Hear Virginia Woolf's classic feminist text A Room of One's Own as never before: read aloud by 40 academics, students, alumni and leaders from the Australian National University community. Together, they engage with the question of how far we've come in achieving gender equality since the book was published almost 100 years ago.

Introduction: Professor Fiona Jenkins and Lara Nicholls talk about A Room of One's Own and its importance in our times.

Chapter 1: A woman must have money and a room of her own...

Chapter 2: Of the two - the vote and the money - the money, I own, seemed infinitely the more important.

Readers: Brian Schmidt, Jessica Urwin, Margaret Jolly, Hilary Charlesworth and Kim Rubenstein

Chapter 3: I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Readers: Asmi Wood, Isobel Kou, Kate Mitchell, Elspeth Pitt, Raelene Frances, Ian Darling and Charlotte Young

Chapter 4: Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Readers: Jessica Benter, Inger Mewburn, Will Adams, Shalom Chalson, Roseanne Kennedy, Lucy Neave and Beck Davis

Chapter 5: I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends... almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men.

Readers: Jilda Andrews, Kristen Farrell, Sally Renouf, Rebecca Mayo, Elizabeth Reid and John Fitzgerald

Chapter 6: Perhaps a mind that is purely masculine cannot create, any more than a mind that is purely feminine.

Readers: Ben Jefferson, Ben Jefferson, Sarah Scott, Lara Nicholls, Will Salkeld, Raihan Ismail and Poppy Thompson

Reflections on gender equality today: a handful of the Readers reflect on the question: Do you think Virginia Woolf’s discussion of women’s under-representation and wider inequality is still relevant today?

Readers: Julia Gillard, Hilary Charlesworth, Angela Woollacott and Ben Jefferson