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12:16 PM.Jolt must be just about the busiest dance company in the country at the moment, with live shows in the UK, a biennale featuring all its dancers, and two projects with Chamber Music New Zealand - a… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:49 PM.A blend of Pacific and Mediterranean of ancient and right now, is promised in a new dance film series shot by Daniel Belton and scored by Dame Gillian Whitehead. Read more Audio

2:40 PM.Criminal law is a mainstay of books and TV shows, think John Mortimer's Rumpole of the Bailey through to L A Law and Boston Legal. But novelist Les Allen's drawing on his time with legal firms, where… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Off the back of his band The Jac taking out the 2021 Tui for Best Jazz Artist, Wellington-based alto saxophonist and composer Jake Baxendale is about to reveal a new suite of compositions based on the… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.A razor blade left in a gay activist's mailbox and a series of dolls dressed in garments based on costumes worn by contestants in Samoa's first Fa'afafine beauty pageant in the 1980s, are included in… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:33 PM. Lynn Freeman spoke with Pauline and to Anahera Morehu who's the convenor of the Te Kura Pounamu Award panel to discuss why children's literature is so important Read more Audio

12:45 PM.The film industry has been drastically upset by Covid over the past two years. The big blockbusters get the big publicity, unsurprisingly. The studios have a lot at stake, but they also have other… Read more Video, Audio

12:30 PM.Using a 110-year-old Auto Graflex camera, press photographer Geoff Dale has photographed one of the most high tech sports there is - the super yachts of the America's cup. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:15 PM. The upcoming Booktown event in Featherston in the Wairarapa has invited three publishers to talk about their experiences in an event called Taking a Publishing Punt. Today Lynn Freeman gets a taste… Read more Audio

4:26 PM.The Dunedin Symphony Orchestra's concert progrmme for 2022 is starting mid year. But given the events of the last two years, that's understandable. It also means the orchestra has been able to confirm… Read more Audio

2:47 PM.Miscommunication between couples and families features prominently in the first short story collection by Devonport writer and artist, Vivienne Lingard. Pocket Money & Other Stories is the title of… Read more Audio

2:37 PM.Complex and yet a celebration of simplicity, poet Richard von Sturmer uses the "Tanka" poetic form to explore big themes in a very few words in his latest collection. Resonating Distances shows… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.She's performed in hotel rooms, abandoned buildings, a shipping container - even a palace in Denmark! Now Kiwi actor Sabrina Martin is taking on a solo stage role made famous by British actor Carey… Read more Audio

1:31 PM."Conjuring sound patterns that began eons ago and will continue into eternity" is what's being generated for a new music project called Bio Electricity Co-founder of Fat Freddy's Drop, Toby Laing is… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.In 2010 Kiwi Ché Zara Blomfield was instrumental in setting up a collaborative art space in London called The Composing Rooms. Artists were welcomed into the space and encouraged to talk to each other… Read more Audio

12:31 PM.In 2019, Kylie Jenner, part of the Kardashian clan, became the youngest 'self-made' billionaire in history thanks to social media and her reputation as an influencer and entrepreneur. On her Instagram… Read more Audio

12:16 PM.Los Angeles-based Lydia Emily was a highly respected political street artist when she was diagnosed with MS. Now she has to use shoelaces to secure paintbrushes to her weakened hands to complete her… Read more Video, Audio

2:40 PM.Eight interlinked stories of ordinary people whose lives are touched by the gods make up a new collection by Iranian/American/Kiwi writer Mahyar Amouzegar. The Hubris in an Empty Hand is his fourth… Read more Audio

2:26 PM.Small domestic miracles, from a sleeping baby and walking along the beach to the promise of fruit are examined in words and pictures in a book called Bordering on Miraculous Saskia Leek and Lynley… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:47 PM.Rotorua is hosting a literary festival specifically for Maori writers that the organisers hope will in turn encourage Maori readers. Kupu: Nga Ringa Tuhituhi will celebrate past and present Maori… Read more Audio

1:33 PM.It's one of the best-known - and often-told - stories in our history: Sir Ed Hillary and Sherpa Norgay Tenzing's momentous climb to the top of Mt Everest on May 29th, 1953. But Matt Kambic's new play… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Taranaki's stunning coast is also one of the fastest eroding coastlines in the world. Since 2000, photographer Pat Greenfield has walked it, documenting the impact of storms, earthquakes and erosion… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:34 PM.Wellington's Chamber Orchestra is about to celebrate its 50th birthday with a flourish. The amateur orchestra has launched many professional careers over five decades, and also has musicians who've… Read more Audio

12:16 PM.New Zealand-made screen sound and music received a BAFTA, one Emmy, two APRA Silver Scrolls, two NZ TV Awards and three Golden Reels for work on film and gaming last year alone. But members of the… Read more Audio