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The Golden Globes are a "scam" (but they’re still important)
March 04, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBWhile hosting the Golden Globes, co-hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler told the world that awards shows are “stupid” and “a scam”. Then Fey said, “even with stupid things, inclusivity is important.” That was their way of addressing the fact that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which runs the Golden Globes, has not had a Black member for 20 years. BW + BL discuss the "scam" awards. Six years ago, Lillian Ahenkan, aka Flex Mami, started an Instagr...
Chloé Zhao, Roy Andersson, Nick Pinkerton
March 03, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBGolden Globe winner Chloé Zhao on Nomadland. Swedish auteur Roy Andersson talks about his trademark style and how it finds its way into his new film, and film scholar Nick Pinkerton on his book about Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming Liang's masterpiece Goodbye, Dragon Inn.
Kay Rufai's smiling boys, lush landscapes and the secret history of tattoos
March 02, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBKay Rufai's Smile-ing Boys Project flips negative stereotypes and perceptions associated with young black boys to create healing and social change. Plus, head into the bush with immersive landscape painter Mary Tonkin. And what’s in a tattoo? An art exhibition about Ink in LGBTI history and culture.
Meyne Wyatt's star, and eyebrow, rises
March 01, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MBActor and playwright Meyne Wyatt, recently named one of Time magazine's 100 emerging leaders, reflects on his life in the arts, success with the paintbrush at the Archibalds and his recent turn as a voice actor, narrating The Boy from the Mish for Audible. Also, Opera Queensland present the Australian opera Lorelei, conceived and performed by Ali McGregor, and we learn about Sooraj Subramaniam's journey from Indian classical dance lessons at the age ...
Befriending the unknowable with Kazuo Ishiguro and Shaun Tan
February 28, 2021 19:00 - 53 minutes - 73.4 MBFrom artificial intelligence to man's best friend; exploring relationships with beings we may never understand but love nevertheless.
Allen v Farrow | Test Kitchen cooks Gimlet | JWong’s Happy ‘Niu’ Year
February 25, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBBL + BW discuss Allen v. Farrow, a new HBO documentary series reinvestigating claims of child sexual abuse against director Woody Allen, who has continuously denied the accusations since they were raised in 1992, amidst an ugly and highly public breakup with Mia Farrow. The series was made with the cooperation of Dylan Farrow, who at age 7 accused Allen, her adoptive father, of abuse. We’re recapping new developments on Reply All’s Test Kitchen minis...
Trauma, truths and sitcom fantasy
February 24, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBShowrunner Maja Jul Larsen got her start on Danish hits like Borgen and Follow the Money and talks to us about helming a series of her own. The production designer of WandaVision on bringing the Marvel fantasy universe to life, and a tender mother-daughter film from Israel starring Unorthodox's Shira Haas.
Hoda Afshar and Clarice Beckett
February 23, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBPhotographer Hoda Afshar turns 110 camera lenses on well-known Australian whistle-blowers for her work 'Agonistes'. And walk in the footsteps of modernist Clarice Beckett, the subject of a new retrospective.
Patricia Cornelius and Susie Dee make theatre for runts
February 22, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBFor decades, Patricia Cornelius has been writing tough, passionate plays about people who are rarely seen or heard in Australian theatres. Through those years, she's often had director Susie Dee alongside her. Their new play is called Runt. Also, The Twins reunites comedian Greg Fleet and documentary maker Ian Darling more than 40 years after they starred in a school play together and Opera Australia's new production of Bluebeard's Castle by Béla Bar...
Maggie O'Farrell and Claire Thomas on women and theatre
February 21, 2021 19:00 - 53 minutes - 74 MBPlus a chat with debut novelist Gary Lonesborough on his book, The Boy From The Mish.
UK Hun? Facebook’s Aus news ban | Bon App’s Test Kitchen pain | Minari’s scene stealer
February 18, 2021 23:05 - 53 minutes - 74.1 MBMark Zuckerberg’s not playing. If you needed a reminder that Facebook isn’t a web browser - the social media giant’s world-first decision to ban stories from Australian news sites sent that message loud and clear. What happens on a fact-free Facebook? BW + BL discuss. BW reports back on the first two chapters of Reply All’s The Test Kitchen, the podcast’s series investigating the 2020 implosion of Bon Appetit (aka ‘Bone App’) over structural inequal...
Documentaries about truffle hunting and the craziest murder of the 21st Century
February 17, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 50 MBWe hear from the makers of a beautiful, Oscar nominated documentary about a fading culture in the alpine region of Italy, and the director of a documentary about the bizarre assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
Rescue dogs and the good life: the art of Lucy Culliton
February 16, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MBArtist Lucy Culliton paints almost exclusively her own homelife on the farm. She takes us through her inspiration and philosophy, including the importance of rescue animals in her life – all eight dogs, four horses, parrots, goats and 47 sheep. Plus, meet the sculptor using discarded plastic lids to create large-scale 'constellations'. And what makes for 'disobedience' in Art, and how does gender matter?
'This is a warning play' — The role Robyn Nevin had to take on
February 15, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MBRobyn Nevin has been a leading talent in Australian theatre for decades, but her latest role may be one of her toughest yet — in A German Life at the Adelaide Festival, she'll become Brunhilde Pomsel, secretary to the Nazi minister for propaganda, Joseph Goebbels. Also, how Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold, the first part of his Ring Cycle, changed the sound of opera forever and we discuss Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard with creatives from Black Sw...
Exploring discomfort with Max Porter, Kim Scott and Rebecca Starford
February 14, 2021 19:00 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MBMax Porter joins Claire to talk about his new book The Death of Francis Bacon and why there is a "certain ecstasy" in thinking about the human body as meat.
Framing Britney | I’m not a cat | We are Cooked
February 11, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBFraming Britney, a New York Times documentary investigating pop star Britney Spears’ unusual conservatorship arrangement has ushered the fan-based #FreeBritney movement from the margins to the mainstream. “I’m here live, I’m not a cat.” Viral video of a Texas lawyer who connected to a zoom-based court hearing with a kitten face filter, then valiantly declared he was prepared to go on with proceedings - as a kitten - has brought joy to the world. An...
Thomas Vinterberg, The Dry's Genevieve O'Reilly & Minari director Lee Isaac Chung
February 10, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBThomas Vinterberg has made a lot of films since he co-founded the Dogme 95 movement with Lars von Trier and he opens up about his latest. The Dry and Star Wars actor Genevieve O'Reilly for Top Shelf, and Lee Isaac Chung on his film about the American Dream.
Love stories of 20th century art
February 09, 2021 23:05 - 53 minutes - 74.1 MBArt historian Kate Bryan on her favourite Art love stories of the 20th Century. Filmmaker-turned-photographer Amos Gebhardt guides us through ‘Small acts of resistance’, a glittering triptych of queer love. And the spirit and life lessons of the iconic Melbourne artist Mirka Mora, the subject of a big new exhibition.
Eddie Perfect — from Brunswick to Broadway and back again
February 08, 2021 23:05 - 59 minutes - 82.3 MBComposer and performer Eddie Perfect's Broadway adventures included some of the highest highs and lowest lows of his career. Now with two Broadway credits and a Tony nomination on his CV, he's touring a new show of stories and songs: Introspective. Also, we hear a scene from La Boite's Naked & Screaming by award-winner Mark Rogers, and America's most-produced living playwright, Lauren Gunderson, tackles the story of her own husband, virologist Nathan...
Robert Jones Jr., Michael Brissenden and the world of royal fiction
February 07, 2021 14:00 - 52 minutes - 72.8 MBA historical look at black, queer love; a deep dive into the genre of Royal fiction and a crime novel set in the seedy streets of 1980s Sydney.
Randall Park didn’t just punch Keanu Reeves, he hugged him too
February 04, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MBRandall Park generously shares this sensual memory with Stop Everything! as he discusses WandaVision, the new genre bending MCU Disney+ series in which he reprises the role of FBI Agent James E Woo. Park, also known for playing ‘Asian Jim’ on The Office, Marcus in Always Be My Maybe and Gov. Danny Chung in Veep, reflects on how opportunities have opened up for Asian actors in Hollywood since Fresh Off the Boat, which he starred in for six seasons. Wh...
Russell T Davies on It's a Sin + actor Zahra Newman & The Nest director
February 03, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBWe meet a man who can do almost no wrong in British television....he bought back Dr Who to the BBC and broke new ground at the end of the 90s with Manchester set TV show Queer as Folk, and he's back with a series breaking records for its poignant depiction of the Aids crisis.
The long journey to Slow Art
February 02, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSavanhdary Vongpoothorn on the family stories and mythical sagas at play in her meditative Slow Art. Plus, step into the outback landscapes of painter Zhou Xiaoping. And two artists discuss a new artwork about an environmental tragedy.
How a first-timer wrote Fangirls — 'I learned everything I know off YouTube'
February 01, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBFollowing its acclaimed world premiere season, the Australian musical Fangirls returns. We learn how the show's writer, composer and original lead, Yve Blake, a theatre geek who can't play any instruments came to write one of the hottest musicals around. Also, voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson shows us how to find the performer within when reading stories to children and Dr Erin Brannigan continues to share the joys of watching contemporary dan...
Charles Yu and Peace Adzo Medie challenging stereotypes in fiction
January 31, 2021 23:05 - 53 minutes - 74.1 MBA taste of African chick lit, authors confess their love for Dungeons and Dragons and a book that reads like a movie script.
Bana and Bridgerton
January 28, 2021 23:00 - 53 minutes - 73.5 MBWe burn for Bridgerton: The Shonda Rhimes-executive produced period romance is officially Netflix’s most-watched series, ever. Think Pride and Prejudice meets Gossip Girl, with lots of sex and Julie Andrews narrating. Our in-house romance novel expert Rudi Bremer (Awaye!, Little Yarns) knows all things Bridgerton and (spoiler alert), talks us through the series, including that controversial sex scene between Daphne and the Duke. Stop Everything also...
Euphoria's Sam Levinson, a French thriller and Naomi Watts
January 27, 2021 23:05 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBHollywood star Naomi Watts on coming home to star in Penguin Bloom. Euphoria creator Sam Levinson on his Netflix film Malcolm & Marie which stars Zendaya and John David Washington, and a thriller that begins on a bustling African street and segues to a snowy corner of France.
Refik Anadol: the artist bringing AI dreams to life
January 26, 2021 23:05 - 53 minutes - 73.9 MBThe visionary Turkish artist and his studio collaborate with computers to make hallucinatory public art. We go into the studio of Kate Just, who's knitting a feminist project bound for the Museum of Contemporary Art. And Tony Albert and Brook Andrew discuss the legacy of significant Australian artist Gordon Bennett.
Wesley Enoch doesn't want to be the only Indigenous artist in the room
January 25, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBAs Wesley Enoch wraps up his five years as artistic director of the Sydney Festival, he reflects on his decades-long commitment to Indigenous storytelling, the legacy of his directorship and what comes next. Also, we hear a performance from Black Brass at the Perth Festival, inspired by stories of resilience from Perth's African communities, and discuss the enduring popularity of Our Town by Thornton Wilder.
Writing Black Lives Matter for young readers with Angie Thomas and Maxine Beneba Clarke
January 24, 2021 23:05 - 53 minutes - 73.5 MBHow do you take stories of injustice and rage centred around Black Lives Matter and put them on the page for children?
Stop Everything celebrity memoir book club: The meaning of Mariah Carey
January 21, 2021 23:05 - 53 minutes - 72.8 MBIn Stop Everything's Celebrity Memoir Book Club, BL, BW and special guests discuss The Meaning of Mariah Carey, the long-awaited, NY Times bestselling memoir written by pop diva Mariah Carey and Michaela Angela Davis. Mariah Carey super Lambs: Maria Lewis, author, screenwriter, broadcaster and possessor of deep cut Mariah knowledge and a Mariah Carey tattoo, and fellow lamb and celebrity memoir aficionado, Nick Bond, entertainment editor for news.com....
Summer highlights #5 - Arabic cinema
January 20, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBWe zone in on the really exciting space that is Arab cinema, meeting the makers behind three wonderful films from 2020 - Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman; Maryam Touzani from Morocco, and Tunisian director Mehdi Barsaoui.
Sandra Hill on art and reconciliation
January 19, 2021 23:05 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBSandra Hill was 6 years old when she was taken from her family in 1958. As part of the stolen generation, it wasn't until years later that Sandra found herself able to reconnect with her culture and community through art.
Li Cunxin — dancing through the darkness
January 18, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBQueensland Ballet artistic director Li Cunxin has continually shown his capacity for triumphing against the odds. He's drawn on that strength again to guide his company through the COVID-19 shutdown. Also, Tony Award-winning composer of Fun Home, Jeanine Tesori, joins us from her Manhattan living room to share her insights into creating great musical theatre.
Kate Grenville and Julie Janson's different takes on Australian history
January 17, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MBTwo novelists, one Indigenous and one non-Indigenous, talk about the same period of Australia's colonial history.
Zooming with Kevin Kwan
January 14, 2021 23:05 - 52 minutes - 72.6 MBWe present a conversation with Kevin Kwan. Beverley spoke to the author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy, progenitor of the box-office hit Crazy Rich Asians movie and a new book, Sex and Vanity.
Summer highlights #4 - The centenary year of Federico Fellini
January 13, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBIn this special edition of The Screen Show we revisit our celebration of the centenary year of the birth of one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time - Federico Fellini.
Sebastian Smee on criticism during COVID
January 12, 2021 23:05 - 52 minutes - 48 MBPulitzer prize-winning Australian art critic Sebastian Smee on finding new ways to work as a critic during the pandemic, being an ally and how he came to art.
Hugo Weaving and Wayne Blair — the extended interview
January 11, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBTwo of Australia's most celebrated actors, Hugo Weaving and Wayne Blair join us in an extended version of our conversation from the Sydney Theatre Company, where the lights were back on and they were appearing together in Angus Cerini's new play, Wonnangatta.
Andrew O'Hagan, Jessie Tu and Jane Austen-inspired fiction
January 10, 2021 23:05 - 53 minutes - 74.1 MBScottish writer Andrew O'Hagan speaks about the very personal story behind his coming-of-age novel Mayflies, set in Thatcher's Britain to a background of New Order and The Smiths.
Tori Amos on life in lockdown, resistance and reinvention
January 07, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBBW and BL visit the singer-song writer who is in lockdown in Cornwall, home to the 300-year-old converted barn-turned-recording studio where she's made all of her recent albums. And prepare the biodatas: ABC Life Editor Bhakthi Puvanenthiran and writer and campaigner Tarang Chawla give their reviews of Indian Matchmaking, the hit Netflix reality dating show that has proved divisive among South Asian viewers. Is it regressive and problematic, or does ...
Summer highlights #3 - Mysteries and detectives
January 06, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBSofia Coppola heads up this highlights edition, talking about her new buddy movie. We revisit a critics' panel on French movie visionary Jean Pierre Melville, and meet the cinematographer behind cult hit Search Party.
Art and creativity in Papua New Guinea
January 05, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBLast year marked 45 years of Independence for Papua New Guinea. For this RN Summer edition of the Art Show, we explore the role that art has played in the country's development and engagement with Australia since 1975.
A hit Australian musical revived and the Noongar language in the spotlight
January 04, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBWe delve into two uniquely Western Australian First Nations productions at the 2020 Perth Festival: Jimmy Chi and Kuckles' Bran Nue Dae and Hecate, Yirra Yaakin's Noongar language adaptation of Macbeth.
Masterclass with Tim Winton, Arundhati Roy, Michael Ondaatje and more
January 03, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBSome of the biggest names from the writing world share their top writing tips.
Black is King, Briggs' children's book and Jenny Odell
December 31, 2020 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBBW + BL explore Beyonce's visual album Black is King with artist Atong Atem, contemplate how to do nothing with Jenny Odell and how to do kids' books, with rapper and new author Briggs.
Summer highlights #2 - Spotlight on Australian directors
December 30, 2020 23:05 - 54 minutes - 50 MBThree conversations with three of Australia's most talented directors, who all made significant works in 2020 - Warwick Thornton, Shannon Murphy and Kitty Green.
Jerry Saltz on How to Be an Artist
December 29, 2020 23:05 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBWe speak with Pulitzer prize-winning American art critic, Jerry Saltz about his new book How to Be an Artist, and find out how Quandamooka country on North Stradbroke Island inspires the art of Megan Cope.
Stephen Sondheim — taking a razor to conventions (Part II)
December 28, 2020 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBContinuing our celebration of his 90th birthday, we delve into the later work of Stephen Sondheim — composer-lyricist of some of the most well-regarded and inventive musical theatre ever made.
Muscogee Creek Nation poet Joy Harjo
December 27, 2020 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBThe 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States, Joy Harjo belongs to the Muscogee Creek Nation and is also a musician and playwright.