The Weekend Read

Listen to Australia's best writers and thinkers read out longform essays from The Monthly magazine, the country's leading publication on politics, current affairs and culture.

Recent Episodes
  • Anna Stewart on being a captain of one of the biggest games of the year
    Jun 21, 2024 – 13:50
  • Atticus Bastow on the mysteries of the universe at the bottom of an abandoned mine shaft
    Jun 7, 2024 – 15:47
  • Martin McKenzie-Murray on the ugly side of football fandom ahead of Euro 2024
    May 24, 2024 – 19:21
  • Elizabeth Farrelly on the city of the future
    Apr 20, 2024 – 19:56
  • Sophie Cunningham on remembering Georgia Blain
    Apr 5, 2024 – 13:48
  • Elmo Keep on the insane spectacle of U2 at the Las Vegas sphere
    Mar 22, 2024 – 27:25
  • Ange Lavoipierre on how much sex is too much for one person
    Mar 8, 2024 – 17:12
  • Jane Gleeson on why we need decay to save the planet
    Feb 23, 2024 – 15:52
  • Konrad Muller on organic wine and whether it’s worth it
    Feb 9, 2024 – 13:47
  • Anthony Ham on what happens when a mine is meant to be rehabilitated
    Jan 26, 2024 – 25:19
  • Suzannah Marshall Macbeth on the role of predators
    Dec 15, 2023 – 15:30
  • The Bhutanese nuns editing Wikipedia to share their culture
    Dec 1, 2023 – 18:00
  • Jack Manning Bancroft on Indigenous knowledge systems
    Nov 17, 2023 – 18:42
  • Nicole Hasham on a Christian monument a decade in the making
    Nov 3, 2023 – 35:53
  • Read This: David Marr vs Australia’s Old Lie
    Oct 20, 2023 – 27:32
  • Robyn Annear on the untold history in our public toilets
    Oct 6, 2023 – 13:04
  • Patrick Dodson makes his case for the Voice
    Sep 22, 2023 – 48:55
  • When music journalism meets an MRI scan
    Sep 8, 2023 – 19:45
  • New nipples with tattoo ink
    Aug 25, 2023 – 19:22
  • Christos Tsiolkas on pieces of fiction that stay with us forever
    Aug 11, 2023 – 16:28
  • Don Watson on cancelling a war hero
    Jul 28, 2023 – 13:52
  • John Safran on lessons from his friend, Father Bob Maguire
    Jul 14, 2023 – 12:35
  • Carrie Tiffany on sugar, family and loss
    Jun 30, 2023 – 20:38
  • Esther Linder on food insecurity
    Jun 16, 2023 – 26:47
  • Michael Williams on The Monthly’s 200th edition
    Jun 2, 2023 – 17:13
  • Sasha Gattermayr on an obsession with carnivorous plants
    May 19, 2023 – 13:40
  • Quentin Sprague on shocking reports in the Aboriginal art industry
    May 5, 2023 – 25:35
  • Richard King on how ChatGPT is changing how knowledge is shared
    Apr 21, 2023 – 16:22
  • Lucianne Tonti on the battle to stop wasting brand-new clothes
    Apr 7, 2023 – 16:02
  • Sophie Cunningham on the cost of native logging
    Mar 24, 2023 – 14:33
  • The late Robert Adamson on fishing the river he loved
    Mar 10, 2023 – 15:23
  • Erin O’Dwyer on how to design housing for happiness
    Feb 24, 2023 – 12:14
  • Clem Bastow on borrowing life lessons from Dolly, Girlfriend and Seventeen
    Feb 10, 2023 – 14:41
  • ‘A patch of land’: Gardening with Laura Tingle
    Jan 13, 2023 – 12:05
  • Surfing the little breaks, with Sarah Walker
    Jan 6, 2023 – 19:03
  • Sam Vincent on the overdue arrival of native Australian ingredients on our plates
    Nov 11, 2022 – 52:40
  • Cate Kennedy on the collective power of song
    Oct 14, 2022 – 17:41
  • Jock Serong on the coral windows to our oceans’ past and future
    Sep 2, 2022 – 12:00
  • Bronwyn Adcock on a terror suspect held for almost 20 years without trial
    Aug 5, 2022 – 28:26
  • Don Watson on how to be a prime minister
    Jul 15, 2022 – 23:17
  • Anna Goldsworthy on the importance of music and learning
    Jun 17, 2022 – 32:24
  • Richard Cooke on NFTs and digital art
    Mar 18, 2022 – 27:53
  • ‘The first victim’
    Feb 4, 2022 – 55:34
  • Mark McKenna on ‘The Stunted Country’
    Dec 10, 2021 – 39:54
  • Richard Denniss on the worst policy failure in Australian history
    Nov 5, 2021 – 39:12
  • Helen Garner’s lockdown diaries, 2021
    Oct 22, 2021 – 21:29
  • Hugh White on the folly of the War on Terror
    Oct 1, 2021 – 33:03
  • Scott Ludlam on Julian Assange
    Aug 6, 2021 – 32:35
  • Richard Flanagan on why he writes
    Jul 2, 2021 – 26:01
  • Sarah Krasnostein on the most hated man
    Jun 4, 2021 – 35:23
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