24 Episodes

  1. Bo Seo on how to have a good argument

    Published: 28/12/2022
  2. Rachel Franks on colonial Australia’s noseless hangman

    Published: 21/12/2022
  3. Jennifer Down on why we need to read about trauma

    Published: 14/12/2022
  4. Jilda Andrews and John Carty on Aboriginal art and what it means to belong

    Published: 07/12/2022
  5. Evelyn Araluen on the dark side of Blinky Bill

    Published: 23/11/2022
  6. Siang Lu on who gets to be a Hollywood hero

    Published: 16/11/2022
  7. SL Lim on rage, revenge and unfairness

    Published: 09/11/2022
  8. Brigid Delaney on how the Stoics taught her not to worry

    Published: 02/11/2022
  9. Paul Cleary on land rights, native title and big mining

    Published: 29/04/2022
  10. Omar Musa on using humour to talk about racism, colonialism and inequality

    Published: 22/04/2022
  11. Hannah Kent on challenging shame through historical fiction

    Published: 15/04/2022
  12. Craig Sherborne on love, death and complicated mothers

    Published: 08/04/2022
  13. Yumna Kassab on how we imagine Australia in literature

    Published: 01/04/2022
  14. Chelsea Watego on sovereignty, survival and self-determination in the colony | Book It In podcast

    Published: 25/03/2022
  15. Heidi Everett on foxes, care and language of the mental health system

    Published: 17/03/2022
  16. Emily Bitto on gender and the hero’s quest

    Published: 27/01/2022
  17. Marion Frith on hope in the aftermath of war

    Published: 20/01/2022
  18. Debi Marshall on the popularity of true crime

    Published: 13/01/2022
  19. Rawah Arja on how to get inside the mind of a teenage boy

    Published: 06/01/2022
  20. Tony Birch on writing true characters in fiction

    Published: 30/12/2021

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