The Wheeler Centre: Books, Writing, Ideas: Videos
Summary: Events and interviews from the world of books, writing and ideas, presented by The Wheeler Centre
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Podcasts:
In this video-only Texts in the City, Jenny Niven and Chris Wallace-Crabbe look at Collected Poems of Gwen Harwood.
Lorin Clarke joins Ruby Murray to discuss Louis Nowra's Australian classic, Cosi.
David Williamson celebrates the Australian Writers Guild's 50th anniversary with his State of the Industry Address.
Chris Stedman argues the importance of atheists and the religious engaging in thoughtful, compassionate ways to address the big challenges of our time.
Controversial author, therapist and social commentator Bettina Arndt polemicises on sex in long-term heterosexual relationships.
Chris Wallace-Crabbe joins Ramona Koval to discuss the poems of Judith Wright.
George Megalogenis discusses his incisive book on Australia's place in the global economy. With Annabel Crabb.
Ken Haley leads us on a wheeled journey through the philosophical principle of mutual incomprehension.
Sally Warhaft is joined by Lesley Lamb, Paul Sheahan and David Zyngier to discuss the Gonski report on education.
Editor and publisher Kabita Dhara joins Ruby Murray to discuss Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies.
Rodney Hall joins Ramona Koval to explore *The Getting of Wisdom* by Henry Handel Richardson.
Growing Up Asian In Australia contributor Benjamin Law discusses the text and its topic with Andrew McDonald.
British-Bangladeshi Alom Shaha discusses atheism, secularism, Alain de Botton and independent thinking with John Safran.
Writer and critic Michael Shmith takes clichés to task in this humorous critique of lazy language and woeful writing.
Toni Jordan joins Ruby Murray to discuss the historical fiction of Geraldine Brooks' Year of Wonders.
