The Drawing Room

What does it mean to translate another person's work? Are you translating just the words or the meaning? Jennifer Croft, a prize-winning translator shares her thoughts.

A person or a planet, a black hole or a balloon, a hammer, a feather, a piece of cheese, or a pumpkin seed… everything and everyone experiences gravity in the same way. Theoretical physicist Claudia de Rham is excited about the future of gravity.

Find out how a name on a protest sign sparked a whole line of inquiry into classical music's first published Black composer from the 16th century, Vicente Lusitano. 

Spaghetti Westerns films are full of strong tropes but none are as strong as the dramatic music that underpinned them, you'll learn and hear more with Freya Hollick and The Counterfeit.

'Flathead’ is a love letter to regional working-class Australia - a work of docufiction that cleverly weaves its redemption narrative, using its septuagenarian lead and the great real characters of Bundaberg, Queensland.

The (mostly) true untold story of the female pirates of the Caribbean, with author Francesca De Tores.

World War Two and his publisher going bust almost ended Jack Hilton's promising career, long forgotten until a curious reader rediscovered and revived Hilton's work Caliban Shrieks

Investigative journalist Marian Wilkinson sheds some light on a possible source behind the Coalition’s enthusiasm for nuclear energy.

Blues and Roots artist Eric Bibb plays for us live in the studio. He’ll speak about his blues heritage - his father, Leon Bibb and godfather Paul Robeson - and play songs close to his heart.

Australia ranks below average in classroom orderliness compared to fellow OECD countries, so how can teachers take back control, and is that really what kids need?