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12:36 PM.Never before seen film of the 1931 Napier earthquake aftermath will go on show at the first exhibition Nga Taonga Sound & Vision is putting on at its new headquarters at the National Library in… Read more Audio

2:49 PM.Newtown in Wellington is the guinea pig for a planned annual festival of videos celebrating the country's most creative suburbs. The famously multi-cultural inner-city suburb is home to the arts… Read more Audio

2:37 PM.In the first in a series of novels centring on the senses, Dunedin author and recent Arts Foundation Laureate Laurence Fearnley, focusses on smell. In Scented, university lecturer Sian is struggling… Read more Audio

2:26 PM.Putting his own subversive spin on Christchurch's proliferation of post-earthquake 'no go' and other public signs has kept artist Phllip Trusttum busy for the past few years. No Go! is the name of the… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.One of Ireland's top crime writers is heading to New Zealand to talk about her craft, and about why sales of crime novels - always popular - are going through the roof in these uncertain international… Read more Audio

1:31 PM.She was born in Nuku'alofa, raised in Hawai'i and now works out of New York, but Vaimoana Niumeitolu still strongly identifies as a Tongan artist. At the moment she's in New Zealand for the Tautai… Read more Audio

12:46 PM.The world is not being allowed to forget the plight of abandoned asylum-seekers on West Papua's Manus Island, through the work of Melbourne-based, Iranian-born artist Hoda Afshar. In April last year… Read more Audio

12:36 PM.It's been slow going but Maria Giese who's leading the charge in Hollywood over the industry's ongoing discrimination against women directors, says there is progress - at least in television and… Read more Audio

3:55 PM.Setting up a theatre company made up of prisoners and ex prisoners so they can help at-risk communities, is the ultimate goal of Ruth Ratcliffe, who's one of this year's Te Putanga Toi Arts Access… Read more Audio

2:50 PM.A year long residency in Berlin in 2015 has turned into a much longer stay for poet, singer-songwriter and editor Hinemoana Baker. The German capital has been a mecca for New Zealand artists for a… Read more Audio

2:35 PM.A contemporary story of loss, grief and domestic violence - but also of hope - is told in the first novel by Westport based Ngai Tahu novellist and journalist, Becky Manawatu. In Aue, we meet orphaned… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Percussion quartets are rare, and their list of instruments number in the hundreds, from marimbas to found scraps of metal and plastic. The Grammy-nominated Los Angeles Percussion Quartet is heading… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.From Maori origin stories to te reo thrash metal - a new exhibition is canvassing Maori performance over the centuries. Pukana: moments in Maori performance at the National Library in Wellington… Read more Audio

1:31 PM.TVNZ has announced that it's pumping millions more dollars into local content. While there's no breakdown of how that money will be spent at this early stage, it's a fair bet that a chunk will go into… Read more Audio

12:37 PM.This year a project was initiated by NZ On Air, the Film Commission and Script to Screen to sell on-screen New Zealand drama to the world. These days, many of the best examples aren't on linear TV, or… Read more Audio

2:49 PM.Amba Holly already has several Waiata Maori Music Awards in her cabinet, this year she's again up for best female solo artist Now in its 12th year, the Awards celebrate excellence in Maori music and… Read more Video, Audio

2:40 PM.The memories and emotions surrounding the accidental death of her big brother Phillip in 1973, have been poured into a new poetry collection by Anne Kennedy. Moth Hour is not a eulogy or a lament but… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.28 Plays from around the world are about to be performed in Dunedin, over just three days. There's a Jacobean farce, there's a comic murder mystery, but the marathon also includes plays that cover… Read more Audio

1:48 PM.Working with your sibling on a play can go either way. You know each other so well there's a lot you don't need to explain. Or you know each other so well you don't treat each other as professionals… Read more Audio

1:31 PM.It's been sixty years since a comprehensive book about hei tiki was last written, and so much has been learned about these most precious of Maori adornments during that time. Dougal Austin from Te… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Art crimes are headline-grabbing news but how often do you hear about the exploits of women art thieves, vandals or forgers? Is the reason for the answer "never" or "hardly ever" because they're just… Read more Audio

12:37 PM.Auckland book reviewer and judge, school librarian and long time champion of children's literature Crissi Blair is the 2019 Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award winner. Crissi is an authority on… Read more Audio

2:48 PM.She can capture detailed photographs of native birds in a split second, but Wellington illustrator Melissa Boardman then spends hours drawing and painting the birds on canvas, using those images as… Read more Audio

2:39 PM.In her third novel The ash, the well and the bluebell, Canterbury writer Sandra Arnold tells a story that spans three centuries. Audio

2:26 PM.The oral histories of Dalmation settlers in West Auckland were the starting point for the new play by Renee Liang. The award winning playwright's husband is from Croatia and she's spent a lot of time… Read more Audio