Innovative circus from Circa, Aboriginal language from WA with Ngala Wongga, and Greg Pyers' colonial crime novel The Unfortunate Victim

Between the Lines is an exhibition by homeless artists, Richard Nelson's play cycle The Gabriels concludes with the 2016 presidential election year, art crime is rife in New Zealand and Christina Baker Kline with her Top Shelf.

We unpack the funny, sacrilegious, scatological musical The Book of Mormon, which has just arrived on our shores; we take a train journey with Books on the Rail, a book club that puts books on trains, buses and trams for you to enjoy; then we head to Russia, to hear about the thirty Russian writers who have protested against Russian PEN for expelling journalist Sergey Parkhomenko; and finish up under the much-loved stained glass ceiling at the National Gallery of Victoria to mark the passing of the noted Australian artist who made it, Leonard French.

We take you to ACMI, to find out the story of the film studio who made the first Indian talkie with English dialogue; go behind the scenes of the Jaipur Literary festival; and duck into the IMA to see the artwork of Willem de Rooij.

We discuss the award-winning musical The Book of Mormon, on show in Melbourne; the jewellery of Helen Britton which explores themes of memory, industry, horror and home; a new play looks at the emotional legacy of the disastrous 2011 Japanese earthquake; and Emma Flint's debut novel, Little Deaths.

We consider how the UK's vote to leave the European Union will affect the arts, meet Swedish crime writer Christoffer Carlsson, and hear about MOMA's decision to show work by artists from countries affected by President Donald Trump’s immigration ban.

Russian PEN has been accused of not supporting free speech; Josephine Wilson's new novel Extinctions; Dante's Divine Comedy as imagined by Botticelli; and dancing your way through Perth's fringe festival.

Playwright Ross Mueller on A Strategic Plan his play about arts cuts, remembering artist Leonard French who died last month, Olga Cironis' art installation Mountain of Words uses human hair and UK comedian David Walliams on the adaptation of his children's book Mr Stink to the stage.

A comprehensive show of Vernon Ah Kee's work tackles racism in Australia head on; I Am My Own Wife is a Pulitzer prize-winning play that’s being staged at Melbourne’s Midsumma Festival for queer arts; Indigenous writer, director and actor Leah Purcell wins Australia's richest single literary prize, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, and the growing speculation that President Trump will take an axe to the federal funding body, the National Endowment for the Arts.

Studying how Lee Child writes the Jack Reacher books, a book club on the trains of Melbourne, and a playful new novel from Claire Louise Bennett