Has being in isolation changed the way you engage with friends? We speak with artist Helen Grace, whose photography explores ideas of friendship and connection.

Queensland Ballet artistic director Li Cunxin has continually shown his capacity for triumphing against the odds. He's drawn on that strength again to guide his company through the COVID-19 shutdown.

Also, we check in with performing arts companies around the country to gauge the mood, and speak with the Federal Arts Minister Paul Fletcher about the Government's response to a sector in crisis.

Candace Bushnell's Rules for Being a Girl, Carmen Maria Machado's inventive memoir, Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer winning novel and Danielle Binks asks for writing advice from Sally Rippin.

BW and BL visit the singer-song writer who is in lockdown in Cornwall, home to the 300-year-old converted barn-turned-recording studio where she's made all of her recent albums.

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Cardi B gets ready for the 2019 Met

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Met Gala 2020 Livestream

Thinking of the Met on a Not-So-Typical First Monday in May

Billie Porter

Tori Amos' Vegan Mushroom Stew Recipe

"Becoming"

"I wonder what's inside your butthole"

Radnor & Lee's cover of "I wonder what's inside your butthole"

We weigh in on the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney's Normal People. U.S. filmmaker Luke Lorentzen on his doco that trails a family of paramedics in Mexico City, and a local documentary that puts the spotlight on an iconic architect.

What happens when your creative tool - your body - shuts down? Tongan Australian performance artist Latai Taumoepeau discusses reconnecting with her body after illness in order to reconnect with her creativity.

At 26, playwright Anchuli Felicia King has already seen her work performed on mainstages in London, Melbourne and Sydney, with US productions on the way.

Also, Australian musical theatre performers unite for an online concert, and we take a closer look at the operas of the remarkably prolific Italian composer Rossini.

James Bradley and Donna Mazza on resurrecting Neanderthals in fiction, prolific American crime writer David Baldacci, and Vivian Pham's debut at 19.

Beverley and Benjamin stop by the comedian's apartment for a physically distanced well-being check.

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1) Brad Pitt as Dr Anthony Fauci on SNL

2) Logies cancelled

3) Bidou Zooms

4) Brigid Delaney's three day festival

5) Jeff Sparrow on the link between recession and longevity

6) Mrs America trailer

7) Kim's Convenience

8) Meghan Thee Stallion x Beyonce Savage Remix

A discussion on HBO's The Plot Against America. Pia Miranda talks about Sarah Jessica Parker for On Actors, and Hollywood stuntwoman Eunice Huthart talks Tom Cruise, Star Wars and Angelina Jolie.