Lynn Freeman

New Zealand's pig farming sector says a new draft welfare code for pigs could spell the end of the country's pork industry. The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee has drafted a new code… Audio

An art collective of self proclaimed ex-pat misfits that formed in London back in 2018, is about to unveil their first exhibition over here in Aotearoa. The Water Tastes Different Here includes work… Audio

The last decade's gone by in a flash for the organisers - 2022 marks the 10th anniversary of National Flash Fiction Day. As part of the celebrations, today sees posters go up around the motu, starting… Audio

It is her dream job but one that carries a massive responsibility to the country's contemporary Maori artists. Larissa McMillan, Ngapuhi, is the first director of the Wairau Maori Art Gallery, part of… Audio, Gallery

Artist Stevei Houkamau originally planned to study Ta Moko before she was seduced by the feeling of clay in her hands and her ability to carve into it. It was 2011 when she met members of the Nga… Audio, Gallery

When six books by Dr Seuss were withdrawn from publication last year over their content, Nelson playwright and Seuss fan Judene Edgar started wondering how the writer would feel about it, were he… Audio, Gallery

Several years after feeling unsafe while at a notorious bus shelter in Tauranga, artist Sara Hughes is transforming it into a brightly coloured and illuminated work of art. It will be suspended above… Audio, Gallery

The Director of Photography on the new film Whina, Leon Narbey, actually filmed the 1975 land march that the cast and crew were recreating for the movie about the Maori matriarch who led it. Leon was… Video, Audio

Was the woman featured in Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" really a maid from his household, as portrayed in the Scarlett Johanssen movie? Are there hidden messages in Leonardo's "The Last… Audio

The Devil Took Her: Tales of Horror is the first time Whangarei-based short story writer Michael Botur has dipped his toe into this popular genre. He's written 12 stories, leading us, as he descibes… Audio

Pacific nations often have a Motutapu, or sacred island, positioned at the entrance of their harbours. Aotearoa has Motutapu Island in Waitemata Harbour in Tamaki Makaurau, and there are others in… Audio

The day before he was due to received his ONZM at the Governor General's house last month, potter Ross Mitchell-Anyon passed away. His niece Milly Mitchell-Anyon is a curator at Whanganui's Sarjeant… Audio, Gallery

We look at repairing wind instruments - which include flutes, clarinets, oboes and bassoons. Wood instruments can swell when they get damp so the rainy winter months are particularly hard on them… Audio, Gallery

Jolt must be just about the busiest dance company in the country at the moment, with live shows in the UK, a biennale featuring all its dancers, and two projects with Chamber Music New Zealand - a… Audio, Gallery

A blend of Pacific and Mediterranean of ancient and right now, is promised in a new dance film series shot by Daniel Belton and scored by Dame Gillian Whitehead. Audio

Criminal law is a mainstay of books and TV shows, think John Mortimer's Rumpole of the Bailey through to L A Law and Boston Legal. But novelist Les Allen's drawing on his time with legal firms, where… Audio

Off the back of his band The Jac taking out the 2021 Tui for Best Jazz Artist, Wellington-based alto saxophonist and composer Jake Baxendale is about to reveal a new suite of compositions based on the… Audio

A razor blade left in a gay activist's mailbox and a series of dolls dressed in garments based on costumes worn by contestants in Samoa's first Fa'afafine beauty pageant in the 1980s, are included in… Audio, Gallery

 Lynn Freeman spoke with Pauline and to Anahera Morehu who's the convenor of the Te Kura Pounamu Award panel to discuss why children's literature is so important Audio

The film industry has been drastically upset by Covid over the past two years. The big blockbusters get the big publicity, unsurprisingly. The studios have a lot at stake, but they also have other… Video, Audio