Books and Arts explores the many worlds of performance, writing, music, visual arts and features interviews with local and international authors and artists.
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Saturday 9 Dec 2017
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Friday 8 Dec 2017
Every year the Grattan Institute creates a list of book recommendations for the Prime Minister to read. What do you think of the list?
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Little Red Riding Hood dates back two thousand years and has transformed over time. These days, it’s no longer the blood bath it once was. A new exhibition at the Ian Potter Museum in Melbourne explores how fairy tales have changed over the centuries, moving with the social and political setting.
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The Merchant Ivory production of EM Forster's 1908 novel Room With a View is Kevin Kwan's Masterpiece.
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Literary critic and poet Sarah Holland-Batt reviews the anticipated second novels from two award-winning Australian authors.
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Australian poet and writer Philip Salom shares the works that inspire him for Top Shelf.
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Thursday 7 Dec 2017
The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear was voted Britain's favourite poem in 2014. British author Jenny Uglow speaks about her new biography of the poet and artist, Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense.
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Lubaina Himid is the the oldest and the first black woman to win the famous visual arts prize.
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Jonathan Holloway, Melbourne Festival's artistic director, is obsessed with American cabaret star Taylor Mac
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The golden sandstone of Sydney, reimagined in the early days of white settlement.
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Find out what's on children's author and illustrator Sally Rippin's Top Shelf.
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Wednesday 6 Dec 2017
Mark Johnston is pushing to establish a Veterans' Art Museum, an art gallery where we see not the official story of war but the stories and the struggles of the men and women who put on the uniform and who have paid a price for their service.
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It's snowing outside, and three people are telling each other their life stories in Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende's latest novel In the Midst of Winter.
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RN Science Friction presenter Natasha Mitchell with her best read for the year: Oliver Sack's posthumous collection of essays The River of Consciousness.
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Aboriginal artist Nyaparu William Gardiner's works depict lonely men against a sparse Pilbara landscape.
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Does the new novel by Martian author, Andy Weir, live up to the hype? And does he get the female lead right?
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Tuesday 5 Dec 2017
Celebrating the life and times of one of Australia's most influential theatre groups, the Australian Performing Group, more commonly known as the Pram Factory. What were its aims and how has it influenced generations of theatre performers?
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Monday 4 Dec 2017
Con artists, scoundrels, cops and crims. The subject of so much fiction, and so many romantic legends. Some of these real characters novelise their own lives. But how should we read them?
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Saturday 2 Dec 2017
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