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12:16 PM.It's been described as a win-win - the Wellington City Council's multi million dollar investment in Wellington's Te Whaea Dance and Drama studios to accommodate the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.American conductor James Feddeck has a reputation for stepping onto the podium at the very last moment. He's heading our way soon to conduct the NZSO's Schumann & Barber tour. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.In the current age of Internet celebrity, when Full Disclosure seems to be the default position of everyone, it's interesting looking back to the early years of Hollywood.   Part of the allure of… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.For the past seven years archeologists have been sifting through two and a half tonnes of artefacts uncovered during the excavation of a site in Whanganui. And there's still more to learn. Otago… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.It's not news that arts coverage is having a hard time holding its place in the mainstream media but there's plenty of room online. Websites The Spinoff and The Pantograph Punch are two local examples… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.What on earth can you do when you're young, brilliant, ambitious - and female - in medieval France? That's the dilemma facing the heroine of Mandy Hager's new Novel, Heloise. Based on new research… Read more Video, Audio

1:40 PM.Hayley Theyers is the photographer behind Musicians of Aotearoa – a series of portraits as posters featuring some of our best if not best-known musicians. She plays us some of her favourite NZ songs.

1:10 PM.Recognition of Matariki is on the rise and along with it, a new appreciation of Maori astronomical knowledge. Te Kokau Himiona Te Pikikotuku of Ruatahuna began to compile a 400-page manuscript on… Read more Audio

12:50 PM.Dancers Kelly Nash and Nancy Wijohn have worked for some of our best choreographers but now they've taken the leap and made their own show. Lick My Past opens this week at the Kia Mau Festival in… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:40 PM.Right now the Auckland Art Gallery is promising an encounter with "the human form in all its complexity". The Body Laid Bare is a major exhibition of nude masterpieces from the collection of the Tate… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

12:25 PM.Auckland's Red Leap Theatre have built a formidable reputation for excellent physical theatre - and for devising their stories in the rehearsal room. Their new show, Kororareka - the Ballad of Maggie… Read more Audio

2:42 PM.Three loners who're struggling to cope with life end up at an institution in Bavaria, The Palace, where experiments are being carried out on people with suicidal tendencies. This is the scenario for… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.For me being a New Zealander now, I really cherish my nomination for the Adam New Zealand award for me it's a big thing because it made me realise that you can make it here, you can be recognised here… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Irene Gardiner is looking forward to a long weekend for Queen's Birthday so Simon Morris decided to get in early and look at things Queenly in today's Screen Gems. Read more Audio

1:30 PM.The Industry of Imagination event is into its second year in Wellington bringing together a spectacular line-up of sci-fi, fantasy and pop-surreal artists for a series of events; a conference… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:50 PM.From a small rehearsal room in Wellington to a world-wide audience of half a million, writer/performer Jacob Rajan and producer Justin Lewis have made their mark like nobody else. After 20 years of… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.The upcoming Wellington Jazz Festival boast the usual riches you'd expect - top overseas artists like singer Dianne Reeves, guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Dave Wecki, and some stellar local talent… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:17 PM.The Logie Collection of Canterbury University is one of the small miracles of this country - treasures of the Ancient World from classical Greece and Rome, right back to the Bronze Age - 7000 BC. And… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:50 PM.Last week saw the presentation of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards - our most prestigious celebration of our top writers. Nicola Legat, Chairwoman of the NZ Book Awards Trust, took some time out… Read more Audio