The Weekend Read
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Episodes: 51
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Listen to Australia's best writers and thinkers read out longform essays from The Monthly magazine, the country's leading publication on politics, current affairs and culture.
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Anna Stewart on being a captain of one of the biggest games of the year
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Atticus Bastow on the mysteries of the universe at the bottom of an abandoned mine shaft
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Martin McKenzie-Murray on the ugly side of football fandom ahead of Euro 2024
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May 24, 2024 |
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Elizabeth Farrelly on the city of the future
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Sophie Cunningham on remembering Georgia Blain
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Elmo Keep on the insane spectacle of U2 at the Las Vegas sphere
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Ange Lavoipierre on how much sex is too much for one person
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Jane Gleeson on why we need decay to save the planet
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Konrad Muller on organic wine and whether it’s worth it
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Anthony Ham on what happens when a mine is meant to be rehabilitated
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Suzannah Marshall Macbeth on the role of predators
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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The Bhutanese nuns editing Wikipedia to share their culture
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Jack Manning Bancroft on Indigenous knowledge systems
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Nicole Hasham on a Christian monument a decade in the making
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Read This: David Marr vs Australia’s Old Lie
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Robyn Annear on the untold history in our public toilets
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Patrick Dodson makes his case for the Voice
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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When music journalism meets an MRI scan
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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New nipples with tattoo ink
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Christos Tsiolkas on pieces of fiction that stay with us forever
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Don Watson on cancelling a war hero
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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John Safran on lessons from his friend, Father Bob Maguire
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Carrie Tiffany on sugar, family and loss
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Esther Linder on food insecurity
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Michael Williams on The Monthly’s 200th edition
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Sasha Gattermayr on an obsession with carnivorous plants
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May 19, 2023 |
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Quentin Sprague on shocking reports in the Aboriginal art industry
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May 05, 2023 |
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Richard King on how ChatGPT is changing how knowledge is shared
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Lucianne Tonti on the battle to stop wasting brand-new clothes
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Sophie Cunningham on the cost of native logging
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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The late Robert Adamson on fishing the river he loved
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Erin O’Dwyer on how to design housing for happiness
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Clem Bastow on borrowing life lessons from Dolly, Girlfriend and Seventeen
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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‘A patch of land’: Gardening with Laura Tingle
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Surfing the little breaks, with Sarah Walker
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Sam Vincent on the overdue arrival of native Australian ingredients on our plates
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Cate Kennedy on the collective power of song
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Jock Serong on the coral windows to our oceans’ past and future
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Bronwyn Adcock on a terror suspect held for almost 20 years without trial
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Don Watson on how to be a prime minister
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Anna Goldsworthy on the importance of music and learning
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Richard Cooke on NFTs and digital art
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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‘The first victim’
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Mark McKenna on ‘The Stunted Country’
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Richard Denniss on the worst policy failure in Australian history
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Helen Garner’s lockdown diaries, 2021
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Hugh White on the folly of the War on Terror
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Scott Ludlam on Julian Assange
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Richard Flanagan on why he writes
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Sarah Krasnostein on the most hated man
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Bri Lee on consent and sex education
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Apr 30, 2021 |