Art Smitten

Christian chats to Francis Lee, first-time writer/director of God’s Own Country , in cinemas August 24. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Maggie Tweedie chats to Brodie Lancaster about her new book, No Way! Okay, Fine. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Smithers chats with Luisa Hilmer, visiting German co-curator of RMIT Gallery's latest exhibition Fast Fashion: The dark side of fashion , running until September 9 on 344 Swanston Street. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rebi and Andrew chat to Dr Mark Themann, Director of the Latrobe Regional Gallery, about their new exhibition René Magritte: The Revealing Image  on display at 138 Commercial Road, Morwell from 19 August – 19 November. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christian chats to Lauren Aimee Curtis, author of Butter , on the 2017 shortlist for the $12,500 Australian Book Review Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hamish and Christian chat to Symphony Sanders, who voices Tamika Flynn in Welcome To Night Vale, about the podcast's Australian tour in February next year. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christian chats to Moorina Bonini, one of the 17 Aboriginal and Torrest Strait Islander artists featured in  Tell , a photography exhibition on display at the Mining Exchange (12 Lydiard St, North Ballarat) as part of the 2017 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, running from August 19 - September 17. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hamish and Christian chat to Melinda Martin, director of the Linden New Art Gallery, about Border Lines , their latest exhibition, on display at Domain House, Dallas Brooks Drive, South Yarra from September 24. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christina and Rebi chat to Alex Cherney, one of the photographers in A Field Guide to the Stars , on display at the Ballarat Municipal Observatory and Museum (439 Cobden St, Mount Pleasant) from 19 August – 17 September Ballarat International Foto Biennale. Alex will also be giving a Night Sky Photography Workshop on Sunday 10 September from 2pm–4pm. See omnystudio.com/listener for pri...

Christian chats to Nora Niasari, writer/director of the short film Waterfall , screening on Sunday August 13 and Saturday August 19 at Melbourne Central as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christian chats to Daniel Monks the lead actor in the Malthouse Theatre’s new production, The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man running until August 27. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christian chats to Stephanie Lake, the choreographer of Pile of Bones , running from August 15-19 at Arts House (521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne). Image by Jodi Hutchinson See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Silvi and Rebi chat to Reg Ramsden about the Right 2 The Heart campaign that's now raising funds for high school facilities in remote Indigenous communities:  https://www.chuffed.org/project/right2theheart See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Silvi and Rebi chat to Dayna Boase and Luci Klendo from the cast of Eve Ensler's  The Vagina Monologues , playing until Sunday this week, 7pm at The Butterfly Club (Carson Place, off Little Collins St). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Reem chats to Izzy Summers and Caitie Ross, the director and one of the cast members of the curent production of Kiki Zapata's  25 and F*cked , running until August 5 at the Owl and Cat Theatre (34 Swan Street, Cremorne). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Maria and Reem chat to Shannan Lim and Tye Norman from Normal Children’s production of Salty , on at the Butterfly Club (5 Carson Place, off Little Collins St) until Sunday July 30. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Maria and Reem interview Thando Sikwila from the cast of  Bowie and Mercury Rising, playing until Sunday July 30 at Chapel off Chapel (12 Little Chapel St, Prahran). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nicolas Zoumboulis interviews Ryan Shelton, one of four core members of Radio Karate, the team that produce Hamish & Andy's Gap Year specials and most recently True Story.   The interviews covers Ryan's early personal and career life, from his time at Channel 31 to Rove to now producing and writing television for major commercial networks. We talk about the challenge in getting...

Christian chats to actor Jennifer Vuletic from the ensemble cast of  Merciless Gods , a Little Ones Theatre production based on the book by Christos Tsiolkas, now playing at Northcote Town Hall, Main Hall, 189 High St until August 18. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christian chats to Todd Beavis, Associate Director of Nite Art 2017, Martina Copley, Manager of the artist-run initiative Blindside, who are participating once again in this event, happening Thursday July 27 from 6pm til late. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you’re going to go to a magic show, you really need to let yourself try and enjoy it. It sounds weird, but if you’re skeptical and you go into a magic show, don’t expect much. Honestly you shouldn’t even really be there. So, going to a magic festival is definitely not something for the complete unbelievers. I took my partner along to this show, as I felt it would be an e...

Do you like music? Do you like action? Do you like fast cars speeding around and crashing which isn’t Fast and the Furious? Well this is the film for you! Baby Driver is the new love child of Edgar Wright, known for his smash hit Cornetto Trilogy, including Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and the other one we don’t really talk about, World’s End. Baby Driver sheds Wright’s for...

Christian chats to Samara Hersch about We All Know What’s Happening , a work featuring the perpsectives of seven young on offshore detention in Nauru, at Arts House (521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne) from 19 – 22 July. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christian chats to cartoonist and writer Judy Horacek about her newly published ninth cartoon collection, Random Life . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lady Macbeth is the debut film by William Oldroyd, written by Alice Birch and based on the novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov. It's set in the mid-19th century, though it transposes the original narrative from Russia to the Northern English moors. The film stars Florence Pugh as Katherine, a young woman who enters into a loveless marriage with an older industrialist. He...