The Book Show

December 2006

Sunday 31 December 2006

• Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man
• Emergency Sex - and other desperate measures

Friday 29 December 2006

• The art of the obituary: panel discussion

Thursday 28 December 2006

• The writings of Magnus Mills
• Lisa See: secret women's writing

Wednesday 27 December 2006

• Athol Fugard: Tsotsi
• Contemporary impact of the WW2 Allied bombing of Dresden
• Historic recording of WB Yeats

Tuesday 26 December 2006

• Ann McCulloch and John Wolseley: The Art of the Notebook
• Art Since 1900: review

Monday 25 December 2006

• Simon Nasht: The Last Explorer

Sunday 24 December 2006

• Writers on writing: Kate Grenville, Geoffrey Atherden and Mark Tredinnick
• The film adaptations of Philip K Dick

Friday 22 December 2006

• Adventures in Poetry: Ode on a Grecian Urn

Thursday 21 December 2006

• Adventures in Poetry: Musee de Beaux Arts

Wednesday 20 December 2006

• Adventures in Poetry: No Coward Soul

Tuesday 19 December 2006

• Adventures in poetry: If

Monday 18 December 2006

• Geoff Page: the poetics of 2006
• Peter McPhee: The French Revolution
• French cartoonist in English

Sunday 17 December 2006

• Man Booker prize winner Kiran Desai on The Inheritance of Loss
• Spivs, no-necks, front-men, and serious poke, with UK crime writer Martina Cole

Friday 15 December 2006

• A discussion of a year in the book industry

Thursday 14 December 2006

• Dava Sobel: writing the history of science

Wednesday 13 December 2006

• The film adaptations of Philip K Dick
• Maurilia Meehan: The Bad Seed

Tuesday 12 December 2006

• Man Booker prize winner Kiran Desai on The Inheritance of Loss

Monday 11 December 2006

• Spivs, no-necks, front-men, and serious poke, with UK crime writer Martina Cole

Sunday 10 December 2006

• Steven Mithen: The Singing Neanderthals
• Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford

Friday 08 December 2006

• Writers on writing: Kate Grenville, Geoffrey Atherden and Mark Tredinnick

Thursday 07 December 2006

• Karen Finley, performance artist

Wednesday 06 December 2006

• Charles Frazier: Thirteen Moons

Tuesday 05 December 2006

• Steven Mithen: The Singing Neanderthals

Monday 04 December 2006

• Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford

Sunday 03 December 2006

• Philippa Gregory
• Aboriginal languages spoken, sung and written

Friday 01 December 2006

• A passion for death and gore

November 2006

Thursday 30 November 2006

• Alex Miller: Truth in Fiction and History

Wednesday 29 November 2006

• Aboriginal languages spoken, sung and written

Tuesday 28 November 2006

• Carmen Lawrence: Fear and Politics

Monday 27 November 2006

• Philippa Gregory

Sunday 26 November 2006

• Michael Frayn: The Human Touch
• Robert Harris: Imperium

Friday 24 November 2006

• Janette Turner Hospital: Rooted Cosmopolitanism

Thursday 23 November 2006

• Robert Harris: Imperium
• Richard Flanagan: Writing The Unknown Terrorist

Wednesday 22 November 2006

• Robert Dessaix talks about Twilight of Love
• Damian Marrett: White Lies

Tuesday 21 November 2006

• Andrew Wilkins on the role of the publisher
• Memories of an Australian Childhood

Monday 20 November 2006

• Michael Frayn: The Human Touch

Sunday 19 November 2006

• Andrew Motion's memoir of childhood, In The Blood
• Eastern European gypsy world in Colum McCann's Zoli

Friday 17 November 2006

• The short story now

Thursday 16 November 2006

• Eastern European gypsy world in Colum McCann's Zoli
• Melbourne Prize for Literature 2006 announced last night

Wednesday 15 November 2006

• Andrew Motion's memoir of childhood, In The Blood

Tuesday 14 November 2006

• The Wayward Tourist: Mark Twain's Adventures in Australia
• Review of Jennifer Harrison's Folly and Grief
• 'Wiki-style' management book to be written by 900 authors

Monday 13 November 2006

• Morris Lurie wins the Patrick White Award
• Unpublished sonnet by Sylvia Plath discovered

Sunday 12 November 2006

• Alexis Wright's epic Indigenous novel, Carpentaria
• Indian author and film-maker Ruchir Joshi

Friday 10 November 2006

• Writing the biographies of Patrick White and Christina Stead
• Review of Peter Minter's volume of poetry Blue Grass

Thursday 09 November 2006

• How to get your book to the top of the Amazon bestsellers list
• 2006 ABC Short Story Project winning entry: 'Too Deadly That Dress' by Maureen Faury
• A Castle in Tuscany: the Remarkable Life of Janet Ross

Wednesday 08 November 2006

• Freud's Requiem: Mourning, Memory and the Invisible History of a Summer Walk
• 2006 ABC Short Story Project winning entry: 'Farewell Irene' by Susan Robinson
• Review of Visiting Picasso: The Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose

Tuesday 07 November 2006

• Indian author and film-maker Ruchir Joshi
• Short story reading: Chinna and Muthu

Monday 06 November 2006

• Alexis Wright's epic Indigenous novel Carpentaria
• 2006 ABC Short Story Project winning entry: 'The Fisherman's Friend' by Chris Brophy
• Review of Kate Atkinson's One Good Turn

Sunday 05 November 2006

• Irish novelist Colm Toibin on his Mothers and Sons
• Frank Moorhouse: Freedom of Expression in a Time of Terror

Friday 03 November 2006

• Why we write autobiographies discussion
• Don Anderson reviews Nobel Lectures

Thursday 02 November 2006

• All Yesterday's Parties
• 1001 nights cast

Wednesday 01 November 2006

• Irish novelist Colm Toibin on his Mothers and Sons
• Saints: a visual guide

October 2006

Tuesday 31 October 2006

• Frank Moorhouse: Freedom of Expression in a Time of Terror
• Review of George Ogilvie's Simple Gifts: A Life in the Theatre

Monday 30 October 2006

• Penguin Books publishes in Second Life
• The Fate of the Artist, reviewed by Polash Larsen
• When Books Die

Sunday 29 October 2006

• Andrew O'Hagan

Friday 27 October 2006

• Fiona Schultz: Where's Bin Laden?
• Liz Lochhead and Michael Marra

Thursday 26 October 2006

• Andrew O'Hagan

Wednesday 25 October 2006

• Michael White: Equinox
• Rex Butler reviews Things I Didn't Know, by Robert Hughes

Tuesday 24 October 2006

• Alan Attwood: new editor of The Big Issue
• Geoff Page reviews My Tanka Diary by Kawano Yuko
• Iggy McGovern on Czechoslovakian poet, the late Miroslav Holub

Monday 23 October 2006

• Michael Dirda's Book By Book: Notes On Reading And Life
• Lewis Wolpert: on belief

Sunday 22 October 2006

• David Malouf and Every Move You Make
• Shaun Tan: The Arrival

Friday 20 October 2006

• The Romantic in All of Us - Brisbane Writers' Festival

Thursday 19 October 2006

• David Malouf and Every Move You Make
• Alison Croggon reviews JG Ballard's Kingdom Come

Tuesday 17 October 2006

• Geoff Page - 80 Great Poems From Chaucer To Now
• Abdulrazak Gurnah: Strangers in a Strange land

Monday 16 October 2006

• Shaun Tan: The Arrival
• Review of Martin Amis's House of Meetings

Sunday 15 October 2006

• Janine Burke on The Gods of Freud
• Geoffrey Nunberg on Talking Right

Friday 13 October 2006

• Nobel prize for literature 2006 awarded to Turkey's Orhan Pamuk
• Love, desire and literature
• Australian romance writer Marion Lennox wins RITA Award

Thursday 12 October 2006

• Frankfurt Book Fair 2006
• Clifford Chase on Winkie; harmless teddy-bear caught up in the war on terror

Wednesday 11 October 2006

• Geoffrey Nunberg on Talking Right
• Michael McGirr and Welsh author Jasper Fforde discuss Jasper's The Fourth Bear

Tuesday 10 October 2006

• Australian authors up for tonight's Man Booker prize
• Janine Burke on The Gods of Freud

Monday 09 October 2006

• Australian novelist Andrew McGahan on his political thriller Underground
• Assassinated Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya

Sunday 08 October 2006

• Lionel Shriver
• Lloyd Jones - Mister Pip

Friday 06 October 2006

• Spotlight on Scotland: Dilys Rose and Ewan Morrison

Thursday 05 October 2006

• The 2006 Frankfurt Book Fair
• UK novelist Emma Darwin on The Mathematics of Love

Wednesday 04 October 2006

• Well nasty: British crime writing
• Qiu Xiaolong, Chinese crime writer

Tuesday 03 October 2006

• Lionel Shriver

Monday 02 October 2006

• Lloyd Jones - Mister Pip
• Kate Bochner reviews Paulo Coelho's Like the Flowing River

Sunday 01 October 2006

• Harold Pinter, Nobel prize-winning playwright and poet, at Edinburgh International Book Festival (transcript available)

September 2006

Friday 29 September 2006

• Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (transcript available)
• La rentrée littéraire in France
• Klaus Neumann reviews Robert Bevan's The Destruction of Memory (transcript available)

Thursday 28 September 2006

• Unfettered literary pleasure with John Gross at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (transcript available)

Wednesday 27 September 2006

• David Lodge on the Year of Henry James at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (transcript available)

Tuesday 26 September 2006

• Mathematician Sir Roger Penrose and The Road To Reality (transcript available)
• Geoff Page reviews Other Summers, by Stephen Edgar (transcript available)

Monday 25 September 2006

• Harold Pinter, Nobel prize-winning playwright and poet, at Edinburgh International Book Festival (transcript available)

Sunday 24 September 2006

• Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' and James Griffin on all the Beats

Friday 22 September 2006

• Crime writer Peter Robinson
• Allen Ginsberg's epic 1956 poem, Howl

Wednesday 20 September 2006

• Robert Silvers on The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships

Tuesday 19 September 2006

• Elisabeth Hanscombe - literary 'groupie'
• 1956 anniversary - the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop

Monday 18 September 2006

• David Crystal on language in the internet age and proverbial wisdom from around the world
• 1956 celebrations: review of Patrick White's The Tree of Man

Sunday 17 September 2006

• Norwegian star writer Asne Seierstad on the legacy of the Balkan war
• Edmundo Paz Soldán on cyberterrorism, globalisation and political oppression

Friday 15 September 2006

• Me, Myself and I: first person narratives and women writers

Thursday 14 September 2006

• Edmundo Paz Soldán on cyberterrorism, globalisation and political oppression
• Leaf Litter

Wednesday 13 September 2006

• Archival interview with poet, novelist and playwright Dorothy Hewett
• Luke Mullins' stage adaptation of Anne Carson's verse-novel, Autobiography of Red

Tuesday 12 September 2006

• Hilary McPhee on the judging of literary awards
• Alice Pung's Unpolished Gem
• Review of Contemporary Australian Drama, by Leonard Radic (transcript available)

Monday 11 September 2006

• Norwegian star writer Asne Seierstad on the legacy of the Balkan war
• Review of Life, End Of, by Christine Brooke-Rose (transcript available)

Sunday 10 September 2006

• Santo Cilauro: Jetlag guide to San Sombrero
• The dystopian worlds of Rupert Thomson

Friday 08 September 2006

• Obituary: Egyptian Nobel Laureate writer Naguib Mahfouz
• Colin Thiele, author of Storm Boy, dies
• Review of The Collected Verse Of Mary Gilmore Vol 1 1887-1929

Thursday 07 September 2006

• Santo Cilauro: Jetlag guide to San Sombrero
• Janine Burke's review of Lady Franklin's Revenge, by Ken McGoogan (transcript available)

Wednesday 06 September 2006

• Review: Creme de la Phlegm, edited by Angela Bennie
• The Student Chronicles by Alice Garner
• Michael Gurr on writing Days Like These

Tuesday 05 September 2006

• Polash Larsen's review of Londonstani, by Gautam Malkani
• The dystopian worlds of Rupert Thomson

Monday 04 September 2006

• John Mortimer (Edinburgh International Book Festival)
• Dutch writers off the air

Sunday 03 September 2006

• Pankaj Mishra (Edinburgh International Book Festival)
• Telling stories: Rana Dasgupta at the 2006 Melbourne Writers' Festival

Friday 01 September 2006

• Simon Armitage (Edinburgh International Book Festival)
• Review: Fast, Loose, Beginnings, by John Kinsella (transcript available)

August 2006

Thursday 31 August 2006

• Sarah Waters: The Night Watch (Edinburgh International Book Festival)

Wednesday 30 August 2006

• Pankaj Mishra at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this August

Tuesday 29 August 2006

• Telling stories: Rana Dasgupta at the 2006 Melbourne Writers' Festival
• Margaret Barbalet: Running From Right to Left

Monday 28 August 2006

• Kathryn Hughes' Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton

Sunday 27 August 2006

• A History of the Book in Australia
• Children's author and illustrator extraordinaire: Anthony Browne

Friday 25 August 2006

• Literary Journalism panel dicusssion fromTasmanian Living Writers' Week

Thursday 24 August 2006

• Robin Maconie and the Music of Stockhausen
• Geoff Page reviews Love Sonnets, by John Kinsella

Wednesday 23 August 2006

• History from the point of view of animals
• A History of the Book in Australia

Tuesday 22 August 2006

• Presto! Making a novel out of nothing
• Peter Timms reviews How to Look At a Painting, by Justin Paton (transcript available)
• Jewish Museum of Australia puts Maurice Sendak on show

Monday 21 August 2006

• Edinburgh Writers' Festival update
• Books Alive competition: prequels and sequels
• Children's author and illustrator extraordinaire: Anthony Browne

Sunday 20 August 2006

• Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good
• Tasmanian Devil: A Unique and Threatened Animal

Friday 18 August 2006

• Tim Flannery, Elizabeth Finkel and Jack Dann on science writing

Thursday 17 August 2006

• Beyond Khe San: Remembering and Forgetting the Vietnam War and its Aftermath
• Tasmanian printmaker Kaye Green's hand-made artists' books

Wednesday 16 August 2006

• Tasmanian Devil: A Unique and Threatened Animal
• Jake Arnott, UK crime writer

Tuesday 15 August 2006

• LaTrobe: The Making of a Governor
• The Big Picture Book

Monday 14 August 2006

• Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good
• Review of Druid's Sword, by Sara Douglass

Sunday 13 August 2006

• John Armstrong: Love, Life, Goethe - How to be Happy in an Imperfect World (transcript available)
• Malcolm Fraser launches Reflected Light (transcript available)

Friday 11 August 2006

• Writing The Lyrics: Byron Bay Writers' Festival Forum

Thursday 10 August 2006

• 2006 Byron Bay Writers' Festival: Max Gillies launches 50 Golden Years of the Chaser 1955-2005
• The Chaser's tips on how to ruin a writers' festival
• Australian landscape, innocence, families and justice in Mark O'Flynns' Grassdogs

Wednesday 09 August 2006

• Ian Britain and The Historian's Ashes
• Nury Vittachi and The Shanghai Union of Industrial Mystics

Tuesday 08 August 2006

• Translating Ismail Kadare (transcript available)
• Malcolm Fraser launches Reflected Light (transcript available)

Monday 07 August 2006

• John Armstrong: Love, Life, Goethe - How to be Happy in an Imperfect World

Sunday 06 August 2006

• Audio books and the making of the 56-CD box set of War and Peace (transcript available)
• John Updike: The End of Authorship (transcript available)

Friday 04 August 2006

• Adventures In Poetry part 5: The Owl and the Pussycat
• Commonwealth Short Story Competition: Overall Winner (Asia)

Thursday 03 August 2006

• Adventures In Poetry part 4: The Sunne Rising
• Commonwealth Short Story Competition: Regional Winner (Europe)

Wednesday 02 August 2006

• Adventures In Poetry part 3: Remember
• Commonwealth Short Story Competition: Regional Winner (Americas)

Tuesday 01 August 2006

• Adventures In Poetry part 2: Daffodils
• Commonwealth Short Story Competition: Regional Winner (Africa)

July 2006

Monday 31 July 2006

• Adventures In Poetry part 1: The Charge of the Light Brigade
• Commonwealth Short Story Competition: Regional Winner (Australia and the Pacific)

Sunday 30 July 2006

• The art of letter writing
• Urban Myths by John Tranter, reviewed by Geoff Page

Friday 28 July 2006

• The art of letter writing (transcript available)

Thursday 27 July 2006

• David Marr: banning books that praise terrorism
• Amanda Lohrey: who's voting for Jesus? (transcript available)

Wednesday 26 July 2006

• Is art criticism in crisis? Raphael Rubinstein (transcript available)
• Hilary McPhee on the book industry blame game (transcript available)

Tuesday 25 July 2006

• David Williamson in conversation (transcript available)

Monday 24 July 2006

• Max Barry: Company
• Review by Geoff Page of Windchimes poetry collection

Sunday 23 July 2006

• David Williamson in conversation (transcript available)

Friday 21 July 2006

• John Updike: The End of Authorship (transcript available)
• Australian National Playwrights' Conference (stage 4 - final)

Thursday 20 July 2006

• Audio books and the making of the 56-CD box set of War and Peace
• Australian National Playwrights' Conference (stage 3)

Wednesday 19 July 2006

• Publishing White. Or not? (transcript available)
• Early Bird: Rodney Rothman's account of early retirement
• Australian National Playwrights' Conference (stage 2)

Tuesday 18 July 2006

• Sally Vickers: The Other Side of You
• Australian National Playwrights' Conference (stage 1)

Monday 17 July 2006

• David Grossman: lessons from the story of Sampson
• ABC Short Story Competition

Sunday 16 July 2006

• Editors of the TLS and New York Review of Books on the post-9/11 era (transcript available)
• Dry vs Moist part 3: Jumping Cholla

Friday 14 July 2006

• Clive Hamilton, Beverley Farmer and Alfred Yuson on the art of the essay

Thursday 13 July 2006

• James English: The Economy of Prestige - Prizes, Awards and the Circulation of Cultural Value (transcript available)

Wednesday 12 July 2006

• Novel in court: Turkish writer Elif Shafak (transcript available)
• Dry vs Moist part 3: Jumping Cholla

Tuesday 11 July 2006

• American travel writer Tony Cohan, Mexican Days: Journeys Into the Heart of Mexico
• Not Spain (radio feature)

Monday 10 July 2006

• Ann Jones on Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban (transcript available)

Sunday 09 July 2006

• John Zubrzycki: The Last Nizam
• Kate Auty: Courts of Native Affairs

Friday 07 July 2006

• Editors of the TLS and New York Review of Books on the post-9/11 era

Thursday 06 July 2006

• John Zubrzycki: The Last Nizam

Wednesday 05 July 2006

• The Fabulist, by Rod Howard (transcript available)
• Going Down Swinging

Tuesday 04 July 2006

• Neatness Counts: Essays on the Writer's Desk (transcript available)
• Kate Auty

Monday 03 July 2006

• Anna Haebich
• Rex Butler reviews 100 Anime, by Philip Brophy (transcript available)

Sunday 02 July 2006

• Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun (transcript available)
• Barbara Epstein, co-founder of the New York Review of Books

June 2006

Friday 30 June 2006

• ABC foreign correspondents' travellers' tales

Thursday 29 June 2006

• Raphael Rubinstein (transcript available)

Wednesday 28 June 2006

• Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun (transcript available)

Tuesday 27 June 2006

• Anna Poletti: zines
• 2006 Miles Franklin award winner, Roger McDonald

Monday 26 June 2006

• Colm Tóibín

Sunday 25 June 2006

• Postmodernism in our schools: panel discussion (transcript available)
• The Art of the Essay

Friday 23 June 2006

• Narrative and writing for video games - panel discussion

Thursday 22 June 2006

• Michael Fullilove
• Louis Nowra

Wednesday 21 June 2006

• Australia's first Readers' Day
• Pham Thi Hoai (transcript available)
• (Review) Glassmaker, by Shane McCauley

Tuesday 20 June 2006

• Steven Lang

Monday 19 June 2006

• The Art of the Essay (transcript available)

Sunday 18 June 2006

• Review of Kathryn Fox: Without Consent
• Peter Temple

Friday 16 June 2006

• Postmodernism in our schools: panel discussion (transcript available)

Thursday 15 June 2006

• The Bedside Book Of Birds - Graeme Gibson

Wednesday 14 June 2006

• Peter Temple (transcript available)

Tuesday 13 June 2006

• Review of Kathryn Fox: Without Consent
• Audrey Niffenegger
• Ruby Langford Ginibi

Monday 12 June 2006

• Tom Maschler - the writer's business

Sunday 11 June 2006

• Anna Politkovskaya: Putin's Russia
• Haifa Zangana

Friday 09 June 2006

• The War On Words (transcript available)

Thursday 08 June 2006

• Haifa Zangana on the war in Iraq

Wednesday 07 June 2006

• Great Writers, Great Loves: The Reinvention of Love in the Twentieth Century
• Sennett's The Culture of the New Capitalism (review)

Tuesday 06 June 2006

• Uzodinma Iweala: Beasts of No Nation
• Anna Politkovskaya: Putin's Russia
• Speculative Fiction - Paul Voerman's review

Monday 05 June 2006

• All the President's Men: Hendrik Hertzberg and Bob Carr

Sunday 04 June 2006

• John Banville: in conversation at the Sydney Writers' Festival

Friday 02 June 2006

• Women of Independence (transcript available)

Thursday 01 June 2006

• Jem Poster: Rifling Paradise
• Alain de Botton

May 2006

Wednesday 31 May 2006

• Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Tuesday 30 May 2006

• Carmen Callil: Bad Faith - A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland

Monday 29 May 2006

• John Banville: in conversation at the Sydney Writers' Festival

Sunday 28 May 2006

• The power of performing your own words
• Alvin Pang: the new generation of Singapore poets

Friday 26 May 2006

• Aleksandar Hemon from the Sydney Writers' Festival

Thursday 25 May 2006

• Sydney Writers' Festival director on the 2006 program
• Lynn Freed, on can creative writing be taught?

Wednesday 24 May 2006

• Hairy Maclary, Bottomley Potts, Schnitzel von Crumm and Lynley Dodd
• Tim Parks: trials and tribulations of writing about the Medicis

Tuesday 23 May 2006

• Alvin Pang - The new generation of Singapore poets
• The Power of Performing Your Own Words pt. 2

Monday 22 May 2006

• NT Wordstorm Festival: The Power of Performing Your Own Words

Sunday 21 May 2006

• Inhaling the Mahatma with Christopher Kremmer
• Janet McCalman on Richard Broome's Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800

Friday 19 May 2006

• Live from Northern Territory Writers' Festival

Thursday 18 May 2006

• Live from Northern Territory Writers' Festival
• Live from Northern Territory Writers' Festival 2

Wednesday 17 May 2006

• Jill Kitson's review of Philip Roth's Everyman
• The David Unaipon Award for Indigenous Writers

Tuesday 16 May 2006

• The UK National Short Story Prize
• Richard Hawke: Speak Of The Devil
• Review of Vincent O'Sullivan's Pictures by Goya and Other Stories

Monday 15 May 2006

• Shalom Auslander: Beware Of God
• Janet McCalman on Richard Broome's Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800

Sunday 14 May 2006

• Les Murray
• David Bergen

Friday 12 May 2006

• Inhaling the Mahatma with Christopher Kremmer

Thursday 11 May 2006

• Cassandra Pybus: Black Founders

Wednesday 10 May 2006

• Les Murray

Tuesday 09 May 2006

• A molluscular history of New York, and why the world is Mark Kurlansky's oyster
• Michelle Paver
• Paul Voermans reviews Subtopia

Monday 08 May 2006

• David Bergen
• Poetry review: Ken Bolton

Sunday 07 May 2006

• The history of reportage (transcript available)

Friday 05 May 2006

• Harold Pinter: Art, Truth and Politics
• First Person - Well Done Those Men

Thursday 04 May 2006

• Michael Hofmann on Joseph Roth

Wednesday 03 May 2006

• Norman Cohn

Tuesday 02 May 2006

• Dame Fiona Kidman

Monday 01 May 2006

• Cees Noteboom

April 2006

Sunday 30 April 2006

• Oil: Anatomy Of An Industry (transcript available)
• Roger Pulvers

Friday 28 April 2006

• The Book Club: Classics: Books for Life

Thursday 27 April 2006

• Linda Jaivin: The Infernal Optimist (transcript available)
• Danny Katz: M.O.T.H.E.R

Wednesday 26 April 2006

• Stephen Miller on conversation (transcript available)
• Kazuo Ishiguro and Michel Houellebecq's post-human visions (review)

Tuesday 25 April 2006

• Dorothy Porter

Monday 24 April 2006

• Inside A Dog
• Roger Pulvers

Sunday 23 April 2006

• Donna Daley-Clarke: Lazy Eye (transcript available)
• Richard Hawke: Speak Of The Devil

Friday 21 April 2006

• Culling the bookshelf

Thursday 20 April 2006

• Oil: Anatomy Of An Industry
• Adrian Caesar's High Wire: review (transcript available)

Wednesday 19 April 2006

• Donna Daley-Clarke: Lazy Eye (transcript available)
• Mark McLeod: Book Now

Tuesday 18 April 2006

• Lyndall Gordon's Mary Wollstonecraft
• Bartleby & Co, by Enrique Vila-Matas (transcript available)

Monday 17 April 2006

• Joanne Harris

Sunday 16 April 2006

• Mediology and the evolution of God
• Elizabeth Jolley

Friday 14 April 2006

• Cultural policy

Thursday 13 April 2006

• Beckett centenary

Wednesday 12 April 2006

• Clive James

Tuesday 11 April 2006

• Orhan Pamuk's novel, Snow (review)
• Elizabeth Jolley

Monday 10 April 2006

• Peter Carey: Theft: A Love Story (transcript available)

Sunday 09 April 2006

• A tribute to John McGahern
• Adam Morton: On Evil (transcript available)

Friday 07 April 2006

• Second book block
• Geoff Page reviews Silently on the Tide, by Peter Hayes

Thursday 06 April 2006

• Samuel Beckett's 100th birthday (transcript available)

Wednesday 05 April 2006

• A tribute to John McGahern
• If the World Were a Village

Tuesday 04 April 2006

• Penelope Layland: Suburban Anatomy (review)
• Adam Morton: On Evil

Monday 03 April 2006

• National Biography Award Lecture: Robyn Archer

Sunday 02 April 2006

• Carolyn Leach-Paholski: The Grasshopper Shoe
• Samuel Shimon: An Iraqi In Paris

March 2006

Friday 31 March 2006

• Book Show Book Club: Kate Grenville

Thursday 30 March 2006

• Mediology and the evolution of God
• Fatelessness

Wednesday 29 March 2006

• Virginia Quarterly Review
• Samuel Shimon: An Iraqi In Paris

Tuesday 28 March 2006

• Carloyn Leach-Paholski: The Grasshopper Shoe
• Carolyn Leach-Paholski: The Grasshopper Shoe
• On Looking at Looking: The art and politics of Ian Burn (review)

Monday 27 March 2006

• Hilary McPhee on Dan Brown
• Commonwealth Games Scottish literary event

Sunday 26 March 2006

• Mark Twain: A Life (transcript available)
• Hilary McPhee on Truman Capote

Friday 24 March 2006

• Sci-Fi/Fantasy discussion

Thursday 23 March 2006

• Craig Sherborne: Hoi Polloi
• Tim Parks: making a documentary

Wednesday 22 March 2006

• Mark Twain: A Life (transcript available)
• Fatelessness: review

Tuesday 21 March 2006

• Graham Freudenberg in conversation with Don Watson
• Review: Wallace-Crabbe's The Universe Looks Down

Monday 20 March 2006

• Hilary McPhee on Truman Capote
• Geraldine McCaughrean: The White Darkness

Sunday 19 March 2006

• Patricia Dunker: Miss Webster and Cherif (transcript available)
• Translating Eugene Onegin (transcript available)

Friday 17 March 2006

• Charles Leadbeater

Thursday 16 March 2006

• John Latham: his art and ideas
• Translating Eugene Onegin (transcript available)

Wednesday 15 March 2006

• Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2006
• Sports writing

Tuesday 14 March 2006

• Patricia Dunker: Miss Webster and Cherif

Monday 13 March 2006

• Andre Brink (transcript available)

Sunday 12 March 2006

• Tony Birch: Shadowboxing (transcript available)
• Michael Cunningham: Specimen Days (transcript available)

Friday 10 March 2006

• Athol Fugard: Tsotsi (transcript available)
• Tim Parks discusses The Perfect Hoax

Thursday 09 March 2006

• Olivier Barrot: Un livre, un jour
• Jeremy Mercer: Shakespeare & Co (transcript available)

Wednesday 08 March 2006

• Roland Harvey pressured to conform
• Michael Cunningham: Specimen Days (transcript available)

Tuesday 07 March 2006

• Tony Birch: Shadowboxing

Monday 06 March 2006

• MJ Hyland: Carry Me Down
• Tim Krabbé

Sunday 05 March 2006

• What I Heard About Iraq (transcript available)
• Lisa See: secret women's writing (transcript available)

Friday 03 March 2006

• George Packer on America in Iraq

Thursday 02 March 2006

• The writings of Magnus Mills (transcript available)
• Lisa See: secret women's writing (transcript available)

Wednesday 01 March 2006

• Hilary McPhee
• James Bradley: The Resurrectionist

February 2006

Tuesday 28 February 2006

• What I Heard About Iraq (transcript available)
• Duncan Ball's tenth Emily Eyefinger

Monday 27 February 2006

• The Davidson Private Book Collection
• Review: Trollope's Second Honeymoon

Sunday 26 February 2006

• Jon Cleary (transcript available)
• Gail Jones: Dreams of Speaking (transcript available)

Friday 24 February 2006

• Inaugural Book Show Book Club: Alex Miller's Prochownik's Dream

Thursday 23 February 2006

• All done with mirrors: Iain Wright (transcript available)

Wednesday 22 February 2006

• Bem Le Hunte :There, Where the Pepper Grows
• Gail Jones: Dreams of Speaking (transcript available)
• Bem Le Hunte: There, Where the Pepper Grows

Tuesday 21 February 2006

• Jon Cleary (transcript available)
• David Rollins: The Death Trust

Monday 20 February 2006

• Creative writing at East Anglia
• EH Gombrich: A Little History of The World (transcript available)

Sunday 19 February 2006

• Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man
• Emergency Sex (and other desperate measures)

Friday 17 February 2006

• The Art of the Obituary: Panel Discussion

Thursday 16 February 2006

• Helen Garner: the accidental film critic
• JM Coetzee: Is there thinking without language?

Wednesday 15 February 2006

• Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man (transcript available)
• Brisbane Writer's Festival
• Mortification: writers' stories of their public shame

Tuesday 14 February 2006

• Emergency Sex - and other desperate measures (transcript available)
• Jill Kitson discusses Nadine Gordimer

Monday 13 February 2006

• Athol Fugard: Tsotsi (transcript available)
• Contemporary impact of the WW2 Allied bombing of Dresden

Sunday 12 February 2006

• Malcolm Knox - Overland Lecture - The Fate of Publishing

Friday 10 February 2006

• Google Book Search: panel discussion (transcript available)

Thursday 09 February 2006

• Mirror of the World

Wednesday 08 February 2006

• Sandra Thibodeaux on Darwin's Word Storm Writers' Festival
• Review of Susan Hampton's poem, The Kindly Ones
• Leigh Hobbs and Jane Godwin On Children's Literature

Tuesday 07 February 2006

• David Vise on The Google Story
• Jill Kitson's summer reading
• Fifty Degrees Below by Kim Stanley Robinson

Monday 06 February 2006

• Marion Halligan: The Apricot Colonel (transcript available)
• John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Sunday 05 February 2006

• Simon Nasht : The Last Explorer
• Ian Wilson: Lost World of the Kimberley

Friday 03 February 2006

• Malcolm Knox - Overland Lecture - The Fate of Publishing

Thursday 02 February 2006

• Shane Carmody: the new age of libraries
• Caryl Phillips

Wednesday 01 February 2006

• Rosemary Cameron: incoming director of the Melbourne Writers' Festival
• Ian Wilson: Lost World of the Kimberley

January 2006

Tuesday 31 January 2006

• Ann McCulloch and John Wolseley: The Art of the Notebook (transcript available)
• Art Since 1900: review

Monday 30 January 2006

• Simon Nasht : The Last Explorer (transcript available)

Friday 27 January 2006

• The health of Australian publishing

Thursday 26 January 2006

• Norman Lindsay
• Val Attenbrow : Sydney's Aboriginal Past

Wednesday 25 January 2006

• Alex Skovron - 'The Poet'
• Joan Didion: The Year of Magical Thinking (transcript available)
• The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (review)

Tuesday 24 January 2006

• Harold Pinter: Art, Truth and Politics
• Harold Pinter: Art, Truth and Politics (transcript available)

Monday 23 January 2006

• Dennis Altman: Gore Vidal's America (transcript available)

Saturday 07 January 2006

• Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun (transcript available)

Tuesday 03 January 2006

• Inhaling the Mahatma with Christopher Kremmer