London's Victoria and Albert Museum has chronicled the evolution of corsets, bras and undies, in an exhibition containing more than two hundred items.

What was the novel that writer Susan Johnson took apart, like a clock, to understand how it worked?

Former Director General of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington joins us to chat about her new spy thriller Breaking Cover.

The Art Gallery of South Australia has just opened a big retrospective show of artist Robert Hannaford, best known for his large, life-like portraits.

Courage to Kill, by Swedish playwright Lars Noren, explores the strained relationship between father and son, as the son summons up the courage to stab his father.

There are only a few trautoniums left in the world - so Perth-based musician Meg Travers decided to build her own.

Irish author Maggie O'Farrell discusses This Must Be the Place, her complex and technically inventive new novel about a perfect marriage that goes off course.

For the first time in its 40 year history, the Berndt Museum in WA will have an Aboriginal leader.

Liam Pieper’s debut novel The Toymaker follows Adam Kulakov, a rather slimy businessman attempting to follow the example set by his grandfather – a survivor of the Holocaust.

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