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12:45 PM.Renée's small fictional rural town of Porohiwi is once again the scene of a murder. But why would anyone kill grumpy old mask collector Matthew Durrell in his home? Blood Matters is award-winning… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.From the traditional through to the revolutionary "nuevo tango" style works of Argentinian composer Ástor Piazzolla - New Zealand group called Aotango is about to present A Century of Tango. Born in… Read more Audio

12:16 PM.Maori and Pasifika contemporary artists, whose work has enriched Aotearoa and captured the world's attention over the last half a century, share their stories in a new TV series, Waharoa: Art of the… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:47 PM.Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid is the alluring title of the latest exhibition by sculptor Louise McRae. She's been described as an alchemist of materials for the way she manipulates everything… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:36 PM.Risking a vaccination campaign in India against government orders puts a New Zealand doctor at great risk in the 1990s. That's the thumbnail description of a novel written by New Zealand GP David… Read more Audio

2:27 PM.Ahead of starting an artist residency at the Auckland Botanical Gardens, painter Neal Palmer is about to unveil his largest paintings yet - of kauri, flax and magnolias. It's part of his 27th solo… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:46 PM.Australian installation artist and sculptor Emily Floyd is about to reveal to Dunedinites an exhibition about the history of childcare that she's created since coming to the city on a research visit… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:31 PM.Former shepherd turned activist Bill Bradford reflects on his many years, first looking after flocks of sheep and later disadvantaged workers in his first poetry collection, No Rising of the Sheep… Read more Audio

12:46 PM.When Wellington's Downstage Theatre Company closed in 2013, many feared that was the end of the road for its long-time home, the Hannah Playhouse. After all, the 49-year-old concrete building stands… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:33 PM.Douglas MacDiarmid is remembered as one of our great expat artists, but a new book that coincides with the 100th anniversary of his birth in Taihape reveals a man who was also a consummate letter… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:16 PM.Boris Bogdanovic spent years working with local communities in conflict areas of Afghanistan and Jordan to help them save their cultural heritage. Now back in New Zealand, Boris is a Conservation… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:48 PM.Kapiti Coast artists and craftspeople will be flinging open their studio doors and inviting people inside for two weekends next month, for the region's annual Arts Trail. After two tough years, the… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:36 PM.From the pandemic to climatic issues, traveling the world has become a lot harder - ethically challenging, more expensive and riskier, as the headlines have pointed out this week. In 1971, Te… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:26 PM.The Dark Cracks of Kemang - The Bajai Boys in Indonesia is the enticing title of a memoir by Napier-based poet Jeremy Roberts. The book concentrates on his and his friends' years in Indonesia, where… Read more Audio

1:37 PM.Nahyeon Lee's original background was in film and TV - she's directed, written and produced films, web-series and docu-series. Next month she makes her playwriting debut with a show called The First… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:31 PM.Michael, Albert, Sefa and Stanley, the heroes of the hit 2006 movie Sione's Wedding, return to the screen - not as adults, but as a teenage gang, back where it all began. It's the 1980s - long before… Read more Audio

12:43 PM.The repatriation of art and artefacts to and from our cultural institutions, is one of the main issues up for discussion at this year's annual Art Crime Symposium. Academics and researchers will hear… Read more Audio

12:31 PM.When immigrants arrived in New Zealand in the Nineteenth Century, they brought with them some enthusiastic musician / composers. Their success rate was a bit hit or miss, according to composer and… Read more Audio

12:16 PM.Demand for locally produced audio books has never been bigger, but up till now there's been no way to scale up production and create a self-sustaining industry. To make this possible, the Publishers… Read more Audio

2:50 PM.Mexican-born poet Rogelio Guedea has been instrumental in making New Zealand poetry accessible to Hispanic audiences internationally. He's translated the work of more than 60 Kiwi poets into Spanish… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.Peace Stick is a novel that started with a chat to a former East German schoolgirl about life behind the Iron Curtain during the Cuban Missile Crisis 60 years ago Author Stephen Johnson shares how he… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Director Keelan Walker on his new short film Bringing Mere Home, the Maori filmmaker talks about his shift from documentaries and into drama. Read more Audio

1:50 PM.Mosaic artworks are currently on display at the biennial New Zealand Mosaic Art Exhibition in Whanganui. Contributing artists Achilles Botes and chair of New Zealand Mosaic Art Pat George discuss the… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:30 PM.Director Keelan Walker on his new short film Bringing Mere Home, the Maori filmmaker talks about his shift from documentaries and into drama. Read more Video, Audio

12:45 PM.How will Auckland Theatre Company's latest production, North by Northwest duplicate Alfred Hitchcock's cinematic vision that incompassed a chase across four presidents' heads on Mount Rushmore, an… Read more Video, Audio