Throughout a two hour culinary journey Rick will bring his travels to life, working with his guest chef to prepare an array of dishes, from fishy favourites in Cornwall, to vibrant and colourful Mediterranean cuisine, onwards to the light spicy flavours of South East Asia and culminating in a unique Australian dish. Audiences will also be captivated along the way with stories and footage from his TV series.

A thunderous celebration of Irish music, song and dance, Riverdance has tapped its way onto the world stage since its inception in 1994, has thrilled more than 22 million people in over 300 venues worldwide throughout 32 countries across 4 continents, and has grossed over US$1.6 billion worldwide.

You've probably seen a few versions of Midsummer Night's Dream, if you like going to the theatre. Shakespeare's popular comedy has been played around with by every director under the sun - I've seen a version set in 1950s America, another in rural Korea, where Bottom the Weaver was turned into a grumbling old woman and the role of Puck, the mischievous fairy, split into twins!

Like four buzzing bees to the honey pot, my husband, son, his teenage friend and I all flew into the city centre ready for a treat. None of us had any idea what the festival opening was about. I had merely glanced at the festival email as it hit my inbox and was instantly drawn in by the images of acrobats a top spinning things and fire and light filling the sky - a theatrical cacophony.

Find out what our winners - the 'home reviewers' thought of one of the most talked about acrobatic acts in the world.

The ghost of Jandamarra has returned to the warrior's Kimberley heartland in a spectacular production, says 720's cultural reviewer Victoria Laurie.

He wrote the award winning film 'Lantana' and co-wrote the original screenplay for Baz Luhrmann's 'Strictly Ballroom'. Now Kalgoorlie-born writer Andrew Bovell brings you a poignant story of guilt, hope and truth in 'When the Rain Stops Falling'.

720 ABC Perth put the call out for eight young bright things (aged 8 - 12) to become our ABC Bright Young Arts Reviewers for the 2011 AWESOME Festival.

ABC Junior Arts Reviewer, Sofie Kerr reviews the 2011 AWESOME Festival.

720 ABC Perth put the call out for eight young bright things (aged 8 - 12) to become our ABC Bright Young Arts Reviewers for the 2011 AWESOME Festival. On Saturday 19th November, our reviewers got their ABC media passes and headed for a tour of the festival - seeing performances and installations that feature from 19 - 27 November in spots around the city.

720 ABC Perth put the call out for eight young bright things (aged 8 - 12) to become our ABC Bright Young Arts Reviewers for the 2011 AWESOME Festival.

720 ABC Perth put the call out for eight young bright things (aged 8 - 12) to become our ABC Bright Young Arts Reviewers for the 2011 AWESOME Festival. On Saturday 19th November, our reviewers got their ABC media passes and headed for a tour of the festival - seeing performances and installations that feature from 19 - 27 November in spots around the city.

The latest production of Griffin Theatre Company's 'The Boys' is a performance so disturbingly real that you're relieved when the house lights come up and you can leave.

Perth Theatre Company's latest play, reviewed by ABC 720's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie.

If you have to take a quick crash course in thermodynamics and chaos theory before seeing a play, is it really worth seeing? It's a question that could be posed by Arcadia, Tom Stoppard's bulgingly brainy theatre piece that Black Swan State Theatre Company has chosen for its second 2012 season offering.

ABC North Coast resident arts reviewer Jeanti St Clair looks at the latest music and theatre to hit the region

There's nothing like watching someone fly through the air, land on their feet and follow it up with a classic slapstick routine worthy of Laurel & Hardy, to make you feel about seven again.

A modest show about Nyoongar identity is a comic insight into living in two worlds, says 720 ABC's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie

In expert hands, even memory loss can be a topic for satisfying drama, says ABC 720's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie

Sinead Mangan enjoys this whimsical fairytale, and so does her five year old daughter.

The Fremantle Candidate is a finely crafted look at one of Australia's great political heroes, says ABC 720 cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie

Signs of Life is a sign that celebrated novelist Tim Winton is prepared to take theatrical risks in writing plays, says ABC 720 cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie.

How did Oedipus become such a naughty little boy? Is it all the fault of his mother? Perth Theatre Company's latest show is an imaginative take on the Greek myth, says ABC 720's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie

Boy Gets Girl is a suspense thriller, but it hardly explains the mind of a stalker, says ABC 720's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie.

Heidegger was an unrepentant Nazi. Nietzsche's later work contains passages that openly advocate slavery and genocide. Today, with far-right extremism on the rise around the world, how concerned should we be when reading – and teaching – the work of these canonical figures?

As LGBT people grow old, they can become particularly vulnerable to social isolation and loneliness. Simone de Beauvoir had a keen appreciation of the challenges of ageing – “old age exposes the failure of our entire civilisation” – so can we find resources in her brand of existentialism that address some of the issues raised by LGBT elders?

Artificial intelligence is helping us to make all sorts of decisions these days, and this can be hugely useful. But if we outsource our moral intuition to AI, do we risk becoming morally de-skilled?

Institutions shape every aspect of our lives, yet they can be strangely amorphous things, operating according to norms and conventions that often undermine each other. For women, this can result in institutional discrimination – in workplaces and public organisations, but also in less tangible institutions like the family and the law. This week we’re talking feminist institutionalism, and the need for a women’s honour code.

Many of us have extra time on our hands at the moment, and for many of us that time can feel like a burden. But what is this mysterious relationship between what time feels like and what it really is?

We're told that COVID-19 is an unprecedented event, one that's upended all our old certainties — so it's perhaps strange that we're thinking about it in very familiar ways. Considering the history, the politics and the ethics of COVID-19 can reveal fascinating and uncomfortable insights about ourselves and our society.

Refugees are often spoken and written about as victims: people on the far side of a border that separates them from all the things we citizens know and love about our homeland. But what if the refugee actually knows things about Australia that we don't?

Can our genes tell us if we're gay? Or intelligent? Science says the answer is complex, and that genetic determinism — the idea that we're genetically hardwired for certain outcomes — shouldn't be taken seriously. But genetic determinism has taken hold of the public imagination.

Indonesia, like other emerging economies, has been hit hard economically by Covid-19. Our guest argues that it's in Australia's interests to extend an economic lifeline, and that there's a costless way to do it.

News sites are recording a huge spike in traffic - but with advertising dollars dropping, how will media survive?

News sites are recording a huge spike in traffic - but with advertising dollars dropping, how will media survive?

Building a sustainable renewable industry.

Compromises and working within Putin's Russia and the current state of COVID-19.

The man who shaped and reformed Australian intelligence services receives an overdue biography.

New legislation in Cambodia is feared to further restrict human rights in the country.

The dire predictions for Africa are all in place, but so far they haven't come true.

Mike Ladd reads the Clive James poem, My Father Before Me

Some pundits say capitalism can never recover from Covid-19, and there will need to be bigger government. Others say the future economic recovery rests with the business sector.

Strained diplomacy in times of a pandemic. As the US and China tussle over who is dealing with COVID-19 the best, is it time for Australia to rethink our relationships?

PNG was already battling dangerous infectious diseases — tuberculosis and HIV. Now it has to fight coronavirus as well. Incredibly, so far there are only seven known cases of Covid-19 in the whole country, and no known deaths.

It’s ‘reporting season’ - where the ANZ, Westpac and NAB announce six month results. And in this year of economic crisis, those results were always going to be significant. The big banks are increasingly seen as economic bellwethers. Their fate tells us a lot about how everyone else might be going.

The higher education sector is a vital part of Australia's economic and intellectual life - why is Canberra intent on ignoring it?

Australia and India, as former British colonies, had much in common, and could have forged a strong relationship for their mutual benefit. But Australia's White Australia policy, and India's determination to leave the Empire and become a Republic, stymied the friendship.

What to read, watch and listen to in the month of May to broaden your world.

One of the world's best known economists is proposing that all American be tested for Covid-19, regularly. Paul Romer says despite the expense and logistical challenges, mass testing is the only way the US can build community confidence, and therefore successfully re-open the economy.