18 Podcast Episodes
Anna Funder on liberating the wife of Orwell, Eileen O'Shaunessy
Anna Funder on liberating the wife of Orwell, Eileen O'Shaunessy
Anna Funder is the author of the international bestsellers Stasiland (2002) and All That I Am (2012). Her third major wo... Read more
13 Aug 2023
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35mins
Anna Funder: how George Orwell wrote his wife out of his story
Anna Funder: how George Orwell wrote his wife out of his story
All That I Am and Stasiland author Anna Funder's new book Wifedom rewrites the life of her literary hero George Orwell t... Read more
4 Aug 2023
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52mins
Anna Funder: on feminism, marriage and Wifedom
Anna Funder: on feminism, marriage and Wifedom
Anna Funder talks to Cheryl Akle about what it means to be a wife, feminism, and how George Orwell's wife, Eileen O’Shau... Read more
16 Jul 2023
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32mins
Anna Funder is Her Own Wife
Anna Funder is Her Own Wife
Anna Funder has a habit of writing about humans in extremis: under the Stasi, then the Nazis, and now, she's taken on th... Read more
12 Jul 2023
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28mins
Wifedom, hoarded memories and political road rage: New books by Anna Funder, Jen Craig and Priya Guns
Wifedom, hoarded memories and political road rage: New books by Anna Funder, Jen Craig and Priya Guns
Aboriginal, Chinese-Malaysian and Muslim writer and academic Eugenia Flynn co-hosts the Bookshelf this week with Kate Ev... Read more
7 Jul 2023
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54mins
Anna Funder on the ‘invisible labour’ behind George Orwell’s writing
Anna Funder on the ‘invisible labour’ behind George Orwell’s writing
A new Australian book is shedding new light on how George Orwell’s wife Eileen O’Shaughnessy helped write some of his mo... Read more
3 Jul 2023
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27mins
The Director’s Chair: Anna Funder on Stasiland, the US, Australia and whether writers are like spies
The Director’s Chair: Anna Funder on Stasiland, the US, Australia and whether writers are like spies
In this episode of The Director’s Chair, Michael Fullilove speaks with award-winning author Anna Funder. Anna is widely ... Read more
17 May 2021
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33mins
Recently Read 53: "Stasiland" by Anna Funder
Recently Read 53: "Stasiland" by Anna Funder
A compelling book on a difficult subject, telling the stories of people who lived behind the Berlin Wall and lived in fe... Read more
11 Aug 2020
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2mins
53: "Stasiland" by Anna Funder
53: "Stasiland" by Anna Funder
A compelling book on a difficult subject, telling the stories of people who lived behind the Berlin Wall and lived in fe... Read more
11 Aug 2020
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2mins
Anna Funder on the magic curtain of language, her life in writing, 'Stasiland' thirty years after the Berlin Wall fell and what she’s working on now.
Anna Funder on the magic curtain of language, her life in writing, 'Stasiland' thirty years after the Berlin Wall fell and what she’s working on now.
Anna Funder is one of Australia’s most acclaimed and celebrated writers. Her multi-award winning novel All That I Am was... Read more
24 Jun 2020
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52mins