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Jennifer Herd is a Mbarbarrum artist and founding member of Brisbane's proppaNOW art collective.

Karen 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.

This 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 Byron Bay.  Show notes: Brigid Delaney on Shane Warne: www.theguardian.com/sport/commentisfree/2022/mar/05/shane-warne-dead-but-he-was-immortal-he-was-never-meant-to-die Turning Red: www.disneyplus.com/movies/turning-red/4mFPCXJi7N2m Vanity Fair feature on Byron Bay murfers: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/07/the-coast-of-utopia-surfer-moms-instagram-influencers Food Bank: https://www.foodbank.org.au/QLD/flood-emergency-appeal/?state=qld Australian Red cross: https://www.redcross.org.au/floodsappeal/ Koori Mail flood relief for Bundjalung rural and isolated communities: https://gofund.me/26ef7126 Resilient Byron crowdfunder (registered charity): https://www.resilientbyron.org/ Sikh Volunteers Australia: https://www.sikhvolunteersaustralia.org/

French 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 time in the aftermath of the turbulent relationship at the centre of the first film, with a magnetic and manipulative older man.

Floods 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.

The 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 wave found herself back on Broadway in Wicked after seven years away.

Dianne 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 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.

Russia’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 the Angry Asian Man blog. Along with filmmaker Philip Wang, they’ve written Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now.  Show notes: AnnaLynne McCord’s Dear Mr President Vladimir Putin: https://twitter.com/IAMannalynnemcc/status/1496877541772062727 Wired: How Tiktok was designed for war: https://www.wired.com/story/ukraine-russia-war-tiktok/ How to spot fake or misleading footage claiming to be from Ukraine: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-to-spot-fake-or-misleading-footage-on-social-media-claiming-to-be-from-the-ukraine-war Rise: a pop history of Asian America from the nineties to now: https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9780358581888/rise/ Jeff Yang: https://twitter.com/originalspin Angry Asian Man: http://blog.angryasianman.com/ They Call Us Bruce: https://theycallusbruce.libsyn.com/ The Batman: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_batman

Susanna 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 footage to ultimately present a story of loss, love and home.