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1:25 PM.Each week Culture 101 shines the spotlight on a different region. This week we’re in Rotorua with Mercia Dawn-Yates. Read more Audio

1:00 PM.While we were all busy learning to make sourdough in lockdown or finally caving in and downloading TikTok, Bev Moon was busy knitting. Read more Audio

12:42 PM.Pōneke ambient musician George Johnston has described his work as ‘aural ketamine’, driven by a belief in the healing properties of music. Read more Audio

12:25 PM.Tarts: they’re sweet and Shakespearean but, as New Zealand comedian and writer, Deb Filler says “You want a taste?  Careful how you answer that question. This tart's not cheap.” Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Every week on Culture 101 we welcome a guest to share the love and shout out to some current favourite arts and culture. This week’s guest is tumuaki (leader) of Te Kura Toi Whakaari o Aotearoa: NZ… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.With the 2023 Rugby World Cup starting soon we thought it might be a good idea to dig into the history of rugby football and examine the “origin story” of the game itself. As it turns out the “truth… Read more Audio

3:00 PM.An ominous warbler brings news that the dreaded Anderlugians seek a rendezvous, but Lord Joseph Banks faces a greater enemy within his own ranks... Read more Audio

2:25 PM.A “bunch of nerds who play games and make comedy sketches about games” have come a long way. With more than 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and in excess of 2.4 billion views on their channel, Viva… Read more Video, Audio

2:03 PM.Creative New Zealand research this year shows artists are still earning considerably less than other wage earners.  Read more Audio

1:59 PM.If it wasn’t for disco, Taiaroa Royal might be best known as a farmer. Not one of Aotearoa’s most celebrated dancers and choreographers. Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Each week we join a creative correspondent from a different part of Aotearoa New Zealand. This week it’s Judene Edgar from Whakatū aka Nelson.  Read more Audio

1:05 PM.BDSM is hitting the stage in Tāmaki Makaurau. No, not that BDSM - the Bomb Defusal School of Manakau of course. Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Successful trials in France have shown drawing can improve the well-being and lessen the anxiety of those living with dementia. Now, Massey University will join forces with French institutes to run a… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Since he could barely reach the joysticks in his local parlour in Ngongotaha, Lake Rotorua, Preston McNeil (Te Arawa, Tainui) has loved spacies. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Comedian, actor and writer Kura Forrester drops into Culture 101 to talk about what she’s been watching and listening to when she’s not in rehearsal.

10:59 AM.Music we love. Read more

7:00 PM.Simon Morris looks at three movies that take certain short cuts to reach their audience. Read more Audio

3:00 PM. Lord Joseph Banks assembles a crew for a noble mission: to go to the very source of pleasure, in order to destroy it... Read more Audio

2:45 PM.Can you be a critic in your own backyard? Culture 101 speaks to arts critic and senior lecturer, Erin Harrington, about the latest from the Word festival in Christchurch.  Read more Audio

2:20 PM.By the time she was seven, Susan Te Kahurangi King had stopped talking. Yet, today, she is one of Aotearoa’s most globally sought after artists. Paris, New York, Dusseldorf are just some of the… Read more Audio

2:00 PM.In October 2022 Kanye West (a.k.a.Ye) was dropped by sponsors and social media for repeated anti-semitic outbursts. Jewish hip hop artist Rami Even-Esh aka Kosha Dillz - renowned for his freestyle… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Each week we join a creative correspondent from a different part of Aotearoa New Zealand. This week it’s Baz Squire of Whangārei’s Hangar Gallery. Read more Audio

1:00 PM.“New Zealand cancels Venice Biennale pavilion, citing inadequate resources” ran the headline on leading international art news site Artnet this month. There were similar from New York’s Artforum… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.From Brahms to Bridgerton and Baroque to Beyonce; classical music is hitting the streets of the capital in early September as Classical on Cuba returns for a third year. 

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12:25 PM.Leading Kapa Haka group Te Matarae i-Orehu from Rotorua is retiring with a legacy spanning 30 years.  Read more Audio