Shadowland onstage, Sixth Sense is an exhibition which explores art and the human senses, Frances Spufford's novel Golden Hill is set in New York in 1746, and writer Zoe Morrison shares the artworks on her Top Shelf

The play Dead Royal brings Wallis Simpson and Lady Diana Spencer on stage together, the Forbes pigment collection at Harvard University reveals art history through paint colours, Sarah Armstrong discusses her new novel Promise, and the gems on writer Ryan O'Neil's Top Shelf.

Terrapin Theatre's 'You and Me and the Space in Between', George Megalogenis and Magda Szubanski on family and migration in Australia, Zane Lovitt's crime novel Black Teeth, and Darwin's underground music festival in the city's old WW2 tunnels.

Floating Time: Chinese Prints, a new exhibition at the University of Sydney Art Gallery; the English thriller writer Louise Doughty heads to Indonesia; a stage adaptation of Jasper Jones; and our book-to-film panel take on High Rise.

Jeet Thayil is on his collected poems and being the Queensland poet-in-residence; the Heidelberg Choral Society commemorate WWI; Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton add another 13 storeys to the treehouse; and Luka Lesson talks slam poetry and The Word.

Australian Chamber Choir: Bach in the Castle of Heaven. Barangaroo Sculpture show. Rattling Spears: A history of Indigenous Australian art. Tunnel Number Five Festival of Underground Music .

Why do many of us love to read thrillers and crime fiction? And what does it take to write them? We hear from four best selling writers of the thriller and crime fiction genre; Sulari Gentill and Sara Foster, plus Robert Gott and the 2016 Ned Kelly Award winning crime writer, Zane Banks.

Books and Arts comes to you live from Darwin to cover the Darwin Festival 2016. We'll speak to an array of festival performers, including Tiwi Islands group B2M, UK poet and storyteller Steven Camden, aka Polarbear, and Filipino performance company, Sipat Lawin Ensemble.

Brian Lipson and Gideon Obazanek explore father-son relationships in their new collaborative production, Zoe Morrison discusses her first novel Music and Freedom, Linguist David Crystal on the history of punctuation, and the artwork Sea Pearl White Cloud at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney.

Sarah Kanowski in conversation with Magda Szubanski and George Megalogenis, who discuss growing up as migrant kids in Australia, as well as family, history, racism and migration in contemporary Australia