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Chamber Music New Zealand marks its diamond anniversary with a book by Jane Dawson looking back over 60 years and ahead to the future that's looking good. Audio

Munira Mirza advises the Mayor of London on his strategy for Arts and Culture. She looks ahead to the UK coalition government's major spending review out this week, and considers the implications for… Audio

We consider the history and future of the New Zealand glass art scene ahead of a conference of glass artists and the publication of a book about them. Audio

Raewyn Whyte reviews the latest touring work from the Footnote Dance Company. Audio

Kelly Ana Morey has set her new book 'Quinine' in Papua New Guinea just after the First World War, as control moves from Germany to Australia. Audio

Screenwriter turned novelist Donna Malone has created a new investigator called Diane Rowe. Her book 'Surrender' is the winner of a substantial publishing prize. Audio

Brydee Rood has been showing rubbish around the world - literally working with rubbish containers like plastic bags and wheelie bins, to create art installations. Audio

For many years Tony Wolfe was one of New Zealand's only stage combatants but now his son Josh Wolfe is fighting fit and teaching the art of stage combat. Sonia Yee heads to one of Josh's workshops. Audio

Armando Iannucci is behind Bafta winning television shows like political satire' The Thick of It' and the Oscar nominated movie 'In The Loop'. Audio

The international judge of the Walters art prize and former head of London's Tate Modern, Vicente Todoli. Audio

The winner of the Portage Ceramics Award talks about the prize, the link to her mother's flamboyant jewellery, and the future. Audio

Cat Ruka has returned from New York for Auckland's Tempo Dance Festival and to unveil two new works. Audio

Author Kapka Kassabova's 'Villa Pacifica' is set in the wilds of South America. Audio

For his new book Richard Wolfe was invited inside the studios of some of our big name painters and sculptors. Audio

Director Louise Petherbridge and writer Renée talk about their new play, where two estranged stepsisters are reunited. Audio

Dunedin composer Anthony Ritchie is celebrating his fiftieth birthday in style by writing a symphony. Audio

An insight into what it takes to create aliens, their spacecraft and their futuristic weaponry for Neil Blomkamp's 'District 9' - one of 2009's unexpected hit movies. Daniel Falconer has written a… Audio

Creative New Zealand's $400 thousand grants for touring arts events over the next three years. Audio

Charlie Clark talks about the logistics of transporting and installing artworks by one of the UK's highest profile sculptors, Ron Mueck, whose exhibition has just opened in Christchurch. Audio

Two former Limbs dancers look back on the last 20 years and how the dance scene has changed in that time. Audio

Buddhist Rain is the name of a new CD of Bill Manhire's poetry set to music by Norman Meehan. Audio

Father and son artists Greer and Toby Twiss, talk about their shared love of sculpture. Audio

Artist Sean Kerr proves that art with something serious to say, can still be fun. Audio

The New Zealand trombone quartet BonaNZa fills us in on the instrument's history and why so many classical composers were blind to its potential. Audio

Artist Titus Kaphar, one of the darlings of the New York art scene whose work is included in an exhibition that's come to Wellington - roundabout. Audio