Ideas at the House
453 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsTalks and conversations from the Sydney Opera House featuring the world’s greatest minds and culture creators.
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Rachel Hills: Sex Myths
March 11, 2016 04:14 - 52 minutes - 54.6 MBHow many people have you had sex with? No, don’t tell us! But was your first instinct to tell the truth, to exaggerate or underestimate your ‘magic’ number? We live in a time of unprecedented sexual freedom but underneath we are still governed by conventions and expectations surrounding our sex lives. Journalist and accidental sexpert, Rachel Hillsgoes beneath the covers to discuss how sex myths are causing women just as much unhappiness as ever. Is fetishing sexual activity creating as muc...
Raewyn Connell: Masculinities
March 11, 2016 01:41 - 51 minutes - 52.9 MBMany questions women ask ourselves about how to achieve equality can only be answered if we understand men and masculinity. The Women’s Liberation Movement triggered a worldwide debate about men, and a generation of research about what proved to be masculinities - in the plural. Over the last thirty years, knowledge has accumulated about men’s diversity and collective power, and the making and re-making of masculinities. This helps us understand men’s predominance in the corporate and politic...
Carrie Brownstein: Hunger Makes me a Modern Girl
March 11, 2016 01:37 - 54 minutes - 54.8 MBMusic was a means of self-invention for Carrie Brownstein. Before becoming a music icon, the Emmy-nominated actor and writer had a turbulent family life. From the moment she bought her first guitar at 15, music became her salvation and a way to find a sense of community. But it was her experiences in the independent music industry that sowed the seeds for the award-winning TV show,Portlandia that she went on to co-create and co-star in. With her band mates from Sleater-Kinney, the industry ic...
Michael Mosley: How to Stay Healthy
March 11, 2016 00:28 - 59 minutes - 63.9 MBOur understanding of the human body, how it works and what it needs, has been transformed in recent years by a wave of new scientific discoveries. Yet there is a huge gap between the latest findings and the advice we are given, leaving people more confused than ever before. Dr Michael Mosley, through his work for the BBC and researching his latest books, has had access to scientists round the world working at the cutting edge of research into diet, exercise and nutrition. Can you really get m...
Rosie Waterland - How to be yourself
March 11, 2016 00:19 - 57 minutes - 62.7 MBAustralian writer Rosie Waterland has lived. Before she built a global fanbase by writing hilarious online recaps of the reality television show, The Bachelor, she had to get through a tough childhood. She had to come to terms with not being 'cool'. Navigating her way through a housing commission childhood, eating disorders and mental health issues, she embraced all that she is to become an 'Anti-Cool Girl' (also the title of her debut memoir). In this talk the ‘full frontal memoirist’ shar...
What Needs to Change: Panel
March 08, 2016 05:56 - 1 hour - 80.2 MBIf you could change the world overnight, what would you do first? Featuring: Masha Gessen, Crystal Lameman, Mallory Ortberg, Ann Sherry, Anne- Marie Slaughter, Jenny Brockie (Chair) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nigella Lawson in conversation with Annabel Crabb
January 21, 2016 04:02 - 1 hour - 88.8 MBWith her feet firmly on the ground, and her finger in the mixing bowl, Nigella Lawson has charmed us with her approach to food and cooking. Based on the principle that food should be a simple pleasure to cook and to eat, her recipe books emphasise the importance of friends, family and celebration. At a time when many of the messages we get about food alternate between anxious exhortations to eat ‘clean’ and the technical wizardry of competitive cooking, her relaxed and realistic approach show...
Nicola Scott: From DC to Black Magik
December 02, 2015 23:19 - 1 hour - 87.5 MBNicola Scott is an Australian comic book artist working in the American industry. After working for Dark Horse, Image and IDW, she quickly became a fan-favourite working exclusively for DC Entertainment on monthly titles Birds Of Prey, Secret Six, Wonder Woman, Teen Titans, Superman and New York Times Bestseller Earth 2. She has recently made the gigantic leap of leaving DC comics to start a creator owned book with Greg Rucka (Gotham Central, Batwoman, Queen & Country, Lazarus and more). Th...
Brendan McCarthy - Brutal Future: 2000AD to Mad Max: Fury Road
November 30, 2015 23:17 - 58 minutes - 80.5 MBThe gifted UK cult British comic artist, designer and Mad Max: Fury Road designer/co-writer, Brendan McCarthy offers a rare insight into his 35 year career – covering graphic classics such as 2000 AD's Judge Dredd, the revolutionary 80s US invasion by British comics creators, pioneering pre-Pixar computer animation on the Reboot TV show of the 90s, designing classic pop videos, movies, and a highly regarded series of unique graphic novels. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf...
Cory Doctorow: Saving the Internet from the Surveillance State, Carnegie Conversations
November 30, 2015 05:48 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBThe internet is the 21st century's nervous system and it has made universal surveillance a reality. In the past, even the most repressive authoritarian states would reach a point where it was cheaper to guarantee social stability with schools and hospitals rather than with guns and surveillance devices. But the automation of surveillance has moved this point dramatically. Where the Stasi needed an entire army to surveil one country, East Germany, the NSA and its Five Eyes partners can surveil...
Yanis Varoufakis: Democracy Under Siege, Carnegie Conversations
November 30, 2015 01:27 - 1 hour - 79.4 MBWhat happens when a Professor of Economics gets his hands on the economic levers of a country in the eye of the financial storm? Yanis Varoufakis' seven month stint as Greece's Minister of Finance took him into the heart of the Eurogroup, the IMF, and the continent's top decision-making bodies. With bluntness and force, he put the case for a different solution to Greece’s ills and accused the country’s creditors of terrorism. Telling Bloomberf “I wouldprefer to cut my arm off" rather than ac...
Paul Keating in conversation with Kerry O'Brien
October 21, 2015 05:21 - 1 hour - 81.8 MBPaul Keating, visionary, reformer, true believer, rabble rouser, polymath, and our most intriguing prime minister bares his soul to the country's sharpest political interviewer, Kerry O'Brien.Kerry and Paul wrestle with history to produce a tour de force of political wisdom and personal insight that weaves through the Keating years in a unique and compelling way. Building on the transcripts of the must-watch ABC TV event of 2013 - Keating: the Interviews – Kerry has gathered an enormous bank ...
Next Year's News Now Panel, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 10, 2015 02:40 - 1 hour - 82.3 MBPeter Fray is the Deputy Editor of The Australian. He was the editor-in-chief and founder of the fact-checking website, PolitiFact Australia and had a long and distinguished career at Fairfax Media, most recently as Editor-in-Chief and publisher of the The Sydney Morning Herald and previously as Editor of The Canberra Times and The Sunday Age. Julia Baird is a journalist, broadcaster and author. Her writing has appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, the Guardian, The Sydney Morning Heral...
Indigenous Recognition Panel, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 10, 2015 02:39 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBFrank Brennan SJ AO has a longstanding reputation of advocacy in the areas of law, social justice, refugee protection and Aboriginal reconciliation. He is known for his 1998 involvement in the debate surrounding the Wik peoples’ landmark court case. He is a Jesuit priest, professor of law and writer. Brennan was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1995 for services to Aboriginal Australians, particularly as an advocate in the areas of law, social justice and reconciliation. He ...
Laurie Penny: Lost Boys, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 10, 2015 02:33 - 56 minutes - 60.8 MBLaurie Penny is a feminist, journalist and author. Her books include Unspeakable Things (2014),Cybersexism (2013) and Meat Market (2011). She writes and speaks on social justice, pop culture, gender issues and digital politics for numerous news sources including The Guardian, The New York Times, Vice and Salon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dying Europe Panel, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 10, 2015 02:31 - 57 minutes - 57.7 MBTariq Ali is a British-Pakistani political commentator and a prolific writer, journalist and filmmaker. He has been a leading figure of the international left since the 1960s. His books include The Duel: Pakistan on the Flightpath of American Power, The Obama Syndrome and The Extreme Centre: A Warning. Helen Joyce became international editor of The Economist in January 2014 having previously served as International Education Editor and Sao Paulo bureau chief. Before joining The Economist sh...
A.C. Grayling: Bad Education, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 10, 2015 02:30 - 52 minutes - 57.1 MBAC Grayling is a distinguished philosopher notable for his ability to make philosophy relevant to contemporary readers and audiences. He is Master of the New College of the Humanities, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He is associated with the new atheism movement and is sometimes described as the 'Fifth Horseman of New Atheism'. He has written and edited more than 30 books on philosophy and other subjects; among his most recent are The Challenge of Things, Liberty in ...
Sarai Walker: Radical Fat Acceptance, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 10, 2015 02:25 - 32 minutes - 36 MBSarai Walker received her MFA in creative writing from Bennington College. As a magazine writer, her articles have appeared in Seventeen and Mademoiselle. She served as an editor and writer for Our Bodies, Ourselves, before moving to London and Paris to complete a PhD. Her first novel, Dietland, was published this year, and takes on the beauty industry, gender inequality and our weight loss obsession. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Marc Lewis: Learning Addiction, The Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 10, 2015 02:23 - 58 minutes - 62.2 MBMarc Lewis, a professor at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, is a cognitive neuroscientist known for his research on the development of emotions and personality in childhood and adolescence. His current work, based on an integrative review of the neuroscience of addiction, shows that addiction is not a pathological state but rather an unfortunate result of a brain doing what it's supposed to do -- in fact overdoing it: pursuing pleasure and avoiding risk. Accordingly, he argues...
Inside North Korea Panel, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 10, 2015 02:21 - 55 minutes - 56.3 MBAnna Broinowski is a filmmaker and writer. She is known for films including Forbidden Lie$ (about hoax-author Norma Khouri) and Helen’s War (about anti-nuclear crusader Helen Caldicott). Her film Aim High In Creation! pays tribute to the cinematic genius of North Korea’s late Dear Leader, Kim Jong-il. Determined to stop a new gas mine near her Sydney home, she traveled to North Korea to learn about propaganda from the masters. She has written about her experiences in her 2015 book, The Direc...
Tariq Ali: The Twilight of Democracy, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 10, 2015 02:18 - 58 minutes - 63.2 MBTariq Ali is a British-Pakistani political commentator and a prolific writer, journalist and filmmaker. He has been a leading figure of the international left since the 1960s. His books include The Duel: Pakistan on the Flightpath of American Power, The Obama Sydrome and The Extreme Centre: A Warning. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Helen Joyce: The Right to Die, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 10, 2015 02:02 - 56 minutes - 58.2 MBHelen Joyce became international editor of The Economist in January 2014 having previously served as International Education Editor and Sao Paulo bureau chief. Before joining The Economist she worked as editor of Plus, an online magazine about maths published by the University of Cambridge, and was founding editor for The Royal Statistical Society's quarterly magazine, Significance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Michael Wesley: Feudal World, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 10, 2015 01:50 - 55 minutes - 58.2 MBMichael Wesley is a Professor of National Security at the Australian National University. He is currently the Director of the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Studies in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the ANU. He also consults extensively for the Australian government. He has a new book being released this year called Restless Continent: Wealth, Rivalry and Asia's New Geopolitics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Technophilia Panel, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 10, 2015 01:47 - 59 minutes - 62.2 MBMartin Ford is the founder of a Silicon Valley-based software development firm and the author of two books: The New York Times bestselling Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future and The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future. He has more than 25 years’ experience in the fields of computer design and software development. Marc Lewis, a professor at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, is a cognitive neur...
The New Satirists Panel, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 10, 2015 01:45 - 1 hour - 70.7 MBDan Ilic is one of Australia’s most prolific comedic voices. Dan has been making television in Australia for ten years. His credits include: Australia’s Funniest Home Videos (Nine), Hungry Beast (ABC), Hamster Wheel (ABC), Can of Worms (Ten) and The Feed (SBS2) as well as being a regular on comedy panel shows and news magazine programs. In 2014 Dan raised more than $50,000 through crowd-funding to make A Rational Fear into a web series. Most recently Dan was Senior producer of Satire for AJ+...
Johann Hari: Ceasefire on Drugs, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 10, 2015 01:43 - 56 minutes - 61.3 MBJohann Hari is a British writer and journalist who has written for many of the world’s leading newspapers, including The New York Times, Le Monde, and The Guardian. He was a lead op-ed columnist for The Independent for nine years, and left the newspaper after it was revealed that in some of his interviews, he had used passages that his interviewees had written or said elsewhere, and presented them as if they had been said directly to him. Since then he has written The New York Times best-sell...
Jon Ronson: Shame Culture, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 10, 2015 01:40 - 1 hour - 66.9 MBJon Ronson is a Welsh journalist, author and documentary filmmaker whose works include best-seller The Men Who Stare at Goats and The Psychopath Test. He has been described as a gonzo journalist, known for his informal but sceptical, investigations of controversial fringe politics and science. His new book So You've Been Publicly Shamed explores public humiliation in the internet age. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dennis Glover: Winners and Losers, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 10, 2015 01:38 - 1 hour - 66.1 MBDennis Glover is a professional speech writer, a Fellow of the Per Capita think tank and a political columnist for the Australian Financial Review. He currently writes speeches for Labor members of parliament as well as business and community leaders. He is the author of two non-fiction works Orwell’s Australia and The Art of Great Speeches. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Eric Schlosser: Nuclear Delusions, The Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 10, 2015 01:33 - 1 hour - 68.7 MBAs an investigative journalist, Eric Schlosser continues to explore subjects ignored by the mainstream media and gives a voice to people at the margins of society. He’s followed the harvest with migrant farm workers in California, spent time with meatpacking workers in Texas and Colorado, told the stories of marijuana growers and pornographers and victims of violent crime, gone on duty with the NYPD Bomb Squad, and visited prisons throughout the US. Schlosser’s first book, Fast Food Nation (2...
Helen Razer: Against Compassion, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 10, 2015 01:30 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBFor much of the 1990s, Helen Razer could be heard blabbing on the ABC's youth network, Triple J. While the national broadcaster still occasionally permits her to talk in exchange for money, she is now chiefly engaged in the work of writing on social and cultural matters. She works with Crikey, The Saturday Paperand a range of publications who permit her to say terrible things. Her fifth book, A Short History of Stupid,remains a best-seller and was recently shortlisted for the NSW State Librar...
Big Sugar Panel, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 10, 2015 01:29 - 52 minutes - 57.1 MBDamon Gameau is well-known as an Australian film and television actor. In 2014, he directed That Sugar Film, a documentary which examines the place of sugar in our diet. It follows Gameau as he puts himself on a sugar-laden regime consuming food that is normally considered healthy, such as fruit juice and cereals. The documentary will be released in the US in July and has now been followed by That Sugar Book. Jane Martin is Executive Manager of the Obesity Policy Coalition (OPC), based at t...
Chris Berg: Nanny State, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 10, 2015 01:27 - 1 hour - 65.6 MBChris Berg is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs, where he specialises in civil liberties, the political economy of regulation, and media and technology policy. He is a weekly columnist with ABC’s The Drum, and has been published in all major Australian papers, as well as the Wall Street Journal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Peter Doherty: Knowledge Wars, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 10, 2015 01:20 - 59 minutes - 66.9 MBPeter Doherty shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for Medicine for discovering the nature of the cellular immune defence. He continues to be involved in research and divides his time between the University of Melbourne and St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. In his fifth book, The Knowledge Wars, he goes in to bat for evidence-based reality in debates on issues such as childhood vaccination, global hunger and anthropogenic climate change and encourages us all to be informed and evaluate ...
Miriam Lyons: After Luck, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 09, 2015 06:51 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBMiriam Lyons is an Australian policy analyst, writer and commentator. She was the founding Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Development, an independent public interest think tank set up in 2007. She recently released a book with Ian McAuley, Governomics: Can We Afford Small Government? The book argues that cutting public services often leads to false economies, costing more in the long-term and undermining the basis of a successful capitalist system. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
Incarceration: A VICE Panel, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 09, 2015 06:49 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBChris Munro was the Managing Editor of Tracker Magazine, Australia's most read Aboriginal Affairs publication which was shut down in 2014. Prior to this he was the Political Editor for the National Indigenous Television news team based at Parliament House and a reporter for the National Indigenous Times newspaper. Chris currently works as a freelance journalist. As an investigative journalist, Eric Schlosser continues to explore subjects ignored by the mainstream media and gives a voice to...
Frank Brennan: What I believe, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
September 09, 2015 06:43 - 1 hour - 76.7 MBFrank Brennan has a longstanding reputation of advocacy in the areas of law, social justice, refugee protection and Aboriginal reconciliation. He is known for his 1998 involvement in the debate surrounding the Wik peoples’ landmark court case. He is a Jesuit priest, professor of law and writer. His most recent book is No Small Change: The Road to recognition for Indigenous Australia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
An Evening with Stephen Hawking (Ideas at the House)
May 06, 2015 00:43 - 1 hour - 81.6 MBLucy Hawking and renowned physicist Paul Davies discuss the life and ideas of one of the world’s greatest minds: Stephen Hawking, who joins us live from Cambridge via the latest technology, in his first ever Australian talk. There are few scientists that can be said to have touched the public imagination. Physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking is one such scientist. Professor Hawking will be appearing via the very latest in streaming technology while his daughter, journalist and author ...
An Evening with Stephen Hawking (Ideas at the House)
May 06, 2015 00:43 - 1 hour - 81.6 MBLucy Hawking and renowned physicist Paul Davies discuss the life and ideas of one of the world’s greatest minds: Stephen Hawking, who joins us live from Cambridge via the latest technology, in his first ever Australian talk. There are few scientists that can be said to have touched the public imagination. Physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking is one such scientist. Professor Hawking will be appearing via the very latest in streaming technology while his daughter, journalist and author ...
Benjamin Law, Ann Sherry & Tony Windsor - 'What's Wrong with Politics?' (Carnegie Conversations)
May 06, 2015 00:39 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBAustralia, like other democratic countries, is seeing a dramatic decline in trust in government. We elect people we don’t like, and then have to rely on them for important issues such as health to national security. Do we have the politicians we deserve? How can we change the unhappy status quo? Benjamin Law, Tony Windsor and Ann Sherry look at where the mistrust is coming from and what needs changing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Benjamin Law, Ann Sherry & Tony Windsor - 'What's Wrong with Politics?' (Carnegie Conversations)
May 06, 2015 00:39 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBAustralia, like other democratic countries, is seeing a dramatic decline in trust in government. We elect people we don’t like, and then have to rely on them for important issues such as health to national security. Do we have the politicians we deserve? How can we change the unhappy status quo? Benjamin Law, Tony Windsor and Ann Sherry look at where the mistrust is coming from and what needs changing.
Andrew Charlton, Everald Compton & Holly Ransom: 'Young & Old' (Carnegie Conversations)
May 06, 2015 00:38 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBWhat sort of Australia will the young inherit? With short political cycles and ever shorter media cycles, it’s taken a high profile campaign for the Intergenerational Report to get us thinking seriously about the future. But are the responsibilities of the young and old clear? Does intergenerational equity even matter? Holly Ransom, Everald Compton and Andrew Charlton offer insights into what the old and young can bring that will make us less short-sighted about our future. Hosted on Acas...
Peter Singer: 'Doing Good' (Carnegie Conversations)
May 06, 2015 00:36 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBWhen we live in an affluent and peaceful country like Australia, what do we do when we’re confronted by poverty and need, close to us? What are our responsibilities and how committed are we to help? Watch Peter Singer address his concept of effective altruism and shake up some of our assumptions about giving.
Peter Singer: 'Doing Good' (Carnegie Conversations)
May 06, 2015 00:36 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBWhen we live in an affluent and peaceful country like Australia, what do we do when we’re confronted by poverty and need, close to us? What are our responsibilities and how committed are we to help? Watch Peter Singer address his concept of effective altruism and shake up some of our assumptions about giving. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Chris Berg & Julian Burnside: 'Freedom of Speech' (Carnegie Conversations)
May 06, 2015 00:32 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBFreedom of speech. Equality of speech. Opportunity for speech. Freedom to offend. Just some of the dimensions muddying the middle ground on this historically important topic. Chris Berg and Julian Burnside discuss how much freedom of speech we have, whether it’s enough, or too much, and who decides? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nick Bryant, Rebecca Huntley and Marcia Langton: 'Which Australia?' (Carnegie Conversations)
May 06, 2015 00:30 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBMedia, politicians, thinkers… no one can decide which Australia we live in. Are we on the verge of becoming the poor white trash of Asia or poised to be an “innovation economy”? Nick Bryant, Rebecca Huntley and Marcia Langton discuss our successes and failures, what we’ve learned, and what to do about the future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nick Bryant, Rebecca Huntley and Marcia Langton: 'Which Australia?' (Carnegie Conversations)
May 06, 2015 00:30 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBMedia, politicians, thinkers… no one can decide which Australia we live in. Are we on the verge of becoming the poor white trash of Asia or poised to be an “innovation economy”? Nick Bryant, Rebecca Huntley and Marcia Langton discuss our successes and failures, what we’ve learned, and what to do about the future.
Annabel Crabb: 'Breaking the Wife Drought' (All About Women 2015)
March 10, 2015 06:50 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MBHaving wives allowed millions of men to do their best work, with their minds and schedules uncluttered by meal planning and school pickups. But even though women are now freer than ever to pursue their own ambitions, relatively few men are volunteering to take over the bulk of the domestic labour. Crabb’s new book, The Wife Drought, peers into the gap that was left when “housewife” stopped being a job description, and explores how our ideas about work/life balance and parenting must still ev...
Panel: 'Are We All "Frightbats"?' (All About Women 2015)
March 10, 2015 06:48 - 1 hour - 57.9 MB‘They shriek, they rage, they cheer, they despair, they exult, they scream, they laugh, they cry!’ News Limited blogger Tim Blair was not talking about State of Origin spectators, but his poll to find ‘this nation’s most unhinged hysteric’ from among his list of ten ‘frightbats’, a group of opinionated female journalists and commentators. The frightbats themselves mostly laughed off the insults, and competed in good humour to get the most votes. But what does it mean if women can still be d...
Panel: 'Are We All "Frightbats"?' (All About Women 2015)
March 10, 2015 06:48 - 1 hour - 57.9 MB‘They shriek, they rage, they cheer, they despair, they exult, they scream, they laugh, they cry!’ News Limited blogger Tim Blair was not talking about State of Origin spectators, but his poll to find ‘this nation’s most unhinged hysteric’ from among his list of ten ‘frightbats’, a group of opinionated female journalists and commentators. The frightbats themselves mostly laughed off the insults, and competed in good humour to get the most votes. But what does it mean if women can still be d...
Esther Freud: 'Stories of Childhood' (All About Women 2015)
March 10, 2015 06:46 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBEsther Freud’s own childhood was an unusual one - as the daughter of painter Lucian Freud and the great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud, this may not be surprising. Her first novel, Hideous Kinky, draws on her childhood memories of living in Morocco with her sister and their bohemian mother; her newest book, Mr Mac and Me, is the story of a young boy finding an unlikely friend in Scottish architect and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh. With meticulous skill and a sharp eye for the big moments...