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Operation Odessa is as rollicking a documentary about heavy criminals as you get. Its trio of subjects, Ludwig “Tarzan” Fainberg, Juan Almeida and Nelson “Tony” Yester, are enormously entertaining and frequently very funny as they tell their remarkable story, which sounds, literally, like the set-up to a joke: A Russian strip-club owner, a black market car

2018 Toyota Star Maker Winner Brad Cox plays “Too Drunk To Drive” off his self title debut album.

Willie Mason and Iain Byrne weigh in on Buzz Rothfield’s Twitter tirade about the NRL being a ‘sh*t game’, consider whether Reni Maitua coming back from the Toronto Wolfpack could save the Parramatta Eels season and ponder whether Peter Beattie will be the creative director at the 2018 NRL Grand Final after his trial run

Your ANZ esports wrap for the week including an epic comeback in the Rocket League Championship Series, Grayhound and Chiefs do some damage in the IEM, Street Fighter at CyberGamer and some sneaky moves in the Rainbow 6 APAC Finals.

While she was in Australia the incredible Jade Bird popped into the studio and played her hit Lottery live on The Right Note.

Hayley Marsten covers Lily Allen’s global smash hit “Not Fair” on Live On The Lot.

Wes Anderson loves dogs. His new film is called Isle of Dogs, geddit? And in it, he imbues a motley crew of misfit mutts with all the profundity, oddness and humanity he has given to such rich characters as Max from Rushmore, Steve Zissou from The Life Aquatic, Gustave from The Grand Budapest Hotel and, perhaps with most relevance here, Fantastic Mr. Fox. Like

Sydney singer-songwriter Jamie Hutchings sits down for a chat with Bernard Zuel and plays a selection of songs from his latest album, Bedsit.    

Willie Mason unloads on Dean Ritchie and explains why his comments on Fox Sports did discredit Greg Inglis’ racial slur claims and weighs in on this weeks NRL blowups surrounding Greg Alexander’s comments about JT being past his prime, Nathan Brown’s low blow at Wayne Bennett and Joey Johns’ frustration with the referees in 2018.