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1:46 PM.If you're renovating your home, and it pre-dates 1980, keep an eye out for the original wallpaper - if it hasn't been stripped off or painted over. Heritage New Zealand is preserving heritage… Read more Audio

1:31 PM.It's an indication of the affection with which the Sarjeant Art Gallery is held in Whanganui that the city is celebrating its centenary with a great big party to which everyone's invited. Audio

12:36 PM.After big changes at the Arts Foundation and an absence of new Arts Laureates for more than a year, ten were announced last night. Audio

2:48 PM.On the Eve of New Zealand Fashion Week, the Zambesi label is preparing to show its latest collection, and celebrating its 40th year in a notoriously volatile industry. Audio

2:38 PM.A genealogist is hunting for as yet untold personal stories of World War Two. Renée Hollis is working on the project for the New Zealand Society of Genealogists, After all the researching and writing… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.The Dunedin Medieval and Renaissance Society, aka The Rare Byrds, is about to mark a decade of making music - and puppet shows - that hark back to medieval times. Audio

1:47 PM.Over the last decade she's been involved in films including Vai, Moana and The Orator and set up a successful casting company, all while teaching at the National University of Samoa. Actor, writer and… Read more Audio

1:33 PM.Dunedin 'poet provocateur' David Eggleton has big plans for his two year tenure as New Zealand's Poet Laureate. Since the 1980s the the multi-award winning performance poet, critic, editor and… Read more Audio

12:38 PM.It's taken a year to get from bright idea to a plan of action. But the new Coalition for Books is holding its inaugural meeting at the Booksellers Association Conference in Auckland this weekend. Audio

2:49 PM.A 1943 modern-dressed wartime production of Shakespeare's Hamlet was Dame Ngaio Marsh's first of many productions for the Canterbury University Drama Society. The director and crime writer's script… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:40 PM.Where are the female philosophers? Why are women silenced? Who can tell us how to live? These are three questions on the back cover of poet and publisher Helen Rickerby's fourth book of poems How to… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Ben Crowder and Carl Bland are the duo behind one of New Zealand's most innovative theatre companies, Nightsong. Carl writes and then helps Ben direct, supported by leading designers and actors. This… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:50 PM.This weekend marks the beginning of celebrations of the 50th anniversary of Aratoi, the Wairarapa's Museum for Art and History in Masterton. Dame Robin White, Aratoi's patron calls the museum it the… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:33 PM.Antifashion is a term that's been used to describe design that is explicitly contrary to the fashion of the day. It's Alternative. And it's inherently political. Grunge fashion reacted against punk… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:45 PM.60% of the money arts development agency Creative New Zealand puts into the arts goes to long term funding for the running of arts organisations. Read more Audio

12:00 PM.This week on Standing Room Only 12.30-4pm Sunday: discussion about long term funding investment in arts organisations in the wake of big recent Creative New Zealand funding news with CNZ's Cath… Read more

2:49 PM.Among the most beautiful and distinctive aspects of New Zealand culture are kakahu, Maori cloaks. They're created not only to adorn people, but to provide shelter and warmth, and to acknowledge their… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:40 PM.Craig Cliff is our writer and the inspiration for our musical theme - levitation. In Nailing Down the Saint, he asks, can people fly? His protagonist, kiwi film-maker Duncan Blake, is following the… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.If he was alive today Colin McCahon would be 100. We get on the McCahon bus - literally. As well as discussing the many events and exhibitions which form part of the McCahon100 celebrations and the… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:45 PM.An opera about rugby sounds about as probable as, a Samoan performance group based in London. But they both together are true. R'Otello is part of London's new Opera in the City Festival and the work… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:30 PM.Arts patron, philanthropist and entrepeneur Chris Parkin, the man behind the $20,000 Parkin Drawing Prize (just announced) and a fabulous hotel art collection, who has just donated $1 million towards… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Problematic. Controversial. Difficult. Racist. Words even the curators of the first substantial exhibition in decades of the late artist Theo Schoon use to describe his character. So why, in the face… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:00 PM.This Sunday's art, culture and heritage radio show 12.30-4pm RNZ National Read more

2:49 PM.It's the most cost-effective drama there is, and often the most riveting. Solo Performance - one person on stage for an hour or so with no visible support - has a noble tradition in New Zealand - from… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.Thriller writer Paul Cleave is one of our best-selling authors - responsible for even more fictional murders than fellow Cantabrian, whodunnit queen Dame Ngaio Marsh. But his latest - Whatever it… Read more Audio