Arts

An A4 sheet of paper covered with rows of forward slashes wins 25 thousand dollar art award. Art collector Chris Parkin joins the panel to talk about how subjective art is. Audio

The director of a New Zealand ad' campaign encouraging parents to keep their kids safe online has won a Silver Screen Young Director Award award at Cannes.

Aucklander Sam Stuchbury, the founder of… Audio

A community project is bringing vibrancy to some of the Northern Taranaki town's blank walls. Audio, Gallery

Film director and winner at this year's Whānau Mārama NZ International Film Festiva Claire van Beek has won the Emerging Talent Award for her short film Daniel. Audio

A new documentary, Kubrick by Kubrick, offers unique insights into the notoriously reclusive auteur. Director Gregory Monro talks about hearing Kubrick’s own voice for the first time. Audio

Bel Canto stars Julianne Moore (miming) as an opera diva, taken hostage by a group of Latin American rebels. Directed by Paul Weitz (About a boy) it also features Ken Watanabe (Godzilla) and Sebastian… Audio

New York-based singer, songwriter, musician, and performance artist, Amanda Palmer, joins Jesse to talk about some of her favourite things. Audio

Paul Bushnell reviews two recently released history podcasts: The Service and Floodlines. Audio

Reynold Turner aka Old Relic makes exquisite hand-made miniature replicas of gold-rush era huts, cottages, water wheels and churches from the same materials used by the early settlers, using a hammer… Audio

Sandra Beerends uses never-before-seen archival footage to tell stories of Indonesian nannies (known at the time as 'babus') who cared for Dutch families during Dutch colonial rule. Video, Audio

Hawke's Bay-based artist and creative director, Anthony Van Dorsten, creates stunning immersive art installations that play with light and colour. Audio

Never have we needed dogs more than now, which is evidenced by how incredibly difficult it is to get one. Audio

Twenty-two years after it first went to air, the award-winning British comedy drama Cold Feet is back on Kiwi television, for a 9th season. Audio

In this epidode, we're speaking to Filipino comedian, James Roque, on his involvement with the Human Rights Commission's latest campaign - "Racism is no joke". Produced by Kadambari Gladding Audio

It reads like a classic sci-fi scenario. A deadly pandemic strikes just as an massive international convention is about to open, throwing everything into chaos. Ten years of planning have gone into… Audio

Death by cheese, by cricket bat and guillotine....For 23 years the British TV detective drama Midsomer Murders has been killing off people in and around the fictional village of Causton. Anthony… Audio