Arts
At The Movies - 23 Walks
23 Walks follows the romance of Dave Johns (I Daniel Blake) and Alison Steadman (Gavin and Stacey) through their dogs' exercise. Video, Audio
At The Movies - 23 Walks
23 Walks follows the romance of Dave Johns (I Daniel Blake) and Alison Steadman (Gavin and Stacey) through their dogs' exercise.
Video, AudioAt the Movies for 19 August 2020
Simon Morris sympathises with films that miss the mood of the times, and welcomes three films that defy time and trends - a middle-aged romance, a travel documentary and a Kiwi crime comedy. 23 walks… Audio
No more fines for overdue books at Selwyn libraries
Good news for book worms with time management problems - libraries in the Selwyn District, in Canterbury, have stopped charging fines for overdue books in an effort to entice people scared off by… Audio
Musicians feeling lockdown pinch
Just when you thought it might have been all over ...life gets tough again for those whose incomes rely on audiences. Composer and director of member services at APRA Victoria Kelly joins The Panel to… Audio
Bookmarks with Tex Houston
Our Bookmarks guest today is Tex Houston has worked and toured with most of the bands on the Flying Nun label, and developing his own line of speakers called Tex Tone.
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Katy Atkin's Podcast recommendations
Today Katy reviews The Michelle Obama Podcast and My Dad the Spy . More top picks from Katy can be found here. Audio
Review: Project Power
Dan Slevin reports on Netflix’s new big budget VFX extravaganza (that also tries to have a bit of real life grit in the mix). Video
Poet Ria Masae - from fale to K'Rd
Ria Masae's poetry draws on her Pacific heritage which she says influences all her writing. She is one of three poets whose work is published in a new book AUP New Poets 7. Some of Ria Masae's poems… Audio
Architecture with Pacific flair
Former Samoan international Lama Tone tells Kathryn how rugby career ending injuries led him to architecture. Audio, Gallery
Barnyard art: Yvonne Sutherland on creating her Happy Hens
For the better part of 30 years, Yvonne Sutherland's shop and studio has been a must-stop on the Otago Peninsula. She's the creator of Happy Hens - brightly coloured, hand-painted ceramic hens of… Audio, Gallery
Love of the bass turns into a compulsive hobby
NZSO bass player Malcolm Struthers' passion for his instrument has turned into a stimulating new hobby, making his own basses. He describes the process of constructing two basses from scratch and… Audio
Kate di Goldi - creating our first Reading Ambassador
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
Carl Nixon's latest spine-chilling thriller
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
Covid photographers from both sides of the Tasman
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
Rebecca Gibney - a lowdown criminal at last
The secret weapon in the upcoming comedy heist movie Lowdown dirty criminals is undoubtedly the woman who left New Zealand a raw Kiwi kid and became one of the most successful and most loved actors in… Audio, Gallery
After the online film festivals
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
Loading Docs
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
Choreographer Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp, one of the world's greatest living choreographers, is due to bring her dance work "Waterbaby Bagatelles" to New Zealand stages for the first time. Waterbaby Bagatelles is a suite of… Audio
Notting Hill Carnival goes from street party to screen festival
This year's Notting Hill Carnival will swap the streets of West London for computer screens around the world in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.