Arts

Today, we pay tribute to singer-songwriter and founder of Dunedin rock band The Chills, Martin Phillipps who died unexpectedly yesterday, age 61. Audio

Finding the opera voices of tomorrow, here is RNZ Concert's recording of the second of two semi-finals for the Lexus Song Quest 2024. Soprano Tayla Alexander and Felicity Tomkins, counter-tenor Austin… Audio

We’re in a housing crisis, most people agree. With strong awareness of the inequalities that it brings. 

Yet, when it comes to talking about solutions to something so complex yet so personal, people… Audio

It’s 1979 in Ōtautahi Christchurch and an energetic underground punk scene is spewing up. It’s decades before the internet, with the very latest overseas sounds dribbling in slowly by import. Records… Video, Audio

They’ve been dubbed ‘the MTV generation’ and the ‘Forgotten generation’ (though now they’re in power: ‘forgotten no more’ we say). They are Generation X: those born between 1965 and 1980. 

The baby… Video, Audio

Hugo Grrrl keeps rather busy. He’s a fulltime drag artist - not just performing, but MCing, producing, writing and providing opportunities for the next generation of performers. 

The alias of George… Video, Audio

Finding the opera voices of tomorrow, here is RNZ Concert's recording of the first of two semi-finals for the Lexus Song Quest 2024. Soprano Madison Horman, mezzo Katie Trigg, tenor Manase Latu… Audio

Painter Liz Maw joins Charlotte to talk about Generation X: 50 Artworks from the Chartwell Collection which has just opened at Te Papa. Audio

This week Julian Wilcox talks to the executive director of the Atamira dance company, Marama Lloyd.  Audio

A new show sets a performer on a bike tied to the theatre's lights, and if they stop peddling, that's curtain. It's being called 'performance essay meets spin class'. 'A Short History of Asian New… Audio

Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin is in with some essential viewing, including five picks for the New Zealand International Film Festival, a limited edition boxset of Martin Scorsese's Films… Audio

Today Kate talks to Jesse about the Deadpool and Wolverine movie and the upcoming Captain America Brave new World movie due out next year. Audio

On the show today we have a tonne of guest including Ukrainian-born kiwi artist VI¨KÆ who chats about her upcoming first bilingual single, Samoan-New Zealand artist and PMA nominee Pat Tafa has a… Audio

While nearly everyone has a camera on them these days, only a few know how to capture a story of global significance.  Audio