This Week: Melbourne Writers Festival: The New Yorker, Censorship & Inside Australian Politics

Home Talks This Week on TV About Subscribe Partners Contact us Follow us on Twitter Waleed Aly - Big Ideas host This week we have an array of wonderful sessions all from 2012 Melbourne Writers Festival. Tomorrow 11am on ABC1 in SHORTCUTS spend time discovering What's the Story with the The New Yorker magazine team, then take a different look at Australia with George Megalogenis, Louise Adler, Esther Anatolitis, and our own Waleed Aly in session titled Australia II. Wednesday 11am on ABC1 An Evening with The New Yorker in Melbourne Town Hall, a tour inside this great magazine with some of their best writers and cartoonist - this episode is not to be missed! Cartoonist Roz Chast shares not only the process of creating the infamous The New Yorker cartoons but we learn how she and the rest of the team secured their coveted posts in this much loved publication. You'll also be entertained by wonderful storyteller David Grann as he regales of hunting giant squid and surviving contact with the Aryan Brotherhood. Saturday 6.30pm on ABCNEWS24 Censorship, the Body and Porn, a smart discussion with all the panellists (David Marr, Karen Pickering & Jeff Sparrow) trying to fathom what drives the panic in the community about what is deemed pornographic. Lynne Haultain is the moderator. Saturday 10.30pm on ABCNEW24 Insiders or Outsiders? Do some journalists get too close to the politicians they interview and/or write about; and how can they still keep the channels open and avoid any compromise? We're listening here to industry practitioners (Melissa Fyfe, Sue Roff, Tim Dunlop, Chris Uhlmann & Denis Muller) and the answers are a bit disquieting at times; especially when it comes to blogging and the rigours of publishing. Sunday 11.30pm on ABCNEWS24 Labor in Vain features Gough Whitlam biographer and academic Jenny Hocking; Maxine McKew, the former ABC broadcaster and journalist; and former Premier of Victoria, Steve Bracks. The discussion does a bit of agonising over the fate of the Federal Labor Party. Is it in real crisis or just experiencing the odd slump?  The most recent polling might give the party a bit of a psychological bounce; but let's just say that this session is pretty inconclusive!   This Week on TV Books and Authors An Evening with The New Yorker A tour inside this great magazine with some of their best writers and absolutely their best cartoonist. more » Wednesday 26 September 2012, 11am on ABC1 Books and Authors Censorship, the Body and Porn A smart discussion from the 2012 Melbourne Writers Festival where the panellists try to fathom what drives the panic in a community about what's deemed pornographic. more » Saturday 29 September 2012, 6.30pm on ABC News24 Books and Authors Australia II Do second generation Australians have a unique perspective on political and social issues and do such perspectives shift over a lifetime? more » Tuesday 25 September 2012, 11am on ABC1 Saturday 6 October 2012, 10.30pm on ABC News24 Politics Labor in Vain Labor in Vain – Is the fate of the federal Labor Party sealed? Is it in crisis or just experiencing the odd catastrophe? more » Tuesday 18 September 2012, 11am on ABC1 Sunday 30 September 2012, 11.30pm on ABC News24 Editor's Picks Politics How to Rebuild a Political Party In the wake of the NSW election, committed recalcitrant Radio National's Phillip Adams, hosts a public forum to examine the challenges now facing the ALP. Is Australia's oldest political party in need of minor adjustment or radical reinvention? more » Arts Art Censorship and Pornography The Bill Henson Affair and the difference between art and pornography. more » Culture and Society Scott Dadich On Designing Wired Magazine WARNING: THIS PROGRAM CONTAINS COARSE LANGUAGEMany might imagine that the process of designing a cover for a magazine is a case of taking a photo and organising some informative graphics. Not so for the team at Wired magazine, as Creative Director Scott D more » Big Ideas TV| Big Ideas Radio| Contact Us You are subscribed to this ABC newsletter with the email address: "idouska1.scan@blogger.com" If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, please unsubscribe here. If someone forwarded this newsletter to you, please feel free to subscribe here. Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 700 Harris Street, Ultimo NSW 2007 © 2011 ABC | Conditions of Use | Privacy Policy | Discover other ABC email newsletters