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Star of stage and, thanks to The Secret Lives of Dancers, screen too… dancer Lucy Green takes on her first lead role as Cinderella. The reality for her now is a punishing rehearsal schedule and… Audio

Paora Joseph, the director of a documentary about Parihaka… this time a group of children discover what happened to Maori captured and moved around the country by British soldiers. Tatarakihi: the… Audio

There's a shake up coming for the country's orchestras. Tight funding and falling audiences has led the Ministry for Culture and Heritage to put out a discussion document with four options for change… Audio

Desiree Gezentsvey and daughter Yael have brought their play Nuclear Family to New Zealand for it's first perforamce here. It's recieved five star reviews and making the top 100 list of must see shows… Audio

Auckland Poet Janet Charman won the Book Award for Poetry for Cold Snack four years ago. Her latest collection At The White Coast goes back to her years spent living in Thatcher's England. Audio

Stag Spooner. A self taught artist who's left a remarkable record of his life in the bush and during the war. Neville (Stag) Spooner grew up in Carterton during the Great Depression. Wellington based… Audio

Mark Dorrell. Music Director, musician and vocal coach. Mark can name drop performers such as Dame Judi Dench, Hugh Jackman and Sir Ian McKellen, having working on West End productions with them. Audio

Melbourne Based Juan Garcia has established an online site called Art Fido. The site has more than 50 New Zealand artists to date. Sonia Sly talked to Gary Langsford of Gow Langsford Gallery in… Audio

Tenor and Wagnarian specialist Simon O'Neill is kicking off more than a year of wall to wall Wagnerian operas concerts around the world. Audio

Artist and tutor Collen Plank is behind a community exihition in Nelson called Slick, where atists and school children are looking at our dependence on petroleum-based products. In Picton, scluptor… Audio

Sarah Houboult, winner of the inaugural Big A Artistic Achievement Award. Audio

The Free House in Nelson is unusual in that it's untied to any brewery - hence the "Free" bit - and it's housed in an old church. As further evidence of their interest in unusual venues, they've now… Audio

Curator Mark William's had a problem: how to sustain the longevity of artist film and video projects after exhibition. So over the past year and a half he's been working on a solution -a virtual store… Audio

Wellington poet James Brown, who's just released his fifth collection, 'Warm Auditorium'. Audio

Colleen Trenwith bluegrass fiddle virtuoso from the Hamilton County Bluegrass Band. Audio

George Henare is revisiting a Bruce Mason play he acted in when it premiered in 1968, Awatea. Then he was the prodigal son, now he plays the blind father. Audio

Amitai Pati and Stephen Diaz are two of the six finalists in the 2012 Lexus Song Quest. They describe how they cope with the expectations and pressure involved with competing at this level, in a… Audio

We look at the launch of a arts/magazine show performed in front of a live audience then edited for an even larger web audience - Fix TV. Host Adam Page and producer Mark Westerby tell us the lessons… Audio

Maori musician Horomono Horo and Irish fiddler Steve Cooney are two of 17 performers taking part in Green Fire Islands, a combined concert of both cultures which will be performed in front of… Audio

German artist Ralf Witthaus, whose canvas of choice is lawns, is planning to create a vast lawn installation for Auckland later in the year - The Borehole to New Zealand - as part of his first… Audio

Two sound artists - an Australian and a New Zealand - who're involved in a very noisy trans-Tasman exhibition in Dunedin. Michael Graeve and Phil Dadson talk about the link between art and sound and… Audio

Photographer Paul Grimwood can finally reveal shots he took in the Middle East, and he reflects on how things have changed there in the six years since he took them. Audio

Christchurch poet Jeffrey Paparoa Holman whose new collection Shaken Down 6.3 looks at the impacts and aftermath of the Christchurch earthquakes. It's published by Canterbury University Press. Audio

Artist Ronnie van Hout returns from Melbourne to install Fallen Robot, a massive one-and-a-half ton public art work for the Dowse Art Museum. He's also presenting an exhibition based on his memories… Audio

What does it take to tell inspiring stories that have the potential to shape attitudes and transform the future? Guy Ryan, CEO for Inspiring Stories Charitable Trust, believes that film making is the… Audio