Podcasts

The Witness Interview: ‘There’s something fundamentally wrong with young men…that they gravitate to war, that they gravitate to violence, that they gravitate to self destruction…I’ve always felt compelled to wrestle with that.’ Thomas M Wright talks to Alison Croggon

Robert Reid talks to broadcaster, writer and general arts stalwart Richard Watts, discussing his background as a poet, activist and advocate, and his passionate and abiding connection to Australian arts.

‘When I think about art, I think: what raises the hair on your arms’ In Part 1 of this super fabulous and candid Witness Interview, Ben Keene talks to performance artist Moira Finucane on the development of her unique queer performance art

The Witness Interview: Moira Finucane, ‘the patron saint of magpies’, digs into her creative practice in Part 2 of her interview with Ben Keene

The first Spotlight Podcast, a new series of investigative podcasts produced by Witness sound man Ben Keene, The Bridge explores the remount late last year of The Bridge, Vicki Reynolds’ verbatim play about the West Gate Bridge disaster, and how communities deal with trauma, memory and healing

For our final Witness Interview of 2018, Robert Reid talks to Ming-Zhu Hii about many things, including artistic risk, the commodification of the arts, racial representation and the early days of blogging.

In our eighth Witness Podcast, Carissa Lee and Alison Croggon discuss the importance of diversity in arts criticism: why we need it, and why the lack of it contributes to inequalities in the arts. 

For this month’s Witness Interview, Robert Reid talks to Australian playwright Amelia Roper about making a career in the United States and all things writing, including guineapigs.

Is there a new energy sweeping through our theatres? For this month’s Witness Podcast, Robert Reid and Alison Croggon look back on what they’ve seen since Witness launched in March.