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12:30 PM.For many stand-up comedians, performing in a garage could seem like a career low-point. But in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, comedian Heta Dawson has turned his garage in his South Auckland family home… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Indian Ink Theatre Company has built up a remarkable reputation for developing and touring original work over 27 years. 

Founded by Justin Lewis and Jacob Rajan, more than half a million people have… Read more Video, Audio

2:30 PM.At the age of three, writer Sasha LaPointe was given her Skagit name in a ceremony - taqʷšəblu. In the Pacific Northwest, it’s a big deal to be given a Skagit name and she was her great-grandmother’s… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.This weekend in Ōtepoti Dunedin small presses and independent publishers from around Aotearoa gather to share and exchange at Small Press Fest.  The festival reflects a move among younger creatives… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.30 kilometres west of Waihōpai Invercargill, is the town of Aparima or Riverton.

It’s the gateway to spectacular and remote West Southland, an area sitting between the mountains of Fiordland and… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.It’s a story about sisterhood and survival against a dark backdrop but Josephine Stewart Tewhiu never set out to make a film about abuse in state care.  Read more Video, Audio

12:45 PM.Artist Owen Connors is on a roll. They are one of four nominees for Aotearoa's most prestigious art prize, The Walters. Last year they won the $25,000 Rydal Art Prize, awarded biannually to a recent… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Bouncing off the success from the first season, documentary Takeout Kids is back for a second season and this time, it’s venturing beyond the takeaways. Read more Video, Audio

12:15 PM.Growing up as the only boy in a family of five children, Eli Matthewson was well prepared for a career in comedy.  Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Dropping a sheep’s carcass from an aeroplane into the Waitemata harbour; sewing a sheep’s kidney onto your own back; yelling “get the f**k out” till the audience leaves, many razor cuts. The early… Read more Video, Audio

2:10 PM.Public galleries have been demonstrating our view of art history has been changing radically for years. It just hasn’t been published for a wider public, until now. 

Art historian and curator Kirsty… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Each week Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different region in Aotearoa and this week we’re in the Bay of Plenty town of Whakatāne. Read more Audio

1:07 PM.The Bitches’ Box is back, and for the first time the show will be venturing to urban centres.  Read more Video, Audio

12:45 PM.Comedy podcast Did Titanic Sink? is back baby! Winner of the Comedy Podcast of the Year at the 2023 NZ Podcast Awards, comedians Tim Batt and Carlo Ritchie are steered towards investigating a local… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Almost 40 years on, Hunters and Collectors in Pōneke remains. The first vintage clothing store in the Capital, it’s a truly iconic creative Cuba Street institution. Hunters and Collectors’ matriarch… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Married couple Michael Hurst and Jennifer Ward-Lealand have theatre and film careers that span 40 years. Indeed, they met in the theatre - at Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland’s Theatre Corporate in 1983… Read more Video, Audio

2:30 PM.That role of the museum is just one of the ways poet, novelist and essayist Ian Wedde explores opening out space through culture in his third volume of collected nonfiction writing, The Social Space… Read more Audio

2:00 PM.The 1960s Rolls-Royce which served as the limousine for Queen Elizabeth II’s royal tours in New Zealand is being auctioned. Read more Video, Audio

1:25 PM.Nestled in the impressive harbour of Canterbury’s Banks Peninsula, is picturesque town Akaroa.   Read more Audio

1:07 PM.In the genre-busting documentary Grand Theft Hamlet, two out-of-work UK actors in lockdown attempt the seemingly impossible. They seek to mount a full production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet inside the… Read more Video, Audio

12:45 PM.Mezzo-soprano Katie Trigg has been crowned the 2024 Lexus Song Quest winner. The prestigious opera singing competition took place on Saturday night at Michael Fowler Centre in Poneke Wellington. Five… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Multi-disciplinary artist Liv Tennet is trying to be a cool mum - without losing her cool. Her new solo dance show For You To Know and Me To Find Out has been brewing for the past few years amidst the… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.It’s difficult not to use the cliché description of ‘whirlwind’ but the past few years have been life changing for New Zealand Chinese actor Jess Hong.  Read more Audio