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:
Screenwriter Mac Gudgeon joins Tony Wilson for a Texts in the City session on the 1985 film Witness.
French author Yannick Haenel talks to Mark Baker about the holocaust and Jan Karski, The Messenger.
William Henderson and Tony Wilson discuss current VCE English text and classic play The Crucible.
North American writer Annie Proulx discusses "wiggling small things out of the unknown and onto the page" with Michael Williams.
Scottish novelist Andrew O'Hagan returns to Australia to talk about Maf the Dog and Marilyn Monroe.
Researcher Joanne Faulkner argues against our culture's ill-begotten pairing of childhood and innocence.
Jonathan Green, Alison Croggon, Jeff Sparrow and Sophie Cunningham discuss Twitter and its relationship to privacy, publicity and endless distraction.
In our first Texts in the City session for VCE English students, Stephanie Trigg and Tony Wilson discuss Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy.
Tom Cho, Virginia Lovett, Wes Snelling and Ana Kokkinos share their stories and thoughts on coming out and fitting in.
Sophie Cunningham, Benjamin Law, Fiona McGregor and William Yang consider what makes a piece of writing gay.
In this Lunchbox/Soapbox appearance, broadcaster Helen Razer expands on her controversial critique of gay arts culture.
Toby Schmitz and Nick Coyle share their haunted, spooky tales at Fright Night.
John Wood, author of Leaving Microsoft to Change the World, tells the story of the global non-profit literacy organisation he founded.
In the first of a new series, biographers and colleagues toast The Late Great literary legend Patrick White.
Sophie Cunningham explores our response to change and crisis, and asks how we can regain our grip on reality.
