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1:33 PM.Drawing for comics that included Judge Dredd, Marvel Monsters and The Muppet Show are some of the highlights on the CV of expat Roger Langridge. He's coming home from London to take part in ComicFest… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:48 PM.The Privacy Commission has turned to an art space for people living on the margins of society to help raise awareness of the issue of personal privacy. Commissioner John Edwards is working with… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:30 PM.Faisal Abdu'Allah is a University Professor, a barber, a performance artist, photographer, documentary maker and sculptor. That's not the whole story but it gives you a sense of this artist who's… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

3:45 PM.Touted as one of the world's great glass artists Martin Janecký creates lifelike human figures from blown glass, something that's taken the Czech hot glass sculptor many years to master. He's recently… Read more Audio

2:49 PM.A chamber piece about two long lost friends and their long held secrets is how Matthew Loveranes describes his play MoodPorn. The script was selected for Playmarket's Asian Ink competition last year… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.In her psychological thriller The Gulf Between, set mainly in 1960s Naples, Dunedin writer Maxine Alterio puts young mother Julia and her two children right in harm's way. The family moves to Naples… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.The film What We Do in the Shadows is the cinematic gift that keeps on giving. Not only has it spawned an American TV version, now screening on Neon and Sky Soho2 here, but it's also part of a new… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.30 banners have been hand-stitched nationwide to celebrate 125 years of women's suffrage. We speak to Dunedin based community artist Janet de Wagt and two of the contributors around the country: Lise… Read more Audio

1:33 PM.A new five-part series on New Zealand music is screening on Prime TV throughout NZ Music Month. Anthems: New Zealand’s Iconic Hits tells the story of New Zealand music through some of this country's… Read more Video, Audio

12:45 PM.Her first official day in her new job as Director of Auckland Art Gallery is May 1, and her focus already says Auckland Art Gallery is how to up visitor numbers and income. Kirsten Paisley takes on… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Peter Morgan knows Queen Elizabeth the Second very well. The British film writer and playwright created the Netflix series The Crown and the film The Queen. Now New Zealand's about to see The… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Join Lynn Freeman 12.30 to 4pm this Sunday for new Australian director of the Auckland Art Gallery Kirsten Paisley, Melbourne comedian Rhys Nicholson, actor Theresa Healey playing the Queen, producer… Read more

2:49 PM.Leki, who's of Tongan, Niuean and Samoan descent, has written The Gangster's Paradise for Auckland Theatre Company's annual youth theatre festival Here & Now Leki Jackson-Bourke tells Lynn Freeman his… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:40 PM.Hawkes Bay thriller writer and expat Swede Tina Clough has brought back the two unlikely detectives she introduced in The Chinese Proverb, for another dangerous assignment. One Single Thing by Tina… Read more Audio

2:26 PM.A story about a family where an aging father and his three children are keeping big secrets from each other is at the heart of the latest novel by Greg McGee, Necessary Secrets. He tells Lynn Freeman… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.Associate Professor James Tibbles, renowned organist and historic keyboards expert, has been instrumental in creating a virtual organ for his students at the University of Auckland School of Music… Read more Audio

1:33 PM.Working to save a few fragile huts from the Antarctic "heroic era", left behind by explorers like Scott and Shackleton has been one of the most satisfying projects undertaken by architects Chris… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:45 PM.Upcoming New Zealand TV drama The Bad Seed is ground-breaking in more ways than one. Lynn Freeman asked Dean O'Gorman and Madeleine Sami about the challenges of The Bad Seed which starts on Sunday… Read more Audio

12:38 PM.Artist and curator Nathan Pohio won a Walters Prize nominee in 2016, and represented Aotearoa at Documenta 14 in Athens Greece and Kassel Germany 2017. A work of his from 1999 is included in the… Read more Audio, Gallery

3:54 PM.New York choreographer Dwight Rhoden's Bach to Bowie is a ballet set to David Bowie tracks. His international dancers are heading to New Zealand with their show which is will be on at the Civic in… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:49 PM.Ireland's Eva Rothschild is currently working on an exhibition - Kosmos - that she and her nation hope will impress the thousands of art critics and art lovers. Lynn Freeman asks Eva Rothschild about… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:41 PM.In May, author of the book Harsu & the Werestoat Barbara Else is taking a workshop on Writing For Children as part of the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival. Lynn Freeman asked Barbara about her… Read more Audio

2:26 PM.This online resource is a treasure trove for researchers, artists and writers.Lynn Freeman meets DigitalNZ's Fiona Fieldsend, who tells her it aims to be a one-stop shop. Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

1:45 PM.Auckland Art Gallery's Painting Conservator Ingrid Ford and Paper Conservator Camilla Baskcomb know all about it. Conservation work remains painstaking, despite new techniques and technologies. Lynn… Read more Audio, Gallery