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1:40 PM.On Suffrage Day Claire Regnault, a curator from Te Papa, and Anastasia Burn from Wellington Girls College Feminist Club discuss pressing issues for women today. Te Papa recently acquired a rare medal… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Jan Bowell is the choreographer of Hakari - The Dinner Party. The show which will play at Q Loft as part of Tempo Dance Festival and is a take on Judy Chicago’s 1979 art installation which made note… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Peter Hoar reviews New Zealand Opera and Victorian Opera’s production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd. It stars Teddy Tahu Rhodes as Sweeney Todd and Australian soprano Antoinette… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:40 PM.Wellington Brass Band music director David Bremner talks about the pride he felt conducting his band at the 164^th British Open in Birmingham. Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Sydney-based artists Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro have a six month residency at Massey University in Wellington. Using the idea of ‘home’ as a theme; the pair use pre-existing items such as lego… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:00 PM.Anthony Ritchie has composed an oratorio to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. Commissioned by Dunedin Symphony for Arts Festival Dunedin the work uses text from many writers… Read more Video, Audio

1:40 PM.Hitting the Highs Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Boys Will Be Boys Read more Audio

1:40 PM.The Art of Etiquette – Auditions Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Salina Fisher expands her cultural repertoire with Tōrino Read more Video, Audio

1:00 PM.Jacqui Fink is a fibre artist and 'extreme knitter' based in Sydney. Her studio is called Little Dandelion. Read more Video, Audio

1:20 PM.To The Memory of an Angel Read more Audio

1:00 PM.International collaboration in dynamic new Piano Quartet 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

1:02 PM.Andrew Simon is principal clarinet of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and an old friend of Music Director Marc Taddei from Orchestra Wellington with whom he plays the Mozart clarinet concerto… Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Wellington's newest arts phenomenon, Eternity Opera opens its first production this week. Mozart's Don Giovanni features some of Wellington's best professional singers. Director Alex Galvin and… Read more Audio

1:28 PM.Jennifer Shennan reviews the return of the Royal New Zealand Ballet's Giselle. It's touring the country. Is it en pointe with purists and is it better the second time around? Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Australian artist Michael Leunig is coming to New Zealand for the Dunedin Arts Festival. The well-known cartoonist, poet, painter, writer and philosopher discusses the New Zealand psyche, his trade… Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Texan baritone Scott Hendricks is singing the role of  Iago in the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra concert performance of Verdi's Otello opposite Kiwi tenor Simon O’Neill in the title role. His… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.In this week’s episode, Upbeat producer Zoë George goes vintage, getting inspiration from the 40s, 50s and 60s, exploring the art form of Burlesque. Bailey McCormack aka performer Fanciforia Foxglove… Read more Audio

1:51 PM.Auckland's Blackbird Ensemble is forging a reputation for creating a unique combination of musical and theatrical magic on stage. Composer Claire Cowan and percussionist Chris O'Connor talk about the… Read more Audio

1:37 PM.Maurice Reviol is a talented woodwind and brass instrument maker based in Auckland. He tells us about discovering the bassoon at four years old, how difficult it is to make one and what it takes to… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Peter Hoar gives his impressions of how the four finalists - Benson Wilson, Tavis Gravatt, Madison Nonoa and Filipe Manu - from the 2016 Lexus Song Quest performed in the Grand Final. Read more Audio