Follow us on Twitter: @slowtv SlowTV is a free internet TV channel delivering interviews, debates, conversations and public lectures about Australia's key political, social and cultural issues. It's a new format for the delivery of new ideas. SlowTV provides a forum for the nation's leading minds and conversationalists to explore the ideas that fascinate us and the challenges that face us. Our programs, accessible at any time at the click of a mouse, have the freedom to consider every angle and the time to cover issues in depth. As well as studio interviews and panel discussions, SlowTV presents speeches and public lectures from around the country. Each day, authors, activists, scholars, poets, politicians and thinkers speak in public, hosted by bookshops, universities, non-profit organisations and public institutions. SlowTV puts a curated selection of these speeches online, in full. SlowTV combines the editorial integrity and resources of The Monthly magazine with the potential of digital technology to put Australia's public-intellectual culture on your screen. It streams video content with no strings attached - no charges, no memberships, no commitments. Settle in to the leisurely pleasure of http://www.slowtv.com.au/tm/video
Text Presented by City of Melbourne in collaboration with the National Gallery of Victoria, May 2011
Anthony Bourdain perhaps more than anyone else on earth can lay claim to the invention of the 'celebrity chef'. In this Sydney Writers' Festival session he tells Jill Dupleix about his no-holds-barred journey into the culinary underworld. Anthony Bourdain is the author of the mega-bestsellers ‘Kitchen Confidential’, ‘A Cook’s Tour’, ‘Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook’ and ‘Medium Raw’. His writing has appeared in ‘The Times’, ‘The New York Times’, ‘The Observer’, ‘The Face’, and ‘Scotland...
Is there ever a case for pornography, or should it be totally off-limits in an ethical society? Feminist anti-pornography activist Gail Dines, memoirist Kate Holden, and academic and gender politics advisor Catharine Lumby stand off in this heated Sydney Writers' Festival event chaired by Leslie Cannold. Presented by Sydney Writers' Festival 2011
Most debate over global warming looks only as far ahead as 2100 AD, but what happens after that? Speaking at the Sydney Writers' Festival, Curt Stager, author of ‘Deep Future: the Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth,’ argues that our fossil fuel emissions will interfere with the climate for much longer than most of us realise. Curt Stager is an ecologist, paleoclimatologist and science writer. He has published over three dozen climate and ecology related articles in major journals and has writ...
Pakistan is a country plagued by natural disasters, endemic political corruption, religious fundamentalism and is claimed by many to be the central headquarters of Islamist terrorism. And it’s a nuclear power. Fatima Bhutto, scion of the Pakistani political family, addresses the current state of her country in her Opening Address at the Sydney Writers' Festival 2011. Fatima Bhutto is an Afghan-born Pakistani poet and writer. She is the granddaughter of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto...
Dick Smith's Population Crisis is Smith's new book exploring the crucial issue of unsustainable population growth around the world including, in his view, in Australia. In this interview with SlowTV's Nick Feik, Dick Smith explains why population is the issue that lies at the heart of many of the world's most pressing problems - food production challenges and price rises, water shortages, the unsustainable consumption of fossil fuels and climate change - and how society's quest for infinite ec...
Simon Longstaff (St James Ethics Centre) speaks to the HOME Hospice 2011 conference about the trouble we have talking about death and dying. The conference was organised to stimulate discussion about why Australian communities at every level have lost their literacy around dying and death, and to explore ways of regaining it both personally and socially. Presented by HOME Hospice 'Live Talk Die' conference, Sydney, May 2011
This Sydney Writers' Festival session features one of the most extraordinary human stories you're likely to encounter. Izzeldin Abuelaish is a Palestinian doctor and infertility expert who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. He trained in Egypt, London, Israel, Italy, Belgium and the US, and spent most of his working life working in Israel. His three daughters were killed in January 2009 during the Israeli incursion into Gaza. Dr Abuelaish continues to preach a m...
Helen Garner, Joel Nathan and Kathy Lee share their personal stories and perspectives about caring for loved ones in their final weeks and moments. How did they approach it? What did they learn? How would they deal with it in a similar situation in the future? The discussion is hosted by Caroline Baum. Presented by HOME Hospice, Live Talk Die Conference, Sydney March 2011
Helen Garner, Joel Nathan and Kathy Lee share their personal stories and perspectives about caring for loved ones in their final weeks and moments. How did they approach it? What did they learn? How would they deal with it in a similar situation in the future? The discussion is hosted by Caroline Baum. Presented by HOME Hospice, Live Talk Die Conference, Sydney March 2011