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A chat to one of the most high profile Native American dancers and choreographers, Rulan Tangen, who's in New Zealand for a symposium on indigenous dance. Audio

Prime Minister Non Fiction Award winner Martin Edmond on his eventful life, his new literary interests and winning awards on both sides of the Tasman. Audio

Cheryl Lucas on the joys of working with clay and the pleasures of being involved in the Sculpture on the Peninsula exhibition. Audio

Can social media solve the problems of love? Justin Gregory meets Melissa Fergusson from Charlatan Clinic, a theatre company whose new show wants to find out. They begin by asking that eternal… Audio

Megan Wraight is the first landscape architect to be selected as an Arts Foundation Laureate. She talks about some of the projects she's most proud of - Wellington's Waterfront and Waitangi Park, and… Audio

Filmmaker Costa Botes on the evils of piracy and its long-term implications for our creatives. Audio

One of the most talked about artworks at the Tauranga Arts Festival, a fence art installation called Yours Truly by artist Laura Marsh. She also discusses her thesis on the problems of being a proud… Audio

Conrad Newport is one of the country's busiest theatre directors and script advisors. He's worked with some great new homegrown scripts over the years. But he says there are so many playwrights who… Audio

Victoria University Professor Laurie Bauer on some of the peculiarities of the English language. His specialist area is morphology, the way words are brought together to create new ones. Professor… Audio

Paris Syndrome is where visitors to the city are emotionally crushed by the disappointment of finding it doesn't live up to the hype. Wellingtonian Brannavan Gnanalingam spent a year living in Paris… Audio

A new exhibition in Auckland argues for the role of artists as innovators and leaders in New Zealand society. Freedom Farmers, at the Auckland Art Gallery, uses twenty commissioned works from our… Audio

The devastating yet forgotten influenza Pandemic of 1918 is remembered in a new stage play. Theatre director Kerryn Palmer's family was one of many that suffered through those dark months. The stories… Audio

One of the Arts Foundation Laureates for 2013, photographer Laurence Aberhardt, has documented much of what's been lost to New Zealand over the past 40 years of 'so called' progress. Audio

Paris with 19th century French artist Charles Meryon - the star of a new play by Stuart Hoar, who was captured by the artist's obsession with New Zealand. Stuart's script for Pasefika won the Adam New… Audio

One of the artists at the Sound Full exhibition at City Gallery Wellington screams into amplifiers in a epic and physically extreme sound battle. Kusum Normoyle from Australia is a musician… Audio

John O'Connor has recently published his latest collection, Aspects of Reality (HeadworX). Audio

Dogs, birds, weapons and women: The silhouetted figures that artist Penny Howard has created for her latest exhibition speak to her desire to use her history and her heritage to discuss colonisation… Audio

We meet some of the artists and organisers who've made it possible for the Wairarapa to have its first region wide arts festival, Kokomai including Johanna Knox, Anne Taylor and Sam Ludden. Audio

Auckland artist Lana Lopesi plans to encourage young Pacific people in New Zealand to ask their elders about their forgotten history from the 1950s to '80s, including the infamous Dawn Raids. She's… Audio

As a child star Dean Stockwell worked with great screen greats like Erroll Flynn. He's now in his 70s and heading to New Zealand for the Armageddon Pulp Expo so we take the opportunity to ask him… Audio

On Cycle-to-Work Day, Joanna Davison was hit by a car on her way to her job teaching Nursing Studies at Northland Polytechnic in Whangarei. After her initial anger, she reached a stage where she felt… Audio