Metadata is a dance piece that's inspired by optics and mathematics, American writer Adam Haslett family 'love story' Imagine Me Gone, Brooke Maggs on the challenges of writing her own video game called The Gardens Between, and the Sydney Theatre Company's new vision of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream explores the dark side of desire.

We hear about Blind Spot, a new theatre work where audience members experience a story of crime in reverse, chat to Christopher Rothko about his father Mark Rothko, hear about the 2016 Man Booker prize shortlist and find out why The Lifted Brow magazine are moving into book publishing.

We devote a program to the work of Roald Dahl, to mark 100 years since the birth of the writer who gave us some of the most loved children's books. We start at the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in the English village of Great Missenden. Then we hear about Roald Dahl's macabre short stories for adults, and a new production by the National Theatre of Wales which stages some of Roald Dahl's most gruesome stories.

In conversation with Nadia Hashimi at the 2016 Melbourne Writer's Festival .

History and collective memory; death and gardens; love, vengeance and women’s rights; violence and justice - RN takes you to the 2016 Brisbane Writers Festival.

Melbourne Writers Festival: Richard Flanagan .

The rise and fall of the heroic Youth Orchestra of Iraq, Award winning novelist Cath Crowley on the personal stories behind her book Words in Deep Blue, the eclectic work of WA artist Miriam Stannage and ABC sound librarians with Vinyl Frontier on contrafactum music.

In the Darkroom. Imagined Touch: the deafblind live art experience . Bookshelf - A History. Weyrd stories of Brisbane in Angela Slatter's Vigil.

Indonesian journalist and poet Geonawan Muhamad, the fashion illustration, set and costume design of artist Louis Kahan, Ryan O'Neill's novel Their Brilliant Careers, and regular language segment Expressions of Interest explores the evolution of Australian English.

Gloria at Griffin. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett. Sydney Fringe Festival. Top Shelf: Alan Brough.