All episodes
Sunday, 16 June 2024
- 12:15 Fast Favourites: Comedian Courtney Dawson’s rise to the top
- 12:30 Pianette Automatique: Minipiano given new life in Wellington winter garden
- 12:45 Arts study in Australian farming town leads to lower depression rates and blood pressure
- 1:07 Compelling documentary reveals lives of Chinese dissidents in US
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Kawatiri Westport with The Nomad
- 2:00 Emele Ugavule: Storytelling and the vitality of contemporary Melanesian culture
- 2:32 Was the vinyl record the most significant artwork of the 20th century?
- 3:00 Arts news: 114,000 Singaporean shimmer discs, NZ at the film fest and our new governors
Sunday, 9 June 2024
- 12:10 Jodie Rimmer: Valuing women as ‘wild, sexy, talented and creative as they age’
- 12:30 First Wave: Celebrating surfing in Kaikōura
- 12:45 Australian sculptor reclaiming the female form
- 1:10 Derek Jarman's cottage as his final work of art
- 1:20 Regional Wrap: Russell with Sue Fitzmaurice
- 2:05 A View From A Bridge: Strangers reveal all on old telephone
- 2:30 Legendary advocate for Māori art Elizabeth Ellis
- 3:10 Arts news: A double whammy, Kings arts honours and Pito One
Sunday, 2 June 2024
- 12:15 Fast Favourites: Billy T winner Lana Walters
- 12:30 Play captures adoption experiences of birth mothers in NZ
- 12:45 The Tardis has landed: A special mystery guest reviewer visits Doctor Who exhibition
- 1:05 Medieval to Metal: The Art and Evolution of the Guitar
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Tūrangi Tongariro district
- 2:00 Arts news: budget news, the loss of a jazz legend & women country songwriters ride high
- 2:05 Kiwiana icon Pāua shell house goes digital
- 2:30 Making live events accessible for everyone
Sunday, 26 May 2024
- 12:10 From Princess Chelsea to Nan Goldin: Fast Favourites with Ebony Lamb
- 12:31 Diversifying video games through creative writing
- 12:45 The hands behind iconic Crown Lynn hit the stage
- 1:07 Photographer captures grim reality of 'last chance tourism'
- 1:20 Regional Wrap: The world’s steampunk capital
- 2:05 The story behind the AI image that shocked the world
- 2:30 Rising algorithms: The threats and opportunities AI poses to the arts
- 3:00 Arts news: Poppy at Cannes, Goths on stage & Māori climate action in paint
- 12:45 The Tardis has landed: A special mystery guest reviewer visits Doctor Who exhibition
- 1:05 Medieval to Metal: The Art and Evolution of the Guitar
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Tūrangi Tongariro district
- 2:00 Arts news: budget news, the loss of a jazz legend & women country songwriters ride high
- 2:30 Making live events accessible for everyone
Sunday, 19 May 2024
- 12:15 Fast Favourites: Rhys Mathewson’s 10th rodeo
- 12:30 Practising Hawaiian culture across the sea: Ahilapalapa Rands
- 12:45 Joika: The brutal world of the Bolshoi ballet
- 1:07 Finding a city's memory in the rubble of Chernobyl
- 1:25 Gore: Capital of country music and moonshine with Jenny Mitchell
- 2:05 Feeling icky: What makes us uncomfortable with Viki Moananu
- 2:20 Bringing an indigenous house of storytelling alive in Ōtautahi: Juanita Hepi
- 2:30 Best of the Fest: Auckland Writers Festival
- 3:05 Arts news: A Rita Angus bridge, controversial portraits & the book awards
Sunday, 12 May 2024
- 12:15 Getting over writer’s block: Fast Favourites with Troy Kingi
- 12:30 Amah: AI nanny pushes a mother to her limits
- 1:05 Bailey Poching: Here are the Māori comedians - but where are you looking for them?
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Kaitaia with Dr Opeloge Ah Sam
- 2:05 Creating Aotearoa's own Watership Down: Shelley Burne-Field
- 2:30 Rick Rudd: creating New Zealand's only museum devoted to the ceramic arts
- 3:10 Restructures at Penguin, a women's only exhbition & Ria Hall for mayor: Arts News 12 May
Sunday, 5 May 2024
- 12:15 Fast Favourites with Sara Wiseman
- 12:30 With City Gallery closing for two years, what's next for Wellington?
- 12:45 From a Red Mole to a Goblin in a mask: John Davies addresses our shared violent history
- 1:07 The Last Laugh but first-ever comedy club in Hamilton
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Mangawhai with Angela Cook
- 2:05 Project Prima Volta: A decade of helping teenagers to find their voices
- 2:30 How the fight against Covid became a war between each other: Stuart McKenzie and Dame Miranda Harcourt
- 3:05 Arts News - 5 May 2024
- 3:10 Don McGlashan and Harry Sinclair’s ode to farting wins NZ on Air Award
Sunday, 28 April 2024
- 12:10 The return of Auē: fast favourites with Becky Manawatu
- 12:30 From aquatic algae to Niuean rites of passage: Loading Docs back for 10th season
- 12:45 Arovision: NZ's little battler in the digital streaming wars
- 1:07 Sir Roger Hall and the end of summer time
- 1:25 Taupō: a secretly prolific arts hub with Jeffrey Addison
- 2:00 Fixing a screen industry in crisis
- 2:30 Stitching bling, satin & velvet into Toi Māori with Maungarongo Te Kawa
- 3:05 Arts news: NZSO head resigns, World Choir Games news & Springboard artists revealed
Sunday, 21 April 2024
- 12:15 Fast Favourites with veteran broadcaster Julian Wilcox
- 12:15 Mataaho Collective scoops Golden Lion at Venice Biennale in a huge weekend for art from Oceania
- 12:30 Origin: Ava Duvernay’s thought-provoking new film on caste systems
- 1:07 Champagne Problems at the new look Aotearoa Art Fair
- 1:25 Regional Wrap in ‘mural town’ Katikati
- 2:05 Choreographing intimacy in a post-#MeToo era
- 2:30 Dealing with trauma through poetry: Hazara-Afghani Abdul Samad Haidari’s remarkable story
- 3:00 Arts News: NZ wins Golden Lion at Venice while Israel keeps its doors closed, Aardman Animation in NZ & government talks arts strategy
Sunday, 14 April 2024
- 12:10 From flaming kūmara to East Timor: Te Radar performs five different shows over five nights
- 12:30 Christchurch playwright scoops an award trifecta with The Odyssey
- 12:45 Artwork copyright in the age of social media and AI
- 1:07 Prominent portrait photographer Jae Frew shifts focus
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Sean McDonnell’s Baylys Beach
- 2:05 Trailblazing Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap in Aotearoa
- 2:30 Keeping the lights on in our public galleries not just about funding
- 3:05 Arts news: NZ in Italy, a screen crisis, new dance festivals & annual fests skip a year
Sunday, 7 April 2024
- 12:15 Masterchef winner Sam Low on Fast Favourites and new podcast
- 12:30 A feast for the eyes: The hyperrealist paintings of Alice Toomer
- 12:45 Slavfest! Music and culture from the Balkans through to Asia with Irina Mosina
- 1:07 From Marx and Austen to stranded in an airport: Jonathan Dove on keeping opera relevant
- 1:25 Regional wrap: Whakatipu, Wānaka & Hāwea - a creative Queenstown-Lakes District
- 2:00 Aminé Ramer: the vital role of the music supervisor
- 2:30 The art of being a cultural translator
- 3:00 Arts News: Toi Te Papa & City Gallery Wellington face closures while Christchurch Arts Centre threatens insolvency
Sunday, 31 March 2024
- 12:15 New Zealander of the Year: Fast Favourites with Dr Jim Salinger
- 12:30 An unlikely pairing? K-pop meets Pasifika
- 12:45 Fashion designer Jimmy D and the fight against the dull and turgid hick town
- 1:05 12-year-olds in NZ highly engaged in arts and culture
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Blenheim with Tyler Redmond
- 2:00 Travelling through Asian and Pasifika cultures in batik with Rozana Lee
- 2:30 Guitar maker and carver Nui Stretch: Two parallel careers in wood
- 3:00 Arts News Sunday 31 March
Sunday, 24 March 2024
- 12:45 Best of the Fest #5: A very old man with enormous wings, The Sun and the Wind, Aiga and in the thick of Dunedin Fringe
- 12:10 The vital electricity of contemporary poetry: Fast Favourites with Tracey Slaughter
- 12:30 Rugby becomes art: a scrum suspended in time
- 12:50 Māoriland Film Festival Wrap
- 12:55 Arts News Sunday 24 March
- 1:07 Travelling from North Yorkshire to Aotearoa via the sun: theatremaker Alexander Wright
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Francisca Griffin in Port Chalmers
- 2:00 Making Mischief with West End and Broadway star Nancy Zamit
Sunday, 17 March 2024
- 12:00 Best of the Fest #4: Tim Minchin, The King’s Singers, Arooj Aftab, Bernie Dieter’s Kabarett, Lost Lear, Belle, and In the Name of the Son
- 12:10 Fast Favourites: Black Grace choreographer Neil Ieremia gives movement to Pacific anger
- 12:30 The 12-year-olds who meet a mountain in Rachel House's first feature
- 12:50 Aiga: Lusi Faiva’s disability-led Pasifika show on her life in her own words
- 1:07 Ju Percussion: powerhouse ensemble performs in NZ for the first time
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Ngāmotu New Plymouth’s Fin Rah Zel at WOMAD
- 2:05 New report shows increased interest in Asian arts and culture among Kiwis
- 3:00 Arts News for Sunday 17 March
- 12:45 Best of the Fest #5: A very old man with enormous wings, The Sun and the Wind, Aiga and in the thick of Dunedin Fringe
- 12:30 Rugby becomes art: a scrum suspended in time
Sunday, 10 March 2024
- 1:00 Best of the Fest #3 - Māori cirque theatre, exploring fa’a Sāmoa, iconic waiata and Gravity & Grace
- 12:10 Musicians who paint: The Bats’ Robert Scott plays Fast Favourites and remembers Hamish Kilgour
- 12:30 Boy: a tragic and compelling story of gender identity
- 12:45 Oscars predictions with Gemma Gracewood in Los Angeles
- 1:05 Reimagining a map from a Tongan perspective: Icao Tiseli
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Timaru and what’s next for South Canterbury’s arts institutions
- 2:00 When art and film become entwined: painter Sandro Kopp
- 3:00 Arts News Sunday 10 March
Sunday, 3 March 2024
- 12:00 Best of the Fest #2: a morning rave, the Savage Coloniser, Witi’s Wahine, The National, Soweto Gospel and the mighty Waikato
- 12:15 Fast Favourites: Kiwi Actor Yoson An in modern Aussie rom-com
- 12:30 Tackling climate change with bonkers creative ideas: inventor artist Steve Mushin
- 12:45 How to Have Sex: rising British acting star Mia McKenna-Bruce
- 1:07 The Waikato Wars: What painter Richard Lewer didn’t learn at school
- 1:25 Regional wrap: Tauranga arts groups face up to 300% rent increases
- 2:00 NZ Artist Simon Denny in Berlin and New York on NFTs, meta landscapes and space colonies
- 3:00 Arts News for Sunday 3 March
Sunday, 25 February 2024
- 12:10 Sculpture on the islands of Waiheke and Venice: fast favourites with Brett Graham
- 12:30 A thoroughly modern Māori cabaret
- 12:45 Reinventing the savage club as SaVĀge K’lub with performance artist Rosanna Raymond
- 1:07 ‘The wind whistling you in behind the springtime’: celebrated Irish musician Lisa O’Neill
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Waikato with Louisa Drummond
- 2:00 ‘Swiftonomics’ - the unparalleled influence of Taylor Swift
- 2:00 Arts News for 25 February 2024
- 3:30 Best of the Fest #1: taniwha time machine, aerial displays and a slightly isolated dog
Sunday, 18 February 2024
- 12:15 Fast favourites: Billy T winner Abby Howells
- 12:30 A shaky time for Aotearoa’s International Film Festival
- 1:07 Kristen Ng: bridging Aotearoa and China’s musical undergrounds
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Kaikoura with Te Awhina Rangimarie Arahanga
- 2:05 From Christopher Walken to JLo: the best ads of Super Bowl 2024
- 2:30 Bringing the dance floor to the poetry book: Sylvan Spring’s Killer Rack
- 2:45 Kōpū: Leaving white feminism at the door
- 4:00 Music on Culture 101 - 18 February
Sunday, 11 February 2024
- 12:05 Neil Finn: 'Music will save the world'
- 12:42 Queer comedian Jess Karamjeet: Redundant and living with a hidden disability
- 12:54 Arts News Sunday 11 February 2024
- 1:07 Lunar New Year: celebrations with paediatrician, poet and playwright Renee Liang
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Winton with Deow of South Sea Spray Festival
- 2:06 Maureen Lander: weaving with string games and Te Rā our oldest sail
- 2:30 An unlikely musical fusion: India Meets Ireland
- 3:05 Music featured on Culture 101 11 February 2024
Sunday, 4 February 2024
- 12:08 Music featured on Culture 101 4 February 2024
- 12:15 Fast Favourites: Kiwi actor Morgana O’Reilly cast in White Lotus
- 12:30 Performance art with Dad: Tame Iti’s son Toi Iti
- 12:45 Pride: Playwright Sam Brooks on queer storytelling
- 1:07 When does protest become art? Defacing an English version of the Treaty of Waitangi
- 1:57 Arts News Sunday 4 February 2024
- 2:00 Arranging 110 chairs from 170 years: Objectspace's Kim Paton
- 2:30 The future of arts funding with Creative New Zealand boss Stephen Wainwright
Sunday, 28 January 2024
- 12:10 Witi Ihimaera on the massive rise to come of Māori culture in 2024
- 12:30 H.R. The Musical - putting office culture on stage
- 12:45 Pring It On! A Polyfest parody hits the stage
- 1:05 Pub Choir brings mass singing to Aotearoa
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Te Tairawhiti with Tama Waipara
- 2:00 Culture 101 Arts News January 28 2024
- 2:05 WATCH: Immerse yourself in Alan Parkinson’s giant inflatable cathedral
- 2:30 Pump up a 1990 jam with playwright Albert Belz
Sunday, 17 December 2023
- 12:10 Music featured on Culture 101 Sunday 17 December 2023
- 12:15 Fast Favourites: Grace Palmer on landing an American sitcom
- 12:30 Connecting to our landscapes through artist Marilynn Webb
- 12:45 Bruce Mason Playwriting Winner: Tainui Tukiwaho
- 12:58 Arts News Sunday 17 December
- 1:05 ‘Don’t look behind you!’ A history of folk horror with Kier-La Janisse
- 1:30 Regional Wrap: creative Kerikeri
- 2:05 The year that was: best of Aotearoa culture 2023
Sunday, 10 December 2023
- 12:10 Fast Favourites: Paul Goldsmith, Aotearoa's new Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage
- 12:30 Renowned Chinese haute couture designer Guo Pei in Aotearoa
- 1:07 Ngahuia Harrison: the consequences of cannibal capitalism on the land
- 1:20 Regional Wrap: Motueka with Donna McLeod
- 2:05 Writing and performing a third act in your ‘third age’
- 2:20 Tango with world champion accordionist Grayson Masefield
- 2:40 Dame Anne Salmond: connecting people through culture
Sunday, 3 December 2023
- 12:15 Fast Favourites: The Brokenwood Mysteries star Fern Sutherland
- 12:30 Moutere valley jeweller wins gold at Florence Biennale
- 12:45 Celebrating traditional Fijian hair practice from a Wairarapa farm
- 12:57 Arts news for Sunday December 3 2023
- 1:07 Kauae Raro Research Collective's passion for earth pigments
- 1:27 Regional Wrap: Marton building turns into an ‘unsettling immersive’ sculpture
- 2:05 Manu Vaea: the spiritual and mundane in being fakaleitī - Tongan third gender
- 2:30 Fixing the desperate state of arts and culture coverage in the media
- 3:01 Music on Culture 101 December 3 2023
Sunday, 26 November 2023
- 12:15 Snort: the end of an era
- 12:30 ‘Anything can be art’ an eight year old artist and curator’s Ōtautahi exhibition
- 12:45 Using AI photography to reconnect with humanity
- 1:07 Ōtautahi’s great inner-city cultural revitalisation
- 2:00 Gamblers, monks and courtesans: a fifth century play in 2023
- 2:30 Ōtautahi’s whiskey-chasing advocate for mental health and poetry
- 2:30 Culture 101 Arts News Sunday 26 November
- 2:45 Madison Kelly’s call and response with the kakī
- 3:00 Music played on Culture 101 Sunday November 26
