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Greenstone TV looks ahead
12:16 PM.More than two hundred TV series and and one-offs - Greenstone TV has been producing local shows for more than 20 years. And despite the many challenges facing the screen sector at the moment, it has a… Read more Video, Audio
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The story of Ashburton becomes an art exhibition
2:48 PM.It began in 1858 as a humble ferry crossing. Now the Canterbury town of Ashburton, made rich through agriculture, is in the midst of a large scale revitalisation project, with new buildings springing… Read more Audio, Gallery
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The notorious Flora McKenzie inspires a trio of crime novels
2:39 PM.Auckland's famous madam Flora MacKenzie has now inspired a trilogy of crime novels by writer Jen Shieff. The first two in the series The Gentleman's Club and The Vanishing Act were both finalists in… Read more Audio
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Patricia Bell and The Library of Unfinished Business
2:28 PM.Whether or not you believe in an afterlife, chances are you've imagined what it might be like. In Auckland writer Patricia Bell's novel The Library of Unfinished Business, we join recently deceased… Read more Audio
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Our first professional portrait artist, William Beetham
1:48 PM.Family members descended from Aotearoa's first professional portrait artist, William Beetham, are bringing together paintings he made of himself, his wife and his ten children for an exhibition called… Read more Audio, Gallery
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FLARE sees muralists taking it to the streets
1:30 PM.One of the few public artforms that can happen at the moment is street art. Christchurch in particular is making the most of it, launching an entire festival devoted to it. FLARE, the organisers tell… Read more Audio, Gallery
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The art of a cappella singing
12:45 PM.For a decade Timothy Wayne-Wright travelled the world performing hundreds of concerts with Britain's Grammy award winning The King's Singers. Now he and his family have settled in Aotearoa, where Tim… Read more Audio
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Gareth Farr's new piece debuts in Auckland
12:15 PM.The classic requiem form is the springboard for a new work that reflects on how Kiwis have been experiencing loneliness, distance, and uncertainty under lockdown and border restrictions. Where Will… Read more Audio
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Reading advocate Sarah Forster
2:43 PM.All children deserve to see themselves in a book, but in Aotearoa this isn't always happening. That's the key point made in the acceptance speech by the country's most recent winner of the Storylines… Read more Audio
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Thriller writer Tina Clough
2:28 PM.A new novel invites us to fast forward four years. State surveillance is everywhere in Aotearoa, and if you dare to search for evidence of government corruption you could end up on the Kill List… Read more Audio
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Keith and Faith Martin's Dolls' Hospital
1:35 PM.Why is the BBC TV series The Repair Shop - where heirlooms are repaired by experts - so popular? The skill of the craftspeople is certainly breathtaking. But often it's the story behind the objects… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Making screen comedy for your phone!
12:47 PM.Here's a new Instagram comedy series called I got you, designed to be watched on your mobile phone. The story is simple: a young Pasifika woman starts a side hustle giving relationship advice -… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Sculptor Denis O'Connor
12:36 PM.Sculptor and social historian Denis O'Connor has created a love letter to his home of five decades, Waiheke Island, in the form of a bright red post office. The Last Post Office houses PO boxes for… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Libertine Pictures' Richard Fletcher making high-end drama under Covid
12:16 PM.Two weeks ago we talked with New Zealand Film Commission CEO David Strong about the challenges - and some rewards - facing the whole industry. But what's it like at the sharp end? One of our most… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Artist Yona Lee has a thing about steel pipes
2:48 PM.Artist Yona Lee uses hundreds of metres of stainless-steel pipe - the sort more commonly turned into handrails - for her room-sized gallery installations. Then she adds everyday objects like… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Veteran poet Alan Roddick looks back - and forward
2:36 PM.The past, present and even speculation about the future all find a place in the latest poetry collection Next by Otepoti Dunedin based writer Alan Roddick. It's the octogenarian's third collection… Read more Audio
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Murder in the Far North. Call DI Bradshaw
2:26 PM.Aotearoa's latest literary sleuth, D.I. Nyree Bradshaw is faced by a mystifying and culturally challenging case in Catherine Lea's thriller The Water's Dead. The DI and her team are in a race against… Read more Audio
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The Laugh Track - comedian Ryan McGhee
2:06 PM.One of the best things about the last couple of weeks on the Laugh Track is that the guests - mostly about to star in the upcoming Fringe Festival - have generally picked other Fringe performers. It… Read more Audio
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Bringing native birdsong into the heart of the city
1:46 PM.From dawn 'til dusk, pedestrians walking along Otepoti Dunedin's central George Street, are about to be serenaded by Recordings of Town Belt native manu or birds. Artist Vicki Lenihan made the… Read more Audio
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The art of "jewelleryness"
1:31 PM.Cigarette filters, rusty chains, old pipes and other urban detritus have found a new life in the hands of Wellington jewellers and collaborators, Caroline Thomas and Fran Carter. It's a project that… Read more Audio, Gallery
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In praise of Kiwi film crews
12:45 PM.A suspense/thriller set in the States but filmed in Tamaki Makaurau last year is about to get an international audience. Australian director Damien Power hadn't originally intended to film No Exit on… Read more Video, Audio
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The golden age of state houses
12:29 PM.When photographer David Cook started taking pictures of his neighbours in a characterful Hamilton East state housing suburb back in the 1990s, nobody realised that gentrification was about to strike… Read more Audio
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Michelle goes to Berlin
12:16 PM.New Zealand film-maker Michelle Savill has been hovering in the "Girl most likely" category for a while now, and it looks like that promise is coming true. Her debut feature is called Millie lies low… Read more Audio, Gallery
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25 years of the ground-breaking dance company Touch Compass
2:45 PM.Aotearoa New Zealand's only disability-led professional performing arts organisation, Touch Compass, is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a live streamed show. Technically the dance company, which… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery
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Poet Oscar Upperton and the singular Doctor Barry
2:29 PM.Transgender 19th-century surgeon Doctor James Barry is one of those fascinating characters from the past who you can't believe isn't better known. He was by all accounts an excellent physician, though… Read more Audio