Standing Room Only Podcast Options

12:40 PM.Going West, Aotearoa's oldest indy LitFest, used to be all about the bringing together of writers and readers in a room, even on a train, to chat about books. But that was then. After two disrupted… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:16 PM.A treasured violin run over by a car is one of the most extreme repairs carried out by The Stringed Instrument Company in Auckland. Our occasional series of interviews with repairers continues with a… Read more Audio, Gallery

5:23 PM.Whanau Marama: the New Zealand International Film Festival has just announced it will return this year, though it's going to have to reduce the number of films and venues. It's coming off the back of… Read more Audio

2:45 PM.The depth and diversity of humankind's relationship with the natural world are explored in a new exhibition Nature Culture at MTG in Hawke's Bay. Local artist Chris Bryant-Toi's work forms a… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:30 PM.A boy's father goes missing while at Te Papa - but he's not missing in the building, he's lost in one of the museum's taonga. That's the premise for a new book called Lost in the Museum, a… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:25 PM.Poems based on public holidays and significant days in our history are included in Pistils, the 9th collection by Janet Charman. There are deeply personal works touching on the death of her partner of… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.Creatures from the distant past or visitors from another dimension? An arresting new exhibition from internationally renowned Kiwi artist Francis Upritchard features a range of human and animal forms… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:30 PM.A three month trip home to Christchurch from London to donate a kidney to her mother, has turned into a two year stay for expat jeweller Hannah Upritchard. But she's making the most of her time… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:30 PM.Photographer Murray Cammick's new exhibition The show must go on comes bristling with levels. It's the old showbiz dictum, of course - no matter what, go on and give them a show. And these days that's… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:15 PM.First today it is a privilege on Standing Room Only to be announcing the winners of the Adam NZ Play Awards. Lynn is joined by Murray Lynch, the head of Playmarket that runs the awards. We will also… Read more Audio

2:49 PM.The wealth of feminist art by Pacific women Aoteaora and across Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, the Pacific Ocean, is being celebrated in a new exhibition at Toi o Tamaki Auckland Art Gallery. Ane Tonga, the… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.Thriller writer Stephen Johnson sends an ambitious TV news team into dangerous territory in his new book Boxed. The expat Australian tv producer and tour guide, was a finalist in the 2020 Ngaio Marsh… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Moments of joy to fortify the soul are promised in the latest poetry collection by Chris Tse, Super Model Minority. They're not all soft and tender poems though, as Chris once again mines tough times… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.In the 1990s Artist and political activist Diana Halstead spent a miserable few years living in Devonport - she found it claustrophobic after living in the wilderness of the Waitakere Ranges. Each day… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:33 PM.Tomorrow is World Poetry Day and poets around Aotearoa have been busy beavering away to celebrate it. One of them is Associate Professor Sarah Ross, from Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Well before the pandemic, many of the country's libraries were facing uncertain times. Many school and community libraries have been struggling to compete with other calls on stretched school and… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.The three composers up for the 2021 APRA Best Original Music In A Film Award each faced entirely different challenges with their scores. They've also had to wait a long time to find out which of them… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.There's been a major shift in New Zealand independent publishing this week. Auckland publisher Upstart Press has purchased the entirety of New Holland Publishing, including their extensive backlist of… Read more Audio

2:49 PM.Gisborne's Kaiti beach beach has been the giant canvas of local artist Adel Salmanzadeh and his whanau this week, in a work created for the Auckland Art Festival. The Iranian-born refugee came to… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.Many of us may remember sitting around the good old Formica kitchen table back in the 1960s and 70s. Eastbourne-based poet Maggie Rainey-Smith takes us back to those times in her new collection… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.A picture might be worth a thousand words, but Gregory O'Brien has made a name for himself by offering paintings as well as poems in his collections. The Wellington writer, painter and art curator has… Read more Audio

1:47 PM.NZSO flautist Bridget Douglas has stepped up to the challenge for a videoed online concert that's part of the revamped Aotearoa New Zealand Arts Festival programme. As she tells Lynn Freeman, it's… Read more Audio

1:33 PM.Breakages, borer and botched DIY repairs, he's seen it all at his studio in the Manawatu where he trades as "Good As New". In another in our occasional series of interviews with repairers and… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:45 PM.The new Chief Executive Officer of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra has big plans for the CSO, especially when it comes to hitting the right note with the community. Dr Graham Sattler was appointed… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.A new exhibition invites you to think more deeply about those large, woven, plastic, carry-all bags used around the world for years. The mass-produced bags come in fetching combinations of red white… Read more Audio