Join some of your favourite Radio National presenters—Antony Funnell, Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski—at this year’s Byron Bay Writers Festival, 5-7 August, which celebrates its 20th year with a line-up of 150-plus writers and thinkers for Australia’s largest regional writers’ festival.
See below the full list of RN hosted events.
Friday 5 August 2016
Imagining the Future
Peter Doherty, Antony Funnell, Ashley Hay
Chair: Julianne Schultz
RN: Books and Arts
Magda Szubanski
Chair: Sarah Kanowski
This session will be recorded for future broadcast.
Jeffery Renard Allen
In conversation with Sarah Kanowski
Saturday 6 August 2016
Bearing Witness: The Power of Story
Richard Fidler, Angela Flournoy, Debra Oswald
Chair: Moya Sayer-Jones
Life is Short But Art is Long: Paul Kelly
In conversation with Sarah Kanowski
The Pacific is Sinking
Ben Bohane, Peter Doherty, David Manne
Chair: Antony Funnell
This session will be recorded for future broadcast.
Sunday 7 August 2016
Richard Fidler
In conversation with Rosemarie Milsom
Documentary Photography: Societies in Transition
Ben Bohane, Rio Helmi, Tim Page
Chair: Antony Funnell
This session will be recorded for future broadcast.
Fatherhood
Richard Fidler, David Leser
Chair: Mick O’Regan
For more information including bookings and the full program, visit https://byronwritersfestival.com/