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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

1:25 PM.Each week Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different region in Aotearoa. This week we’re in the port town of Lyttelton near Ōtautahi Christchurch.  Read more Audio

1:07 PM.So fearless is composer Eve De Castro Robinson that not only did she recently give a seminar entitled ‘Being Fearless’ but, now in her 60s, she recently tried doing stand-up comedy for the first… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Independent, trailblazing alternative pop artist Theia has released a new musical anthem. Staunchly proud of being a wahine Māori artist, her whakapapa (Waikato-Tainui, Ngāti Tīpā) and her language… Read more Video, Audio

12:30 PM.Kirsty Webeck is one of Australia’s busiest comedians. But her path into comedy was anything but conventional. Read more Audio

12:10 PM.With style and cinematic verve, if there was ever an Aotearoa artist to be dubbed disco queen it would be Lisa Reihana. Disco because her latest commissioned work on the rooftop of the National… Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Arts news for 15 September 2024. Audio

2:30 PM.He's reached that stage of getting called a legend of the underground and certainly, Bill Direen is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most singular, long serving and distinctive poets and musicians. His… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.An area of Aotearoa New Zealand arts getting major global reach right now is music and sound for film. 

Culture 101 brought together three composers and musicians making inroads in this field to talk… Read more Video, Audio

1:25 PM.A gateway to Te Wai Pounamu and the Marlborough Sounds, Picton has the capacity to surprise travellers with the range of cultural experiences on offer. 

It’s the destination for this week’s Culture… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.What is the secret to designing a great kitchen? Many of us may think we have the answers, but reality can throw up plenty of challenges.   Read more Audio

12:45 PM.550 migrants or their advocates laid complaints last month. It comes as less than 2000 overseas workers arrive. Meanwhile Immigration New Zealand reports they have revoked the accreditation of 500… Read more Audio