The Drawing Room

From Triple J Unearthed favourite to Australia's Eurovision star, Montaigne has been capturing fans wherever she goes.

In the Drawing Room, she looks back on her path to music, explores the complications of social media, and explains when she realised she wasn't competitive enough for professional sport.

The final year of high school can be an intense time: everything is about to end and everything is about to begin.

Abbie and PB are best friends, with days of schoolwork, gossip and parties, but for Abbie, there may be a bigger change coming than she realised.

In the Drawing Room, Madelaine Nunn talks about her new play, Cactus.

In 2015 Amani Haydar was finding success at work, happily married, and pregnant for the first time, when the absolutely unthinkable happened.

Her mother was killed by her father in a terrible act of domestic violence.

In her new book, The Mother Wound, Amani tells her own story and looks at the myths and the impact of domestic abuse.

Sharp-tongued and quick-witted, Reuben Kaye has built an enviable reputation as a cabaret star on the stages of London and Paris.

But early in 2020, Kaye had to deal with vocal surgery and his hardest challenge yet: silence.

Now, back in full form and weathering out the pandemic in Australia, Kaye takes us into his life on and off the stage, and explains how to subvert extremely masculine songs through the power of cabaret.

In 2018, J.P. Shilo was commissioned to compose a new work for the grand organ in Melbourne's Town Hall.

Working late at night in the building, Shilo was reminded of a dream he had experienced, and that dream became the inspiration for his composition.

That performance has just been released as a new album, Jubjoté.

Linda Jackson and Jenny Kee are icons of the fashion world.

They took Australia clothing onto the world stage and led the way to a new sense of style by embracing the colours and the nature that sets this country apart.

Their collaboration and their friendship are the focus of a new documentary: Step Into Paradise.

The workplace has been in a state of flux for decades now and Covid is likely to make things even trickier.

So what are the key skills we all need in order to find our way into the job we want?

Andrea Clarke looks at the disruption-proof skills that she believes are the key to success.

Unlike traditional anthropologists, Adam Rish has always wanted to collaborate and to interfere.

Inspired by many different artistic traditions and cultures, Rish has worked with artists and craftspeople around the world to create a style very much his own.

Misanthropology: The World Art of Adam Rish, is a new biography, which collects his art and explores his career.

The debut album by Quivers felt like the start of something big: a wonderful collection of songs that saw them embraced in Australia and in America.

Last year was looking to be a major step forward for the band, with a new album and a major US tour in the works, but then 2020 happened.

The new album, Golden Doubt, is out now, and it was worth the wait.

How do we care about the big issues of the world without overwhelming ourselves?

Or look after ourselves, without losing sight of the world?

In the Drawing Room, Brooke McAlary talks about her new book, Care: The Radical Art of Taking Time.