Hollywood actor Jamie Lee Curtis and producer Jason Blum are on our shores for the premiere of the latest installment of ultimate horror movie, Halloween, they join us in the studio. Plus, Netflix's new series The Haunting of Hill House and a review of Beautiful Boy, the story of a son struggling with drug addiction, starring Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carell.

Artist and photographer Bryan Dawe - formerly of Clarke & Dawe - on his latest exhibition Chimera based on his recent trips to the Moroccan port town of Tangier, Ed visits the Art Gang at West End Community House in Brisbane, Sydney artist Jennifer Turpin on her kinetic public artworks that respond to nature, Blue Mountains artist Dan Kyle and author Amber Creswell Bell on her book A Painted Landscape.

Pulitzer prize winning author Andrew Sean Greer on his novel Less, Arts News, bestselling novelist Tara Moss speaks to Australian writers for our new The Craft of Writing series and Claire Nichols visits Natasha Lester in her home to see her writers room.

We discuss gender parity in the arts with performers Sue Broadway and Debra Batton and Festival Fatale General Manager Tara Clark, Western Edge Youth Arts in Melbourne re-imagine Sophocles' Antigone as a political allegory for the experiences of African youth in Australia, voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson leads us through a cockney accent lesson and UK-based Australian actor Kiruna Stamell shares the TV shows, performer and film that inspired her creative journey.

Miss First Nation co-organiser Ben Graetz and finalist Jay Jay Carroll/Bailey Legal, CBC documentary maker and podcast producer Veronica Simmonds and ABC pop culture and music reporter Paul Donoughue on the end of Cosmo Australia and the unfolding saga of Nick “Honey Badger” Cummins.

Hollywood star Bradley Cooper joins us to talk about his first time directing with a Star is Born, and what it was like to work with Lady Gaga. As absurdist animated comedy Bojack Horseman returns for its fifth season, we get the low-down on what it's all about, and Jason Di Rosso is on the ground at the Adelaide Film Festival.

Artists Harrie Fasher and Paul Ferman on Salient at Sydney's ANZAC Memorial, curator Rachel Kent on David Goldblatt: Photographs 1948-2018 at MCA, Morag Fraser on Masters of modern art at the Hermitage at AGNSW, Eva Rothschild on her exhibition Kosmos at ACCA.

Australian writers Hannah Kent and Zana Fraillon have spoken out against the detention of children on the island of Nauru, Arts News, David Malouf and his latest collection of poetry An Open Book, crime novelists Emma Viskic and Chris Hammer on growth of rural crime fiction.

Gabrielle Wang's novel A Ghost in My Suitcase has been adapted for the stage by Barking Gecko Theatre, Opera Queensland reinterpret Mozart's womanising anti-hero in a new production directed by Lindy Hume, Tasdance premiere a new site-specific work at Queenstown's The Unconformity arts festival, and Fiona Gruber reviews Trustees by the Belarus Free Theatre.

Australian Women in Music Awards founder Vicki Gordon, for Mental Health Week we discuss portrayals of mental illness on screen with Dr Fincina Hopgood, one of Australia's only female manga artists Queenie Chan and Taylor Swift finally declares her politics.