Covid frontline worker Dr Vyom Sharma chats about Victoria’s Covid response; Elizabeth McCarthy gives us her two favorite books of 2020; Justin ‘Digga’ Calverley recommends a few Christmas present ideas for gardeners; Gemma…

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…

Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson is a Goenpul woman of the Quandamooka people, is professor of Indigineous research at RMIT University, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She joins Areej…

Bron Burton catches up with Dr Rebecca Giggs to talk about her new book Fathoms: The World in the Whale. Giggs has brought together a multitude of topics in her book that…

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…

Michael Harden explains how to succeed at the ever-so-trendy picnic; Producer Jacob Hickey talks about new SBS series Addicted Australia; author Favel Parrett reveals her love of dingoes; Broden Kelly talks about new…

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 team discuss how the donut has become a mascot for the end of lockdown; Writer and Triple R presenter Christos Tsiolkas chats about the re-imagined audio play of his novel Loaded; Michael…