The Drawing Room

The Drawing Room

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The Drawing Room episodes

  • Garry Disher looks for Consolation
    Garry Disher's novels are an essential and influential part of Australian crime fiction, and have seen him acknowledged with the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award.
    His latest, Consolation, is the third book to follow Paul Hirschhausen, a constable working in a small town, somewhere between Adelaide and the Flinders Ranges.
    In the Drawing Room, Disher discusses community, mysteries, and his own experience growing up in regional Australia.
    20 min
  • Robert Dessaix: The Time of Our Lives
    How do we live a life worth living? And what happens when it ends?
    They're big questions: the kind often tackled by religion, philosophy and literature.
    In his latest book, The Time Of Our Lives, Robert Dessaix explores his own experience of life, aging, and his unending curiosity about the world.
    24 min
  • Robert Dessaix: The Time of Our Lives
    How do we live a life worth living? And what happens when it ends?
    They're big questions: the kind often tackled by religion, philosophy and literature.
    In his latest book, The Time Of Our Lives, Robert Dessaix explores his own experience of life, aging, and his unending curiosity about the world.
    24 min
  • The birth of the mind
    What does it mean to have a mind?
    And how does our physical body inform our subjective idea of the world?
    In the Drawing Room, Peter Godfrey-Smith explores his latest book, Metazoa, and explains what the evolution of life can tell us about consciousness and the mind.
    25 min
  • The birth of the mind
    What does it mean to have a mind?
    And how does our physical body inform our subjective idea of the world?
    In the Drawing Room, Peter Godfrey-Smith explores his latest book, Metazoa, and explains what the evolution of life can tell us about consciousness and the mind.
    25 min
  • Behind the fairy tale of The Crown
    The wedding of Diana and Prince Charles captured the world's imagination.
    But behind that fairy tale was a very different and much lonelier reality.
    Josh O'Connor and Emma Corrin share their experiences playing Charles and Diana in The Crown.
    17 min
  • Behind the fairy tale of The Crown
    The wedding of Diana and Prince Charles captured the world's imagination.
    But behind that fairy tale was a very different and much lonelier reality.
    Josh O'Connor and Emma Corrin share their experiences playing Charles and Diana in The Crown.
    17 min
  • A romantic comedy with a fairy godmother
    Asking your crush out to the formal can be a pretty nerve-wracking event.
    And it doesn't get easier when your mother isn't dealing well with you coming out.
    And it really doesn't get easier when your dead aunt shows up with advice, claiming to be your fairy godmother.
    Monica Zanetti & Sophie Hawkshaw talk about Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie's Dead Aunt), a new Australian romantic comedy
    22 min
  • A romantic comedy with a fairy godmother
    Asking your crush out to the formal can be a pretty nerve-wracking event.
    And it doesn't get easier when your mother isn't dealing well with you coming out.
    And it really doesn't get easier when your dead aunt shows up with advice, claiming to be your fairy godmother.
    Monica Zanetti & Sophie Hawkshaw talk about Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie's Dead Aunt), a new Australian romantic comedy
    22 min
  • Making a life in Under-Earth
    In a future world, criminals are thrown into a makeshift prison deep underground and the only way to live is to search a giant landfill for items of value.
    That's the setup for the new graphic novel, Under-Earth, by the Australian cartoonist Chris Gooch.
    In between the fast-paced action, Chris explores what it means to live an ethical life in an unethical world.
    18 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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