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1:50 PM.For Pete's Sake - the political songs of Peter Conway. An album to celebrate the life and songwriting of Pete Conway. Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Documentary Edge International Film Festival set to challenge and inspire audiences. Read more Audio

12:42 PM.Irene Gardiner has picked a real petrolhead edition of Screen Gems for Simon Morris. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.A new course is teaching New Zealand producers what they need to know to produce a feature film ready to take to market. Read more Audio

2:49 PM.Creating a demonic hand puppet is one of the more unusual commissions for Auckland puppeteer Jon Coddington. It's taken a few goes to perfect Tyrone for the premiere of a play called Hand to God about… Read more Audio

2:35 PM.As a tribute to her mother, respected writer Lauris Edmond, her daughter Frances has co-edited a new anthology of favourite poetry and prose. She and Sue Fitchett approached family, friends and other… Read more Audio

1:48 PM.After surviving near demolition back in the 1970s, the North Shore's Pumphouse Theatre is about to celebrate its 40th anniversary. The building's changed a lot - there's heating and dressing rooms for… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.It's still a rare thing to have the chance to see an English play translated into Maori. The Merchant of Venice was turned into a te reo film and another Shakespeare play Troilus and Cressida was… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.Three great-great-uncles of composer Gareth Farr were killed in the First World War and are buried in France and Belgium. His family's loss, and the deaths of all the men and women killed during the… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.The survivors and descendants of the 28th Māori Battalion who in 1977 travelled back to the European battle sites and cemeteries of WWI – and the forgotten Kiwi filmmaker who documented their… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:49 PM.LA artist Petra Cortright isn't crazy about two of the labels she's been given....a pioneer of both post-internet art and of the selfie. She prefers - digital painter. Petra finds and manipulates… Read more Audio

1:33 PM.Each autumn, around 200 people with a creative itch gather at the Wanaka autumn art school. This is the school's 28th year teaching everything from oil painting and creative writing, to photography… Read more Audio

12:44 PM.Multi-instrumentalist and studio producer Age Pryor is a natural born collaborator...he's toured the country numerous times performing with groups including The Woolshed Sessions and Fly My Pretties… Read more Audio

12:20 PM.We're back at Nga Toanga Sound and Vision with the second part on our feature about bringing old commercials back into the limelight. On its new Sellebration online webpage, there are around 300 New… Read more Audio

2:49 PM.Artist Simon Kerr has just launched his sixth exhibition at Wellington's Pilocki Patterson Gallery. The works are striking - handwriting and colourful scrawls, like the love-child of Banksy and Colin… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:26 PM.Historical novelist Jenny Pattrick is fascinated by the workers - often men - who built New Zealand. Her earlier novels described the lives of the Denniston Miners. Her latest book Leap of Faith… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Amberley-based artist Wayne Youle is in the studio to tell Lynn Freeman about his two big shows this month. There's a retrospective exhibition at Christchurch Art Gallery with the intriguing title… Read more Audio