THE WRITER'S ROOM

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In her popular book ​​The Writer's Room, Charlotte presented a series of in-depth conversations with other writers about their work and their creative processes. In her podcast, The Writer's Room with Charlotte Wood, she continues those conversations, talking with writers and practitioners from other art forms about how they work, what keeps them going, and the joys and challenges of making art. ​

Find The Writer's Room with Charlotte Wood  on Apple Podcasts here, listen below or head straight to our Anchor channel where there are links to Spotify, Google Podcasts and other places to listen. If you like what you hear, we’d love you to subscribe, rate the show and tell your friends. 

Episode 6:
Actor Heather Mitchell on developing character​

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Heather Mitchell is one of Australia’s most acclaimed actors. With a career spanning four decades, she has performed in hundreds of theatre productions and too many film and television roles to count. Those credits include Muriel’s Wedding, The Great Gatsby, Proof, Palm Beach, Rake, the new series Operation Buffalo, and Tim Minchin’s recent comedy Upright. Recent stage performances include lead roles in the Sydney Theatre Company’s productions of Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls, Ruth Park’s The Harp in The South and Still Point Turning, the Catherine McGregor story.
 

Episode 5:
​Long Litt Woon on mushrooms, mourning & memoir

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Long Litt Woon is an anthropologist and Norwegian Mycological Association-certified mushroom professional.
​Born in Malaysia, she first visited Norway as a young exchange student. There she met and married Norwegian Eiolf Olsen. She currently lives in Oslo, Norway. ​Her first book is her memoir, The Way Through the Woods: Of Mushrooms and Mourning.

Episode 4: Jerry Saltz on How To Be An Artist  ​
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Jerry Saltz is the senior art critic at New York magazine and its entertainment site, Vulture. He won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism and a 2019 National Magazine Award. Before joining New York in 2007, he was art critic for The Village Voice where he was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. A frequent guest lecturer, he has spoken at the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney Museum and many other major galleries.
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Episode 3: ​Vicki Hastrich, Night Fishing & artistic
​cross-pollination 

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Episode 2: Finding your creative tribe 

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​Episode 1: How can you write while the earth is burning? Sarah Sentilles on why making art matters

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​EAT LIKE THE ANIMALS

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In 2016 Charlotte was named the first writer in residence at the Charles Perkins Centre, the world-renowned science & health research facility at the University of Sydney, where she wrote her novel The Weekend. Now, the friendships and professional collaborations she made there have resulted in Eat Like the Animals, a podcast about food, biology, and the surprising lessons animals have to teach us humans about what and how to eat. In this series Charlotte talks with renowned University of Sydney biologists David Raubenheimer and Steve Simpson about their 35 years of work and friendship, and the resulting research findings that provocatively challenge long-held beliefs about nutrition and human health. In the process, we take a look at the serendipitous connections that often lie at the heart of good science, and the insights scientists share with artists.

Find Eat Like the Animals on Apple Podcasts here, listen below or head straight to our Anchor channel where there are links to Spotify, Google Podcasts and other places to listen. If you like what you hear, subscribe, rate the show and tell your friends. 

Episode 1:
Curiosity, childhood and the natural world

Are scientists born or made? In Episode 1 we hear about the early years of Professors Steve Simpson and David Raubenheimer, and their childhood investigations into the natural world. From Steve's high school reconstructions of a cow skeleton to David's childhood hypothesis about the harmfulness of bees, we see how two schoolboys grew into two world-renowned scientists. We learn of their meeting at Oxford University and the early experiments with locusts that led to their groundbreaking findings about human nutrition. Along the way we discuss how curiosity makes room for the tenacity to go your own way as a scientist and challenge long-held 'truths' about the world. ​