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1:40 PM.Red Leap Theatre is touring its latest show round the North island. Ella Becroft plays the central character in Dust Pilgrim, a young girl running away from her troubled mother. Audio

1:20 PM.Renowned journalist Mike Crean and musician Mark Walton talks about their afternoon of Words and Music celebrating Great Cantabrians to raise money for the Christchurch School of Music. Mike has… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Nederlands Dans Theater is performing in New Zealand for the first time this week in Auckland. Artistic Director Paul Lightfoot talks about spending over thirty years working with the company he… Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Six young members of Massive Nui Ensemble, are heading from New Zealand to Scotland to attend an exchange programme with the National Theatre of Scotland. They will take with them The Island, a story… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.International Film Festivals come and go but no one has the staying power of Bill Gosden, the man who still loves his job after thirty five years. He always delivers a fine festival... But how does he… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.City Choir Dunedin and the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra perform two classical masterpieces, Joseph Haydn's Theresienmesse and CPE Bach's Magnificat. Music director David Burchell on the passion he… Read more Audio

1:32 PM.Stjohn Milgrew & Brendan Kitto explore the discarded and forgotten through their exhibition Us and Them as part of the 2016 Auckland Festival of Photography. The use both Polaroid film and instant… Read more Audio

1:19 PM.Ethnomusicologist Mona-Lynn Courteau reflects on the life, and untimely death of well-known Pakistani musician Amjad Sabri. She explains why the singer, who performed Qawwali, devotional music from… Read more Audio

1:02 PM.The Wallace International Piano Festival is on in Auckland next week. It targets university and high school students, providing an opportunity for them to enjoy the company of other young pianists, to… Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Christchurch choir Global Voices is celebrating twenty years of music making. Music Director Helen Charlton and long time member Debbie Carter talks about the philosophy of the choir and how it has… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Damian Vaughan is CEO of Recorded Music NZ Limited, a not for profit organisation responsible for running the NZ Music Awards, the Official NZ Top40 Chart and the Music Grants programme. As… Read more Audio

1:05 PM.Pianist Diedre Irons pays tribute to violinist Jan Tawroszewicz who died at his Christchurch home on Saturday. The Polish musician raised the level of musicianship in this country after he arrived to… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.Fourteen year old violin prodigy Benedict Lim and Pettman Academy director Edith Salzman talk about Ben's next concert in a year where 35 gigs is par for the course. The Academy has now been going for… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.CSO Chief Conductor Benjamin Northey looks ahead to his mid winter musical feast and talks about how experiencing live performance stimulates the senses and unites people. Ben brings his Melbourne… Read more Audio

1:05 PM.Neil Ieremia ONZM, reflects on 21 years of maintaining his company Black Grace. There were many sceptics when as a 24 year old Ieremia began a male only dance company to reflect his own culture on… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.What does it mean to be a millennial? A new dance work on show in Auckland aims to explore the world through the often restless and overwhelmed millennial perspective. Everything Anyone Ever Wanted is… Read more Audio

1:42 PM.Medea is Greek tragedy's most difficult role; the scorned wife takes vengeance not just on her unfaithful husband and new wife but also her own children. Bronwyn Bradley plays Medea in Silo Theatre's… Read more Audio

1:22 PM.It's a heavy undertaking to tour a programme <http://hammersandhorsehair.nz/> of music for piano and cello around New Zealand. Cellist Robert Ibell and pianist Douglas Mews are performing by… Read more Audio

1:01 PM.Canadian crossover artist Alessandra Paonessa is enjoying success with her debut Album "Remembering Heaven" for which she won the "Best Female Vocal Performance" category at the Hollywood Music In… Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Visiting brass soloist Harmen Vanhoorne is working with the North Shore Brass Academy giving masterclasses to young New Zealand players before doing a solo tour of the country. He also plays at this… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Juliette Sivertsen tries to find the key to a good tune on the musical stairs - an art installation in the Aotea Centre Audio

1:20 PM.On a rainy night outside an Auckland concert hall, Claire meets Tom - a somewhat tortured, professional cellist. Ain't That A Bitch is Anthea Hill's first play developed originally as part of a… Read more Audio