Upbeat for Wednesday 24 August 2016

1:50 PM.Auckland theatre group Bits and Pieces Ensemble discuss topics often seen as taboo, from menstruation to women’s perspective of sex, their bodies and childbirth. Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Sydney based New Zealand tenor Jonathan Abernethy, who has been excelling with Opera Australia, returns to perform in his home town of Wellington for the first time since crossing the ditch. He’s… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.24 school choirs from around the country will be hitting the right notes this weekend at the Big Sing finals in Dunedin. Judge Debra Shearer-Dirié explains what the groups need to do to stand out from… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Stephen Layton, Director of Music at Trinity College, Cambridge, returns to the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra with a typically ingenious programme, putting music of today in the context of music of… Read more Audio