Over drinks and nibbles, the audience stand in for Mish Grigor's family and have a conversation about sex in her play The Talk, Opera Australia's regional tour of Madame Butterfly features children's choruses from the local community, David Ives' sexually charged play Venus in Fur comes to Canberra, and S. Ansky's The Dybbuk gets a startling reinterpretation by Chamber Made and Samara Hersch in Dybbuks.

Corrie Chen on the first majority Asian-American Hollywood film for 25 years Crazy Rich Asians, Alia Shawkat on Duck Butter, Arrested Development and Search Party, Ben gets Filthy Rich and Homeless, and the Honey Badger Bachelor

Sheryl Lee, who plays cult figure Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks is our guest. A review of Spike Lee's Blackkklansman, and a look back at 25 years of Screen Australia's Indigenous Unit.

James Hornsby combines the digital and the physical as our studio artist, Claire Nichols with the arts news, David Coles explains the wild history of paint colours in Chromatopia, and we visit the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair

US writer Meg Wolitzer on her novel The Female Persuasion, Arts News, Vale VS Naipaul, journalists turned novelists Megan Goldin and Ben Doherty on throwing away facts for fiction, Australian Booktubers Piera Forde and Jeann Wong on talking to readers via YouTube.

US writer Meg Wolitzer on her novel The Female Persuasion, Arts News, Vale VS Naipaul, journalists turned novelists Megan Goldin and Ben Doherty on throwing away facts for fiction, Australian Booktubers Piera Forde and Jeann Wong on talking to readers via YouTube.

Richard Strauss's comic opera Der Rosenkavalier returns to the Australian stage with a new production by Melbourne Opera, we check in to an upmarket hotel to learn about Wiradjuri dancer and choreographer Joel Bray's work Biladurang, we gather three theatremakers to discuss the legacy of Peter Brook's defiant book The Empty Space 50 years on, and we discuss choreographer and dancer Jo Lloyd's new work Overture, which sprang from imagined conversations with Mendelssohn about his overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Richard Strauss's comic opera Der Rosenkavalier returns to the Australian stage with a new production by Melbourne Opera, we check in to an upmarket hotel to learn about Wiradjuri dancer and choreographer Joel Bray's work Biladurang, we gather three theatremakers to discuss the legacy of Peter Brook's defiant book The Empty Space 50 years on, and we discuss choreographer and dancer Jo Lloyd's new work Overture, which sprang from imagined conversations with Mendelssohn about his overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream.

"There are things more miraculous than love." This is the first line of Robert Lukins' debut novel The Everlasting Sunday, set during the Big Freeze in 1960s England.

"There are things more miraculous than love." This is the first line of Robert Lukins' debut novel The Everlasting Sunday, set during the Big Freeze in 1960s England.