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Finnish clarinet virtuoso Kari Kriikku talks with Kate Mead about contemporary music Read more Audio

Elric Hooper and Des Wilson look at the history of gardens and their reflections in music (RNZ) Read more Audio

Cultural entrepreneur Harry Seresin was an identity in Wellington from his arrival in 1939, safe from Nazi persecution, through several decades of energy and passion for life and the arts. In 1992 he… Read more Audio

The influence a brother and sister in Wellington had on early music in New Zealand, from the 1930s. Shelley Wilkinson takes us to the capital and touches on Ronald and Zillah Castle's Sweet… Read more Audio, Gallery

Edo de Waart in conversation with Christine Argyle during his 2007 visit to NZ Read more Audio

The NZ pianist and teacher talked with Peter Mechen in 2007 Read more Audio

Elric Hooper and Des Wilson look at the history of Rodgers and Hammerstein's great musical. Read more Audio

Phillip Collins evokes the sounds, smells and colours of everyday life in Taiwan Read more Audio

Tim Dodd visits the Whittaker's Music Museum on Waiheke Island and talks to Lloyd and Joan Whittaker about their marvellous collection of harmonicas, accordions, concertinas, pianolas, pianos and… Read more Audio

Musical thriller or grand opera? Melodramatic masterpiece or shabby little shocker? Elric Hooper and Des Wilson look at Puccini's 1900 setting of the story of the singer, the painter and the chief of… Read more Audio

Tim Dodd talks to the distinguished NZ pianist - one of the first to sustain a performing career while remaining in NZ. Read more Audio

When NASA realized that the Voyager space probes being launched in 1977 would eventually travel beyond the edge of our solar system, they decided to include some kind of message to any intelligent… Read more Audio