Arts
Expert feature: Viewing Art
There are lots of ways to look at art...but it unless you're an art buff it can be quite hard to know what you're looking Today's expert is renowned art curator and author Mary Kisler - curator… Audio
Television Critic: Guy Williams
Guy Williams talks to Jesse about Alice Sneddon's Bad News on The Spinoff and he's also been watching The Flight Attendant on Neon. Audio
Freya Daly Sadgrove: the different sides of a show pony
"Smashing theatre and literature together" is poet, producer and MC Freya Daly Sadgrove's mantra for Show Ponies, the hit revue that sees Aotearoa poets perform their work like pop stars: outrageous… Video, Audio
Dame Valerie Adams: intimate film reveals our champion at her most vulnerable
It’s a cliché to describe a life portrayed in film as a rollercoaster. Yet, while we know the highest highs of Dame Valerie Adams' career - five-time Olympian, two-time gold medallist, easily one of… Video, Audio
First song: The Mitchell Twins
The younger twin siblings of well known singer Jenny Mitchell have today released their own debut single, Find A River. Audio
Screentime: The White Lotus, The Watcher, The Stranger
Film and TV reviewer Chris Schulz joins Kathryn to talk about the second season of The White Lotus (Neon), new Netflix series The Watcher - which is based on a creepy true story, and The Stranger… Audio
Much ado about Shakespeare – why it's time for a national theatre
Opinion - The controversy over a shift in funding for the Shakespeare Globe Centre NZ was more evidence the country's national culture is undergoing an identity crisis, Barry King* writes.
Podcast Critic: Jemima Huston
Today Jemima Huston talks to Jesse about Finding Cleo, a CBC podcast about a young indigenous girl in Canada who disappears. She's also been listening to We Were Three, a New York Times podcast about… Audio
First song: Come Together - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Another round of Come Together concerts kick off in Wellington tomorrow night. This time it's a super group of New Zealand rock musicians playing Tom Petty's Damn The Torpedoes. Audio
Arts: Frida Kahlo packs the crowds into Auckland Art Gallery
Auckland Art Gallery's Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Art and Life in Modern Mexico exhibition saw the highest visitation numbers on record for a ticketed exhibition's opening weekend since… Audio, Gallery
Laneway lovers upset by move to Western Springs
Live music lovers were stoked to welcome Laneway Festival back to Auckland after an almost three-year long Covid-19 hiatus.
So stoked that tickets sold out in just 90 minutes, a first in the… Audio
Thom Monckton: clowning around Aotearoa
World renowned physical theatre and contemporary circus performer Thom Monckton has his hands busy at the moment, touring not one but two shows around the country. Audio
Is AI art really art?
The art community has been divided over whether artificial intelligence art is "the death of art." Jason Allen won the Colorado Fine Art Competition digital category with his AI generated piece called… Audio
How to write a quiz
It's harder than you think to write a good quiz, there are nuances and tricks to the trade. Believe It Or Not are New Zealand's largest quiz provider and Brendan Lochead joins Emile to tell their… Audio
Stephen Johnson's Peace Stick
Peace Stick is a novel that started with a chat to a former East German schoolgirl about life behind the Iron Curtain during the Cuban Missile Crisis 60 years ago Author Stephen Johnson shares how he… Audio
Aotearoa's best science fiction and fantasy
Director Keelan Walker on his new short film Bringing Mere Home, the Maori filmmaker talks about his shift from documentaries and into drama. Audio
Mosaic Art
Mosaic artworks are currently on display at the biennial New Zealand Mosaic Art Exhibition in Whanganui. Contributing artists Achilles Botes and chair of New Zealand Mosaic Art Pat George discuss the… Audio, Gallery
From Documentary to drama: Keelan Walker
Director Keelan Walker on his new short film Bringing Mere Home, the Maori filmmaker talks about his shift from documentaries and into drama. Video, Audio
Hitchcock's North By Northwest takes to the stage
How will Auckland Theatre Company's latest production, North by Northwest duplicate Alfred Hitchcock's cinematic vision that incompassed a chase across four presidents' heads on Mount Rushmore, an… Video, Audio
Precariat Whānau - theatre for those on the margins
Lynn Freeman speaks with renowned theatre director Adrian Jackson MBE about his work with 'Precariat Whanau', a term encompassing families and individuals who live in barely adequate insecure housing… Audio
