Lindy Lee reflects on what it means to belong as a Chinese Australian artist living and working in Australia today.

Since launching to stardom with The Sapphires, Shari Sebbens has become a mainstay of the Australian stage and screen. Now making her directorial debut at Griffin, she has high hopes for what it might mean to other aspiring theatre-makers.

Also, Opera Queensland bring us An Aria a Day and voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson helps us to channel our inner politician.

Nick Hornby on the Brexit vote and writing diversity, Jane Harper's take on crime writing success and Campbell Whyte's massive graphic novel project.

One show truly dominated the 2020 Emmy Awards and that was Schitt's Creek, which took out best comedy and swept all four comedy acting categories. Benjamin Law and drop in host Hannah Reich analyse why the sixth and final season has been such a hit with viewers and Emmy voters.

Plus Journalist and self-described “(retired) veteran of the wellness industry” Sarah Wilson connects the links between QAnon and wellness communities and celebrating Wong Kar-wai's film, In the mood for love with a musical homage at the Sydney Opera House. .

We're coming to you this week with three really big interviews......Gillian Flynn and John Cusack talk about their roles as creator and star of new pandemic series Utopia, and Sofia Coppola speaks about her wonderful new film which reunites her with Bill Murray.

British writer and critic Olivia Laing reflects on loneliness and the ways art can repair broken societies.

In court or in parliament, Malcolm Turnbull carried an air of showmanship. His memoir, A Bigger Picture, reveals that he actually comes from a long line of theatre people: a writer and performer mother, a vaudevillian grandfather and a Tony and Oscar-winning cousin.

Also, we remember playwright and director Aidan Fennessy with his friend and collaborator Matt Cameron and find out how to write a showstopper with Mathew Frank, composer of a new musical adaptation of My Brilliant Career.

Andrew O'Hagan's latest novel Mayflies, debut author Imbi Neeme and Erin Hortle's octopus encounter.

BW + BL dip into the pop culture news barrel, pulling out controversy, drama and a biopic announcement. They tune their walkie talkies to discuss #Alive, a South Korean film about an airborne zombie cannibal plague and take us trackside at the 2000 Sydney Olympics to Cathy Freeman's triumphant golden run that had a nation on its feet.

Moroccan writer-director Maryam Touzani talks about her powerfully subtle film based on a real life story. A new podcast looks back at an iconic Australian TV series that was also David Bowie's favourite show, and we meet the makers of a new film about Slim Dusty.