Culture 101 for Sunday 22 September 2024

3:05 PM.Arts News: Parekowhai's controversial giant kangaroo, Te Unua Museum of Southland's cost blowout and extinct animal discovered in rock art. Audio

2:30 PM.Has joy ever been such a crucial visible part of art as it is in the work of crochet extraordinaires Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole?

The married couple are on a mission to bring light, warmth and Te Ao… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Maurice and I is an unexpectedly moving, delightful, at times harrowing look at the enduring partnership between architects Sir Miles Warren and Maurice Mahoney and the creation and saving of the… Read more Video, Audio

1:25 PM.Each week Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different region in Aotearoa. This week we’re in the port town of Lyttelton near Ōtautahi Christchurch.  Read more Audio

1:07 PM.So fearless is composer Eve De Castro Robinson that not only did she recently give a seminar entitled ‘Being Fearless’ but, now in her 60s, she recently tried doing stand-up comedy for the first… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Independent, trailblazing alternative pop artist Theia has released a new musical anthem. Staunchly proud of being a wahine Māori artist, her whakapapa (Waikato-Tainui, Ngāti Tīpā) and her language… Read more Video, Audio

12:30 PM.Kirsty Webeck is one of Australia’s busiest comedians. But her path into comedy was anything but conventional. Read more Audio

12:10 PM.With style and cinematic verve, if there was ever an Aotearoa artist to be dubbed disco queen it would be Lisa Reihana. Disco because her latest commissioned work on the rooftop of the National… Read more Audio