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2:49 PM.The Murdoch Mysteries has just started filming its 14th series. And this time Yannick Bisson not only plays Detective William Murdoch, but also occasionally takes on the role of director. The show's… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.In her novel The Swimmers, Chloe Lane imagines a daughter's dilemma when her chronically ill mother wants to end her life. In it, Erin as an adult is looking back to when she was 26, the year her… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Being a Kiwi police detective - and a lesbian - in the Australian force is tough enough for Detective Inspector Robbie Gray in Chris Stuart's crime novel, For Reasons of Their Own. But Robbie is now… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Reclaiming and decorating discarded wooden furniture is one of the skills of artist, graphic designer and teacher Katy Cottrell. In her latest exhibition Furniture Memoirs, Katy's given a battered… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:31 PM.The discovery of the growing hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica provided plenty of worrying headlines in the 1980s. But in a rare example of international co-operation, action was successfully… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:42 PM.Cartoonist Shaun Yeo caught the nation's attention when his drawing of a crying kiwi in the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque attacks went viral. He's now producing daily cartoons for the Otago… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:30 PM.E. Nesbit's original novel Five Children and It is the story of an Edwardian family that comes across an ancient magical creature called Psammead with the ability to grant wishes that last for a day… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

2:47 PM.For more than 15 years, photographer Mickey Smith has prowled through libraries around the world in search of bound periodicals - like popular contemporary magazines - to snap the book spines. Read more Audio, Gallery

2:40 PM.Whanganui-based poet Airini Beautrais has channelled her ability to say a lot in a few words into her first collection of short stories called Bug Week. Airini's four poetry collections include Flow… Read more Audio

2:27 PM.Poems about poetry and cycling are two of the themes James Brown has often reflected on during his quarter of a century of writing. Read more Audio

1:47 PM.The Alexander Turnbull Library's 100th birthday celebrations may have been scuttled by Covid-19, but the treasure trove of New Zealand archives still gets to mark this milestone. An exhibition of… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:31 PM.Composing for a large choir and a maximum of three instruments - that's the challenge Choirs Aotearoa NZ is issuing to some adventurous Kiwi composers. It's a perfect time for composers to try… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:48 PM.Facing precarious times thanks to Covid-19, contemporary art galleries in Christchurch and Auckland have joined forces to work together on exhibitions they can share. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:30 PM.Three in-demand Kiwi composers who've worked on three very different movies- a drama, a horror and a comedy - have made it to the shortlist for this year's APRA Best Original Music In A Film Award. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:16 PM.If ever there was an idea whose time had come it may be a TV movie called Toke. When the country is getting ready to make a decision about marijuana - to legalize it or not - what better time for a… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:47 PM.Many museums and art galleries around the country are struggling with funding and visitor numbers. But Gore is pressing ahead with several ambitious projects with the full support of its community… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:38 PM.A poet who writes about agriculture from different perspectives will be working on her first full-length collection after being selected as Dunedin's next Young Writer in Residence. Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Alan Titchall taps into his childhood memories for the setting of his first novel. He grew up in a small hydro village in the early 1960s, on the eve of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In While The Fantail… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:45 PM.A poet who's been to hell and back has written candidly about her experiences in her debut collection, My Honest Poem. Read more Audio

1:33 PM.Like other theatres around the country, Auckland Theatre Company has had its plans to put its actors back on stage disrupted after the long Alert Level One stretch came to a sudden end. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:35 PM.Over the years we've charted the rise of Maori, Pacific Island, Asian and Pan-Asian voices on our stages and screens. Now the creative voices of New Zealanders of African and Caribbean descent are… Read more Audio

12:17 PM.The latest survey by NZ On Air about how we consume our entertainment in 2020 is makes sobering reading. Where are the audiences? it asks. And the answer is - increasingly, not on traditional TV any… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:47 PM.Portraiture is one of the trickiest artforms - to get beyond the surface of a face into the soul. Photographer Marti Friedlander was an expert, and many of her black and white images - especially of… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:29 PM.Rejection is never easy to take - but sadly, it's the rule not the exception in so many aspects of the arts. There are simply too many applicants for too few jobs. And this is particularly true for… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.As live performance spaces grapple with the unpredictability of life under Covid-19, a UK company is bringing a performance to your kitchen table. Read more Audio, Gallery