Comedian Ronny Chieng tries to fill in for Benjamin Law and introduces us to a haunting video of a fish eating a bird, the world wide web turns 30 and documentary maker Claudia Sangiorgi Dalimore on her efforts to crew her music video shoots almost entirely with women.

An interview with director Anthony Maras and star Dev Patel about the new Australian film Hotel Mumbai. We take a look at a new experimental film from artist Solange, which reflects the way the music industry is changing its approach to the moving image. Marcus Graham reveals his Top Shelf, and a review of Sometimes Always Never, the debut film of Carl Hunter, starring Bill Nighy.

Established Sydney gallerists Michael Reid and Roslyn Oxley, and manager of the 12-month old APY Art Centre Collective Skye O'Meara, sit down with Ed to discuss the state of play for commercial galleries and how the market has changed over the last 10 years since Sydney's Art Month began, we find out the winner of this year's Tom Malone Prize in Arts News with Claire Nichols, Scandinavian artists Riita Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth turn elderly people into mystical beings in their photography series Eyes as Big as Plates, and street artist Rone transforms Burnham Beeches mansion in his installation Empire.

Gideon Obarzanek guides us through the programs of Melbourne's biennial dance celebration Dance Massive and the new Sydney dance festival March Dance, and with three Carmen-inspired productions on Australian stages, we take a deep dive into Bizet's opera and the many ways the story continues to be told.

Guests of Adelaide Writers' Week on their latest books: Pakistani author Mohammed Hanif speaks to Claire Nichols at the festival about his novel Red Birds and Esi Edugyan on her 2018 Booker shortlisted novel Washington Black.

For International Women's Day, Beverley talks feminism(s) with The Wave's Noreen Malone and journalist Joan Morgan. Plus Carly Findlay introduces us to five disabled and chronically ill fashionistas to follow online.

A new book sheds light on the career of an all but forgotten Hollywood star who was one of Australia's most promising exports in the 1930's. Vulture critic Jen Chaney joins us from the U.S. to talk about the TV series Better Things by long-time Louis C.K. collaborator Pamela Adlon, and a discussion on Lars von Trier's latest work, an ultra confronting film about a serial killer played by Matt Dillon.

Jewellery designer Rene Skelton works in studio, has fashion found its place in the art world? RMIT head of fashion and design Professor Robyn Healy, Sass & Bide co-founder Heidi Middleton, and writer and curator Miranda Hine discuss, the NSW inquiry into museums report in Arts News with Claire Nichols, the catwalk comes to the gallery for Gorman: Ten Years of Collaborating at Heide Museum of Modern Art, and the art of the suit with Daniel Friedman of LGBTQ tailoring specialists Bindle & Keep.

From the heart of the Adelaide Festival — The Palais on the riverbank at Elder Park — we're joined live on stage by artistic directors Rachel Healy and Neil Armfield to meet some of the tremendous local and international talent in this year's program. Guests include choreographer Meryl Tankard, artistic director of Windmill Theatre Co. Rosemary Myers, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti from Dutch production Blaas, and Alfonso Barón, Luciano Rosso and Hermes Gaido — the team behind the Argentinian contemporary dance work Un Poyo Rojo.

As a bonus for podcast listeners, we speak with playwright and performer Nakkiah Lui about her new satirical play at the Sydney Theatre Company: How to Rule the World. The play is about three Australian political aspirants — an Aboriginal (Lui), an Asian (Michelle Lim Davidson) and an Islander (Anthony Taufa) — who realise they need a white political puppet to change the system from within. Nakkiah, Michelle and Anthony join us.