Lynn Freeman

The whole point of technology and robots - you'd think - is to achieve tasks much faster than people. But Wellington artist James Gilbert-Maine is building a robot that's deliberately slowing down the… Audio

Lynn Freeman talks to cosplay enthusiast Kyle Simpson at Armageddon Expo. Audio, Gallery

As the American political circus trundles on, we decided it would be a good time to look back at some of the great characters of New Zealand politics over the years - with NZ On Screen Content… Audio

A widowed woman finds herself attracted to her late husband's brother in Thom Conroy's latest novel The Salted Air. Thom's first novel reimagined the story of a German naturalist, Dr Ernst Dieffenbach… Audio

Photographer Drew Hill's new exhibition In Your Face uses fast food wrappers as a canvas, placing images on them. Drew says "Like they are mass producing their food, I am using the wrappers to mass… Audio

London's Globe Theatre, a replica of one of Shakespeare's early venues, has had a record year making a healthy surplus of over half a million New Zealand dollars. Not bad for a venture that had to get… Audio

Sculptor turned Antarctic scientific researcher Gabby O'Connor is enlisting the help of schoolchildren to create a massive art installation of sellotape sea ice platelets. Audio, Gallery

Two thousand years of hair styles are encapsulated in a new exhibition at Christchurch Art Gallery, from bad hair days to eccentric styles, sideburns to split ends. Bad Hair Day includes more than 60… Audio, Gallery

Melbourne-based architect Sean Godsell has designed a park bench that doubles as a shelter for the homeless. That's as well as more traditional architect fare - residential homes through to big… Audio, Gallery

A newly launched academy for New Zealand literature has sparked a war of words between writers who're for and against it. Writer Paula Morris wants to support mid career authors by encouraging… Audio

Hers in the voice that backed the Rolling Stones for 25 years, but Lisa Fischer has also established herself in her own right. Lisa mesmerized movie-goers in Academy Award-winning documentary Twenty… Audio

Games, film and television and publishing industry professionals with a love of sci fi and fantasy are gathering to swap notes and help the next generation to realise their dreams. 'Art and Industry… Audio, Gallery

Journalist turned freelance documentary photographer Sim Chi Yin has brought to light an underground world in Beijing. It's believed there are around a million people, most of them migrants, living in… Audio, Gallery

Akura Makea-Pardington is looking at Northland's colonial history with fresh eyes, and her camera lens. She considers the good and bad aspects of the colonial era in an exhibition she calls 'Spirit of… Audio, Gallery

Journalist and novelist Nicky Pellegrino returns to Italy, taking her protagonist Stella to a seaside villa in her latest novel Under Italian Skies. Stella is living in Camden, North London, when she… Audio

New Zealand fashion designer Sean Kelly is launching his own label in New York this year. He thanks American TV show host Tim Gunn for much of his success. Sean won Project Runway a couple of years… Audio

A new walking track 220 metres above sea level gets its official opening next month. The latest section of the national Te Araroa trail stretching 10kms between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki snakes up… Audio

Dame Patsy Reddy will take over from Lt Gen The Rt Hon Sir Jerry Mateparae as Governor General in August. With 5 months left to run on his tenure Sir Jerry Mataparae shares some highlights of his time… Audio, Gallery

Two-time Grammy winner d'Angelo takes centre stage tonight at the New Zealand Festival which is now in its last days. Audio

The Modern Maori Quartet, work by a dance legend, small metal objects and a booze soaked rock 'n' roll cabaret are all coming up in the third and final week of the New Zealand Festival in Wellington… Audio