Plays & Stories

Trained actor and doctor Thomas Petschner combined his skills to form Clown Doctors. It's a programme providing comic relief to patients in hospital. The programme has been running in Auckland and… Audio

A panel recorded at the recent New Zealand International Arts Festival Writers and Readers Week in Wellington, debating the premise that theatre is dead. Ken Duncum, teacher of Victoria University’s… Audio

Wellington's Bats Theatre's knight in shining armour turns out to be Sir Peter Jackson. He and Lady Fran have pitched in to buy the theatre which was up for sale and out of reach of the Bats Trust… Audio

Composer John Gibson and actor and voice teacher Sylvia Rands have long shared a passion for the religiously inspired works of poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Now they’ve turned that passion into a new… Audio

Novelist, hip hop artist and former Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University, New York, whose new parenting comedy book, 'Go the F**k to Sleep' has been an unexpected bestseller. Audio

Writer of and actor in "Station to Station", a play about a charismatic TV presenter turned religious zealot. Audio

Camilla Maling went to see the restoration of Wellington's Embassy Theatre in time for the premiere of Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy. Audio

Wil Anderson has won several awards for his comedy including the People's Choice award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival - for the second year in a row. His award winning show The Gruen… Audio

Ardal O'Hanlon is a comic actor and stand-up comedian who became a household name playing Father Dougal Maguire, the simpleton priest in the hit Irish TV series Father Ted. Has he managed to shake the… Audio

Irish comedian whose annual ticket sales in his homeland are only beaten by U2. Audio

British stage and screen actor (Gandalf in Lord of the Rings), currently on tour with a production of Samuel Beckett's play, Waiting for Godot, visiting NZ in June and July. Audio

Nelson City Councilor and Concert Director of the region's historic Theatre Royal talks about the recently completed refurbishment of the 1878 building. Audio

British playwright (Plenty, Knuckle, Pravda, Stuff Happens), screenwriter (The Hours, The Reader), and theatre and film director. Audio

Jason Moon delves deep into the bowels of a new play by Indian community theatre group Prayas. Audio