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2:44 PM.Even a three-volume autobiography doesn't come close to telling the full story of poet Lauris Edmond OBE. So her daughter and literary executor, Frances Edmond, is filling in the gaps in a biography… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:38 PM.In the final episode of Standing Room Only, host Lynn Freeman chats to Catriona MacLeod about her five decades at RNZ. Read more Audio

2:27 PM.Visual effects art director, Dylan Coburn has drawn storyboards for some of the biggest recent New Zealand projects - Rings of Power, Cowboy Bebop - even Dame Valerie Adams More Than Gold... It's an… Read more Audio

1:46 PM.The often heartbreaking story of the extended family of three Jewish Second World War refugees who found a new home in Aotearoa is told in a new poetry collection, We came from Hamburg. Retired judge… Read more Audio

1:32 PM.Writer Susy Pointon is determined to capture the many stories of Northland's rugged and mysterious Hokianga, her adopted home. Since moving there 18 years ago, she's talked to locals to record their… Read more Audio

12:41 PM.This year marked a first at Cannes - both the winning films came from the same country, South Korea, Decision to leave and Broker. But South Korea has been making its presence felt across the board… Read more Video, Audio

12:32 PM.The fashion industry is notoriously wasteful - for instance, cheap clothing that lasts months rather than years before ending up in landfills. But an expat now based in the US is leading by example… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:16 PM.Since Standing Room Only started some of the biggest changes we've seen in attitudes towards art and artists has happened in Otautahi Christchurch. How much artists contributed to the city's emotional… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:47 PM.Seven years after escaping a family tragedy in her home town, Jac Morgan reluctantly returns to search for her missing sister, Charlie. But twenty years earlier, another teenage girl went missing in… Read more Audio

2:36 PM.At 11 she released an album, at 18 she set up a charitable foundation, and now at 21 Tayla Alexander is a lyric soprano. Before that, she's about to perform in a short comique opera in Brisbane. It's… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.An embalmer goes rogue in horrific ways in the first crime novel written by K. M. Tarrant - someone who is very much at home in a mortuary. She's a qualified embalmer, she's fascinated by human… Read more Audio

2:06 PM.The list of people who've combined comedy with a love of classical music is a short but distinguished one. Dudley Moore and Bill Bailey, maybe. Tom Lehrer and Tim Minchin. And to it can be added the… Read more Audio

1:47 PM.Very much against the odds, Rosaline Frank was able to forge a career as Nelson's first woman professional photographer, starting at the end of the 19th century. A local photographer Rosalina McCarthy… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:31 PM.This year on Standing Room Only we've run interviews with all kinds of repairers. Our last is with a colleague of ours, John Roberts - better known around here as JR - who mends old broken radios that… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:47 PM.A pilot scheme helped Canterbury secondary school art students build their confidence by getting their work into a gallery - and sold. Now it's being rolled out to the next generation of Te… Read more Audio

12:33 PM.Dr H. B. Turbott was The Radio Doctor for more than 40 years - pre and post the Second World War - dispensing advice on a range of health and social issues until his retirement in 1984. His broadcasts… Read more Audio

12:16 PM.James Cameron is about to launch one of the Greatest Shows on Earth - Avatar The Way of Water has just had its first sneak previews in the Northern Hemisphere. We have a vested interest in New Zealand… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:49 PM.Right now the country's public libraries want to have an even bigger role in their communities - in particular, actively helping schools to support the education of our tamariki. LIANZA - the Library… Read more Audio

2:37 PM.In the 47 years since Elizabeth Smither published her first poetry collection, Here Come the Clouds, she's won numerous awards and was our Poet Laureate in the early 2000s. Her latest collection My… Read more Audio

2:26 PM.Simon Devitt describes the houses he likes to photograph as "self-assured, poetic and sustainable". And he's brought together 30 of his favourites in a book called Cape to Bluff. Some are intriguing… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:45 PM.For most people walking Te Araroa - the 3000-kilometre trail from Cape Reinga in the North to Bluff in the South - just putting one foot in front of the other is enough to think about. But Sarah Adam… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:31 PM.After almost 40 years as Principal First Violinist with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Yury Gezentsvey is about to play his last concert with them. He left the Soviet Union as a refugee in 1979… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Kiwi screenwriter/playwright Anthony McCarten has a new film about Whitney Houston coming out for Christmas - I Wanna Dance With Somebody. But that's not the biggest news. He also has not one but two… Read more Video, Audio