Podcast Episodes

The Garden Against Time: A Conversation with Olivia Laing

As part of The Wheeler Centre's 2024 Spring Fling program and in partnership with Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, listen to an exclusive podcast inte…

2 years, 1 month ago

Boys to Men: Remodelling Masculinity

From ‘manfluencer’ culture and the rising popularity of Andrew Tate, to lists ranking teenage girls on their appearance, there’s an urgent need to ad…

2 years, 2 months ago

Blak, Loud and Proud: First Nations Classics 2024 [Tamala Shelton]

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers have been sharing stories on this continent for millennia. From best-selling and award-winning poetry, …

2 years, 2 months ago

Global Game Changers: The Evolution of the Olympic Games

The Olympic Games have always been a site of soft diplomacy for participating nations. This has never been truer than in 2024, as athletes and countr…

2 years, 3 months ago

Surveillance Technology and AI: Meredith Whittaker in Conversation

Meredith Whittaker is not afraid to take on tech giants. In 2018, she led the famous mass staff walkout at Google over the company’s laissez faire at…

2 years, 3 months ago

[Podcast Exclusive]: Khin Myint in Conversation with Anna Krien

In this Wheeler Centre podcast exclusive, hear former Next Chapter recipient Khin Myint in conversation with Anna Krien as they discuss Myint's Fragi…

2 years, 4 months ago

Ma Thida: Myanmar's Struggle for Democracy

In 1993, Ma Thida was sentenced to 20 years in prison for her support of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy and for ‘endangering public…

2 years, 4 months ago

Cultural Catalysts: Creativity in the Sri Lankan Diaspora

S Shakthidharan’s debut play Counting and Cracking began with a shoebox of his great-grandfather’s letters. Working with his family and the wider Sri…

2 years, 4 months ago

Sam Elkin: Detachable Penis

Sam Elkin’s Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga, recounts his bumpy journey from lesbian to transgender lawyer in the aftermath of the 2017 marriage…

2 years, 4 months ago

Dervla McTiernan: What Happened to Nina? [Geelong]

Bestselling author Dervla McTiernan discusses her suspenseful new novel about two families at war with host J.P. Pomare at Geelong Library.

Nina and …

2 years, 4 months ago