The Drawing Room

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The Drawing Room episodes

June 12, 2024 How Leandre Sanders became 'Skategoat'
A new documentary tells the story of an 11-year-old from Venice Beach, California, who survived his troubled upbringing to become one of the world’s best skateboarders.
12 min
June 11, 2024 Is 'Crime and Punishment' the greatest crime story ever written?
Actors Christopher Samuel Carroll and PJ Williams discuss their roles in a new adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment and perform an excerpt.
13 min
June 10, 2024 The science of taste and art of belonging
The way we taste - what comfort foods we love and what vegetables we can’t stand to eat - can tell us a lot about who we are and even who we love.
20 min
June 07, 2024 Molly Lewis is bringing the glamour back to whistling
Meet a professional whistler - Australian Molly Lewis. She's created a niche for herself and is whistling with the big guns now.
18 min
June 06, 2024 Whatever will be, will be: Our changing attitudes to fate
It’s written in your fate that today you are to learn more about the concept of fate - philosophically, morally and practically. A new book exploring fate promises to teach you just how universal it is.
12 min
June 05, 2024 Does democracy begin with children's rights?
Should the voting age be lowered to battle the nihilism and the impending sense of doom in today’s younger generation coming of age?
13 min
June 04, 2024 An autograph book, an artist and the Australian Army
Sir John Monash's great-grandson shares some of his family's favourite stories of the Lieutenant General through some of his personal belongings.
16 min
June 03, 2024 Brain Power: Exploring the purpose and the possibilities of brain-computer interfaces
Elon Musk's company Neuralink is in a race with China to dominate the next frontier of artificial intelligence - a brain-computer interface or BCI.
17 min
May 31, 2024 Marlon Williams on free will and certainty
New Zealand singer-songwriter Marlon Williams joins the show to discuss how he incorporates Maori into his songs, his views on free will and certainty and how they've changed since we last spoke to him pre-pandemic.
13 min
May 29, 2024 Did Ayn Rand ruin Lexi Freiman’s attempt at enlightenment at an ego-killing sect on Lesbos?
Our culture’s hyper-sensitivity, cancel culture and the fine line between altruism and narcissism are ripe for satire in Lexi Freeman’s new book The Book of Ayn
16 min

About The Drawing Room

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Retire to the eclectic environs of the RN Drive Drawing Room, for music, musings and unexpected conversations. The Drawing Room is equal parts performance space, salon, and kitchen table confessional.