The Wordshed is Australia's only free-to-air tv program devoted to writers and writing.
If you missed the first episode last Wednesday night, there are still five more instalments to come!
This Wednesday 12 April at 8pm and weekly thereafter, with repeats on Sunday afternoons at 2pm, on the new community channel TVS (Sydney viewers only).
This week the guests are :
JANE GIBIAN is a poet, whose first collection of poetry 'The Body's
Navigation' was published in 1998. Jane performs poems, inspired by
her Asia Link residency in Vietnam in 2002.
DAVID MALOUF, esteemed author of novels including Johnno, The Great
World and An Imaginary Life, continues his talks on writing and age
PETER GOLDSWORTHY, doctor, poet and novelist whose work include
Maestro and Three Dogs Night and
awards include The Commonwealth poetry prize discusses death, love and
the disease of writers
ELSPETH PROBYN, Professor of Gender Studies at the University of
Sydney gives a lecture on shame, from her recent publication
Blush : Faces of Shame
DAVE TEH, director of the half-dozen festival for emerging art, critic
and curator, lectures in cultural and critical theory
BRIAN and DARRAN JORDAN, a father son team creating graphic novels and
comic books, through their company 'Ecelctica Press'
If your set is tuned to receive the old Channel 31 (31 on the UHF band), you don't have to do anything.
Otherwise your set will find the channel if you press the automatic tuning button.
The Wordshed is produced and presented by Johanna Featherstone, on behalf of the Writing and Society Research Group at the University ??of Western Sydney.