A walk through Toolangi State Forest with scientist and academic David Lindenmayer.

A walk through Kuranda, Queensland, with Indigenous fire practitioner Victor Steffensen.

In the kitchen with chef and author Julia Ostro.

A walk through the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art with choreographer and dancer Jo Lloyd.

A walk through the home studio of abstract artist Jake Walker.

Laurie Anderson has been a creative pioneer for decades, working across genre, time and place. Now 71 and still prolific, she continues to push boundaries with virtual reality projects. “You, yourself, your body kind of disappears and you have this incredible freedom to fly and to observe things that you wouldn’t be able to do in your body. So it’s almost like you’re as free as your imagination and you become your own imagination. It’s very, very thrilling.”

Visiting New Zealand poet Hera Lindsay Bird in Wellington.

A journey down the Whanganui River with Charles Ranginui.

Satirist Armando Iannucci has turned from his hit TV comedies Veep and The Thick of It to mining the lethal absurdities of the Soviet Union for his film The Death of Stalin. He talks about the comedy of power. “It seems strangely topical with all the talk about facts and alternative facts, new truths and old truths, and the authoritarianism too. It’s frightening.”