We start with copyright in the modern world: what needs to change so our creative industries can thrive? Then we hear about Ian McEwan's latest novel, told from the perspective of a highly articulate unborn child; a portrait class in Adelaide where students get to meet and know a stranger by painting their portrait; and British author Tim Park's Literary Tour of Italy.

Blaaq Catt and Hart are both one person shows that look at difficult aspects of Aboriginal history, Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction Eimear McBride on her latest novel The Lesser Bohemians, and artist Jan Senbergs and poet Chris Wallace Crabbe on their new collaboration Those Imagined Cities.

Acclaimed writer Helen Garner on writing and a whole lot more, Jump First ask later combines art and physical prowess in a full throttle performance at the Opera House, art critic Sebastian Smee looks at the rivalry and friendship which drove four of the great 20th century artists, and writer Sam Carmody chooses his favourite works of art.

Robert Forster, co-founder of the Australian band The Go-Betweens, has written a memoir about the group, and his friendship with co-founder Grant McLennan. He is in conversation with Sarah Kanowski in front of a live audience at Brisbane's Greek Club

Madeleine O'Dea's book The Phoenix Years explores the rise of modern China through the story of its' contemporary art, Unknown Land is an exhibition of the art, maps and other documents created by the first Europeans to visit Western Australia, writer Sam Carmody chooses his Top Shelf, and the Vinyl Frontier digs up some of the best live albums on record.

The Parrttjima Festial of light will see Aboriginal artworks projected onto the Macdonnell Ranges in Central Australia, Madeleine Thien's novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing is on the 2016 Man Booker Prize shortlist, Piya Behrupiya is an Indian adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and the pros and cons of the publisher's slush pile of unsolicited manuscripts.

A sport-themed special of Books and Arts. We learn about The Draw, a new production where the nail biting AFL Grand Final draw between Collingwood and St Kilda in 2010 is set to an original soundtrack by contemporary classical composer, Tamil Rogeon; we speak to two of the contributors to the latest edition of Griffith Review, entitled Our Sporting Life, Scott Rankin and Catriona Menzies-Pike; and Jock Serong's crime fiction novel, The Rules of Backyard Cricket.

Matisse and Picasso: friends or enemies? Meg Rosoff's canine inspired rom-com. Parkour performance bumps into the Opera House. A conversation with Edward Albee.

Scots composer Paul MacAlindonhelped create the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq, Tracy K Smith is a Pulitzer Prize winning poet, the Roald Dahl Museum in Britain mark's the writer's 100th birthday, and which books made the Man Booker Prize shortlist.

Irish theatre company Dead Centre bring three different shows to the Brisbane Festival; Strut Dance are the first Australian troupe to perform Decadence, by Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin; and Helen Garner reflects on aging, sexual politics, and the worst cases that come before our law courts.