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2:06 PM.With festivals and arts events dropping like flies at the moment, it's a minor miracle when any New Zealand event makes it to the finish line. But the New Zealand Fringe Festival does minor miracles… Read more Audio

1:47 PM.In recent years many musicians have experimented with the sounds of taonga puoro - traditional Maori instruments. Art music ensemble Tamira Puoro - Ruby Solly and Michelle Velvin - are the latest to… Read more Audio

1:32 PM.Getting your name on a plaque on the Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature Writers' Walk is a huge deal, and also very competitive given how many writers Otepoti has produced. The latest two writers to be… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

12:41 PM.Just imagine being able to walk through the interior of an historic cello, a grand piano, or even a didgeridoo Using special probe lenses and high resolution cameras, Kiwi cellist and photographer… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:15 PM.New Zealand Film Commission CEO David Strong has been in the job for nearly six months now, and has presided over both triumphs and setbacks in that time. There's dealing with Covid, of course, trying… Read more Audio

2:45 PM.Dunedin citizens were embroiled in a tempestuous public debate over Darwin's Theory of Evolution in the 1880s says Dr Rosi Crane. She speaks with Lynn Freeman about these fractious times. Read more Audio

2:28 PM.Sisters Nikki Perry and Kirsty Roby speak with Lynn Freeman about their joint-novel How to Marry Harry. Read more Audio

2:06 PM.This week's Laugh Track guest is cabaret and burlesque performer Jojo Bellini speaking with Lynn Freeman. Read more Audio

1:40 PM.For almost 40 years, Professor Jay Duckworth has fashioned realistic props - or "properties" for productions such as hit musical Hamilton. He speaks with Lynn Freeman about the creativity and… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:45 PM.Frustrated by the lack of information about the many women who made a living on the New Zealand goldfields in the 1800s, Canterbury Museum researcher Julia Bradshaw went in search of them and speaks… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Transforming a biscuit tin into an artwork is the latest challenge issued to Southland artists by Invercargill artist and cafe owner, Sylvie Boutelje-Chasteau. Lynn Freeman speaks with the cafe owner… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:15 PM.Screenrights' Rachel Antony speaks with Simon Morris about a new Cultural Fund encouraging would-be film-makers and story-tellers who maybe wouldn't normally be the first ones in the queue. Read more Audio

2:48 PM.Since the 1970s ceramicist Peter Lange has pushed the boat out with his art form, these days he's working using individual bricks as canvasses. The images reflect his trademark sense of fun and irony… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:35 PM.Scheduling any festival in the time of a pandemic is going to be a nightmare. Rijula Das is the new Verb Readers and Writers Festival Programmer for 2022, and it's one of the big literary events in… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.An ambitious project to gather information from 1000s of military personnel files - of those who served in the New Zealand military in World War I and the South African War - needs your help. The… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Hundreds of New Zealand film crew were gutted by the sudden end to what were expected to be two big budget long term screen series. Amazon's Lord of the Rings wrapped after filming just the first… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:48 PM.Time spent at the Centre of Time at the University of Sydney helped writer Bryan Walpert get his head around the logistics of time travel for his new novel Entanglement. Bryan is a Professor in… Read more Audio

2:37 PM.18-year-old Amy is mourning her mother's death when we meet her in The Lighthouse, the debut novel by Takapuna-based Christopher Parker. Her father Kevin is desperate to help her, but fears that their… Read more Audio

2:26 PM.Since arriving in Palmerston North in the 1970s, Susan McConachy has taught hundreds of locals to play the piano, encouraged people facing all kinds of obstacles to get involved in the arts, and… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:50 PM.Sister and brother Rebecca and Daniel Nash have collaborated on a new book that celebrates the power of imagination and the beauty of our native birds. Their grandfather is respected painter and… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:32 PM.Hannah Tasker-Poland may well be the most multi-skilled artist we've had on Standing Room Only over the past 20 years. Based in Tamaki Makaurau, Hannah's a dancer - though she prefers "movement… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:45 PM.British actress Julie Graham - star of many TV shows including The Bletchley Circle, William & Mary and Shetland - was quick to produce a drama filmed on smartphones during the UK's extended lockdown… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery