ABC RN Arts
462 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEach week day RN Arts programs zoom in on a specific area of art and culture, brought to you by a specialist presenter. Subscribe to their podcasts separately by searching by name in your podcasting app.
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Episodes
Crossbread podcast, Dear Prudence and #Alive
December 24, 2020 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBMegan Washington talks to BW and BL about the ABC comedy podcast Crossbread. Plus agony aunt Daniel M Lavery and the South Korean zombie-plague Netflix hit #Alive.
Summer highlights #1 - Covid themed
December 23, 2020 23:05 - 54 minutes - 50 MBIn a pandemic themed summer special we feature John Cusack, Gillian Flynn, Desiree Akhavan, and the Australian filmmaker behind a Spanish set lockdown series.
Lindy Lee and Areej Nur
December 22, 2020 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBInfluential artist Lindy Lee reflects on her long career; plus the art collective Still Nomads claiming new space for young African Australian artists.
Stephen Sondheim — taking a razor to conventions (Part I)
December 21, 2020 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBTo mark his 90th birthday, we delve into the work of Stephen Sondheim—composer-lyricist of some of the most well-regarded and inventive musical theatre ever made.
Novel inspirations with Celeste Ng, Pip Williams and Chris Flynn
December 20, 2020 23:05 - 53 minutes - 74.1 MBMeet Celeste Ng author of Little Fires Everywhere, Mammut, the talking fossil, and hear from Pip Williams about her popular debut novel.
Podcast Extra: Juliette Binoche
December 18, 2020 14:05 - 9 minutes - 8.25 MBAn interview with Juliette Binoche, star of a Boxing Day film called How to be A Good Wife, a kitschy, satirical film about a conservative ladies prep school in the tumultuous year of 1968.
We survived 2020! With BenDelaCreme and Nat's What I Reckon
December 17, 2020 23:05 - 53 minutes - 74.1 MBWe're pretty sure we're going to survive 2020! BW + BL are walking the hard rubbish of 2020 to the nature strip, thanking it three times and saying goodbye. To celebrate, they're diving into the pop culture that made us happy in 2020. Featuring listener tweets, e-mails and voice memos sharing the podcasts, music, tv and social media stars that soothed, cheered and brightened their days, plus a few special guests: internationally renowned drag performe...
Podcast Extra: Eric Bana
December 17, 2020 14:05 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBIn this special Podcast Extra, A-lister Eric Bana talks about coming home to take on the lead role of Aaron Falk in the film adaptation of Jane Harper's page-turner The Dry, and his wider Hollywood career.
Sigourney Weaver and The Pogues frontman on film
December 16, 2020 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBSigourney Weaver talks to us about starring in the thoughtful New York-set coming of age film about ambition and talent, My Salinger Year, and rock and roll documentary maker Julien Temple has made a new film about one of the most significant figures in Irish music.
Confronting our fraught family histories
December 15, 2020 23:05 - 53 minutes - 73.3 MBMegan Evans is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator whose art examines Australia's colonial history, looking at the impact that history has had on her own life and the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Where to from here?
December 14, 2020 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBAs we bring this devastating year to a close, we assess the damage the pandemic has inflicted on the performing arts, find silver linings and chart the road to recovery. With us to retrace some of 2020's key moments are performer Nadine Garner, leaders from Global Creatures, the Melbourne Theatre Company and Yirra Yaakin, and experts in arts accessibility and education.
Helen Garner's diary and the future of fiction
December 13, 2020 23:05 - 53 minutes - 73.8 MBHelen Garner on writing in her diary in this troubled year and authors reflect on the impacts of coronavirus on the future of fiction.