All episodes
Sunday, 6 September 2020
- 12:17 Where are the TV audiences? Mostly not watching TV
- 12:35 Dione Joseph – the voice of Black Creatives Aotearoa
- 1:33 The Auckland Theatre Company is back - slightly modified
- 1:45 The dark world of poet Jess Fiebig
- 2:25 Alan Titchall's novel sees 1960s New Zealand through the eyes of an 11-year old boy
- 2:38 Rebecca Hawkes - poetry with an agricultural bent
- 2:47 Gore's ambitious new Art Gallery
Sunday, 30 August 2020
- 12:17 Southland's Art and Museum space plans to open
- 12:29 Horomona Horo - opportunities for traditional instruments
- 12:43 Screen Sector Strategy
- 1:45 A new production company brings a performance to you
- 2:29 Rejected scripts get a second chance on stage
- 2:47 Marti Friedlander's Portraits of Artists
Sunday, 23 August 2020
- 12:14 Art and Design remembered over 60 years later
- 12:47 Stacy Gregg's Pony Club Secrets makes it to the screen
- 1:33 Acting coach Peter Feeney
- 1:49 Sam Trubridge inspired by a 100-year-old sheep station account
- 2:32 Murdoch Stephens - a new book, under his real name!
- 2:40 Rhian Gallagher's poetry collection Far flung
- 2:50 Successful conductor - and expat New Zealander - Gemma New
- 5:32 Koanga Festival - now a theatre festival goes on-line
Sunday, 16 August 2020
- 12:36 Loading Docs
- 12:47 After the online film festivals
- 1:45 Rebecca Gibney - a lowdown criminal at last
- 2:25 Covid photographers from both sides of the Tasman
- 2:40 Carl Nixon's latest spine-chilling thriller
- 2:49 Kate di Goldi - creating our first Reading Ambassador
Sunday, 9 August 2020
- 12:30 NZ opera returns to the stage with Semele
- 12:45 Hooked on Books!
- 1:33 Hindi theatre powerhouse's new production
- 1:50 Llew Summers life and work
- 2:25 Jonathan King: The Inkberg Enigma
- 2:40 Author Pip McKay crosses oceans
- 4:49 Kit Toogood on a new future for the Auckland Art Gallery
Sunday, 2 August 2020
- 12:36 Daniel Roher and Once were brothers - the story of The Band
- 12:45 Tongan web series looks at the world of prize fighting
- 1:33 Capes and confidence: House of Cardin
- 1:50 Colin Mcoll brings Ibsen to stage and screen
- 2:25 Choreographer Eddie Elliot on dancing through a pandemic
- 2:40 Diane Brown: Every now and then I have another child
- 2:50 Sculptor Candice Lin looks at the history of plague
Sunday, 26 July 2020
- 12:35 Ann Shelton's eco-exhibition Mother Lode
- 1:28 Artist Daegan Wells reminds us of our debt to Wool
- 1:44 Wendy director's unique take on an old children's story
- 2:33 Good news for the annual Chamber Music Contest
- 2:40 A new novel about the early settlers of the Far North
- 2:50 Jane Wymark - 14 series of Midsomer Murders
- 4:45 World Science Fiction Convention hosted by NZ
Sunday, 19 July 2020
- 12:36 Where are the Asian-Kiwi faces and voices?
- 1:33 The launch of the Italian Film Festival
- 1:45 Digital Ocean - new directions in virtual reality
- 2:25 Deborah Challinor remembers Les Girls in King's Cross
- 2:40 Remembering the poetry of Elizabeth Brooke-Carr
- 2:50 The extraordinary range of composer Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper
Sunday, 12 July 2020
- 12:36 Creatives in Schools get welcome support, but is it enough?
- 12:48 Karyn Rachtman - from pulp fiction to environmental games
- 1:47 An artist's colleagues are invited to 'Rectify this painting'
- 2:25 More funding for Festivals, but what's expected in return
- 2:37 David Coventry's new novel Dance Prone
- 2:50 Philippa Blair - cloaked in art
- 4:33 Film and arts sector crews - coping after Covid
Sunday, 5 July 2020
- 12:36 The Screen Sector Recovery Package - who wins?
- 1:35 Lisa Reihana and James Pinker return home
- 2:25 Four New Zealand women composers tackle a new project
- 2:37 Lil O'Brien's teenage years become a coming-out memoir
- 2:49 A real Number Eight Wire art award!
Sunday, 28 June 2020
- 12:36 Pacific Dance New Zealand
- 12:50 Head High
- 1:31 I heard them on the radio - Apocalypse Songs
- 2:25 Two Masters - artists Michael Smither and Warren Viscoe
- 2:38 Love during the Vietnam War
- 2:45 Tautai Gallery for contemporary Pacific art
- 2:50 Helen Moulder is taking it to the street
Sunday, 21 June 2020
- 12:36 Dear Virus - a lighter side of lockdown
- 12:45 Funding cuts for the arts as local councils feel the squeeze?
- 1:33 Film Festival going virtual? Call Hamilton's Shift 72
- 1:47 Going West Writers Festival 25 years on
- 2:27 A J Fitzwater's No Man's Land
- 2:41 Down in the Archives - the big digitize!
Sunday, 14 June 2020
- 12:37 British actress and novelist Celia Imrie
- 12:50 Taonga degrading in leaky Canterbury Museum - director
- 1:32 Civilisation, Photography, Now
- 2:25 Poet Kevin Ireland
- 2:36 Treasure hunting in the vaults of the Archives NZ
- 5:44 Covid-free NZ - the answer to the film industry's prayers?
Sunday, 7 June 2020
- 12:35 That Click: Director Luca Severi on the work of Douglas Kirkland
- 12:47 Saving those precious old tapes - Nga Taonga's race against time
- 1:32 Nailing dialects: Perry Piercy
- 1:47 Does Ava Dream: Grant Sheehan at Pataka
- 2:25 Waiting out the pandemic: screenwriter/director Stella Reid
- 2:35 Ephemera and Ursa: novelist Tina Shaw
- 2:50 The Jac's third album, The Gathering
Sunday, 31 May 2020
- 12:30 Waikato artists embracing diversity in a time of crisis
- 12:45 Duty star Martin Compston on being "not bent"
- 1:30 Silent film-making in the age of lockdown
- 1:50 Celebrating 60 years of NZ TV: 'It's very rarely seen footage'
- 2:25 Abby Howells: HarleQueen
- 2:40 Marolyn Krasner
- 2:49 Rebecca Tansley funding local film making her own way
- 3:50 The Vivian Gallery closes its doors
Sunday, 24 May 2020
- 12:30 Royal NZ Ballet dancers poised for return
- 12:45 Venice Biennale postponed: what does it mean for the artist?
- 1:30 Adam Play award winner Jess Sayer talks up hope for a screen led recovery
- 1:45 Te Papa prepares to reopen
- 2:06 The Laugh Track - Paul Yates
- 2:20 What Sort of Man?
- 2:35 Films with Attitude
- 2:45 Rural residency becomes home for stranded US artist
Sunday, 29 March 2020
- 12:30 Not Your Average Instagram Entertainment
- 12:40 Flash Fiction
- 12:50 NZ On Air's New CEO Outlines its COVID-19 Response
- 1:40 Mikaela Nyman’s Story of Resourcefulness Forged In Isolation
- 1:50 MusicHelps Wellbeing Service Offers Lifeline to Wider Arts Community
- 2:45 How Audio Books Are Made
Sunday, 22 March 2020
- 12:35 How will the arts cope with Covid-19 cancellations?
- 1:32 The cinema with no films
- 1:43 The latest web-series from Flat 3 Productions, Meme
- 2:25 Photographer Laurence Aberhart returns to Whanganui
- 2:40 Adele Broadbent and Diana Noonan on writing for today's teens
- 2:48 Restoring Granity's Lyric Theatre
Sunday, 15 March 2020
- 12:00 Standing Room Only - Sunday March 15
- 12:33 How Covid-19 is affecting New Zealand’s art scene
- 12:47 Exhibition created by Muslim community
- 1:33 'Phenomenal virtuoso' Cameron Carpenter to play with NZSO
- 1:45 Burt Bacharach's hits brought to life by Ali Harper
- 2:06 Indigenous story-telling celebrated at Maoriland Film Festival
- 2:25 Short stories of love from Dame Fiona Kidman
- 2:40 Stained-glass window to honour Reverend Arnold Spencer-Smith
Sunday, 8 March 2020
- 12:36 Dimanche - capturing climate change onstage
- 12:44 Painter Anne Hamblett - overshadowed no longer
- 1:32 NZ theatre group head to Rotterdam
- 1:46 The Nomadic Art Gallery - art on wheels
- 2:25 Interview: Greek pop star Marina Satti
- 2:44 Former Poet Laureate Michele Leggott looks back
Sunday, 1 March 2020
- 12:32 Documenting the West Coasters living off grid
- 12:45 Paul Diamond at the Berlin film festival
- 1:33 Annie Collins: Legendary Kiwi film editor
- 2:25 Feminist romance writer Bronwyn Sell
- 2:40 Dancer and Choreographer, Sofia McIntyre
- 2:49 Artspace's new Auckland gallery
Sunday, 23 February 2020
- 12:36 The return of the Hawke's Bay Opera House
- 12:45 The woman behind New Zealand's top literary prize
- 1:32 Ashlee Fidow - stunt performer
- 1:45 South Korean theatre company Elephants Laugh
- 2:27 Eamonn Marra - comedian turned novelist
- 2:44 The World Science Fiction Convention comes to New Zealand
Sunday, 16 February 2020
- 12:36 NZ Review of Books under fire
- 12:46 Charlotte Nightingale - exploring the "spectrum"
- 1:31 Rachel Marlow - painting a story with light
- 1:47 A 100% Kiwi Military Tattoo
- 2:29 Poet Freya Daly Sadgrove - right and true and deadly
- 2:46 Unreal! Turning 2D paintings into an immersive world
- 3:49 Picking up the reins of the Auckland Fringe
Sunday, 9 February 2020
- 5:00 Standing Room Only - February 9
- 12:30 Liz Sneyd - do young people want to hear classical music?
- 12:45 Writer Aroha Awarau on his new play - Provocation
- 1:31 Film makers strike for the climate
- 1:50 Kapiti's new multi-million dollar performing arts centre
- 2:25 Births, Deaths, and Marriages with Bea Joblin and Sophie Lloyd
- 2:40 Book editors Christine Cessford and Gem MacDuff
- 2:50 Mike Sorenson - Dancing through Depression
- 3:45 James Wenley on his new play - Dr Drama Makes a Show
Sunday, 2 February 2020
- 12:00 Standing Room Only - February 2
- 12:35 Will there be any blockbusters in New Zealand film in 2020?
- 1:33 Josephine Rout: Curating a kimono exhibition in London
- 1:50 Roger Hall's new play - Winding Up
- 2:25 Writer Scarlett Thomas on her new book - Oligarchy
- 2:40 Peter Chan - challenges facing archivists collecting emails
