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Mar 1, 2022 • 54min

A history of Venus in Art, the artist who lives on a boat and Yul Scarf

The 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.
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Feb 28, 2022 • 54min

A gay hate crime that became a watershed moment for reform revisited in song

In 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 Contemporary Opera Company.
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Feb 28, 2022 • 16min

Know My Name S2 ep 4: Laurel Nannup

Laurel 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.
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Feb 27, 2022 • 54min

Isabel Allende writes about her mother, Markus Zusak gets your fanmail

Isabel 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.
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Feb 24, 2022 • 54min

We are all uncah jahmz

This 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 delightfully horny new comedy special Don Wong? And … what the heck are these ‘show notes’ we speak of? Show notes: Call her Daddy: Julia Fox on Being Ye’s Muse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m82xA2y7iE8 TikTok’s uncah jahmz https://www.tiktok.com/@dumbmackenzie/video/7064087406340902190 https://www.tiktok.com/@joeydardano/video/7064707986937335087 https://www.tiktok.com/@twingirlpeeks/video/7065068279412477231 A Vibe Shift is Coming, Will Any of Us Survive it? https://www.thecut.com/2022/02/a-vibe-shift-is-coming.html Kirsty Webeck: https://www.kirstywebeck.com/ Kirsty Webeck twitter: https://twitter.com/KirstyWebeck Starstruck: https://iview.abc.net.au/show/starstruck Ali Wong: Don Wong: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81140667
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Feb 23, 2022 • 54min

Kosovan Sundance winner Hive + a stunning exploration of Uni life in India

Filmmaker 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 letters to her estranged lover. These letters grant insight into the drastic changes taking place around her and the life of her and her fellow students. Director Payal Kapadia joins us from her home in Mumbai.
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Feb 22, 2022 • 54min

The new 'canon', Renaissance woman Lavinia Fontana and Atong Atem's collage vision

Who 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.
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Feb 21, 2022 • 54min

Girl from the North Country — How 'pure ignorance' of musical theatre led to a hit

Bob 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.
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Feb 21, 2022 • 15min

Know My Name S2 ep 3: Julie Gough

Julie 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.
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Feb 20, 2022 • 54min

Immigrant stories of the Big Apple with Gary Shteyngart and Xochitl Gonzalez

Our 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.

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