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2:47 PM.Walking is one of our great national pastimes. But what do you think about to keep the mind off the hunger and pain - especially when you injure yourself along the way? If you're poet Paula Green it's… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:27 PM.In histories of the post-punk alternative music scene that blossomed in New Zealand in the 1980s Peter Jefferies is a name you'll see many times. Read more Audio, Gallery

1:50 PM.KP&WM: The makers behind the artists explores the work of two Christchurch printmakers, and friends, Peter Vangioni of Kowhai Press and Kate Unger of Watermark Printworkshop, at COCA Christchurch.  Read more Audio, Gallery

1:33 PM.Ophelia becomes a dramatic heroine rather than a tragic victim in film director Claire McCarthy's re-interpretation of the young woman doomed to die in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Read more Audio

12:43 PM.As Wellington debates the future of its earthquake-damaged central library, and Christchurch enjoys its new high tech one, it's the perfect time to really think about libraries of the future.  Read more Audio, Gallery

12:36 PM.Artist Donna-Marie Patterson wants New Zealanders to really think about water, how precious it is, how under valued and how at risk.  Read more Audio, Gallery

2:47 PM.Between them, the NZSO National Youth Orchestra and the New Zealand Youth Choir have clocked up 100 years of making music and training future professional musicians and singers. So they're heading out… Read more Audio

2:35 PM.The Museum of Old and New or MONA for short in Hobart Tasmania is the largest privately funded museum in the Southern hemisphere, and some would say both its greatest and strangest. Read more Audio, Gallery

2:25 PM.Bread, wine, milk and now chocolate. The Java Dance company made its name here and overseas dancing in the back of buses, followed by a menu of food themed dance works. Read more Audio, Gallery

1:48 PM.Despite the government's talk of a well-being budget, the makers of a new play exploring Aotearoa's inequality gap remain unconvinced that life will improve for those who're struggling financially… Read more Audio

1:26 PM.It's taken decades of work, patience, fundraising and planning to build the centre in the town basin. Stage one of the Cultural Centre has been open for just over a week now. It houses space for… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:43 PM.Creative writing courses at some tertiary institutions are under threat, and that's got writers, students and the wider literary community worried. While online courses seem popular with management… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Auckland painter Martin Law has made an ambitious three decade long commitment to painting New Zealand's architecture in its landscape. The expat Brit is about to exhibit his latest in the series… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:00 PM.This Sunday for your arts and culture fix on Standing Room Only 12.30-4pm. Read more

2:49 PM.Instead of concentrating on the buildings destroyed in and after the earthquakes in Christchurch's CBD, a new event is enticing people back to explore the heritage buildings that have survived. A new… Read more Audio

2:38 PM.It's 2048 and the dire predictions about climate change made decades earlier have come true. In his novel Melt, Auckland writer Jeff Murray imagines New Zealand's response to a wave of migrants. Would… Read more Audio

2:26 PM.Since the early 1980s the arts collective Pacifica Mamas (and more recently Papas) has kept traditional Island arts and crafts skills not only alive but flourishing and in the public gaze. These… Read more Audio

1:47 PM.Inuk artist Mark Igloliorte made a travel pillow from seal skin and used it on his flight to New Zealand to highlight how Inuit communities are suffering from restricted international trade in seal… Read more Audio

1:31 PM.One of the first challenges facing the first chief executive of Whangarei's Hundertwasser Art Centre, will be to win the hearts and minds of the many people who've opposed the project from the start… Read more Audio

12:37 PM.You've spent years - and an awful lot of money - making your film. Now to find an audience. Everyone, cross your fingers and wish really hard! That's never a sensible strategy. Getting an audience… Read more Audio

2:49 PM.The children's book entries turned out to be the toughest one for this year's PANZ Book Design Awards - in fact they've shortlisted a record nine entries. The awards also include all-important covers… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Sam Mitchell's paintings are fascinating. They often incorporate rescued materials, discarded library books, toucans, and Nancy Mitford - all with her trademark meticulous technique. Painting on… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Frank Sargeson is remembered not only for his writing but also for the other writers he mentored, including Janet Frame. One of the most colourful members of his circle in the 1940s was refugee… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.Silo Theatre's next production is making history - it's the first time the stage is being given over to an ensemble of teenage performers, all making their professional debuts. The young Aucklanders… Read more Audio

1:31 PM.A new art gallery in South Auckland is promising to promote contemporary Pacific art, to work closely with its community and to encourage collectors by offering art at affordable prices. Vunilagi Vou… Read more Audio