On Anzac Day we explore the history of Australia's women war reporters, learn about the artists who painted WWI, and discover a novel that imagines the life of Billy Sing, a Chinese Australian sniper at Gallipoli.

Joanna Murray-Smith on her latest play Three Little Words, Christian Thompson's Ritual Intimacy exhibition at the Monash University Museum of Art, Argentinian writer Alberto Manguel on what reading means.

We begin by examining the origins of the most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, then we meet comedians Zoe Coombs Marr and Mel Buttle to talk jokes, gender, and why older audiences might be their favourites, and we end with Heather Rose has won the Stella Prize for Australian women's writing for her novel The Museum of Modern Love.

Queensland writer and poet Krissy Kneen ponders taboo subjects in her latest novel, An Uncertain Grace, the acclaimed children's story The Lighthouse Girl is now a play, about to premier in WA, and Melbourne-based fantasy writer Jay Kristoff shares his Masterpiece.

Argentine literary star Samanta Schweblin discusses her surreal novel Fever Dream, Comedians Zoe Coombs Marr and Mel Buttle talk jokes and gender, and we journey beyond the Vinyl Frontier with records that feature drums.

First, we meet Joshua Bell, virtuoso violinist and Music Director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, currently in Australia for a major tour; then we're joined by the Australian author Heather Rose, who's won the Stella Prize for Australian women's writing for her novel The Museum of Modern Love, and then we compare George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four with the film adaptation.

Two rising stars of the Indian comedy circuit talk about censorship, cultural stereotypes and why English is the language of Indian stand-up; then we meet Nicole Sinclair, whose debut novel tells dual stories of the WA Wheatbelt and the islands of Papua New Guinea; and then we finish with homegrown queer young adult literature.

Novelist Jessie Burton at Adelaide Writers Week on her new novel, The Muse, and the writing life.

First, we step inside the life and sensibilities of Australian writer Christina Stead, through her correspondences and personal letters, then we journey to a church in Perth, where artists from diverse backgrounds have reimagined the Easter story, then we meet this year's winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Colson Whitehead, and end up at the National Folk Festival opens in Canberra.

Stories of civil war and strife at Perth Writers Festival.