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12:30 PM.The founder of a trust that provides free stringed instrument lessons to children in Porirua says there's no doubt young people are engaged in classical music. This comes after the announcement RNZ is… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.People dedicated to collecting and archiving our history are grappling with how to collect and store millions of emails - in a bid to preserve that part of our heritage. Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Writer Scarlett Thomas has referenced some of her own miserable memories of being at boarding school in her latest and 10th novel Oligarchy. Read more Audio

1:50 PM.Thirty years after Sir Roger Hall first introduced New Zealand theatre audiences to married couple Barry and Gen in his play Conjugal Rites, they're back - older, grumpier, and still together. Read more Audio

1:33 PM.A New Zealander is working on an ambitious exhibition about the Japanese kimono. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:35 PM.More than 20 New Zealand feature films are due out for release this year. Read more Audio

12:00 PM.This week on Standing Room Only with Lynn Freeman: the New Zealand Film Commission's chief executive Annabelle Sheehan discusses the year ahead for the film industry, and the challenges it faces… Read more

2:40 PM.Oxford English Professor Bart Van Es went in search of a reason for a decades-long rift in his Dutch family between his grandparents and their Jewish foster daughter, Lien. They took Lien in during… Read more Audio

2:27 PM.Since 1996 Christchurch's The Physics Room has been one of our most significant incubators for contemporary artists, yet for two years it's been without a secure home. In that time it has run a bold… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:46 PM.It was the British TV series Extras that brought Ashley Jensen to wider attention, although prior to landing the part of Maggie she’d had a busy career on stage and TV – including a stint in Ugly… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:30 PM.A dance epidemic broke out in Strasbourg in 1518, and a new show about it stars foremost New Zealand contemporary dancer and choreographer Michael Parmenter. Over the decades he's worked with our top… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:36 PM."Teachers hope to end "near death" of arts in school" ran the Newsroom headline in an article by Professor of Education at the University of Auckland Peter O'Connor this week. The week at Te Papa in… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Standing Room Only's first arts and culture show for 2020. 12.30-4pm Sunday Read more Audio

2:40 PM.Has 2019 been a good year in the performing arts? Te Matatini, the national Maori performing arts festival inspired kapa haka themed pedestrian crossing lights in Wellington, new festivals popped up… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.The Booker, The Ockham, Atwood, Knox, The closure of the New Zealand Review of Books, covering up white suprematist posters in Newmarket with Hone Tuwahre's poem 'Rain', and Lloyd Jones' proclaiming… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Looking back across the cultural landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand in 2019 some words and catchphrases pop up: encounters, call-out culture, Ihumatao, climate emergency, allyship and, the phrase just… Read more Audio

12:26 PM.A giant hand called Quasi made world headlines. Dane Mitchell's fake transmitting trees at the Venice Biennale were joined by a real fallen tree during flooding. Giant woven works by the Mata Aho… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Meri Kirihimete! In this week’s Standing Room Only Naughty and Nice 2019 special, stand-in host Mark Amery is joined by artists and commentators for a look at the highs and lows of the year in visual… Read more

1:47 PM.In the third in his Dan Calder crime novels. Ian Austin has the ex-detective take on a cold case that turns him into the prime suspect. Read more Audio

1:31 PM.Wellington's Matiu Somes Island was an internment camp for enemy aliens during both the First and Second World Wars. It's the setting for a new novel by Dunedin author Paddy Richardson. Read more Audio

12:48 PM.Maori and Native Americans share a reverence for their sacred eagles, and this connection is being explored in a new work co-choreographed by New Zealand dance legend, Taiaroa Royal. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:35 PM.She exploded onto - first, the New Zealand then the British - poetry scenes after her first collection won the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Award. She numbers British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy as… Read more Audio

2:49 PM.An insight into the chaotic teenage brain is the promise from Christchurch's Court Youth Company's young actors, ahead of their end-of-year production, Brainstorm.

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2:40 PM.Every day for the first four months of her baby's life, Amy Brown kept a journal of poems about the emotions and milestones mother and baby experienced. Now she's out them together in a book called… Read more Audio