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Director's Choice content

Streamed from our place to yours

Our selection of Director’s Choice sessions can be streamed from home. It’s the perfect option for people who can’t make it to Adelaide Writers’ Week or are having difficulty choosing between sessions on the day.

Director’s Choice tickets are available for $15 per event. Events can be viewed live from their scheduled start and for one week thereafter. The live stream tickets for each event are sold separately but can form part of one transaction, just keep adding the events to your cart. To purchase tickets, please visit this page to see all events or click the individual event links below. 

 

Sat 1 Mar, 9:30am
Boys and Men and Aussie Rules
Helen Garner with Nicole Abadee

Sat 1 Mar, 10:45am
It’s Christmas 1962 and a Baby Arrives...
Niall Williams with Kate Evans

Sat 1 Mar, 12pm
Fiction, Memoir and the Boundaries of Art
Michelle de Kretser with Georgina Godwin

Sat 1 Mar, 3:45pm
How the People of Yirrkala Changed the Course of Australian Democracy
Clare Wright with Kerry O’Brien

Sun 2 Mar, 12pm
Dog Days
Markus Zusak with Nicole Abadee

Sun 2 Mar, 1:15pm
Crimes Against Humanity
Tobias Buck, Geoffrey Robertson and Dorcy Rugamba with Gareth Evans

Sun 2 Mar 2:30pm
Dirrayawadha: Resistance, Resilience and Love During the Frontier Wars
Anita Heiss with Nicole Abadee

Sun 2 Mar, 3:45pm
Politics: Is It a Laughing Matter?
Annabel Crabb and John Crace with Cathy Wilcox

Mon 3 Mar, 10:45am
On Grief
Geraldine Brooks with Bob Carr

Mon 3 Mar, 12pm
Espionage, Seduction and Intrigue
Rachel Kushner with Claire Nichols

Mon 3 Mar, 5pm
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations
Sir Simon Schama with Norman Swan

Tue 4 Mar, 1:15pm
Race and Racism
Wesley Lowery and Amy McQuire with Larissa Behrendt

Tue 4 Mar, 2:30pm
A Tech Love Story
Kara Swisher with Eliza Harvey

Tue 4 Mar, 5pm
Narcissistic Villains and Asphyxiating Families
Charlotte Mendelson with Sarah L’Estrange

Wed 5 Mar, 10:45am
The Men Who Killed the News
Eric Beecher with John Lyons

Wed 5 Mar, 12pm
History Lessons
Orlando Figes, Bettany Hughes, Matthew Longo and Dava Sobel

Wed 5 Mar, 1:15pm
Working for the Brand: How Corporations are Destroying Free Speech
Josh Bornstein with Joe Aston

Wed 5 Mar, 2:30pm
Chameleon: A Memoir of Art, Travel, Ideas and Love
Robert Dessaix with Susan Wyndham

Wed 5 Mar, 3:45pm
Balcony Over Jerusalem: Israel, Iran and the New Middle East
John Lyons with Bob Carr

Thu 6 Mar, 9:30am
The Chairman’s Lounge: The Inside Story of How Qantas Sold Us Out
Joe Aston with David Penberthy

Thu 6 Mar, 10:45am
Europe and the Challenge of Russia
Orlando Figes with Robert Dessaix

Thu 6 Mar, 12pm
American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
Wesley Lowery with Rachel Perkins

Thu 6 Mar, 1:15pm
Diva: Reimagining Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis’ Scandalous Affair
Daisy Goodwin with Pip Williams

Thu 6 Mar, 3:45pm
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Bettany Hughes with Georgina Godwin