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1:48 PM.A new TVNZ drama Dance Exponents: Why does love? tells the story of one of our most successful pop groups. Simon Morris talks to producer Carmen Leonard and director Danny Mulheron about turning real… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Rachel House's face is familiar from her many acting roles, but she's also working behind the scenes on HUI – a film script based on the play of the same name which she will eventually direct. Read more Audio

12:16 PM.By 1916, the number of men volunteering to join New Zealand's military forces overseas in the First World war had fallen so dramatically that conscription was brought in. Twenty thousand soldiers had… Read more Audio

2:50 PM.Masterton's ambitious Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History in Masterton has a new director - a multi linguist with an interest in hieroglyphics. Read more Audio, Gallery

2:40 PM.Gen X and Millenial fashion industry egos clash in the new novel by Pip Adam - The New Animals, published by Victoria University Press. Read more Audio

2:26 PM.Cheese making is an unlikely subject for a dance work but it's the next course in Java Dance Company's artisan series, following shows about bread and wine. Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Getting a tattoo when you're young is no guarantee you'll still be proud of it when you're a bit older. Will that One Direction tattoo mean the same in ten year's time? Tattoo regrets are one of the… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:34 PM.Graham Hoete - also known as Mr G - found international fame last year after painting two massive wall murals of the late Prince - in Sydney and in the musician's hometown in Minnesota. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:50 PM.An historic Edinburgh building is the latest canvas for video artist Shannon Te Ao, who's been commissioned to create the work for the city's Art Festival this month. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:16 PM.Lyttelton was hit harder than most by the Christchurch earthquakes - particularly the Lyttelton Museum. But now it's back - triumphantly, we may say! - with a little help from its friends, past and… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:27 PM.He's kept us waiting a very long time for his second novel, but Apirana Taylor says he wanted to take his time on his love story of two people living on the fringe of society. While Mack and Puti are… Read more Audio

1:47 PM.So far Pot Luck has 2 million views and counting, but the creators say it's competing with many other quality Kiwi web series for the same tiny slice of funding pie. Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

1:35 PM.Her photograph of a grieving Afghan woman gently holding a toddler who could be sleeping or might be dead, has won American photojournalist Paula Bronstein her latest international award. "The Silent… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:50 PM.Music we know is a great healer, and members of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra have just been to quake-hit Kaikoura to play for children and for people who're struggling. Kaikoura Earthquake… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:12 PM.Dunedin's Larnarch Castle was effectively stripped of its furniture about a hundred years ago. But one of its hand crafted bookcases is about to be returned - albeit smaller than when it left… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:48 PM.It's been 50 years since the release of one of the most famous albums ever - the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. So what was its effect in New Zealand? Audio Culture's Chris Bourke… Read more Audio

1:32 PM.Impossibly beautiful people wearing clothes only they can fit into... Even if you're not a fashion-obsessive, is there something fashion photography can offer - either as art, or some kind of window… Read more Audio

12:47 PM.In this year's Museum Awards, Mokau Museum in North Taranaki won the Visitor Experience category - one of a number of successful regional museums to get a big makeover as part of the TV series… Read more Audio