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2:47 PM.Australian composer, pianist, singer and songwriter Petra Salsjö wrote The Journey about her brush with breast cancer. The Swedish-born musician composes for films, TV and art installations, and works… Read more Audio

2:36 PM.Wearing an All Black jersey is still the dream of many a Kiwi boy but in Nicholas Sheppard's new novel Broken Play, a talented young player's sexuality might derail his career. These days… Read more Audio

2:26 PM.Kiwi choreographer Corey Baker wants Londoners to think about climate change as they recover from record summer temperatures. He's recreating Antarctica at the London Science Museum, through images… Read more Audio

1:47 PM.American jazz pianist and arranger Shelly Berg is one of the great go-to's for American singers - his lengthy CV includes working with Stevie Wonder, Dionne Warwick, Gloria Estefan, Bobby McFerrin… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.The GPS routes recorded while he explored Waiheke Island on foot have found their way into the abstract paintings of Artist in Residence Mark Surridge. Mark's a British artist invited to Waiheke by… Read more Audio

12:49 PM.In the era of the Weinstein fallout, "Lover or predator" is the byline for Opera Otago's new modern-day production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, created by father and son director and music director John… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Cooking Sections is a London based art duo fascinated by international food practices and systems, and they're about to explore our food producing nation on a research trip. Their past projects… Read more Audio

12:16 PM.A photography course at an alternative school in Henderson, has been a life changer for the teenagers involved. Their photographs and people's stories they gathered at the same time, were shown in an… Read more Audio

2:49 PM.For fifty years Auckland-based painter Denys Watkins has produced lushly-coloured abstract paintings often responding to nature, the joy of being part of it and threats to it. Despite being a frequent… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.Writer Owen Marshell may have been born in Te Kuiti but in his soul he's a Southern Man, a champion of the people and landscapes of Canterbury and Otago. While best known for his novels and short… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.It's the 130th anniversary of writer Katherine Mansfield's birth, and her home town is going all out to celebrate the life of one of its favourite daughters. Wellington Arts Festival KM130 encompasses… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.It's a perennial question - particularly on this programme - "How to balance the need to make a living with the desire to be creative?" It's also one of the questions that photographer Jason Naylor is… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.A massive tapestry telling the stories of injured First World War New Zealand soldiers and medical staff at the Mount Felix Hospital in the UK, is about to go on display over here. Also making the… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.After more than a year in the making, The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is about to wish popular Wellington band the Phoenix Foundation a happy 20th anniversary with one of the biggest gigs they've… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Hamilton's CBD is in the midst of an art gallery bonanza, with several new galleries opening in just the last six months. So what's behind this show of confidence in the visual art market? And which… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.This week sees the grand finals of the Lexus Song Quest, 2018. Over the decades the award has boosted many a young opera singer's career, as well as being a significant confidence booster in this… Read more Audio

2:48 PM.Lynn Freeman asked Emma and Rachel if they always work on the cover as well as designing what's inside. Audio

2:25 PM.Jeppe is one of the guests of Script to Screen's "Episodic Lab" project for would-be TV writers. He's also part of a public event next Tuesday afternoon, to be held at the Ellen Melville Centre at… Read more Audio

1:32 PM.Filmmaker Rebecca Tansley documented the project and her documentary The Heart Dances is about to premiere at the New Zealand International Film Festival. She talks to Lynn Freeman about her… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.Lynn Freeman spoke to Nga Taonga Chief Executive, Rebecca Elvy and to Group Manager Information Services, Sarah Davy about how they came to take over caring for the TVNZ archives. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:28 PM.Lynn Freeman talks to Lana Bolton-Marston, Front of House Officer at the Museum, about its own history and particularly how it was linked to Dunedin's gold rush era. Audio

12:16 PM.Chris talks to Lynn Freeman and about How I met your mother, serials in general and the Script To Screen "Episodic Lab" for New Zealand would-be TV scriptwriters. Audio

2:49 PM.Photographing New Zealand landscapes, and international big-budget commercials for luxury cars - it's an intriguing combo. German born Stephan Romer now owns three galleries, one in Dusseldorf and two… Read more Audio

2:35 PM.Isa Pearl Ritchie writes about a family in crisis in her novel, Fishing for Maui, drawing on her own experiences as a young person who's struggled with depression, anxiety and chronic fatigue. Audio