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For more than 30 years senior Maori clay artist Wi Taepa has loved getting his hands dirty. His approach is determinedly low-tech. He builds his vessels by hand, fires them in sawdust… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:35 PM.By setting her new crime novel in 1960s New Zealand, writer Jen Shieff reminds us of the distant past where lesbians were forced to keep their sexuality secret. Audio

2:25 PM.Three decades of art ranging from pop and underground street culture to his more recent interest in typography are canvassed in Christchurch artist Tony de Lautour's first major retrospective. Read more Audio, Gallery

1:45 PM.Robbie Ellis made his name in New Zealand as a serious composer, including time as the University of Otago's Mozart Fellow - but his latest work shows he's just as adept at writing comedic tongue… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Curator Ben James is working on the exhibition called Burning Up Years: Aotearoa Music History at the Wellington Museum. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:40 PM.The producers of the new Dame Anne Salmond hosted Maori TV series Artefact were offered unprecedented access to collections and taonga here and overseas. Audio

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The Sydney Biennale is a significant international contemporary art event, important for New Zealand artists selected to represent us - they can open doors to other arts events as well… Read more Audio, Gallery

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A New Zealand feature film looks set for release throughout the Eastern Block, and beyond, after premiering at the Moscow International Film Festival and taking out a top prize. Dustin… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:50 PM.Dancer and Choreographer Jandel J a.k.a. Justin Haiu is bringing The Perfect Gift to the New Zealand Comedy Festival - a rare example of a show aimed at children in the festival programme. Audio

2:40 PM.Today we're looking at stories from another angle - talking to Grammy nominated storyteller American Diane Ferlatte who doesn't commit her stories to the page - it's all in the performance and from… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.It's not often in New Zealand an art dealer opens a second gallery space - and there have been a fair few failures in the past, but one of our leading contemporary gallerists Hopkinson Mossman wants… Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Privately run art galleries outside the main centres have an important role to play - for the artists who show there, for the people who love art, and for their communities. Audio

1:30 PM.A temporary photo studio in the Broad Bay community hall is capturing the "little intimacies" between local pets and their owners. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:45 PM.Documenting the reality and impact of climate change around the globe in his bleakly beautiful images, is the all consuming project of expat photographer Michael Hall. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:30 PM.The latest technology meets some of Christchurch's earliest buildings with the release of a new app in time for upcoming New Zealand Archaeology Week.  Read more Audio, Gallery

12:14 PM.Veteran Nashville based songwriter Marc Beeson has penned well over a hundred songs from almost 30 years in the business. Audio

2:26 PM.Filmed in nearly 50 countries on six continents, kilometres underground and from outer space, an ambitious new 10- part TV series explores the history and fragility of our planet. One Strange Rock is… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke has played Apple co-founder Steve Job's wife Lauren, and mountaineer Rob Hall's wife Jan Arnold in contemporary, world premiere operas. She says she… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.When George Bernard Shaw first tried to show his play Mrs Warren's Profession in the late 1890s, the Lord Chamberlain banned it because of its content - prostitution. The first production was in 1902… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.The story of New Zealand's fallen soldiers who remain buried in foreign fields, often unprotected, and the whanau who want to bring their remains home, is told in a new Maori TV documentary. In… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.It's always tricky to come up with a specific category for the novels of Charlotte Grimshaw. Mazarine, her latest, has elements of a thriller, a mystery and a love story. In it, writer Frances… Read more Audio