Culture 101 for Sunday 30 June 2024

2:35 PM.Harry Ricketts joins RNZ’s Culture 101 to discuss First Things, a memoir of this much loved writer and teacher’s childhood and early adulthood. His first 29 years. Read more Audio

2:10 PM.It’s not possible to consider modern textiles in Aotearoa New Zealand without encountering the advocacy, research, curation and art of weaver Margery Blackman. The same could also be said of the life… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Arts news for Sunday June 30 Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Pete Sephton was a friend of Barry Brickell's and is a trustee of Driving Creek. He's a screen print artist, very involved in the annual Coromandel Arts Tour in October and township support group… Read more Video, Audio

1:07 PM.A landmark anthology Everything That Moves, Moves Through Another brings together the experiences of 27 mixed heritage creatives across Aotearoa. Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Adapting items that were on hand into instruments, jug bands first came to prominence in poor Black communities in the US Deep South, but saw a revival with the new folk generation of the 1960s.   Read more Audio

12:30 PM.The famous buddy road trip film Thelma and Louise is taking on a different life at the Civic Theatre in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland this month. Best friends and long-time creative collaborators, Julia… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Kaylee Bell has been flying the flag for Aotearoa New Zealand in the world of country music.  Read more Audio