Adelaide Writers' Week

With Debbie Whitmont.

Tobias Buck talks to fellow journalist Debbie Whitmont about reporting on the trial of a former SS camp guard, the problem of collective guilt and ‘memory culture’ in modern-day Germany.

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Tue 04 Mar, 9:30am | East Stage

With Norman Swan.Sir Simon Schama talks to Norman Swan about his latest cultural history, Foreign Bodies, an investigation of disease and vulnerable human societies caught between the fear of contagion and scientific innovation.

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Mon 03 Mar, 5:00pm | East Stage

With Marc Fennell.

We have arrived at a disturbing global inflection point where a handful of companies might rewrite the truth. Marc Fennell of Radio National’s Download This Show interrogates Silicon Valley interrogator Kara Swisher.

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Mon 03 Mar, 3:45pm | East Stage

With David Marr.Has the rise of leaders like Orbán, Trump and Netanyahu finally put paid to the liberal fantasy that fascism, ultra-nationalism and xenophobia were symptoms of a political malaise consigned to the 19th century? Wesley Lowery and John Crace join Late Night Live’s David Marr to discuss the state of the world.

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Mon 03 Mar, 2:30pm | East Stage

With Richard Fidler.

Nick Bryant, author of The Forever War, discusses with Richard Fidler the history of contemporary America’s polarisation and whether the nation’s political future will be dictated by its violent political past.

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Mon 03 Mar, 1:15pm | East Stage

With Claire Nichols.

Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize-shortlisted author, talks to Claire Nichols about her latest novel, Creation Lake – variously acclaimed by critics as Slow Horses meets Killing Eve, a Le Carréan Kill Bill and a dazzling reinvention of the spy novel.

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Mon 03 Mar, 12:00pm | East Stage

With Bob Carr.

In conversation with Bob Carr, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Geraldine Brooks talks about the sudden death of her husband, Tony Horwitz, and her attempt to make sense of the void in her new memoir, Memorial Days.

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Mon 03 Mar, 10:45am | East Stage

With Gareth Evans.

Is shaming an effective weapon in the fight to protect human rights from the whims and scheming of autocrats and inhumane governments? Geoffrey Robertson, Kenneth Roth and Stephanie Palmer debate the issue with Gareth Evans.

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Mon 03 Mar, 9:30am | East Stage

Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh ask Niall Williams, Charlotte Mendelson and Brian Castro about which books and writers have shifted their thinking or their work and which books they return to or even actively write ‘against’.

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Sun 02 Mar, 5:00pm | East Stage

With Cathy Wilcox.

Is the political sketch a form of truth-telling, a way to hold politicians to account? Cathy Wilcox, one of our finest cartoonists, talks with two masters of the political sketch genre, John Crace and Annabel Crabb, about how its writers have an ear for irony and are equal-opportunity sceptics.

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Sun 02 Mar, 3:45pm | East Stage