Experience ANU

Experience ANU

The ANU campus is always alive with plenty to see, hear and do. Listen here to one of the many fascinating talks delivered by the world’s finest thinkers. If you’re interested in finding out more about events at ANU then visit us at events.anu.edu.

Episodes

June 24, 2026 54 mins
Anna Goldsworthy was in conversation with Andrew Leigh on her new quarterly essay The God We Made. The Threat and Promise of Artificial Intelligence. Humanity in the age of AI . How will we be changed by the rise of artificial intelligence? In this scintillating essay, Anna Goldsworthy argues that AI is a rupture that makes us confront what it is to be human – what we do, and want. As it learns human ways, AI raises big quest...
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Stan Grant was in conversation on his latest book, When Words Fail Us, Truth Beyond Time. Most of us, in our lives, will witness things we cannot comprehend, when words fail to do justice to the moment. In those moments, to whom or what can we turn? To God? To philosophy? To music? To ourselves, or to our fellow humans?
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June 4, 2026 56 mins
Shaun Micallef was in conversation with Adam Shirley on his new novel, De'Ath Takes A Holiday. From the man Ben Elton once described as ‘perhaps Australia’s finest satirist’ comes a Victorian novel for modern times, the origin story of the first real vampyre (not Dracula).
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June 4, 2026 58 mins
Frank Bongiorno was in conversation with Joshua Black, Marija Taflaga and Peter Yu on Gold Standard? Remembering the Hawke government. Edited by Frank Bongiorno, Carolyn Holbrook and Joshua Black.
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May 19, 2026 55 mins
Caitlin Vincent in conversation with Helen Musa on her new book Opera Wars. Inside the World of Opera and the Battles for its Future, which received extensive media coverage in the United States and UK on publication earlier this year.
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May 19, 2026 53 mins
Journalist and human rights advocate, Antoinette Lattouf, in conversation with Virginia Haussegger on her new book Women Who Win. Celebrating Courage, Conviction and Change, a gripping journey through women who defied expectations and shattered cultural and legal barriers – usually while being cast aside and asked to calm down.
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May 13, 2026 57 mins
Listen to recording of Dervla McTiernan in conversation with Chris Hammer on Three Reasons for Revenge, her first crime fiction novel set in Australia, on Experience ANU SoundCloud channel.
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Desmond Manderson was in conversation with Malcolm McLeod, Anna Olsen and Carolyn Strange on his new book High Time: How Australia Changed Its Mind About Illegal Drugs, a unique look at Australia's treatment of illegal drugs from the 1980s to the present.
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Listen to recording of Caillan Davenport in conversation with Edward Watts on her new book Behind Ceasar’s Back: Rumor, Gossip and the Making of Roman Emperors, a thrilling exploration of what Romans thought about their emperors, and how rumours and gossip ranging from new taxes to rulers’ sex lives shaped leadership.
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May 4, 2026 52 mins
Listen to recording of Susan Lever in conversation with Robert Hefner on her new book A.D. Hope. A Life, the first biography one of Australia's greatest poets. on Experience ANU SoundCloud channel.
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May 4, 2026 54 mins
Candice Fox in conversation with Chris Hammer on her new crime fiction novel Redbelly Crossing, in which two cop brothers hunt a killer while trying to outrun their shared past.
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Listen to recording of Patricia O'Brien in conversation with Frank Bongiorno on her new book Errol FlynnThe true story of Australia's Hollywood icon on Experience ANU SoundCloud channel.
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April 15, 2026 55 mins
Stephanie Alexander was in conversation with Alex Sloan on the 30th Anniversary Edition of The Cook's Companion.
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April 7, 2026 62 mins
Michael Wesley was in conversation with Hugh White on his new Quarterly Essay Blind Spot. Southeast Asia and Australia's Future.
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April 7, 2026 57 mins
Listen to recording of Amy Remeikis, one of Australia's most astute political commentators, who was in conversation with Frank Bongiorno on her new book Where It All Went Wrong-The Case Against John Howard on Experience ANU SoundCloud channel.
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April 7, 2026 54 mins
Louise Milligan was in conversation with Virginia Haussegger on her second novel Shellybanks, a book with buried secrets, unimaginable trauma and how the love of family can pull you through to a brighter future.
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March 17, 2026 55 mins
Andrew Leigh was in conversation with Anna -Maria Arabia on his new book The Shortest History of Innovation.
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March 16, 2026 53 mins
Ashley Kalagian Blunt, ‘Australia’s queen of tech noir’, was in conversation with Chris Hammer on her new novel, Like, Follow, Die, a shattering and provocative psychological thriller which dives into the darkest corners of the internet and the powerful bonds between parents and children.
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John Hawkins, Michelle Grattan and John Halligan was in conversation with Frank Bongiorno on their new edited book The First Albanese Government. Governing in an age of disruption and division, 2022–2025.
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December 4, 2025 61 mins
Niki Savva was in conversation with Kerry -Anne Walsh on her new book Earthquake, the election that shook Australia, a collection of Niki Savva’s most groundbreaking columns from The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, along with a riveting and deeply informed analysis of Australia’s epoch-making 2025 election.
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