Hear what makes Ethiopian jazz so special with two icons of the genre, Mahmoud Ahmed and Ali Birra as they perform live in the studio.

Louis Nowra’s biography of Woolloomooloo is an endearing and faintly shambolic love letter to the tiny suburb.

A novel that takes us into some very dark places and histories, in the recent life of Argentina.

It’s time for us to bid you farewell. This is the last LIVE broadcast of Books and Arts not just for the year but forever. Next year we take an exciting new shape as The Hub which will be your new home for the arts on RN. There’s something for everyone, the stage, books, visual arts, the screen and pop culture. There's a whole summer of Books and Arts highlights too. Thanks for listening, meet you again in the New Year!

Isabel Allende's debut novel The House of the Spirits was published in 1982. It's set in an unnamed Latin American country and it follows three generations of the Trueba family who live in the presence of spirits. It's our final Latin American book club novel for the year.

Melbourne’s Australian Centre for Contemporary Art’s (ACCA) new exhibition looks at the legacy of feminism.

RN Science Show presenter Robyn Williams with his best read for the year: Julia Baird's Victoria, The Queen.

UK theatre producer Richard Jordan shares some of his theatrical highlights from New York and London.

The Irish famine of the 1840s was almost unbearably awful. It devastated the country and lead to mass migration and oh so many deaths. How then, to write a novel that’s both grim and beautiful?

RN Future Tense presenter Antony Funnel with his best read for the year: Draw Your Weapons by Sarah Sentilles.