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David Mamea has just won an Adam New Zealand Playwriting Award for Goodbye My Feleni, imagining what life might have been like for Pasifika soldiers sent to serve with the Maori Batallion. Audio

Karen Solie writes a lot about the land, about her connection to it and the threats to rural landscapes from developers and mining industries. Since publishing her first collection 'Short Haul Engine'… Audio

Kate Atkinson talks about her new novel, 'Life After Life', about the TV series based on her detective Jackson Brodie, and how she manages to knit together such complicated multiple plots. Audio

Actor and theatrical PR specialist Brianne Kerr talks about helping companies attract attention and dealing with media who demand special treatment. Audio

New Zealand's circus performers are looking forward to their first awards ceremony. Clown, founder of Wellington's Fuse Circus and awards organiser Tom Beauchamp talks about the local circus scene and… Audio

Meet the winner of this year's Adam NZ Play Award Philip Braithwaite and find out about the chances of his script making it onto the stage. Audio

It's two years since the quake and the reopening of the Christchurch Art Gallery has been pushed back to another two years as the list of repairs keeps growing. Even without the gallery, there will be… Audio

An extended interview with director Yaron Zilberman, in which he talks about the film 'Performance', his stars Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener and Christopher Walken, and Beethoven's late… Audio

Performance's director Yaron Zilberman talks to Simon Morris. Audio

The fire at the Maidment Theatre in Auckland saw a number of theatre companies plans go up in smoke. Two shows due to open that week had to be cancelled and a third, Midnight in Moscow by the Auckland… Audio

Where does the real power in New Zealand lie? That's right, with a bunch of bureaucrats, underlings, officials, and lowly-ranked list MPs that you and I have never heard of. Whether it's in sport… Audio

Sydney Kaplan has a lot more sympathy than most for Katherine Mansfield's husband John Middleton Murray. Audio

Curator Sophie Matthiesson from the National Gallery of Victoria discusses an exhibition of Monet's garden paintings, coming to Australasia for the first time. Audio

Our featured writer is recently returned expat Carl Shuker, whose latest novel is set in the Middle East during the Arab Spring. As part of his research he spent time there. Audio

Fraser Munro had just released a new book of photographs called graf/AK, dedicated to the graffiti artists of Auckland. For three years Fraser trekked across the city by day and by night to capture… Audio

We discover what it takes to be the voice of the Daleks and Cybermen with Nicholas Briggs. He's heading to New Zealand in the Tardis with several previous Dr Who's to make the series' 50th… Audio

An extended interview with International Film Festival Director Bill Gosden, in which he previews some of the highlights of this year's Autumn Events. Audio

We find out how Te Papa plans to deliver on its commitment to show off more of the nation's extensive art collection. CEO Mike Houlihan is leading the charge. Audio

We introduce you to the new head of Creative New Zealand - former diplomat Dr Richard Grant. He's only been on the board since last year, so what are his plans for the funding body as its Chair? Audio

First time published poet Therese Lloyd talks about her collection, Other Animals, which is published by VUP. Audio

Lynn Freeman talks to director, actor, playwright and novelist Phillip Mann about his long held love of reading and writing science fiction, with the publication of his latest novel, 'The… Audio

Temporary art installations are fun to explore when they're on site, but the really hard work is getting the works in... and out. Justin Gregory meets Terry Haines, otherwise known as Art Lift. Audio

New Zealand On Air and the New Zealand Film Commission are offering documentary makers a slice of a new pie of funding, but will the criteria be too much for some? Bryan Bruce, documentary maker, and… Audio

New Plymouth's Puke Ariki staff are six years into a decade long project to clean, catalogue and digitise more than 100,000 historical negatives from two substantial photographic studios. Some of the… Audio

Arts projects from an ANZAC opera to a contemporary Maori Quartet to a video game to a documentary about grass roots rugby are among the first to be picked for a new fundraising site. Boosted is the… Audio