The writer, critic, and broadcaster spoke in 2015 about his illness and how his writing was flourishing.

Neo-soul singer Ngaiire treats us to some new music, we look at how autism is represented in pop culture, and we feel a little clucky over baby Yoda.

Actor Timothy Spall talks about his role in Mrs Lowry and Son, a bio-drama chronicling the life of artist L. S. Lowry. Osman Faruqi discusses HBO's take on superhero comic series Watchmen, a review of Hollywood Blockbuster Knives Out, and Abe Forsythe's top shelf.

Author, illustrator and film-maker Shaun Tan explores our beautiful and complex relationship to animals. And we speak to the provocative Darwin-based artist Therese Ritchie, whose work confronts racism in the Top End.

We look at the origins of the Faustian bargain with Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Méphistophélès in the Opera Australia production of Gounod's Faust) and music scholar Peter Tregear, we search for the ghost of Federici, who died performing the Méphistophélès role in Melbourne in 1888, Maxine Doyle shares the Best Advice she was ever given, and we meet acclaimed director Damiano Michieletto ahead of his Royal Opera House production of Donizetti's Don Pasquale screening in Australian cinemas.

When crime fiction is about more than murder: LA author Michael Connelly, and Australian crime writers Sulari Gentill and Robert Gott on their tour in the US.

Our Survivor Correspondent Shannon Gaitz on the #metoo controversy surrounding the latest episodes of US Survivor, we examine that Prince Andrew interview and should people be watching/reading/listening to things at speed?

We look at Netflix's new season of The Crown which released this week with an entirely new cast and in a new time in history. Jason reviews François Ozon's By the Grace of God which follows three survivors of a Catholic priest's abuse. An interview with Australian director Mirrah Foulkes about her debut feature Judy and Punch, and filmmaker Dylan River shares his Top Shelf.

Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat are towering figures in American art. A new exhibition examines the work of the men side by side for the first time.

With the yuletide season drawing near, a live radio play version of the 1946 Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life will be staged in Perth, theatre producer and columnist Richard Jordan discusses the emerging transfer hubs for new theatre in New York and London, Fiona Blair reviews the Australian premiere of Oil by British playwright Ella Hickson, Leith McPherson leads us through some vocal warm-ups to get mouths moving and tongues twisting, and the Women's Circus stage their triennial large-scale production: The Drill.