Shaun Greenhalgh shares his experiences as one of Britain's most notorious art forgers, and Pultizer Prize winning poet Sharon Olds explores the pleasure and pain of the body in her latest book Odes

The evolution of feeling in Western literature; novelist Lia Hills' Top Shelf; performer and writer Ivan Coyote; toilets in art, art in toilets.

Writer Michael McGirr explores the history and writings on sleep, dreams and nightmares; sci-fi meets psychology in a new Perth play called The Irresistible, and we meet Jenny Orchard, who has won the premier national ceramics award for her work.

Melbourne Cabaret Festival pays tribute to Joni Mitchell and Ethel Merman, we head to the Powerhouse's International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes and Rachel Seiffert on her powerful novel A Boy in Winter.

Actor Ben Mendelsohn on new film Una; Melanie Joosten's novel Gravity Well; was the Croaking Chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes slam poetry?

Join us for the Best of Books and Arts.

Funny and vulnerable, Alan Cumming sings Sappy Songs, Sarah Kanowski goes on a walking tour of Brisbane's West End searching for TRACE Art, investigates Buddha iconography at the NGV and we also head to Warrnambool to find out how regional arts organisations pitch their shows to Showcase Victoria.

We begin by exploring the empowering act of writing for people with a disability: writing for, by and about themselves with activists Carly Findlay and Fiona Tuomy; then we travel to Perth to dwell in the banality and beauty of a city still finding its place in the mid 1980s; Tasmanian artist Milan Milojevic looks at hybridity, belonging and myths in his new exhibition, which is part of Dark Mofo, and then we end by journeying beyond the Vinyl Frontier with ABC Sound Librarians James Lee and Michael Munson.

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.

We find out how revolutions and exile nearly stopped the completion of Victor Hugo's famous work Les Miserables, explore Charlotte Hobson's novel The Vanishing Futurist, and hear about a new work of theatre being developed in Melbourne's outer suburbs, which is telling the stories of young people in the region.