Separate stories podcast

Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov was, briefly, Stalin’s favourite novelist: now there's a precarious position to hold.

Ilona Nelson is shining a light on the lives of women in visual arts in Australia.

It’s 25 years since the story of Josie Alibrandi in her last year at high school hit the bookshelves in the cult novel Looking for Alibrandi. We revisit the book with the author Melina Marchetta and some new and old fans.

Marramb-ik (I Am) is an exhibition of Indigenous Australian super heroes and features some stunning cosplay outfits.

How well do you know the work of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson? Treasure Island, Long John Silver, and that famous image of doubled identity, the strange story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? A new novel takes us into the dying days of this unusual man, in Samoa.

Playwright Joanna Murray Smith has picked Arthur Miller's play The Crucible as her choice of Masterpiece

Nicole Kidman speaks about the new film The Killing of a Sacred Deer by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (co-starring Colin Farrell), an allegorical film that draws on Ancient Greek tragedy.

Dive into the psychedelic world of one of Australia's most popular visual artists, Del Kathryn Barton.

Poet, translator and artist Sholeh Wolpé from Iran, Mexican novelist and poet Carmen Boullosa and poet, translator and academic Ana Luísa Amaral from Portugal speak passionately about their literary and poetic traditions. Recorded at the 2017 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival.

Peter Carey finally tackles the novel he spent his 'whole life not knowing how to write'.