Dean Riley and Beau Dean Riley Smith, from Bangarra Dance Theatre, talk about the new work Minyagan, Donna Jackson has created a book about her community theatre show about asbestos, called Dust, a debate about language and technology from the Emerging Writers Festival, and cabaret star Geraldine Quinn talks about her new show Fox Poncing.

Louis Nowra's 1970s masterpiece Inner Voices; Irish dance organisation, the Liz Roche Company; Micheline Lee explores the complexities of faith and family in her debut novel, The Healing Party; and Jeanette Winterson shares her masterpiece.

Actor Robyn Nevin is currently performing in Arthur Miller's classic play All My Sons, acclaimed playwright Lally Katz has drawn on her own family's history for her new work 'Back at the Dojo', and Anna Taylor brings a round-up of arts news.

Artist Del Kathryn Barton and filmmaker Brendan Fletcher have collaborated to adapt a 19th story by Oscar Wilde into a hauntingly beautiful film, Luminous at the National Gallery of Victoria celebrates 100 years of Australian watercolour art, Cabaret performer Geraldine Quinn talks about her show Fox Poncing, and Claudia Lawson reviews Bangarra Dance Theatre's OUR land people stories.

Clive James describes his interest in Proust, Miyagan by Bangarra Dance Theatre explores the kinship systems which bind Aboriginal families together, Kathryn Brabon's novel The Memory Artist looks at the legacies of Russia's brutal past. Arnold Zable chooses his favourite works of art.

Sir Andrew Davis conducts the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's performance of Mahler's epic Symphony No.6; an exhibition features the work of ten refugee and asylum seeker artists; rural gothic with Jane Harper's novel The Dry and more than 100 women dancing nude in the Australian premiere of a work called Trilogy.

The dancing craze which swept Britain in the 1920s and 30s, taking opera into the suburbs with Perth's Lost and Found Opera, remembering the Australian artist Jeffrey Smart, and exploring Dark Park, a big public contemporary art space at Dark Mofo, Hobart's annual mid-winter festival.

Donna Jackson has written a book about Dust, the community show she created about asbestos-related diseases, two writers at this year's Emerging Writer's Festival debate the risks posed to language by the online realm, UK poet Simon Armitage has translated a verse that is six hundred years old, and the 2016 Vogel Prize winning writer Katherine Brabon lists the works of art on her Top Shelf.

Writer Lionel Shriver on her new novel The Mandibles: A Family 2029 - 2047, musician and music educator Richard Gill on improvisation, passion and performance, classical guitarist Matthew Fagan has drawn on the musical tradition of his great Uncle Cecil Parkes who was an acclaimed violinist in early 20th century Australia, and the Vinyl Frontier explores rock songs which borrow from classical music.

Books and Arts comes to you live from Dark Mofo, Mona's midwinter festival of large-scale public art, food, film, music, light and noise.