The Drawing Room

P.R Begg was the South Australian dentist who pretty much single-handedly invented modern orthodontics and the braces we wear today.

Jim Arneman and Flora Smith of Small Town Romance bring an inherited tradition of love and music - from Australian music royalty. They play one of their songs and a cover of one of their all-time favourites.

Day after day, Magistrate Megan Greenwood presides over an increasing number of domestic violence matters.  She must pick her way carefully through entangled traumas, look at the facts and apply the law. 

A new documentary tells the story of an 11-year-old from Venice Beach, California, who survived his troubled upbringing to become one of the world’s best skateboarders.

Actors Christopher Samuel Carroll and PJ Williams discuss their roles in a new adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment and perform an excerpt. 

The way we taste - what comfort foods we love and what vegetables we can’t stand to eat - can tell us a lot about who we are and even who we love.

Meet a professional whistler - Australian Molly Lewis. She's created a niche for herself and is whistling with the big guns now. 

It’s written in your fate that today you are to learn more about the concept of fate - philosophically, morally and practically. A new book exploring fate promises to teach you just how universal it is.

Should the voting age be lowered to battle the nihilism and the impending sense of doom in today’s younger generation coming of age? 

Sir John Monash's great-grandson shares some of his family's favourite stories of the Lieutenant General through some of his personal belongings. 

Elon Musk's company Neuralink is in a race with China to dominate the next frontier of artificial intelligence - a brain-computer interface or BCI. 

Our culture’s hyper-sensitivity, cancel culture and the fine line between altruism and narcissism are ripe for satire in Lexi Freeman’s new book The Book of Ayn

What does it mean to translate another person's work? Are you translating just the words or the meaning? Jennifer Croft, a prize-winning translator shares her thoughts.

A person or a planet, a black hole or a balloon, a hammer, a feather, a piece of cheese, or a pumpkin seed… everything and everyone experiences gravity in the same way. Theoretical physicist Claudia de Rham is excited about the future of gravity.

Find out how a name on a protest sign sparked a whole line of inquiry into classical music's first published Black composer from the 16th century, Vicente Lusitano. 

'Flathead’ is a love letter to regional working-class Australia - a work of docufiction that cleverly weaves its redemption narrative, using its septuagenarian lead and the great real characters of Bundaberg, Queensland.

The (mostly) true untold story of the female pirates of the Caribbean, with author Francesca De Tores.

World War Two and his publisher going bust almost ended Jack Hilton's promising career, long forgotten until a curious reader rediscovered and revived Hilton's work Caliban Shrieks

Investigative journalist Marian Wilkinson sheds some light on a possible source behind the Coalition’s enthusiasm for nuclear energy.

Blues and Roots artist Eric Bibb plays for us live in the studio. He’ll speak about his blues heritage - his father, Leon Bibb and godfather Paul Robeson - and play songs close to his heart.

Australia ranks below average in classroom orderliness compared to fellow OECD countries, so how can teachers take back control, and is that really what kids need? 

Jonathan Biggins reflects on PJK, the politics and the person, in The Gospel According to Paul.

Irish novelist Sinéad Gleeson explores the supernatural and creates new lore by weaving in folklore through her new book Hagstone.

How one council's idea of giving every tree an email address led to “treemails” and an outpouring of love and prose to their city's 77,000 trees.

In the nineties, the place to be in Melbourne was the Great Britain Hotel in Richmond for a parma and a beer as local blues and roots band Checkerboard Lounge played into the evening.