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Books & arts
Fantales
Desley Deacon
4 July 2023
How Errol Flynn, Peter Finch, David Gulpilil and Nicole Kidman crossed the psychic gangway between Sydney and Hollywood
Books & arts
Boris Johnson, outside in
Jane Goodall
25 October 2022
Kenneth Branagh portrays the former PM’s behaviour with startlingly accuracy. But what’s going on behind the eyes?
Books & arts
Casting Mystery Road
Jane Goodall
3 September 2022
Director Dylan River, producer Greer Simpkin and casting director Anousha Zarkesh talk to
Inside Story
about creating an ensemble with chemistry
Books & arts
The outsider
Jane Goodall
16 November 2021
Truths, half-truths and ripping yarns come together in Miriam Margolyes’s
This Much Is True
Books & arts
Boots on the ground
Jane Goodall
13 May 2020
Television
| Ensemble drama
Mystery Road
is in a class of its own
Books & arts
Euripides’s thunderclap
Desley Deacon
26 February 2020
Theatre
| Zoe Caldwell, who died last week, was the second Australian to perform Medea to wide acclaim
Books & arts
The making of a great biography
Brian McFarlane
23 September 2014
Jonathan Croall’s new book reveals a talented researcher and writer at work, says
Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
The ages of Gielgud
7 July 2011
Brian McFarlane
reviews a perceptive biography of actor-director-manager John Gielgud
Podcasts
“If you can reach that point of almost nonchalance in playing, that’s a different level of creativity again”
Peter Clarke
30 June 2010
John Bell
talks to
Peter Clarke
about acting, King Lear and the Bell Shakespeare Company