We meet first nations artists from Australia and across the world who are coming together for Yirramboi; the inaugural Indigenous arts festival being held in Melbourne; then we meet Cayce Zavaglia, portrait artist and renegade embroiderer; and end with a review of the contemporary art event Documenta, which for the first time in 60 years is being held outside of Germany, in Athens.

Bernadette Brennan discusses A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work, the first full length study of one of Australia's most admired writers. We speak to an artist and a curator about the resonance and meaning of old photographs that are explored in two exhibitions in Brisbane, and meet actor Shari Sebbens and playwright Nakkiah Lui to talk about Nakkiah's new play Black is the New White, about to premiere at the Sydney Theatre Company's Wharf Theatre.

We discover Yirramboi, a new festival that celebrates the work of Indigenous and first nations artists, chat to author Polly Clark about her novel Larchfield, and journey beyond the vinyl frontier with songs about the atomic bomb.

We mark the 20th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone; then we meet Cayce Zavaglia, the portrait artist and renegade embroiderer, then discover the inaugural Arts Learning Festival, which is being held in Melbourne this week, and end my remembering Michael Gurr, the Melbourne playwright and political speechwriter who died this earlier week.

Van Gogh and the Seasons. Sebastian Barry: Days Without End.

Colm Toibin's novel of murder and revenge, House of Names, Documenta art festival in Greece, the case of Brett Whiteley and the Blue and Orange paintings, Kayla Rae Whitaker's novel The Animators.

We hear from acclaimed Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith on her new play, Three Little Words, chat to Australian artist Christian Thompson about his latest exhibition Ritual Intimacy, and hear from The Rabble - a Melbourne theatre company who have been investigating the historic figure of Joan of Arc.

Meet Marija Peričić', author of The Lost Pages a debut novel which just won the Australian Vogel's Literary Award, an exhibition exploring how the great artists of the Renaissance imagined love and emotion, Theatre director and playwright Michael Gow shares his Top Shelf and

Treatment 2017 Flightlines, an art project at the Werribee Treatment Plant, celebrating our collective waste.

The April book in our Latin American Book Club is Labyrinths, the influential collection of short stories and essays by the influential Argentinian writer, Jorge Luis Borges.

First, we discover a new collection of surprisingly dark stories from the great American author F. Scott Fitzgerald; then we hear about the latest work from the feminist, experimental theatre group The Rabble, which investigates the historic figure of Joan of Arc; and end by meeting Mike Cooper, creator of 'ambient exotica' and collector of Hawaiian shirts.