All episodes
Sunday, 18 December 2022
- 12:16 Deborah McCormick and SCAPE Public Art
- 12:32 Esther Lofley - environmentally responsible fashion
- 12:41 South Korean popular culture - why has it conquered the world?
- 1:32 Susy Pointon captures stories from Hokianga
- 1:46 Vivienne Ullrich's poetry is close to home
- 2:27 Dylan Coburn - from movie storyboards to children's picture book
- 2:38 Lynn Freeman reminisces with her friend Catriona MacLeod
- 2:44 Frances Edmond and her mother, poet Lauris
Sunday, 11 December 2022
- 12:16 Avatar interns get a preview of the biggest film of the year
- 12:33 The Radio Doctor who broadcast health care for 40 years
- 12:47 Artstart - a practical launch of young artists' careers
- 1:31 JR's radio repair shop
- 1:47 Pioneering Nelson photographer Rosaline Frank
- 2:06 The Laugh Track - musician and radio presenter Robbie Ellis
- 2:25 K M Tarrant's new thriller Life and death in Birkenhead
- 2:36 Tayla Alexander is an opera singer on the rise
- 2:47 Award-winning crime novelist Nikki Crutchley
Sunday, 4 December 2022
- 12:16 Hannah Marshall takes over Drama at SPP
- 12:33 Joy Cowley's two new books for two very different readerships
- 12:45 Anthony McCarten - biopic king on stage and screen
- 1:31 Yury Gezentsvey - 40 years in the front seat of the NZSO
- 1:45 Sarah Adam captures a famous trail in oils
- 2:26 Simon Devitt's collection of favourite houses
- 2:37 Elizabeth Smither's poems about home, family and mortality
- 2:49 Allison Dobbie of LIANZA
Sunday, 27 November 2022
- 12:16 Fiona Samuel on screenwriting in the age of streaming
- 12:34 Thomas Allely prepares for a Tuba Concerto
- 12:45 Children's TV champion Janine Morrell-Gunn
- 1:32 Proof - a showcase for two decades of NZ printmakers
- 1:45 Paul Gurney back on the road with a lockdown-inspired album
- 2:26 Poet Joanna Cho is a people person
- 2:35 2022 Portage Ceramic Awards
- 2:49 Frank Edwards - the life of a supporting actor!
- 3:06 Bruce Mason Playwriting Award goes to a team
- 3:17 Maranga Mai audio drama series
Sunday, 20 November 2022
- 12:16 Anne-Marie Speed, voice coach to the stars
- 12:34 Musician Christine White's multilingual Raven Project
- 12:48 Jesse Austin-Stewart creates music for people of all types of hearing
- 1:32 The Queen's Closet - baroque music rural drama
- 1:47 Matamata Dramatic Society, three quarters of a century on
- 2:27 Best-selling Christchurch crime writer Paul Cleave
- 2:38 Glen Wolfgramm's huge, Tongan-inspired paintings
- 2:46 Playwright Ben Wilson's unique Christmas gift
Sunday, 13 November 2022
- 12:16 Waharoa - how the Art of the Pacific has developed.
- 12:30 Grayson Masefield talks accordions and a century of the Tango.
- 12:45 Renée's new-found life of crime!
- 1:31 Kevin Ireland looks back - for the third time
- 1:45 Carmel Van Der Hoeven has fond memories of old state houses
- 2:26 Manawatu Sinfonia - one of our great community orchestras
- 2:37 Roger Hickin revives the reputation of "forgotten man"
- 2:48 Painter Judy Millar - bringing it all back home
Sunday, 6 November 2022
- 12:16 Boris Bogdanovic's work as a Conservation Architect
- 12:33 The letters of artist Douglas MacDiarmid
- 12:46 The return of the Capital's historic Hannah Playhouse
- 1:31 Bill Bradford's poetry reflects his early life as a shepherd
- 1:46 Emily Floyd's exhibition explores child's play
- 2:27 Painter Neal Palmer goes large
- 2:36 David Whittet's novel is inspired by his life as a doctor
- 2:47 Sculptor Louise McRae shows how animals adapt to climate change
Sunday, 30 October 2022
- 12:16 Publishers see audio books as a growth industry
- 12:31 Philip Norman looks back on our earliest composers
- 12:43 Repatriation of taonga - redressing old art crimes
- 1:31 Before Sione's Wedding there were the Duckrockers
- 1:37 Nahyeon Lee's "furious" playwriting debut
- 2:26 Napier poet Jeremy Roberts looks back on life in Indonesia
- 2:36 Grant Sheehan looks back on over 50 years of travel
- 2:48 Kapiti Coast's Art Trail invites people into studios
Sunday, 23 October 2022
- 12:15 Precariat Whānau - theatre for those on the margins
- 12:35 Melding Klezmer with classical - composer Ross Harris
- 12:45 Hitchcock's North By Northwest takes to the stage
- 1:30 From Documentary to drama: Keelan Walker
- 1:50 Mosaic Art
- 2:25 Aotearoa's best science fiction and fantasy
- 2:40 Stephen Johnson's Peace Stick
- 2:50 Translating Aotearoa poetry to Spanish
Sunday, 16 October 2022
- 12:30 The art (and craft) of tatting
- 12:46 Dame Malvina Major Award-winner, tenor Oliver Sewell
- 1:30 Jazz bassist and composer Seth Boy and his Filipino roots
- 1:50 Going together like Drum & Bass
- 2:26 Australian physical theatre company Legs On The Wall
- 2:35 Ruth Bayley's Barefoot inspired by wartime correspondence
- 2:45 John Evan Harris and The Physician's gun
- 6:10 Diversity is the new black in TV comedy
Sunday, 9 October 2022
- 12:16 News News News - children-driven media onstage and online
- 12:30 The cultural reiginiting of Timaru
- 12:45 Tackling the housing crisis with a good indoor/outdoor flow
- 1:33 Converting an historic foundry to a brand-new heritage centre
- 1:46 The jigsaws of Zac Langdon-Pole
- 2:25 Darin Dance enters familiar territory with his debut spy novel
- 2:40 Alice Te Punga Somerville and the politics of italics
- 2:49 Climate Imaginaries offer new perspectives on the planet
Sunday, 2 October 2022
- 12:16 Christchurch's always controversial Cathedral
- 12:34 Aboriginal dancer Dalisa Pigram at the Tempo Festival
- 12:45 Landscapes - their effect on us, and vice versa
- 1:31 Peter Nichols sculptor - 60 years of creating
- 1:46 Rose Lu and the Randell Residency
- 2:26 MUSOC celebrates 50 years of musical theatre
- 2:36 The ultra short works of Frankie McMillan
- 2:47 Choreographer Jo Lloyd is inspired by what people say
- 3:48 Jacqueline Bublitz's difficult second novel
Monday, 26 September 2022
- 8:10 Guest lists, the order of service and the Queen's Collar
- 8:25 Under pressure
- 8:50 A natural combo - te reo and jazz
- 9:05 Saving our rainforests, one recording at a time
- 9:25 Rolling the Dice
- 9:40 Cauliflower ice cream, give it a whirl
- 9:50 Celtic Music's enduring appeal
- 10:05 Digging the Dirt
- 10:25 Dirt Fishing
- 10:45 Letters from Iraq
- 11:05 Harvesting the international potential of harakeke
- 11:25 Cleaning long drops and keeping kiwi safe
- 11:45 Making it in Nashville, with help from a Kiwi who knows
Sunday, 25 September 2022
- 12:16 Writers in Schools - getting young New Zealanders reading again
- 12:33 Mark Albiston's short film Datsun goes on the road
- 12:45 Simone Kaho's healing poetry
- 1:31 Navy stories captured on one special quilt
- 1:46 NZ Barok returns with Court to Cathedral
- 2:27 Nelson Clay Week - celebrating the region's potters
- 2:40 Sharron Came's novel in stories - Peninsular
- 2:49 Po' Boys and Oysters - Caribbean Kiwi playwright Estelle Chout
Sunday, 18 September 2022
- 12:16 Inviting the public to regenerate the cultural sector
- 12:31 Mitchell Manuel combines tartan and koru
- 12:45 Why the low number of tagata moana writers getting published?
- 1:31 Opera singer Phillip Rhodes prepares for Macbeth
- 1:46 No other place to stand - climate change poetry
- 2:26 Enter The Sandman - sand artist Marcus Winter
- 2:37 Tom Baragwanath's crime novel Paper Cage
- 2:49 In praise of Stone Walls
Sunday, 11 September 2022
- 12:15 The Aotearoa NZ Opera Studio
- 12:47 Composer Alan Griffiths is inspired by a 21-year-old
- 1:33 Cynthia Hiu Ying Lam's stories of mothers
- 1:47 Andrew London: It's all about me!
- 2:26 An art exhbition gets on its (yellow electric) bike
- 2:36 Elizabeth Morton's beast-eye view of climate change
- 2:47 The fate of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts
- 3:51 Veteran Artist Andrew Bogle markets online now
Sunday, 4 September 2022
- 12:16 New Arts Laureate, weaver and artist Dr Maureen Lander
- 12:29 NZ Festival of Solo Performance celebrates the Power of One
- 12:43 Tatiana Hotere's new play gets a hostile reaction
- 1:31 Ngaire Kearney's Burnt Offerings
- 1:47 Kathryn Burnett's play The Campervan
- 2:25 Simon Lendrum's poker-playing sleuth O'Malley
- 2:37 Patricia Donovan - The Collections
- 2:49 Star Dust - a celebration of cabaret and circus
Sunday, 28 August 2022
- 12:15 The Lancaster bombers of World War Two
- 12:37 The Edinburgh Tattoo has a Kiwi accent
- 12:47 Can a Royalty Blockchain make resales fairer to the artists?
- 1:31 Actor/Film-maker Ella Gilbert's short film is the latest Someday Story
- 1:45 Chris Tse - our latest Poet Laureate
- 2:27 Daisy Speaks prepares to launch Christchurch's WORD festival
- 2:35 Richard Woolley's new novel Detachment Theory
- 2:47 The Big Sing returns after a long hiatus
Sunday, 21 August 2022
- 12:16 Roger Horrocks on the birth and growth of the arts in NZ
- 12:33 Lyn-Marie Harris is inspired by missing persons
- 12:45 Indie film Northspur may be the start of something big
- 1:31 A new novel remembers the plight of German internees
- 1:45 Alan Knowles' photos go where others fear to snap!
- 2:25 Alistair Luke's new novel was inspired by a real-life murder
- 2:37 Tim Upperton's new poetry collection
- 2:49 Dirty Deeds Down Under - crime on both sides of the Tasman
Sunday, 14 August 2022
- 12:32 Simon Lewis-Wards and his unique candy sculptures
- 12:45 The art of copying art - it's not all forgery
- 1:33 Opera singer Eliza Boom comes home
- 1:43 Dr Hannah August and the best-selling Elizabethan plays
- 2:25 A Slightly Isolated Dog director, Leo Gene Peters
- 2:40 Owen Marshall returns to short story writing
- 2:49 Sally Stockwell takes on motherhood
- 5:16 TV and movie drama are booming in New Zealand
Sunday, 7 August 2022
- 12:16 Developing our feature films - Leanne Saunders
- 12:32 The Contemporary Arts Awards are announced in Hamilton
- 12:45 A new production of Oscar Kightley's groundbreaking Dawn Raids
- 1:31 Pianist Paul Lewis's Beethoven marathon
- 1:45 Teenage Muslim poet and songwriter Sabreen Islam
- 2:25 Crime novelist J P Pomare and The Wrong Woman
- 2:38 Rolleston House - back by public demand
- 2:49 Hastings cultural precinct
- 3:50 Campervan Art Gallery
Sunday, 26 June 2022
- 12:10 Designer Emma Kingsbury's new interpretation of Cinderella
- 12:27 David Mason - composing Maori orchestral sound
- 12:43 Frocks, divas and celebrating women over 40
- 1:30 Twin Cultivation
- 1:48 Gracie Matthews
- 2:25 Poet James Brown's treasure trove
- 2:35 Theatre director Ben Crowder on THE WORM
- 2:48 Time travelling poet, Briar Wood
Sunday, 19 June 2022
- 12:10 Leon Narbey returns to the famous land march of Whina Cooper
- 12:43 Sara Hughes takes her art to the street
- 1:31 Judene Edgar's play about the Dr Seuss controversy
- 1:45 Stevei Houkāmau and traditional clay sculpture
- 2:30 Larissa McMillan brings indigenous art to the Hundertwasser
- 2:40 National Flash Fiction Day celebrates a new decade
- 2:50 Jessica Palalagi returns home
Sunday, 12 June 2022
- 12:16 The Jolt Dance Company prepare for a busy time in the UK
- 12:36 Wind instrument repairer, Jennifer Weigel
- 1:31 An exhibition of the late potter Ross Mitchell-Anyon
- 1:46 The sacred harbour island, or Motutapu
- 2:26 Short story writer Michael Botur turns to horror
- 2:40 Popular podcast ArtCurious explores some intriguing questions
