Race Card

After a long hiatus Race Card is back! We talk to writer and poet Magan Magan about his debut collection of poetry 'From Grains to Gold'.The collection maps out the five stages of grief in chapters; denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally acceptance.You find Magan's book at his website: maganmagan.com

Beverley Wang is executive producer for Radio National's flagship show RN Drive. We talk about her latest project with Radio National, It's Not A Race, a podcast discussing race, identity and culture in Australia. Subscribe to the podcast, the first episode is out now!

After a long hiatus we're back this week with an interview with comic Jennifer Wong. We chat her new project ABC Bookish, her love for books and the wholesomeness of libraries. Jennifer talks as well about struggles of migrant children in entering the creative industries and about how she found herself into the media landscape. Follow Jennifer on twitter: @wojennifer Find the show on Twitter: @racecardpod Facebook: /racecardshow

We're on break this week working on some new stories. Here's an interview from our archives when we spoke to Eugenia Flynn about working in the arts industry, hosting events with people like Ilyasah Shabazz and more!

This week in studio we have Bhakthi Puvanenthiran journalist and editor at Fairfax Media. We chat what's it like breaking through, Fairfax job cuts and more! As well as we take a look at the what we have in the bin this week. And our featured story is on the homelessness and the housing crisis.

This week we have comic Nazeem Hussien, in studio. As well as we look at what caught our attention for the bin this week. And our featured story is on deaths in custody, highlighting one of the biggest cases in recent years.

This week we have Manal Younus, writer and poet, in studio. We look at what we have “in the bin” this week. And we end the show with an interview we had recently at Triple R on Namila Benson’s show White Noise.

We're talking a break this week, but we have something from our archives for you! Here's our interview with writer Maxine Beneba Clarke from last year. We'll be back next week!