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12:15 PM.This year marks 25 years since the Aotearoa band Stellar exploded onto the music charts in 1999 with multi-platinum album Mix. Read more Audio

2:30 PM.They flit around you in the back garden at the compost, or dive at your feet in the bush. The pīwakawaka or fantail is a special bird: so common, yet so magic. 

There's a lightness, a joy to this… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra is bringing the epic scores of The Lion King and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to the stage alongside the films this year.  Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Palmerston North or ‘Palmy’ as it’s known brims with energy, culture and heritage. Overlooking the Manawatū river, the region boomed with a pastoral farming industry.  Read more Video, Audio

1:08 PM.Last year the Ministry of Culture and Heritage Manatu Taonga reported New Zealand's arts and creative sector contributed $16.3 billion to New Zealand's GDP, or 4.3% of the total economy, in the year… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.For three weeks in August every year, thousands of artists descend on Edinburgh for the largest performing arts festival in the world. Read more Audio

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