Sydney Writers' Festival

We've added plenty of podcasts of some of 2009's Festival events. Recordings feature Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Richard Flanagan, Mohammed Hanif, Stefan Aust and more.

Thanks to our friends at SlowTV and ABC Fora you can also watch video recordings of many popular Festival events.

Watch videos and listen to podcasts of some of this year's most popular Sydney Writers' Festival events.

Click here to download or listen to podcasts of the following Festival events:

• Opening Address presented by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• True Crime Stories with Tom Gilling, Clive Small, Robert Wainright and Paola Totaro
• The Baader Meinhof Complex: Stefan Aust in Conversation
• Biography and Intimacy with Michelle McDonald and Brian Dibble
• International Voices with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Tash Aw, Mohammed Hanif, Cees Nooteboom and Philipp Meyer
• David Williamson in Conversation with Andrew Upton
• Shaking the Kaleidoscope or the Religious Situation of Our Time with Richard Holloway
• Shooting the Story with Benjamin Gilmour and Robert Connolly
• Julia Morris in Conversation
• Literary Activists with Brigid Rooney
• Kate Grenville in Conversation
• Closing Address presented by Richard Flanagan

Video recordings on ABC Fora:

• *NEW* Emmanuel Jal On Being A Child Soldier
• Losing My Religion with Richard Holloway, and authors Michael Bachelard and Tom Frame
• Chloe Hooper: Death on Palm Island
• Bob Ellis, Peter Hartcher, Sally Warhaft and Tony Jones on the Rise and Fall of Government
• David Marr, Michael Bachelard, Robert Wainwright and Paola Totaro on Investigative Journalism
• Listening to the Twentieth Century: Alex Ross in Conversation with Ramona Koval
• Marcus Chown on Why Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You
• Remembering David Foster Wallace with Kate Crawford, Nick Maniatis, Caroline Hamilton and Julian Murphet
• Christian Lander on Stuff White People Like with Ben Pobjie
• Christos Tsiolkas discusses 'The Slap' with Leigh Sales
• Kazuo Ishiguro on 'Nocturnes' 

Video recordings on SlowTV:  

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in conversation with Ramona Koval
• Stuff White People Like: Christian Lander at the New Theatre, Newtown presented with City of Sydney Library
• And So It Went: Bob Ellis in conversation with Bob Carr
• SWF Closing Address by Richard Flanagan 
• Andrea Goldsmith in conversation with Drusilla Modjeska 
• Mohammed Hanif discusses 'A Case of Exploding Mangoes'
• David Williamson: Behind the Scenes
• George Friedman on 'The Next 100 Years'
• Andrew Davidson discusses 'The Gargoyle'
• Christos Tsiolkas talks about the influence of music on his writing
• Terms of Engagement: Directions for New Indigenous Leadership with Megan Davis, Sarah Maddison, Wesley Enoch and Gillian Cowlishaw
• Rock'n'roll Lives with Stephen Cummings and Don Walker
  
• Launch: 'The Red Highway' by Nicolas Rothwell, with introduction by David Marr