Arts

Film and TV reviewer Laumata Lauano joins Kathryn to talk about a new creation from Mindy Kaling, Sex Lives of College Girls (Neon), a new gay Christmas comedy Single All the Way (Netflix) and… Audio

Your chance for Disney movie stardom is up for grabs but you'd better be in quick. Acclaimed producer Chelsea Winstanley's Matewa Media are taking iconic Disney films and making Te Reo versions. In… Audio

From lion to raiona, princess to pirinihehe and ocean to moana! Kathryn meets Tweedie Waititi, film producer, writer, director and one of the creators behind the Te Reo Māori adaptations of some of… Audio

Today we're celebrating the music of Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. We've invited Auckland University musicologist Gregory Camp to join us to play some of Sondheim's work to give us… Audio

Let's get into the Christmas spirit! Award-winning singer Sara-Jane Elika is hosting a Soul Sessions Christmas special and spoke to Jesse Mulligan about the event. Audio

If you've ever been skiing at any of New Zealand's main ski fields, you're going to know Jim Niehues' artwork - although you've probably never given it much thought. He's the artist behind the world's… Audio, Gallery

Auckland's diversity found a new space in the Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland Museum this year. Kadambari chats to the people involved in making this a dynamic, community-driven space.  Audio

Time spent at the Centre of Time at the University of Sydney helped writer Bryan Walpert get his head around the logistics of time travel for his new novel Entanglement. Bryan is a Professor in… Audio

18-year-old Amy is mourning her mother's death when we meet her in The Lighthouse, the debut novel by Takapuna-based Christopher Parker. Her father Kevin is desperate to help her, but fears that their… Audio

Since arriving in Palmerston North in the 1970s, Susan McConachy has taught hundreds of locals to play the piano, encouraged people facing all kinds of obstacles to get involved in the arts, and… Audio, Gallery

Sister and brother Rebecca and Daniel Nash have collaborated on a new book that celebrates the power of imagination and the beauty of our native birds. Their grandfather is respected painter and… Audio, Gallery

Hannah Tasker-Poland may well be the most multi-skilled artist we've had on Standing Room Only over the past 20 years. Based in Tamaki Makaurau, Hannah's a dancer - though she prefers "movement… Audio, Gallery

British actress Julie Graham - star of many TV shows including The Bletchley Circle, William & Mary and Shetland - was quick to produce a drama filmed on smartphones during the UK's extended lockdown… Video, Audio, Gallery

Ex-pat Kiwi Ray Ching is regarded as one of the world's greatest living painters of birds. His latest book is filled with paintings and drawing he's made of the manu of his homeland over the past six… Audio, Gallery

Taika Waititi's films take three of the New Zealand Box Office Top 10 Films, including the top two Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Boy. Taika's unique style of film-making has also made him one of the… Video, Audio

Writer and actor Saraid de Silva has been named the inaugural winner of The Crystal Arts Trust Prize, a creative writing prize worth $10,000 that will help her publish her first novel. Audio

South Auckland's street art scene is flourishing thanks to the work of a local trust. Artist Pascal Atiga-Bridger, who is a 'reformed tagger', and works with the Beautification Trust talks to Jesse! Audio