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1:45 PM.Surprised, honoured and just a bit intimidated... That's how our new Poet Laureate Chris Tse feels about his new role. Given he's only in his thirties, he also sees this acknowledgement as a real… Read more Audio

1:31 PM.A very personal film about an out-of-wedlock pregnancy is the first in this year's Someday Stories, a platform that helps emerging filmmakers to create their first professionally-funded, short film… Read more Audio

12:47 PM.It's called The Artist's Resale Royalty Blockchain Manifesto - part artwork, part provocation and part legal document. And it's to be launched in Wellington in October. The Manifesto is the creation… Read more Audio

12:37 PM.The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo for 2022 has just wrapped up, with New Zealand performers among the fan favourites. For the first time in its long history, the Tattoo had to be cancelled over the… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:15 PM.World War II has probably inspired more films, plays, novels and documentaries than any other 6-year period in history. But there's no substitute for the accounts of the people who were there. Now… Read more Video, Audio

2:49 PM.It's apparently the first ever compilation of Australian and New Zealand crime short stories, but already several more anthologies are being planned to follow. Dark Deeds Down Under (Volume 1) is… Read more Audio

2:37 PM.An acerbic wit and and astute observations dominate the poems in A Riderless Horse, the latest collection by Palmerston North wordsmith, Tim Upperton. Tim's two previous poetry collections were A… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Remembering the random murder of his friend in Wellington's CBD in 1980 was the starting point for Alistair Luke's crime novel One Heart One Spade. Although it still takes place in Te Whanganui a… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Photographing the glue residue that remains when signs or notices are removed became the unlikely obsession of Wellington photographer Alan Knowles. He's even come up with a name for them -… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:31 PM.The brutality endured by First World War internees on Wellington's Matiu/Somes Island is remembered by Dunedin author Paddy Richardson in her latest novel. Many of the interns, who had German… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Right now there are dozens of major film shoots happening all over the country. But the independent sector is doing well too - particularly one project from the top of the South Island. Northspur was… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:33 PM.Photographs of 140 fictional missing people, all with their own backstories, make up the latest exhibition by Auckland mixed-media artist and poet Lyn-Marie Harris. Missing will go on show at the… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:16 PM.A country that's too small for most artists to make a living and one that has been both fickle and under-appreciative when it comes to arts... That's how a critic, poet and filmmaker Roger Horrocks… Read more Audio

5:16 PM.Here's a question. How many major film dramas - including top-end TV series - are currently being shot here at the moment? Eight? Twelve? Not even close! By our reckoning there are over 30 - from… Read more Audio

2:49 PM.Balancing the intense demands of being a mother with desperately wanting to continue as an artist can prove overwhelming for many new mums. Auckland performer Sally Stockwell has lived through it and… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.He's kept us waiting for 13 years, but Owen Marshall, one of our finest short story writers, has just put out a new collection, Return to Harikoa Bay. The characters in the 33 stories are often… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.After asking their fans on social media which story they'd most like to see turned into an irreverent play, Wellington's A Slightly Isolated Dog company chose the Trojan War from the dozens of… Read more Audio

1:43 PM.The only reason any of Shakespeare's plays have survived is because canny publishers saw a market for them amongst a populace hungry for material to read. Dr. Hannah August is the Senior Lecturer in… Read more Audio

1:33 PM.No matter how famous they become overseas, our opera singers are often keen to come home to perform. Munich- based Eliza Boom is no exception. Eliza's in the lineup of in-demand young operatic talent… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.A new book argues that art copyists get a bad rap. They're not always forgers out to scam the unwary. In fact, there's an art to copying art that deserves its own place in art history. Former public… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:32 PM.What were your favourite sweets growing up? Chewy milk bottles? Jaffas? Gobstoppers and chocolate fish? Sculptor Simon Lewis-Wards has made a name for himself casting large and small glass candies… Read more Audio, Gallery

3:50 PM."Vallery" is a campervan transformed into a contemporary art gallery on wheels. It's just headed out on its maiden voyage. It showcases more than 50 works by 26 artists from the Manawatu, Whanganui… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:49 PM.It's been a big wait and an even bigger investment. But this weekend sees the official opening of the final piece of Hastings' cultural precinct, Toitoi - the restored Municipal Building. It's taken… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:38 PM.It was destined to be sold off by the Christchurch city council - but a last minute change of heart means the heritage-listed Rolleston House is to be converted into a community arts venue. It's… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.A private investigator promised never to return to his home town. But when he belatedly decides to go back, it puts him on a crash course with his former friends and police colleagues. The Wrong Woman… Read more Audio