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2:05 PM.Gabrielle Huria is Ngai Tuahuriri and Ngai Tahu and lives with her whanau at Tuahiwi in North Canterbury.  She is part of a major new exhibition created by Ngai Tahu with photographer Anne Noble at… Read more Audio

1:30 PM. Faye Saunders is the owner of The Little Gallery in Tairua and joins Culture 101. Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Keith Moon's drum kit, a child's rocking horse, a Vivienne Westwood gown, buddhas, a slice of a '70s housing estate, the David Bowie archive: it's no wonder the Victoria and Albert's brand new East… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Brydie Colquhoun speaks to Culture 101 about Rongo Whakapā​, Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Evan Mantyk the Society of Classical Poets joins Culture 101. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Marc Feldman shares his cultural highlights. Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Arts news for 29 June 2025. Audio

2:30 PM.This week I put on a suit. No ordinary suit. A motion capture suit, in the studios of the Victoria University of Wellington Miramar Creative Centre. It's next door to the likes of Weta Digital and… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.Following WWII, there was a strong push and a solid foundation to provide arts education to both teachers and children in schools. Art advisers supported and inspired teachers while many early-career… Read more Audio

1:27 PM.The Māniatoto plain, sits high inland in Central Otago bounded by ranges. It's known for its distinct beauty, and climate of extremes: from dry and hot in summer, to snow and temperatures well below… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.In Home we follow artist Teiti Nepia as over the summer of 2023 and 2024 for five months she reclaims her own sense of sovereignty by camping out on public land on Wellington's beautiful but rather… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Although written in 1923 about a story from the 15th century, the themes of Saint Joan continue to be pertinent in the 21st century. George Bernard Shaw's classic, written after the canonisation of… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.There are small pockets globally where descendants of 19th century immigrants are working to retain the distinctive culture, heritage and language of the small European regions their ancestors came… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Editor of NZ Listener, Kirsty Cameron, got her start in journalist at RNZ and broadcasting before moving into print where she's stayed ever since. She spent more than a decade working in Australia… Read more Audio

3:05 PM.A look at the arts scene here & abroad. Audio

2:33 PM.A new digital art curation platform is hoping to be bridge the gap between artists and buyers to create personalised, cohesive and curated collections. Read more Audio

2:10 PM.2025 marks the centenary of Radio New Zealand. Yet broadcasting is one thing, the technology to hear it another. And there was once an entirely different company called RNZ - pioneer radio… Read more Audio

1:26 PM.What's at Colac Bay. Audio

1:10 PM.Younger audiences are in for a visual feast at Silo's new show Taniwha opening in time for the school holidays. Featuring puppetry, live videography, narration and live music, Taniwha will also… Read more Audio

12:48 PM.Tessa Mitchell never knew her grandfather but he has cast a long shadow. Her film I Am a Dark River is about Bob Lowry - that creative and some would say sometimes outrageous grandfather. It's been… Read more Video, Audio

12:35 PM.Romance novels are having a moment. England's first ever romance-only bookshop opened this week in Notting Hill, London. Read more Audio

12:16 PM.Gretchen La Roche is a few weeks into the role of CEO of Creative New Zealand, our national arts funding, development and advocacy organisation.  Read more Audio

3:06 PM.Arts news for 15 June 2025. Audio

2:35 PM.Located in the centre of the Pacific, Tahiti's closest large land mass is Aotearoa New Zealand. It is where, from Raiatea, Maori migration canoes left in what is thought to be the late 13th Century or… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Multi-disciplinary artist Julia Holden is better known for her live performance art, clay work and animated paintings so when she started painting pets and animals, it wasn't a turn she saw coming. Read more Audio