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From Bowie to Big Thief: The extraordinary life of Tucker Zimmerman
22 Dec 202483-year-old poet and songwriter Tucker Zimmerman has had something of a cultural Forrest Gump of a career, and 2024 has found him gaining new-found fame.
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From creating waterfalls to giant suns: acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson
22 Dec 2024Culture 101 speaks to the artist from Berlin about his first solo show in New Zealand and is innovative approach to art. Audio
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Regional Wrap: Bethlehem, Aotearoa with expressionist artist Nicola Welten
22 Dec 2024Our Regional Wrap takes us to somewhere named after the Christmas city itself. Audio
From Bowie to Big Thief: The extraordinary life of Tucker Zimmerman
83-year-old poet and songwriter Tucker Zimmerman has had something of a cultural Forrest Gump of a career, and 2024 has found him gaining new-found fame.
Acclaimed album Dance of Love, out on 4AD… Audio
From creating waterfalls to giant suns: acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson
Culture 101 speaks to the artist from Berlin about his first solo show in New Zealand and is innovative approach to art. Audio
Regional Wrap: Bethlehem, Aotearoa with expressionist artist Nicola Welten
Our Regional Wrap takes us to somewhere named after the Christmas city itself. Audio
Anora: The movie of the year finally arrives
Since winning the coveted Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Anora has spent the past six months taking the movie world by storm. It finally arrives in New Zealand cinemas on Boxing Day.
Anora… Audio
2024’s Kiwi King of the Twist: Crime thriller writer JP Pomare on murder in Cambridge
It’s a 2024 thriller concerned with race, podcast-making and the criminal justice system high on a fair few 2024 best-of lists.
17 Years Later is Melbourne-based bestselling New Zealand writer JP… Audio
The year that was with acclaimed writer and columnist Charlotte Grimshaw
She joins Culture 101 to talk about her time in the South of France for the 2024 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, her new novel and her highlights of 2024. Audio
Painter Karl Maughan’s 2024 favourites and his Pōhutukawa fringed paintings of summer
The Pōhutukawa - our Christmas tree - once bountifully fringed the West Coast north of Taranaki, and the East Coast north of Tairāwhiti Gisborne. While now found even further south, these trees with… Audio
The Mixtape chats of 2024 you don't want to miss
The Music 101 team have gathered some of the wonderful chats of 2024 you don't want to miss. You can find a link to the whole Mixtape for each guest below, or visit the RNZ Mixtape podcast to listen… Audio
Why Singing in the Shower is your Superpower
A new book offers a practical guide to singing in the shower. It plunges into questions ranging from 'Why do I sound so good in my shower?' to 'How can singing in the shower help me overcome anxiety… Audio
Joan as Police Woman: On writing songs to process big feelings
Ahead of her 'Joan As Police Woman' shows in New Zealand next May 2025, Joan Wasser jumps on the phone from her home in Brooklyn to talk about how songwriting helped make sense of falling in love on… Audio
Maia Nuku, Oceania curator at New York's Metropolitan Museum
Last September marked 40 years since the Te Maori exhibition opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and recently its Oceania galleries underwent a major renovation. They will reopen in… Audio
Hollywood correspondent on the biggest stories of 2024
Our Hollywood correspondent, Sandro Monetti, has been keeping tabs on things for us throughout the year. Monetti spoke to Corin Dann. Audio
Prolific New Zealand artist Mark Braunias dies
He was known for experimenting with line and colours across different mediums.
Feature interview: New Zealand Christmas Songs
75 years ago, New Zealand musicians started composing our own Christmas carols and making Christmas dreams come true for some of the singers tapped to record them. Audio
Bookmarks with Bill Hastings
Bill has been a judge since 2010, but then he's had a number of interesting jobs over the years. Audio
Music Critic: Te Kaahu and RipShip
Rachel Ashby reviews and plays some new local music. I Roto I Te Po, I Roto I Te Ao by Te Kaahu and New Mexico by RipShip. Audio
Dan Slevin's best films of 2024
Dan Slevin looks back at the cinematic year and picks his 10 top films - and not a horror flick among them.
World's rebel women motorcyclists celebrated in new photography book
New Zealand photographer Alice Connew joins Maggie Tweedie from her home in Bristol. Audio
Shower Thoughts: How do you turn a black and white photo into colour?
Brendan Graham worked with historian Jock Phillips on the book Our Land in Colour which was a collection of 200 retouched and coloured photographs depicting life in Aotearoa New Zealand from 1860 to… Audio
