Lynn Freeman

An upcoming exhibition by the Fashion Museum has delved into the wardrobes and bottom drawers of some of those early home sewers. Lynn Freeman speaks to one of the organisers Doris de Pont, and to one… Audio

Walters Art Prize nominee Alicia Frankovich who blends visual arts and live performance in her show Floor Resistance. Audio

The recipient of this year's Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award, Emma Neale, on her winning collection, The Truth Garden. Audio

We play an extract from an interview Margaret Mahy gave us in 2005 about writing New Zealand stories for Kiwi kids. Audio

This week some of our local Kiwi talent will be making it onto the international stage as part of The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Writer and actor Ralph McCubbin Howell has written a twisted children's… Audio

Ann Hunt reviews Waka, a work dance company Black Grace is performing for the first time in New Zealand after taking it overseas. Audio

After 11 years and 14 operas, Dunedin's Really Authentic Gilbert and Sullivan season comes to an end. Audio

An exhibition here in New Zealand of rarely seen work and ephemera of the influential 20th century artist Marcel Duchamp, most famous perhaps for his inverted urinal called The Fountain. The Adam Art… Audio

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

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

Peter Shand casts his critical eye over the latest exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery. Home AKL features the work of three generations of Pacific artists and is the gallery's first group exhibition of… Audio

John Stevenson started out working on the Muppet Show, now he has made a name for himself as a storyboarder, director and consultant on some of the biggest animated feature films including Shrek, Toy… Audio

We follow up on last week's criticism of New Zealand's approach to being the Frankfurt Book Fair country of honour. Kevin Chapman (left) from the NZ Publishers' Association responds to Kyle Mewburn's… Audio

Creative New Zealand whistles up taxpayers' money into helping arts organisations find private funding, investing just over a million dollars in the Creative Giving pilot programme over three years… Audio