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1:33 PM.Cat Lovett is a New Zealand textile designer with a passion for the sustainable. Her interest in design has led her to live in Mexico's textile capital, Oaxaca. There she has been closely studying the… Read more Audio

1:23 PM.Self declared pirate queen Mandy Mayhem gives Maggie Tweedie a slice of life in Waitati. The celebrant, MC and Dunedin City Councillor gives the regional wrap into the cultural happenings of the… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.It took until the 1970s for Toi Māori (Māori  art) to develop a tradition in clay (uku). One that in part looks back to an ancestral Lapita pottery tradition across the Pacific. 

Today, the… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Jo Ann Firestone is a  teller of tales, a producer, host, and co-founder of Couch Stories. A sold out storytelling series that has taken the Nelson Arts fest by storm.  Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Started by a group of friends, the Ōtautahi company recently picked up a few NZ Game Awards. Read more Video, Audio

12:10 PM.Rather than Boys II Men, it’s Boys II Middle Age: playwright and actor Michael Galvin has written a play about boy bands, with a difference. Read more Audio

5:50 PM.Museums are really theatres of political power, says Maia Nuku, curator of Oceania at one of the biggest: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. 

Nuku (Ngāi Tai) is interested in the way museums… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Wellington artist Bailee Lobb has had a "combative" relationship with sleep her whole life. In the upcoming performance-installation How do you sleep at night? she'll use a range… Read more Audio

2:06 PM.In 2016 Aotearoa lost architect and teacher Rewi Thompson too young. But as an innovative new book reveals -  Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere - Thompson’s legacy lives on not only in buildings and public… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Award winning drag queen Spankie Jackzon joins Maggie Tweedie for Culture 101’s regional wrap to spill the tea on what makes Palmy so bloody balmy. Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Peter Porteous is a musician based in Dunedin who organises an experimental music festival called Lines of Flight. The idea was bred from a friendship he shared with mate and late collaborator Peter… Read more Audio

12:28 PM.Samoan New Zealand dancer John Vaifale (Lalovaea and Solosolo) is packing his bags to head to Germany and represent Aotearoa at the Red Bull Dance Your Style World Finals on November 4.  Read more Audio

12:10 PM.From the opening scenes of the second series of Raised by Refugees - the comedy sitcom created by award winning comedian Pax Assadi - monocultural views of New Zealand society are challenged with… Read more Audio

3:30 PM.An award-winning playwright, actor, musician and founder of the Maori Sidesteps, Jamie McCaskill’s latest play Two Guitars is a musical journey examining those of a  generation of Māori find… Read more Audio

2:47 PM.In a 2023 election countdown special ‘Carcass’ brings you lively banter on where culture and politics is and isn’t meeting on the hustings. Read more Audio

2:33 PM.Madison Emond from Rhode Island has been building pinhole cameras from clay in Wellington’s Kaiwharawhara stream. Her photographic work is a vessel for the natural environment, capturing life by and… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Artist Taloi Havini began life in Bougainville but fled with her family to Australia aged 9 due to a civil war which claimed 15,000 lives.  Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Every week on Culture 101 we check the pulse of a different area of Aotearoa. This week, we’re off to Hastings, ahead of the Hawkes Bay Arts Festival 13-29 October. Read more Audio

1:00 PM.In Still Here director Litia Tuiburelevu takes us inside the homes, centres and churches that carry forward  the different island community's stories and cultural traditions.   Read more Audio

12:45 PM. George Nelson is a New Zealander living in Japan with a passion for haiku, techno and fashion.
The pages of, The Techno Kiwi reveal a delightful fusion of both Japanese and New Zealand cultures,… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Uproar, a new movie inspired by the Springbok Tour of the 1980s comes with a star-studded cast - Julian Dennison, James Rolleston, Minnie Driver, Rhys Darby, and a scene-stealing role from Julian's… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Best known as a vampire, and lately, a goth, actor and comedian Johnny Brugh has been leaving us well amused since his time as one half of comedy duo Sugar and Spice way back in the ‘90s.

A regular… Read more Audio

3:33 PM.Touring to five regional centres across the North Island from 6 to 25 October Upu sees performances by seven leading actors of almost 40 texts by Māori and Pacific Island writers.

Among the writers… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.A new, sumptuous Auckland University Press book Gordon Walters reveals the diversity of the painter’s exploration of form beyond the koru, and the remarkable diversity of influences that synthesised… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.After a career spanning almost six decades, Alanis Obomsawin is still busy working on her 56th and 57th film aged 91.  Read more Audio