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The art of mindfulness and women street photographers
February 01, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBHow does mindfulness stimulate artists? Meet the artists and curators of a new exhibition exploring mindfulness and meditation, called Presence of Mind. Plus, meet Gulnara Samoilova, founder of the global project Women Street Photographers.
Six the Musical's journey from student theatre to worldwide smash
January 31, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBThe all-singing, all-dancing wives of Henry VIII reclaim history in the global smash Six the Musical. We meet Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss who wrote the show for the Edinburgh Fringe as students and have since opened the show on Broadway and the West End. Also, we discover the close connection between William Shakespeare and two terrorists whose names you're sure to know: Guy Fawkes and Osama Bin Laden. We're joined by Dr Islam Issa, author of Shakespea...
Secrets and lies in Monica Ali's Love Marriage
January 30, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBAlmost 20 years after Brick Lane, Monica Ali is still unpicking the ins and outs of relationships in her novel, Love Marriage. Also, Skimming Stones by Maria Papas was directly inspired by her daughter's own illness and Jack Ellis challenges a myth about childhood in Home and Other Hiding Places.
Nooky, Wordle and those Grace Tame photos
January 27, 2022 19:00 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBOnly legends on the first new episode of Stop Everything! for 2022. Hear from Nooky, proud Yuin and Thungutti man, rapper and host of Blak Out on Triple J about his new track Run Dingo, new platform We are Warriors, and the power of hip hop and visibility. BW and BL also reflect on the reactions around Grace Tame’s viral Jan 25 photo op with Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the also-viral takedown on The Project by host Carrie Bickmore and Guardia...
Pedro Almodóvar + Pablo Larraín
January 26, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBPedro Almodóvar discusses Parallel Mothers – his intricately woven mystery about two women’s journey into motherhood and the scars of the Spanish Civil War, starring Penelope Cruz and Milena Smit. And Pablo Larraín discusses Spencer, his unconventional Princess Diana biopic set during a Christmas weekend at Sandringham starring Kristen Stewart.
Pedro Almodóvar on Parallel Mothers + Pablo Larraín's Spencer
January 26, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBPedro Almodóvar discusses Parallel Mothers, his intricately woven mystery about two women’s journey into motherhood and the scars of the Spanish Civil War, starring Penelope Cruz and Milena Smit. And Pablo Larraín discusses Spencer, his unconventional Princess Diana biopic set during a Christmas weekend at Sandringham starring Kristen Stewart.
Karla Dickens' fearless found objects, the Aboriginal flag as an artwork and clay gone wild
January 25, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBEnter the eclectic studio and thought-provoking work of the Wiradjuri installation artist Karla Dickens. Plus, is the Aboriginal flag, now freed from copyright restrictions, a work of art? And the 'wild clay' movement, where potters dig their own.
A Palawa playwright confronts 'the biggest issue Tasmanian Aboriginal people are fighting today'
January 24, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBNathan Maynard is one of Australia's funniest and most clear-sighted playwrights. The Palawa writer had a hit with The Season and now he's back with At What Cost? A play that explores the thorny issue of who decides who can claim Aboriginal heritage. Also, how are theatres coping with surging COVID cases? We check in with Belvoir, Opera Australia and Global Creatures (Moulin Rouge), and we hear a scene from And She Would Stand Like This, a play descr...
Hanya Yanagihara moves on from A Little Life
January 23, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBIn her new book To Paradise, Hanya Yanagihara asks what would America be if its foundations were different. Also Katherine Collette's ode to Toastmasters in The Competition and Craig Sherborne's difficult mother in A Grass Hotel.
Hot pod summer: The Newsreader and Creamerie
January 20, 2022 19:00 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBNew Zealand’s wellness-horror-comedy Creamerie and Australia’s 80s newsroom drama The Newsreader couldn’t be more different, but both are examples of top-shelf locally made series. Go behind the scenes of both shows with Creamerie writer-director Roseanne Liang and co-creator and cast member Perlina Lau, and The Newsreader’s co-creator and writer Michael Lucas and series writer Kim Ho. 1800 Respect: https://www.1800respect.org.au/ Lifeline 13 11 14...
How Instagram has changed how we see and experience art
January 18, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBHow has social media giant Instagram changed how we experience art? Experts, artists and critics weigh in on the photo sharing platform, an evolution that's allowed artists to build careers outside of the gallery system, while drastically changing our consumption of art.
David McAllister and Wesley Enoch start a new chapter
January 17, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBThe former artistic director of The Australian Ballet, David McAllister, steals the spotlight to interview his partner, Noonuccal Nuugi playwright and director Wesley Enoch. Also, Yorta Yorta composer and singer Deborah Cheetham talks about the making of her opera Parrwang Lifts the Sky, based on the Wadawurrung story of the magpie who brought light to the land.
Masterclass with George Saunders and Tsitsi Dangarembga
January 16, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBTwo masters of the form, George Saunders and Tsisti Dangarembga, share lessons from their extensive writing careers.
Hot pod summer: Shane Jenek aka Courtney Act’s celebrity memoir book club
January 13, 2022 19:00 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBLet’s revisit one of Stop Everything’s most popular interviews of 2021: our celebrity memoir book club with National Trinket, Shane Jenek, aka Courtney Act. Brisbane-born Shane is known around the world as drag queen Courtney Act. Courtney’s appeared on Australian Idol, RuPaul’s Drag Race, The Bi Life, Dancing with the Stars, One Plus One on ABC TV and even a segment on ABC Kids talking to children about gender. Shane joins Stop Everything! to talk ...
Summer highlights #4 - Nitram
January 12, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBThe Australian film Nitram dramatises the events leading up to the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre. In a wide ranging discussion, director Justin Kurzel and screenwriter Shaun Grant discussed what inspired them to make a film about this real life tragedy, the themes they sought to explore, and the similarities and differences to their earlier films Snowtown and Snowtown and The True History of the Kelly Gang.
Anne Wallace and the Beijing Silvermine
January 11, 2022 23:05 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBAnne Wallace paints film-like scenes of intimacy and psychological tension that speak to iso life and the female gaze. Plus, the found photo archive that documents China's embrace of capitalism.
Tom Stoppard's life examined
January 10, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBTom Stoppard and William Shakespeare loom large in the canon of English drama. Two new books explore their lives, their work, their driving forces and their impact on theatre.
Life at the extremes — Pat Barker, Michael Mohammed Ahmad and Ella Baxter
January 09, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBThe Booker-winning author Pat Barker's preoccupation with who's allowed to speak and who isn't continues in The Women of Troy, a sequel to The Silence of the Girls, her exploration of women in the Ancient Greek classics. Also, New Animal author, Ella Baxter, on how her writing relates to her artistic practice, and the final in Michael Mohammed Ahmad's trilogy featuring his alter-ego, Bani Adam, with The Other Half of You. ...
Hot pod summer: Drag Race’s Michelle Visage, Brian Moylan and RHOM
January 06, 2022 19:00 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBHello 2022! Please be kind. Our offering for the new year is a closer look at local versions of international reality TV blockbusters: Drag Race and The Real Housewives, aka brand Benjamin Law. First up, RuPaul’s ride-or-die Michelle Visage dropped by ahead of the inaugural season of Drag Race Down Under. Then, Brian Moylan on his tell-all book about the Real Housewives reality TV empire, followed by actual Real Housewives of Melbourne, Jackie Gilli...
Summer highlights #3 - The White Lotus star Murray Bartlett + Rebecca Hall and Shahrbanoo Sadat
January 05, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBThe White Lotus star Murray Bartlett, plus British actor Rebecca Hall and Afghan writer-director Shahrbanoo Sadat.
Hilma af Klint, the art of the book cover and Mary Tonkin's immersive landscapes
January 04, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBThe rediscovery of Hilma af Klint's abstract paintings has taken the art world by storm, but what meaning can we find in her powerful, mysterious work? Plus, artist and designer W.H. Chong on the secret behind the perfect book cover. And head into the bush with immersive landscape painter Mary Tonkin.
David Williamson shares some home truths
January 03, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MBDavid Williamson is far and away Australia's most produced playwright. Now that David has retired, he looks back on his luminous career in a very candid memoir called Home Truths (HarperCollins), in which he throws open the doors to his writing room and takes us inside.
Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro on Klara and the Sun
January 02, 2022 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBNobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro introduces us to his latest creation in Klara and the Sun, and we also take a look at how authors name their heroes and villains with six writers including Tony Birch, Tabitha Bird and Mirandi Riwoe.
Hot pod summer: Steven Canals and Ngaiire
December 30, 2021 19:00 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBSettle in for deep and meaningful chats with two of our favourite Stop Everything! guests of 2021: screenwriter and director Steven Canals and singer, songwriter and artist Ngaiire. Steven reflects on the end of Pose, the award-winning series hailed as ground breaking for trans representation. Steven shares what it was like to be in the room when series lead Billy Porter shared his HIV status with the cast and crew of Pose, and his view of the curren...
Summer highlights #2 - Chloé Zhao on Nomadland + Roy Andersson and Nick Pinkerton
December 29, 2021 23:05 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBOscar winner Chloé Zhao on Nomadland, plus Swedish writer-director Roy Andersson on his 2021 film About Endlessness, and film scholar Nick Pinkerton on Tsai Ming Liang's Goodbye, Dragon Inn.
Endurance act: performance art in Australia
December 28, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBPerformance art tests the limits of the body and the gallery space. Fiona Kelly McGregor's latest book relives its bracing ascendancy in Sydney's queer and underground scene, and the well-known and lesser-known artists who lived and breathed it. Plus, performance artists Justin Shoulder and Stelarc. And, how do art galleries preserve performance art?
'Who's afraid of the truth?' — An Indigenous director tackles an American classic
December 27, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBWhat can a 60-year-old play about drunk and sometimes spiteful American academics tell us about culture and race relations in Australia? Director Margaret Harvey shares her bold vision for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Also, we hear a performance from Black Brass, inspired by stories of resilience from Perth's African communities and we meet some of the real-life people whose generosity inspired the hit musical Come from Away. ...
Darkness and light with Patricia Lockwood, Jessie Tu and Ethan Hawke
December 26, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MB"It's such a contradiction in life how much we learn from suffering," says actor and writer Ethan Hawke who tells The Book Show about his fourth novel A Bright Ray of Darkness. Darkness and light is a recurring theme in our other author interviews with American Patricia Lockwood and Australian Jessie Tu.
Hot pod summer: Carly Findlay and Sam van Zweden at the Sydney Writers Festival
December 23, 2021 19:00 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBRemember that window in 2021 when there were few covid cases, no lockdowns and people could travel across state borders? Yeah! That actually happened, and during that blessed window, we hosted a show, live, from the Sydney Writers Festival. Ok sure, BW was beamed in via a giant screen on stage, but three out of four people on a stage ain’t bad. In this RN summer highlight, BW + BL talk to Carly Findlay, editor of Growing Up Disabled in Australia, an...
Summer highlights #1 - Julie Delpy + Domina
December 22, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBThe legendary and multi-talented French actor Julie Delpy and the Australian cinematographer behind lavish period soap Domina.
Breaking the myths of whiteness in classical sculpture
December 21, 2021 23:05 - 53 minutes - 49 MBWhat if the use of white in classical sculpture was just a construct? For the ancient Greeks and Romans, sculptures were brightly-coloured affairs, clad in vivid red gowns with red lips, and pink or olive skin. Now scholars and artists want us to see that, too.
The room where Hamilton happened
December 20, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBMeet Thomas Kail, the Tony Award-winning director of the hit musical Hamilton, whose friendship and collaboration with Lin-Manuel Miranda stretches back twenty years. And Justin Levine, the man behind the music of the big winner at this year's Tonys: Moulin Rouge! The Musical — now on stage in Melbourne and heading to Sydney in May.
From Karachi to Kamchatka — literary travel with Roddy Doyle, Arundhati Roy, Elizabeth Strout and more
December 19, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBInternational travel has been off the cards for many in the last two years, this literary world tour might be the next best thing.
And Just Like That … Sex and the City is back
December 16, 2021 19:00 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBThe long-awaited revival of Sex and the City is out! How are Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte faring in 2021 without Samantha? Trigger, er we mean spoiler warning — BW and BL talk about And Just Like That’s woke moments, deaths, diversity, and podcast developments. Also: Jenna Guillaume shares her top #Christmance movies and BL and BW trade notes on memorable pop culture moments of 2021. Show notes: Kim Catrall not a part of the revival and in the p...
American director Sean Baker and German acting legend Udo Kier
December 15, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBAmerican director Sean Baker on his sex comedy about a has-been porn star Red Rocket. Plus, German acting legend Udo Kier talks about his latest role as a retired hairdresser who has one last cut and blow dry to perform….for a society funeral.
Video art in the wake of Black Lives Matter, surreal fake food and plein air in the Build Up
December 14, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBFranklin Sirmans is the curator of Family: Visions of a Shared Humanity, an exhibition of video works by renowned Black American, British and Canadian artists, including Arthur Jafa and Garrett Bradley. Plus, 'hyper-surreal' sculpture made with fake food. And enter the studio of Darwin plein air painter Max Bowden as she works through the Top End’s Build Up season.
From the ashes — the lessons a reborn La Mama can share with Australia
December 13, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBLive on stage at Melbourne's iconic La Mama Theatre, newly rebuilt following a devastating fire, we look at the history of independent Australian theatre and its impact on our culture, and we discuss the path ahead for small theatres in the wake of the pandemic.
And the winner is: the book prize winners of 2021
December 12, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MBKate Grenville, Craig Silvey, Susanna Clarke, Nardi Simpson, Damon Galgut, Christos Tsiolkas and more on their prize-winning books. Plus, former winners Colson Whitehead, Bernardine Evaristo and Anthony Doerr on the impact of winning a major prize.
TV in 2021, the good, the memorable and the bin-worthy
December 09, 2021 19:00 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBWe watched a lot of TV in 2021. We’re looking back at shows we loved and the TV moments staining our memories [hello Armond from The White Lotus]. We’re also talking about the TV culture shifts we noticed in 2021, the TV we want to see more of in 2022, and the TV we’re happy to toss in the bin. Featuring two friends of Stop Everything: Patrick Lenton deputy arts and culture editor at The Conversation and a former editor of Junkee, and Hannah Reich, A...
Don't Look Up, The Scary of Sixty-First + The Worst Person in the World
December 08, 2021 23:05 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBWriter-director Adam McKay on his disaster movie comedy Don't Look Up as a satire of inaction on climate change, plus he reflects on Succession's success as one of that show's directors and executive producer. Fellow American Dasha Nekrasova (Red Scare podcast) talks about her debut feature, The Scary of Sixty-First, a horror movie inspired by the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. And Norwegian director Joachim Trier discusses his award-winning romantic comedy...
Life with Jeffrey Smart and Natalya Hughes takes on the shrink's couch
December 07, 2021 23:05 - 53 minutes - 73.4 MBThe enduring power of Jeffrey Smart's urban wastelands, and his comparatively beautiful life in Tuscany, as told by the late artist's partner Ermes De Zan. Plus, visit the studio of Natalya Hughes as she works on an installation of mid-century aesthetics and Freud's psychoanalytic theory.
Elaine Crombie will calm you down before she punches you in the guts
December 06, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MBElaine Crombie is a powerhouse of an actor and singer on stage and screen. Her new role sees her performing with Bangarra Dance Theatre in Wudjang: Not the Past — a co-production with the Sydney Theatre Company at the Sydney Festival. Also, we're joined by Bangarra's artistic director Stephen Page and his recently announced successor Frances Rings and we visit Australian artists from Circa currently navigating a tangled web of border closures and hea...
'People were already forgetting' — Jodi Picoult confronts the pandemic
December 05, 2021 23:05 - 53 minutes - 74 MBUnlike many authors, Jodi Picoult decided to take on COVID-19 in Wish You Were Here, because Picoult says, "we need to remember everything we got wrong while we were learning what this disease is". Also, the salvation of poetry in Brendan Cowell's Plum and The Kindness of Birds by Filipino Australian writer Merlinda Bobis.
Going deep on Dune and Succession’s terrible birthday
December 02, 2021 19:00 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBIt’s the year 10191. We’re folding time and space and going deep on the science fiction classic, Dune. We start with Frank Herbert’s best-selling 1965 novel, make a pit stop at David Lynch’s indelible and sometimes inscrutable 1984 screen adaptation, and finally contemplate Denis Villeneuve’s star-studded 2021 release of Dune part one. Science fiction author and Dune scholar Haris Durrani and film critic Luke Goodsell join BW at the High Council to...
Denis Villeneuve + Greig Fraser on Dune, Ari Wegner on The Power of the Dog
December 01, 2021 23:05 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBDune director Denis Villeneuve discusses casting Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides and interpreting the Arabic and Islamic influences in Frank Herbert's original novel. Plus, the film's Australian cinematographer Greig Fraser explains why the desert sky is white, and fellow Aussie Ari Wegner, who shot Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, talks eroticism, landscape and the female gaze.
Doug Aitken, Robert Andrew's machines with ochre residue and the lost Leonardo da Vinci
November 30, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 75.2 MBUS artist Doug Aitken looks to the future through the hyperconnected present, in New Era.| Plus, enter the studio of Robert Andrew, whose programmable machines imprint ochre residue and missing histories. And a real-life art thriller documentary centred around the 'lost Leonardo da Vinci'.
Diablo Cody found her dream collaborator in Alanis Morissette
November 29, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBAlanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill is now a jukebox musical. But how has this achingly personal collection of songs been transformed into a show about an American family coming apart at the seams? We ask the show's Oscar and Tony-winning writer, Diablo Cody. Also, we meet American playwright Will Arbery. His play Heroes of the Fourth Turning, lauded across the political spectrum, portrays conservative Catholics arguing about religion and politics...
How Val McDermid's time as a newspaper journalist inspired a new crime series
November 28, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBScottish crime writer Val McDermid's new book, 1979, is the beginning of a new series inspired by her own experience as a newspaper journalist in the 1970s and 80s. Also, to celebrate International Day of People With Disability we have some recommendations for speculative fiction novels that centre disabled characters, and
Adele’s divorce album, Superman’s bi
November 25, 2021 19:00 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MBWe’re rolling in the deep with Adele’s new album, 30, and two international TV specials to celebrate its launch. It’s been six years since Adele’s last album and a lot of life lived in between, including a divorce. BL + BW have listened to 30 many times and are ready to talk! It’s 2021 and Superman has come out as bisexual. Jonathan Kent, the son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, and the new guardian of planet Earth has shared a kiss with friend Jay Nakam...
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, Stillwater, Hannah Levien
November 24, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBRomanian filmmaker Radu Jude on his Berlinale Golden Bear winner Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, a black comedy about a middle aged school teacher fighting the moral panic over her appearance in an online sex tape. Plus, director Tom McCarthy on Stillwater, the follow up to his Oscar winner Spotlight starring Matt Damon, Abigail Breslin and Camille Cottin about an American man fighting to overturn his daughter's murder conviction in France, and L.A. b...