Melbourne based actor, director and playwright Peter Houghton joins us with some surprising favourites on his Top Shelf.

We travel to remote communities in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands of South Australia to find out why these tiny art centres are producing such phenomenal contemporary art.

Michael Rosen follows the famous French author in exile in London after he was sentenced to prison for his vocal support of Alfred Dreyfus.

Through stories of their life and family, Ivan Coyote works fearlessly at the edges of gender, queer and identity politics.

British author Claire Fuller discusses the books, films and music that inspired her to become a writer.

The Museum of Contemporary Art's exhibition (which is now on at the Heide Museum of Contemporary Art in Melbourne) Jenny Watson: the Fabric of Fantasy covers four decades of the artist's work, including work on unconventional fabrics and featuring self-portraits, alter-egos, horses and rockstars.

Across four generations and almost a century, Pachinko tells the story of a Korean family's search for identity.

Crime writers Adrian McKinty and Candice Fox both use police officers as central characters in their fiction. Why and how?

Detective Chief Inspector Gary Jubelin is a senior homicide detective in the NSW police force. There's nothing fictional about his working life or the crimes he investigates.

A conversation with British American writer Tracy Chevalier about her recent books New Boy, a retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, and At the Edge of the Orchard, which is set in 19th century America and tells the story of a dysfunctional pioneer family.