Lynn Freeman

Brendan Telfer reports on the Russian drug cheating allegations made by WADA; the second cricket test between Australia and the Black Caps in Perth and Phoenix's big home game against Adelaide, as its… Audio

Jeremy Taylor goes full noise on the 12th volume of Bob Dylan's 'Bootleg Series', from his golden period, 1965-66. Audio

Givenness of Things by Marilynne Robinson. Published by Little,Brown, hardback, RRP$50.00. Reviewed by Tilly Lloyd. Robinson has plumbed the depths of the human spirit in her trilogy of novels -… Audio

Sir Jonathan Bate was knighted this year for his services to literary scholarship. The Professor of English Literature at Oxford University has many strings to his bow, including biographer, critic… Audio

Fiji's justice system is in crisis after the military took over the police and gave shelter to policemen accused of sexual offences. - A second Kontiki expedition has just left Peru, bound for Rapa… Audio

People with extraordinary face recognition ability or 'super-recognisers' form a rare group of people who can identify at least 80 per cent of faces they've seen. London's Metropolitan Police uses… Audio, Gallery

Four years ago the Tolaga Bay community asked the Allan Wilson Centre for evolutionary biology to help it clean up the areas waterways and create a healthier, more collaborative community. Together… Audio

Figures from District Health Boards, released by the Labour Party, show that 13 out of 20 of them are making it tougher for people to get hip and knee surgery. Between a baseline of 2012 and 2015… Audio

Expat writer Martin Edmond has a crystal clear memory of his childhood growing up in small town New Zealand, and he shares those memories with us in his memoir The Dreaming Land. Martin is this year's… Audio

In the rural town of Waitapu, sisters Rowena and Ruby have a tough upbringing and consequently choose very different paths.One stays and one leaves but during the course of the stories, which cover… Audio

This year's Portage Ceramics Award judge is renowned Irish ceramic artist Ingrid Murphy, who's exploring how new technology can create new ways to work with clay. She's particularly interested in… Audio

Grant Moran has been a highly respected writer, producer, executive, and creative consultant for more than 20 years. He's in New Zealand as a guest of the Animfx seminar. Grant worked for Warner… Audio

In Lost World, sculptor Gregor Kregar combines has created large stylized bronze dinosaurs based on cheap plastic dinosaur toys. Gregor Kregar's interest in dinosaurs was sparked by observing his four… Audio

Elaine Blick's mother worked at an adoption home for unmarried mothers in the 1960s and their memories of that time are woven into a new novel. It's set in a fictional adoption home called Sunnyvale… Audio

For 40 years it was a lifeline for many New Zealand writers and publishers - and now the history of the New Zealand Literary Fund is itself the subject of a book. The Fund morphed into the Arts… Audio

TV cooking duo Peter Hudson and David Halls were magnificent. From 1976 to 1985 they whipped up what seemed to us weird and wonderful meals, they interviewed top stars, laughed, drank, fought and… Audio

Atomic Fiction, a studio pioneering the use of cloud computing to improve the filmmaking process and its co-founder Kevin Baillie is heading to New Zealand to tell our filmmakers all about it. He's a… Audio

Meet three of the ten artists who've received Arts Foundation awards this year. There's a mix of the well established and the young and aspiring among the ranks. We speak to new arts Laureate Wetini… Audio, Gallery

The fate of Wellington's distinctive Edwardian Baroque Public Trust office looked grim for after it was badly damaged in an earthquake a few years ago. But a heritage loving developer has saved the… Audio, Gallery

Ralph McCubbin Howell and Hannah Smith are travelling the country with three shows, have just opened a play challenging ANZAC mythology, and are working on another production that will premiere at… Audio