How can performers maintain a healthy mind and body? Choreographer Gideon Obarzanek, The Australian Ballet's Sue Mayes and dance scientist Peta Blevins discuss how dancers can find their balance. Arts Centre Melbourne CEO Claire Spencer and soprano Greta Bradman join us to talk about The Arts Wellbeing Collective and their Support Act Wellbeing Helpline. We learn about Barking Gecko Theatre's program for young people, which has demonstrated mental health benefits. And ABC Classic's Mairi Nicolson joins us to share some of her favourite moments in opera and musical theatre when a character's health becomes the story.

Plus David Nicholls' latest romance Sweet Sorrow and what happens when we read with Belinda Jack.

Sampa The Great talks about her latest music and first live score, Tom Gleeson reveals a love for Rusty and filmmaker Serge Ou on Kung Fu as counterculture.

British director Asif Kapadia discusses his breathtaking film about football legend Diego Maradona. A review of Ari Aster's new film about a nightmarish Swedish Midsommar festival, and Lauren and Jason are joined by guest critic Craig Mathieson to discuss Scottish thriller The Victim.

Plus, V& A curator Victoria Broackes on pop culture exhibitions, and what is a bookwork?

We hear music from The Ghetto Cabaret which follows a group of Jewish performers living in horrific conditions in the ghettos of WWII, Marcia Hines and John Waters recall when Hair, the "American Tribal Love-Rock Musical", brought controversy, excitement and the promise of revolution to Australia, and British playwright Alistair McDowall shares the works that have most inspired his journey as an artist in Top Shelf.

Plus meet the six Australian authors shortlisted for this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award and Slaughterhouse Five turns 50.

Marvel embarks on its dramatic 4th phase, musician Rainbow Chan talks us through her new album and we feast on the MasterChef drama. Plus how the heck do musicians make a living?

As season 2 of Big Little Lies wraps, our panel of critics weigh in on one of TV’s most spectacular recent critical successes, and the significance of recent reports of a tangle for creative control. Plus, Australian directors Zoe Pepper, Alena Lodkina and Corrie Chen share their experience of how filmmakers make a living.

Plus, Ashley Perry and Samuel Kreusler reimagine Michelangelo's David in First Commissions, and Hannah Reich looks into The Cost of Art.