Lynn Freeman

A movie adapted for the big screen by a playwright who adapted it from an LP Hartley novel - The Go-Between. Audio

Visiting North American poet Rachel Blau DuPlessis who's on the verge of completing an epic poem she's been writing since 1986. Audio

We find out about a pilot programme a publisher is trialling in Auckland, trying to encourage young people to review the books they read. Audio

The country's busiest touring company has helped many aspiring young singers to find an audience and a singing career and it's celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Audio

The life and times of the arts critic who's been reviewing for The Herald for 46 years. Audio

With earthquake damage worse than first, gallery staff are thinking laterally, and this weekend sees the beginning of the Rolling Maul Exhibition. Director Jenny Harper gives us an update. Audio

Susan Wilson, who's become an authority on the works of British painter Lucian Freud. Audio

The grandson of Charlie Chaplin and great grandson of playwright Eugene O'Neill has returned to the New Zealand International Arts Festival for a third time. Audio

The New Zealand International Arts Festival is into its third and final week, with its musical lineup feeling like a mini-Womad. Audio

A work about power, repression and war by one of the UK's most in-demand choreographers, caps off the New Zealand International Arts Festival's challenging dance programme. Audio

International shows and local theatre productions dominated the programme during the second weekend of the New Zealand International Arts Festival in Wellington. Audio

Arts reporter Lynn Freeman has been to the I Musici Chamber Ensemble. Audio

Hand-picked productions from England, Brazil, Ireland, France and Aotearoa have kick started The New Zealand International Festival of the Arts in Wellington. Audio

It's not quite bigger than Ben Hur but it's close - with four opera singers, two choirs and the NZSO, a Stravinsky double bill is opening the New Zealand International Arts Festival tonight. Audio

Murray Lynch from Playmarket examines the reasons for a record year on the New Zealand stage. Audio

Amelia talks about the two years that went into making Three Feathers, life on the road with a small child and being part of the remarkable Grenell music dynasty. Audio

Madeleine Tobert a Scot now living in New Zealand who's created a remote Pacific Island on which to set her debut novel, The Sea on Our Skin, published by Hodder and Stoughton. Audio

We announce the winners of our 'first line of a novel' competition. Audio

Nathaniel Lees and young actor Te Kohe Tuhaka are in rehearsals for a new production of one of New Zealand theatre's genuine classics, Michael James Manaia. Jim Moriarty made the story of the… Audio

Amanda Wright on her intriguing career which started went from DJing in India and across Europe to starting up the Splore music and art festival in the Hauraki Gulf. Her finely honed organisational… Audio