# Jennifer Byrne Presents

Jennifer Byrne Presents was an Australian television series of specials that was a spinoff from the First Tuesday Book Club presented by ABC journalist Jennifer Byrne. The show first aired on ABC TV on 9 October 2007. The program was broadcast on selected Tuesdays at 10:00pm and was replayed at 4:30pm on the following Sunday.
The series was sometimes broadcast on Thursday evenings at 8:00pm. In September 2012, an audience of 823,000 viewed her interview with J. K. Rowling and in October 2013, an audience of 637,000 viewers viewed her interview with Tim Winton.
The last known episode of the program was aired on 17 May 2016.

## Episode list
### 2007

| Date | Program title | Guest(s) |
| 9 October 2007 | War Stories | Geraldine Brooks, Les Carlyon, Peter Cosgrove and Rowley Richards |
| 28 October 2007 | Writing with Food | Mikey Robins, Gay Bilson, Marion Halligan and Lindsay McDougal |
| 24 November 2007 | Bill Bryson | Bill Bryson |

### 2008

| Date | Program title | Guest(s) |
| 11 March 2008 | Crime | Dorothy Porter, Graeme Blundell, Justice Ian Callinan, Shane Maloney |
| 15 April 2008 | Greatest Characters From Fiction | |
| 30 April 2008 | Peter, Paul and Ian | Peter Carey, Paul Auster, Ian McEwan |
| 24 June 2008 | Sex and Romance | Luke Davies, Sophie Gee, Anne Gracie, Christos Tsiolkas |
| 29 July 2008 | Animal Tales | Jackie French, Sonya Hartnett, Peter Goldsworthy, Raimond Gaita |
| 11 November 2008 | Biography | Jacqueline Kent, Graeme Blundell, Christine Wallace, Peter Fitzsimons |
| 22 December 2008 | Dorothy Porter | Dorothy Porter |

### 2009

| Date | Program title | Guest(s) |
| 10 March 2009 | Hoaxes | Malcolm Knox, Jack Marx, Michael Heyward, John Bayley |
| 9 June 2009 | Cads and Bounders | Mia Freedman, Sandra Yates, Chris Taylor, Edmund Capon |
| 14 July 2009 | Brave New Worlds | Emily Maguire, Max Barry, John Marsden, Richard Neville |
| 8 September 2009 | Monsters and Bloodsuckers | Tara Moss, Leigh Blackmore, Cathrine Jinx, Will Elliott |
| 20 October 2009 | True Crime | Rochelle Jackson, Andrew Rule, Jack Marx, Richard Spears |

### 2010

| Date | Program title | Guest(s) |
| 9 March 2010 | Book to Film | John Collee, Ana Kokkinos, John Marsden, Margaret Pomeranz |
| 11 May 2010 | Bestsellers & Blockbusters | Lee Child, Matthew Reilly, Di Morrissey, Bryce Courtenay |
| 13 July 2010 | Christopher Hitchens | Christopher Hitchens |
| 24 August 2010 | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
| 21 September 2010 | On the Road | Cate Kennedy, William Dalrymple, Claire Scobie, Tony Wheeler |
| 16 November 2010 | Graphic Novels | Marieke Hardy, Dave Graney, Markus Zusak, Bob Sessions |

### 2011

| Date | Program title | Guest(s) |
| 15 March 2011 | Cult Reads | Marieke Hardy, Dave Graney, Markus Zusak, Bob Sessions |
| 29 March 2011 | Ken Follett | Ken Follett |
| 26 April 2011 | Lovers | Andrea Goldsmith, Posie Graeme Evans, Mark Colvin, Toby Schmitz |
| 17 May 2011 | The Future of Book | Richard Watson, Kate Eltham, Richard Flanagan |
| 12 July 2011 | Fantasy | Jennifer Rowe, Fiona McIntosh, Lev Grossman, Matthew Reilly |
| 26 July 2011 | Geraldine Brooks | Geraldine Brooks |
| 16 August 2011 | Memoir | Jane Clifton, Kate Holden, Peter Fitzsimons, Benjamin Law |
| 26 September 2011 | Christos Tsiolkas | Christos Tsiolkas |
| 11 October 2011 | Alexander McCall-Smith | Alexander McCall Smith |
| 15 November 2011 | Di Morrissey | Di Morrissey |

### 2012

| Date | Program title | Guest(s) |
| 14 February 2012 | Words Aloud | Kim Scott, Mem Fox, Mark Colvin, Cate Kennedy |
| 29 May 2012 | Dark Places | Jo Nesbø, Michael Robotham, Malla Nunn, Leigh Redhead |
| 12 June 2012 | Punch Lines | Richard Glover, Chris Taylor, Virginia Gay, Lawrence Mooney |
| 19 June 2012 | Erotica | David Malouf, Linda Jaivin, Krissy Kneen, Eddie Sharp |
| 26 June 2012 | Books That Changed The World | Danielle Clode, Mark Carnegie, Christine Wallace, Geoff Dyer |
| 31 July 2012 | Jeanette Winterson | Jeanette Winterson |
| 28 August 2012 | Davo Sobel | Davo Sobel |
| 27 September 2012 | JK Rowling: Life After Potter | J. K. Rowling |
| 16 October 2012 | The Harry Games | John Marsden, Melina Marchetta, Morris Gleitzman, Steph Bowe |
| 19 November 2012 | Michael Palin from Python to Brazil | Michael Palin |

### 2013

| Date | Program title | Guest(s) |
| 30 April 2013 | Ian McEwan | Ian McEwan |
| 14 May 2013 | PD James | PD James |
| 21 May 2013 | Ian Rankin | Ian Rankin |
| 28 May 2013 | Margaret Atwood | Margaret Atwood |
| 10 September 2013 | Books That Changed the World, Volume II | Tom Holland, Ahdaf Soueif, Jared Diamond, Loretta Napoleoni |
| 17 September 2013 | Pens and Prejudice | Anna Krien, Kate Mosse, Ramona Koval, James Wood |
| 24 September 2013 | Elizabeth Gilbert | Elizabeth Gilbert |
| 10 October 2013 | Tim Winton | Tim Winton |
| 12 November 2013 | The Sports Pages | Rebecca Wilson, Christos Tsiolkas, Malcolm Knox, Mischa Merz |
| 19 November 2013 | Bragging Rights | John Safran, Lawrence Mooney, Sandra Yates, Sophie Black |

### 2014

| Date | Program title | Guest(s) |
| 15 July 2014 | The Seven Deadly Sins - GREED | Geoffrey Cousins, Janine Allis, Shane Maloney, Dee Madigan |
| 22 July 2014 | The Seven Deadly Sins - WRATH | Brendan Cowell, Tracey Spicer, Craig Sherborne, Larissa Behrendt |
| 29 July 2014 | The Seven Deadly Sins - PRIDE | Michael Williams, Kirstie Clements, Steve Vizard, Ramona Koval |
| 5 August 2014 | The Seven Deadly Sins - LUST | Tara Moss, John Bell, Marieke Hardy, Jason Steger |
| 12 August 2014 | The Seven Deadly Sins - SLOTH | Bob Carr, Hannah Gadsby, Gary Shteyngart, Robina Courtin |
| 19 August 2014 | The Seven Deadly Sins - ENVY | Greg Sheridan, Angela Meyer, Lyndon Terracini, Kate McClymont |
| 26 August 2014 | The Seven Deadly Sins - GLUTTONY | Wayne Macauley, George McEncroe, Mark Colvin, Charlotte Wood |
| 9 September 2014 | Jane Goodall at Sydney Town Hall: Parts 1 & 2 | Jane Goodall |
| 9 September 2014 | Jane Goodall | Jane Goodall |
| 16 September 2014 | Tom Keneally | Tom Keneally |
| 23 September 2014 | Helen Garner | Helen Garner |
| 19 October 2014 | Malala: Life After The Taliban | Malala Yousafzai |

### 2015

| Date | Program title | Guest(s) | Reference |
| 19 April 2015 | Great War Stories | Peter FitzSimons, Christina Spittel, Merrick Watts, Delia Falconer | |

### 2016

| Date | Program title | Guest(s) | Reference |
| 17 May 2016 | Andy Griffiths | Andy Griffiths | |