The Drawing Room

Noriko Tadano grew up in the Chiba prefecture of Japan, but is now Australia's foremost proponent of a three-stringed, traditional Japanese banjo-like instrument, called the shamisen.

In Neel Kolhatkar's comedy no one seems to be safe ... so who is the man behind the jokes?  

Award-winning journalist Richard Baker has opened up the vault to return to the key players behind the AWB scandal in which $300 million was funnelled to Saddam Hussein to secure Australia's wheat interests.

Eallogierdu: The Tundra Within Me explores the challenges faced by the Sámi people in continuing the reindeer herding business in the northern regions of Sweden, Finland and Norway.

A new book on Melbourne's famed bordello queen ‘Madame Brussels’ reveals the debauchery and puritanism at the end of the gold rush era. 

Hear traditional Persian and Bosnian stories told through song and poetry from two members of the performance collective, The Resonant Heart.

Crime reporter Neil Mercer talks about his career covering Roger Rogerson and Neddy Smith is the subject of his new book 'The Kingpin and the Crooked Cop'

After returning from spying for king and country in the late 17th century, Aphra Behn became the very first English woman to be a paid playwright under her own name.

Dr Merlin Sheldrake enlightens us on the kingdom of fungi and what we know so far, like the fact that some types of fungi can digest motor oil and used cigarette butts.

Citizen, constitutional academic and author Cindy Skach on how something as simple and universal as food could help us find a way to rely less on constitutions and laws.