First, we ask what keeps Bruce Springsteen - and his fans - so enthusiastic; then we discuss the 2009 bestselling novel Jasper Jones, which is now a film starring Toni Collette and Hugo Weaving; and then another book to film adaptation: Martin Scorsese's latest film Silence, which is based on a book by the Japanese author Shusaku Endo.

We bring you a full show from the Perth International Arts Festival. First, we meet Inua Ellams, who was born in Nigeria to Muslim father and a Christian mother and tells his immigrant story through poetry, storytelling and song; then we travel to the Water, an exploration of our relationship with the world's most indispensable liquid; Evan Sherman, the drummer, bandleader, composer and arranger for the New-York based Evan Sherman Big Band joins us and finally we meet Russian director and designer Dmitry Krymov, who creates moving, visual theatre in Opus No.7.

It's 50 years since One Hundred Years of Solitude by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez was published and is the first book in our Latin American Book Club.

We hear from Australian author Richard Begbie, chat to felt-tipped pen artist TextaQueen, hear from Australian cartoonist First Dog on the Moon on cartoonist and asylum seeker Eaten Fish, and consider the book to film adaptation of Silence by Martin Scorsese.

Pulitzer Prize winning Vietnamese-American academic and novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen on his shortstory collection, The Refugees; writer Craig Silvey and filmmaker Rachel Perkins on Jasper Jones; and we go Beyond the Vinyl Frontier to find vocal groups of the 60s and 70s.

Mr Takahashi a play about the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Darwin, Kathryn Heyman's novel Storm and Grace and The Pocket Paderewski a biography of pianist Edward Cahill.

The Jaipur Literature Festival, one of the biggest writers festivals in the world, lands in Melbourne; we meet two of the homeless artists behind an art exhibition in Melbourne; and the Gabriels trilogy, which charts one family's story during the US election campaign.

We travel to a dance festival that takes its inspiration from a violent tropical storm; then hear about a play that skewers race and gender issues while making us laugh; and finally we ask why Bruce Springsteen's appeal has been so enduring.

We ask what the role of fiction is in the era of 'alternative facts' and 'post-truth'; then reveal the role of travel and music in the life of Australian writer Linda Neil; and finally hear about a powerful new play at the Malthouse Theatre that explores the emotional fallout of China's One-Child Policy.

We meet Indian composer AR Rahman, and on the 75th anniversary of the fall of Singapore, we remember British artist and POW Jack Chalker and revisit a conversation with Australian author Richard Flanagan about his novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North.