Culture 101

When a comedian approaches Comedy Festival season, you expect the trial of a new show, and all the challenges  that represents. But this year beloved Aotearoa comedian and journalist Te Radar isn't… Read more Audio

Arts and culture news for Sunday 7 April.  Read more Audio

What does it take to be an effective cultural translator? Yang Fan will tell you that the language is just the beginning.  Read more Audio

If you think of your favourite film, chances are there’s a pivotal scene driven by music or a killer soundtrack. Either way, you can thank the work of a music supervisor.  Read more Audio

A $3.9 million dollar multi-purpose arts and cultural space, Te Atamira, opened in the burgeoning commercial district of Frankton near Queenstown in May 2022. It’s a hub for creative work from the… Read more Audio

“If opera doesn’t tell stories about right now or about who we are now, then eventually it’s just going to die out,” British composer Jonathan Dove tells Culture 101’s Mark Amery. 

Jonathan Dove… Read more Audio

Slavic culture crosses from Eastern Europe and the Balkans through to Asia. It encapsulates a real diversity of countries but which share  strong cultural roots in Slavic languages. 

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Food is perhaps one of the easiest ways to bring people together. But what about when it's painted? In the case of young Pōneke Wellington-based artist Alice Toomer’s hyperrealistic paintings, it can… Read more Audio

Masterchef New Zealand winner 2022, author, and Instagram star Sam Low joins Culture 101 to share his inspirations and cultural favourites.  Read more Audio

Arts news for the week from RNZ's Culture 101. Read more Audio

Raised in the countryside, north of Tamaki Nui-A-Rua and Dannevirke in the lower North Island, Nui Stretch has the distinction of having two parallel careers in wood. One as a luthier, or guitar maker… Read more Audio

20 years ago, artist Rozana Lee lost her mother, relatives, childhood friends and her family home in Aceh, Indonesia in the Boxing Day Tsunami. More than 200,000 people died in Indonesia, her mother… Read more Audio