Zoey Dawson's latest play Conviction; Perth's art deco cinemas; Gretchen Shirm’s novel Where the Light Falls.

Barry Humphries portrait wins the Archibald. Adelaide Guitar Festival. To the Outer Hebrides with Sarah Maine's novel. Tom Griffiths on the art of history writing.

Alana Valentine's new play is based on the court case of Lindy Chamberlain, Book to Film looks at the screen film version of Roald Dahl's classic children's novel The BFG, Undressed, at London's Victoria & Albert Museum, charts three centuries of underwear garments, and novelist Susan Johnson shares her favourite artworks

Ben Lerner discusses The Hatred of Poetry; Julie Ewington takes us to Europe to see the works of Klee and Bosch; Zo Damage shoots the women of rock; and Toni Jordan's Top Shelf.

We celebrate the role of the film editor with Fiona Strain, the president of the Australian Screen Editors Guild; how are we tracking when it comes to diversity in children's literature; the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians on tour; and we journey beyond the Vinyl Frontier for music that features bagpipes.

Where did Oscar Wilde get his intellect, flamboyance, and wit? We find out with historian Emer O'Sullivan. We also travel to Sydney to hear about the theatre work Simple Infinity, and chat with playwright Alana Valentine about Letters to Lindy, a new work exploring the case of Lindy Chamberlain.

We hear about Titanic: The Musical; Israeli writer Nir Baram's novel Good People, a novel about the Holocaust that raises questions about collaboration and individual action; and an exhibition that chronicles the evolution of underwear at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Dame Stella Rimington on her latest novel. Robert Hannaford. Courage to Kill. Reinventing the trautonium.

Writer Maggie O'Farrell on her new novel This Must be the Place, Dr Vanessa Russ is the first Indigenous curator of the Berndt Collection in Perth, Liam Pieper speaks about his debut novel The Toymaker, and Expressions of Interest explores why we love certain words more than others.

At this year's Sydney Writer's Festival, Sarah Kanowski is in conversation with three writers, Hanya Yanagihara, Nicholas Fargues, and Julia Leigh, about the extremes of love, the fierceness and ambiguity of friendship, and the nature of anger.