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1:40 PM.Set on Vanuatu immediately after Cateogry 5 Tropical Cyclone Pam in March 2015, Mikaela Nyman's novel Sado is the story of an isolated community and its residents coping - and not - when put under… Read more Audio

12:50 PM.NZ on Air is promising those who rely on it for funding that it will be responsive and innovative over the weeks and months to come, with COVID-19 seeing planned productions around the country… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.This time of imposed home time is the perfect opportunity to dust off that unfinished painting, sculpture, music score, poem or book. But if taking on a big project is a bit much, how about trying… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.From Monday morning, Kiwi performers will be presenting original work to the nation via Silo Theatre's Instagram account. And they're getting paid for it.

Lynn talks to Sophie Roberts, artistic… Read more Audio

2:48 PM.Volunteers in a small West Coast town have been working hard to restore a heritage theatre. The Lyric Theatre stands in the heart of Granity, a small seaside mining town about a half hour north of… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.Writers of fiction for young adults explore themes that are universal in nature but often most poignant in young people finding their way in the world. Two new books by New Zealand authors Half my… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.He was the first ever artist-in-residence at Whanganui's Tylee Cottage, and now, 34 years later, Laurence Aberhart is the first to return. Laurence first spent time at the cottage in 1986, and… Read more Audio

1:43 PM.You could be forgiven for thinking there's a pitched battle between the Baby Boomer Generation and the Millennial one. There probably isn't, but both generations are seemingly so obsessed with… Read more Audio

1:32 PM.Right now the cinemas are staying open - just. The problem isn't just the fact that all the big titles have been pulled. Now it seems that just about any sized film has been withdrawn - even an… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.This week the full effect of the Covid-19 outbreak on the arts has really been revealed. Theatre shows, concerts, arts and comedy festivals have been put off, or cancelled. It leaves many artists, who… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.This is not something you hear about too much these days - the commissioning of a new stained-glass window. Read more Audio, Gallery

2:25 PM.To celebrate her 80th birthday, Dame Fiona Kidman has brought together 13 of her short stories to explore what it means to love. Read more Audio

2:06 PM.This week indigenous story telling through film will be showcased at the Maoriland Film Festival in Otaki, on the Kapiti Coast. Read more Audio, Gallery

1:45 PM.He's been described as the King of Love Songs - composer Burt Bacharach whose songs dominated the charts from the 50s to the 80s, but perhaps most powerfully in the Sixties. Read more Audio

1:33 PM.American organist and composer Cameron Carpenter is about to perform with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in Christchurch and Dunedin. Read more Audio

12:47 PM.A year after the tragic events in Christchurch how does the New Zealand Muslim community feel about living here? Read more Audio

12:33 PM.When the Prime Minister made her announcement yesterday about the steps being made in the light of the coronovirus threat, it was clear that it was going to affect any large gatherings of people in… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.This week on Standing Room Only - we speak to author Fiona Kidman on her new book, a collection of short stories selected from across her career, Ali Harper, who's show The Look of Love celebrates the… Read more

2:44 PM.Selecting from more than 30 years of poetry to fit into one book was the challenge New Zealand's first Poet Laureate set herself. Michele Leggott's called the collection Mezzaluna. It starts with… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Greek pop singer Marina Satti's track "Mantissa" became an anthem for young Greeks facing unemployment when it was first released in 2017, at the time of her country's debt crisis. Marina Satti's… Read more Audio

1:46 PM.A young Belgian couple have become champions of New Zealand performance and visual artists, offering them a pop-up gallery or performance space around the country in their modified truck. They call it… Read more Audio

1:32 PM.Auckland's Hobson Street Theatre Company, whose actors have all experienced homelessness, is representing New Zealand at an international Arts Festival held every three years in Rotterdam. The… Read more Audio

12:44 PM.Anne Hamblett was married to Colin McCahon. But a new exhibition is a reminder that she was also an important artist in her own right, although she gave up painting to raise her family and to support… Read more Audio

12:36 PM.Dimanche tells one story of a family battling extreme weather conditions and another of three filmmakers braving the Arctic to document species doomed to extinction: The show is coming to New Zealand… Read more Audio