Hollywood based Australian filmmaker Leigh Whannell on his sci-fi box office hit Upgrade, UK comedian Romesh Ranganathan tells us about his new TV series Just Another Immigrant, and we meet the Bulgarian filmmakers behind a spectacular Arctic love story in competition at Sydney Film Festival.

Court artist Sharon Gordon is our in-studio artist, Davida Allen's exhibition explores the negative side to motherhood, MoMA director Glenn Lowry on the 200 works brought to the NGV, and Emily Parsons-Lord makes art works out of, and about, air.

Historian turned novelist Peter Cochrane on his book The The Making of Martin Sparrow, Nick Earls in the Green Room with fellow Brisbanite John Birmingham, Australian author Suneeta Peres da Costa's second novel Saudade which is set in Angola and Australian author Maryam Azam's debut poetry collection The Hijab Files.

Historian turned novelist Peter Cochrane on his book The The Making of Martin Sparrow, Nick Earls in the Green Room with fellow Brisbanite John Birmingham, Australian author Suneeta Peres da Costa's second novel Saudade which is set in Angola and Australian author Maryam Azam's debut poetry collection The Hijab Files.

Experimental theatre makers The Rabble work with children from St Martins Youth Arts Centre for Lone, theatre and cabaret actor Natalie Gamsu stars as the fictional love child of Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky in Carmen, Live or Dead, we celebrate the music of Carole King with Esther Hannaford, who plays her in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, we meet the passionate nonprofessional artists involved with the Croatian Cultural Artistic Association "Lado" and master of the oud Joseph Tawadros performs live for us.

Experimental theatre makers The Rabble work with children from St Martins Youth Arts Centre for Lone, theatre and cabaret actor Natalie Gamsu stars as the fictional love child of Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky in Carmen, Live or Dead, we celebrate the music of Carole King with Esther Hannaford, who plays her in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, we meet the passionate nonprofessional artists involved with the Croatian Cultural Artistic Association "Lado" and master of the oud Joseph Tawadros performs live for us.

The first in our special series on Australian debut writers beginning with Tracy Sorensen's The Lucky Galah.

Karamo Brown and Tan France on the Queer Eye reboot, Jessica Leski's I Used to Be Normal documentary on boy band fans, Helen Zaltzman on her podcast The Allusionist and on Desert Island Discs, Solange and The Good Fight

The first in our special pod series on Australian debut writers beginning with Tracy Sorensen's The Lucky Galah.

Karamo Brown and Tan France on the Queer Eye reboot, Jessica Leski's I Used to Be Normal documentary on boy band fans, Helen Zaltzman on her podcast The Allusionist and on Desert Island Discs, Solange and The Good Fight