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The man behind the phenomenally successful mob series The Sopranos talks about the new prequel. We meet the writer-director of a centrepiece film at this year's Italian Film Festival, and Jason's thoughts on Ridley Scott’s new medieval tragedy which stars Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Jodie Comer.

What do artists think about when making huge public art? Lindy Lee is making the most expensive work commissioned by the NGA, and Judy Watson's bara will grace Sydney's harbour with a giant Gadigal fish hook. Then, the US art lab addressing the problem of confederate monuments to racist causes... and Indigenous artists Julie Gough, Nicholas Galanin and Yhonnie Scarce on Australia's own colonial memorialising.

Teddy Tahu Rhodes is a stalwart of the opera and musical theatre stage, but there was a time when he thought that accountancy was his true calling. So, what brought this powerful singer out of the office and into the spotlight? Also, playwright Michèle Saint-Yves reflects on her father's dementia and her own acquired brain injury in A Clock for No Time and choreographer Sue Healey compiles eight years of unique encounters with dance on film in On View: Panoramic Suite at Liveworks.

Liane Moriarty's latest novel is Apples Never Fall and as another TV adaptation of her work wraps us, she is adamant she will never write books with a view to adaptation. Also, British-Turkish Elif Shafak's inventive The Island of Missing Trees set in a divided Cyprus and Booker shortlisted author Damon Galgut's equally inventive, The Promise.

New Gold Mountain, SBS’ gold rush-era period drama, puts the Chinese-Australian experience front and centre. BW talks to series lead Yoson An, (Mulan, Creamerie) and director Corrie Chen about Chinese cowboys and finding dramatic gold in the history of 1850s Ballarat. Meanwhile, BL previews the new season of Succession, and finds the Roy family as deliciously vicious as ever. Stick around to find out what ‘Shiv all the way’ means in his community. Also: BW is obsessed with a hot 939-year-old Korean goblin, why aren’t you? William Shatner blasts off to the final frontier, and that Four Corners investigation on Sony Music Australia. Show notes: Facing the music: The Sony Music scandal: https://www.abc.net.au/4corners/facing-the-music:-the-sony-music-scandal/13579828 New Gold Mountain: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-13/new-gold-mountain-review/100523478 Amanda Rosenberg in Vulture on Gong Yoo thirst: https://www.vulture.com/article/squid-game-gong-yoo-thirst-watch-next.html Succession season 3: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/04/succession-season-three-review-as-glorious-and-furious-as-ever Jaguar Jonze asks ‘Who Died And Made You King’ in scathing new song about industry abuse: https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/news/musicnews/jaguar-jonze-who-died-and-made-you-king-song-denis-handliln/13576612

Today’s show is a preview of some of the works screening at Sydney Film Festival.....the first is about one of the most accomplished Australian film directors you’ve probably never heard of - John Farrow. He won an Oscar and worked with stars like Robert Mitchum and John Wayne and we meet two men who have finally brought his story to the big screen. Plus, one of Japan's great new talents Ryusuke Hamaguchi.

Globally and at home, artists are engaging with the reckoning happening around race and colonisation. But where do recent migrants and refugees to Australia fit into the dialogue? Artist James Nguyen is a multidisciplinary artist who enlists his family and friends into his work. Plus, Fenella Kernebone on the special Thing that compels her to tell stories of art and design. And the Soul Fury exhibition showcases 16 women artists of Islamic heritage, at the peak of their powers.

Tasmania's renowned contemporary dance company Tasdance is celebrating 40 years. The company's artistic director Adam Wheeler grew up in Launceston, but there was a time when he could not get off the island quick enough. So, what changed? Also, we visit the Queenstown shed hosting the new Tasdance work Collision at this year's The Unconformity and with the Melbourne Fringe Festival going digital for a second year, we meet some of the artists finding new ways to make work.

In 2019, John Boyne faced huge online backlash for a book he wrote about a trans teenager and he's channelled that experience in to his new comic novel, The Echo Chamber. Also, Booker Prize shortlisted author Nadifa Mohamed on The Fortune Men and Emily Bitto’s Wild Abandon, about men, booze, tigers and America.

Social media’s ablaze over Who is the Bad Art Friend, aka “the kidney story,” the New York Times Magazine long read chronicling a very extra saga about live kidney donation, friendship, white saviours, allegations of plagiarism, artistic license and, horror of horrors — the publication of group chat texts. If you’re wondering whether to read the 9,500-plus word piece, rest easy, BL + BW have done the heavy lifting and happily unpack the entrails for you. Twenty years after the release of Mariah Carey’s Glitter, we’re taking another look at the infamous box office flop and asking, did the critics really get it right back then, or do the haters need to GTFO? With Maria Lewis, ACMI assistant curator, author and Mariah Carey superlamb. Also: what’s the connection between anti-vax protests in New York City and Australia? And what’s next for Britney Spears now that her father Jamie’s been suspended from her conservatorship? Show notes: Who’s The Bad Art Friend?: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/magazine/dorland-v-larson.html ACMI Glitter watch party: https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/acmi-watch-party/glitter/ Crowds of anti-vaccine protesters chant 'save Australia' during rally in New York: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/crowds-of-anti-vaccine-protesters-chant-save-australia-during-rally-in-new-york/cbfa3a6b-300b-4ad8-82c6-ef8fb94db80a