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12:30 PM.The Portage Ceramic Awards have long been considered indicative of the health of ceramic arts in Aotearoa. The Awards, hosted be Te Uru, showcase the best in contemporary work and provide a platform… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.The New Zealand feature film Waru not only required eight, often quite inexperienced, female Maori directors to each come up with a 10-minute story, but each story had to be filmed in just one shot… Read more Audio

2:06 PM.Australian comic Jon Bennett is currently touring his show Fire In The Meth Lab around New Zealand, and will be performing it as well as his other show Pretending Things Are a Cock at the World… Read more Audio

5:00 PM.New Zealand's design landscape is starting to reflect our multiculturalism. Four designers discuss how their cultural heritage inspires and challenges them and why being 'different' is an asset. Read more Audio, Gallery

2:35 PM.The characters in Prokofiev's orchestral fairytale Peter and the Wolf are being taken from the forest and thrust into Auckland's CBD for a new Kiwi version of the classic tale. At the same time the… Read more Audio

1:44 PM.Now in his 80th year, the founder of Morris & James Pottery in Auckland, Anthony Morris reflects on 50 years of making art from clay, glass, wood - and even words. Ant's company is now the biggest of… Read more Audio

12:34 PM.A chance conversation reunited two cousins who've gone on to write a book about their mutual great-uncle Jack Pryce and to potentially solve the biggest mystery... where he's buried. At 22 Jack sailed… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.In 1966, artist Gordon Walters had a breakthrough moment when he first showed a series of 12 radically abstract geometric paintings in Auckland. Read more Audio, Gallery

2:35 PM.A young Maori activist trying to reconnect with his family and culture, and a law student who feels stifled by her Greek family, meet in Michalia Arathimos' novel Aukati. Isaiah and Alexia meet after… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.One of the highest profile art collections in the country is up for auction. Glenn Schaeffer's an American art collector, philanthropist, writer and hotelier who's had a long love affair with New… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.The success of the Harry Potter books and films is certainly partly due to the magical stuff - witches and wizards, spells and potions. But it's also undoubtedly a tribute to the old-fashioned English… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.For his art, he's lived rough on the streets of Auckland, lived as a pig in a crate, and conducted the waves of the Pacific Ocean. Now Kalisolaite Uhila has been awarded the Creative New Zealand… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.In 1843 - just three years after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi - 26 people died in The Wairau Incident near Nelson. It was first major confrontation between Maori and Pakeha settlers following… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Right now there's all sorts of discussion about communication, business and personal relationships in the Digital Age. Is everything going to be on-line from now on, or will there still be room for… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.The mystery's over.....and today we can introduce you to the country's three top crime writers for 2017. The Dame Ngaio Marsh Crime Writing Awards were handed out last night in Christchurch. Lynn… Read more Audio

2:35 PM.Auckland artist Pascal Atiga-Bridger blends elements of the Union Jack onto flags from pacific Island nations to create new flags that tell a 21st century story. He also manipulates the Union Jack… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:25 PM.Christchurch author Patrick Evans returns to his muse - writer Janet Frame - for the third in his trilogy about her life. In Salt Picnic, set in 1956, Evans has fictionalised the few known facts about… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.November is National Novel Writing Month, where writers sign up to write 50,000 words over the 30 days in November, a goal reached by more than 34, 000 writers internationally last year (though… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Actor Chelsie Preston Crayford is currently appearing in the play Red Speedo, which is kicking off Auckland Theatre Company's 25th anniversary season. Read more Audio

12:46 PM.Sixteen locally-made short films feature in this year's Top of the South Film Festival in Nelson. Lynn Freeman speaks with two film makers whose work is about to premiere there - Doug Brooks (Sons of… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Children's book writer and illustrator Donovan Bixley has just been awarded the 2017 Mallinson Rendel Illustrators Award from the New Zealand Arts Foundation, and $15,000 dollar gift that goes with… Read more Audio

12:12 PM.Father and daughter Peter and Cait O'Connor set up the Teaspoon of Light theatre company in Christchurch after the earthquakes, working with young children in the most quake-affected schools. Lynn… Read more Audio