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2:40 PM.Ōtepoti writer Emma Neale speaks about her latest book The Pink Jumpsuit,  a mix of short through to ultra short flash fiction. Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Auckland's Bruce Mason Centre is celebrating its 25 years of hosting plays, shows, rehearsals and workshops on the North Shore. Arts patron Angela Antony considers building 'The Bruce' is her greatest… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.Makerita Urale, Creative New Zealand Senior Manager, Pacific Arts speaks about the art agency's crowdfunding campaign to support Pacific artists. Read more Audio

1:33 PM.Writing Home: An Antidote to Feeling Stranded is a collection of videos the Nelson Arts Festival has commissioned from Kiwi writers living here and overseas. Paula Morris speaks about the experience… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Nigel Borell is the curator behind Auckland Art Gallery's landmark exhibition of Māori art Toi Tū Toi Ora, and winner of the Arts Foundation's inaugural He Momo - A Moment In Time Award this year. He… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:30 PM.Chris Tse is part of the team working on a new contemporary opera called Silence Is, about silence as part of the upcoming LitCrawl festival in Wellington Read more Audio

12:15 PM.The country's Screen Production and Development Association, SPADA, wants our government to impose a levy on international streaming services. SPADA Executive member Irene Gardiner joins Lynn to cover… Read more Audio

2:49 PM.A painter, a sculptor and an architect collaborated in the 1960s and 70s to create unique churches, chapels, schools and private houses - all with a distinctive Kiwi character. "Big deal" you might… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:40 PM.What does it really mean to be courageous? Bridget van der Zijpp explores this in her new novel I Laugh Me Broken. Bridget's first novel, Misconduct was shortlisted for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers'… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.The popularity of the British TV series The Repair Shop - where damaged personal items are repaired by talented craftspeople - is a reminder that some skills must never be allowed to die out… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:50 PM.Origami as you've never seen it before... Artist Sarah Hunter has designed giant origami light-shade installations from her photographs of her much-loved childhood stomping ground on Hawke's Bay's… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:33 PM.It'll be a year later than planned, and the artist might not be able to attend to install her work or meet the international guests. But Yuki Kihara will be the first Pasifika artist to represent… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:48 PM.Plastic items from more than 25 different countries, including New Zealand, wash up on the remote Pitcairn Islands, posing a threat to a habitat that's home to unique and endangered species. British… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:15 PM.Postponing, rescheduling, cancelling, even rebranding... Organisers of the country's biggest arts, film and music festivals are having to make huge calls on the fate of their events in the light of… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:48 PM.Ataria Sharman knows how tough it is to make a living as a writer. The essayist, poet, social entrepreneur and editor at The Pantograph Punch is constantly looking for new ways to encourage Maori -… Read more Audio

2:37 PM.A five-million dollar Cultural Sector Emergency Relief fund has been announced, with Creative New Zealand deciding who gets what. But with so many arts organisations in so much strife, the pieces of… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.A story of obsession, jealousy and resentment won last year's Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel. But Gigi Fenster's book is now published, and unnerving its readers. A Good Winter is… Read more Audio

1:46 PM.There have never been so many outlets for young writers wanting to share their work with their friends and indeed the world. But there's nothing like a festival to allow them to get together, talk… Read more Audio

1:31 PM.Japan's imperial war efforts and sense of nationalism are explored in an installation called Our Remaining Breath, that's representing Aotearoa at the Tokyo Biennale. Kiwi artist Fiona Amundsen has… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:45 PM.There are risks in taking a portrait at face value. Matariki Williams and Rebecca Rice are the curators who selected the 36 historic portraits of Maori and settlers that have hung on Te Papa's… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:15 PM.Rob Sitch - Australian actor, writer, director and bloody legend whose CV includes satirical TV shows Frontline and Hollow Men, as well as one of that country's best loved films, The Castle. Working… Read more Audio

2:47 PM.A widow, a rock star, a would be novellist and her anxious teenage daughter - these are among the strangers that Isa Pearl Ritchie beings together in new novel, The Seekers' Garden. Different paths… Read more Audio

2:37 PM.Tim Grgec's grandparents escaped communist Yugoslavia in the 1950s, and came to Aotearoa as refugees. Tim's debut poetry collection weaves some of their memories into the story of two siblings who… Read more Audio

2:26 PM.If you could be tested to see if you carry inherited genes for a fatal disease, would you? That's a dilemma facing more and more people as scientists keep making breakthroughs in genetic testing… Read more Audio

1:46 PM.Opening a bookstore in late 2019 looks like the worst possible timing, given what happened over the next 18 months. But Schrödinger's Books in Petone has not only survived Covid, it's taken out the… Read more Audio, Gallery