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12:16 PM.The flashy 1980s are remembered for being wildly over the top - big hair and big shoulder pads, Dynasty, Duran Duran and Michael Jackson. But in Aotearoa it was also a decade of protests and change… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:50 PM.A three metre high tower made from Takaka marble removed from the Beehive and a bronze sculpture of a tui atop a giant acorn - they're among the more than 200 works in the annual NZ Sculpture OnShore.

1:33 PM.Lynn Freeman is joined by Elspeth Sandys and Malcolm Mulholland to talk about the two New Zealanders they've chosen to write very personal essays about for a new book called Nine Lives. Read more Audio

12:48 PM.Saxophonist and clarinet player Ella Polczyk-Przybyla not only believes in the healing power of music, she's put that belief into practice here and overseas. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Cantabrian David Thorpe has collected and played harmonicas for decades tackling all kinds of music genres along the way - you might know him as Li'l Chuck The One Man Skiffle Machine, Davey Backyard… Read more Video, Audio

12:15 PM.Ian Mune been a fixture in our drama scene for so long - on stage, big and small screen and radio - that we almost tend to take him for granted. Read more Audio

5:16 PM.The world-wide gaming industry is big. It's really big. Just ten years ago it generated over 25 billion dollars of income a year in the US alone. Last year it took in 135 billion dollars. Taking in… Read more Audio

2:49 PM.With the world pretty much kept out of Aotearoa New Zealand thanks to a certain pandemic, we have to find the world within our shores. And the surprising thing is how often that seems to be happening… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.It's taken a while but finally Wellington joins New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Paul Cleave's Christchurch as a cool crime novel city. As Anne Harre described it: "Dig a little deeper and the… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.It's no surprise that the opening movie to launch the New Zealand International Film Festival this year should be the highly-anticipated The Power of the Dog. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten… Read more Video, Audio

1:45 PM.One of the notable elements in this year's International Film Festival is the strong representation of Indigenous films and film-makers. One of them is an Australian documentary called Firestarter. In… Read more Audio

1:31 PM.Swedish record label Moviescore Media has just released the original score for a short documentary about endangered elephants called Kimana Tuskers. The score was composed and produced by film and… Read more Audio

12:42 PM.Resample Tatau is an ambitious new work from award-winning creative producer and sound artist Faiumu Matthew Salapu, better known as Anonymouz. Inspired by his personal journey to receive his tatau -… Read more Audio

5:36 PM.The country's librarians are about to meet to discuss how libraries have moved with the times, but why there's a lot more moving to do. Their association LIANZA has organised a three-day conference… Read more Audio

2:49 PM.For almost a decade writer Whiti Hereaka has been fleshing out the mythical story of a monster bird woman. The novel is called Kurangaituku - a name and story Whiti's known since childhood. But that… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.What happens when there are questions that only your father can answer, and you have no idea who he is? That's Tom's predicament in The Other Side of the World, a novel by Jenni Francis, whose family… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Tauranga-based artist Kelcy Taratoa is one of a handful of contemporary Kiwi artists whose work's embedded in the school curriculum. It's not surprising. His comic book-inspired painting style and… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.When the New Zealand International Film Festival reluctantly cancelled the Auckland sector, due to Covid Delta restrictions, a group of Tamaki Makaurau film lovers refused to take it lying down. What… Read more Audio

1:33 PM.The country's newest museum is about to open its doors in Otautahi Christchurch, revealling an extensive, previously private art collection that's been gifted to the city. Ravenscar House Museum… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:41 PM.NZ Opera's had a 'mare of a year. Covid 19 of course disrupted the planned productions. There were high-profile departures from its board, not to mention social media scorn poured on a planned opera… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.The enduring appeal of crime novels that offer their readers genuine thrills and curveballs, compelling characters, just enough clues and not too many red herrings, is celebrated in the annual Ngaio… Read more Audio

2:50 PM.In compiling the latest edition of the book 250 Years of New Zealand Painting, art critic and writer Edward Hanfling believes it has been three decades since painting's place as the pre-eminent… Read more Audio, Gallery