John Standish

Headphones in the theatre, and a podcast from Manus Island.

Shaun Micallef has been visiting people of faith, and Robby Knight makes art as a participant in The Torch program which Kent Morris runs.

Meet some of the artists exhibiting at ACCA in Sovereignty and the NGV in Who’s Afraid Of Colour? Bindi Cole Chocka, Jenny Crompton, Yhonnie Scarce and Paola Balla with Tom Mosby from the Koorie Heritage Trust (which also has an art show on at the moment).

Melbourne musicians with longevity: Mick Thomas from Weddings Parties Anything performs live with Ayleen O’Hanlon; and Vince Giarrusso & Glenn Bennie from the undergroundLOVERS with a new single.

At MPavilion with live music from Deborah Conway, Willy Zygier and Casey Bennetto, a rare on-air appearance from Sue Howard (who gave Jon the gig) and a former PM’s surprise call.

When Sami Shah discovered Paul Dini was on the show he gate-crashed the program. And The Australian Tapestry Workshop celebrates 40 years of weaving.

At MPavilion with live music from Deborah Conway, Willy Zygier and Casey Bennetto, a rare on-air appearance from Sue Howard (who gave Jon the gig) and a former PM’s surprise call.

Hot Brown Honey and A Dickensian Christmas with Sammy J.

Youth suicide rates in Victoria are increasing despite greater investment in prevention strategies. This special talkback forum prompted by a new report by Orygen asks: What’s going wrong with our mental health service provision? And what could we do better to stop young people taking their lives?

Masha Alyokhina is collaborating with Natalia Kaliada and Belarus Free Theatre on the play Burning Doors which explores her own imprisonment in Putin’s Russia as well as the stories of fellow dissident artists Oleg Sentsov and Petr Pavlensky. ABC veteran Mark Colvin has written a book, Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a Spy’s Son.

Michelle Guthrie joins Libbi Gorr, Edwina Farley and Heather Ewart in Yackandandah for the launch of a new series of Back Roads.

Andrew Rule on the relationships between men and animals. And Stephen Pigram performs with Kerryn Tolhurst.

Allan Harris, Melinda Schneider and Sibylla Stephen with Wilbur Wilde: a feast of music.

Paul Ham on WW1’s Passchendaele. Robin Bowles on the mysterious death of Phoebe Handsjuk in Melbourne.

Chris Mitchell on his relationships with Prime Ministers and on running campaigns in newspapers. Manny Waks on the great personal toll of telling the truth about child sex abuse in the Jewish community.

Join Michelle Bridges and Waleed Aly as they go for a stroll live from the Tan and Botanic Gardens with runner Craig Mottram, Gardens’ head Tim Entwisle and Greg Johnson from Diabetes Australia.

Sami Shah’s monsters are not your monsters. And Charlie A’Court and Lloyd Spiegel co-wrote a song via Skype.

With Four Corners’ report on Don Dale sparking a Royal Commission into the Child Protection and Youth Detention Systems of the NT, we look back to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and ask what’s improved since then, and which recommendations have still not been implemented.

How do you stay engaged, driven and creative after experiencing great success. Choreographer Sir Matthew Bourne and country music star Graeme Connors share their thoughts.

Film maker Philippe Mora is himself the subject of a documentary as he explores his father’s role in the French Resistance. And film maker Ian Darling ended up with a very different film to the one he was intending to create.