Audio Interviews
May 1, 2009.
Erica Vowles interviews Craig Silvey for Radio National's "The Book Show," ABC.
Listen on the ABC's website. (Archive of audio; archive of page.)
13 minutes.
*****
June 10, 2009.
Radio New Zealand interviews Craig Silvey.
Listen on Radio NZ's website. (Archive of audio; archive of page.)
19 minutes.
*****
July 31, 2009.
Valerie Khoo interviews Craig Silvey for the Australian Writers' Centre.
Listen on the Writers' Centre website or on MixCloud. (Archive of audio; archive of page.)
24 minutes.
*****
September 28, 2010.
Maggie Ball interviews Craig Silvey for the "Compulsive Reader" show on Blog Talk Radio.
Listen on Anchor or BlogTalkRadio.com. (Archive of audio; archive of page.)
26 minutes.
*****
March 15, 2012.
Paula Tapiolas interviews Craig Silvey on the "Morning Show," ABC Brisbane.
Listen to an archive of the audio from the ABC's website. (Archive of page.)
13 minutes.
*****
October 9, 2012.
Rachel Fountain interviews Craig Silvey for ABC Perth's "Under the Covers."
Listen on the ABC's website (archive of audio; archive of page).
22 minutes.
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October 18, 2012.
Caitlin Nienaber interviews Craig Silvey for RTR FM, a community radio station in Perth.
9 minutes.
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November 5, 2012.
Craig Silvey interview with Michael Cathcart and Rhiannon Brown, ABC, Radio National.
Listen on the ABC's website. (Archive of page; archive of audio.)
16 minutes.
*****
August 29, 2013.
Craig Silvey interview at the Australian and New Zealand Literary BBQ, London.
Listen on SoundCloud. (Archive of audio on Mixcloud; archive of page.)
18 minutes.
*****
July 15, 2014.
Craig Silvey discusses the stage adaptation of Jasper Jones with the ABC's "Books and Arts" show.
Listen on the ABC's website. (Archive of audio; archive of page.)
20 minutes.
*****
November 25, 2014.
James Hall interviews Craig Silvey about the movie adaptation of Jasper Jones for RTR FM, a community radio station in Perth.
Listen on RTR FM's website. (Archive of audio; archive of page.)
5 minutes.
*****
August 19, 2016.
Craig Silvey, Kate Mulvany (playwright), Taylor Ferguson (actor), and Nicholas Denton (actor) discuss Jasper Jones, the play, on ABC Radio with Sarah Kanowski.
Listen on the ABC's website. (Archive of audio; archive of page.)
15 minutes.
*****
February 22, 2017.
Craig Silvey appears on the ABC Radio Perth show, "Mornings with Geoff Hutchison."
25 minutes.
*****
March 1, 2017.
Rachel Perkins and Craig Silvey discuss Jasper Jones with Matthew Toomey.
Listen to the interview on the Film Pie website. Read a transcript of the interview on the Film Pie website. (Archive 1, archive 2.)
13 minutes.
*****
September 26, 2020.
Craig Silvey appears on Radio New Zealand's "Saturday Morning" show.
Listen on RNZ.co.nz. (Archive of audio.)
16 minutes.
*****
September 28, 2020.
Stella Charls of the Wheeler Centre interviews Craig Silvey about Honeybee.
Listen on the Wheeler Centre's website. (Archive of audio; archive of page.)
25 minutes.
*****
September 30, 2020.
Craig Silvey appears on ABC Radio National's "Breakfast with Fran Kelly."
Listen on the ABC's website. (Archive of audio.)
11 minutes.
*****
October 1, 2020.
Nicole Abadee interviews Craig Silvey for her "Books, Books, Books," podcast.
Listen on Nicole Abadee's website, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Spotify.
51 minutes.
*****
October 5, 2020.
Craig Silvey appears on ABC's "The Book Show," with Claire Nichols, and talks about real life inspiration for Honeybee, a novel inspired by Picnic at Hanging Rock and Laura Elvery's homage to women scientists.
Listen on the Book Show's website. (Archive of page.)
54 minutes.
*****
October 6, 2020.
Craig Silvey appears on "So You Want to Be A Writer," a podcast co-hosted by Valerie Khoo and Allison Tait.
Listen on the Australian Writers' Centre website, Spotify, or Stitcher.
62 minutes.
*****
October 9, 2020.
Craig Silvey is a guest on ABC's "The Bookshelf," with Claire Nichols, Cassie McCullagh, and Morag Fraser. They discuss Trent Dalton's All Our Shimmering Skies and Marilynne Robinson's Jack.
Listen on the Bookshelf's website.
54 minutes.
*****
October 9, 2020.
Indira Naidoo interviews Craig Silvey for ABC's Nightlife.
Listen on ABC's Nightlife website. (An archive of this audio interview.)
24 minutes.
*****
November 1, 2020.
Cheryl Akle interviews Craig Silvey for "Stories Behind the Story with Better Reading."
Listen on Better Reading's website, Apple Podcasts, or Acast.
32 minutes.
*****
November 2, 2020.
Craig Silvey and three other guests (Peter Drew, Eliza Roberts, and Natasha Sturgis) appears on the ArtsHubbub podcast to discuss how Covid-19 has reshaped travel.
Listen on ArtsHub.com.au, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify.
27 minutes.
*****
February 1, 2021 .
Craig Silvey and other writers talk about the link between Dungeons and Dragons and becoming a writer on the ABC's "The Book Show with Claire Nichols."
Listen on the episode on ABC's website, Google Podcasts, or Apple Podcasts . (Archives of page: 1, 2.)
54 minutes.
*****
June 2021.
Paul J Laverty in conversation with authors Craig Silvey, Barry Divola, and Robert Isaacs, at the Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival (MRRWF).
Listen on the Margaret River Festival's website or on Spotify. (Archive of page.)
59 minutes.
*****
March 7, 2022.
Craig Silvey, Tony Birch, and Dervla McTiernan share their love of reading, as recorded at the Perth Festival Writers Weekend by the ABC's "The Book Show."
Listen via the ABC website, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, or Listen Notes.
54 minutes.
*****
October 2, 2022.
Craig Silvey, Andrew Sean Greer, and Shehan Karunatilaka talk about their latest novels on ABC's "The Book Show."
Listen via the ABC website, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, or Listen Notes. (Archive of page.)
1 hour.
*****
October 15, 2022.
Craig Silvey talks with ABC Perth about celebrating 20 years as a writer, and Annie Shearer, the 11-year-old girl in Silvey's book for young readers, Runt.
Listen via the ABC website. (Archive of page.)
11 minutes.
*****
October 16, 2022.
Craig Silvey talks with ABC Melbourne about three important songs that are in his new book, Runt.
Listen via the ABC website. (Archive of page.)
32 minutes.
*****
October 31, 2022.
Craig Silvey talks with Cheryl Akle on the "Stories Behind the Story with Better Reading" podcast.
Listen to the episode, titled "Craig Silvey on exploring the bonds between dogs and humans," via the Better Reading website, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. (Archive of page.)
38 minutes.
*****
June 23, 2023.
Craig Silvey talks with Julie-Anne Sprague of 6PR.
Listen via 6PR’s "Backstories" website. (Archive of audio. Archive of page.)