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Fergus Barrowman, the editor of the threatened literary journal Sport tells us what the future holds for it, now Creative New Zealand has cut its funding. Audio

Natalia Mann has returned home to New Zealand after living first in Australia then in Turkey….she started playing the harp when she was just four and says there is no music genre the harp can't… Audio

David Bailey said he was in the business of 'selling dreams, not clothes'. How his designers felt about this approach to priorities is not recorded. That tension between competing art forms is on show… Audio

All last year's homemade TV drama hits - Go Girls, Nothing Trivial and The Almighty Johnsons - are getting the chop. We find out what's going on - is it the end of an era, or just the usual TV… Audio

Trevor Agnew has received the 2013 Betty Gilderdale Award for distinguished service to children's literature. Audio

Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh writes about her mother's death and how it's affected her and her family, in a new poetry collection called Dark Sparring. Audio

Barbara Speedy from The Diversions Gallery has numerous big name artists on her books and now she's helping them to help emerging artists. Audio

Anna Pierard is involved in starting up Festival Opera in Hawkes Bay to delight opera lovers and to help disadvantaged young people in the region. Audio

Amy Howden-Chapman has, with a collective of artists from the US and NZ, released a new journal. The Distance Plan explores how we are responding to the idea of climate change and why at a personal… Audio

The Christchurch suburb of New Brighton is seeing an explosion of artistic activity this week. In an empty lot on the main street, the TEZA project is exploring new ways for artists to engage with the… Audio

Unitec in Auckland is shedding staff from its design and visual arts department and bringing in professionals to work with students. We hear from those behind the move and those opposed to it. Audio

The winner of the Playmarket Award Gary Henderson. Audio

Author of Larnach - Castle of Lies and Daughters of Heaven, Auckland playwright, screenwriter and teacher Michelanne Forster has three new books coming out. Audio

The weirdest and the most valuable - the best stories from this year's Curiosity Roadshow at the Museum of Wellington City and Sea. With Simon Manchester. Audio

Canadian ukulele virtuoso James Hill is top of the bill at the annual NZ Ukulele Festival in Auckland. Audio

Lopdell House Gallery has a new director and soon will have a whole new gallery. Former curator at the Gus Fisher Gallery at Auckland University Andrew Clifford takes over as the gallery's home in… Audio

Megan Whelan (below, left) on the red carpet at Wellington's Embassy Theatre for the 50th anniversary special screening of Day of the Doctor; and boom swinger Keith Warren sets his tardis back 50… Audio

What does it take to turn Wainuiomata into embattled French fortress town Le Quesnoy in World War One? Lynn Freeman goes on location with the Gibson Group crew, in production with docu-drama series… Audio

The Welsh love to sing, it seems, and the Auckland Welsh Choir is no different. In collaboration with the Devonport Chamber Orchestra they're celebrating the birth of Prince George - a future Prince… Audio

Writer and artist living in Paekakariki Rachel O'Neill combines both skills in her new poetry collection One Human in Height, featuring a parachutist free-falling to her family reunion, and an… Audio

The often charged mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationship is explored by American-born author Christine Leunens in A Can of Sunshine. Now living in the Manawatu, Christine's new novel looks at how… Audio