SlowTV
About this original series
SlowTV is a free internet TV channel delivering interviews, debates, conversations and public lectures about Australia's key political, social and cultural issues. It's a new format for the delivery of new ideas. SlowTV provides a forum for the nation's leading minds and conversationalists to explore the ideas that fascinate us and the challenges that face us. Our programs, accessible at any time at the click of a mouse, have the freedom to consider every angle and the time to cover issues in depth. As well as studio interviews and panel discussions, SlowTV presents speeches and public lectures from around the country. Each day, authors, activists, scholars, poets, politicians and thinkers speak in public, hosted by bookshops, universities, non-profit organisations and public institutions. SlowTV puts a curated selection of these speeches online, in full. SlowTV combines the editorial integrity and resources of The Monthly magazine with the potential of digital technology to put Australia's public-intellectual culture on your screen. It streams video content with no strings attached - no charges, no memberships, no commitments. Settle in to the leisurely pleasure of http://www.slowtv.com.au/tm/video
Episodes of SlowTV
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Janette Turner Hospital in Conversation
Janette Turner Hospital, one of Australia’s most admired writers, speaks on a lifetime of writing – and teaching – literature. For almost three decades, Janette Turner Hospital’s award-winning fiction has won her acolytes here and in the US, where she now resides. She returns to her native shores to talk about Forecast: Turbulence, her third collection of stories set on both continents. In each story, Janette Turner Hospital reflects on a central question: how can we maintain equilibrium in a ...
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Release date
May 15, 2012
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53:05
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Staying in Character. Frank Moorhouse and Garry ...
When a writer invents a great character, what are the attendant expectations? Will he or she be for a novel, a story or a series? How does one develop and nurture a character over time and across genres? And what is the writer’s ongoing relationship with that character? In this panel, Garry Disher and Frank Moorhouse, who have created enduring characters - some lasting a trilogy, some much longer - join Julianne Schultz as she asks the question of character. Presented by Adelaide Writers' Week...
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May 8, 2012
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50:17
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Why is the Labor Party in Crisis?
A political tsunami appears to be hitting the Australian Labor Party as it wrestles with the challenges of leadership and collapse in almost every state. According to Barry Jones, Labor’s politics are worse today than when the ALP spilt in 1955, or when the governor-general John Kerr dismissed the Whitlam Labor government in 1975, or when Paul Keating lost to John Howard in 1996. What has led to this situation and what may happen next? Speakers include Barry Jones, former President of the ALP ...
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Release date
May 7, 2012
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01:05:27
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History as Fiction. Marr, Grenville, Rash, Cerca...
History and fiction have long made strange bedfellows. At this Adelaide Writers' Week event, four acclaimed writers discuss the very different ways they have used fiction to interrogate history. Javier Cercas’ best-selling writings have ingeniously explored the legacies of the Vietnam War and the Spanish Civil War; Ron Rash’s lyrical narratives have long mined the troubled history of the American South; Kate Grenville’s award-winning trilogy about life in colonial Australia has won her legions...
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May 4, 2012
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Runtime
01:09:28
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The Anatomy of a Moment. Javier Cercas in Conver...
Best-selling Spanish novelist Javier Cercas burst into the English language world with his spectacular novel about the Spanish Civil War, Soldiers of Salamis. Soon after, he published The Speed of Light, a novel about the Vietnam War. Most recently Cercas has published The Anatomy of a Moment, a non-fiction book about the failed 1981 Spanish coup d'état. Cercas, one of Spanish literature’s most celebrated writers tells (host) Javier Diaz about his extraordinary new book. Presented by Adelaide ...
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Release date
Apr 29, 2012
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Runtime
53:45
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Meet the Neighbours: Australia in Asia
India and China seem on track for world domination in the next century. So apart from knowing they have a hunger for our minerals, what else should we know? Speakers: Paul French is based in Shanghai as a business advisor and analyst. He is the author of four works of Asian History; Michael Wesley is the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute; and Chetan Bhagat is 'the biggest selling English language novelist in India’s history.' (NY Times) and one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential P...
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Release date
Apr 26, 2012
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50:53
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Mental Health in Australia. With Patrick McGorry...
The first National Report Card on mental health and suicide prevention is due to be released at the end of 2012. What will it say about Australia’s mental health services now - and what more needs to be done? Addressing the topic of mental health in Australia (and its treatment) are: Professor Allan Fels, head of the newly established National Mental Health Commission; former Australian of the Year Professor Patrick McGorry, head of Orygen Youth Health and one of the National Mental Health Com...
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Release date
Apr 19, 2012
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Runtime
01:00:43
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On Manhood. Deborah Robertson and Malcolm Knox
At Adelaide Writers' Week, two novelists explore the vexing questions of contemporary manhood. Malcolm Knox’s novel The Life is a knowing rift on the life of a retired surfer. Deborah Roberston’s Sweet Old World tells the story of a man who falls in love with a mother trying to save her child. Their books paint complex and thoughtful portraits of contemporary masculinity, and in this conversation they explore their ideas further. Presented by Adelaide Writers' Week, March 2012
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Release date
Apr 17, 2012
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Runtime
58:09
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The Ethics of Intervention. David Rieff, with Ga...
When should the international community intervene in civil conflict? What made last year’s Libyan conflict suitable for intervention, while Syrians continued to struggle against despotism alone? In this Wheeler Centre event, David Rieff, a widely published intellectual (and the son of Susan Sontag), speaks with former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans (author of Responsibility to Protect) on the ethics of intervention. Presented by The Wheeler Centre, February 2012
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Release date
Apr 12, 2012
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Runtime
56:05
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Collateral Damage. Kim Barker and Paul Ham
Civilians are often caught in cross-fire, but what about when they are deliberately targeted? Paul Ham and Kim Barker discuss with chair Joseph Catanzaro how war crimes and atrocities are somehow justified by those who commit them. Kim Barker was awarded the Council on Foreign Relations' Edward R. Murrow press fellowship to study Afghanistan and Pakistan. Her book The Taliban Shuffle (2011) is her true-life reporting from these war-torn countries. Paul Ham (NSW) is a Sydney-based historian. Hi...
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Release date
Apr 11, 2012
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Runtime
54:09
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