Creative Types with Virginia Trioli

Jimmy Barnes jumps into the car with Virginia for a ride and a chat and to turn up the cassette player on the music that formed and informed him and that continues to drive him into a mature life of music making.

George Miller is a genuine Australian visionary and is recognised as one of the greatest action film directors of all time. He's a philosopher, an innovator and a storyteller - and he's not done with Mad Max yet.

Award-winning broadcaster Virginia Trioli explores the essence of creativity with some of our best loved artists at the peak of their powers. Virginia's first guest is literary sensation Trent Dalton.

Rafael Bonachela, the artistic director of Sydney Dance Company says he was born to dance: but while that love took him to the top of contemporary dance it splintered his family: now comes the dance to reconcile that.

Beloved star of stage and television, for Marta Dusseldorp place is everything and now Tasmania is both home and creative wellspring for her production company and the stories she wants to tell.

Award winning filmmaker, Kaytetye man, Warwick Thornton has three people warring inside him: director, writer, cinematographer: but one must always win. In the searing beauty of Alice Springs, we witness the struggles.

The comedian's comedian, Tom Gleeson has had no other job but standing on a stage making people laugh since his university days. What's the secret to his incredible work ethic and success?

Patricia Piccinini, the visual artist who creates strange creatures from the frontiers of science & technology, tells us of the future that is already here & why she is compelled to "create the worlds" that live in her mind.