From this year's new Michelin-starred restaurants and a chat with cast of new glam TV series "Palm Royale", to Banksy's defaced mural and US photographer Annie Leibovitz wielding a sword in Paris in the name of art, join Eve Jackson for a roundup of this week's culture news.

They're among the hottest young couples in world opera. Australian soprano Nicole Car and Canadian baritone Etienne Dupuis have performed together on iconic stages in famous roles around the world. They speak to Eve Jackson about their latest show, Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra", at Paris Bastille. Nicole sings the title character's long-lost daughter Amelia Grimaldi and Etienne plays the baddie Paolo Albiani. They also explain why they can rarely play lovers on stage.

We discuss the success of "There's Still Tomorrow" from writer-director Paola Cortellesi, as her darkly comic début becomes a box office phenomenon in Italy. Meanwhile, "The Sweet East" sees cinematographer Sean Price Williams direct a strange journey through American subcultures. Critic Lisa Nesselson also tells us why Stéphane Brizé’s new romance, starring Guillaume Canet and Alba Rohrwacher, is too slow for her taste. Plus, modern-day film fans take a trip back to 1895 thanks to the ingenuity of the Lumière brothers in Lyon.

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Andrew Sean Greer speaks to Eve Jackson about the sequel to his bestselling and celebrated novel "Less". "Less is Lost", about the hapless middle-aged gay writer Arthur Less, was a book that his agent told him not to write. Andrew talks about the American road trip that he undertook as a research project for the book, in which he unsuccessfully tried to go incognito. He says he wrote both the "Less" books as a reaction to Donald Trump winning the US presidential election in 2016 and gives us his reaction to the looming Trump-Biden rematch.

On this week's music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim welcomes back Thomas and Mustapha from the French five-piece Bagarre. They are not just a band, a crew or a collective. What unifies them is a love of music. The members go by the nicknames Emmaï Dee, La Bête, Majnoun, Maître Clap and Mus. They're back after a four-year hiatus with the album "Le Club C'est Vous", or "The Club is You". It's a celebration of club culture; of making a safe space for those wanting to express themselves on the dancefloor. They also break down constructs such as masculinity on the track "BOY".

From "The Regime", a satirical comedy about a despotic leader played by Kate Winslet, to all the latest from Europe's biggest TV festival, Séries Mania in northwestern France, plus reviews of "Palm Royale", a 1960s high society dramedy starring Kristen Wiig, as well as Guy Ritchie's series adaptation of his 2019 movie "The Gentlemen", critic Dheepthika Laurent speaks to Eve Jackson about what's hot on TV this month.

Film critic Lisa Nesselson and presenter Eve Jackson welcome the award-winning Reunionese director Aurélia Mengin into the studio to talk about her second feature "Scarlet Blue". The movie is being shown at the International Women's Film Festival taking place just outside of Paris, in Créteil. It's one of more than a hundred feminist and committed films from all over the world presented at the festival. Aurélia's award-winning 2018 film "Fornacis" was the first to be directed by a woman from Réunion Island.

After “Oppenheimer”’s success at the Oscars, we take you to the film's shooting location in New Mexico that is thought to have inspired the man now known as “the father of the atomic bomb”.

The biopic “Oppenheimer” has been crowned best picture at the Oscars with 7 awards. It's the first time in years that a big-budget, box-office sensation which collected nearly 1 billion dollars in ticket sales has won Hollywood’s top award.

As countries around the world mark International Women’s Day, we speak to two Afghan women who fled Kabul as soon as the Taliban came to power in August 2021.