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Sharon Murdoch is the first woman to have a regular cartooning spot in a New Zealand newspaper and this year became Cartoonist of the Year at the 2016 media awards. You can see her work in the Sunday… Audio

Cori Marsters and Te Kanawa Ngarotata are the recipients of a Creative New Zealand scholarship to assist their work as emerging artists. Cori is studying for his Bachelor in Māori Arts and is… Video, Audio

Wallace Chapman discusses our rich history of art fraud with Penelope Jackson, author of Art Thieves, Fakers and Fraudsters: The New Zealand story. Audio

Jim Flynn and Wallace Chapman discuss Australasian literature.

Wallace takes on Jim over Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries - too long, says Jim. Not so, says Wallace. Jim says Catton can write but she… Audio

Justine Murray meets Professor Piri Sciascia and Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr, who received Te Waka Toi Awards for their contribution to the arts this year. Video, Audio

Writer and psychology professor Andrew Solomon is fascinated with places in major transformation – cultural, political and spiritual. He talks with Wallace Chapman about what he's learned, traveling… Audio

Jim Flynn tells Wallace Chapman that Italian Umberto Eco's best work is The Name of the Rose but this comes with a warning as Eco "loves to demonstrate his learning. The plot is interrupted by long… Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. In today's programme, a hymn about church unity (Thy Hand, O God, Has Guided), as well as some St Francis of Assisi-related hymns to mark the 12th century… Audio

For over four decades kuia Elizabeth Mana Hunkin (Ngati Kahungunu) and Hokimoana Te Rika-Hekerangi (Tuhoe) have been teaching te reo Māori with –  Te Ataarangi - a learner-friendly language method… Video, Audio

The late Studs Terkel has been described as the 20th century's greatest listener. In a career spanning seven decades Studs, he showed an uncanny ability to elicit fascinating stories from a who's-who… Audio

Back in the late '70s Mi-Sex were top of the charts with their new wave sound. And all these years later - Mi Sex are back on the road - founding member Murray Burns joins Wallace to talk about the… Audio

British transmedia artist Simon Wilkinson talks to wallace about his theatre performance 'Beyond the Bright Black Edge of Nowhere' ahead of the Dunedin Arts Festival. The show is based on the story of… Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. The image of a river comes up in several of our hymns this week, which include Like A River Glorious, and Let Justice Roll Down Like A River. Audio

Jim Flynn and Wallace Chapman discuss modern Irish literature. Jim rates John Banville's "wonderful style", but is less enamoured with John Boyne's The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. The sex in Edna… Audio

It's been decades in the planning, but the final countdown is now on for the re-opening this Sunday of Nelson's Suter Art Gallery. It's one of the country's oldest public art galleries and has had a… Audio

Author Patricia Grace was honoured for her work at the recent Te Waka Toi Awards in Rotorua. Justine Murray sat down for a chat with Patricia in Rotorua, where she talked about her mission to complete… Audio

Kim Hill talks to Scottish-born Australian rock singer Jimmy Barnes, whose career with the band Cold Chisel and as a solo artist has made him one of the most popular and best-selling Australian… Audio

As a child, Nick Allen had a map of Mount Everest pinned to the ceiling above his bed. It was always his dream to one day climb it. But after he developed Multiple Sclerosis shortly after his 21st… Audio

Matt Johnson has being playing music since he was 11 years old. Best known for his band, The The, Matt Johnson has, in recent times, shunned the spotlight, concentrating on writing music for films… Video, Audio, Gallery

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. This week we've hymns by Shirley Murray and Bernadette Farrell, 'Brother' James Bain's setting of Psalm 23 (The Lord's My Shepherd), and a beautiful… Audio

John Walsh, the inaugural Curator of Contemporary Maori art at Te Papa, describes his extraordinary paintings as a dance to music. Charlotte Wilson visits him in his studio to ask about the role of… Audio, Gallery