Eddie visits the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane and Tungaru: The Kiribati Project drops into the studio, producer Wendy Love takes us on a gallery tour for people with dementia, and Boston College psychologist Ellen Winner on whether there is such a thing as "good" art and why we like what we like.

Indian writers Shobhaa De and Balli Kaur Jaswal talk about sex, repression, love and literature from the Jaipur Literature Festival, Adelaide.

Whose Line Is It Anyway's Brad Sherwood and Greg Proops tour Australia, Big hART Creative Director Scott Rankin on the importance of culture and ensuring everyone's stories are heard, Vicki Reynolds' play about the aftermath of the West Gate Bridge collapse restaged at the Art & Industry Festival, and we visit the workshop where the backdrops, props and costumes that bring Opera Australia's productions to life are crafted.

We remember Marvel Comics' Stan Lee, travel to the wild west to explore video game mega hit Red Dead Redemption 2 and the Spice Girls embrace "people power".

David Lowery talks about directing Robert Redford  in The Old Man and the Gun, the true story of a career criminal and rumoured to be Redford's last film. Sound artist Dean Lowery was David Lynch's music supervisor for over 12 years. He tells us what it's like to work with the man and the visions of the notably abstract director. Greg Haddrick is a writer and producer behind shows like Underbelly, Janet King and Pine Gap, he joins us for our Top Shelf segment, and a review of Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters, a bittersweet Japanese film that looks at an unconventional idea of family.

Peter Anderson shares his experiences sailing - and painting - the world as this week's studio artist, David Roberts on lugging 50kg of camera gear to the Arctic circle, Martin Bailey on Vincent van Gogh's time in an asylum, and Kate Gorringe-Smith's Overwintering Project brings together printmaking and migratory shorebirds.

Markus Zusak on his new novel Bridge of Clay, Gary Shteyngart's novel about America called Lake Success and dip into the bad diaries of writers Jenny Ackland and William McInnes.

In the wake of the testimony heard in the Geoffrey Rush case, we discuss sexual harassment policy with Black Swan State Theatre Company's Clare Watson and Actors' Equity National Director Zoe Angus, ABC presenter James Valentine reviews The Dance of Death at Belvoir, and we meet the cast and creatives of Andrew Lloyd Webber's School of Rock: The Musical as they prepare for opening night.

We unpack the return of the Spice Girls, Ariana Grande's new song and the (possible) return of power ballads, with Saskwatch's Nkechi Anele and Switched on Pop's Charlie Harding. Plus we catch up with Reni Eddo-Lodge, author of Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, and look at the backlash to Rebel Wilson's claim that she's the first plus-size woman to star in a romcom.

A discussion on how the new and final season of House of Cards fares without Frank Underwood in the mix. Peter Jackson has given new life to World World One footage in his astounding documentary They Shall Not Grow Old, and a critics panel on Luca Guadagnino's remake of the 1977 cult horror film Suspiria.