In Greater Together, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art asks how do we work better, and are we indeed greater together, Indigenous publisher Magabala Books is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary, and we revisit the work of Constance Stokes, twentieth-century Australian artist who remained faithful to her love of landscape and portraits, when the art scene was turning its back on these conventional forms.

Australian voices sung onstage in the musical Melba; celebrating NAIDOC with a puppet show in Kalgoorlie; visiting Burren Burren station in the 1950s through a photographer's eyes; Claudia Lawson reviews Bangarra dance companies new show, Bennelong

Today, the songs and stories of Richard J Frankland and the Letter String Quartet, cartoonist Judy Horacek tries to make sense of a mad world in her latest book Random Life and Moira Finucane's new sumptuous show The Rapture.

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Today, a behind the scenes look with the creators of Wallace and Gromit and many other iconic stop-motion animations, a gritty new Aussie play, The Heart is a Wasteland, from Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre, and a feast for the ears from a Sydney festival at Carriageworks celebrating electronic, improvised and experimental music.

Published in 1977, The Hour of the Star was the final novel of the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector who died that same year. It's our June novel for our Latin American Book Club.

A dark production of The Winter's Tale from The Royal Ballet; on the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, performance poet, Joan Nestle, remembers the political and creative turmoil of 1960s New York; Australian young adult and fantasy author Margo Lanagan explains which masterpiece inspires her; and ABC Sound Librarians James Lee and Michael Munson take us beyond the Vinyl Frontier to listen to records that reflect Australian values.

Acclaimed photographer Mervyn Bishop, satirical take on medicine in Wayne Macauley's fiction, a new life for engraver and sculptor Sameer Dakhil, and how well does My Cousin Rachel translate from page to screen?

Victorian Opera's Cunning Little Vixen, Sally Rippin on her latest children's book Polly and Buster, Arts Project Australia's Girt By Sea exhibition, musician Ustav Lal with his Top Shelf.

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