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Courtney Barnett on 16mm + dating app horror Fresh
March 16, 2022 23:05 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MBMelbourne filmmaker Danny Cohen on Anonymous Club, his 16mm doc about Melbourne musician Courtney Barnett, an introspective, introverted & reluctant world-famous rock-star. Plus, streaming on Disney +, U.S. director Mimi Cave talks about her horror take on the meet-cute/rom-com in Fresh and Hollywood actor Sebastian Stan on getting into character for his villainous role.
Isaac Julien, Leda and the Swan retold and why you should know Thanakupi
March 15, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBBritish filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien on his latest works: a spellbinding interpretation of Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi and a portrait of 19th C. abolitionist Fredrick Douglass. Plus, Heather B. Swann's potent retelling of the Greek myth 'Leda and the swan', where Leda is at the centre of the story. And why you should know the name Thanakupi -- the pioneering ceramic artist from the Thaynakwith language group in western Cape Yo...
A reimagined Yentl and a play about race and privilege in education hit home for director
March 14, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBIsaac Bashevis Singer's Yentl was most famously adapted into a musical film by Barbra Streisand. Now a new adaptation breathes new life into the story. It's directed by Gary Abrahams, who is also at the helm of Admissions at the Melbourne Theatre Company. Also, playwright and Blak & Bright Festival Director Jane Harrison curates a session of monologues by First Nations writers and Voice and Text Coach at the Sydney Theatre Company Leith McPherson sha...
Know My Name S2 ep 6: Jennifer Herd
March 14, 2022 14:39 - 7 minutes - 6.96 MBJennifer Herd is a Mbarbarrum artist and founding member of Brisbane's proppaNOW art collective.
Karen Joy Fowler targets John Wilkes Booth, America's first presidential assassin
March 13, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBKaren Joy Fowler wades into American Civil War history and the story of John Wilkes Booth, the first presidential assassin, in her novel Booth. Also, Kalkadoon author Megan Albany's comic novel about death and Lloyd Jones's latest allegorical novel, The Fish.
Turning Red and Byron Baes
March 10, 2022 19:00 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBThis week we’re gorging on Byron Baes and falling in love with Turning Red. Domee Shi, director of Pixar’s Turning Red, talks to BW and BL about family, feelings, red pandas and her passion for animation. Then BW and BL brew up some cacao, gather their sound bowls and drape themselves in neutral linens for the release of Byron Baes, Netflix’s new unscripted reality series following the feuds and aspirations of a group of up-and-coming influencers in...
Mia Hansen-Løve + Joanna Hogg
March 09, 2022 23:05 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBFrench writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve on her English language debut Bergman Island, a film that engages with the legacy of Ingmar Bergman as a couple retreat to the pristine Swedish island of Fårö where the filmmaker shot some of his most famous films, looking to find inspiration, and, British director Joanna Hogg on the sequel to The Souvenir, her lauded 2021 film. The Souvenir II continues to follow an ambitious film student in 1980's Britain, this...
Mia Hansen-Løve on Bergman Island + Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir II
March 09, 2022 23:05 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBFrench writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve on her English language debut Bergman Island, a film that engages with the legacy of Ingmar Bergman as a couple retreat to the pristine Swedish island of Fårö where the filmmaker shot some of his most famous films, looking to find inspiration, and, British director Joanna Hogg on the sequel to The Souvenir, her lauded 2021 film. The Souvenir II continues to follow an ambitious film student in 1980's Britain, this...
Flooded art galleries, Stanislava Pinchuk on Ukraine and celebrating Ethel Spowers
March 08, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBFloods have ravaged art galleries and studios in northern New South Wales. We hear from a gallery director and artist Megan Cope. Plus Ukrainian-Australian artist Stanislava Pinchuk. And a spotlight on the bold modernist printmaker Ethel Spowers.
GoPros, spray bottles and a fake language — Making theatre with The Last Great Hunt
March 07, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBThe Last Great Hunt are a collective of Western Australian theatre makers who delight in bringing the unexpected to the stage. Now a documentary, Stage Changers, offers candid insight into their process as it follows the company creating their most ambitious work. Also, we visit a hip hop dance school breaking down barriers for young people who want to dance, and we meet Carla Stickler, a performer turned software engineer who during the Omicron wav...
Know My Name S2 ep 5: Dianne Jones
March 07, 2022 14:39 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBDianne Jones is a provocative photo-media artist who manipulates images from colonial art to give prominence to Indigenous people.
Craig Silvey, Tony Birch and Dervla McTiernan’s joy of reading
March 06, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBCraig Silvey, Tony Birch and Dervla McTiernan share their love of reading from the Perth Festival Writers Weekend. They share their formative childhood reads, favourite first lines and give some writing advice along the way.
Putin’s mommy issues, Batman’s daddy issues
March 03, 2022 19:00 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBRussia’s invasion of Ukraine prompted a former star of 90210 to share her spoken word fantasy about being Vladimir Putin’s mother; the new Batman movie starring Robert Pattinson and Zoë Kravitz is chock full of daddy issues. Both choices have us clawing at our faces and asking why, a thousand times WHY? Luckily we rise above it all with two GOATS of Asian American pop culture criticism, Jeff Yang, journalist and columnist, and Phil Yu, founder of th...
Susanna Nicchiarelli's punk period biopic + a new doc spotlights Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter
March 02, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBSusanna Nicchiarelli discusses her period biopic Miss Marx, a vibrant take on the life of Karl Marx's youngest daughter Eleanor, who was among the first women to link the themes of feminism and socialism. Plus, filmmaker Philippa Bateman spotlights First Nations singer-songwriters Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter in the new documentary Wash My Soul in the River's Flow, a cinematic interpretation of a legendary concert from 2004 interwoven with archival fo...
Miss Marx + Wash My Soul in the River's Flow
March 02, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBSusanna Nicchiarelli discusses her period biopic Miss Marx, a vibrant take on the life of Karl Marx's youngest daughter Eleanor, who was among the first women to link the themes of feminism and socialism. Plus, filmmaker Philippa Bateman spotlights First Nations singer-songwriters Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter in the new documentary Wash My Soul in the River's Flow, a cinematic interpretation of a legendary concert from 2004 interwoven with archival fo...
Miss Marx + a new doc about Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter
March 02, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBSusanna Nicchiarelli discusses her period biopic Miss Marx, a vibrant take on the life of Karl Marx's youngest daughter Eleanor, who was among the first women to link the themes of feminism and socialism. Plus, filmmaker Philippa Bateman spotlights First Nations singer-songwriters Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter in the new documentary Wash My Soul in the River's Flow, a cinematic interpretation of a legendary concert from 2004 interwoven with archival fo...
Susanna Nicchiarelli's punk period biopic Miss Marx + a new doc about Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter
March 02, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBSusanna Nicchiarelli discusses her period biopic Miss Marx, a vibrant take on the life of Karl Marx's youngest daughter Eleanor, who was among the first women to link the themes of feminism and socialism. Plus, filmmaker Philippa Bateman spotlights First Nations singer-songwriters Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter in the new documentary Wash My Soul in the River's Flow, a cinematic interpretation of a legendary concert from 2004 interwoven with archival fo...
Punk period biopic Miss Marx + a new doc spotlights First Nations singer-songwriters Archie Roach & Ruby Hunter
March 02, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBSusanna Nicchiarelli discusses her period biopic Miss Marx, a vibrant take on the life of Karl Marx's youngest daughter Eleanor, who was among the first women to link the themes of feminism and socialism. Plus, filmmaker Philippa Bateman spotlights First Nations singer-songwriters Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter in the new documentary Wash My Soul in the River's Flow, a cinematic interpretation of a legendary concert from 2004 interwoven with archival fo...
A history of Venus in Art, the artist who lives on a boat and Yul Scarf
March 01, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBThe goddess of love has reigned supreme through Western art, but her roots are darker, more ancient and shape-shifting than you'd expect. Historian and TV presenter Prof Bettany Hughes joins Daniel to tell the surprising history of Venus/Aphrodite. Plus, a seascape painter who lives on a yacht, and step into the studio of Yul Scarf, who uses ceramics, old bricks and the revived tech of QR codes, to explore questions of colonialism. ...
A gay hate crime that became a watershed moment for reform revisited in song
February 28, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBIn 1972, a lecturer at the University of Adelaide was attacked at a gay beat, thrown into the River Torrens and drowned. 50 years on, Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan shines a light into this appalling story and how his death changed Australia. Also, voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson shares more insights into the power of voice and we attend the rehearsal of a reimagined version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland presented by the Australian C...
Know My Name S2 ep 4: Laurel Nannup
February 28, 2022 14:39 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBLaurel Nannup is a Noongar artist and elder who grew up near Pinjara in Western Australia. As part of the Stolen Generation she was taken from her mother at the age of 8 and sent to the Wanderling Mission.
Isabel Allende writes about her mother, Markus Zusak gets your fanmail
February 27, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBIsabel Allende says her latest novel, Violeta, was inspired by her mother but also by Allende's own life. Also, readers who send fan mail and the writers who reply with Markus Zusak, Anita Heiss, John Marsden and Krissy Kneen, and disability in fiction with Joseph Elliott and Kit Kavanagh-Ryan.
We are all uncah jahmz
February 24, 2022 19:00 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBThis week BL + BW take on the big questions: Is Julia Fox Ye’s muse, and why is everyone around you suddenly saying ‘uncah jahmz’ with comical levels of vocal fry? Will we survive the coming vibe shift? And is it cheugy to be worrying about this? What’s behind Kirsty Webeck, comedian, Cool Change Ambassador ‘getting a tit out?’ [her words] on twitter? Why does second season of Starstruck torture its devoted fans? How much do we love Ali Wong’s de...
Blerta Basholli on her Sundance winner Hive + Payal Kapadia's stunning A Night of Knowing Nothing
February 23, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBFilmmaker Blerta Basholli on her Albanian-Kosovan drama Hive, which became the first film in Sundance history to win all three main awards in its World Cinema category – the Grand Jury Prize, the Audience Award and the Directing Award. It's based on the true story of a widow who becomes an entrepreneur after losing her husband in the Kosovo War. Plus, A Night of Knowing Nothing, a stunning exploration of university life in India as a student writes le...
Hive + A Night of Knowing Nothing
February 23, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBFilmmaker Blerta Basholli on her Albanian-Kosovan drama Hive, which became the first film in Sundance history to win all three main awards in its World Cinema category – the Grand Jury Prize, the Audience Award and the Directing Award. It's based on the true story of a widow who becomes an entrepreneur after losing her husband in the Kosovo War. Plus, A Night of Knowing Nothing, a stunning exploration of university life in India as a student writes le...
Kosovan Sundance winner Hive + a stunning exploration of Uni life in India
February 23, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBFilmmaker Blerta Basholli on her Albanian-Kosovan drama Hive, which became the first film in Sundance history to win all three main awards in its World Cinema category – the Grand Jury Prize, the Audience Award and the Directing Award. It's based on the true story of a widow who becomes an entrepreneur after losing her husband in the Kosovo War. Plus, A Night of Knowing Nothing, a stunning exploration of university life in India as a student writes le...
The new 'canon', Renaissance woman Lavinia Fontana and Atong Atem's collage vision
February 22, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBWho makes up “the canon” in Art today? A new book picks 50 artists from around the world, and across centuries, to take a meaningful snapshot of art masters. Plus, a curator on 16th C. artist Lavinia Fontana, Europe's first female professional painter. And Atong Atem's panoramic collage that charts 10 years of life, family and art.
Girl from the North Country — How 'pure ignorance' of musical theatre led to a hit
February 21, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBBob Dylan's music feels inseparable from the man himself, so how could it be adapted for musical theatre? Playwright Conor McPherson explains how his dark and dreamy Girl from the North Country convinced Bob that he was the man for the job. Also, Dean Bryant, the director of Fun Home, shares the Best Advice he was ever given and Judith Lucy and Denise Scott are Still Here and heading out on the road.
Know My Name S2 ep 3: Julie Gough
February 21, 2022 14:38 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBJulie Gough is a Trawlwoolway artist whose practice often refers to her family's experiences as Tasmanian Aboriginal people and is held in many private collections and major galleries in Australia.
Immigrant stories of the Big Apple with Gary Shteyngart and Xochitl Gonzalez
February 20, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBOur Country Friends is a funny book set in upstate New York during the pandemic by US writer Gary Shteyngart and Xochitl Gonzalez looks at the city through a Puerto Rican lens in Olga Dies Dreaming.
Jaguar Jonze burns it down
February 17, 2022 19:00 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBAhead of her return to the Eurovision — Australia Decides, Jaguar Jonze talks to BW about song writing, how she plans to bring the drama to the Eurovision stage, and her pivotal role in sparking off the MeToo movement in the Australian music industry. Jaguar also gives us an update on the national review of the music industry, which is now accepting confidential submissions. We’re looking at two portrayals of LA in pop culture. First, the Superbowl...
Mike Mills on C'mon C'mon, the Oscar nominated animation Flee + Clermont-Ferrand winners
February 16, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBMike Mills on his new film C'mon C'mon, a sweet, stripped back road trip across America about family bonds and connection starring Joaquin Phoenix. Plus, Danish filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen on his triple Oscar nominated documentary animation Flee, and meet the Australians who won the international competition at Clermont-Ferrand.
Mike Mills on C'mon C'mon + triple Oscar nominated Flee and Clermont-Ferrand winner
February 16, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBMike Mills on his new film starring Joaquin Phoenix C'mon C'mon, Jonas Poher Rasmussen on his triple Oscar nominated documentary animation Flee, and meet the Australians who won the international competition at Clermont-Ferrand.
Mike Mills on C'mon C'mon, the director behind Oscar nominated animation Flee + Clermont-Ferrand winners
February 16, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBMike Mills on his new film starring Joaquin Phoenix C'mon C'mon, Jonas Poher Rasmussen on his triple Oscar nominated documentary animation Flee, and meet the Australians who won the international competition at Clermont-Ferrand.
Mike Mills on C'mon C'mon + triple Oscar nominated animation Flee
February 16, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBMike Mills on his new film C'mon C'mon, a sweet, stripped back road trip across America about family bonds and connection starring Joaquin Phoenix. Plus, Danish filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen on his triple Oscar nominated documentary animation Flee, and meet the Australians who won the international competition at Clermont-Ferrand.
Patricia Piccinini's mutants light up a ballroom, My Art Crush and Thea Anamara Perkins
February 15, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBPatricia Piccinini is Australia’s foremost artist exploring the relationship between humanity and technology, and the ethical tensions it inspires in the viewer. Plus, introducing our new segment My Art Crush. Jess Cochrane on the impact of Édouard Manet's Olympia on her work. And Thea Anamara Perkins on family legacy and NFTs.
'We're making space for ourselves' — How Zindzi Okenyo is changing theatre
February 14, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBZindzi Okenyo has a lot on her plate. The actor, musician and Play School host is now a theatre director. Her first plays, Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner and Orange Thrower, are bitingly honest portrayals of growing up black in predominantly white communities. Also, when Kim Crotty couldn't be with his sons, he wrote them stories instead — 47 of them. These stories are shared in a new play at this year's Perth Festival called The Smallest Sta...
Know My Name S2 ep 2: Julie Dowling
February 14, 2022 14:38 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBJulie Dowling is considered one of Australia's greatest exponents of the family portrait, but always with an Indigenous focus.
Love and literature with Hannah Kent, Roddy Doyle, Elif Shafak and more
February 13, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBFrom young love and forbidden romance to break-ups and long-term relationships: hear authors wax lyrical about love. Writers include David Nicholls, Amy Bloom, Tayari Jones, Howard Jacobson, Monica Ali, Curtis Sittenfeld, Anita Heiss, Vivian Pham, C.S Pacat and Daniel de Lorne.
Firebite slays; Joe Rogan experiences remorse
February 10, 2022 19:00 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBAnother week, another Joe Rogan instagram video to experience! Spotify’s number one podcaster took to the ‘gram for the second time in a week to explain himself, after a video compilation of him repeatedly using the n-word during his podcast resurfaced online. The video was shared by musical artist India Arie who has pulled her music from the streaming service in protest. Rogan has apologised and clarified that he now understands why it’s unacceptable...
A new film depicts the Srebrenica Massacre + Ione Skye + preserving Indigenous cultural heritage
February 09, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBBosnian writer-director Jasmila Žbanić talks about depicting the Srebrenica Massacre in her film Quo Vadis, Aida? Indie American actor Ione Skye reveals her Top Shelf of film, and Bill Code on his debut documentary feature The Lake of Scars, a story of allyship, environment and reconciliation around efforts to preserve Indigenous scar trees and artefacts in the Lake Boort area of northern Victoria.
Quo Vadis, Aida? Ione Skye, The Lake of Scars
February 09, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBBosnian writer/director Jasmila Žbanić talks about depicting the Srebrenica Massacre in her film Quo Vadis, Aida? Indie American actor Ione Skye reveals her Top Shelf of film, and Bill Code on his debut documentary feature The Lake of Scars, a story of allyship, environment and reconciliation around efforts to preserve Indigenous scar trees and artefacts in the Lake Boort area of northern Victoria.
The radical work of Vivienne Binns
February 08, 2022 23:05 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBVivienne Binns shocked critics in the 1960s with her joyful paintings of giant genitalia and Dada-inspired assemblages. Now aged 81, she looks back at a vast arts practice that has never stopped questioning: what is art, and what do we want to say with it? Plus, Jazmina Cininas' magical take on a DIY folk instrument that conjures Pagan myths and Lithuanian folk lore.
Youth in trouble — Chunky Move's dance for the end of days
February 07, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBAntony Hamilton is the artistic director of Melbourne's fierce and feisty contemporary dance company, Chunky Move. His new work Yung Lung plunges audiences into a restless and menacing dance party held in the midst of a world in crisis. Also, WA musician and playwright David Milroy shares what's on his Top Shelf and we meet Jules Allen, a youth support and mental health care worker (and former MasterChef contestant) who can now add 'funny and searing...
Know My Name S2 ep 1: Fiona Foley
February 07, 2022 15:10 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBKnow My Name Series Two: interviews with Indigenous women artists from the ABC archives. In this episode meet Fiona Foley, a Badtjala artist from K'gari in Queensland
Jason Mott's Hell of a Book
February 06, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBJason Mott's Hell of a Book lives up to its name: it has a snappy title, an eccentric narrator and a Nicolas Cage cameo. Also, two authors who explore older Australian's experiences with Liz Byrski's At the End of the Day and Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens.
Janet Jackson’s in control; we experience Joe Rogan
February 03, 2022 19:00 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBBW and BL experience Joe Rogan’s video statement responding to the backlash against his hit podcast. We weigh up Rogan’s $100 million exclusivity deal with Spotify against music legends Neil Young and Joni Mitchell’s decisions to pull their music from the streaming service over COVID-19 misinformation. The star podcaster says he will try to do better balancing “controversial opinions” [ie wrong statements] about COVID-19 with expert opinions. Is that ...
Kenneth Branagh and Ciarán Hinds on Belfast + Here Out West + Pam and Tommy
February 02, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBKenneth Branagh and Ciarán Hinds discuss the historical coming of age film Belfast, screenwriter Bina Bhattacharya and actor and writer Arka Das talk about Here Out West, a cinematic postcard to Western Sydney. Plus I, Tonya and Cruella director Craig Gillespie on bringing the Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape scandal to the small screen.
Belfast, Here Out West, Pam and Tommy
February 02, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBKenneth Branagh and Ciarán Hinds discuss the historical coming of age film Belfast, screenwriter Bina Bhattacharya and actor and writer Arka Das talk about Here Out West, a cinematic postcard to Western Sydney. Plus I, Tonya and Cruella director Craig Gillespie on bringing the Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape scandal to the small screen.
Kenneth Branagh and Ciarán Hinds on Belfast, a postcard to Western Sydney + a celeb sex tape scandal on TV
February 02, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBKenneth Branagh and Ciarán Hinds discuss the historical coming of age film Belfast, screenwriter Bina Bhattacharya and actor and writer Arka Das talk about Here Out West, a cinematic postcard to Western Sydney. Plus I, Tonya and Cruella director Craig Gillespie on bringing the Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape scandal to the small screen.