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NFTs: next gen, reclaiming Bougainville and being an 'unwilling inspiration'
November 23, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MBWe take stock of NFTs and hear from three people invested in the future of tokens, including Jonathan Zawada, collaborator to musician Flume. Plus, Bruno Booth on being an 'unwilling inspiration'. And Taloi Havini reclaims connections to land, culture and identity of Bougainville, PNG.
'Artists with disability should be treated like any other' — 30 years of Restless Dance
November 22, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBWhen a devastating diagnosis halted Michelle Ryan's dance career, she spent ten years away from the stage, but then some giants of dance brought her back into the spotlight. She's now artistic director of Adelaide's Restless Dance Theatre, which turns 30 this year. Also, award-winning playwright Kendall Feaver confronts sexual assault on campus in Wherever She Wanders at Griffin and we take a look at the curious history of pantomime with Virginia Gay...
Creative lives of a Booker, Stella and Nobel winner — Bernardine Evaristo, Charlotte Wood and Abdulrazak Gurnah
November 21, 2021 23:05 - 53 minutes - 74.1 MB"I never sunk into complacency in any aspect of my life." Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo on her latest book, Manifesto, about her unconventional path to success. Also, Stella Prize winner Charlotte Wood on cultivating a rich inner life in The Luminous Solution, and the 2021 Nobel Laureate for Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah, on how he became a writer.
BARKAA gives back to the Matriarchs that came before
November 18, 2021 19:00 - 53 minutes - 73.6 MBIt’s Ausmusic Month and to celebrate Stop Everything! brings you interviews with some of the best musical talents our country has to offer. Firstly: BARKAA. Earlier this year, the Malyangapa and Barkindji rapper took the stage at the Sydney Opera House with her daughter to perform a moving rendition of ‘I know I can.’ She chats with Ben about her debut record - Blak Matriarchy - which is a testament to powerful Blak women, past, present and future. ...
Rosamund Pike on The Wheel of Time, Last Night in Soho, Palazzo Di Cozzo
November 17, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBAward-winning actor Rosamund Pike speaks about her new role in a fantasy show that aspires to take the Game of Thrones throne, The Wheel of Time, and rising New Zealand talent Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie discusses her lead role in Last Night in Soho, plus, director Madeleine Martiniello on her documentary Palazzo Di Cozzo, a portrait of Melbourne's Italian furniture mogul Franco Cozzo who became a household name for his flamboyant TV ads. ...
PRESENTS — Pop Chat
November 17, 2021 05:00 - 4 minutes - 6.41 MBStop Everything! We’ve got a podcast recommendation for you — Pop Chat from CBC Podcasts in Canada. Join host Elamin Abdelmahmoud, along with entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon and culture writer Amil Niazi as they discuss and work through the pop culture stories that matter. Follow Pop Chat wherever you get your podcasts.
Christopher Pease layers Nyoongar iconography over colonial vistas
November 16, 2021 23:05 - 53 minutes - 74.1 MBChristopher Pease wanted to create his own visual language, one that spoke to European art tradition and the hidden iconography of his Nyoongar ancestors. Plus, the horses that inspire Michael Zavros. And what happens when a painter loses half her hand? After a bad accident, Kaye Strange adapted.
Dear Evan Hansen creator revives the show that came before Rent
November 15, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBWhen the writer of Rent died on the day of the show's first preview, he also left behind a little-known autobiographical musical called Tick, Tick… Boom! Now Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton) and Steven Levenson (Dear Evan Hansen) have brought it to the screen. Also, voice and text coach at the Sydney Theatre Company, Leith McPherson, shares more of her insights into the power of voice and Circa's visionary artistic director Yaron Lifschitz shares what's...
Christos Tsiolkas on beauty and art
November 14, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MB"I can't separate the erotic and the sensual from the beautiful." Melbourne Prize for Literature winner, Christos Tsiolkas on his latest novel 7½ which explores what it means to be a writer and the role of beauty in fiction. Also, Rebecca Starford and Steven Carroll on the real life characters that inspired their World War II novels, The Imitator and O.
The eternity of Eternals and James Bond's (No) time to die
November 11, 2021 19:00 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBCinemas are open and we’re diving into two blockbuster releases — the MCU’s Eternals directed by Academy Award-winner Chloe Zhao, and No Time to Die, the latest James Bond release featuring Daniel Craig in his final appearance as 007. If you’re still scarred by the Supermarket Toilet Paper battles of 2020, you may want to check out Preppers, a new ABC comedy about doomsday preppers. Co-creator and lead Nakkiah Lui and cast member Eryn Jean Norvill ta...
No Time To Die + Only Murders in the Building
November 10, 2021 23:05 - 1 hour - 56 MBCary Fukunaga on directing No Time to Die, Daniel Craig’s last Bond film. Plus John Hoffman, the showrunner of Hulu's hit show Only Murders in the Building, on making a black comedy about true crime podcasts with Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez.
Doing Feminism, painting riverscapes and polar ice art at COP26
November 09, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBA history of feminist art in Australia, painting western Tasmania and ice from a warming planet, at COP26.
How 'an accident of the theatre' brought Sondheim back to Broadway
November 08, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MBThe musical Sunday in the Park with George has been the subject of speculation ever since it opened in 1984. Some say its story reflects the life and struggles of its composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, and others celebrate how the unknown writer and director James Lapine steered Sondheim's work towards new vitality. James Lapine has now written a detailed and candid account of the show's fabled journey. It's called Putting It Together: How Stephen So...
'An accident of the theatre' brought Sondheim back to Broadway
November 08, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MBThe musical Sunday in the Park with George has been the subject of speculation ever since it opened in 1984. Some say its story reflects the life and struggles of its composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, and others celebrate how the unknown writer and director James Lapine steered Sondheim's work towards new vitality. James Lapine has now written a detailed and candid account of the show's fabled journey. It's called Putting It Together: How Stephen So...
Hannah Kent and Susanna Clarke on love and loneliness
November 07, 2021 23:05 - 52 minutes - 72.8 MBAuthor of Burial Rites and The Good People, Hannah Kent says she wanted to look at human connection in her latest novel Devotion. It's another historical novel but is a love story about two girls whose love transcends rules, religion, and even crosses an ocean. Also, the British author, Susanna Clarke, was the winner of this year's Women's Prize for Fiction for her novel Piranesi. She talks about writing the book while living with a chronic illness....
Celebrity memoir book club: Shane Jenek aka Courtney Act!
November 04, 2021 19:00 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBWhen the universe serves us a fabulous queen, we respond with another edition of celebrity memoir book club! This week we're featuring Shane Jenek, also known as internationally-renowned drag queen Courtney Act. Brisbane born and raised, Shane, as Courtney, has appeared on Australian Idol, RuPaul’s Drag Race, 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! t...
Pod extra with Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut
November 04, 2021 05:15 - 12 minutes - 17 MBBooker Prize winner Damon Galgut on his award winning novel The Promise.
Paul Schrader and Terence Davies
November 03, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBTwo of the most forthright, accomplished and widely admired filmmakers on the show this week......Paul Schrader on his new film The Card Counter, which premiered in competition at Venice and follows on from Schrader’s tormented environmental allegory as a film about an isolated man who struggles when the world comes calling, and Terence Davies, who’s marvellous new film Benediction is screening as part of this year's British Film Festival. ...
A history of Venus in art with Bettany Hughes
November 02, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 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 the powerful immortal. Plus, a seascape painter who lives on a yacht, and artist Khaled Sabsabi explores the exchange between spiritual belief and our human aspirations.
How one of Australia's top directors discovered the power of telling our stories
November 01, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBA common thread runs through much of Australian theatre's boldest and most influential new work: director Paige Rattray. From humble beginnings in Tasmania, she now helps our most exciting new playwrights to realise their vision. Also, Stage Show regular Leith McPherson introduces her new role as Voice and Text Coach at the Sydney Theatre Company and dancer Raghav Handa and musician Maharshi Raval skirt the boundaries of Indian classical dance in Two...
Literary powerhouses Richard Powers and Michelle de Kretser on their latest novels
October 31, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MB"Everyday could be a day of unthinkable richness if we just keep still, attend and be present to what the place that we live in wants to do." Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers talks about the power of wilderness to centre his characters in Bewilderment, his Booker Prize-shortlisted novel. Also, two time winner of the Miles Franklin, Michelle de Kretser, on her new book, Scary Monsters which is a book in two parts, with two front covers, an...
Celebrity memoir book club: Billy Porter!
October 28, 2021 19:00 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MB(We nearly named this episode: It’s Billy Porter, b*tches!) Emmy, Grammy and Tony-award winner Billy Porter is in the House of Stop Everything! to talk about his new memoir, Unprotected (Abrams). The icon of stage, television and the red carpet speaks candidly about trauma and healing, going public with his HIV status, playing Pray Tell and his passion for fashion (2019 Oscars tuxedo gown, we see you and we honour you). Show notes: Unprotected: ht...
El Planeta, David Lynch's Inland Empire, Hal Cumpston
October 27, 2021 23:05 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBWe meet the author of a new monograph about David Lynch’s Inland Empire, his strangest and most haunting film. Spanish artist and filmmaker Amalia Ulman talks about casting herself and her mother in a film inspired by two real life scammers which is one of the highlights at this year's Sydney Film Festival, and talented Australian actor Hal Cumpston shares his Top Shelf.
Sydney Film Festival highlight El Planeta, David Lynch's Inland Empire and actor Hal Cumpston
October 27, 2021 23:05 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBWe meet the author of a new monograph about David Lynch’s Inland Empire, his strangest and most haunting film. Spanish artist and filmmaker Amalia Ulman talks about casting herself and her mother in a film inspired by two real life scammers which is one of the highlights at this year's Sydney Film Festival, and talented Australian actor Hal Cumpston shares his Top Shelf.
Cocktails with a curator, art on the news and Matisse in the Pacific
October 26, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBMeet the man behind the hit YouTube series Cocktails with a Curator, from The Frick in New York. Plus, what if the arts were on the nightly TV news, like sport? And artists respond to Matisse's Tahiti-inspired work in a new exhibition.
Why the writer of The Vagina Monologues now has climate change in her sights
October 25, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MBDr Lara Stevens' introduces us to Hartmut Veit, whose performances with coal in Victoria's Latrobe Valley spurred timely conversations with residents whose lives and livelihoods were intertwined with climate change.
Know My Name episode 6: Rosalie Gascoigne
October 25, 2021 15:05 - 9 minutes - 13.2 MBWith a bower bird's habit of collecting found objects, Rosalie Gascoigne's sculptures were inspired by her surrounding natural environment. The final episode in this series of radio interviews with Australian women artists from the ABC archives.
Amor Towles takes a road trip on The Lincoln Highway
October 24, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MB"The journey is the oldest story known to humanity", says bestselling American author Amor Towles, whose third book is based on this archetypal narrative and takes a group of lost boys on an unpredictable road trip in The Lincoln Highway. Also, Booker Prize shortlisted author Anuk Arudpragasam with A Passage North and Vietnamese American Monique Truong's exploration of Lafcadio Hearn, the 19th century Creole cookbook author and Japanese folktale coll...
Know My Name episode 5: Mari Funaki
October 24, 2021 15:05 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MBAn interview with sculptor and metal smith Mari Funaki, who was instrumental in getting Australian contemporary jewellery on the global map. The fifth episode in a pod-only series featuring interviews with women artists from the ABC archives.
Know My Name episode 4: Margaret Olley
October 23, 2021 15:05 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MBA 2009 interview with the artist Margaret Olley, two years before her death. Part of our series featuring interviews with women artists from the ABC archives.
Know My Name episode 3: Ivy Shore
October 22, 2021 15:05 - 7 minutes - 10.2 MBInterviews with women artists from the ABC archives. In 1979 Ivy Shore won Australia's richest art competition for women painters, for a portrait of trail blazing trade unionist Della Elliot.
Bing Bang Bong, it’s Bimini Bon-Boulash!
October 21, 2021 19:00 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MBUK Drag Race’s breakout star Bimini Bon-Boulash is on Stop Everything! to talk about their new book, Release the Beast, nonbinary representation on television, loving yourself and being vegan, haha! We’re also celebrating Brooke Blurton, the Bachelorette’s First Nations, bisexual lead. It’s not just a first for Australian television but a worldwide first for the long running franchise. Also: proles and Pru; and BL + BW’s take on Dave Chappelle’s con...
Know My Name episode 2: Gwyn Hanssen Pigott
October 21, 2021 15:05 - 14 minutes - 19.6 MBKnow My Name: interviews with women artists from the ABC archives. Hear Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, one of Australia's most renowned ceramicists, speaking to the ABC’s Julie Copeland in 1994.
The Sopranos' creator David Chase + Cannes winner To Chiara
October 20, 2021 23:05 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBThe man behind the phenomenally successful mob series The Sopranos talks about the new prequel. We meet the writer-director of a centrepiece film at this year's Italian Film Festival, and Jason's thoughts on Ridley Scott’s new medieval tragedy which stars Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Jodie Comer.
Know My Name episode 1: Grace Cossington Smith
October 20, 2021 15:05 - 13 minutes - 18.8 MBIntroducing Know My Name: interviews with women artists from the ABC archives. In this episode, hear from Grace Cossington Smith. A pioneer of modernism in Australia and one of the country’s most influential artists. Here she is interviewed in 1965 by Hazel de Berg for the National Library of Australia’s oral history collection.
The accountant who became an opera star
October 18, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBTeddy Tahu Rhodes is a stalwart of the opera and musical theatre stage, but there was a time when he thought that accountancy was his true calling. So, what brought this powerful singer out of the office and into the spotlight? Also, playwright Michèle Saint-Yves reflects on her father's dementia and her own acquired brain injury in A Clock for No Time and choreographer Sue Healey compiles eight years of unique encounters with dance on film in On Vie...
Families, trees, and buried secrets with Liane Moriarty and Elif Shafak
October 17, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBLiane Moriarty's latest novel is Apples Never Fall and as another TV adaptation of her work wraps us, she is adamant she will never write books with a view to adaptation. Also, British-Turkish Elif Shafak's inventive The Island of Missing Trees set in a divided Cyprus and Booker shortlisted author Damon Galgut's equally inventive, The Promise.
New Gold Mountain and Succession’s new season
October 14, 2021 19:00 - 54 minutes - 74.4 MBNew Gold Mountain, SBS’ gold rush-era period drama, puts the Chinese-Australian experience front and centre. BW talks to series lead Yoson An, (Mulan, Creamerie) and director Corrie Chen about Chinese cowboys and finding dramatic gold in the history of 1850s Ballarat. Meanwhile, BL previews the new season of Succession, and finds the Roy family as deliciously vicious as ever. Stick around to find out what ‘Shiv all the way’ means in his community. A...
Hollywood's Man in the Shadows + new Japanese talent Ryusuke Hamaguchi
October 13, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBToday’s show is a preview of some of the works screening at Sydney Film Festival.....the first is about one of the most accomplished Australian film directors you’ve probably never heard of - John Farrow. He won an Oscar and worked with stars like Robert Mitchum and John Wayne and we meet two men who have finally brought his story to the big screen. Plus, one of Japan's great new talents Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
'We perpetuate this myth of not having a history': taking art beyond black-white terms
October 12, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBGlobally and at home, artists are engaging with the reckoning happening around race and colonisation. But where do recent migrants and refugees to Australia fit into the dialogue?
What regional Australia offers artists and audiences
October 11, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBTasmania's renowned contemporary dance company Tasdance is celebrating 40 years. The company's artistic director Adam Wheeler grew up in Launceston, but there was a time when he could not get off the island quick enough. So, what changed? Also, we visit the Queenstown shed hosting the new Tasdance work Collision at this year's The Unconformity and with the Melbourne Fringe Festival going digital for a second year, we meet some of the artists finding ...
‘It became brutal’ —John Boyne responds to a twitter storm in Echo Chamber
October 10, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBIn 2019, John Boyne faced huge online backlash for a book he wrote about a trans teenager and he's channelled that experience in to his new comic novel, The Echo Chamber. Also, Booker Prize shortlisted author Nadifa Mohamed on The Fortune Men and Emily Bitto’s Wild Abandon, about men, booze, tigers and America.
Who’s the Bad Art Friend? (Do writers not care about my kidney donation?)
October 07, 2021 19:00 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBSocial media’s ablaze over Who is the Bad Art Friend, aka “the kidney story,” the New York Times Magazine long read chronicling a very extra saga about live kidney donation, friendship, white saviours, allegations of plagiarism, artistic license and, horror of horrors — the publication of group chat texts. If you’re wondering whether to read the 9,500-plus word piece, rest easy, BL + BW have done the heavy lifting and happily unpack the entrails for ...
Nitram: a discussion with director Justin Kurzel and screenwriter Shaun Grant
October 06, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBA special edition this week, dedicated to the new Australian film Nitram, which dramatises the long lead up to the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre. In a wide ranging discussion, director Justin Kurzel and screenwriter Shaun Grant discuss what inspired them to make a film about this real life tragedy, the themes they sought to explore, as well as the similarities and differences to their earlier films Snowtown and The True History of the Kelly Gang. ...
Fifty years of the Western Desert art movement, Leigh Bowery, Mari Katayama and Darwin street art
October 05, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBIt's 50 years since artists from Papunya began painting on board, heralding the Western Desert art movement, 'the last great art movement of the 20th Century' according to one famous critic. Plus, an artist's tribute to the iconic Leigh Bowery. A Japan-Australia photographic project featuring Mari Katayama. And Darwin's Street Art Festival brings new life to empty walls.
Faith and family with Jonathan Franzen on Crossroads
October 03, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MB“I admit to regular fits of feeling simply I am not a good person,” says Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections, “and it’s a question that fiction is uniquely poised to engage with”. And it’s a question that is at the heart of his new novel Crossroads. Also, Maggie Shipstead on her Booker Prize shortlisted novel Great Circle, and Robert Gott’s historical crime novel, The Orchard Murders, based on the Messiah of Nunawading. ...
It's-a me, the Real Housewives of Melbourne
September 30, 2021 20:00 - 53 minutes - 74.1 MBIt’s-a me… Chris Pratt playing Mario! The internet had some STRONG FEELINGS about the recent announcement that Pratt – of Parks and Recreation, Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World fame – will be voicing Mario in the upcoming animated movie based on the beloved Nintendo game. We unpack those feelings plus discuss some films, many of which have faced lengthy COVID-related delays, that we are looking forward to seeing once cinemas reopen including...
Billy Bob Thornton, Mads Mikkelsen + a lush ballet thriller
September 30, 2021 00:05 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBAnother big week as we welcome Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen on to the show......star of the Academy Award winning film Another Round and the TV series Hannibal, plus franchises including James Bond and Star Wars. Mads talks with Jason about his role in a new revenge thriller out this week. Hollywood actor Billy Bob Thornton discusses his role in the unconventional legal drama Goliath, and a new streaming film set in a prestigious Parisian ballet academ...
Goya, Tik Tok art history and wine that draws
September 29, 2021 00:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBHow does Francisco Goya help us make sense of the chaos of our contemporary world, and its depths of suffering? Then, discover art history through TikTok… and a contemporary sculpture powered by wind, water… and wine.
Animal Farm in the age of Trump
September 28, 2021 00:05 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MBVan Badham is a courageous and funny Australian playwright who, since searching for the humanity of trolls in Banging Denmark at the Sydney Theatre Company, has now adapted George Orwell's Animal Farm for Black Swan in Perth. Also, historian Michelle Arrow introduces us to two other left-leaning Australian playwrights who raised the ire of the political establishment, Oriel Gray and Mona Brand, and we run through the big winners at this year's Tony A...