Lally Katz's latest play for the Melbourne Theatre Company is a darkly funny play, set in a retirement village, about ageing, rivalry and bridge.

Profoundly deaf dancer Anna Seymour stars in KAGE's latest work of contemporary dance Out of Earshot, which looks at silence, body language and the reverberations of sound.

Louise Hearman on why she's drawn to disembodied heads, sunsets, teeth, animals, and children's faces in her paintings.

She's been called the 'Persian Joan of Arc' - but performer Delia Olam says there's more to her than that.

Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar is taking The Sound of Silence to Hobart for MONA's Dark Mofo festival. The piece investigates the story behind the Pulitzer prize winning photograph The vulture and the little girl, which was taken by photographer Kevin Carter during the Sudanese famine.

"If you don't like my books, you won't like me. I am my books". Nadeem Aslam on his latest novel The Golden Legend, inspired by Pakistan's blasphemy laws.

What kid doesn't know the Charlie and Lola books? Lauren Child's books intertwine text and image, with collage and words that wander all over the page.

ABC Sound Librarians James Lee and Michael Munson take us beyond the Vinyl Frontier to listen to the very best records made on the electronic organ!

Young American writer Brit Bennett has written a powerful novel of secrets, small towns and friendship.

In our book to film adaptation segment we compare Julian Barnes' 2011 Booker winning novel The Sense of an Ending with the film directed by Ritesh Batra.