Episodes
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The Reckoning: Pandemic Politics
Sydney Festival and UNSW Centre for Ideas present Politics has been transformed by the COVID era, with national power siphoned towards state premiers, the allergy to massive government spending thrown out the window and scientific advice brought to the fore. But as well as new developments, the...
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The Reckoning: Australia's Turning Point - Dan Ilic Special
What defines Australia in 2022? We’ve always pinned our identity on land and sea. As an island full of unique animals and home to the oldest living culture in the world, we’ve lived off the land one way or another, be it from bush tucker or mining the minerals in our red earth. But as our...
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The Reckoning: Australia's Turning Point
Sydney Festival and UNSW Centre for Ideas present What defines Australia in 2022? We’ve always pinned our identity on land and sea. As an island full of unique animals and home to the oldest living culture in the world, we’ve lived off the land one way or another, be it from bush tucker or mining...
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The Reckoning: The Price of COVID
Sydney Festival and UNSW Centre for Ideas present While many of us (sorry Melbourne) spent 2020 believing we had escaped the worst of the pandemic, 2021 brought forth the ugly reality of living with the virus. Even as the nation returns to something that feels like normal, beneath the thrill of...
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Chris Reason: Terror on the Ground – Lindt Café Siege
When the Lindt Cafe Siege brought the Sydney CBD to a standstill, the Seven newsroom was in the unique position of being right at the crime scene. Chris Reason was on air for hours and hours to cover the breaking story, while police snipers also used the newsroom as a tactical vantage point.…
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Kate McClymont: Digging up the Underbelly of Sydney's Upper Echelon
The Sydney Morning Herald investigative journalist Kate McClymont has seven Walkley Awards – including the 2002 Gold Walkley and 2020 Print News Walkley – and a reputation that strikes fear into the heart of politicians, criminals and anyone who’s dabbled in corruption. She’s a hilarious...
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Patrick Abboud: 'Doing' Diversity: Out and Proud
Patrick Abboud uncovers stories you never knew existed in ways you won't forget. Broadcasting for more than a decade across SBS, the ABC and now Network 10, Pat’s speciality is ‘doing diversity’ and his award-winning storytelling is described as “Must Watch TV”. An openly gay journalist and...
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Laura Murphy-Oates & Lorena Allam: The Killing Times
The Killing Times won the 2019 Walkley Award for Coverage of Indigenous Affairs, netting Guardian Australia’s Indigenous Affairs editor Lorena Allam her first of two Walkleys for Coverage of Indigenous Affairs. Descended from the Gamilaraay and Yawalaraay, Allam led the Guardian investigation...
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Nick Moir & Sylvia Liber: Triggered – Photojournalism in Natural Disasters
Nick Moir is Chief Photographer for The Sydney Morning Herald, and the 2020 Nikon-Walkley Feature/Photo Essay Award-winner for Firestorm, Moir’s middle-of-the-inferno coverage of the 2019/2020 summer bushfires. Illawarra Mercury photographer Sylvia Liber is the 2020 Nikon-Walkley Prize winner for...
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Dalarinji – Ours, Yours, Everyone's
Sport has done an admirable job of using the connectivity of the internet to combat the isolation imposed by COVID – how can Australia’s arts scene, in particular, First Nations artists, make the most of the nbn™ network to expand the regional and global audience for Australian art? Sydney…
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Darcy Grant wants to normalise five person handstands
Sydney Festival Artistic Director, Wesley Enoch was joined by Creative Lead of Gravity & Other Myths Darcy Grant to chat about his upcoming show, The Pulse. Darcy Grant is a classically trained acrobat, award-winning fine art photographer, physical theatre director and founding member of Circa,...
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Michael Kantor wants to bring musicals to supermarkets
Sydney Festival Artistic Director, Wesley Enoch was joined by award-winning director Michael Kantor to chat about his upcoming SydFest show, RAPTURE: A song cycle of Desire and Ecstasy, Murder and Mayhem. Michael Kantor is an opera, theatre, and film director of some 25 years, working for nearly...
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Kate Gaul is gender bending theatre classics
Sydney Festival Artistic Director, Wesley Enoch was joined by award-winning director Kate Gaul to chat about her upcoming SydFest show, H.M.S. Pinafore. Kate Gaul is a theatre director, producer, and designer, with directing credits that include plays, opera, physical theatre, devised works, and...
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Katie Noonan believes the best musicians are from Brisbane
Sydney Festival Artistic Director, Wesley Enoch was joined by five-time ARIA award-winning artist Katie Noonan to chat about her upcoming SydFest performance, Songs of Don. Over the past 20 years, Katie Noonan has proven herself one of Australia’s most hardworking, versatile, and prolific…
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Scott Wright creates puppets to save pygmy possums
Sydney Festival Artistic Director, Wesley Enoch was joined by award-winning artistic director Scott Wright to chat about his upcoming SydFest show, Duba. Scott Wright is the Artistic Director and co-founder of Erth – Visual & Physical Inc., a company recognised internationally as an innovator of...
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Introducing the Sydney Festival podcast
Our program this year is all Australian Made, and this new podcast is a collection of live talks, artist chats and big ideas from the Festival hosted by Wesley Enoch. With this series, we take a minute to recover after the year we’ve had... to reconnect with our community, reinvigorate our local...
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A collection of live talks, artist chats and big ideas hosted by Wesley Enoch the Artistic Director of Sydney Festival.
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