An interview with Hollywood star Renee Zellweger about her lead role in Judy, a biographical drama about iconic actress and singer Judy Garland, highlighting her most gruelling years. Lauren Carroll Harris looks at new ABC political drama Total Control with producer Darren Dale, and a discussion on Hustlers, a film about high end strippers who fleece their clients to cope with the fall in business after the GFC.

Sydney artist Leila Jeffreys specialises in bird portraiture, capturing avian creatures in intimate moments of pride and amusement.

In this podcast special, Sarah speaks to The Bookshelf's Kate Evans about this year's Booker shortlist.

The new Australian musical Fangirls challenges negative perceptions of female fandom and places their passion and power centre stage, Grey Rock at this year's Melbourne International Arts Festival tells the story of a Palestinian TV repairperson secretly building a rocket ship bound for the moon, and choreographers Sue Healey and Gideon Obarzanek discuss filming dance to capture and push the boundaries of an ephemeral art form.

Plus, Indonesian poet Norman Erikson Pasaribu and translator Tiffany Tsao, and bestselling "tragic romance" author Paullina Simons.

Untitled Goose Game co-creator Jake Strasser and composer Dan Golding about their indie gaming hit, chiptune producer Jamatar and games composer Belinda Coomes on making music for and using games, and why is Beverley watching The Masked Singer?

Jason reviews problematic thriller Joker, an origin story that follows Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, a failed stand-up comedian who turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City. A discussion on Netflix's new big release The Politician, with a star-studded cast it highlights high school as the perfect breeding ground for politics, and an interview with Israeli filmmaker Michal Aviad about her unsettling drama Working Woman.

A new book of Ian Fairweather's correspondence shows the man behind the myth.

92 years since its German premiere, Ernst Krenek's Weimar-era opera Jonny Strikes Up! will have its Australian premiere, State Opera South Australia's Lost Operas of Oz series continues with a new production of John Haddock and Michael Campbell's Madeline Lee, and voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson returns to The Stage Show to share more of her insights into the power of voice.

Plus, Lynley Dodd on Hairy Maclary, and how does the film adaptation of Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch hold up to the novel?