Open Book Podcast

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Recordings of live events from the Open Book Festival, a literary festival that takes place in Cape Town each year.

Episode Date
OBF2025: Book Lounge Feminist Book Club with Michelle Myeko Kekana
Jan 23, 2026
OBF2025: The Loss Rate
Jan 21, 2026
OBF2025: What the Water Gave Me
Jan 19, 2026
OBF2025: Recovering from Childhood
Jan 16, 2026
OBF2025: Facing Death
Jan 14, 2026
OBF2025: Up Close with Maneo | Tsitsi Dangarembga
Jan 14, 2026
OBF2025: Feminist Imaginary | Speaking into Silence
Dec 12, 2025
OBF2025: Spirituality in the Now
Dec 10, 2025
OBF2025: Queer Anxiety
Dec 08, 2025
OBF2025: Slam City Showcase
Dec 05, 2025
OBF2025: Better Late | What Goes on at the Open Book Literary Festival?
Dec 03, 2025
OBF2025: The Poetics of I
Dec 01, 2025
OBF2025: Make Noise & Hold All Applause with Lesedi Molefi
Nov 28, 2025
OBF2025: Spec Fic and Science
Nov 26, 2025
OBF2025: Why So Serious
Nov 24, 2025
OBF2025: RMF 10 Years Later
Nov 21, 2025
OBF2025: Stories of Rebellion
Nov 19, 2025
OBF2025: Exploring the Queer Imaginary
Nov 18, 2025
OBF2025: Finding Lightness
Nov 17, 2025
OBF2025: African Cosmologies as a World of Magnitude
Nov 12, 2025
OBF2025: Tensions of Home
Nov 07, 2025
OBF2025: Inherited Systems
Nov 07, 2025
OBF2025: Unsettled Accounts | The Interpreters
Nov 05, 2025
OBF2025: Conversations with Mohale | Are We Tired Yet?
Nov 03, 2025
OBF2025: Director's Choice | Literary Spaces and Belonging
Oct 31, 2025
OBF2025: Traumatised Cities
Oct 29, 2025
OBF2025: Created in Africa
Oct 27, 2025
OBF2025: The Body Keeps the Score
Oct 24, 2025
OBF2025: The Republic
Oct 22, 2025
OBF2025: Queering Intimacy
Oct 20, 2025
OBF2025: Out of this World and into the Next
Oct 17, 2025
OBF2025: From Panafricanism to the Black Atlantic
Oct 15, 2025
OBF2025: Fluency and Trauma
Oct 13, 2025
OBF2025: Difficult Mothers
Oct 10, 2025
OBF2025: Living in Crisis
Oct 08, 2025
OBF2025: The Secret Keepers
Oct 06, 2025
OBF2025: Building on the Past
Oct 03, 2025
OBF2025: No Signs of Justice
Oct 01, 2025
OBF2025: Banging on the Walls of the Tank
Sep 29, 2025
OBF2024: Gathering Our Voices
Feb 14, 2025
OBF2024: Director's Cut | Talking Process
Feb 13, 2025
OBF2024: Life is Cheap
Feb 11, 2025
OBF2024: Trigger Warning
Feb 06, 2025
OBF2024: Journeys to Self
Feb 04, 2025
OBF2024: Visibility and Chronic Conditions
Jan 31, 2025
OBF2024: Portrait of Community
Jan 30, 2025
OBF2024: Bad Women
Jan 28, 2025
OBF2024: Everyday Violence
Jan 23, 2025
OBF2024: Up Close with Maneo
Jan 20, 2025
OBF2024: Writing Sisters
Jan 17, 2025
OBF2024: Understanding Exile
Jan 16, 2025
OBF2024: Chosen Family
Jan 14, 2025
OBF2024: Queer Freedom
Jan 09, 2025
OBF2024: Navigating Religious Trauma
Jan 07, 2025
OBF2024: Living Dystopian Realities
Dec 12, 2024
OBF2024: Patriarchy and Desire
Dec 10, 2024
OBF2024: The Dispossessed
Dec 06, 2024
OBF2024: The Archive of Everyday
Dec 05, 2024
OBF2024: Trust Issues
Dec 03, 2024
OBF2024: Cities of Trauma
Nov 27, 2024
OBF2024: Reading the Streets
Nov 26, 2024
OBF2024: Uncontrollable Bodies
Nov 22, 2024
OBF2024: Listening Party | Koleka Putuma
Nov 20, 2024
OBF2024: Family and Forgiveness
Nov 19, 2024
OBF2024: The Absent and the Present
Nov 14, 2024
OBF2024: Class Acts
Nov 12, 2024
OBF2024: Colonialism and Fracture
Nov 12, 2024
OBF2024: Love and Other Toxins
Nov 05, 2024
OBF2024: Queerness and the Divine
Nov 01, 2024
OBF2024: The Personal as Political
Oct 29, 2024
OBF2024: Poetry as Medicine
Oct 25, 2024
OBF2024: Feminist Imaginings | Creative Practice
Oct 24, 2024
OBF2024: Stories to Save Lives
Oct 22, 2024
OBF2024: Conversations with Mohale | Celebrating Unruly Women
Oct 17, 2024
OBF2024: Finding Ways to Talk
Oct 15, 2024
OBF2023: Black and Female
Nov 14, 2023
OBF2023: Heritage Politics
Nov 14, 2023
OBF2023: Coming of Age
Nov 02, 2023
OBF2023: Queerness and Cape Town
Nov 02, 2023
OBF2023: Reimagining Rituals
Nov 01, 2023
OBF2023: The Performance of Normal
Nov 01, 2023
OBF2023: Enduring Connections
Oct 31, 2023
OBF2023: Motivations for Writing
Oct 31, 2023
OBF2023: Acts of War
Oct 31, 2023
OBF2023: Nobuntu
Oct 30, 2023
OBF2023: Based on Truth
Oct 30, 2023
OBF2023: Cape Town City Stories | African Cities as Text
Oct 27, 2023
OBF2023: Constructed Identities
Oct 26, 2023
OBF2023: Fracture
Oct 26, 2023
OBF2023: Compelled to Speak
Oct 26, 2023
OBF2023: Collecting the Words
Oct 25, 2023
OBF2023: Surviving Masculinity
Oct 24, 2023
OBF2023: Connecting to the Self
Oct 24, 2023
OBF2023: The Way of Water
Oct 24, 2023
OBF2023: Teamwork
Oct 24, 2023
OBF2023: Feminist Imaginings
Oct 23, 2023
OBF2023: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Oct 23, 2023
OBF2023: Conversations with Mohale
Oct 23, 2023
OBF2023: Queering the Page
Oct 23, 2023
OBF2023: Poets in Conversation
Oct 20, 2023
OBF2023: The Future of Publishing
Oct 20, 2023
OBF2023: The Mother Wound
Oct 20, 2023
OBF2023: Post-apartheid Universities
Oct 19, 2023
OBF2023: Writing the Natural World
Oct 18, 2023
OBF2023: Striving for Social Equity
Oct 18, 2023
OBF2023: Desiring Urbanity in African Literature | African Cities as Text
Oct 18, 2023
OBF2023: The Banality of Violence
Oct 18, 2023
OBF2023: Unpacking the National Strategic Plan
Oct 17, 2023
OBF2023: Open Talk
Oct 17, 2023
OBF2023: The First Woman
Oct 17, 2023
OBF2023: Vulnerable Bodies
Oct 16, 2023
OBF2023: The Promise
Oct 16, 2023
OBF2023: Extraordinary Lives
Oct 16, 2023
OBF2022: Sifting Through the Past
Oct 20, 2022
OBF2022: Proximity of Death
Oct 20, 2022
OBF2022: Queer Journeys
Oct 19, 2022
OBF2022: Feminist Imaginings
Oct 19, 2022
OBF2022: Absent Fathers
Oct 18, 2022
OBF2022: Value and Visibility
Oct 18, 2022
OBF2022: Disconnection, Displacement and Loss
Oct 17, 2022
OBF2022: Transformative Moments
Oct 17, 2022
OBF2022: Director's Cut
Oct 14, 2022
OBF2022: Women and the Media
Oct 13, 2022
OBF2022: Memoir and the Missing Past
Oct 13, 2022
OBF2022: Mothers and Daughters
Oct 13, 2022
OBF2022: The Outsiders
Oct 12, 2022
OBF2022: Watching the Detectives
Oct 12, 2022
OBF2022: Collective Anxiety
Oct 11, 2022
OBF2022: Natural Entanglements
Oct 11, 2022
OBF2022: Legal Activism
Oct 11, 2022
OBF2022: Power of Cults
Oct 10, 2022
OBF2022: The Search for Truth
Oct 10, 2022
OBF2022: South Africa and Xenophobia
Oct 10, 2022
OBF2022: Load Unshedding
Oct 07, 2022
OBF2022: Conversations with Mohale
Oct 07, 2022
OBF2022: Survival, Resilience and the Ghosts We Live With
Oct 07, 2022
OBF2022: Loving in a Time of Sickness
Oct 07, 2022
OBF2022: Enabling the Future
Oct 06, 2022
OBF2022: Poets in Conversation
Oct 06, 2022
OBF2022: Forced to Move
Oct 05, 2022
OBF2022: Haunted Spaces
Oct 05, 2022
OBF2022: Neighbourhood Watch
Oct 04, 2022
OBF2022: Understanding the Moment
Oct 04, 2022
OBF2022: Writing of Loved Ones
Oct 03, 2022
OBF2022: Beyond the Law
Oct 03, 2022
OBF2022: The Architecture of Words
Apr 29, 2022
OBF2022: Playing Along
Apr 28, 2022
OBF2022: The Pressure to Produce
Apr 26, 2022
OBF2022: The Politics of Memory
Apr 25, 2022
OBF2022: Unmaking Fear
Apr 22, 2022
OBF2022: Present Dystopia
Apr 21, 2022
OBF2022: Map of Loss
Apr 20, 2022
OBF2022: Getting Real About Land
Apr 19, 2022
8: The Thing About Love
Nov 24, 2021
7: After Life
Nov 22, 2021
6: Finding the Bones
Nov 19, 2021
5: Fragile Power
Nov 17, 2021
4: Virtually Queer
Nov 15, 2021
[BONUS]: Conversations with Mohale Part Two
Nov 15, 2021
3: The Future is Over, Long Live the Future
Nov 12, 2021
2: Nowhere to Nowhere
Nov 10, 2021
1: Conversations with Mohale Part One
Nov 08, 2021
Trailer: Open Book Podcast 2021
Nov 02, 2021
Masculinity
Feb 22, 2021
Writing Adventures
Feb 22, 2021
Representing Home
Feb 22, 2021
In Search of Tenderness
Feb 22, 2021
Of Mermaids & Freeloaders
Feb 22, 2021
The Vanishing Half
Feb 22, 2021
Playing in the shadows
Feb 22, 2021
Travellers
Feb 22, 2021
The Open Book Podcast Series
Feb 22, 2021