Ubud Writers & Readers Festival

Ubud Writers & Readers Festival


Latest Episodes

UWRF19 Podcast | Yotam Ottolenghi: Simple
May 07, 2020

“In this day and age recipes are abundant… I love that I can learn a little bit more, whether it’s political, philosophical, historical, or personal.” For Yotam Ottolenghi, food is …

UWRF19 Podcast | Reza Aslan: God: A Human History
April 23, 2020

Born into a Shia Muslim family that migrated to the US after fleeing the Iranian Revolution, Reza Aslan converted to Christianity as a teen and then returned to Islam. He …

UWRF19 Podcast | Moving Pictures
April 17, 2020

The way we consume stories is rapidly changing, and the popularity of graphic novels, memoirs and other types of visual storytelling for adult audiences proves images can capture enthralling narratives. …

UWRF19 Podcast | Weapons of Mass Distortion
February 27, 2020

Indonesia has 150 million internet users and 800,000 hoax-distributing websites, according to the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. In a system swimming with fake news, what is the relationship …

UWRF19 Podcast | The Karma of Comedy
December 04, 2019

From gentle mockery to caustic sarcasm, there’s a victim at the butt of most good laughs. Must comedy be cruel to work, and does that mean comedians have a free …

UWRF19 Podcast | Irvine Welsh: Choose Life
December 04, 2019

It’s been 26 years since Irvine Welsh gave the world Trainspotting, the book deemed by Rebel Inc. “the best book ever written by man or woman” that went on to define a …

UWRF19 Podcast | Akala: Natives
December 04, 2019

Award-winning hip-hop artist Akala’s bestselling Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire is a searing polemic on race and class in the British Empire. With a life and outlook shaped …

UWRF19 Podcast | Millennial Memoir
December 04, 2019

Memoirs are no longer seen as the self-indulgent domain of those at the end of long and accomplished lives: millennials around the world are writing fresh and compelling stories, tackling …

UWRF19 Podcast | Multilingual Wordsmiths
December 04, 2019

Crafting the perfect sentence in one’s mother tongue is hard enough, without the complications that working in a second language brings. But that hasn’t stopped this panel. Not content to …

UWRF19 Podcast | Indonesian Cinema as Soft Power
December 04, 2019

With a vast domestic market and burgeoning production power, Indonesia’s film industry has huge potential. In recent times, Indonesian films and industry professionals have enjoyed rising international prominence. Could Indonesian …