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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

Arts On Sunday announces Siobhan Harvey is the winner of this year's Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry. Siobhan was one of ninety entries judged by poet, fiction writer and lecturer Jeffrey Paparoa… Audio

Aleisha spans four decades in her thesis on early New Zealand jazz, spinning back to the 1920s. Her research includes interviews with early jazz musicians Frank Gibson Jnr, Bernie Allen and Wayne… Audio

3D Production Initiative: how 3D technology has moved from the big screen to our museums. Weta Workshop's three-time Oscar winning visual effects director Alex Funke, and Victoria University's… Audio

The Moas organiser Hugh Sundae and 2012 recipient Catherine Fitzgerald on 'The Moas': an unofficial celebration of achievement in New Zealand film in the past year. Audio

One of the earliest works by an old New Zealand master is up for sale. The portrait Kawhena, painted in 1892 by a then 22-year-old Charles Frederick Goldie, should fetch between $500,000 and a million… Audio

Nic Ularu's work is not only popular in his homeland but in his adopted home of America. He's won an Off-Broadway award for his work. He explains how theatre in Romania is a job for life, which has… Audio

A comprehensive book on New Zealand Landscape painting that's just been revised by Christopher Johnstone, just seven years after it was first published. So what's changed in that time? Audio

A treacle hallucinogenic urn, a bankers dog with the face of Winston Churchill and a machine gun, and an Hieronymus Bosch memorial invalids cup have secured their creater, Wellington-based ceramics… Audio

Superstar curator Juliana Engberg is a very busy woman. Artistic director of the 2014 Sydney Biennale and ACCA, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, she's briefly in Auckland to open an… Audio

Recording engineers are some of the most important people in the music business, though outside the industry their work is mostly unsung. In fact most of us have no idea exactly what they do. Neil… Audio

Sailor, journalist and biographer Rob Mundle on Captain James Cook and his legendary navigational skills. Over three remarkable voyages of discovery into the Pacific in the latter part of the… Audio

Alex Lee has just been announced as the new head of Performing and Screen Arts at Unitec in Auckland. Alex, who is also the founding director of the Documentary New Zealand Trust, takes on the job at… Audio

A wreath will be laid on the grave of one of New Zealand's early landscape painters, Petrus Van der Velden, making a hundred years since his death. The grave in Waikaraka Cemetery in Auckland was… Audio