Man Booker award-winning author Ian McEwan on his latest novel Machines Like Me, Australian writer and doctor Melanie Cheng on Room for a Stranger, and Alicia Sometimes and Thomas Caldwell are back to give their take on another book to film adaptation: The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe by Romain Puértolas.

This year's Met Gala theme was "camp" but did the celebs pull it off? NGV curator Katie Somerville and Miss First Nations finalist Chocolate Boxx weigh in. Plus journalist Eileen Ormsby takes us to the dark web.

Director of the sublime Australian film Acute Misfortune joins us in the studio. Lauren Carroll Harris checks out the new season of British comedy Fleabag. An interview with Bulgarian filmmakers Milko Lazarov and Veselka Kiryakova about arctic love story Ága, and Jason Di Rosso reviews The Hustle.

Sculptor featured at Brisbane Street Art Festival Leonie Rhodes joins Ed as this week's studio artist, piano duo ZOFO on their latest show of pieces inspired by artworks, and AGNSW curator Hannah Hutchison on the constructed worlds of Jeffrey Smart.

20 years since it last appeared on their stage, Tim Winton's Cloudstreet returns to the Malthouse Theatre under the direction of Matthew Lutton, theatre critic Tim Byrne reviews Sydney Theatre Company's new production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Aboriginal Australian performers Vicki Van Hout and Joel Bray use humour (and powdered sugar) to wrestle with their Indigenous heritage at Yirramboi, and playwright Patricia Cornelius shares her Best Advice.

Ed sits down with 2019 Sulman Prize finalist and 2015 winner Jason Phu, 2018 Sulman Prize judge Angela Tiatia, and critic Gabriella Coslovich.

The bestselling Australian author discusses the third book in the Rosie series, The Rosie Result, at Sydney Writers' Festival.

At the SWF, Beverley and Benjamin are joined by writers Brittney Cooper, Omar Sakr and Zoe Norton Lodge.

Conjoined twins, Sea and Serene, are content with their life until a stranger comes into their world and disrupts all they know.

Actors Miranda Tapsell and Gwilym Lee discuss their big hearted Top End rom-com. Lauren Carroll Harris looks at the latest season of Armando Iannucci's brilliant political satire Veep. Film producer Sue Maslin talks about five films she continues to find inspirational, and a discussion on the works of Iranian director Jafar Pahani.