Separate stories podcast

It's snowing outside, and three people are telling each other their life stories in Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende's latest novel In the Midst of Winter.

Mark Johnston is pushing to establish a Veterans' Art Museum, an art gallery where we see not the official story of war but the stories and the struggles of the men and women who put on the uniform and who have paid a price for their service.

Celebrating the life and times of one of Australia's most influential theatre groups, the Australian Performing Group, more commonly known as the Pram Factory. What were its aims and how has it influenced generations of theatre performers?

Con artists, scoundrels, cops and crims. The subject of so much fiction, and so many romantic legends. Some of these real characters novelise their own lives. But how should we read them?

Winner of the 2017 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History, Elizabeth Tynan, joins us from the Parliament House awards ceremony.

A novel that reveals laundries as places of intimacy, storytelling and hardwork.

RN's The Music Show presenter Andrew Ford reveals what was his best read for 2017.

Kate Miller-Heidke and Keir Nuttall had the unenviable job of writing music that could live up to ABBA.

Poems about the ordinary beauty and tragedy of the suburbs.

A musical trip through the low-budget Australian cinema of the 70s and 80s.