Broadway and West End star Sierra Boggess was in Australia for the first time performing her hits from shows including Phantom of the Opera and Little Mermaid, US children’s author Kate DiCamillo's latest novel

Raymie Nightingale and there are over 500 art prizes annually in Australia so what do artists gain from entering?

Kate Holden, Judy Horacek and Leah Purcell share their thoughts on shaping a successful career at the 2017 Melbourne Writers Festival.

Bill Hayes talks tenderly about his relationship with neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks, Actor and cabaret star Alan Cumming sings sappy songs and Hannah Donnelly the curator of Sovereign Trax, a monthly playlist of music by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from around Australia.

How a man from a mill town in Manchester hoodwinked the art and museum world for seventeen years from the shed at the bottom of his garden, Melbourne artist Gareth Sansom's vibrant and often confronting work and the scents and smells of the novels of Charles Dickens.

To celebrate Australia's first Reading Hour, an initiative of the Australian Publishers Association, the Libraries and Archives association, we dedicated the entire show back in August to one of our favourite pastimes: the act of reading. Why is it so good for us? What happens in our brains when we read? And are we, in fact, a nation of readers?

Tex Perkins explains why performing with a forehead cracked by a hurled beer bottle is a thrill like no other, artist Duncan Moon transformed an old 1960s suburban toilet block in to a work of art and the latest novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon reimagines history through the eyes of man in love with rockets.

Wendy Whiteley talks about her life with the artist Brett Whiteley and a new documentary about the artist's personal and creative life and the early days of American humourist David Sedaris as outlined in Theft By Finding: Diaries Volume On.

In celebration of its 150 years, earlier in the year we did a live broadcast from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University, to find out what it's like to go to art school today.

Man Booker Award winning author Arundhati Roy's first novel in 20 years, the Skinnyfish Sound System project mixes Aboriginal voices with modern beats and Angie Thomas' YA novel The Hate U Give deals directly with police violence against African Americans.

American writer Richard Ford's memoir Between Them, Ethiopian jazz musicians Mahmoud Ahmed and Ali Birra and playwright and screenwriter Louis Nowra's Woolloomooloo: A Biography.