Essays On Air

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Join us as we read aloud fascinating, meticulously researched essays penned by academics who are experts in their fields.

Episodes

Nimbin before and after: local voices on how the 1973 Aquarius Festival changed a town forever

Essays On Air: the politics of curry

Essays On Air: The female dwarf, disability, and beauty

Essays On Air: Australia’s property boom and bust cycle stretches back to colonial days

Essays On Air: how archaeology helped save the Franklin River

Essays On Air: can art really make a difference?

Essays On Air: Monsters in my closet – how a geographer began mining myths

Essays On Air: Joan of Arc, our one true superhero

Essays On Air: The personal is now commercial – beauty, fashion and feminism

Essays On Air: On the Sydney Mardi Gras march of 1978

Essays On Air: When did Australia’s human history begin?

Essays On Air: Why grown-ups still need fairy tales

Essays On Air: Reading Germaine Greer’s mail

Essays On Air: Why libraries can and must change

Essays On Air: The cultural meanings of wild horses

Essays On Air: Journeys to the underworld – Greek myth, film and American anxiety

Essays On Air: a new podcast from The Conversation bringing the best writing to you