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
UWRF19 Podcast | Indonesian, Elsewhere
Around 9 million Indonesians live and work overseas, along with countless descendants of Indonesian migrants. Our panel of orang Indonesia living in diaspora recounted their personal experiences of w…
01:06:12 |
Fri 03 Jul 2020
UWRF19 Podcast | Homegrown Heroes
Indonesian comic superheroes have long been in the stranglehold of foreign character translations. But the Marvel Cinematic Universe is creating demand for local superheroes, along with Gundala, a re…
01:08:06 |
Fri 26 Jun 2020
UWRF19 Podcast | Life After #MeToo
The dust has far from settled on #MeToo, “a movement that represents probably the greatest and most conspicuous collaboration of women since the suffragettes”, according to Sam George-Allen. With the…
00:59:41 |
Fri 19 Jun 2020
UWRF19 Podcast | Lucy Inglis: Milk of Paradise
Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: poppy latex is a commodity without rival. Acclaimed cultural historian Lucy Inglis took us on an epic journey from ancient Mesopotamia to modern America and Afgh…
00:56:35 |
Fri 12 Jun 2020
UWRF19 Podcast | Andreas Harsono: Race, Islam and Power
Andreas Harsono has covered Indonesia for Human Rights Watch since 2008. His new book Race, Islam and Power: Ethnic and Religious Violence in Post-Suharto Indonesia is the result of his 15-year proje…
00:59:02 |
Fri 29 May 2020
UWRF19 Podcast | The Role of the Arts in Cultural Diplomacy
“We’re fractured nations because we’re not reading or translating each other,” said Malaysian author Bernice Chauly during the UWRF17 panel on the 50th anniversary of ASEAN. Join our group of experts…
01:01:40 |
Fri 22 May 2020
UWRF19 Podcast | Domestic Spaces
The domestic, the interior and the personal have traditionally been relegated to the realm of women’s writing, which in recent years has been dismissed as too small to attract significant readership,…
01:11:10 |
Fri 15 May 2020
UWRF19 Podcast | Yotam Ottolenghi: Simple
“In this day and age recipes are abundant… I love that I can learn a little bit more, whether it’s political, philosophical, historical, or personal.” For Yotam Ottolenghi, food is always a gateway t…
01:15:01 |
Fri 08 May 2020
UWRF19 Podcast | Is All Contemporary Fiction Speculative Fiction?
Speculative fiction has lurked in the shadows of the literary scene for years while realism hogged the limelight. Now, as the natural and political spheres crumble around us, speculative fiction’s dy…
01:02:48 |
Fri 01 May 2020
UWRF19 Podcast | Reza Aslan: God: A Human History
Born into a Shia Muslim family that migrated to the US after fleeing the Iranian Revolution, Reza Aslan converted to Christianity as a teen and then returned to Islam. He is now a religious scholar, …
01:04:05 |
Fri 24 Apr 2020
UWRF19 Podcast | Moving Pictures
The way we consume stories is rapidly changing, and the popularity of graphic novels, memoirs and other types of visual storytelling for adult audiences proves images can capture enthralling narrativ…
00:51:38 |
Fri 17 Apr 2020
UWRF19 Podcast | The Karma of Comedy
From gentle mockery to caustic sarcasm, there’s a victim at the butt of most good laughs. Must comedy be cruel to work, and does that mean comedians have a free pass when it comes to how they treat o…
01:04:45 |
Fri 10 Apr 2020
UWRF19 Podcast | Millennial Memoir
Memoirs are no longer seen as the self-indulgent domain of those at the end of long and accomplished lives: millennials around the world are writing fresh and compelling stories, tackling everything …
01:01:39 |
Fri 03 Apr 2020
UWRF19 Podcast | Irvine Welsh: Choose Life
It’s been 26 years since Irvine Welsh gave the world Trainspotting, the book deemed by Rebel Inc. “the best book ever written by man or woman” that went on to define a generation. Since then he’s wri…
01:01:47 |
Fri 27 Mar 2020
UWRF19 Podcast | Multilingual Wordsmiths
Crafting the perfect sentence in one’s mother tongue is hard enough, without the complications that working in a second language brings. But that hasn’t stopped this panel. Not content to create in j…
01:13:18 |
Fri 20 Mar 2020
UWRF19 Podcast | Akala: Natives
Award-winning hip-hop artist Akala’s bestselling Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire is a searing polemic on race and class in the British Empire. With a life and outlook shaped by these e…
01:01:16 |
Thu 12 Mar 2020
UWRF19 Podcast | Weapons of Mass Distortion
Indonesia has 150 million internet users and 800,000 hoax-distributing websites, according to the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. In a system swimming with fake news, what is th…
00:58:50 |
Mon 09 Mar 2020
UWRF19 Podcast | Asia Pacific Futures on the Page, Stage and Screen
In a 2019 Entertainment Weekly interview, Amy Tan reflected on the 30 years since her groundbreaking novel The Joy Luck Club was published, commenting on the remarkable difference in Asian representa…
01:12:42 |
Fri 06 Mar 2020
UWRF19 Podcast | Lemn Sissay: My Name is Why
After a childhood in care, 17-year-old Norman Greenwood saw his birth certificate for the first time: his name was Lemn Sissay, he was British-Ethiopian, and his mother had never stopped trying to ge…
01:19:30 |
Fri 28 Feb 2020
UWRF19 Podcast | Indonesian Cinema as Soft Power
With a vast domestic market and burgeoning production power, Indonesia’s film industry has huge potential. In recent times, Indonesian films and industry professionals have enjoyed rising internation…
00:59:33 |
Tue 25 Feb 2020
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