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Separate stories podcast
by ABC Radio National
Books and Arts explores the many worlds of performance, writing, music and visual arts, and features interviews with local and international authors and artists.
Episodes
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2017 Miles Franklin Award Winner: Josephine Wilson's novel Extinctions
Five days with a retired concrete engineer in Western Australia in 2006, and it's funny.
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Stephen Page on Bangarra's Bennelong
The Artistic Director of Bangarra Dance Theatre, Stephen Page, on the 2017 production which told the story of Bennelong, an Eora man who became a conduit between his people and the newly arrived settlers at Sydney Cove.
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Krissy Kneen: An Uncertain Grace
Krissy Kneen on her latest novel, An Uncertain Grace, which is about taboos around younger and older sexual desires and why jellyfish are important.
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Top Shelf: Chris Brookmyre
Scottish crimewriter Chris Brookmyre reveals what has influenced him, and throws in a song based on one of his novels.
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The wonders of the recorder
Recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey plays for us and talks about the contemporary potential of her ancient instrument.
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Tony Jones's debut novel, The Twentieth Man
Tony Jones, the host of the ABC's Q&A program, released his first novel in 2017, which travels between the streets of Sydney, the corridors of Parliament House, and the mountains of Yugoslavia.
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Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
Argentine literary star Samanta Schweblin discusses her surreal and unsettling novel Fever Dream.
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Top Shelf: crime writer Michael Robotham
What works does Michael Robotham reach for on his Top Shelf?
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Tree of Codes by Wayne McGregor
What happens when you bring together choreographer Wayne McGregor, artist Ólafur Eliasson and musician Jamie XX? An innovative dance piece based on a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer.
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Chris Womersley on his new novel City of Crows
Award-winning Melbourne author, Chris Womersley, is back with a novel set in 1673 in France during the plague.
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Top Shelf: Peter Houghton
Melbourne based actor, director and playwright Peter Houghton joins us with some surprising favourites on his Top Shelf.
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Why is the art from the APY lands so good?
We travel to remote communities in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands of South Australia to find out why these tiny art centres are producing such phenomenal contemporary art.
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The Disappearance of Émile Zola
Michael Rosen follows the famous French author in exile in London after he was sentenced to prison for his vocal support of Alfred Dreyfus.
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Canadian storyteller and writer Ivan Coyote
Through stories of their life and family, Ivan Coyote works fearlessly at the edges of gender, queer and identity politics.
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Top Shelf: Claire Fuller
British author Claire Fuller discusses the books, films and music that inspired her to become a writer.
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Jenny Watson: suburban girl to feminist punk
The Museum of Contemporary Art's exhibition (which is now on at the Heide Museum of Contemporary Art in Melbourne) Jenny Watson: the Fabric of Fantasy covers four decades of the artist's work, including work on unconventional fabrics and featuring self-portraits, alter-egos, horses and rockstars.
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Min Jin Lee: Pachinko
Across four generations and almost a century, Pachinko tells the story of a Korean family's search for identity.
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Walking the fictional beat
Crime writers Adrian McKinty and Candice Fox both use police officers as central characters in their fiction. Why and how?
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Entertaining Crime? The view from a working detective and a former police officer
Detective Chief Inspector Gary Jubelin is a senior homicide detective in the NSW police force. There's nothing fictional about his working life or the crimes he investigates.
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Tracy Chevalier at the Melbourne Writers Festival
A conversation with British American writer Tracy Chevalier about her recent books New Boy, a retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, and At the Edge of the Orchard, which is set in 19th century America and tells the story of a dysfunctional pioneer family.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's lost stories
A 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
Legendary jazz musician James Morrison with his Top Shelf picks.
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Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the Making of Make Me
A 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
Colson 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
Between the Lines was an art exhibition by homeless artists in Melbourne.
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Lia Hills' novel The Crying Place
Lia 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
Bibliophile Stuart Kells on real and imagined libraries and the love of books.
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Michael Adams: In Praise of Profanity
Is swearing a sign of moral failing? Or an important mode of expression?
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Heard This and Thought of You: John Clarke
A 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
d 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
Paul Robeson was one of the most famous actors in Hollywood. What brought his glittering career undone?
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Top Shelf: TextaQueen
Artist TextaQueen on what favourite artists inspire her works.
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Vernon Ah Kee: not an animal or a plant
Not 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
The 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
Academic 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
Arts 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
Randa 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
Naomi 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
Actor, dancer and choreographer Noel Tovey reflects on his 8 decades.
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Christopher Orchard creator of the Bald Man
South Australian artist Christopher Orchard was the feature artist in the 2017 South Australian Living Artists Festival.
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Clouds in nature and culture with Richard Hamblyn
The 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
A 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
Songs and stories from Richard’s extraordinary life.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen The Refugees
What 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
Author 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'
In a Currency Press essay, Andrew Bovell reflects on his long career as a playwright and screenwriter.
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Barrie Kosky's Saul
The 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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Books and Arts explores the many worlds of performance, writing, music and visual arts, and features interviews with local and international authors and artists.
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