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12:30 PM.This comic and mime artist is one of three New Zealand artists taking part in the Sydney Festival in January. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Bobby 'Berst' Hung and Ross 'Trust Me' Liew are two of the top NZ graffiti artists gathering to talk, teach and paint a mural at an event in Avondale this weekend. Read more Audio, Gallery

2:30 PM.New Zealand film Human Traces did rather well at the recent Toronto Film Festival, but not as well as one of its stars. Vinnie Bennett was picked as one of the famous Toronto Film Festival "Rising… Read more Video, Audio

1:40 PM.Theatre patrons in Hamilton long-starved of a decent performing arts centre can now look forward to a state-of-the-art theatre in the central city on the site of the old Embassy Theatre, right on the… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:30 PM.Frances Hodgkins is best known for her landscape and still life paintings, but before fleeing New Zealand in her early 30s, she also painted portraits. Some of these are now on show at the New Zealand… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:40 PM.One of the stalwarts of the Wellington arts scene is celebrating 30 years in the business. Marcia Page established Tinakori Gallery in the 80s - at the worst possible time she says! She's now… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:30 PM.Equity New Zealand has announced the recipient of the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award - the great Ken Blackburn. The previous ones were Dame Kate Harcourt and Elizabeth MaCrae. It's hard not to spool… Read more Audio

12:20 PM.Wellington just hosted the National Digital Forum, where a big topic was how to attract the maximum audience for art in the digital age. One of the keynote speakers was Australian Keir Winesmith, Head… Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Simon Morris reviews the blockbuster Justice League, but is rather keener on the unlikely Professor Marston and the Wonder Women. He also checks out festival favourite The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Read more Video, Audio

2:35 PM.When an older man takes in a struggling artist in New York City, tongues are bound to wag. But in Sebastian Hampson's novel The Benefactor Henry Calder's intentions really are kindly rather than… Read more Audio

2:35 PM.In False River, writer Paula Morris takes us from the dark days of Hurricane Katrina to a witch burning in Denmark to very personal reflections on her remarkable mother. Paula told Lynn Freeman why… Read more Audio

1:40 PM.What is it about the movies and artists? We love watching people slapping that paint on - whether it's Timothy Spall as Turner, Colin Firth creating The Girl with a Pearl Earring, or Jack painting… Read more Video, Audio

1:30 PM.New Zealand film-makers certainly make a lot of genres - from Middle Earth spectaculars and horror spoofs to the experimental drama of Waru. But we do tend towards the dark side. It's very rare we go… Read more Video, Audio

12:45 PM.Art Ache is for the budding art-lover who wants to connect with New Zealand art, but isn't quite sure where to start. It's a twice-yearly exhibition started some five years ago in Auckland, and is now… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:30 PM.The National Library has digitised and preserved over 150,000 negatives from photographer Ans Westra. Ans's friend and agent David Alsop and half-sister Yvonne talk about Ans and the project. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:15 PM.We need to talk about fish - or rather English podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. The researchers of quiz show QI have produced an online phenomenon, and are bringing it out to New Zealand. Simon Morris… Read more Audio

5:00 PM.Former World Cup soccer player Tim Brown on finding the right amount of nothing in an overcrowded market and why launching his sustainable footwear label, Allbirds wouldn't have been made possible in… Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Simon Morris looks at the latest star-studded version of the old Agatha Christie war-horse Murder on the Orient Express, the social media satire Ingrid Goes West, and a story about real-life… Read more Video, Audio

2:40 PM.As her vision fades, New Zealand's first Poet Laureate seems to see the world more clearly. Michele Leggott, who received the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry in 2013 has just… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Media headlines, social media posts, snatches of conversations - they're all part of the mix in the latest novel by writer Catherine Chidgey. The Beat of the Pendulum she describes as a "Found Novel."… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.Lynn Freeman caught up with Australian theatre director Katy Maudlin who is in Auckland at the moment working on a cautionary tale called Earthquakes in London. Mike Bartlett's play spans 1968 to… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.The most prolific partnership on our classical music scene, composer Ross Harris and poet Vincent O'Sullivan have been pouring out operas, songs, oratorios, even symphonies for some 13 years now after… Read more Audio

12:43 PM.It's become one of the biggest - and most frenetic - events on the New Zealand film calendar - the annual 48 HOUR FILM CHALLENGE, where teams from all over the country are given specific themes… Read more Audio, Gallery