Arts In 30

Your ultimate guide for staying in the know and getting inspired. An essential wrap-up of arts news and the best interviews, brought to you by the Arts team at ABC Radio National.

Arts In 30 is a arts podcast hosted by ABC Australia, with 61 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Weekender: Best of the year - movies, music, theatre and more

  Dec 12, 202539 minS0

  <p>Ce and Sky share their favourite picks of 2025.</p><p>Movies mentioned includes Freaky Tales, KPop Demon Hunters, Twinless, Sirat, The Secret Agent, Sinners, One Battle After Another, and One of Them Days.</p><p>Music mentioned includes Kathryn Joseph - We Were Made Prey, Ethel Cain - Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You; Perfume Genius - live & Glory; Billy Woods - Golliwog; Backxwash - Only Dust Remains; Abel Selaocoe - Hymns of Bantu; Ganavya; Jaime Martin & the SSO - Bolero.</p><p>Theatre mentioned includes the Siegfried and Roy opera, Hadestown, Beetlejuice, and Scout Boxall's God's Favourite.</p>...

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  Weekender: Best TV shows of the year, the fifth Indigenous Art Triennial, and arthouse Summer films

  Dec 5, 202540 minS0

  <p>Rudi Bremer from Awaye joins the team to take us to the NGA where After The Rain, the fifth National Indigenous Art Triennial is bringing together a remarkable collection of work under the supervision of Artistic Director Tony Albert.</p><p>And with Summer holidays ahead, we recommend our TV shows of the year for your binge-watching pleasure. Ce chooses Wayward, Sky picks The Lowdown, and Rudi argues for The Residence.</p><p>Hidden Rivalry might not make the end of years list, but it has Ce and Rudi watching and fondly reminiscing about Yuri! On Ice!!</p><p>...

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  Sarah Hanson-Young on local content quotas and ABC funding plus proposed changes at the State Library of Victoria

  Dec 2, 202541 minS0

  <p>Last week, the federal government passed legislation that will require video streaming services with more than 1 million Australian subscribers to invest 10 percent of their Australian expenditure or 7.5 percent of their gross Australian revenue into new Australian productions each year. </p><p>The bill passed with the support of the Greens, and as part of the negotiations, the ABC will also receive $50 million in additional funding over 3 years to spend on locally made children’s and drama content. Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, arts spokeswoman for The Greens, joins us to talk about the bills and about Federal arts priorities in 2026.</p><p>A...

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  Weekender: Wake up Dead Man wraps demagoguery, faith, grace, and power in a fun mystery & Evelyn Araluen returns with The Rot

  Nov 28, 202535 minS0

  <p>Three films in, at a point where most franchises have run out of ideas and started phoning it in, Knives Out has returned with its best episode yet in Wake Up Dead Man. With a star turn by Josh O'Connor and an exceptional ensemble, it's an examination of faith and belief, of the potential for good will and redemption, and of the negative power of anger, corruption, and hatred, all wrapped up in a fun and funny mystery.</p><p>And speaking of examinations of corruption, power, and hatred: Disney’s Zootopia 2 is also out this week. Sky claims th...

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  What constitutes success (or failure) in Hollywood? And Peyton Reed on the 25th anniversary of Bring It On.

  Nov 25, 202547 minS0

  <p>Wicked: For Good has launched to a big opening weekend, taking in $226 million US in worldwide box office revenue, a substantial improvement on the already successful first film. But that makes it something of an outlier for Hollywood this year. Industry experts have pointed out that - accounting for inflation - the Summer tentpole season in the US had lower numbers than we’ve seen in decades.</p><p>Is this just an off year? Or the sign of a bigger problem for an industry already grappling with the rise of streaming and the after-effects of Covid? Scott Mendelson fr...

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