Lebanese director Nadine Labaki discusses her Oscar nominated film Capharnaüm, about a young boy in Beirut who sues his parents for giving him life. Actor Ewen Leslie talks about his role in the new ABC series The Cry, and Lena Dunham's first TV creation since Girls. Plus, artist Zanny Begg and producer Philippa Bateman on their experimental documentary about an unsolved murder.

Chinese art curator from the Art Gallery of New South Wales Yin Cao describes some of the treasures from Taipei's National Palace Museum on display in the exhibition Heaven and Earth in Chinese Art, Kwementyaye Ngallametta is remembered in arts news with Claire Nichols, US-based artist Cassils explains how they use their body in performance works and sculpture to fight for transgender rights ahead of their exhibition at PICA, and Fiona Gruber reviews Just Not Australian at Artspace in Sydney.

Theatre and opera director Barrie Kosky talks us through his brilliantly outlandish reimagining of Mozart's The Magic Flute, we learn about the integral, but sometimes unnoticed, work of sound designers with J. David Franzke, and Ursula Yovich's Barbara and the Camp Dogs takes us on a wildly funny and unflinchingly honest musical road trip from Sydney to Katherine.

Remembering Miles Franklin author Andrew McGahan, bestselling YA author Angie Thomas on her new novel The Come Up and the origins of Harper Lee's famous character Atticus Finch.

Remembering Miles Franklin author Andrew McGahan, bestselling YA author Angie Thomas on her new novel The Come Up and the origins of Harper Lee's famous character Atticus Finch.

A recap of the Studio 10 showdown between Kerri-Anne Kennerly and Yumi Stynes over the January 26th protests, Assoc Prof Andrea Carson and former Buzzfeed head of quizzes Matthew Perpetua assess the legacy and future of Buzzfeed following a swathe of job cuts, and we take a trip to Midsumma's Drag A Thon to look at the impact of Rupaul's Drag Race on the Australian drag scene.

We're joined by Fiona Crombie, an Australian Oscar nominee for work on Yorgos Lanthimos' period farce, The Favourite. Lauren Carroll Harris speaks to Celia Pacquola and Luke McGregor as Rosehaven returns for Season 3, and a discussion on the work of avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas who died last week.

Patricia Piccinini and TarraWarra Museum of Art director Victoria Lynn on the double-header exhibition featuring Piccinini and Joy Hester, US galleries re-open as the federal shutdown ends in arts news, Quandamooka lawyer Stephanie Parkin and CEO of the Indigenous Art Code Gabrielle Sullivan on the report into fake Indigenous art, and Central Arrernte and Mudburra elder Patricia Ansell Dodds on having her work on the Sydney Opera House sails as part of Badu Gili.

Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story tells the true story of two Jewish people seeking refuge in Canada in 1908, British comedian Sarah Millican talks about the everyday intimate stuff that many of us avoid with disarming candour, theatre critic Cassie Tongue reviews the epic new Australian play Counting and Cracking, and we hear about the centrepiece of the Midsumma Festival's performing arts program this year — a series of events performed under the banner: BODY.

An all Australian show with Liane Moriarty's Nine Perfect Strangers, Maxine Beneba Clarke's latest picture book and Melissa Lucashenko's woman on a motorbike.