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2:37 PM.There's a playfulness to the way that Dunedin poet and essayist Lynley Edmeades writes that both celebrates and undermines language. She has a PhD in avant-garde poetics and has just published her… Read more Audio

2:26 PM.The risk of over-sharing - it's something creatives who share aspects of their personal lives with audiences really have to think about. Let Me Be Frank is the title of novellist and cartoonist Sarah… Read more Audio

1:43 PM.NZ On Air is such a part of the media mix in this country - the major funder of New Zealand's most important TV shows, not to mention RNZ, web-series and a lot of our music output - that it's hard… Read more Audio

1:33 PM.Dutch migrant Ans Westra really shook things up in her new home with her revealing black and white photographs of New Zealand, particularly her controversial school bulletin, Washday at the Pa. After… Read more Audio

12:36 PM.Visionary, former partner of Lou Reed and Nasa's only artist-in-residence - Laurie Anderson is taking audiences at the 2020 New Zealand Festival of the Arts on A Trip to the Moon, on an out of body… Read more Video, Audio

2:50 PM.Found objects, traditional instruments, computer generated material - they're all part of an orchestra of sounds New York composer Sxip Shirey taps into for his creations. Lynn Freeman gets a chance… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:36 PM.A futuristic Aotearoa ,where very different lives are lived inside and outside a fenced settlement, where plastic is mined and the future is uncertain, is created in Lawrence Patchett's second novel… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Hawke's Bay boy Cameron Jones is bringing his play that won awards at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in the States back home for the first time. Cameron's been studying in Los Angeles at the Stella… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Lathe-cut records - handmade polycarbonate discs - have been a fixture of independent record labels for years, and they're still being produced. But as ever, in short runs - including one of the… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:32 PM.British actor Lennie James is best known for his lengthy stint on the popular Walking Dead TV series. But he says that writing three plays for Auckland's Massive Theatre company has been one of the… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.Half of the much loved comedy duo the Laughing Samoans, Eteuati Ete, has received CNZ's Senior Pacific Artist Award, recognising a career that spans four decades. The Laughing Samoans started out in… Read more Audio

2:47 PM.Yirra Yaakin: Stand Tall is a Perth-based theatre company and artistic hub that's been telling Aboriginal stories since 1993. The company has commissioned and premiered more than 50 new major Festival… Read more Audio

2:37 PM.Translating her own novel from Italian into English was an obvious decision for American expat Heddi Goodrich. She moved to New Zealand 20 years ago and teaches English in Auckland. But her high… Read more Audio

2:26 PM.For the past two Auckland Artweeks he's drawn free art inside a mini wooden temple and built a small A-frame house with coloured glass windows for the homeless. So just what does architectural… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Painter Kelcy Taratoa and his video artist and curator daughter Arpege are working side by side at Tauranga Art Gallery, where Kelcy's showing early work through to new site-specific art commissioned… Read more Audio

1:33 PM.Katherine Mansfield's early childhood home in Wellington is about to reopen to the public after a much needed 'do over' inside and out. It's taken five months to replace the roof and damaged weather… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Long before diversity was a thing - or at least a thing you'd get when you campaigned the powers that be - Roseanne Liang has been a one-woman example on the big and small screens. You may remember… Read more Audio

12:34 PM.The Show Me Shorts awards were announced on Saturday night. Kiwi filmmakers Sarah Cook and Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu took home the Oscar-accredited Department of Post Best NZ Film award for their… Read more Audio

2:49 PM.Another master of ultra short fiction - and a former winner of the annual National Flash Fiction competition - is English born, Auckland-based Dione Jones. Now she's embraced long-form writing to… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.Just weeks after launching her fifth collection of prose poetry and short fiction, Frankie McMillan heard she'd won a fellowship that will help her finish her next book. It's going to be a novella set… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Improv comedian and professional embroiderer - unlikely companions on a single CV but it's what you find on Lauren Sinner's. The American fabric artist is in Wellington on a residency at the New… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.Dramatic coloratura soprano and astute businesswoman Madeleine Pierard has returned home from London to perform in NZ Opera's new production of The Turn of the Screw. Read more Audio

1:31 PM.Choreographer Tupe Lualua is working with young Samoan men - aumaga - to create a dance work that will shine a light on their invaluable contribution to traditional village society. Tupe is Creative… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Christine Leunens' novel Caging Skies was released eleven years ago to rave reviews - at home in New Zealand and overseas. It's since been translated into twenty languages. Set in Austria during the… Read more Audio