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The Weekend Read

By: Schwartz Media
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  • Listen to Australia's best writers and thinkers read out longform essays from The Monthly magazine, the country's leading publication on politics, current affairs and culture.
    2023 Schwartz Media
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  • Elizabeth Farrelly on the city of the future

    Elizabeth Farrelly on the city of the future
    Apr 20 2024
    Today, columnist Elizabeth Farrelly will read her piece about our modern cities and how they relate to the history of how humanity has imagined the perfect city. Farrelly is one of Australia’s foremost writers on urban development and the communities of our cities – having earned devoted readers at the Sydney Morning Herald and now at Schwartz Media, inThe Saturday Paper. Socials: Stay in touch with us on Twitter and Instagram Guest: Columnist Elizabeth Farrelly
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    21 mins
  • Sophie Cunningham on remembering Georgia Blain

    Sophie Cunningham on remembering Georgia Blain
    Apr 5 2024
    Today, author and editor Sophie Cunningham reads her piece from a recent edition of The Saturday Paper. Australian author Georgia Blain chronicled her battle with cancer in a monthly column for The Saturday Paper, sadly passing away in 2016. Blain is remembered in this piece by her friend of over two decades, Sophie Cunningham – championing her legacy as a writer of rare talent, with a clear-eyed gaze, and a capacity to talk about sadness without self-pity. Socials: Stay in touch with us on Twitter and Instagram Guest: Author and editor, Sophie Cunningham
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    15 mins
  • Elmo Keep on the insane spectacle of U2 at the Las Vegas sphere

    Elmo Keep on the insane spectacle of U2 at the Las Vegas sphere
    Mar 22 2024
    On the Las Vegas strip, in a sea of casinos, sits an enormous dome that lights up the sky. It’s called The Sphere and it’s a performance venue where punters are dazzled by 54 thousand metres of LED screens capable of showing 256 million colours, in a display so overwhelming that some concertgoers faint. Writer Elmo Keep travelled to Vegas to see her favourite band U2 play at The Sphere in their inaugurating residency. There she found in equal parts, a religious experience and a hyper capitalist nightmare. Socials: Stay in touch with us on Twitter and Instagram Guest: Writer, Elmo Keep
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    29 mins
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