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Fiona Pardington on the book of images from her touring show of life casts made from the heads of Maori, Pacific and Europeans during the 1830s. Audio

The big movie news is a documentary feature about our most famous standup comedian, Billy T James. But how do you generate interest in a less high-profile movie? Audio

Cheryl Hollinger wants to get more girls playing brass. She's one of only two women in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's brass section. Audio

Anna Jackson lectures in Children's Literature, Contemporary Fiction, and Poetry and Poetics at Victoria University. Her fifth poetry collection is called 'Thicket'. Audio

2010 Kathlyn Gratton Poetry Award winner Jennifer Compton has focused on disparate urban centres like Palmerston North and Florence in her collection 'This City?. Audio

Sonia Sly goes searching for clues amongst historic textiles at Te Papa and speaks to British textiles expert Annabel Westman. Audio

Makuei Aken is a young refugee from Southern Sudan who's won an award for his poetry and music written about his experiences. Audio

Catherine Opie specialises in immortalising communities which come together for brief moments in time, from sports teams to festivals to surfers. Audio

Arts Voice Chrischurch is planning to create a 'river of arts' as part of Christchurch's post-earthquake rebuild. Audio

Why one company has pretty much sewn up the available funding, what that means for other writers with good ideas, and for viewers who don't like that style of drama. Simon Morris talks to with NZ on… Audio

An insight into the American book industry with one of the international guest speakers at this weekend's Booksellers New Zealand conference. Becky Anderson is the fifth generation of an Illinois… Audio

American poet, Lesley Wheeler, with her impressions of the New Zealand poetry scene. Audio

An old, run-down navy base has become the perfect setting for a community of artists on Wellington's coastline. Sonia Sly went to meet some of them. Audio

Canterbury-based artist Gennie de Lange shares the intricacies of glazing with us. Audio

A fly-on-the-wall documentary about an Australian music teacher's determination and the transforming power of music. Audio

Sarah Brodie is the director of Ho-hepa, the first of the homegrown shows to be commissioned for this year's New Zealand International Arts Festival in Wellington. It's an opera based on the life of… Audio

Mike Riddell's story was turned into the popular independent film 'Insatiable Moon' and says the new look film awards are discriminating against films like his made without Film Commission funding. We… Audio

Sonia Sly heads down the Geothermal Highway to Lava Glass Gallery to chat to artist Lynden Over about the challenges of working with glass and his attraction to fire. Audio

Visiting US artist and architect Matthew Radune, who created an icehouse in Detroit by freezing an entire derelict house in the name of art and politics. The photographs are in the latest exhibition… Audio

Director Sophie Fiennes of the Fiennes film dynasty, on paying homage to German artist Anselm Kiefer. He has created a city in the future where people have no place, and Sophie's called her movie… Audio

New Zealand furniture designers face an uphill battle if they are serious about breaking into international markets. Lynn spoke to Nicole Stock, editor of Urbis magazine, and to David Trubridge, Simon… Audio

Dunedin celebrates the 80th birthday of one of the country's genuine greats in the visual arts, the always ingenious Ralph Hotere. Lynn talked to curator of the exhibition, Natalie Roland. Audio

The two-billion-strong Chinese audience is the Holy Grail for western filmmakers, but China is equally keen to reach outside her borders to the wider world, and an upcoming New Zealand film may be a… Audio

The show must, and will, go on - the Christchurch Arts Festival reveals what it has in store from August to October. Lynn spoke to director Phillip Tremewan. Audio

Ann Hunt shares her impressions of the latest production by dancers Taane Mete and Taiaroa Royal. Audio