Paintings by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are on display in a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales; Christos Tsiolkas' on his novel Barracuda which has been adapted for television; and in our regular Book to Film segment, we discuss the BFG.

We hear from bestselling Irish novelist Maggie O'Farrell on This Must Be the Place, chat to Australian arts philanthropist Gene Sherman, and travel to Western Victoria for the Lake Bolac Eel Festival.

Tomar Heymann is the director of the documentary Mr Gaga, a portrait of Ohad Naharin; Dr Vanessa Russ is the first Aboriginal director of the Berndt Museum in Perth, one of the most important collections of Aboriginal art and culture in the world, and Tiger Webb chews over language in Expressions of Interest.

An exhibition of the poems and photographs of Lisa Bellear, an Aboriginal artist, academic, community activist, radio broadcaster and theatre producer, who died 10 years ago; Liam Pieper discusses his debut novel The Toymaker a moral thriller that jumps between Auschwitz in the Holocaust and contemporary Melbourne; and street art moving from the suburbs to the sticks. Plus poet and rapper Kate Tempest describes the works of art on her Top Shelf.

Pianist Roger Woodward discusses his long career in music and performs some of his favourites, artist Lola Greeno has revived the traditional Aboriginal practice of shell-stringing, the new play A Perfect Specimen explores the true story of freak-show act Julia Pastrana, and British writer Jeanette Winterson on Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale and the importance of the arts.

Jonathan Franzen in conversation with Sarah Kanowski' about his latest novel Purity, in front of an audience at the Brisbane Powerhouse.

July's People by Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer tells the story of the Smales, a white middle-class family from Johannesburg that finds itself caught up in a black revolution in apartheid South Africa.

The plot of the play L'amante Anglaise explores the unresolved questions around a murder in France in 1949, Ricci Carr is a singer and a singing teacher who has written a 'how-to' manual for singing, German artist Ulla von Brandenberg's work in on show at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne, and the Vinyl Frontier surveys music about divorce.

Nature Art with Climarte; Nature Writing with Inga Simpson; and Nature Panel from Sydney Writers' Festival.

David Hare’s 1995 play Skylight, which is on now at the Melbourne Theatre Company, tells the story of two estranged lovers who are drawn to each other again, despite their opposing political outlooks; Sheridan Palmer discusses her biography of Bernard Smith, one of Australia's first true art historian; and the true story of a travelling 'freak show' and its star attraction.