Culture 101

Artist Owen Connors is on a roll. They are one of four nominees for Aotearoa's most prestigious art prize, The Walters. Last year they won the $25,000 Rydal Art Prize, awarded biannually to a recent… Read more Audio

Bouncing off the success from the first season, documentary Takeout Kids is back for a second season and this time, it’s venturing beyond the takeaways. Read more Video, Audio

Growing up as the only boy in a family of five children, Eli Matthewson was well prepared for a career in comedy.  Read more Audio

Dropping a sheep’s carcass from an aeroplane into the Waitemata harbour; sewing a sheep’s kidney onto your own back; yelling “get the f**k out” till the audience leaves, many razor cuts. The early… Read more Video, Audio

Public galleries have been demonstrating our view of art history has been changing radically for years. It just hasn’t been published for a wider public, until now. 

Art historian and curator Kirsty… Read more Audio

Each week Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different region in Aotearoa and this week we’re in the Bay of Plenty town of Whakatāne. Read more Audio

The Bitches’ Box is back, and for the first time the show will be venturing to urban centres.  Read more Video, Audio

Comedy podcast Did Titanic Sink? is back baby! Winner of the Comedy Podcast of the Year at the 2023 NZ Podcast Awards, comedians Tim Batt and Carlo Ritchie are steered towards investigating a local… Read more Audio

Almost 40 years on, Hunters and Collectors in Pōneke remains. The first vintage clothing store in the Capital, it’s a truly iconic creative Cuba Street institution. Hunters and Collectors’ matriarch… Read more Audio

Married couple Michael Hurst and Jennifer Ward-Lealand have theatre and film careers that span 40 years. Indeed, they met in the theatre - at Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland’s Theatre Corporate in 1983… Read more Video, Audio

That role of the museum is just one of the ways poet, novelist and essayist Ian Wedde explores opening out space through culture in his third volume of collected nonfiction writing, The Social Space… Read more Audio