Crikey, it’s December and we’ve only got this week’s show and next week’s show before we start our Summer Specials. More about that next week...

….but this week it’s our last Theatre Network Australia segment for the year, so it seems fitting to make TNA the TNA member of the Month. We’ll catch up with Nicole Beyer, Josh Lowe and

Wen Juenn Lee to look back at the great work TNA has done for the independent arts sector this year, and then a look forward to what we’ll be talking about in our TNA spots for 2022.

Then, let’s meet prolific author of books for younger readers, Geoffrey McSkimming, creator of the legendary Poet-Archaeologist, Cairo Jim and his intrepid band of adventurers. Fourteen years ago, Geoffrey wrote what might have been the last Chronicle of the Adventures of Cairo Jim… but no… Jim’s back in a new book that reignites the series for a new generation. Geoffrey talks about what else he’s been writing in that fourteen year hiatus, and his new publishing venture, 9 Diamonds Press.

And finally,. Marc Gracie’s here to review screens and streams for the last time this year (if you don’t count our Movie Wrap up Special on December 27). This time it’s a new Australian doco, I’m Wanita, a recent entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s astoundingly good first go as a feature film director, Tick, Tick…BOOM! and Denis Villeneuve’s epic, Dune.

They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.

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