And Then I Found Me
03/01/2018 Duración: 19minActor, dancer and choreographer Noel Tovey reflects on his 8 decades.
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Christopher Orchard creator of the Bald Man
03/01/2018 Duración: 15minSouth Australian artist Christopher Orchard was the feature artist in the 2017 South Australian Living Artists Festival.