Tentacular Tentacular! The Octopus versus A.I

Contemporary circus is no longer about animals, strongmen and clowns. It's a new kind of tradition, one that comes with arguably more intellectualism. 

The California prison system is a tough place, overcrowded and violent, but a small group of prisoners get together and record their stories. Uncuffed is a podcast made on the inside, for the outside world to hear.

Ondara joins Andy in the studio for a chat about the reason he listens to songs without words, and his use of falsetto in his music. He plays his songs 'Seminar in Tokyo' and 'Lebanon'.

Ludwig van Beethoven was in the middle of composing some of his most popular works and those works provide the score to wartime. Find out his work reflected the time he lived in.

You’ve seen Oppenheimer the movie about the Manhattan Project and the creation of the world’s first atomic bomb, known as the Trinity test. What you didn't see was that the desert where the bomb was detonated was not deserted.

Russian-born British satirist and author, Konstantin Kisin is in Australia for the first time. 

Over two thousand years ago Mount Vesuvius destroyed everything in its path, including a town called Herculaneum. Miraculously papyrus scrolls in a library survived enough to be read by new A. I technology.

Former Australian Special Forces Commando Tim Thomas knows all too well the devastating lived experience of PTSD - having been debilitated for years by distressing symptoms, sleeplessness and a reliance on pills to simply function.

Some people are born to be stars ... but what happens if you climb the ladder in your chosen performative field and suddenly realise you don't want to be the leading light? That happened to Australian singer-songwriter PJ Harding. 

What do you think of when you hear the name Gillian Triggs? On her return to Australia, she takes a moment to reflect on her career.