Arts
Doc Edge Festival opening night
The Doc Edge Film Festival is kicking off in Auckland this evening. Annie Goldson has produced and directed documentaries and docudramas for 30 years in the United States and New Zealand - she's at… Audio
Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award: Winning piece represents links of artist's whakapapa
Māori artists are redefining what a portrait looks like at this year's Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award exhibition.
Lost camera returned to owner four years later after finder develops film
An Auckland photographer has been reunited with her beloved camera four years after losing it. Audio
Bookmarks with Matthew Buchanan
This week for Bookmarks we meet co-founder of Letterboxd, Matthew Buchanan. As well as running the online social networking service for movie buffs he's also a designer. He talks to Jesse about his… Audio
Podcast Critic: Ximena Smith
Ximena talks to Jesse about Shadow of Doubt, a new series from The Australian and a new series from the BBC called Believe in Magic. Audio
Emily Valentine: feathers, photography and social housing activism
Award-winning Sydney-based artist and activist Emily Valentine uses art to advocate for her passion: decent public housing. She specialises in creating objects and wonderous animals using, or… Audio, Gallery
The TAHI Tuesday 23rd May 2023
On today’s episode, Coast Arcade’s Bella chats with Evie about the bands new EP, So’omalo catches up with Tori from new fundraising group Tea Towel Takeover, and boss man Harry gives our dynamic duo a… Audio
NZ Butter Chicken is a 'dessert' - comedian Ed Amon
You may know comedian Ed Amon from The Panel, podcasts, as a newspaper columnist The multi talented man about to make his 3rd appearance at the NZ International Comedy Festival Ed has partnered with… Audio
Greytown's Little Theatre is off to the races with Ladies Day
Four female fish filleters off to the races - that's the plot of the latest play at one of the country's oldest and tiniest theatres. Wairapapa's Studio 73 in Greytown has just 36 seats - Nathan… Audio
Blandine Massiet
One of the undoubted highlights of the Doc Edge International Documentary Film Festival is an exploration of the life and work of one of our most celebrated artists - painter Frances Hodgkins. Simon… Audio
Banning Books
The works of Roald Dahl have been put through a sanitising process recently, as have the James Bond books, and famous novels by Mark Twain and Joseph Conrad. The process is often called… Audio
Sameena Zehra
From performing on street corners in India to the National Theatre in London, comedian, actor, writer, and blues singer Sameena Zehra has spent her life telling stories and, in her own words, holding… Audio
Laura Irish
The big thing in theatre these days is "immersive" - shows like London's Sleep No More, which invited audiences into the world of Shakespeare's Macbeth, and encouraged them to be part of the action… Audio
Jackie goes Prima Diva
She's one of New Zealand's most popular - and versatile - artists: singer Jackie Clarke. On stage in plays like Shirley Valentine, on TV judging NZ Idol, or singing with the famous Lady Killers… Audio
Short Cuts with Dan Slevin
Dan talks about classic films you can watch online legitimately for free. Audio
Playing favourites: Stuart McKenzie & Miranda Harcourt
Husband and wife duo Dame Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie have become central to the film and theatre world. It's all in the family: while Miranda's mother Kate is one of Aotearoa's most… Audio
Doron Semu: making siapo and a space for queer Pasifika youth
Auckland nurse Doron Semu is using a traditional Sāmoan art form to bring together LGBTQ+ Pasifika youth. In his mid-20s, feeling disconnected from his Sāmoan heritage, Doron learnt how to make the… Video, Audio
Beautiful mystery behind donated photo at Port Chalmers' Pea Sea Art Gallery
It's a beautiful mystery. Two stunning photos of a local man mailed to a Dunedin art gallery with a handwritten note and a polite request - "Please give one of the photos to the man in picture and… Video, Audio
Distinguished poet/novelist Kevin Ireland dies
The poet, novelist and writer who became an exile from New Zealand for 25 years has died aged 89. Audio
Skits & acting bring Brynely Stent's show to Comedy Festival
It's been a sad week in news - so lets see if we can find something to smile about courtesy of the International Comedy festival. Brynley Stent is an actor, comedian and scriptwriter. She won the… Audio
