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1:48 PM.Many countries are courting the Chinese film industry and that includes New Zealand. Award-winning Dunedin film and television producer, writer and director David Hay has just spent six weeks in… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:30 PM.A shout out from the New Zealand Book Council for men who're not interested in books, is getting lots of applicants. That ties in with research indicating that men are more reluctant readers and are… Read more Audio

12:51 PM.Hairy MacLary's nemesis, Scarface Claw has an exhibition dedicated to this rough tough feline that's been a Kiwi kids favourite for decades. We've spoken to his creator, Dame Lynley Dodd on Standing… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:34 PM.New Zealand Opera have been advertising six key roles in their team. Last year saw departures from the opera's board, including its chair. New Zealand Opera say they are "in the process of redefining… Read more Audio

2:52 PM.In just a few days the finalists of the 2019 Michael Hill International Violin Competition will be announced and they'll have five months to hone their performances for the judges. Winning the… Read more Video, Audio

2:45 PM.A young man obsessed with the portrayal of the underworld in literature, finds himself face to face with hell on earth during the first world war. Theodore De'ath is the central character in the first… Read more Audio

2:36 PM.Australian-based Amrita Hepi is a high profile and overtly political choreographer, dancer and filmmaker who weaves her twin Aboriginal (Bundjulung) and Maori (Ngapuhi) heritage into her work. The… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:25 PM.The 'Sold Out' sign was out at Auckland's Q theatre several times this year, a great sign when live performance has a lot of competition for audiences. Sarah Graham decides on the programme for the… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.Creative Wellington couple Lucy Marinkovich and Lucien Johnson will soon be packing their bags - and in Lucien's case his saxophone - to head to the Big Apple on the Harriet Friedlander New York… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:34 PM.Radical changes have happened to the way we train our future screen and performing arts stars at Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School in Wellington. With his staff director Christian Penny has… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:45 PM.Filmmaking in New Zealand is a very tough gig. Our size means money's tight and competition is intense for funding and support especially for new film makers. A champion of new talent Esther… Read more Audio

12:36 PM.A New Zealand woman involved in a London programme getting art by homeless people onto the walls of the city's cafes, says it's an idea that could easily work over here. Sarah Caldwell-Watson is the… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:00 PM.So long, farewell, haere ra... It's your last weekly national arts and culture fix of the year this Sunday and we've got interviews with two key figures in the arts who've leaving important posts Read more

2:49 PM.Our public gallery collections reflect colonial ties to England and an art history rooted both here and in Europe. But what of collecting and representing the art scene of today from elsewhere - in… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:40 PM.Jo Randerson is an artist whose career it seems knows no bounds - she is best known currently as a director, performer and producer with Barbarian Productions the theatre company she established with… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:25 PM.These days if you're in the arts you have to be pretty light on your feet, looking for new opportunities and new audiences, while keeping faith with the old ones. It's a balancing act, and one of the… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:50 PM.Russell was once dubbed the "hellhole of the Pacific", then named Kororareka, and the site of the flagpole famously cut down four times by Ngapuhi chief Hone Heke, sparking the Northern War of the… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:33 PM.The houses of one of our most highly regarded architects Andrew Patterson are the subject of the first monograph to be published internationally of the work of a New Zealand architect. Houses of… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:45 PM.Marty started 13th Floor in 2011 and changed it (with Reuben Raj, pictured with Marty) to Radio 13 in the middle of this year. Radio 13 is a music site with 24/7 streaming radio station that has a… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.The Independent newspaper in the UK dubbed her the world's leading sex scenes director. Ita O'Brien from the UK has the job title of 'Intimacy Cooridnator'. She teaches in some of Britain's premier… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:40 PM."Memoir is a perilous journey, where the writer is the subject and the subject is the writer... the potential for self indulgence and narcissism is obvious". So run the words on the back cover of the… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:25 PM.New Zealand famously had its Swinging Sixties in the Seventies, and nowhere did the revolution start happening more than in the visual art scene, and a new exhibition is about to pay tribute to those… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:50 PM."He's had an indelible imprint on the cellular structure for generations of New Zealand dancers, so there's huge grief but also huge gratitude." So says Shona McCullagh, artistic director and business… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:33 PM.This week saw the passing of one of the giants of European film-making - Bernardo Bertolucci. His films included some of the greatest of the late 20th Century - 1900, Last Tango in Paris, The… Read more Audio, Gallery