Award-winning Wiradjuri writer Anita Heiss talks about Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams), her epic new historical novel centred on a young Aboriginal couple’s search for home, in conversation with Paul Barclay.

Recorded for MWF in 2021.

Award-winning Wiradjuri writer Anita Heiss talks about Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams), her epic new historical novel centred on a young Aboriginal couple&rsquo;s search for home, in conversation with Paul Barclay.
Recorded for MWF in 2021.

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Anita Heiss: Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

In this stunning conversation, celebrated authors Emily Maguire (Rapture) and Josephine Rowe (Little World) cover the mundane, the miraculous and writing the ineffable. 

Hear them discuss their latest works exploring faith, fate and the nature of belief, with Jaclyn Crupi. 

Recorded live at Melbourne Writers Festival.

In this stunning conversation, celebrated authors Emily Maguire (Rapture) and Josephine Rowe (Little World) cover the mundane, the miraculous and writing the ineffable.&nbsp;
Hear them discuss their latest works exploring faith, fate and the nature of belief, with Jaclyn Crupi.&nbsp;
Recorded live at Melbourne Writers Festival.

Emily Maguire and Josephine Rowe: Are You There, God?

Santilla Chingaipe (Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Australia), Sita Sargeant (She Shapes History) and Steve Vizard (Nation, Memory, Myth: Gallipoli and the Australian Imaginary) come together to bring to light misunderstood, mythologised or lesser-known dimensions of Australian history.

From the global slave trade and Gallipoli to the women who shaped our country but were omitted from the history books, this discussion addresses how the stories we choose to tell – and those that are left out – shape our national identity.

Hosted by ABC Radio National's Natasha Mitchell. 

Supported by ARA.

Recorded live at Melbourne Writers Festival.

Santilla Chingaipe (Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Australia), Sita Sargeant (She Shapes History) and Steve Vizard (Nation, Memory, Myth: Gallipoli and the Australian Imaginary)&nbsp;come together to bring to light misunderstood, mythologised or lesser-known dimensions of Australian history.
From the global slave trade and Gallipoli to the women who shaped our country but were omitted from the history books, this discussion addresses how the stories we choose to tell &ndash; and those that are left out &ndash; shape our national identity.
Hosted by ABC Radio National's Natasha Mitchell.&nbsp;
Supported by ARA.
Recorded live at Melbourne Writers Festival.

The Past is a Foreign Country

Hannah Kent has won legions of fans with works like Burial Rights, The Good People and Devotion. Now, she presents her debut work of non-fiction – a tender, diaristic love letter to her muse, Iceland.

Always Home, Always Homesick is both a memoir of Kent’s experiences of living in Iceland, and a wider consideration of how literature forms the heart of the nation's culture and identity.

Speaking with ABC Radio National’s Richard Fidler, Kent explores distance and belonging, writing place and the self, and how Iceland has shaped the person she is today.

Recorded live at Melbourne Writers Festival.

Hannah Kent&nbsp;has won legions of fans with works like&nbsp;Burial Rights,&nbsp;The Good People&nbsp;and&nbsp;Devotion. Now, she presents her debut work of non-fiction &ndash; a tender, diaristic love letter to her muse, Iceland. Always Home, Always Homesick&nbsp;is both a memoir of Kent&rsquo;s experiences of living in Iceland, and a wider consideration of how literature forms the heart of the nation's culture and identity. Speaking with ABC Radio National&rsquo;s&nbsp;Richard Fidler, Kent explores distance and belonging, writing place and the self, and how Iceland has shaped the person she is today.
Recorded live at Melbourne Writers Festival.

Anita Heiss: Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

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