Culture 101

Wellington based artist Michele Bryant joins Culture 101. Read more Audio

Mike Beer aka Ghostcat joins Culture 101 to discuss his The Ghosts on Every Corner exhibition. Read more Audio

Screening Sunday April 27 in Poneke Wellington is FW Murnau's classic 1922 spooky silent film Nosferatu: A symphony of Horror, with a few sensory twists. Not only will it be accompanied by a live… Read more Audio

On Saturday May 10 author, podcaster and self confessed Dracula tragic Noelle McCarthy will be giving a personal tour of the Victorian Gothic in the small Wairarapa town of Featherston.  Read more Audio

Arts News from across the country with Mark and Angie - for the second week of April 2025. Audio

"I am like the active verb to be and to do," wrote the determined trailblazing early New Zealand painter and writer Emily Cumming Harris. "I am," she added, "too necessary an appendage to be left… Read more Audio

Isabel Frey is singer and ethnomusicologist from Vienna, who is attempting to carry the musical tradition of the Jewish Labour Bund, the Yiddish-speaking socialist party in pre-World War II Eastern… Read more Audio

On the road between Christchurch and Queenstown, the town of Fairlie often gets called gateway to the Mackenzie Country.  Read more Video, Audio

 Shawn Simpson is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and joined Culture 101. Read more Audio

The Kaikoura titi, or Hutton's shearwater is a remarkable bird. Endemic to Kaikoura and endangered, it is the only alpine-breeding seabird in the world.  Read more Audio

Thousands of students were outside Parliament in Wellington on Friday for the School Strike 4 Climate protest. The core team organising were aged between 14 and 17 and their overarching theme "Don't… Read more Audio

The Auckland-based artist shares some of his cultural recommendations. Read more Audio