Start your day the right way, with a stimulating discussion of the latest news headlines and hot button topics from The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. Today, hear from Chigozie Obioma (Writers' Week), Kavita Puri (Writers' Week) and Jillian Attrill (Head of Arts and Entertainment, The Advertiser).


ABOUT TODAY'S PANEL


Chigozie Obioma
Chigozie Obioma was born in 1986 in Akure, Nigeria, and currently lives in the United States. He graduated from the University of Michigan with an MFA in Creative Writing and was a recipient of a Hopwood Award in fiction and poetry. He is now an assistant professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His debut novel, The Fishermen, is winner of the inaugural FT/Oppenheimer Award for Fiction, the NAACP Image Awards for Debut Literary Work, and the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (Los Angeles Times Book Prizes).


Kavita Puri
Kavita Puri works in BBC Current Affairs and is an award- winning TV executive producer and radio broadcaster. Her landmark three-part series Partition Voices for BBC Radio 4 won the Royal Historical Society's Radio and Podcast Award and its overall Public History Prize. Her critically acclaimed Radio 4 series, Three Pounds in My Pocket, charts the social history of British South Asians from the post-war years. She is currently making the third series. She worked for many years at Newsnight and studied Law at Cambridge University.


Jillian Attrill 
Jillian has worked in key roles with some of the world’s leading media organisations, including News Corp, Sky News and the Nine Network, with an extensive period as a Senior Executive with Australia’s national public broadcaster, the ABC. She currently heads up the arts and entertainment section of The Advertiser in Adelaide. 
 

Start your day the right way, with a stimulating discussion of the latest news headlines and hot button topics from The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. Today, hear from Chigozie Obioma (Writers' Week), Kavita Puri (Writers' Week) and Jillian Attrill (Head of Arts and Entertainment, The Advertiser).


ABOUT TODAY'S PANEL


Chigozie Obioma
Chigozie Obioma was born in 1986 in Akure, Nigeria, and currently lives in the United States. He graduated from the University of Michigan with an MFA in Creative Writing and was a recipient of a Hopwood Award in fiction and poetry. He is now an assistant professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His debut novel, The Fishermen, is winner of the inaugural FT/Oppenheimer Award for Fiction, the NAACP Image Awards for Debut Literary Work, and the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (Los Angeles Times Book Prizes).


Kavita Puri
Kavita Puri works in BBC Current Affairs and is an award- winning TV executive producer and radio broadcaster. Her landmark three-part series Partition Voices for BBC Radio 4 won the Royal Historical Society's Radio and Podcast Award and its overall Public History Prize. Her critically acclaimed Radio 4 series, Three Pounds in My Pocket, charts the social history of British South Asians from the post-war years. She is currently making the third series. She worked for many years at Newsnight and studied Law at Cambridge University.


Jillian Attrill 
Jillian has worked in key roles with some of the world’s leading media organisations, including News Corp, Sky News and the Nine Network, with an extensive period as a Senior Executive with Australia’s national public broadcaster, the ABC. She currently heads up the arts and entertainment section of The Advertiser in Adelaide. 
 

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Panel discussions from Breakfast with Papers at the 2021 Adelaide Festival.

Panel discussions from Breakfast with Papers at the 2020 Adelaide Festival.

Breakfast with Papers

Start your day the right way, with a stimulating discussion of the latest news headlines and hot button topics from The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. Today, hear from Chigozie Obioma (Writers' Week), Kavita Puri (Writers' Week) and Jillian Attr...