Benjamin Gilmour's Jirga is a breathtakingly shot film about a former Australian soldier looking to make amends in Afghanistan. We meet some stars from TV drama Pose, about the underground queer and trans Ball scene in New York in the eighties, and Gus Vant Sant on his ode to cartoonist John Callahan.

Leading children's art expert Dr Barbara Piscitelli, young studio artists Monty (5), Felix (7), Maisy (12) and Liv (12), art teach Jess McVeigh, teacher's teacher Dr Gai Lindsay and teaching student Marika Tults join Eddie for a school holiday special on children's art.

Man Booker winning author Pat Barker on her retelling of Homer's Illiad The Silence of the Girls, stories and memoir by writers from marginalised backgrounds and we review the book to film adaptation of Ladies in Black by Bruce Beresford.

We travel backstage with Dancenorth, Circa and The Good Room as they prepare to stage new work at the Brisbane Festival, Northern Rivers Performing Arts (NORPA) presents Wildskin — a new work from writer Hattie Dalton and director Julian Louis, dance critic Lee Christofis reviews The Australian Ballet's new production of Spartacus, and we learn about the site-specific verbatim theatre work Do You Know Me? being performed at this year's Melbourne Fringe.

Stop Everything! shares your - and our - pop culture happy places: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Terrace House, cookbooks, Instapoetry and more... Plus, Dalara Williams on season three of Black Comedy, and Gates McFadden on keeping up with Star Trek: The Next Generation fans.

Game of Thrones designer Deborah Riley on her Emmys win. Plus, Bruce Bereford talks about his new film Ladies in Black, and how cinema echoed the hopes and disappointments of The Prague Spring like no other artform.

Florists Anja and Alicia Van Goor bring SPRING right into the studio, Tony Bond and Ken Unsworth on his 60 year career, and American gallery owner Daniel Miller on his mission to get the Sydney Morning Herald photography archive back to Australia

Bestselling Australian author Liane Moriarty on her latest novel Nine Perfect Strangers, we celebrate spring as the season of renewal with US poet David Mason, how to get involved with Australian Reading Hour, and creative couples Chris Wallace-Crabbe and Kristin Headlam.

The acclaimed new Australian production of the musical Calamity Jane starring Virginia Gay continues to be performed for bigger and bigger audiences around Australia, voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson leads us through an accent lesson, we welcome spring with a stroll through the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne to learn about its Shakespearian roots, and Australian heldentenor Stuart Skelton returns to the role of Peter Grimes in Benjamin Britten's career-defining opera.

Mark Knight's Serena Williams cartoon, My Little Pony fans have a new Bronies convention in Adelaide, and Pose brings voguing to TV drama