Sydney Writers' Festival

A selection of Sydney Writers' Festival's most popular 2008 events are available as free audio downloads for your listening pleasure.

Thanks to our friends at SlowTV, ABC Fora and ABC Radio National you can also watch video recordings of some of 2008's events.

Click here to download or listen to podcasts of the following Sydney Writers' Festival 2008 sessions:

• Ask Jeanette Winterson Anything!
• Don Watson's American Journey
• Helen Garner in Conversation with Caroline Baum
• Hermione Lee in Conversation
• James Reston Jr in Conversation
• Kate Jennings in Conversation with Caroline Baum
• Not Another Misery Memoir with Judith Lucy, Ryan Knighton and Imran Ahmad
• Private Lives, Public Histories with Wibke Bruhns, Naldo Rei, Sandy Blackburn Wright
• Remembering Parents with Wibke Bruhns, Craig Sherborne and David Rieff
• Simon Sebag Montefiore in Conversation with Bob Carr
• The Lessons of Vietnam with Andrew Bacevich and Paul Ham
• The Simple Life with Michael Pollan and Elizabeth Farrelly
• The Whale Warriors: Peter Heller in Conversation  

Thanks to our friends at SlowTV and ABC Fora, you can also watch video recordings of some of this year's events. Just click on the links below.

• Junot Diaz in Conversation with Ramona Koval
• The Future of the Liberal Party with Robert Manne and Tony Abbott
• Michelle de Kretser in Conversation with Gail Jones
• Writers as Readers – Helen Garner on her influences and inspirations
• Writers as Readers – Christos Tsiolkas on his influences and inspirations
• Writers as Readers - Samuel Wagan Watson on his influences and inspirations
  
• Writers as Readers - Luke Davies on his influences and inspirations
• The launch of Growing Up Asian in Australia with editor Alice Pung and contributors Kylie Kwong, Ivy Tseng and Tanveer Ahmed

ABC Fora is a new multi-platform project on the ABC. Two television programs a week and a constantly updated website broadcasts a selection of the most interesting, challenging and diverse talks events from across Australia.

• John Gray in Conversation with Alan Saunders
• Helen Garner in Conversation with Caroline Baum
• Under the Influence with Luke Davies and Heather O'Neill, chaired by Annette Shun Wah
• Foreign Correspondents with Kirsty Needham and Leigh Sales, chaired by Carmen Lawrence
• Pitcairn: Paradise Lost with Kathy Marks
• Princesses and Pornstars with Emily Maguire
• Modern Citizenship with Lucinda Holdforth and James Arvanitakis, chaired by Anna Rose
• What's the Big Idea? with Simon Critchley, John Gray and Maria Tumarkin, chaired by Alan Saunders
• Fundamental Facts with Loretta Napoleoni and Sadanand Dhume, chaired by George Negus
• Junot Diaz's 2008 SWF Closing Address

• Junot Diaz in Conversation with Ramona Koval
• An Evening with Anne Enright (transcript only)
• David Rieff in Conversation with Ramona Koval (transcript only)
• Jeanette Winterson in Conversation with Ramona Koval (transcript only)