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12:15 PM.It’s one of the most popular shows of the 21st century and now, another iteration is taking place downunder. The Office is set in Australia with the first female boss - Hannah Howard, at a… Read more Video, Audio

2:05 PM.28-year-old Jacob Geller is an enormously popular Youtube video game essayist and art enthusiast. Read more Video, Audio

1:25 PM.Rakiura, with a population of just 450, is the furthest south we have ventured for RNZ Culture 101’s Regional Wrap. Read more Audio

1:07 PM.This spring, nine of Akira Kurosawa’s most beloved films are returning to Aotearoa's cinemas, including a brand-new digital restoration of Seven Samurai. Read more Audio

12:45 PM.A Slow Burlesque is a work that has been on Freya Finch's mind for almost a decade. Freya's interest in burlesque first started at John Bolton Theatre School. A four-month intensive course in… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.The Cardrona or the Thistle Inn? The Puhoi or Hotel De Brett? The White Hart or the Whangamomona? Which is this country’s most classic pub? Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Dame Susan Devoy’s career has been nothing if not lane-changing. And as such, an inspiration for us all. Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Our soundtrack today is another piece of music nominated for a APRA Silver Scroll songwriting award. 'Drifting' has been composed by Anita Schwabe, and its performed here by the Royal New Zealand Air… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.There’s human intelligence - when we use it. We’re getting to grips with artificial intelligence. And many people are getting fascinated with plant intelligence - the magic work of mycelium for… Read more Video, Audio

2:05 PM.It’s the kind of “overnight success” that has taken 10 years but it seems US singer Chappell Roan has broken through the collective pop culture consciousness, marking her territory. Read more Audio

1:20 PM.The rural town of Greytown in the Wairarapa in the lower North Island is particularly proud of its heritage and history.  Read more Audio

1:00 PM.We all make mistakes, but can we accept our errors and take action before things start to unravel beyond our control? 

In New Zealand director Christine Jeffs’ powerful new feature film A Mistake… Read more Video, Audio

12:30 PM.The fashion designer is celebrating 25 years of the label Crane Brothers and to mark the occasion, the company is teaming up with The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi to launch a Laureate Award for design

12:10 PM.“It is a cliche to say literature saves lives,” Behrouz Boochani has written, “but I experienced it with my whole being.”

Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish journalist, human rights defender, writer and… Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Arts news: a cheeky ceramics award winner, Chidgey nets Darwin and Dickens publisher and a new Christchurch artist space Audio

2:30 PM.The latest production by Māori theatre company Te Rākau Hua o Te Wao Tapu, Unreel tells the story of a community affected by gambling as the Hīnaki Hotel looks set to launch the very first AI pokie… Read more Audio

2:00 PM.The 34th season of the World of Wearable Art has kicked off in the capital - an annual spectacle of fashion, art, circus, dance and music. 

This year’s theme is Dream Awake, and the competition has… Read more Video, Audio

1:25 PM.The beautiful Rangitikei region - running alongside the river of the same name from the Manawatu to Ruapehu - is better known as a place depicted by artists than for its arts scene. 

It’s famous as… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.This week, artist Jefferson Chen, also known as Goodspace, is paying homage to Lim Chhour's legacy and the hardworking vendors by launching his debut album, Let's Talk About Death, with a multi-media… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Artist Ana Iti has been awarded Aotearoa New Zealand’s most prestigious art award, the Walters Prize at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Her sculpture and sound installation ‘A resilient heart like… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Hawkes Bay theatre maker Kristyl Neho (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahungunu) grew up with more death around her than most people. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.The Capital’s Deputy Mayor Laurie Foon has long championed Pōneke Wellington - it’s local businesses, its fashion and, sometimes more controversially, its bike lanes. Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Arts News: Parekowhai's controversial giant kangaroo, Te Unua Museum of Southland's cost blowout and extinct animal discovered in rock art. Audio

2:30 PM.Has joy ever been such a crucial visible part of art as it is in the work of crochet extraordinaires Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole?

The married couple are on a mission to bring light, warmth and Te Ao… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Maurice and I is an unexpectedly moving, delightful, at times harrowing look at the enduring partnership between architects Sir Miles Warren and Maurice Mahoney and the creation and saving of the… Read more Video, Audio