Culture 101 for Sunday 17 August 2025 Culture 101

12:15 - Fast Favourites: The 'hot mess' that's menopause and midlife with Petra Bagust
12:30 - The Auckland sculptor creating giant iconic Kiwi confectionery
12:45 - "Mr Bean, but Sexy": Comedian George Fenn on pushing audience's boundaries
13:07 - Fiume o Morte! Fascism's stranger-than-fiction playwright and poet-led first state
13:26 - Regional Wrap: Oxford: Painter and printmaker Celia Wilson
13:35 - At the Movies
14:05 - The robots are everywhere, but why do we still pretend they are human? Poet Jiaqiao Liu
14:30 - 'Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us', UK film critic Anna Bogutskaya
15:05 - Arts news
15:10 - Radio drama: Joyful and Triumphant

Music played in this show

Song: Senegal Champions of Africa
Artist: The Black Seeds
Played at 12.10pm

Song: Wonderful Life
Artist: Georgia Lines
Played at 12.25pm

Song: Drums are Dangerous
Artist: Eden Burns and Christopher Tubbs
Played at 12.58pm

Arts News for 17 August 2025

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3:05 PM.Arts News for 17 August 2025 Audio

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Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold On Us

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2:35 PM.Murder, monsters, werewolves and witchcraft… if you encase those elements in a thrilling script performed by beautiful stars, suddenly, we can't look away. Audio

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The robots are everywhere but why treat them as human? Poet Jiaqiao Liu

2:05 PM.Culture 101's Mark Amery had to borrow a car this week and, while he was driving, pressed a button on the display console and a female voice startled him, speaking to him in Japanese. Mark doesn't… Read more Audio
Fiume o Morte! Fascism's stranger-than-fiction poet-led first state

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1:07 PM.For his latest blending of documentary and fiction, filmmaker Igor Bezinovic has turned the camera on a stranger-than-fiction story from the history of his own port city on the Adriatic coast, Rijeka… Read more Audio
Mr Bean, but Sexy": Comedian George Fenn on pushing audience's boundaries

12:45 PM.Interactive Comedian George Fenn joins Culture 101 to talk about his acclaimed show, Sexy Ghost Boy Read more Audio
The Auckland sculptor creating giant iconic Kiwi confectionery

12:30 PM.Simon Lewis Wards plays with the idea of nostalgia through familiar, quotidian objects.

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Regional Wrap: Oxford

12:25 PM.This week we are heading to the North Canterbury inland town of Oxford or Tawera as it's known to Māori. Celia Wilson is an Oxford based painter, and printmaker and joined Culture 101. Read more Audio
Fast Favourites with Petra Bagust

12:15 PM.The 'hot mess' that's menopause and midlife with Petra Bagust and some of her cultural highlights. Read more Audio

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