Upbeat for Thursday 27 October 2011

1:00 PM.New Zealand String Quartet Manager and driving force behind London based festival "New Zealand at Kings Place". Audio

12:52 PM.Curator of Maori collection at Te Papa museum and editor of new book Whatu Kakuhu: Maori Cloaks. Audio

12:15 PM.Artistic Director of WOMAD Taranaki launches next year's programme. Audio