Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast

About Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast

If you missed a moment of enlightenment or entertainment at this year’s Anniversary Festival, we’ve got you covered. Our 2025 festival highlights program brings a collection of captivating conversations by local and international Festival guests directly to your home. With lively talks and reflections aimed at understanding the past, our present, and how our words and actions shape the future.

Publisher

Ubud Writers & Readers Festival

Category

arts · education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Feb 2020

Latest episode

16 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

149 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Mar 2026

   2025 Festival Highlights | Rewriting Indonesian History

   In a powerful conversation from the 2025 Festival, Indonesian journalist and Editor-in-Chief of IDN Times Uni Lubis and Indonesian historian and Founder of Historia.id Bonnie Triyana speak with host and American Professor of Journalism Janet Steele about the controversy over the government’s plan to amend history books. They offer a brave, nuanced and ultimately important analysis of another flashpoint in the world’s third-largest democracy and the fear of historical amnesia.

2. 

   5 Mar 2026

   2025 Festival Highlights | Navigating the Dynamics of China-U.S. Politics

   In this next #UWRF25 highlight conversation, American writer, journalist and private diplomat Michael Vatikiotis invites New York Times Diplomatxic Correspondent Edward Wong and Chinese Senior Fellow Zhou Bo to examine the complexities of China–United States relations and how contemporary politics influence these powers. Listen in as they untangle their geopolitical landscape and the interactions between competing world powers.

3. 

   20 Feb 2026

   2025 Festival Highlight | Women and Creativity

   Appearing in one of our live recorded highlight conversations of #UWRF25, Indonesian multidisciplinary artist Agnes Christina, Australian author and producer Courtney Collins, British, Delhi-based artist Olivia Fraser, and Irish Book Award–winning writer Sinéad Gleeson talk with Jenny Valentish about what drives them and how their creativity nurtures each of them in a world where women are often responsible for more roles than they are recognised for.

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Podcast Authority Score: 35 / 100

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97

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