All episodes
Sunday, 26 January 2020
- 12:00 Standing Room Only this sunday: arts education in crisis
- 12:36 Leading educators say New Zealand arts education is in crisis
- 1:30 Dance Epidemic hits with Michael Parmenter
- 1:46 TV sleuth Agatha Raisin saved by Acorn
- 2:27 The Physics Room Comes Home
- 2:40 Finding a girl cut out of your history - Professor Bart Van Es
Sunday, 22 December 2019
- 12:00 Naughty and Nice: A roundup of the arts in 2019, featuring Santa
- 12:26 Art in Aotearoa 2019: Francis Upritchard, Matariki Williams & Warren Feeney
- 12:30 Burning Cultural Issues in 2019: Tayi Tibble, Carla Van Zon & Sam Brooks
- 2:25 2019 Literary Moments: Pip Adam, Rachael King & Claire Mabey
- 2:40 Performing Arts highlights 2019: Tama Waipara, Dione Joseph & Lyne Pringle
Sunday, 15 December 2019
- 12:35 Superstar poet Hera Lindsay Bird turns to short stories
- 12:48 Taiaroa Royal flies like an eagle
- 1:31 Paddy Richardson's new novel is set on Matiu Somes Island
- 1:47 Policeman turned novelist Ian Austin
- 2:29 Professor David Skegg takes on our health system
Sunday, 8 December 2019
- 12:36 Hunting down an historical cabinet
- 12:45 Irish singer and activist Pauline Scanlon
- 1:32 Arts for marginalized West Auckland youth
- 1:46 New Zealand jewellers and the Handshake project
- 2:25 Stephanie Parkyn and Josephine's Garden
- 2:40 Amy Brown's baby journal - neon daze
- 2:49 A Youth theatre company explores the teenage brain
Sunday, 1 December 2019
- 12:00 This week on Standing Room Only on the first day of Summer 1 December
- 12:30 In Strong Voice - Morag Atchinson
- 12:45 Olivia Webb
- 1:33 Ella Sutherland is off to Berlin
- 1:50 Greg O'Brien publishes on painter Melvin Day
- 2:25 Making Sense of a Collection - Ruth Buchanan
- 2:40 Andi C Buchanan's From a Shallow Grave
- 2:49 Warren Feeney on 20 years of Scape Public Art
Sunday, 24 November 2019
- 12:36 From Abbey Road to Masterton
- 12:50 Harry Ricketts and the end of the New Zealand Review of Books
- 1:31 Cat Ruka
- 2:26 Liz Breslin
- 2:38 Kirsty Powell
- 2:49 David Rickard
Sunday, 17 November 2019
- 12:36 For love of the "Desi Western"
- 12:46 A boy called Piano
- 1:31 A Kiwi in Los Angeles' Skid Row
- 1:50 Ngatai Taepa on the importance of indigenous artists connecting
- 2:26 Crafting Aotearoa
- 2:40 Catherine Chidgey's Cat Detective, Jiffy
- 2:49 Playmarket Awards presented
- 3:04 Remembering Nancy Brunning
Sunday, 10 November 2019
- 12:00 Standing Room Only Sunday 10 November
- 12:35 The World is Coming to Sing Here - John Rosser
- 12:45 A Nuanced Love Story in an Irish pub - Playwright Kieran Craft
- 1:35 Bright Futures for Dancers Joshua Faleatua and Tyler Carney
- 1:50 School Students Take on the Rights of Prostitutes
- 2:25 Camera on Community - Visual Artist Chevron Hassett
- 2:35 On Being a Drongo - Author Ian Richards
- 2:50 The Labour of Burying Sculpture as Performance - Trent Hiles
Sunday, 3 November 2019
- 12:36 Third Act - an improv programme for the young at heart
- 1:32 Television highlights of 2019
- 1:47 Ian Cross, novelist, editor and former head of NZ Broadcasting
- 2:24 Burn Time - Victorian technology brought up to date
- 2:33 American poet Chen Chen
- 2:44 The art of album covers
Sunday, 27 October 2019
- 12:00 This Sunday on Standing Room Only RNZ 25 October
- 12:30 Manifesto of a Good Cripple - Suzanne Cowan
- 12:45 Stories behind the stories at NZ Listener - Joanne Drayton
- 1:33 Trading Taonga - Janet Davidson on "artificial curiosities"
- 1:50 Poverty and child neglect in Hansel and Gretel
- 2:25 Ambassador for Decolonisation: Jo Walsh
- 2:40 When AI is in charge - Writer Chris Else
- 2:49 Fighting Attila the Hun - JA Grierson
Sunday, 20 October 2019
- 12:36 Co-curator of the NZ Festival of the Arts - Laurie Anderson
- 1:33 Martine Bannvinger's new play about fellow migrant Ans Westra
- 1:43 30 years of NZ On Air
- 2:26 Sarah Laing's autobiographical comics
- 2:37 Lynley Edmeades' "found" poems
- 2:45 The Good Girl Song Project
Sunday, 13 October 2019
- 12:35 CNZ Pacific Artist Award-Winner, Eteuati Ete
- 1:32 British actor and playwright Lennie James
- 1:45 Lathe-cut records - still a thing!
- 2:25 Cameron Jones' award-winning show High Rise comes home
- 2:36 Lawrence Patchett introduces The Burning River
- 2:50 Sxip Shirey and his bizarre orchestra
Sunday, 29 September 2019
- 12:36 Nga Taonga celebrates new premises with a new show
- 12:45 Christine Leunens' novel now an acclaimed Taika movie
- 1:31 Samoan choreographer Tupe Lualua
- 1:50 Expat opera star Madeleine Pierard returns home
- 2:25 Textile artist - and comedian - Lauren Sinner
- 2:40 Frankie McMillan and the Father of Octopus Wrestling
- 2:49 Flash fiction star Dione Jones turns to long-form
Sunday, 22 September 2019
- 12:36 Maria Giese tackles Hollywood over women directors - or the lack of them
- 12:46 Hoda Afshar
- 1:31 Vaimoana Niumeitolu
- 1:50 Liz Nugent
- 2:26 Philip Trusttum
- 2:37 Laurence Fearnley
- 2:49 The Aura Festival of Artists Moving Image
Sunday, 15 September 2019
- 12:37 New Zealand Drama for the World
- 1:31 Winners of the Ngaio Marsh Crime Fiction Awards
- 1:45 Pukana - centuries of Maori performance
- 2:25 The Los Angeles Percussion Quartet land in Christchurch
- 2:35 Becky Manawatu's first novel tackles domestic violence
- 2:50 Hinemoana Baker is inspired by her years in Berlin
- 3:55 Award-winning playwright Ruth Ratcliffe
Sunday, 8 September 2019
- 12:37 Crissi Blair is champion of children's literature
- 12:45 Women and art crimes
- 1:31 The enduring treasure of Hei Tiki
- 1:48 The Silver Sisters: playwriting is a family business
- 2:25 British playwright and dramaturg Fiona Graham
- 2:40 Poet Anne Kennedy's new work is inspired by memory
- 2:49 Leading Māori singer-songwriter Amba Holly
Sunday, 1 September 2019
- 12:36 New Arts Laureates announced
- 1:31 100 years of Whanganui's Sarjeant Gallery
- 1:46 Preserving heritage wallpaper
- 2:26 Renee Liang's family stories inspire a play
- 2:39 Sandra Arnold's novel The ash, the well and the bluebell
- 2:48 Melissa Boardman transfers bird photos to meticulous paintings
Sunday, 25 August 2019
- 12:38 The Coalition for Books is launched
- 1:33 The new, provocative Poet Laureate
- 1:47 Fiona Collins - from Samoa with Alofa
- 2:25 Renaissance Puppets and Music
- 2:38 Writer Renee Hollis seeks untold war stories
- 2:48 40 years of Zambesi
Sunday, 18 August 2019
- 12:00 Anti-fashion: this week on Standing Room Only
- 12:45 Long term investment in the arts – the winners and the losers
- 1:33 The Antifashion Revolution
- 1:50 50th anniversary of Aratoi: the Wairarapa museum of art and history
- 2:25 Nightsong - Making innovative theatre
- 2:40 Where are the women philosophers - poet Helen Rickerby
- 2:49 Ngaio Marsh's 1943 production of Hamlet
Sunday, 11 August 2019
- 12:00 Kākahu, levitation, Schoon, McCahon and Parkin: Standing Room Only on Sunday
- 12:30 Problematic, controversial, racist? Discussing the art of Theo Schoon
- 1:30 Chris Parkin on giving to the arts
- 1:45 Gafa Arts Collective
- 2:25 Aboard the Colin McCahon bus tour
- 2:40 Craig Cliff talks levitation
- 2:49 Kakahu - Maori cloaks
Sunday, 4 August 2019
- 12:00 Museum admission charges, winners and solo shows: Standing Room Only Sunday 4 August
- 12:30 What price art and culture? Paying for museum admission in NZ
- 12:45 And the winner is.... The National Contemporary Art Award
- 1:33 Reinterpreting a Classic Depiction of Polynesian Migration - Greg Semu
- 1:50 Giving Hope in a Climate Emergency - Anthropozine.org
- 2:25 Dancing with a Stranger - Daniel James
- 2:40 Paul Cleave's gritty overseas crime story
- 2:49 Alone again, naturally: Tahi Festival
Sunday, 28 July 2019
- 12:38 Jacqueline Fahey - seven decades of paintings
- 1:28 The Future of Work
- 1:48 Bill Hammond Playing the Drums
- 2:25 Laura Southgate and The Boyfriend
- 2:40 Composer in Residence Salina Fisher
- 2:49 The return of the audio cassette in Christchurch
Sunday, 21 July 2019
- 12:36 Comedy Panel
- 1:32 Movie soundtracks finally get put in the spotlight
- 1:44 Peter Peryer: The Art of Seeing
- 2:26 Bryce Galloway's musical midlife crisis
- 2:40 Novelist Weng Wai Chan
- 2:49 Three Kiwi acts at New York's SoHo Playhouse
Sunday, 14 July 2019
- 12:38 Sons & Co - the go-to arts website people
- 12:44 Tales from the typing pool
- 1:33 Life on the road with a successful NZ theatre company
- 1:46 Ceramicist Cheryl Lucas
- 2:25 Keeping the Wow factor in WoW
- 2:38 essa may ranapiri - nonbinary and proud
- 2:49 A fired-up generation of activists inspires a new play
