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12:45 PM.From hanging out with Daleks and Weeping Angels to the many different iterations of the sonic screwdriver - costumes, props, gadgets and gizmos from the world’s longest running sci-fi series have… Read more Video, Audio

12:30 PM.A documentary theatre piece is giving the stage to stories held onto for decades. The adoption experiences of birth mothers in the 1950s and 1960s in New Zealand are being heard in I Carried This at… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Comedian and writer Lana Walters has won the Billy T Award for 2024, New Zealand’s premiere comedy award.  Read more Audio

3:00 PM.Arts news for the 26 May 2024 on Culture 101. Read more Video, Audio

2:30 PM.In Pōneke Wellington this week artists, technologists, and critical thinkers have been exploring together questions around machine learning and artificial intelligence. They’ve gathered as part of… Read more Video, Audio

2:05 PM.Boris Eldagsen became the most notorious artist in the world last year, after winning an award at one of the world's biggest photography competitions with an image entirely generated by AI.  Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Each week, Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different region in Aotearoa for the weekly Regional Wrap. This week we’re in the steampunk capital of the world - Oamaru.  Read more Audio

1:07 PM.As global warming continues, many parts of the world including natural wonders and island countries are at risk of damage or disappearing. This has led to a trend of ‘last chance tourism’ where… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Te Pou Theatre’s latest offering puts a spotlight on the wāhine factory workers behind the iconic Crown Lynn crockery.  Read more Audio

12:31 PM.Gamers with a passion for creative writing can merge their interests in Aotearoa's only creative writing paper dedicated to video games. Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Pōneke Wellington based Ebony Lamb has the distinction of having developed two parallel acclaimed careers: as a singer-songwriter and as a photographer.  Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Arts news for 19 May 2024 Read more Video, Audio

2:30 PM.The Auckland Writers Festival has set central Tāmaki Makaurau abuzz this week with a strong lineup of leading local and international authors, panel discussions, and events, including the Ockham New… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Te Whare Tapere in the Christchurch Arts Centre is neither a European-style gallery or theatre. As a space principally by Māori, for Māori, it is, says co-founder artist Juanita Hepi, “a… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.You know those embarrassing uncomfortable thoughts and feelings you have you usually keep inside? Pōneke playwright and comedian Viki Moananu uses theatre and comedy to let them out. He calls them… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Gore is quite rightly known as our Capital of country music. But there’s always been much more going on culturally in this East Southland town. Read more Video, Audio

1:07 PM.Vast exclusion zones operate around the cities of Pripyat, near the ruined Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, and Plymouth, on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, decimated by the island’s… Read more Video, Audio

12:45 PM.The notoriously punishing, elite world of the Moscow Bolshoi Ballet Academy is centre stage in Joika - the first ever film collaboration between New Zealand and Poland.  Read more Video, Audio

12:30 PM.Over 100 years ago artist Ahilapalapa Rands’ great-grandfather, the ukulele virtuoso Ernest Ka’ai wrote the song ‘Across the Sea’, the lyrics speaking to the pull that Hawai’i has for Kānaka Maoli… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.A professional in the comedy scene for more than a decade now, Rhys Mathewson knew he was going to pursue comedy as a career after taking part in Class Comedians in 2006 at the age of 15. 

From that… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Arts news for 12 May Read more

2:30 PM.Ten years ago acclaimed potter Rick Rudd sold his house -  together with its unique native and sculpture garden - in Castlecliff, Whanganui to establish Quartz Museum of Studio Ceramics in downtown… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Aotearoa New Zealand is a land of birds. Yet contemporary fiction providing a bird’s eye view has been slow to arrive. 

While Catherine Chidgey’s award winning 2022 novel The Axeman’s Carnival looks… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.In this week’s Regional Wrap we look at the culture of Far North town Kaitaia. Read more Audio

1:05 PM.In an article on Stuff in 2019, comedian Guy Williams posed the question, “Where are all the Māori comedians?” Williams noted that, despite our main comedy award being named after Billy T James, he… Read more Audio