Comedian Zoe Coombs Marr on her love of Xena: Warrior Princess and transitioning from her alter-ego Dave back to herself, the success of Chinese dating show If You Are the One with SBS translator Jing Han and Australian contestant Mandy Chan, and intimacy director Claire Warden on what she does and why it's taken off since #MeToo.

UK comedian Romesh Ranganathan on his comedy series Just Another Immigrant. Australian director Kate Dennis talks about her work on prestige TV shows in the U.S. Director Ray Argall on his brilliant documentary Midnight Oil 1984, and we meet the director of a small French gem called Aurore.

Dr Barbara Piscitelli on why children's art matters, our youngest studio artists ever, Dr Gai Lindsay on why art teachers need to be confident, an audio postcard from a kindergarten art show, and our Clever Kids on Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.

In an old fashioned debate, six Australian authors battle out the proposition 'write what you know': Mark Brandi, Claire Coleman, Bram Presser, Jane Rawson, Graeme Simsion and Michelle Aung Thin.

South African work of documentary theatre The Fall captures a movement to decolonise their institutions, Gabrielle Wang's novel for younger readers A Ghost in My Suitcase has been adapted for the stage by Barking Gecko Theatre, we check in to an upmarket hotel to learn about Wiradjuri dancer and choreographer Joel Bray's work Biladurang, and White Pearl takes us into the world of skin whitening cosmetics and pan-Asian race relations.

On this week's highlights episode, we bring you Benjamin Law's conversation with Get Krack!n and The Katering Show co-creators and stars Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney.

Upgrade is the second film directed by Leigh Whannell, a one-time ABC TV movie reviewer who turned filmmaker when he co-wrote the breakout slasher hit Saw. Jason Di Rosso meets veteran French filmmaker Agnes Varda in Paris. Actor Natasha Wanganeen shares her top five films, and Sarah Gertrude Shapiro, co-creator of the hit dramedy Unreal.

British artist Luke Jerrams' Museum of the Moon installation is back in Australia, we take a trip down the River Derwent to contemplate our body's decay in French & Mottershead's Waterborne, Mats Staub explores what it was like to be 21 in different people's lives, and Adelaide artist Clare Belfrage's astonishing glass works.

Booker winner Michael Ondaatje on his latest novel Warlight, Kate Atkinson's recurring fascination with World War II in Transcription and former politician Stanley Johnson on his "what if" novel Kompromat, on the entanglement of Russian, British and American politics.

We speak to the legendary Australian choreographer Graeme Murphy about his 50 years with The Australian Ballet, we meet Tony Award-winning director of Jersey Boys Des McAnuff and the Australian cast, voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson leads us through a cockney accent lesson, and we travel backstage with Dancenorth, Circa and The Good Room as they prepare to stage new work at the Brisbane Festival.