The Drawing Room

The Drawing Room

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The Drawing Room episodes

  • Tony Ayres on Fires
    The fires of 2019 and 2020 were shocking in their intensity. They destroyed forests and homes, threatened communities and blanketed entire states in smoke.
    Fires is a new drama series that takes us into the blazes of that summer and the lives impacted by them, finding human stories of loss, community and resilience.
    In the Drawing Room, co-creator Tony Ayres talks about the show and about his new Netflix series, Clickbait.
    22 min
  • All About Yves
    Yves Rees is a historian and writer, who has examined the story of Australia.
    But in their latest book, Yves is telling a different story: their own.
    As Yves looked at their path to transness they saw many beginnings and many questions and in their new memoir they're embracing them all.
    26 min
  • The making of a Modern Marriage
    From the outside, Klara and Dante seem to have the perfect lives: successful careers, a good marriage, and a close family.
    But long-held secrets bring everything crashing down when Dante ends up in intensive care and Klara discovers that he was found in a gay sauna.
    In the Drawing Room, Filip Vukašin discusses his debut novel, Modern Marriage, balancing medicine and writing, and the cost of secrets.
    18 min
  • Coming Home In The Dark
    In the remote hills of New Zealand, a family is taking advantage of the off-season to have the wilderness to themselves.
    But when they run across two violent drifters, the idyllic holiday turns into a nightmare.
    And as the story unfolds, this seemingly random act of violence reveals a connection to a long buried secret.
    In the Drawing Room, director James Ashcroft and actor Erik Thomson discuss their new film, Coming Home In The Dark, based on a short story by Owen Marshall.
    22 min
  • Business or pleasure?
    Pleasure, the new film by Ninja Thyberg, follows the story of a young woman with dreams of becoming the next big name in adult movies.
    It's a provocative piece, which brings a female gaze to the porn industry and looks at the compromises it takes to reach the top.
    21 min
  • Nikki Gemmell: Dissolve
    There are moments in all of our lives when everything changes, even if we don't realise it until much later.
    When Nikki Gemmell's fiancé turned to her in a neighbourhood restaurant and called off the wedding with the words 'I can't do it', it was crushing.
    But it also led to Gemmell embracing her own voice as a writer.
    In the Drawing Room, Gemmell pays tribute to the power of female creativity, looks back at the wisdom of the women who came before her, and talks about her new book Dissolve.
    23 min
  • Nick Garbett: Gliding into a new sound
    With multiple bands and a long list of well known musicians on his session list, Nick Garbett's trumpet is a part of the Australian sound.
    A few years ago, after receiving a prestigious Freedman Jazz Fellowship, Nick relocated to Lampedusa and started recording with his long-time friend Mike Majkowski in Berlin.
    The result is a very different new album called The Glider.
    17 min
  • Let's eat weeds
    Edible and delicious food is all around us. Not just Australian native plants, but even the weeds that we see everyday, if we just know how to look.
    In The Drawing Room, Adam Grubb and Annie Raser-Rowland talk about their own paths to foraging, their favourite recipes, and their new book Let's Eat Weeds.
    21 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.

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