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2:50 PM.After several false starts and other disruptions thanks to the pandemic, Wellington's Footnote NZ Dance company is about to hit the road to celebrate its 35th birthday. The icing on the cake for the… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:36 PM.A serial killer determined to go down in history terrorises the small New Zealand town of Lentford in Nikki Crutchley's latest crime novel The Murder Club. The murderer taunts investigative journalist… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Southland's writers and readers are finally getting their own Festival thanks to a group of booklovers who believe it's past time the region celebrated its rich literary heritage. Local writers are… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:06 PM.On the Laugh Track over the years we've run the gamut of funny-haha, funny-peculiar and funny-what are they thinking of? Today's guest may very well cover all of the above. The multi-talented Emma… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.Enforced lockdown for a dancer is especially hard, but for Aucklander Lomina-Meteri Araitia it gave her time to breathe, but also to grieve. Right now though she's about to show a new work created as… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.There is no stiffer upper lip in Britain than that of Muriel, the stoic wealthy widow whose son takes advantage of her naivety in one of Alan Bennett's famous Talking Heads monologues, "Soldiering… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.A performing arts programme for prisoners in the Bay of Islands is being held up as an example for other prisons to follow. Redemption Performing Arts Whanau and Redemption Arts Tuakana Teina Mentors… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:30 PM.Human-sized golden kowhai flowers, the extinct huia brought back to life and soldiers marching to war in Featherston... The last ten years of back-breaking work creating large-scale, public artworks… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:49 PM.From fashion runways and Wellington's cable-car tunnels, to massive public spaces around the world, Angus Muir and his team transform public spaces using lights - hundreds and thousands of them. Angus… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:40 PM.A new app about to come online in Tauranga will help to explain and demystify 20 artworks placed around the city centre. The City Art Walk is part of Tauranga's Escape Festival later this month. Read more Audio, Gallery

2:27 PM.A determination to change the perception of Whangarei as a city full of empty buildings is behind Hayley Clark's decision to become co-founder of the city's first Fringe Festival. There'll be more… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:46 PM.Irish poet William Butler Yeats was a member of a clandestine society where spirits were conjured and magic practised - and by his side was the much younger woman who'd later become his wife, Georgie… Read more Audio

1:33 PM.Karen Rankin is a Scratchboard artist who creates thousands of scratches on inked metal boards to create portraits of wildlife. Often they're black and white but she'll also use irridescent inks for… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:47 PM.The annual Auckland Art Week has negotiated its way around the changing alert levels so that it can take place this month in locations around the city. Lynn Freeman talks to Tim Melville, director of… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.Producing pewter kiwi, stuffed kiwifruit and other nicknacks for overseas tourists - that's no longer an option for the many artists and artisans in those regions who've relied mostly on the… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:16 PM.Six Hawkes Bay elders have shared their personal stories with a local theatre group, and now their words are woven faithfully into a work of theatre. "Verbatim theatre" can take numerous forms. For… Read more Audio, Gallery

5:47 PM.It's been a wild ride but New Zealanders' time with the notorious West family is coming to an end after 12 seasons. The final series of Westside, the prequel to the equally successful Outrageous… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:47 PM.The first series of improv comedy series Educators on TVNZ on Demand was a smash hit for its creators Jonny Brugh, Jackie Van Beek and director Jesse Griffin. So it's hardly surprising the team got a… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:39 PM.Beethoven's "Sonata Number 30 in E Major" weaves its way through a novella that's won a Trans-Tasman literary award for its writer, Professor Bryan Walpert from Massey University. Bryan, who's also a… Read more Audio

2:28 PM.Christchurch's latest Public Art Walkway is about to open, in stages, offering pedestrians a collection of temporary sculptures to enliven their strolls though the city. It's courtesy of SCAPE which… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:48 PM.A Mild Case of Murder, The Wife Who Knew and Happy Honeymoon - A Near Tragedy - three titles of, we're told, early New Zealand films by enthusiastic amateur director Robert Steele are at the centre of… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:28 PM.Auckland's pioneering South Asian Prayas Theatre company is going big with its 15th birthday celebrations - performing highlights from eight plays from different time periods around the Indian… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:34 PM.Moss Patterson has been choreographing ambitious and breathtaking dances for more than a decade, with Atamira Dance Company and more recently with his company TOHU. In recognition of his leadership… Read more Audio

12:14 PM.Props are often the unsung heroes of set-design on stage or screen. They may be brandished by the actors, or just sitting quietly on a shelf waiting to be produced, but they're always crucial in a… Read more Audio, Gallery

4:16 PM.Literary Festivals are back - but not as we knew them. The pandemic hasn't put a stop to traditionally popular writers festivals with three happening in the next few weeks. But a big line up of… Read more Audio