Author and appearance activist Carly Findlay joins Breakfasters to share what she learnt from editing the new anthology Growing Up Disabled In Australia, the fifth book in the highly-acclaimed, best-selling series from…

Gunditjmara and Bundjalung singer-songwriter and activist Uncle Archie Roach joins Beth AQ for her first show of 2021. For Archie, music has been “part of my life and part of my healing”. His…

On Summer Breakfasters, Billy, Steph and Dan chat to stand-up comedian and author Bob Franklin about his new collection of short stories, Lengthening Shadows. Bob, who’s had roles on such television…

Award-winning novelist and journalist Helen Garner has just released her second volume of diaries. She joins Mel Cranenburgh on Backstory’s last show for 2020 for a special hour-long, live-streamed conversation. Watch the…

Each year, The Wheeler Centre hosts “The State of the (Writing) Nation”, where an Australian writer presents an address on what’s happening in Australian literature. Maria Tumarkin tells Mel she turned down the…

Miles Franklin award-winning novelist Sofie Laguna is an intuitive writer. She chats to Mel about her new book, Infinite Splendours, and her writing process. 

Set in the Grampians, Infinite Splendours follows Lawrence…

Off the coast of Tasmania, there are thousands of shipwrecks, which Jane Harper says was too good to pass up for her next crime novel. Earlier this year she organised a diving trip…

“Money is like gravity. It distorts time and space.”

Rick Morton is an award-winning journalist whose memoir, One Hundred Years Of Dirt, was shortlisted for multiple literary prizes. But growing up in…

The Feminist Writers Festival (FWF) 2020 kicks off on November 14 to tackle four big questions for contemporary feminism. Nikki Anderson, FWF Program Director, joins Backstory to chat about the upcoming festival.

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Former Triple R broadcaster Jacinta Parsons tells us about her recently released memoir Unseen: The Secret World Of Chronic Illness. Jacinta has lived with Crohn’s disease for over 20 years and is…