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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Jonathan Green |Kim Jirik |Angela Grant |Rhiannon Brown
Onions and their flavourful relatives feature prominently in cuisines across the globe, with a history of cultivation that goes back thousands of years. Onion recipes have even been found on the cuneiform tablets of Ancient Babylonia. So, what is happening under the skin of this many-layered bulb to make it such a versatile and essential ingredient?
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Jonathan Green |Zoe Ferguson |Zoë Ferguson |Kim Jirik |Cathy Pryor |Angela Grant | +1 more
Is there anything you take more for granted in your kitchen than the cutlery drawer? We hardly give a second thought to the humble tools that carry food from plate to mouth. But maybe we should. There's history here, and stories of changing preferences and assumptions within cultures. Fork or fingers? Cut or tear? They say you are what you eat, but it turns out how you eat matters, too.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Natasha Mitchell |Claire Slattery |David Le May |Angela Grant
From social media algorithms to authoritarian despots, is our democracy under threat? In our SOS DEMOCRACY series, meet big thinkers on a rescue mission to resuscitate democracy. In this first episode, one of Australia's most seasoned political journalists Nikki Savva has seen the fractures up closer than most. Hear her timely advice for journalists, politicians and citizens. This was recorded at Parliament House in Canberra on 9 September 2024.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Claire Nichols |Sarah L'Estrange |Angela Grant |Rhiannon Brown
Former Booker Prize winner Pat Barker grapples with the lot of Cassandra in her latest Ancient Greek novel, The Voyage Home and Life After Life author, Kate Atkinson, returns to her famous character Jackson Brodie in Death at the Sign of The Rook. Plus debut novelist Raeden Richardson on the importance of Melbourne's iconic Degraves Street in The Degenerates. Pat Barker won the Booker Prize for The Ghost Road, the final book in her acclaimed World War One Regeneration trilogy.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Claire Nichols |Sarah L'Estrange |Angela Grant |Rhiannon Brown
British author Onyi Nwabineli explores the scars of a child influencer in Allow Me to Introduce Myself, Ella Baxter writes back to her stalker in Woo Woo, and Melanie Cheng's The Burrow, a gentle novel about grief and a rabbit. Onyi Nwabineli is a British novelist who tackles the minefield of mumfluencers and social media child stars in her second novel, Allow Me to Introduce Myself.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Claire Nichols |Sarah L'Estrange |Angela Grant |Rhiannon Brown
Today we take to you to two writers festivals: In Perth, Laura Jean McKay, Laurie Steed and Chemutai Glasheen reflect on what it means to bring their convictions to the page, and by the seaside in Sorrento, Victoria, poet, essayist and short story writer Nam Le retraces his roots as a storyteller. At the Perth Festival Writers Weekend, Claire Nichols spoke to three authors whose recent short story collections unapologetically focus on their respective passions.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Claire Nichols |Sarah L'Estrange |Angela Grant |Rhiannon Brown
Bestselling author of Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam explores money obsession in his novel Entitlement, plus Jock Serong gets magical in Cherrywood and writer-doctor Jumaana Abdu's debut novel, Translations. American author, Rumaan Alam's bestselling last book, Leave the World Behind, was adapted to the screen starring Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Browning |Amanda Roberts |Angela Grant
Over the past decade, Ramesh Nithiyendran has become one of the most visible artists of his generation and one of the most hardworking with his signature emoji-like, wildly coloured and often multiple-limbed sculptures making their presence felt across the globe. Daniel drops in on Ramesh as he prepares to unveil his next big solo exhibition - including his magnum opus, a self-deity in bronze. And the first in an occasional series If Not Critical, we meet art critic (and artist) Jack Wilkie-Jans.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Browning |Amanda Roberts |Rosa Ellen |Rudi Bremer |Angela Grant
Ceramicist Vipoo Srivilasa’s work is beautiful, playful and highly technical…and he’s having a moment, featuring in several exhibitions this year including the MAKE Award, Generation Clay and re/JOY. His work is a beacon of light and happiness in dark times. We swing by the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) in Darwin, where artist Noli Rictor, a Pitjantjatjara man from Tjuntjuntjara in Western Australia, won the overall award for his work on canvas, Kamanti.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Daniel Browning |Rosa Ellen |Angela Grant
Hiroshi Sugimoto's sublime black and white photographs capture subjects as diverse as polar bears and landscapes, to portraits of Princess Diana – but they're not what they seem. Called 'master of time', Sugimoto is also an architect, designing galleries and art installations around the world. Daniel speaks with him at his big exhibition at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art. In lutruwita / Tasmania, three young artists share a city studio and depict the local landscape in very different styles.
