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2:25 PM.Textile designer Sonya Elspeth Withers and captions producer Sarah Maiava have been been awarded internships by the Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust. Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Choreographer Mapihi Kelland says WHARE is a very personal project for her - as someone who grew up in rural NZ she struggled initially to adapt to life in cities. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:46 PM.Lynn Freeman and Simon Morris talk to Moa winners Carthew Neal, producer of Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Gaylene Preston, veteran producer/director and winner of the Services to Cinema Award. Read more Audio

12:16 PM.Mary O'Keefe from Heritage Solutions is a treasure hunter - though in her case treasure might be an old poster or pieces of an old ceramic plate. Read more Audio

2:40 PM.We tend to hear about young up and coming writers being discovered, but Patricia Langford was in her early 70s when she took up creative writing and caught the eye of her tutors. Award-winning poet… Read more Audio

2:27 PM.Auckland's Silo Theatre is about to stage its first show of the year: UK playwright Alice Birch's Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. A discordant series of "hilarious and horrifying vignettes", Revolt… Read more Audio

1:47 PM.The New Zealand Film Awards (the Moas) are about to return after a year off. Last year was a banner year for New Zealand movies - smash hit documentaries like Poi E and Richie McCaw Chasing Great, new… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Tusi Tamasese's new film One Thousand Ropes is about to have its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. Tusi's last film - the acclaimed and touching The Orator - was set in Samoa. One Thousand… Read more Audio

12:48 PM.Michael Parekowhai's controversial Lighthouse is a lifesize sculpture resembling a 1950s statehouse on Auckland's Queens Wharf, beaming light over the Waitemata Harbour from neon constellations… Read more Audio

12:16 PM.Ian Mune is making his theatrical come-back in the starring role of Carl Bland's play Spirit House, playing one of two painters working in the same Thai studio. They are both haunted by the same… Read more Audio

2:45 PM.He was a pioneer in using machines to turn music or sound into visual images like film and video, even computer graphics.

Wellington painter, printmaker, sculptor and video artist Michael Nicholson… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:30 PM.There's speed dating, online dating, and now Onstage Dating.

Award-winning Australian performer Bron Batten is a Tinderella, a serial dater... and she does it all in front of an audience.

Bron's… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Musician Dudley Benson marries the planet. Read more Audio

1:30 PM.A devised theatre show called deVine has taken as its subject the tensions around a family dealing and not dealing with mental health issues.

RECollective Theatre Company wants to tackle this issue… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Widescreen's Dan Slevin reviews Pork Pie, Fences, and Split. Read more Audio

12:50 PM.The internet, piracy, privacy, and ownership are at the heart of Filmmaker Professor Annie Goldson's latest documentary. Annie's credits include Brother Number One, and An Island Calling.

Kim Dotcom… Read more Audio

12:22 PM.Brigadier James Hargest is one of Southland's most significant 20th century military and political figures however he's now all but forgotten; except for the Invercargill High School that bears his… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:12 PM.New Zealands founding constitutional documents are on the move, but just a few metres down the road to the National LIbrary, where they'll form the centrepiece of a new interactive space. Read more Audio, Gallery

2:50 PM.The new President of the United States, Donald Trump, might not believe in climate change, but a Kiwi artist now based there is working with climate scientists to persuade the public that it's… Read more Video, Audio

2:40 PM.Book lovers Sarah Forster and Jane Arthur are determined to get people talking more about children's literature.

They're in the last stages of setting up an online magazine - The Sapling -  all about… Read more Audio