Culture 101 for Sunday 23 June 2024

2:27 PM.As the son of two of our most lauded writers, the late JC Sturm and James K Baxter, John Baxter (Taranaki, Te Whakatōhea) has long had hats to wear in being part of literary legacies. 

It’s being… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.A conversation with her five-year-old niece prompted Mandi Lynn to explore body shaming in a photo exhibition and short documentary. Read more Video, Audio

2:05 PM.Arts news for 23 June 2024 Read more Audio

1:15 PM.Lizzie Russell is the Owner/Operator of Tennyson Gallery in Ahuriri Napier. A beautiful spot in an art deco building on the corner of an iconic street in the city.

She tells Culture 101’s Maggie… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Ōtepoti Dunedin author Laurence Fearnley’s absorbing new novel At the Grand Glacier Hotel is, impressively, her thirteenth.

In its pages Fearnley beautifully articulates the awkwardness and beauty… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.As Aotearoa prepares itself to celebrate the official Matariki holiday RNZ’s Culture 101 takes a tour across the country to check in on how three leading figures in Toi Māori’s are celebrating.  Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Leading advocate for Matariki, Astronomy Professor Rangi Mātāmua (Tūhoe) has recently returned from a trip to Tahiti. The trip was at the invitation of the government there, where there is interest in… Read more Audio