Lynn Freeman

A treasured violin run over by a car is one of the most extreme repairs carried out by The Stringed Instrument Company in Auckland. Our occasional series of interviews with repairers continues with a… Audio, Gallery

Whanau Marama: the New Zealand International Film Festival has just announced it will return this year, though it's going to have to reduce the number of films and venues. It's coming off the back of… Audio

The depth and diversity of humankind's relationship with the natural world are explored in a new exhibition Nature Culture at MTG in Hawke's Bay. Local artist Chris Bryant-Toi's work forms a… Audio, Gallery

A boy's father goes missing while at Te Papa - but he's not missing in the building, he's lost in one of the museum's taonga. That's the premise for a new book called Lost in the Museum, a… Audio, Gallery

Poems based on public holidays and significant days in our history are included in Pistils, the 9th collection by Janet Charman. There are deeply personal works touching on the death of her partner of… Audio

Creatures from the distant past or visitors from another dimension? An arresting new exhibition from internationally renowned Kiwi artist Francis Upritchard features a range of human and animal forms… Audio, Gallery

A three month trip home to Christchurch from London to donate a kidney to her mother, has turned into a two year stay for expat jeweller Hannah Upritchard. But she's making the most of her time… Audio, Gallery

Photographer Murray Cammick's new exhibition The show must go on comes bristling with levels. It's the old showbiz dictum, of course - no matter what, go on and give them a show. And these days that's… Audio, Gallery

First today it is a privilege on Standing Room Only to be announcing the winners of the Adam NZ Play Awards. Lynn is joined by Murray Lynch, the head of Playmarket that runs the awards. We will also… Audio

Film and TV correspondent Laumata Lauano joins Lynn to talk about sci-fi flick The Adam Project (Netflix) starring Ryan Reynolds, new fraud documentary Bad Vegan (Netflix), a Hitchcockian thriller… Audio

Russia's war in Ukraine is dominating the headlines, so what can parents, grandparents or educators do to help children understand what they're seeing? And how can that message be delivered in an… Audio

Technology correspondent Bill Bennett joins Lynn to look at why there appears to have been a lack of cyber-attacks during Russia's month-long war with Ukraine. He says, in reality, there IS a… Audio

Luke Finnegan reviews Paradais by Fernanda Melchor, published by Text Publishing. Audio

Evacuations have taken place in the middle of the night and Tolaga Bay Civil Defence expects some residents to remain cut off for four days or more, as a result of this week's flooding. A helicopter… Audio

Adam Nicolson has been obsessed with the landscape we live in his entire life. Recently Adam has been staring into rockpools, trying to work out what might stare back. The journalist, broadcaster and… Audio

UK correspondent Matt Dathan joins Lynn to look at what was in Rishi Sunak's spring mini-budget, including a 5p per litre cut in fuel tax and a future 1p reduction in income tax. It comes as Brits -… Audio

A volunteer firefighter who made a complaint of sexual harassment against a senior officer has been stood down for two years waiting for the case to be resolved, while the respondent involved has… Audio

Lynn Freeman speaks with Professor Sir David Skegg, chair of the Covid 19 Public Health Advisory Group, about the pathway forward for the country. The government announced yesterday that vaccine… Audio

The Citizens Advice Bureau is calling on the Government to protect the rights of people who are renting accommodation, but are not covered by the Residential Tenancies Act. Dr Hubbard says the… Audio