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The Art of the Whare
12:16 PM.Lynn Freeman talks to Damian Skinner, and also visits what's certainly the country's most visited meeting house at Te Papa, and the new Whare Whakaira of Victoria University. She meets Te Papa's… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Everybody Cool Lives Here
2:50 PM.The Wellingon theatre troup Everyone Cool Lives Here includes members with and without intellectually disabilities. RNZ features producer Mike Gourley checks out their new production No Post on Sunday… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery
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Welsh/Indian poet Tishani Doshi - The Adulterous Citizen
2:33 PM.Born to Welsh and Indian parents, Tishani Doshi has explored her dual heritage in words, as a poet and essayist, and in dance. She's just been in New Zealand as a guest of Victoria University and The… Read more Audio
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Novelist Emma Neale's Billy Bird is a flight of fancy
2:30 PM.Dunedin writer Emma Neale imagines how and why a young boy would want to turn into a bird in her latest book Billy Bird, which is her sixth novel. She also has several award-winning poetry collections… Read more Audio
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Jeeves and Wooster - from the West End to NZ
1:47 PM.P G Wodehouse was one of the most entertaining of English writers, but translating his books to stage or screen is no easy task. Read more Audio
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Reflections on a changing city
1:32 PM.The Contemporary Christchurch exhibition has recently opened at the Centre of Contemporary Art (CoCA). Read more Audio
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Reviving the Christchurch Arts Centre
12:40 PM.André Lovatt returned to Christchurch in 2012 to manage the $290 million, seven-year long restoration of The Arts Centre. Read more Audio
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Archaeology in Christchurch
12:16 PM.Archeologist Katharine Watson heads the Underground Overground consultancy and tells Lynn Freeman what she has learned about early Christchurch from damaged and destroyed buildings - and the land… Read more Audio
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Artist Judy Millar's bright, bold colours span 30 years
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Two canvases by Judy Millar painted around 30 years apart but similar in many ways, are being brought together for the first time. Judy has represented New Zealand at the Venice… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Sue Younger - Days Are Like Grass
2:36 PM.Sue Younger swapped a career in documentary-making for the life of a novelist. Her debut, Days are Like Grass, is set in part at Starship Children's Hospital, the workplace of paediatric surgeon… Read more Audio
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Escaping the advertising rat-race?
2:23 PM.What do ad men do when they escape the pressures of the well-designed commercial? If they can draw whatever they like, what do they choose to do with that freedom? A group of Devonport artists who are… Read more Audio
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Getting our young opera singers export-ready
1:46 PM.This weekend young New Zealand opera singers with their eye on an international career are starting a new programme aimed at equipping them with crucial skills that are nothing to do with singing and… Read more Audio
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Winners - Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel
1:34 PM.Announced at the 2016 WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival, the 7th Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel had a record number of entries this year, and a brand new award for debut authors… Read more Audio
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Revered - and occasionally feared - reviewer Peter Calder calls it a day
12:46 PM.Auckland Cinema managers and restaurant owners can sleep a little easier after this week. Peter Calder, the highly respected - but often ruthless - movie and food critic for the New Zealand Herald is… Read more Audio
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Restoration of the silent classic Moana
12:16 PM.90 years ago American filmmaker Robert Flaherty decided to follow his hugely successful Inuit documentary Nanook of the North with another one set in faraway places - this time in exotic Samoa. Moana… Read more Audio
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Photography curator Susan Bright on our fascination with selfies
2:50 PM.British photography curator, writer and critic Susan Bright is about to give a talk at the Auckland Art Gallery. Lynn Freeman caught up with her to talk about the selfie craze. Read more Audio
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Former UN military observer on his novel Ladder to the Moon
2:39 PM.Cantabrian Peter Fry has drawn on his experiences - fascinating and horrific - as an army officer and United Nations military observer in the Middle East. for his first novel. Ladder to the Moon takes… Read more Audio
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Scott Bradlee of Postmodern Jukebox
2:25 PM.Scott Bradlee's Post Modern Jukebox is one of the first examples of a big-time touring and recording act not needing the help of a major record company to get them exposure. Phil O'Brien talks to… Read more Video, Audio
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WORLD returns to New Zealand Fashion Week with New York Twang
1:45 PM.Well-established and new names sit side-by-side in the line-up at New Zealand Fashion Week 2016, while more of the familiar designers plan to show during the public weekend shows, rather than the… Read more Audio
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A retrospective of Downstage points the way to a new look
1:30 PM.An exhibition about the country's longest-running professional theatre - Wellington's Downstage - is about to open this week. The theatre closed down just before what would have been its 50th… Read more Audio
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The future of museums in the regions looks a little brighter
12:30 PM.There are hundreds of small community-run museums in regions around the country. It's often a struggle - not just financially, but with the changing notions of how they show their treasures, if… Read more Audio
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Stories from the Somme
12:15 PM.We're approaching the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. 15,000 members of the New Zealand Division went into action there, a horrifying 2,000 died and more than half of them have no known… Read more Audio
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Artist, poet and activist Cleo Wade
2:52 PM.Cleo Wade is an American artist and poet who's been known to write her poetry on the sides of multi-storey buildings. Just last year she installed an 8-metre-high love-poem called Respect in her… Read more Audio
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Best-selling graphic novelist Raina Telgemeier
2:40 PM.This is a Golden Age for Graphic novels - and leading the charge in America is Raina Telgemeier who's hit the New York Times bestseller list with several of her novels. The San Francisco-based author… Read more Audio
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The Opera Studio's singing coach Frances Wilson
2:36 PM.Behind every great singer is a great vocal coach, and Frances Wilson has been that coach for hundreds of singers over a long international career. She's currently the director of Auckland Opera Studio… Read more Audio
