Lauren Carroll Harris checks out the new TV series The Loudest Voice, starring Russell Crowe as disgraced media mogul Rogel Ailes. An interview with music and film critic Anwen Crawford on Mystify, the new documentary about Michael Hutchence, and Jason Di Ross speaks to Argentinian filmmaker Ana Katz about her new drama Florianópolis Dream.

Plus Kenny Pittock makes art in the studio with clay and witty wordplay, Tai Snaith reviews a show on self-doubt at ACCA, and 2019 Dreaming Award winner Jenna Lee's sojourn to the UK.

On stage at NIDA's Playhouse, we bring together a panel of teachers, alumni and students to reflect on 60 years of professional theatre training in Australia. We're joined by John Bashford, director of NIDA's Centre for Acting, Ben Schostakowski, leader of the Master of Fine Arts course in directing, alumni Lee Lewis, the artistic director of Griffin Theatre Company, and actor Dalara Williams (Blackie Blackie Brown, Winyanboga Yurringa, Top End Wedding), as well as current acting students Mabel Li and Bronte Thomson-Sparrow and recent directing graduate Tait de Lorenzo.

Plus, Lydia Kiesling, and a rummage through the ACU's historical children's book collection.

Happy EOFY! To celebrate Beverley and Benjamin are joined by podcaster Helen Zaltzman, comedy writer Bec Shaw, journalist Naaman Zhou & hip hop artist Remi Kolawole to discuss the best and worst stories in pop culture so far this year, and get in some early ‘best of’ picks for 2019.

Lauren Carroll Harris shares her thoughts on the new season of Black Mirror. Jason Di Rosso reviews Danny Boyle's Beatles blockbuster Yesterday. Breaking Bad's RJ Mitte is in for our Top Shelf segment, and an interview with director Michael Apted about 63 Up, the latest outing in his ground-breaking 7 Up series.

When police raided the Stonewall Inn in New York City on the evening of 27 June, 1969, drag queens were targeted for arrest. The defiance of those in drag and other LGBT people that night sparked days of riots that are remembered today as a turning point for queer liberation. On the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, we meet three First Nations drag performers who continue to use drag as a tool for political expression.

Neon paintings and a raft of rubbish at Contemporary Worlds — Indonesia. Arts news — is this the voice of Frida Kahlo? Lynda Draper's coiling crowns win the 2019 Australian Ceramic Award. Jennifer Higgie has her fingers on the pulse of the global art scene.

Come from Away is a new musical that takes audiences to the remote Canadian town of Gander on 11 September, 2001 when the town's population almost doubled, Yamatji and Wongi actor Meyne Wyatt makes his debut as a playwright in City of Gold, a co-production from Queensland Theatre and Griffin Theatre Company, and we visit the Old Fitz Theatre and its resident theatre company Red Line Productions which has a reputation for producing shows that transfer to bigger stages around Australia.

Plus, Armando Lucas Correa on WW2 novel The Daughter's Tale, and Erin Gough and Omar Sakr on queer YA anthology Kindred.