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12:30 PM.American artist Jodie Mack has been described as "the most exciting experimental film-maker of her generation". She works mostly in the abstract animation field, often using textiles, magazine… Read more Audio

12:17 PM.As General Director of leading international art fair FIAC in Paris since 2010, Jennifer Flay is a New Zealander playing an important role in the contemporary art world. Jennifer left New Zealand for… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.Before there was Netflix, before there was television, movies or radio, popular culture came between the covers of the popular periodical. Magazines like The Strand, Punch and the Boy's and Girl's Own… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:25 PM.20th century New Zealand writer Dan Davin is best known for his fiction, a book on New Zealand's second world war Crete campaign and his work for Clarendon and Oxford University Press after the war… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:33 PM.The Great South Road. It's almost three years ago since we talked to writer Scott Hamilton and filmmaker Paul Janman about their 200 kilometre journey down the Great South Road, which extends from… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:45 PM.In Waikanae, the Kapiti Coast's Mahara Gallery sits close to the local marae Whakarongotai and has developed a strong Matariki programme with local Maori artists. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:30 PM.Artist Jess Johnson is in New York - and Simon Ward is in Wellington - but they communicate through virtual reality, creating animation and virtual reality environments that are pretty indescribable.

12:15 PM.The Chills frontman and self-confessed hoarder Martin Phillipps has unearthed around 400 items from his expansive personal collection for an exhibition opening at Otago Museum this weekend.  Read more Audio

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Indian theatre company Prayas' Sananda Chatterjee and Amit Ohdedar are the directors of Dara which opens at Auckland's TAPAC. It's 1659 in the imperial court in Mughal India, a place… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:27 PM.June 2018 on Standing Room Only we are featuring a series of interviews by Mark Amery with New Zealand poets with new books just out. Our first is with Wellington poet Helen Heath whose second book of… Read more Audio

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Auckland Theatre Company's new production is Anton Chekov's much loved The Cherry Orchard, but its been adapted to New Zealand during the 1970s, and ther3 are four adapters, including… Read more Audio, Gallery

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Bringing together the hip hop he grew up with in Otara and the contemporary dance he came to as an adult, young dynamo dancer Aloali'i Tapu has for the last three years divided his… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:40 PM.The shortlist exhibitions for the 2018 Walters Prize have been announced with the works to be re-staged at Auckland Art Gallery in August, and the winner to be announced in November. Shortlisted is… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:16 PM.Last year saw a remarkable output of films during the final year at the New Zealand Film Commission of outgoing CEO Dave Gibson. But there have been questions as to the quality alongside the quantity… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.Talk of New Zealand's 'king' of the blues Midge Marsden retiring after 50 years in the business and playing thousands of concerts around the country is just a little premature. Lynn Freeman talks to… Read more Video, Audio

12:30 PM.An upcoming mini-doco aims to tell the story of Kas Futialo, aka Tha Feelstyle, and the way he brings together traditional Samoan music and Western hip-hop.  Read more Video, Audio

12:15 PM.Maggie Steber is an American multi-award winning photographer who has focused on humanitarian, cultural and social stories in 64 countries. In 2013 Steber was named as one of eleven Women of Vision by… Read more Audio

2:26 PM.The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will perform music by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood in the second of its hit Shed Series in Wellington next week. Following the hit debut of the series… Read more Audio