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1:25 PM.In South Canterbury, Geraldine is home to a unique vinyl and coffee outlet called The Record Keeper. It's entirely powered by solar power and a bit of a stage for up and coming musicians Next week… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Following a notorious night of debauchery, English novelist Mary Shelley becomes the mother of horror. Set in Geneva in Switzerland in 1816, ATC's new thriller, Mary: The Birth of Frankenstein… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.FleaBITE have recently joined up with another popular and prodigious creative talent Takaka's Levity Beet to create the kids music duo BeetBITE. These two artists have between them taken top spots at… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Writer, academic and plus-size model, Kaarina Parker will be walking in this year's Fashion Week. It coincides with RNZ's new documentary series, Cutting The Curve, which looks at the new era of diet… Read more Audio

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

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

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

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

12:45 PM.Interactive Comedian George Fenn joins Culture 101 to talk about his acclaimed show, Sexy Ghost Boy Read more Audio

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

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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

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

3:06 PM.A round-up of news surrounding the arts across New Zealand. Audio

2:07 PM.Artist and landscape architect Bridget Allen wouldn't have known how appropriate the name of her gardening business was to be when she set it up, out of Ilam art school and working at the Christchurch… Read more Audio

1:27 PM.Hikurangi, 20 minutes north of Whangarei, is an old dairy and mining town known for some of the most specular limestone formations in the region. 

It's a "one coffee one pub" kind of town, says Craig… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.It's commonly assumed that Māori women don't carve. Carving is a tapu occupation with its own tikanga and ritual. Women have often not been allowed to be present while a carver is working. It's a… Read more Audio

12:47 PM.Two years ago this month RNZ National's Culture 101 was launched. And a guest on our very first show, introducing comedy radio drama series The Mysterious Secrets of Uncle Bertie's Botanarium was… Read more Audio

12:29 PM.A bootleg is something illegally made, copied or distributed. The term originated in the prohibition practice of hiding illicit liquor in your boot, next to your leg. But it's more familiar in recent… Read more Audio

12:14 PM.Pasifika people make up almost 17% of Tamaki Makaurau Auckland's population, but Pasifika women in particular are considered underrepresented when it comes to the professional comedy scene. It's… Read more Audio

3:06 PM.Arts News for 3 August 2025 Audio

2:00 PM.Films covered include: Prime Minister, It was just an accident, Grace, Toitu Visual Sovereignity, Workmates, Bati, One on One: John and Yoko, Maya, Give Me a Title, Sex/Dreams/Love trilogy, Not Only… Read more Audio

1:28 PM.This week we are heading to the south side of the Hokianga harbour, in Northland to the town of Rawene. Read more Audio

1:07 PM.As private funding organisation The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi celebrates 25 years of supporting artists, what's changed with arts patronage?  Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Notes from a Fish is a surreal comedy crime caper set in the murky world of the exotic fish black market.  Read more Audio

12:30 PM.A new exhibition in Tamaki Makaurau hosted by the New Zealand Fashion Museum is set to showcase and celebrates the art of knitting and all yarn-based fashion creation.  Read more Audio