Arts

Film and TV correspondent James Croot joins Lynn to look at Cha Cha Real Smooth (Apple TV+) - a Sundance Award-winning film about a young man who works as a Bar Mitzvah party host, who strikes up a… Audio

For Bookmarks today we're joined by actor Theresa Healey.  Audio

An almost sold-out performance for Matariki is educating hundreds of Auckland school students about vulnerability and leadership, resilience and joy. Youth worker, choreographer and dancer Hadleigh… Audio

Going West Festival's James Littlewood joins us to talk about a special new podcast featuring a recording of the late Keri Hulme reading her unpublished novel "Bait" at the festival in 1997. Audio

We talk to Director Marcus Palmer about his film, playing at theis year's Doc Edge Festival called Disco Bloodbath which follows the core performers and managers of the eponymous iconic Tamaki… Audio

On World Refugee Day, Kadambari Raghukumar speaks to the first family of Kayan refugees to ever arrive in Nelson, back in 2008. How has life changed for the family over the years? Audio

An art collective of self proclaimed ex-pat misfits that formed in London back in 2018, is about to unveil their first exhibition over here in Aotearoa. The Water Tastes Different Here includes work… Audio

The last decade's gone by in a flash for the organisers - 2022 marks the 10th anniversary of National Flash Fiction Day. As part of the celebrations, today sees posters go up around the motu, starting… Audio

It is her dream job but one that carries a massive responsibility to the country's contemporary Maori artists. Larissa McMillan, Ngapuhi, is the first director of the Wairau Maori Art Gallery, part of… Audio, Gallery

Artist Stevei Houkamau originally planned to study Ta Moko before she was seduced by the feeling of clay in her hands and her ability to carve into it. It was 2011 when she met members of the Nga… Audio, Gallery

When six books by Dr Seuss were withdrawn from publication last year over their content, Nelson playwright and Seuss fan Judene Edgar started wondering how the writer would feel about it, were he… Audio, Gallery

Several years after feeling unsafe while at a notorious bus shelter in Tauranga, artist Sara Hughes is transforming it into a brightly coloured and illuminated work of art. It will be suspended above… Audio, Gallery

The Director of Photography on the new film Whina, Leon Narbey, actually filmed the 1975 land march that the cast and crew were recreating for the movie about the Maori matriarch who led it. Leon was… Video, Audio

After years of experimentation, Picton couple Mike and Antonia Radon have perfected the cultivation of paua 'pearls'. The round blue pearls – which take 3 or 4 years to form within a paua shell – sell… Video, Audio

Do you take to the dance floor like a fish to water, or would you rather stand at the back and sway?

New research shows that having a sense of rhythm, at least in some part, is down to your genetics.

And finally this morning, the 80's have returned with the arrival of the Australian production of The Wedding Singer. The cast have brought their leg warmers, shoulder pads and mullets to New Zealand… Audio