Lynn Freeman

A poet who's been to hell and back has written candidly about her experiences in her debut collection, My Honest Poem. Audio

Like other theatres around the country, Auckland Theatre Company has had its plans to put its actors back on stage disrupted after the long Alert Level One stretch came to a sudden end. Audio, Gallery

Over the years we've charted the rise of Maori, Pacific Island, Asian and Pan-Asian voices on our stages and screens. Now the creative voices of New Zealanders of African and Caribbean descent are… Audio

The latest survey by NZ On Air about how we consume our entertainment in 2020 is makes sobering reading. Where are the audiences? it asks. And the answer is - increasingly, not on traditional TV any… Audio, Gallery

Portraiture is one of the trickiest artforms - to get beyond the surface of a face into the soul. Photographer Marti Friedlander was an expert, and many of her black and white images - especially of… Audio, Gallery

Rejection is never easy to take - but sadly, it's the rule not the exception in so many aspects of the arts. There are simply too many applicants for too few jobs. And this is particularly true for… Audio

As live performance spaces grapple with the unpredictability of life under Covid-19, a UK company is bringing a performance to your kitchen table. Audio, Gallery

This has been a strong year for New Zealand's screen sector - despite the global pandemic. 2020 opened with an Oscar for Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit, and a major international TV series - the… Audio, Gallery

Encouraging musicians who play traditional Maori instruments (taonga puoro) to be braver, more experimental - that's the goal of Horomona Horo. Horomona has just been appointed as both a researcher… Audio

Two years after Invercargill's two main cultural institutions were forced to close due to seismic concerns, a transitional Art and Museum space is about to open its doors. Audio, Gallery

After the Second World War, New Zealanders understandably struggled to see a brighter future after all the devastation. So in 1952, Auckland hosted an exhibition with two purposes. First, it offered… Audio, Gallery

The most recent OECD Programme for International Students assessment showed a marked decline in reading for pleasure. Alarmingly it discovered that half of New Zealand's 15-year-olds have never read… Audio

A family disappears without a trace after a road-trip along the West Coast highway. More than 30 years later, the body of one of the children is discovered. But he's several years older than when he… Audio

When three Australasian photographers decided to create a Zine of Covid-19 related images during the initial outbreak, they could never have guessed it would come out just as New Zealand and Australia… Audio, Gallery

One of the casualties of the last lockdown was the International Film Festival - or at least the festival as we know it. Like other festivals around the world, ours went "virtual" - meaning going… Audio

In a new documentary, we meet a young Muslim man who became a spokesperson for his people after the Christchurch Mosque Attack. In One year on, he talks candidly about his reluctance to step back into… Audio, Gallery

The chair of the new board is retired High Court Judge Kit Toogood. He spoke to Lynn about why he thinks the gallery is so important and how it may have to change to attract new audiences and sustain… Audio

Pip McKay's novel, The Telling Time is set both in New Zealand in the 1980s and in the former Yugoslavia in the late 1950s. Pip McKay did such a great job in the opening pages of her latest novel that… Audio

Film maker and comic artist Jonathan King talked to Lynn Freeman about his latest graphic novel for young adults: The Inkberg Enigma. Audio

Canterbury Sculptor Llew Summers created more than 900 works over his five decades. Lynn Freeman talked to cultural historian and writer John Newton, who has written Llew's story: Llew Summers: Body… Audio, Gallery