MIFF: Ali's Wedding. Mozart Airborne, a collaboration between OperaQ and Expressions Dance Company. The Loving Tree by John Shaw Neilson. Writer of epic fantasy Robin Hobb.

Common People by Tony Birch. Behind the curtain with painter Wendy Sharpe. Top Shelf: Caroline Baum. Singaporean playwright and novelist Wong Souk Yee.

Behind the scenes of crime on TV. Jetpack Theatre: Art Heist. Crimewriter Michael Robotham on the craft of crime. The Vinyl Frontier: Murder.

The latest novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon reimagines history through the eyes of man in love with rockets, Scottish crimewriter Chris Brookmyre reveals which artworks have influenced him, and literary superstar Arundhati Roy returns to the world of stories with her second novel in twenty years, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.

Academic and writer Jacqueline Rose on why it’s time for a scandalous, untamed feminism, in conversation at the Sydney Writers' Festival.

In Pistols and Petticoats US author, historian and radio producer Erika Janik looks at the history and parallels between real and fictional female detectives, US author Michael Sims explores the origins of Sherlock Holmes in his latest book Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes and Australian writer Sarah Schmidt revisits the macabre story of Lizzie Borden in her novel See What I have Done.

More and more people are listening to audiobooks, but who are they, what are they listening to, and why do they prefer audio to traditional books? We devote the full program to this expanding way of consuming books.

From the 2017 Sydney Writers' Festival, a discussion between Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin and Australian crime writer Michael Robotham.

Cabaret is the theme of today's show. As well as the Tiger Lillies, there's Queenie van de Zandt and her tribute show to Joni Mitchell, Jon Jackson and his tribute to Ethel Merman and Paul Capsis performing Cabaret.

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