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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Clouds in nature and culture with Richard Hamblyn
03/01/2018 Duración: 17minThe mutability of clouds has inspired generations of poets and artists. Richard Hamblyn traces the cultural significance of clouds.
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Cayce Zavaglia, portrait artist and renegade embroiderer
02/01/2018 Duración: 13minA conversation with an artist who takes needlepoint to a whole new level.
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Songs and Stories with Richard J Frankland and The Letter String Quartet
02/01/2018 Duración: 14minSongs and stories from Richard’s extraordinary life.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen The Refugees
02/01/2018 Duración: 16minWhat could be more timely than thoughtful fiction about what it means to be a refugee in America?
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Helen Garner: A Writing Life
01/01/2018 Duración: 17minAuthor Bernadette Brennan on the first full length literary study of acclaimed Australian author, Helen Garner.
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Andrew Bovell on 'putting words in their mouths'
01/01/2018 Duración: 17minIn a Currency Press essay, Andrew Bovell reflects on his long career as a playwright and screenwriter.
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Barrie Kosky's Saul
01/01/2018 Duración: 18minThe maverick Australian director Barrie Kosky on his opera of George Frideric Handel's Saul, which was the centrepiece of the 2017 Adelaide Festival.
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John Boyne's novel The Heart's Invisible Furies
31/12/2017 Duración: 14minThe life story of a gay man in Ireland, stretching from the end of the Second World War to the 1995 Referendum on Marriage Equality.
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Sea Sick: a journalist takes to the stage to talk about climate change
31/12/2017 Duración: 09minAlanna Mitchell's stage adaptation of her best-selling novel about the health of the world's oceans - Sea Sick.
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Singaporean playwright and novelist Wong Souk Yee
31/12/2017 Duración: 13minIn 1987 playwright Wong Souk Yee was arrested and accused of plotting to undermine the government. Why and what happened next?