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A Lifetime of Inspiration
1:30 PM.One person can make a difference. Hutt Valley High School Music teacher Gary Wilby is a case in point. He's been inspiring students in the Hutt Valley since 1977. And today that dedication to his… Read more Audio
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Taking a Shot - Guns as Art
12:47 PM.We're bombarded with images of handguns - in news reports and in cop shows and films. But what about walking into an art gallery and seeing large format, high definition photographs of guns. Expat… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Bert Berns, the mysterious man behind ‘Twist and Shout’
12:20 PM.Bert Berns is one of the greatest songwriters you’ve never heard of. Read more Video, Audio
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Force Multiplier
2:49 PM.Indi Force is a music mentor, teaches composition, works at the Christchurch Art Gallery and in her spare time, composes for screen and stage. Read more Audio
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A Work of Heart
2:40 PM.It's part of a project to raise the profile of nursing, New Zealand nurses have expressed their pride, their grief, their observations and their frustrations with the health system, in a collection of… Read more Audio
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Elizabethan Society was Riddled with Informers and Spies
2:25 PM.Dr. Bill Angus, a lecturer at Massey University's School of English and Media Studies has been exploring the role of spies and informers in the scripts and society of the Bard and his contemporaries… Read more Audio
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On your marks...Lights, Camera, Action
1:50 PM.Ant Timpson's always pretty busy. If he's not programming the Incredibly Strange section of the New Zealand International Film Festival, or producing some fairly Strange films himself like the Greasy… Read more Audio
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The Restoration of Christchurch Arts Centre
1:33 PM.Since 2013, photographer Johannes van Kan has been putting on a hard hat and hi-vis jacket to photograph the restoration of the historic Christchurch Arts Centre. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Valuable...by Design
12:45 PM.A new report has calculated that design contributes about 4.2 percent of GDP and more than 94,000 full time equivalent jobs. Read more Audio
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Lydia Wevers bids a fond farewell to the Stout Research Centre
12:15 PM.After 17 years championing New Zealand studies and culture, Professor Lydia Wevers has just stood down as director of Victoria University's Stout Research Centre in Wellington. Read more Audio
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Traditional Threads, Contemporary Colour
2:50 PM.Peruvian master weaver Máximo Laura is one of his country's living treasures and his giant works have been shown throughout the world. Using five thousand year old weaving techniques, his designs… Read more Audio
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Words and Politics
2:40 PM.Philip Temple and Emma Neale have edited Manifesto after receiving around 500 poems from established through to emerging poets. The collection is in four parts: Politics, Rights, Environment and… Read more Audio
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Objectspace
2:27 PM.The country's only gallery committed to craft, design and architecture has a new home, an Auckland warehouse redesigned and kitted out in a 630-thousand dollar makeover. All will be revealed later… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Changing the Subject on TV Movies
1:48 PM.We're in the middle of a new season of locally-made Sunday Theatres on TVNZ One - all, as they say, plucked from the nation's headlines. Why Does Love told the story of pop band the Dance Exponents… Read more Audio
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Wikimuseums
1:32 PM.It's an unusual title, but Susan Tolich can now call herself New Zealand's first official Wikimedian-in-Residence. She's doing a Master's of Museum and Heritage Studies at Victoria University but has… Read more Audio
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Remembering Mrs. Elizabeth Pinfold
12:47 PM.The extraordinary life of Elizabeth Pinfold, awarded the Queen Elizabeth Medal for her work helping Belgian refugees during the First World War, has been remembered at a ceremony at Kaori Cemetary by… Read more Audio
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Telling True Stories at the New Zealand IFF
12:17 PM.We make good documentaries in New Zealand, and nowhere is that more obvious than at the International Film Festival. This year is a gala one, with over a dozen top Kiwi documentary features on… Read more Audio, Gallery
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PANZ Design Awards
2:25 PM.We do judge books by their covers - so what's grabbing our attention these days? This year's PANZ book design awards are good way to find out what's hot, and what's not, in bookstores and libraries… Read more Audio
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International Youth Silent Film Festival
1:50 PM.Simon Morris talks to Megan Peacock Coyle, the New Zealand co-ordinator of the International Youth Silent Film Festival. Entries close on the 1st of October, and the finals take place in Tauranaga in… Read more Audio
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Tim Corballis - Our Future is in the Air
1:48 PM.Wellington author Tim Corballis imagines a very different 1975 to how we remember it in his new novel Our Future is in the Air. Glimpses into the future, events like 9/11, sees jet air travel and time… Read more Audio
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Patricia Barker Joins RNZB
1:40 PM.Patricia Barker is the latest overseas appointment to the job of Artisitic Director at the Royal New Zealand Ballet company. Before moving into leadership roles she was a dancer for 27 years with… Read more Audio
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Technology feature of Art teachers conference
12:45 PM.The country's art teachers are about to swap notes on digital media - what's working, and not working for them and their students in our classrooms. Their 2017 conference is being held in Whanganui… Read more Audio
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Teen Film Maker in NZIFF Programme
12:20 PM.Qianna Titore is making history as the youngest filmmaker to have her work accepted into the New Zealand International film festival programme. She was just 16 when she wrote and directed her short… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Everybody's included at the Court Theatre
2:50 PM.Christchurch's Court Theatre's been acknowledged for making its productions accessible to as many people as possible. 2017 Arts Access Creative New Zealand "Arts For All" Award. It just won the… Read more Audio
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Homesick blues: new writings about where we live
2:38 PM.22 New Zealand writers talk about the idea of home in a new collection of essays brought together by Thom Conroy. It's called Home: New Writing. Few of these pieces are nostalgic or sentimental in… Read more Audio