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2:49 PM.How to Write an Album in 12 Hours is a New Zealand Fringe Festival show, and Play Shop's musicians, improvisers and writers start work at midday on Sunday in front of a live audience. Producer Sam… Read more Audio

2:37 PM.Writer and editor Vincent O'Sullivan published his first novel Let the River Stand in 1993, his second Believers to the Bright Coast in 1998. He's kept us waiting for another two decades for his third… Read more Audio

1:48 PM.Nine years ago Matthew Nache established a small dealer gallery in the heart of Gisborne. From the start the art lover had an eye on the national and international markets for artists with a point of… Read more Audio

12:47 PM.A new performing arts competition called Art In Motion is rising from the ashes, created by two Whangarei teenagers. Jayden Rudolph and Teale Vint are both 19, work in Northland as dance instructors… Read more Audio

12:34 PM.Candide stars one of Australia's real living legends, Reg Livermore. A star there for more than 60 years, is best known as one of the first Frank N Furters in The Rocky Horror Show. Audio

12:16 PM.Simon Morris caught up with the very busy Casey taking an hour off from post-production on her first film as a director. Audio

2:49 PM.These days every second programme on TV is some sort of cooking show, but it's hardly a new thing. There have been TV cooking shows as long as there's been TV. Audio

2:40 PM.Elizabeth has filled gallery walls with dozens of fish and white butterflies and plunged us into the ocean around the distant Kermadec Islands. She brought together works at Aratoi Gallery in the… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Lindauer settled in Woodville in 1890 and remains better known here than in his hometown of Pilsen, now part of the Czech Republic. Though an exhibition of his New Zealand paintings there a couple of… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.Australia's Griffith Review, a quarterly journal that investigates Australian and New Zealand literature and current affairs, is encouraging this discussion by bringing authors from around the… Read more Audio

1:47 PM.Continuing our series on people who work behind the scenes of the arts, Lynn Freeman meets two Christchurch Symphony Orchestra volunteers. They may be separated by about 50 years in age but they're… Read more Audio

1:32 PM.An exhibition representing 20 years of Graham Fletcher's paintings - some rescued from obscurity in his mother's garage - is about to go on show in Auckland. The Third Space: the Art of Graham… Read more Audio

12:34 PM.Will virtual reality, VR, help filmmakers craft a new kind of experience for film fans? That's being explored by some of the next generation of filmmakers at Victoria University's new Miramar Creative… Read more Audio