Lynn Freeman

Previous Episode: Sunday, 24 November 2019 Add all to playlist This week on Standing Room Only on the first day of Summer 1 December No caption 12:00 PM.Your arts and culture radio six on Sunday… Audio, Gallery

Five migrant families from Kiribati, Zambia, Samoa, the Philippines and the Netherlands have written and performed deeply personal anthems for an art installation. The anthems range from the strongly… Audio, Gallery

Dr Morag Atchison is a leading soprano who teaches voice in the University of Auckland School of Music. Her mother sang in the university choir at Victoria University. Morag has been back home since… Audio

Actor, director and playwright Nancy Brunning has died. In 2015 she talked to Lynn Freeman about the first play she wrote Hikoi, based on her own family story. She set it in the 1970s and 80s - the… Audio

The Playmarket Award will be presented at a ceremony in Wellington on Sunday. The $20,000 cash prize recognises a playwright who has made a significant artistic contribution to theatre in New Zealand… Audio

Her bolshy, white, odd-eyed SPCA special cat, Jiffy, is the subject of the latest book from Catherine Chidgey. hHer four other white odd eyed cats are a bit jealous that hes been singled out. Audio, Gallery

Karl Chitham, Kolokesa U Mahina-Tuai and Damian Skinner have published a book called Crafting Aotearoa, and as you'd expect given the topic, it's big and full of pictures. Audio, Gallery

Indigenous artists from around the world are in Ngāruawāhia this week for a special gathering and an art exhibition.The 9th International Indigenous Artists Gathering (Pūhoro ō mua, Pūhoro ki tua)… Audio, Gallery

Two Kiwis have been working with the homeless of LA's notorious Skid Row, to help them express their hopes and experiences on stage. Audio, Gallery

Right now the Government Royal Commission of Inquiry into the terrible abuse of children in state care is trying to restore the faith of the surviving victims. This week one of them is sharing his… Audio

In the Seventies, when the Italians were making their versions of American Westerns - like The Good the Bad and the Ugly and A Fistful of Dollars - India was doing a similar thing. The Bollywood… Audio, Gallery

Four students at St Oran's College in Lower Hutt who have devised a short play about prostitution law reform, have been invited to perform the work by the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective at an… Audio

Designing album covers used to be straight forward. After all, the size of vinyl albums was pretty standard back in the Seventies and Eighties. These days album cover designs have to work in a far… Audio

I'm not a religious person but God sent an angel. One of his least qualified, though. Fluent only in Lemme get back to you. The angel sounded like me, early twenties, unpaid interning. Proficient in… Audio

An instrument that records sunshine using a glass orb and cardboard - and made out recycled material including bits of an old boat - is at the heart of a new installation called Burn Time. It's based… Audio

Ian Cross has died aged 93. He is remembered for his significant contributions to New Zealand journalism as editor of The Listener, Chairman of the Broadcasting Corporation, and for his first novel… Audio

The finalists for the Huawei Mate30 Pro New Zealand Television Awards have been announced - 115 nominations compete in 37 categories. But the way we view TV is now so spread out - streaming, on… Audio

This year residents at three Wellington retirement villages have been piloting a new improv theatre programme. Voice Arts pitched the idea of the Third Act classes to Ryman Healthcare. The group works… Audio

After years of rapid growth, New Zealand visitor numbers from China and India are slowing, now nearby Nepal is enticing more of its neighbours to "come visit". Lynn Freeman went to Nepal to find out… Audio

After years of rapid growth, the number of tourists coming to New Zealand from China and India is slowing.

But the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal is successfully enticing more of its near neighbours to… Audio