All episodes
Sunday, 8 September 2024
- 12:10 Tawata turns 20: Mīria George and Hone Kouka
- 12:30 The Killing: Plushies, red velvet and the modern day circus
- 12:45 The ‘what ifs’ of dazzling New Zealand modernist painter Edith Collier
- 1:07 Celebrating 10 years of Kōanga Festival
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Feilding with Mayor Helen Worboys
- 2:05 Giving the Dunedin Sound a shakeup: The future of the indie Ōtepoti scene
- 2:35 Performing arts quadruple threat: Petmal Petelo
- 3:05 Arts news: NZ art lights up Piccadilly Circus
Sunday, 1 September 2024
- 12:15 Fast Favourites with Boh Runga
- 12:30 ‘Messy-ass b*tches, doing messy-ass things!' Kiwi TV comedy Not Even
- 12:45 Electric Avenue doubles in size for 2025 as other festivals fold
- 1:00 A world of handcut wonder: Matchbox and shoebox diorama with Antje Damm
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Tākaka in Mohua Golden Bay
- 2:05 Best of the Fest: Word Christchurch with Tina Makereti and Pip Adam
- 2:30 Innovative Waikato scheme pays artists basic income
- 3:05 Arts News - Sunday 1 September
Sunday, 25 August 2024
- 12:10 From Colin in Accounts to Bollywood: Jacob Rajan’s Fast Favourites
- 12:30 Poppys: South Auckland family garage hottest new comedy club
- 12:45 Soaking up the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Sam Brooks
- 1:08 Why are artists paid so badly?
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Palmerston North with Sian Van Dyk
- 2:05 Conducting live film orchestras with David Kay
- 2:30 'I want to be that bird': The magic dance of pīwakawaka with Shannon Te Ao
- 3:10 Arts News for 25 August 2024
Sunday, 18 August 2024
- 12:15 Fast Favourites with comedian and writer Eli Matthewson
- 12:30 Takeout Kids: Venturing beyond the takeaway in new season
- 12:45 Fake marble and landscapes: The remarkable painting of Walters Prize nominee Owen Connors
- 1:07 “I could see myself and my friends in them” - Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu on her debut feature We Were Dangerous
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: West Murihiku Southland with Pauline Vaeluaga Smith
- 2:05 Arts News for 18 August 2024
- 2:10 The internet is dead! Long live the book: Underground publishing house 5ever
- 2:30 “I was so hungry for anything other than the way I grew up” - writer and poet Sasha LaPointe
Sunday, 11 August 2024
- 12:10 Jennifer Ward-Lealand and Michael Hurst: on stage alone together for the first time
- 12:30 ‘Every day is a work of art’ - Queen of vintage, avant-garde style icon Chrissy O
- 12:45 Did Titanic Sink? Podcast director Abby Howells on conspiracies and her obsession
- 1:07 The Bitches’ Box: From woolsheds to the silver screen
- 1:20 Regional Wrap: Whakatāne with Sarah Hudson of winning Mataaho Collective
- 2:10 There is no one art history: Kirsty Baker's Women and Art in Aotearoa
- 2:10 Arts news: Arts as a 'nice to do', Parkin prize and Electric Avenue
- 2:30 ‘The punk rock Len Lye’ - the legacy of confrontational artist Peter Roche
Sunday, 4 August 2024
- 12:15 Fast Favourites with Jess Hong
- 12:30 Solo dance show explores trying to be a ‘cool mum’ and having it all
- 12:45 Lexus Song Quest crowns winner Katie Trigg
- 1:07 Can you stage Hamlet in the ultraviolent world of Grand Theft Auto?
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Akaroa with Lesley Burkes-Harding
- 2:00 Queen’s Rolls-Royce goes to auction - who's going to buy it?
- 2:30 Writer and cultural thinker Ian Wedde on staying ‘Open’
Sunday, 28 July 2024
- 12:10 Fast Favourites: Drag king superstar Hugo Grrrl
- 12:30 The magic and mystery of the human experience in genre-bending show
- 12:45 Don’t you forget about me: The art of Gen X with Megan Dunn
- 1:07 Opening the door on the history of lesbian fashion
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: New Plymouth with Simon Gennard
- 2:00 Arts news for 28 July 2024
- 2:10 Christchurch goes post-punk: Jonathan Ogilvie's Head South
- 2:35 Housing as a human right: artist and advocate Dieneke Jansen
Sunday, 21 July 2024
- 12:15 Fast Favourites with stage and screen actor Bronwyn Turei
- 12:30 Dame Lynley Dodd: 'I didn’t really have courage about writing'
- 12:45 New musical draws on temptation of a past love
- 1:07 Immersive digital artwork brings Wellington weather to life
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Haumoana’s musical magnet Jamie Macphail
- 2:10 Author Talia Marshall’s stunning debut - Whaea Blue
- 2:30 Dream Chambers: Contemporary music as a spiritual practice
Sunday, 14 July 2024
- 12:15 Fast Favourites with broadcaster Kanoa Lloyd
- 12:30 PickPath - Immersive digital platform empowering creators
- 12:45 Badjelly the Witch takes to the stage with Aotearoa’s Glow Show
- 1:05 Drag superstar Anita Wigl’it celebrates lust and gluttony for K’ Road restaurant month
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Kerikeri’s Gerry Paul
- 2:04 Making of Madam: Sex work on the small screen
- 2:35 Author and poet Warwick Stubbs on why he chooses to live in his car
Sunday, 7 July 2024
- 12:15 Fast Favourites with chemist and comedian Dr Joel Rindelaub
- 12:30 Sense and Sensibility on stage in raucous spin
- 12:45 Flash Fiction: Storytelling for the short attention spans of our time?
- 1:07 Archeologist pinpoints the start of fashion
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Waiheke Island’s Fiona Blanchard
- 2:05 Dame Fiona Kidman: Live Letters at Randell Cottage
- 2:36 Lisa Warrington: Supporting Aotearoa theatre past, present and future
Sunday, 30 June 2024
- 12:15 Fast Favourites: Kiwi country star Kaylee Bell
- 12:30 Thelma & Louise Don’t Die: Epic road trip hits the Civic
- 12:45 The last original jugband standing: Jack Craw with Railway Pie
- 1:07 Mixed heritage creatives collaborate in landmark anthology
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Trains and pots in Coromandel Town with Pete Sephton
- 2:05 Arts news: Drag king storytime cancelled and 2025 touring artists
- 2:10 Weaving culture together in Ōtepoti Dunedin: Margery Blackman
- 2:35 Remembering the first times: Harry Rickett's memoir
Sunday, 23 June 2024
- 12:10 Fast Favourites for Matariki with Professor Rangi Mātāmua
- 12:30 ‘It’s our New Year’: A Matariki Panel featuring three innovative Toi Māori stars
- 1:00 Listening to the world in and around you: Laurence Fearnley at the Grand Glacier Hotel
- 1:15 Regional Wrap: Napier's Lizzie Russell
- 2:05 Arts News: Education ministry shares cryptic Sam Hunt, landmark Māori film premieres and Centrepoint is 50
- 2:10 To deal with body shame, Mandi Lynn turned 300 women gold and photographed them nude
- 2:27 John Baxter: Rua Pōtae - he who wears two hats
Sunday, 16 June 2024
- 12:15 Fast Favourites: Comedian Courtney Dawson’s rise to the top
- 12:30 Pianette Automatique: Minipiano given new life in Wellington winter garden
- 12:45 Arts study in Australian farming town leads to lower depression rates and blood pressure
- 1:07 Compelling documentary reveals lives of Chinese dissidents in US
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Kawatiri Westport with The Nomad
- 2:00 Emele Ugavule: Storytelling and the vitality of contemporary Melanesian culture
- 2:32 Was the vinyl record the most significant artwork of the 20th century?
- 3:00 Arts news: 114,000 Singaporean shimmer discs, NZ at the film fest and our new governors
Sunday, 9 June 2024
- 12:10 Jodie Rimmer: Valuing women as ‘wild, sexy, talented and creative as they age’
- 12:30 First Wave: Celebrating surfing in Kaikōura
- 12:45 Australian sculptor reclaiming the female form
- 1:10 Derek Jarman's cottage as his final work of art
- 1:20 Regional Wrap: Russell with Sue Fitzmaurice
- 2:05 A View From A Bridge: Strangers reveal all on old telephone
- 2:30 Legendary advocate for Māori art Elizabeth Ellis
- 3:10 Arts news: A double whammy, Kings arts honours and Pito One
Sunday, 2 June 2024
- 12:15 Fast Favourites: Billy T winner Lana Walters
- 12:30 Play captures adoption experiences of birth mothers in NZ
- 12:45 The Tardis has landed: A special mystery guest reviewer visits Doctor Who exhibition
- 1:05 Medieval to Metal: The Art and Evolution of the Guitar
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Tūrangi Tongariro district
- 2:00 Arts news: budget news, the loss of a jazz legend & women country songwriters ride high
- 2:05 Kiwiana icon Pāua shell house goes digital
- 2:30 Making live events accessible for everyone
Sunday, 26 May 2024
- 12:10 From Princess Chelsea to Nan Goldin: Fast Favourites with Ebony Lamb
- 12:31 Diversifying video games through creative writing
- 12:45 The hands behind iconic Crown Lynn hit the stage
- 1:07 Photographer captures grim reality of 'last chance tourism'
- 1:20 Regional Wrap: The world’s steampunk capital
- 2:05 The story behind the AI image that shocked the world
- 2:30 Rising algorithms: The threats and opportunities AI poses to the arts
- 3:00 Arts news: Poppy at Cannes, Goths on stage & Māori climate action in paint
- 12:45 The Tardis has landed: A special mystery guest reviewer visits Doctor Who exhibition
- 1:05 Medieval to Metal: The Art and Evolution of the Guitar
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Tūrangi Tongariro district
- 2:00 Arts news: budget news, the loss of a jazz legend & women country songwriters ride high
- 2:30 Making live events accessible for everyone
Sunday, 19 May 2024
- 12:15 Fast Favourites: Rhys Mathewson’s 10th rodeo
- 12:30 Practising Hawaiian culture across the sea: Ahilapalapa Rands
- 12:45 Joika: The brutal world of the Bolshoi ballet
- 1:07 Finding a city's memory in the rubble of Chernobyl
- 1:25 Gore: Capital of country music and moonshine with Jenny Mitchell
- 2:05 Feeling icky: What makes us uncomfortable with Viki Moananu
- 2:20 Bringing an indigenous house of storytelling alive in Ōtautahi: Juanita Hepi
- 2:30 Best of the Fest: Auckland Writers Festival
- 3:05 Arts news: A Rita Angus bridge, controversial portraits & the book awards
Sunday, 12 May 2024
- 12:15 Getting over writer’s block: Fast Favourites with Troy Kingi
- 12:30 Amah: AI nanny pushes a mother to her limits
- 1:05 Bailey Poching: Here are the Māori comedians - but where are you looking for them?
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Kaitaia with Dr Opeloge Ah Sam
- 2:05 Creating Aotearoa's own Watership Down: Shelley Burne-Field
- 2:30 Rick Rudd: creating New Zealand's only museum devoted to the ceramic arts
- 3:10 Restructures at Penguin, a women's only exhbition & Ria Hall for mayor: Arts News 12 May
Sunday, 5 May 2024
- 12:15 Fast Favourites with Sara Wiseman
- 12:30 With City Gallery closing for two years, what's next for Wellington?
- 12:45 From a Red Mole to a Goblin in a mask: John Davies addresses our shared violent history
- 1:07 The Last Laugh but first-ever comedy club in Hamilton
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Mangawhai with Angela Cook
- 2:05 Project Prima Volta: A decade of helping teenagers to find their voices
- 2:30 How the fight against Covid became a war between each other: Stuart McKenzie and Dame Miranda Harcourt
- 3:05 Arts News - 5 May 2024
- 3:10 Don McGlashan and Harry Sinclair’s ode to farting wins NZ on Air Award
Sunday, 28 April 2024
- 12:10 The return of Auē: fast favourites with Becky Manawatu
- 12:30 From aquatic algae to Niuean rites of passage: Loading Docs back for 10th season
- 12:45 Arovision: NZ's little battler in the digital streaming wars
- 1:07 Sir Roger Hall and the end of summer time
- 1:25 Taupō: a secretly prolific arts hub with Jeffrey Addison
- 2:00 Fixing a screen industry in crisis
- 2:30 Stitching bling, satin & velvet into Toi Māori with Maungarongo Te Kawa
- 3:05 Arts news: NZSO head resigns, World Choir Games news & Springboard artists revealed
Sunday, 21 April 2024
- 12:15 Fast Favourites with veteran broadcaster Julian Wilcox
- 12:15 Mataaho Collective scoops Golden Lion at Venice Biennale in a huge weekend for art from Oceania
- 12:30 Origin: Ava Duvernay’s thought-provoking new film on caste systems
- 1:07 Champagne Problems at the new look Aotearoa Art Fair
- 1:25 Regional Wrap in ‘mural town’ Katikati
- 2:05 Choreographing intimacy in a post-#MeToo era
- 2:30 Dealing with trauma through poetry: Hazara-Afghani Abdul Samad Haidari’s remarkable story
- 3:00 Arts News: NZ wins Golden Lion at Venice while Israel keeps its doors closed, Aardman Animation in NZ & government talks arts strategy
Sunday, 14 April 2024
- 12:10 From flaming kūmara to East Timor: Te Radar performs five different shows over five nights
- 12:30 Christchurch playwright scoops an award trifecta with The Odyssey
- 12:45 Artwork copyright in the age of social media and AI
- 1:07 Prominent portrait photographer Jae Frew shifts focus
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Sean McDonnell’s Baylys Beach
- 2:05 Trailblazing Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap in Aotearoa
- 2:30 Keeping the lights on in our public galleries not just about funding
- 3:05 Arts news: NZ in Italy, a screen crisis, new dance festivals & annual fests skip a year
Sunday, 7 April 2024
- 12:15 Masterchef winner Sam Low on Fast Favourites and new podcast
- 12:30 A feast for the eyes: The hyperrealist paintings of Alice Toomer
- 12:45 Slavfest! Music and culture from the Balkans through to Asia with Irina Mosina
- 1:07 From Marx and Austen to stranded in an airport: Jonathan Dove on keeping opera relevant
- 1:25 Regional wrap: Whakatipu, Wānaka & Hāwea - a creative Queenstown-Lakes District
- 2:00 Aminé Ramer: the vital role of the music supervisor
- 2:30 The art of being a cultural translator
- 3:00 Arts News: Toi Te Papa & City Gallery Wellington face closures while Christchurch Arts Centre threatens insolvency
Sunday, 31 March 2024
- 12:15 New Zealander of the Year: Fast Favourites with Dr Jim Salinger
- 12:30 An unlikely pairing? K-pop meets Pasifika
- 12:45 Fashion designer Jimmy D and the fight against the dull and turgid hick town
- 1:05 12-year-olds in NZ highly engaged in arts and culture
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Blenheim with Tyler Redmond
- 2:00 Travelling through Asian and Pasifika cultures in batik with Rozana Lee
- 2:30 Guitar maker and carver Nui Stretch: Two parallel careers in wood
- 3:00 Arts News Sunday 31 March
Sunday, 24 March 2024
- 12:45 Best of the Fest #5: A very old man with enormous wings, The Sun and the Wind, Aiga and in the thick of Dunedin Fringe
- 12:10 The vital electricity of contemporary poetry: Fast Favourites with Tracey Slaughter
- 12:30 Rugby becomes art: a scrum suspended in time
- 12:50 Māoriland Film Festival Wrap
- 12:55 Arts News Sunday 24 March
- 1:07 Travelling from North Yorkshire to Aotearoa via the sun: theatremaker Alexander Wright
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Francisca Griffin in Port Chalmers
- 2:00 Making Mischief with West End and Broadway star Nancy Zamit
