The Drawing Room

What's changed and what's remained the same for Missy Higgins in the 20 years since her debut album?

Visual artist Matt Clark has used data sets from NASA to reproduce the sound of the planets for his work Silent Symphony

At 75, Philippe Petit is still walking the tightrope. He reflects on a life of artistic rebellion and his daring high wire walks between the Twin Towers and the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Internationally renowned artist Peder Bjurman thinks this micro-organism threatened by climate change deserves our attention. 

Susanna Crossman grew up living with 50 other adults and children in an alternative community on a rambling English estate. 

Country singer Fanny Lumsden joins Andy in the studio for a chat and sings her song 'Great Divide' 

Charles Todd's was the man behind the Overland Telegraph Line, connecting Australian colonies to each other and the rest of the world.

All That Glitters tells the true story of one of the biggest art frauds in history.

Damon Gameau's new documentary 'Future Council' brings together a group of eight kids to talk to leaders. It proves these kids aren't falling for 'adult wash' any more.

Philosopher David Benatar is a proponent of compassionate anti-natalism, or the idea that it is immoral to bring children into the world because they will inevitably experience suffering.

You'll likely be hearing more about the Supreme Court in the lead-up to the US Presidential election in November, so what kind of state is it in and what does it mean for Americans?

Professor Kate Crawford has mapped every aspect of A.I to better understand the political, social and financial costs on the physical world.

David Runciman argues that giving children as young as six the right to vote might just be what Western democracy is in need of.

Linguist and Professor of English from the University of Michigan Anne Curzan discuss what's hot and what's not in the ever-changing landscape of language 

Noriko Tadano grew up in the Chiba prefecture of Japan, but is now Australia's foremost proponent of a three-stringed, traditional Japanese banjo-like instrument, called the shamisen.

In Neel Kolhatkar's comedy no one seems to be safe ... so who is the man behind the jokes?  

Award-winning journalist Richard Baker has opened up the vault to return to the key players behind the AWB scandal in which $300 million was funnelled to Saddam Hussein to secure Australia's wheat interests.

Eallogierdu: The Tundra Within Me explores the challenges faced by the Sámi people in continuing the reindeer herding business in the northern regions of Sweden, Finland and Norway.

A new book on Melbourne's famed bordello queen ‘Madame Brussels’ reveals the debauchery and puritanism at the end of the gold rush era. 

Hear traditional Persian and Bosnian stories told through song and poetry from two members of the performance collective, The Resonant Heart.

Crime reporter Neil Mercer talks about his career covering Roger Rogerson and Neddy Smith is the subject of his new book 'The Kingpin and the Crooked Cop'

After returning from spying for king and country in the late 17th century, Aphra Behn became the very first English woman to be a paid playwright under her own name.

Dr Merlin Sheldrake enlightens us on the kingdom of fungi and what we know so far, like the fact that some types of fungi can digest motor oil and used cigarette butts.

Citizen, constitutional academic and author Cindy Skach on how something as simple and universal as food could help us find a way to rely less on constitutions and laws.

A new project with the University of Melbourne Map of the Month takes a look at the stories that maps can tell Melbournian's about themselves.