The Drawing Room

In the quiet moments between album releases and tour dates, Bree Tranter and Chris Panousakis decided to start a new project together.

And after bands that were sometimes too big and solo projects that were sometimes too small, Bree thinks that this Siberian Tiger might be just right.

Ninety-six percent of the people in the world speak only four percent of the languages.

What happens when a language becomes extinct? Does it become easier for everyone to communicate? Or do we lose unique knowledge and culture?

And, once a language is gone, is it gone forever? Can languages be revived?

How will our homes look a decade from now? When things return to normal, what will 'normal' be and what new objects will have become an essential part of our lives?

A new exhibition, Hybrid: Objects for Future Homes, has asked a group of designers to imagine that future.

GibsonKarlo and Veena Sahajwalla explain why they have collaborated to create a gravestone and urn, made from the recycled possession of the dearly departed.

Your body is made up of trillions of cells, all working together to keep themselves alive and to create the single collective entity that is you.

But sometimes those cells stop cooperating. Something goes wrong, those 'wrong' cells start multiplying, and that can lead to cancer.

But what is cancer? Why is it present in so many different species, and why is it so hard to eradicate?

On a trip to Thailand, everything about Sam Bloom's life changed. She broke her back in a fall and had to spend months in hospital.

The time in hospital was very difficult and Sam says that coming home was, perhaps, worse.

But Sam's life began to change again when her family adopted a injured magpie they called Penguin. Looking after the bird helped Sam on road to recovery, and her story travelled around the world.

Sylvie Simmons has been writing about music since the 1970s. She's covered all of the legendary names and written biographies of everyone from Johnny Cash to Mötley Crüe.

Then, in 2014, Sylvie took the risky move of releasing an album of her own.

The risk paid off and the album was a success. Now she's back with the follow-up, Blue on Blue.

In 2015, Mick Fanning became a legend around the world when he walked away unharmed after a terrifying encounter with a shark. It was caught live on camera as the world-champion surfer prepared for a wave at a surfing event in South Africa.

Since retiring from professional surfing, Mick has gone on a journey to come to peace with that experience and to find out more about these apex predators. It's the focus of a new documentary, Save This Shark.

When the wealthy scion of a Australian family dies, he leaves behind a strange will: the first of his children to have a child, and to give it his surname, will inherit his fortune.

When his eldest daughters—twin sisters—find themselves alone on a yacht together, all of that money leads to temptation.

Rose Carlyle talks about her debut novel, The Girl in the Mirror, and how it felt to be in the middle of a bidding war for the publishing rights.

Isaiah Firebrace has had a whirlwind start to his career: winning The X Factor at seventeen and then heading straight off to Eurovision.

This year has been the first chance he's had to sit back and reflect on the journey so far.

In the Drawing Room he shares those reflections, and explains why his new song, Know Me Better, is in many way about learning to know himself.

How well does feminism hold up to it's ideals?

Women earn less than men. They face sexism and harassment in the workforce. They are at risk of intimate partner violence at a hugely disproportionate rate.

Feminism seeks to address those issues: to create a world where women are seen and treated as equals in all aspects of society.

In her work, American writer Mikki Kendall lays out the history of women's rights and examines whether the movement embraces the needs of all women.