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12:35 PM.You used to almost have to wait for permission to get your Big Television Project made, reliant as you were on the TV Channels giving you a prime-time slot. But now there are increasing number of… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:00 PM.This week the state of NZ television with producers Desray Armstong, Kerry Warkia and Julian Arahanga, and after 1pm, At the Movies, costume designer James Acheson's 30 year friendship with the… Read more

2:52 PM.Why settle just for popular music? It's a brave and bold musical landscape out there when it comes to contemporary classical music, employing all manner of objects and instruments to produce sounds… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:40 PM.The author of many collections of poems herself Jenny has also been rather good at editing anthologies. Now she has turned to collecting a book of poems that all have one thing in common - they're… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Behind every successful writer there's likely to be a good literary agent - though if you're not in the business you probably don't know that. And for strong set of our top writers - including Eleanor… Read more Audio

1:48 PM.One of the biggest contemporary visual arts events in Australasia, the Asia Pacific Triennial opening this weekend will see over 600,000 people through the Queensland Art Gallery and Museum of Modern… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:30 PM.Cartoon strips seem to have vanished from newspapers, but that doesn't mean they don't exist any more. So where have they gone and how much have they changed? Sarah LaiungWe have three great New… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:48 PM.What does the future of the art gallery and the work of the art dealer look like? New gallerists are trying out new models in New Zealand, and they're not all based in Auckland. The last ten years has… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:35 PM.CEO of the New Zealand Film Commission Annabelle Sheehan has been making her presence felt in the industry with a series of initiatives, often inspired by the idea of more diversity. Read more Audio

12:00 PM.This Sunday 12-4pm at your arts and culture hangout - on air and on the web - we open with a chat with the Film Commission's Annabel Sheehan about the tension between diversity and representation, and… Read more

2:40 PM.The early film industry was like no other, and it attracted more than its fair share of, shall we say, 'outsiders'. America went in for hucksters and con-men. England preferred eccentrics and… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:50 PM.Most architectural photography presents the building as a showroom, a beautiful object, but one of our leading architectural photographers Simon Devitt has created a series of photographs that portray… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:33 PM.Film and television writers Fiona Samuel and Kathyrn Burnett have been at the Spada conference this week sharing their secrets on writing female characters. Fiona lets Simon Morris in some common… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.In the arcane world of literary translation, Peter Constantine is something of a superstar. He's translated the works of Frenchmen - Rousseau and Voltaire - Russians - Tolstoy and Gogol - not to… Read more Audio

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This week the Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt hosted Connection: an Arts Communications Hui, gathering together arts marketers, communicators and PR people with artists and… Read more Audio

2:49 PM.Big in the 1970s and then relegated to the craft section thereafter - recently, pottery - or ceramics as it has come to be known - has once again become fashionable. Major surveys of leading figures… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:40 PM.Here in New Zealand, we pride ourselves on our connection with the land. Our name spells it out - Aotearoa, Land of the Long White Cloud. We tend to forget that we're just as defined by the sea - or… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:25 PM.Illustrator Robyn Belton last week was the recipient of the Excellence Award at the inaugural Ignition Children's Book Festival in Dunedin. She picked up the award for her extraordinary body of work… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:50 PM.Performance art covers such a wide range of disciplines - dance, music, visual art, political confrontation, street theatre - but it's often hard to nail down. Many of us remember it from the 1970s… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:33 PM."Highly unconventional" is how Elizabeth Sneyd describes her own teaching methods. "If you saw me teaching on one single occasion you'd probably think 'goodness me, the kids are just larking around… Read more Video, Audio

12:45 PM.The 2018 Huawei Mate20 New Zealand Television Awards are on November 22 and the main finalists have been announced, others the New Zealand Television Craft Awards were awarded earlier this week… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Last year Tauranga overtook Dunedin as New Zealand's fourth largest city, but does it yet have the cultural reputation to match? It gained a fine new art gallery ten years ago, but this year its… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:47 PM.Los Angeles-based artist Bari Ziperstein creates pots that are politically provocative. They may use historic Russian propaganda images, or comment on America's current political turmoil. Bari's over… Read more Audio