Lynn Freeman

Simon swaps opinions with reviewers Dan Slevin from Nine to Noon and to the Listener's Helene Wong. Audio

The big news has been the axing of a number of prime-time New Zealand TV series. So is this the end of TV drama, or just the end of that sort of TV drama? This week we speak to the CEO of New Zealand… Audio

Trevor Agnew has received the 2013 Betty Gilderdale Award for distinguished service to children's literature. Audio

Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh writes about her mother's death and how it's affected her and her family, in a new poetry collection called Dark Sparring. Audio

Barbara Speedy from The Diversions Gallery has numerous big name artists on her books and now she's helping them to help emerging artists. Audio

Anna Pierard is involved in starting up Festival Opera in Hawkes Bay to delight opera lovers and to help disadvantaged young people in the region. Audio

Amy Howden-Chapman has, with a collective of artists from the US and NZ, released a new journal. The Distance Plan explores how we are responding to the idea of climate change and why at a personal… Audio

Unitec in Auckland is shedding staff from its design and visual arts department and bringing in professionals to work with students. We hear from those behind the move and those opposed to it. Audio

What does it take to turn Wainuiomata into embattled French fortress town Le Quesnoy in World War One? Lynn Freeman goes on location with the Gibson Group crew, in production with docu-drama series… Audio

Writer and artist living in Paekakariki Rachel O'Neill combines both skills in her new poetry collection One Human in Height, featuring a parachutist free-falling to her family reunion, and an… Audio

The often charged mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationship is explored by American-born author Christine Leunens in A Can of Sunshine. Now living in the Manawatu, Christine's new novel looks at how… Audio

Arts On Sunday announces Siobhan Harvey is the winner of this year's Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry. Siobhan was one of ninety entries judged by poet, fiction writer and lecturer Jeffrey Paparoa… Audio

Aleisha spans four decades in her thesis on early New Zealand jazz, spinning back to the 1920s. Her research includes interviews with early jazz musicians Frank Gibson Jnr, Bernie Allen and Wayne… Audio

3D Production Initiative: how 3D technology has moved from the big screen to our museums. Weta Workshop's three-time Oscar winning visual effects director Alex Funke, and Victoria University's… Audio

One of the artists at the Sound Full exhibition at City Gallery Wellington screams into amplifiers in a epic and physically extreme sound battle. Kusum Normoyle from Australia is a musician… Audio

John O'Connor has recently published his latest collection, Aspects of Reality (HeadworX). Audio

Dogs, birds, weapons and women: The silhouetted figures that artist Penny Howard has created for her latest exhibition speak to her desire to use her history and her heritage to discuss colonisation… Audio

We meet some of the artists and organisers who've made it possible for the Wairarapa to have its first region wide arts festival, Kokomai including Johanna Knox, Anne Taylor and Sam Ludden. Audio

Corb Lund is an ambassador for his home state of Alberta and the traditional cowboy lifestyle. He's performing at the Vector Arena in Auckland on Monday 30 September. Audio

The Whitireia creative writing programme is celebrating 20 years of giving a wide range of people the skills and encouragement they need to write. Audio