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Sleep Concert
1:50 PM.We catch up with Jeremy Myall after playing nine hours of concert music with Kent Macpherson and Yotam Levy. 'To Sleep' is the second longest piece of music in history. Audio
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Frances Fellows
1:33 PM.For 50 years, the University of Otago has offered artists a chance to concentrate on their work for a year, by offering a stipend, gallery and accommodation. Former Frances fellows Marte Szirmay… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Filmmaker Rob Sarkies
12:50 PM.Rob Sarkies directed Into the Blue about the Aramoana tragedy, the telemovie The Louise Nicholas Story about a woman fighting for justice, and most recently Jean - a biopic about the aviatrix Jean… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Bastion Point revisited
12:30 PM.The 1980 documentary no broadcaster dared to screen and the police once tried to confiscate is about to be screened publicly for the first time. Read more Audio
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First Lady Mayor
12:30 PM.Leslie Lewis worked on both the Bastion Point documentary and the restoration of the second oldest surviving film in New Zealand The First Lady Mayor, which was filmed in 1900. She had to do a lot of… Read more Audio
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A Christchurch festival of reusable materials used in the city
2:50 PM.Dozens of unwanted cardboard carpet cores are being suspended to create pavillion and cinematic screen. It's for Christchurch's Festival of Transitional Architecture event - a celebration, the… Read more Audio
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Novel about legendary race-horse Phar Lap
2:38 PM.Decades after his mysterious death - was it colic or arsenic poisoning? - champion racehorse Phar Lap hasn't been forgotten in either country which claim him - New Zealand and Australia. The huge… Read more Audio
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Philanthropy's place in funding the arts
2:28 PM.Funding the arts is always a contentious subject. If government funding, or corporate sponsorship dries up, the next step is towards private philanthropists. But if arts institutions are too… Read more Audio
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Dunedin collector champions classic plastics
1:48 PM.Plastic was once exotic and novel, now it's everywhere, but Dunedin collector Janet de Wagt loves it so much she's got thousands of historic plastic objects tucked away in boxes. Right now she's… Read more Audio
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Playwright Jamie McCaskill has created a new play
1:32 PM.Prejudices that Maori living in rural New Zealand encounter everyday are challenged in a new play by Jamie McCaskill. The Wellington award-winning playwright, producer and director is tapping into his… Read more Audio
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A live orchestral salute to video game Final Fantasy
12:44 PM.It's an unlikely idea - to stage an orchestral concert devoted to video-game music, but it seems to have taken the world by storm. When the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra announced they were playing… Read more Audio
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The Auckland Fringe goes it alone
12:37 PM.It's always bad news when an arts organisation suddenly loses its funding. And this week the hammer came down on the Auckland Festival's feisty little sibling the Auckland Fringe. No funding for 2017… Read more Audio
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Uncovering the lost murals of E Mervyn Taylor
12:16 PM.This is a story of lost - and hopefully found. For months now, a team's been trying to uncover traces of a mural by E. Mervyn Taylor under layers of whitewash on an old wall in Taita, north of… Read more Audio
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Art from bronze and iron
2:48 PM.Three artists who've made their names sculpting metals, but in very different ways, are putting on solo shows in the same venue for Artweek Auckland. Jeff Thomson encourages us to look at corrugated… Read more Audio
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Linda Olsson's The Blackbird Sings at Dusk
2:35 PM.Imagine that a new neighbour in your apartment block hardly ever emerges from their room. They seem more shadow than human. Do you dare to knock on their door, or respect their clear desire for… Read more Audio
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Sargam Fusion combine the classical music of India and the West
2:30 PM.East meets West in Sargam Fusion - and the Auckland-based Indian group are about to push the boundaries even further. For the upcoming 15th Auckland Diwali Festival, classical Indian musicians will… Read more Audio, Gallery
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When New Zealand bands met the Beatles
1:45 PM.New Audioculture director Chris Bourke looks back on the Beatlemania years from a Kiwi perspective. Many local musicians were deeply suspicious of the Fab Four - it had to be a flash in the pan, they… Read more Video, Audio
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Artist Michel Tuffery explores Waiheke Island
1:35 PM.A community art project at Waiheke Art Gallery on Waiheke Island has uncovered rich material for artist Michel Tuffery. Michel works with objects - you might remember his cattle sculptures made from… Read more Audio, Gallery
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British actor Christopher Eccleston and The A Word
12:43 PM.British actor Christopher Eccleston famously abandoned the coveted lead role in Dr Who after just one series, despite it being a hugely popular reboot of the scifi show. Christopher may be fussy about… Read more Audio
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Featherston's Grand Old Lady
12:12 PM.The ANZAC Hall in Featherston was built to give the thousands of World War I soldiers camped nearby a place to relax - a 'home away from home' - before they went to war. Since then, the building has… Read more Audio, Gallery
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The Great Fire of London inspires a musical 350 years later
2:49 PM.350 years in the making, a new Kiwi musical called Fire on the River is set to re-ignite interest in the Great Fire of London in 1666. Auckland writer-composer Graeme John Webber was inspired by a… Read more Audio
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Stephanie Johnson has a book for all dog-lovers - Good Dog!
2:41 PM.A handsome red nose pit bull called Busta, Olive the guide dog, Hairy Maclary and Kevin Ireland's Mighty Sid all get a mention in a new collection of Kiwi writing about dogs. Dog-lover and writer… Read more Audio
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Shakespeare's Shylock - villain, victim or both?
2:25 PM.Shylock remains one of the most problematic of all Shakespeare's hundreds of characters.It's not just that the Jewish stereotype he represents is offensive. People remain divided over whether Shylock… Read more Audio
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Show Me Shorts award-winners
1:50 PM.Lynn Freeman talks to two of the big winners of this year's Show Me Shorts short-film awards. Audio
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The rise and rise of the film festival
1:38 PM.The Internet is threatening - we're told - among other things Journalism, Television, Books and the Music industry. How can they stay in business when you can get everything free on-line? But one… Read more Audio
