The Guardian Australia: Culture Podcast
The Guardian Australia's culture team are often joined by performers, writers, musicians, and artists of every form. They discuss the news, trends, events and everything else which encompass Australia’s incredible culture
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Recorded live in Melbourne, Guardian Australia’s film critic Luke Buckmaster discusses Australian film A Month of Sundays with writer and director Matthew Saville, stage and screen actor Julia Blake, and Steve Biddulph, one of the world’s best-known authors on parenting. Together, they examine the themes of the film: society’s expectations of men, the changing role of fathers, and where women fit into all this
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Film critic Luke Buckmaster speaks with Chasing Asylum director Eva Orner and Guardian Australia reporter Melissa Davey after a screening of the documentary for Guardian Australia’s Film Club. They discuss safeguarding sources, why Orner decided to show security guards’ faces and how the film’s release strategy was designed to avoid government interference
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Recorded live at Guardian Australia’s Film Club, film critic Luke Buckmaster discusses what makes Australian films succeed or fail as well as examples of how misguided restoration can lead directors to destroy the legacy of their films. Also involved in the panel are film critic Margaret Pomeranz and Michael Loebenstein from the National Film and Sound archive
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Megan Washington joins Alexandra Spring, Fred McConnell, Alan Evans and Elle Hunt in a very muddy Splendour in the Grass festival tent to talk second album pressure, David Bowie and our festival highlights
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Recorded live at Guardian Australia’s first Film Club, film critic Luke Buckmaster discusses debut films with Animal Kingdom producer Liz Watts, Kath Shelper of Ruben Guthrie and Tristan Roche-Turner of zombie horror Wyrmwood
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Luke Buckmaster and Alexandra Spring discuss more films from the Sydney film festival including Arabian Nights, Tangerine, Amy, Going Clear and Holding the Man
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Luke Buckmaster and Alexandra Spring discuss Ruben Guthrie, The Daughter and other Australian films in this year's Sydney film festival line up
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Jake Stone and Jess Scully join Alexandra Spring and Nancy Groves to discuss whether we stop discovering new music in our 30s, if public art is useful and whether the death of boredom is the death of creativity
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Jake Stone and Jess Scully join Alex Spring and Nancy Groves in a special episode that addresses the fears of the arts community after a redirection of funding in the May 2015 budget
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What made Monica declare she saw the 'worst show ever'? Is comedy the last battleground for sexism? And will docs always play second fiddle to features?
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Is Ken Done art? Does art speak have to be so indecipherable? And why do celebrities want to become performance artists?
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The culture team is joined by two film-savvy special guests, to discuss Australian film and this year's film award dos. Plus we nominate our top tips for March
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Adrienne Truscott joins the Guardian Australia culture team to discuss this year's Sydney festival and the ideas it inspired
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Eamon Flack and Brigid Delaney join the Guardian Australia culture team to look back at a year of controversy, delight and some surprising Australian cultural highlights for 2014
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The culture team talks summer music festivals, whether fashion is art and if Australians are intellectuals. Plus we nominate our top December must-dos that don't involve tinsel
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The culture team are back from Melbourne to talk about the most intriguing shows of the festival and pick November's must-sees
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In our final podcast from the Adelaide festival we discuss the highs and lows of festival programming.
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Guardian Australia takes you behind the scenes of some of the most exciting performances at the Adelaide Festival. We talk to Matthew Whittet, writer of the Windmill Theatre Trilogy, and Oren Ambarchi, a featured artist in Tectonics Adelaide.
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Join Guardian Australia's culture team for dancing lessons with Afrobeat's Femi Kuti and Positive Force, and an inspiring chat with the woman who wrote the soundtrack to the Tunisian uprising, Emel Mathlouthi. Plus: the Adelaide fringe runs away to join the circus
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Guardian Australia brings you a podcast full of musical pioneers as we talk to Morton Subotnick, the grandfather of electronic music, and Speech from legendary hip-hop outfit Arrested Development
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We talk to Christos Tsiolkas about drug use and the writing process, welcome festival director David Sefton onto the podcast, and discuss the work of artist Vernon Ah Kee
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Today's podcast comes from the Perth Writers festival, where we hear from Burial Rites author Hannah Kent, and get some feedback from literary festival goers. Plus all the latest reviews from Perth's international and fringe festivals, with Vicky Frost, Van Badham, Jane Howard and Alex Needham
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Andrew Frost looks at an exhibition of works from Anne Ferran, Andrew P Street gives us a new band to watch in Lilt, and Vicky Frost shares her thoughts on Situation Rooms. Plus, we join the Kelemen Quartet in rehearsal and talk to composer Ross Edwards
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Join Vicky Frost, Andrew P Street and Andrew Frost as they discuss works at the Perth festival. In this first episode we look at Batsheva's Sadeh21, music from Austra and Ebony Bones, and festival artworks such as Sacrilege – the jumping castle Stonehenge we're bouncing on in this podcast. Perth festival director Jonathan Holloway also joins us for a chat
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Join Vicky Frost, Jane Howard and Van Badham at Carriageworks as we discuss Forklift, Gudirr Gudirr and His Music Burns
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Join Vicky Frost, Helen Davidson, Jane Howard and Van Badham as we pick apart Dido and Aeneas, get a report on Hurricane Transcriptions and the truth about Scotch & Soda. We'll also take a trip to Funpark and talk to the director of Forklift.
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Join Vicky Frost, Helen Davidson, Jane Howard and Van Badham as we take some life advice from punk-cabaret star Amanda Palmer, take a look at The Piper, Kaput and Matmos, and hear some amazing festival sounds from Limbo
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Join Vicky Frost, Van Banham and Andrew Frost as we chat about big festival art: is it good art or fun art – and can it be both? We also hear from the Hilliard Ensemble, and discover some non-festival treats Sydney has on offer with Time Out Sydney editor Joel Meares
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Join Vicky Frost, Helen Davidson and Jane Howard as we talk to Sydney Festival Director Lieven Bertels, take a close look at the play All That Fall and pick the best festival shows this week
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Guardian Australia's critics and writers join performers, writers and musicians to discuss the hottest shows at Australia's biggest cultural festivals in these special podcasts
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