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
KEMBALI20 Podcast | Febriana Firdaus: Investigative Reporting in Indonesia
Independent investigative journalist, Febriana Firdaus, is a regular contributor to The Guardian, covering topics from COVID-19 to the Black Lives Matter movement in West Papua. Her works have appear…
01:01:00 |
Thu 11 Mar 2021
KEMBALI20 Podcast | Etgar Keret: Anything but Ordinary
“My stories come from a very unconscious place. I don’t premeditate them, I don’t know what’s going to happen in them.” There’s no one like Etgar Keret. His stories take place at the crossroads of th…
00:53:40 |
Mon 08 Mar 2021
KEMBALI20 Podcast | James Oseland: In Search of the Cradle of Flavor
Join James Oseland to hear about his travels in search of the world’s best restaurants, street food stalls, and home cooks. James is the author and editor of World Food, a book series launching this …
00:59:18 |
Thu 04 Mar 2021
KEMBALI20 Podcast | Intan Paramaditha: The Wandering
The Guardian called Intan Paramaditha’s debut novel The Wandering an “ingenious choose-your-own-adventure challenge, [which is] at least five books in one.” Originally published in Indonesian as Gent…
01:00:07 |
Sun 28 Feb 2021
UWRF Podcast Rewind | In Praise of Slow
Faster! Better! More! Productivity and personal achievement are dominant cultural values in 2018, but do we have to buy in? Our panel asks you to put down your phone, put away your planner, and stop …
01:18:33 |
Wed 09 Sep 2020
UWRF Podcast Rewind | Sutardji Calzoum Bachri: The Chanting Poet
Iconic literary figure Sutardji once turned Indonesia’s time-worn poetry traditions upside down after proclaiming the liberation of words from their shackles of socially-enforced meanings. In an age …
00:59:48 |
Fri 04 Sep 2020
UWRF Podcast Rewind | Beyond Exile
Exile, statelessness, displacement… these experiences have created stories of immense loss, but also of great resilience and insight into human grace and dignity. Join writers from Turkey, Tibet and …
01:17:14 |
Wed 02 Sep 2020
UWRF Podcast Rewind | Twenty Years Later
Indonesia, 1998. With the fall of Suharto’s 32-year autocratic regime following years of political turmoil and violence, the ‘Reformation Era’ was ushered in. Heaped upon it were promises of freedom,…
00:39:30 |
Fri 28 Aug 2020
UWRF Podcast Rewind | The Past is Present
Forget blackboards and musty textbooks, strap in for a super-charged history lesson where we consider how (and why) literature can keep us from repeating the mistakes of history.
Featuring Juan Pabl…
01:12:22 |
Wed 26 Aug 2020
UWRF Podcast Rewind | Breaking Boundaries
It’s often remarked that Balinese women are among the hardest working in the world. A patriarchal society and a seemingly endless cycle of temple rituals and communal obligations have imposed both he…
01:12:20 |
Fri 21 Aug 2020
UWRF Podcast Rewind | Suki Kim: Undercover in North Korea
In 2011, investigative journalist Suki Kim went undercover in North Korea. Posing as a missionary and a teacher, she taught English to the 19-year-old sons of North Korea’s ruling class. Hear her sha…
01:00:04 |
Wed 19 Aug 2020
UWRF Podcast Rewind | Susi Pudjiastuti: Sink It
“Sink it” became a national catchphrase after Indonesia’s maverick (now former) Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries fulfilled her threat to sink any foreign boats found illegally fishing in In…
01:19:48 |
Fri 14 Aug 2020
UWRF Podcast Rewind | Mother Nature
Should we extend our compassion to all beings? Join extraodinary activists and authors for a conversation on compassion for the natural world, the next moves in sustainability, and how to bring conse…
01:00:44 |
Wed 12 Aug 2020
UWRF Podcast Rewind | Pierre Coffin: Movies and Minions
Did that Minion just say terima kasih? French-Indonesian animated film director and voice actor Pierre Coffin is the man behind the little yellow characters from the Despicable Me franchise, emblazon…
01:00:32 |
Fri 07 Aug 2020
UWRF Podcast Rewind | Evolving Islam
No religion has received as many headlines or as much misunderstanding in recent years as Islam. Our panelists study the faith in its many manifestations, from everyday lives in Indonesia and Malaysi…
01:11:44 |
Wed 05 Aug 2020
UWRF Podcast Rewind | Eka Kurniawan: Beyond Beauty is a Wound
Hear from one of the most promising Indonesian authors of this decade: Eka Kurniawan has earned international recognition with his critically-acclaimed works – most notably Beauty is a Wound and Man …
00:56:52 |
Fri 31 Jul 2020
UWRF Podcast Rewind | Jung Chang: Writing Modern China
With Wild Swans, Jung Chang illuminated the lives of three generations of women in China. Former rocket factory worker Lijia Zhang’s Lotus, inspired by her grandmother’s experiences, tells the story …
01:17:04 |
Wed 29 Jul 2020
UWRF Podcast Rewind | Screen Addicts
Facebook, Twitter and Pokemon Go! – Indonesia is addicted to the screen. Listen in as these best-selling authors and an indie publisher talk the trials and tribulations of bringing literature to publ…
01:14:19 |
Fri 24 Jul 2020
UWRF Podcast Rewind | Reni Eddo-Lodge: Changing the Culture
Award-winning author and journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race sparked a new and frank conversation about systemic racism. From eradicated black history to…
01:09:10 |
Wed 22 Jul 2020
UWRF19 Podcast | Indonesian Emerging Writers 2019
Each year UWRF puts a call out to emerging writers across the archipelago: send us your stories. In 2019, we received 1,253 submissions, the highest number since the Emerging Writers program’s incept…
00:58:43 |
Fri 10 Jul 2020
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