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Writer, director and curator Louise Tu'u about creating community-based work and bringing back her play about those who live on the streets. Audio

A 1940s movie which Reg Turner describes as a love story that remains unequalled… see if you agree. Audio

As the debate over the future and quality of free-to-air TV, and the demise of TVNZ7 continues, Trisha Dunleavy assesses the New Zealand film and television industries, in terms of their creative and… Audio

Dr Peter Shand assesses the exhibition that brings together for the first time the first 20 winners of the country's longest running art award. Audio

Actor Michael Hurst on his new play, Frequently Asked Questions, being performed at the NZ International Arts Festival in Wellington which runs from 2 - 11 March. Audio

Emma is the curator of the Portapavillion Project - part of the Splore Festival near Auckland. Audio

Road Markings, an eBook written by expatriate anthropologist Michael Jackson. Audio

Sonia Sly visits quirky Invercargill landscape painter Tony Bishop. Audio

A trio of retired gents, fondly called The Last of the Summer Wine, have spent a decade fundraising for an outdoor sculpture exhibition…so why, and how, do they do it? Audio

Danielle Cormack has been seen recently on our screens as a murderous madam on the TV series Underbelly: Razor and is about to return to the stage in Carol Churchill's 30-year-old play Top Girls. Audio

Theresa talks about her favourite book An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan. Audio

Council reporter at the ODT, David Loughrey talks about the controversy around funding for the Otago Museum. Audio

Murray Lynch from Playmarket examines the reasons for a record year on the New Zealand stage. Audio

English Playwrite Bryony Lavery talks about her upcoming play, Beautiful Burnout, on soon at the International Arts Festival Audio

Amelia talks about the two years that went into making Three Feathers, life on the road with a small child and being part of the remarkable Grenell music dynasty. Audio

Madeleine Tobert a Scot now living in New Zealand who's created a remote Pacific Island on which to set her debut novel, The Sea on Our Skin, published by Hodder and Stoughton. Audio

We announce the winners of our 'first line of a novel' competition. Audio

Nathaniel Lees and young actor Te Kohe Tuhaka are in rehearsals for a new production of one of New Zealand theatre's genuine classics, Michael James Manaia. Jim Moriarty made the story of the… Audio

Amanda Wright on her intriguing career which started went from DJing in India and across Europe to starting up the Splore music and art festival in the Hauraki Gulf. Her finely honed organisational… Audio

The new play Dark Stars is the story of a former Black and White minstrel who went on to become a huge star in Australasia, with audiences loving his racist routines. Writer/director Arthur Meek and… Audio

The 1964 New Zealand film The Runaway is Dr John Reynolds favourite movie - find out why, and how you can share your most loved film, book, opera, TV series, art work or dance production with the… Audio

She talks about leaving Christchurch to return to her home town of Hamilton, taking on a new job at 68, and how it's getting harder to find sponsors for her foundation for young singers. Audio

Hamish Monk is the first New Zealander to win a World Architecture News Award in the commercial category. Not only that, he's a one man band who was up against international firms with hundreds of… Audio