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An Ode to a Generation of Spice Women - Glitter and Greed: The Lisa Frank Story Docuseries
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How to Break Up With Your Therapist - Men Have Called Her Crazy by Anna Marie Tendler
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Claiming Squatter's Rights - Twilight: New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
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Show Us Your T*tties - Romancing Mr. Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
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I'll Block You, Grandma - I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
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Gloopie Confessionals - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
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There's a Refrigeration Emergency - Goosebumps: The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb by R.L. Stine
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A Packed Elevator of Shame - Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
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Rituals of Farting - I'm With The Band: Confessions of a Groupie by Pamela Des Barres
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A Love Letter to Hugh Grant and Judy Greer - From Hollywood With Love by Scott Meslow
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Scrooge Doesn't Hate Christmas, He Hates You - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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Horny for Ford Taurus - Goosebumps: Say Cheese and Die! by RL Stine
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From Slutty Fart Blast, With Love - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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False Imprisonment, Freedom, and Hopefully French Fries - The Woman in Me Pt 3
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What the World Needs Now is a Paranormal Experience in Arizona with Britney - The Woman in Me by Britney Spears (part 2)
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Riding in Cars with Moms and White Russians - The Woman in Me by Britney Spears (part 1)
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2017 Miles Franklin Award Winner: Josephine Wilson's novel Extinctions
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13:17Five days with a retired concrete engineer in Western Australia in 2006, and it's funny.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The Artistic Director of Bangarra Dance Theatre, Stephen Page, on the 2017 production which told the story of Bennelong, an Eora man who became a conduit between his people and the newly arrived settlers at Sydney Cove.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Krissy Kneen on her latest novel, An Uncertain Grace, which is about taboos around younger and older sexual desires and why jellyfish are important.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Scottish crimewriter Chris Brookmyre reveals what has influenced him, and throws in a song based on one of his novels.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey plays for us and talks about the contemporary potential of her ancient instrument.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Tony Jones's debut novel, The Twentieth Man
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31:16Tony Jones, the host of the ABC's Q&A program, released his first novel in 2017, which travels between the streets of Sydney, the corridors of Parliament House, and the mountains of Yugoslavia.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Argentine literary star Samanta Schweblin discusses her surreal and unsettling novel Fever Dream.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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What works does Michael Robotham reach for on his Top Shelf?By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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What happens when you bring together choreographer Wayne McGregor, artist Ólafur Eliasson and musician Jamie XX? An innovative dance piece based on a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Chris Womersley on his new novel City of Crows
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19:41Award-winning Melbourne author, Chris Womersley, is back with a novel set in 1673 in France during the plague.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Melbourne based actor, director and playwright Peter Houghton joins us with some surprising favourites on his Top Shelf.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Why is the art from the APY lands so good?
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16:20We travel to remote communities in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands of South Australia to find out why these tiny art centres are producing such phenomenal contemporary art.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Michael Rosen follows the famous French author in exile in London after he was sentenced to prison for his vocal support of Alfred Dreyfus.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Canadian storyteller and writer Ivan Coyote
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15:05Through stories of their life and family, Ivan Coyote works fearlessly at the edges of gender, queer and identity politics.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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British author Claire Fuller discusses the books, films and music that inspired her to become a writer.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Jenny Watson: suburban girl to feminist punk
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15:08The Museum of Contemporary Art's exhibition (which is now on at the Heide Museum of Contemporary Art in Melbourne) Jenny Watson: the Fabric of Fantasy covers four decades of the artist's work, including work on unconventional fabrics and featuring self-portraits, alter-egos, horses and rockstars.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Across four generations and almost a century, Pachinko tells the story of a Korean family's search for identity.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Crime writers Adrian McKinty and Candice Fox both use police officers as central characters in their fiction. Why and how?By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Entertaining Crime? The view from a working detective and a former police officer
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30:00Detective Chief Inspector Gary Jubelin is a senior homicide detective in the NSW police force. There's nothing fictional about his working life or the crimes he investigates.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Tracy Chevalier at the Melbourne Writers Festival
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53:52A conversation with British American writer Tracy Chevalier about her recent books New Boy, a retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, and At the Edge of the Orchard, which is set in 19th century America and tells the story of a dysfunctional pioneer family.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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A recently released collection of stories from the great American author show him in a new light; the flappers and the champagne are gone, and in their place are dark stories of war, sex and suicide.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Legendary jazz musician James Morrison with his Top Shelf picks.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the Making of Make Me
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29:03A super fan and literary academic gets up close and personal with thriller writer, Lee Child.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Colson Whitehead on his Pulitzer Prize winning novel
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16:54Colson Whitehead on his brutal, playful, novel of slavery, The Underground Railroad, which won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Between the Lines was an art exhibition by homeless artists in Melbourne.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Lia Hills on her novel The Crying Place that journeys into the Western Desert.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Stuart Kells on The Library: A catalogue of wonders
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17:23Bibliophile Stuart Kells on real and imagined libraries and the love of books.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Is swearing a sign of moral failing? Or an important mode of expression?By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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A letter that the late satirist John Clarke penned to his younger self, as he listened to some traditional Scottish airs, performed by Genevieve Lacey and James Crabb.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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2017 Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Jenny Éclair and James Veitch
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15:39d UK comedians Jenny Éclair and James Veitch told us about their 2017 Melbourne International Comedy Festival shows.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Paul Robeson was one of the most famous actors in Hollywood. What brought his glittering career undone?By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Artist TextaQueen on what favourite artists inspire her works.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Not an animal or a plant, a comprehensive show of Vernon Ah Kee's work from 2017, tackles racism in Australia head on.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The evolution of feelings in Western literature since the medieval period. How did it go from action to interiority?By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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