Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast
If you missed a moment of enlightenment or entertainment at this year’s Anniversary Festival, we’ve got you covered. Our 2023 festival highlights program brings a collection of captivating conversations by local and international Festival guests directly to your home. With lively talks and reflections aimed at understanding the past, our present, and how our words and actions shape the future.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 140
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
UWRF21 Podcast | The Jakarta Method
Vincent Bevins’ bold and comprehensive debut work, The Jakarta Method, highlights his incisive reporting for The Washington Post and uses declassified documents and eyewitness testimony to reveal a s…
00:45:19 |
Mon 31 Jan 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Semut
In Semut, Christine Helliwell shares the story of an Australian secret military operation launched into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of Borneo, in the final months of Worl…
00:46:19 |
Mon 31 Jan 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Women of a Certain Rage
Australian politician and academic Anne Aly, award-winning children’s author Meg McKinlay, and documentary filmmaker Victoria Midwinter Pitt are all three exceptional women of widely different backgr…
00:45:32 |
Mon 31 Jan 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Media and Memoir
In Phosphorescence, Julia Baird immerses herself in nature to explore friendships, family, loss, and illness, to seek the inner light that brightens our lives in the darkest times. In The Art of Soli…
00:48:52 |
Mon 31 Jan 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Weaving Mythical Characters and Magic Realism
Celebrated Indonesian author Ayu Utami, a pioneer of women’s erotica in Indonesia, along with Fogarty Award-winner Rebecca Higgie, will share stage and screen with Professor Krishna Sen to explore th…
00:33:15 |
Mon 31 Jan 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Self Reflection and Loving Kindness
Struggling to maintain grace and good humour amidst daily potholes and pitfalls? Author and essayist Brigid Lowry maybe just the warm, wise, and witty companion you need. To start the day with a posi…
00:21:20 |
Mon 31 Jan 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | The Nutmeg's Curse
In The Nutmeg’s Curse, Amitav Ghosh shares how Western colonialism and exploitation in the Banda Islands, Maluku, is the origin of climate change’s current dynamics. Hilmar Farid, the Director-Genera…
00:48:00 |
Mon 31 Jan 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | The Travel Writing Tribe
What is the future of travel writing in the 21st century? In his book, The Travel Writing Tribe, Tim Hannigan asked this question as he sets out on humorous mini-adventures to meet the world’s most a…
00:46:36 |
Mon 31 Jan 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Project Multatuli: A Voice to the Voiceless
Multatuli’s book Max Havelaar is a powerful indictment of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies. Inspired by his fight for equality, Project Multatuli is a public journalism organization that expose i…
00:59:16 |
Mon 31 Jan 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | The Lasalaga Project
The Lasalaga Project is Louis Buana’s research of the ancient legend of Lasalaga, the fierce ruler of Mamuju, West Sulawesi. Of Balinese-Sulawesi heritage, Lasalaga’s story highlights the harmonious …
00:55:07 |
Mon 31 Jan 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | The New and the Old of Indonesian Literature
How do we interpret the development of literary works in Indonesia lately? Indonesian established and emerging writers, Rio Johan, Inggit Putria Marga, and Wayan Sumahardika, elaborate on the issues …
00:45:03 |
Mon 31 Jan 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Exploring Closer
Muhammad Ade Putra is a young poet who is actively reflecting on locality in his poems, and Eki Saputra describes environmental issues and marginalized people through his short stories. Together with…
00:40:02 |
Mon 31 Jan 2022
UWRF21 | Tale of Banda: In Coversation with Hilmar Farid
Spice has a large influence on Indonesian history. Starting from the Banda and Maluku regions, trade routes in the past have crossed various regions and pushed transit cities into cultural points. Be…
00:49:25 |
Mon 31 Jan 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Festival Welcome
Join us as Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2021 begins with a warm welcome from our Founder and Director, Janet DeNeefe, and two inspiring keynote speeches. This year, the Festival invites you to exp…
00:37:11 |
Mon 31 Jan 2022
KEMBALI20 Podcast | When the World Stopped Traveling
As an island that relies heavily on tourism, the COVID-19 crisis has led to Bali’s most challenging period in recent memory. Our panelists have spent decades in Indonesia’s tourism industry and contr…
01:17:24 |
Thu 08 Apr 2021
KEMBALI20 Podcast | Made Janur Yasa: From Rubbish to Rice (Indonesian)
Pelatih somatik dan instruktur bela diri, Made Janur Yasa, menemukan cara yang praktis dan efektif untuk mendorong warga mengelola sampahnya. Bagaimana? Dengan menukarnya dengan beras sumbangan. Sepe…
00:54:57 |
Mon 29 Mar 2021
KEMBALI20 Podcast | Christina Thompson: Sea People: the Puzzle of Polynesia
In Sea People, Christina Thompson explores the fascinating story of Polynesia’s ancient voyagers, as well as the sailors, linguists, archaeologists, folklorists, biologists, and geographers who have …
01:12:10 |
Thu 25 Mar 2021
KEMBALI20 Podcast | Ben Bland: Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia
Man of Contradictions, the first English-language biography of Jokowi, argues that the president embodies the fundamental contradictions of modern Indonesia. He is caught between democracy and author…
01:10:59 |
Sun 21 Mar 2021
KEMBALI20 Podcast | Tyson Yunkaporta: Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. His new book Sand Talk provides a template for living. It’s about how lines, symbols, and shapes can help us make sense of the…
01:00:50 |
Thu 18 Mar 2021
KEMBALI20 Podcast | Edwidge Danticat: Everything Inside
Edwidge Danticat’s latest book of short stories, Everything Inside, is set in Port-au-Prince, Miami, and beyond. It reflects on community, family, and love, and how people come to terms with death, o…
01:03:34 |
Mon 15 Mar 2021
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