A Whovian special as Jodie Whittaker explains how she intends to leave her mark as the first female Doctor Who, and media academic Liz Giuffre weighs in on her performance. We'll hear why Vivienne Westwood is not a fan of the documentary made about her, and meet Freda Glynn, founder of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association who is also the subject of a new documentary premiering at Adelaide Film Festival.

James Guppy on how he emulates Dutch baroque still lifes and why he combines them with businessmen, Jun Chen and Li Cunxin on the portrait Jun painted of the dancer for the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition 20/20, Thorsten Opper from the British Museum and Lily Withycombe from the National Museum of Australia on Rome: City and Empire now showing in Canberra.

Award winning French author Marie Darrieussecq on her latest novel Our Life in the Forest, Arts News, sisters Kate Forsyth and Belinda Murrell on writing and family, and writer-director Shirley Barrett's latest novel The Bus on Thursday, a case of life imitating art.

Renowned American choreographer Mark Morris on adapting the Middle Eastern love story Layla and Majnun with the Silkroad Ensemble, Yorta Yorta soprano and composer Deborah Cheetham's new work inspired by the Eumeralla Wars, we discuss Shakespeare's tragic prince with theatre historian and author of Performing Hamlet Jonathan Croall, author of Performing Hamlet, and Re-Member Me performer Dickie Beau, voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson leads us through another accent lesson, and as NoFit State Circus rolls into the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, we tag along to find out just how that big top gets built.

Writer and commentator Jane Caro on being an older woman and how they are represented on screen, Julian Rizzo-Smith discusses queerbaiting and queering X-Men, Brodie Lancaster on whether triple j has a stranglehold on the Australian music industry, Kanye West's on and off air SNL appearance.

Writer, director and actor Scott Ryan is in the studio to talk about his new TV series Mr Inbetween. British documentary filmmaker Bart Layton has blended fact and fiction in his art heist movie American Animals, and we meet Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir.

Yorta Yorta/Gunditjmara multimedia artist Josh Muir creates a work in studio, Polly Borland on her strange figures morphed by stockings and padding in Polyverse at the NGV, artist Sally Smart and curator Tansy Curtin on Gothic Beauty at the Bendigo Art Gallery, and Chris Ellis on painting with Parkinson's and his fascination with the Murray River.

Australian author Rosalie Ham on her latest novel The Year of the Farmer, Arts News, the US tour that made Oscar Wilde, and in the writer's room of debut Perth author, Carrie Cox.

British comedian Bill Bailey returns to Australia with his new show Earl of Whimsy, we speak with three leading experts on arts policy to interrogate the state of arts funding in Australia and we take a look at the history of professional wrestling in Australia and its place within the performing arts.

This week we Stop Everything to bring you some of the year's highlights: Alia Shawkat on Arrested Development, Search Party, and films Duck Butter and Blaze, You Can't Ask That's Kirk Docker and Aaron Smith on the making of the popular question/answer program, and Mojo Juju speaks about the personal politics of Native Tongue and treats us to a live performance of her track Don't Stop Me Now.