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Saturday 9 Dec 2017
Masha Gessen, Tony Birch and Black Lives Matter activists, Patrice Cullors and Rodney Diverlus, on dissent, resistance and building a movement.
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Saturday 2 Dec 2017
Kenneth Roth, Erik Jensen and Cheryl Strayed on fear, anxiety and the end of the world.
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Saturday 25 Nov 2017
Vivian Gornick, Robert Dessaix and Barry Jones on ageing, accumulating and gaining insight.
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Saturday 18 Nov 2017
Andy Field, Stephen Heintz and Geraldine Doogue talk money, debt, art and philanthropy.
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Saturday 11 Nov 2017
Helen Razer, Jamila Rizvi and Julian Burnside ask the urgent and provocative questions facing contemporary Australia.
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Saturday 4 Nov 2017
Kate Tempest, Carrie Brownstein, Paul Kelly and others reflect on music, language and musical inspiration.
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Saturday 28 Oct 2017
The cult of celebrity is one of the defining features of contemporary culture but what drives our curiosity about the lives of others?
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Saturday 21 Oct 2017
Tony Wheeler, Chris Turney and Favel Parrett reflect on the journeys and places that have shaped them.
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Saturday 14 Oct 2017
Jennifer Saunders, Catherine Deveny and Lenore Skenazy on what it means to be a good enough parent.
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Saturday 7 Oct 2017
Maxine Beneba Clarke, Clementine Ford and others reflect on the experience of girlhood and issues of sexuality, gender identity, race and belonging.
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Saturday 30 Sep 2017
Rob Carlton, Clementine Ford and Izzeldin Abuelaish reflect on death, loss and the experience of enduring grief-stricken life.
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Saturday 23 Sep 2017
What place does religion have in modern life? Alain de Botton, Meshel Laurie and Chris Stedman reflect on the value of faith and spirituality in an increasingly uncertain world.
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Saturday 16 Sep 2017
Masha Gessen, Dennis Altman and others reflect on the problems of love, gay rights and same sex marriage in the 21st century.
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Saturday 9 Sep 2017
Roxane Gay, George Saunders, Brit Bennett and John Safran on the role of the writer as an agitator and provocateur in an apparently post-truth era.
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Saturday 2 Sep 2017
We examine the way in which war is remembered, memorialised and mythologised in Australia.
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Saturday 26 Aug 2017
Put aside your urban comforts, feel the soil beneath your feet, and push out into the wild.
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Saturday 19 Aug 2017
Tim Rogers, Alice Pung and other impressive people reflecting on the fine art of keeping it together and making it through the tough times.
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Saturday 12 Aug 2017
Why are we so obsessed with body image? Why is our shape and our look a battleground for questions of politics, power and identity?
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Saturday 5 Aug 2017
Modern life is obsessed with personal success: keeping score with life and career, money and prestige, but how comfortable are we in talking honestly about the moments we fail?
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Saturday 29 Jul 2017
This week on Talkfest, we look at a much discussed area in Australian cultural and political life: Indigenous recognition.
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Saturday 22 Jul 2017
What do we talk about when we talk about family?
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Saturday 15 Jul 2017
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Talkfest, and today we devote the hour to heroes big and small.
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Saturday 8 Jul 2017
We head out to the furthest reaches of space to talk about exploration, Mars simulations and whether we're cultivating the right type of nerd.
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Saturday 1 Jul 2017
Today on Talkfest, it's time for a discussion about the birds and the bees.
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Saturday 24 Jun 2017
We explore the power, the perversity, and the playful potential of words.
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Friday 16 Jun 2017
From ABC RN and the Wheeler Centre, Talkfest invites you to take a front-row seat for some of Australia’s most compelling moments in public conversation.
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