Sunday Afternoon

Moby's album Play sold 12 million copies worldwide in 1999, making it the biggest selling electronic record ever. At first Play did not sell at all. The first time Moby played it on stage 40 people… Read more Audio

A collection of wartime footage capturing military life in New Zealand during World War II has been made available to the public for the first time. It was shot between 1942 and 1943 by Academy… Read more Audio

Against a backdrop of tough times for young classical musicians in Wellington - with the city's School of Music facing major cuts as Victoria University struggles to control a 33 million dollar… Read more Audio

On the Nights programme with Mark Leishman this week, RNZ's Latin American music correspondent Mona-Lynn Courteau paid homage to various artists who have recently passed away. The first of those being… Read more Audio

Everyone knows Nashville Tennessee - Music City, the home of country music from before there was any such thing as country music. But it's also the home of one of the United States' great orchestras… Read more Audio

NZSO Principal Trombonist David Bremner who's also the Music Director of the National Band of New Zealand. He was talking to Mark Leishman on Nights earlier this week. Audio

Poets Carrie Rudzinski and Olivia Hall talking with Simon Morris. Their show The Bitching Hour opens on 27 June at Auckland's Basement Theatre. Audio

Dan Slevin talks to Dunedin-based theatre director Andrew McKenzie about his new production of one of the most notorious pieces of theatre ever made - Edward Bond's SAVED which was banned for two… Read more Audio

Earlier this year we looked at how many overseas films are currently shooting in New Zealand this year. And the answer seemed to be "not that many", or at least not as many as we'd like. But maybe… Read more Audio

Last weekend performing arts luminaries from all over Aotearoa came to Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington to celebrate a rare occasion - a theatre company reaching its 40th birthday. Dan Slevin caught up… Read more Audio

One day, when the social and cultural histories of New Zealand during the pandemic are written, one of the key texts will be Stevee Taylor's Masters research, "At the Crossroads of Cinema, Streaming… Read more Audio