Sydney Writers' Festival 2012

Thanks to SlowTV and ABC Big Ideas you can now watch recordings of many of this year's highlight Sydney Writers' Festival events.

Links to videos of the following events recorded by Slow TV and ABC Big Ideas will be added over the coming months, so stay tuned:

• An Evening with Colm Tóibín (speaking to Caroline Baum)
• Battlelines: Tony Abbott Talks to Annabel Crabb
• Celebrating the Australian Accent with Kath Leahy, David Foster, Jeremy Sims and Katharine Brisbane (facilitator)
• Christopher Hitchens Speaks with Julian Morrow
• Closing Address: Peter Carey
• David Wessel, Meet Paul Keating
• Have We All Been Conned?: An Emergency Town Meeting with Bill McKibben, Ross Garnaut, Clive Hamilton and Tim Flannery (facilitator)
• John Ralston Saul Speaks with Ramona Koval
• Les Murray Speaks with Michael Duffy
• Lionel Shriver Speaks to Caroline Baum
• Lydia Cacho Speaks to Mara Moustafine
• Mindfield with Lone Frank and Natasha Mitchell (facilitator)
• No He Can't? with Christopher Hitchens, Anne Davies, Don Watson and Geoffrey Garrett (facilitator)
• Opening Night: Iran, A New Beginning with Reza Aslan
• Programmatic Specificity We Can Believe In with Nathan Rees, Annabel Crabb, Christopher Hitchens and Neil James (facilitator)
• Terrorism: How to Win a Cosmic War with Reza Aslan and Tony Jones (facilitator)
• The Toxic Stew of Everyday Life with Rick Smith, Bruce Lourie and Anton Enus (facilitator)
• The Value of Nothing: Raj Patel Speaks with Ross Gittins
• The World Beneath with Cate Kennedy and Hilary McPhee (facilitator)

More videos featuring 2010 Sydney Writers' Festival guests:

• Colm Tóibín and Lionel Shriver on ABC's First Tuesday Book Club
• Interview with William Dalrymple on Stvdio
• Interview with Lionel Shriver on Stvdio