Arts

Our Bookmarks guest today is a former classmate of Barack Obama's, an associate Professor of American History and an Abraham Lincoln enthusiast, Peter Field. Audio

Mindful Fashion, a collective of businesses in the fashion scene, are launching a new campaign to save the garment manufacturing industry. Designer Kate Sylvester explains what they're doing.  Audio

Auckland composer Claire Cowan is busy with NZSO story time videos, her first album and a queer ballet project. Video, Audio

Max Brooks has published three zombie-themed books, including the hugely successful World War Z - where a highly infectious virus breaks out in China and sweeps the globe, turning humans into… Audio

The Panel speaks to Morgan Keating Marr from 'Mumma Jos' as part of its weekly segment on New Zealand-made products. Audio

Dan Slevin reports on another striking local documentary playing in this year’s film festival. Video

Dan Slevin rejoices at the arrival of a big screen drama for grown-ups – even if it isn’t actually playing on the big screen. Video

While lockdown has been a period of downtime for some, woodworker and restorer William Cottrell has been hard at work restoring a native wood sideboard from 19th century Aotearoa. It's just as well he… Audio, Gallery

He's worked on ads and with symphony orchestras. He's scored movies and now game soundtracks. APRA-award winning composer, producer and musician, Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper's CV certainly makes for… Audio

Wanting to tell you everything is the title of the collection that was published on what would have been Elizabeth's 80th birthday earlier this month. She died last year. Her writing group worked on… Audio, Gallery

An insight into the lives of transgender performers and exotic dancers working in Sydney's notorious Kings Cross in the 1960s is offered in the latest novel by best-selling Hamilton-based writer… Audio

Imagine being able to fly over a massive inky ocean at night, zooming in, through and around dancers, massive carvings and a haunting empty boats made out of black feathers - all without leaving home… Audio, Gallery

As film festivals - here and overseas - head into the great unknown and go digital, one at least remains proudly theatrical, the New Zealand Italian Festival. Simon Morris talks to Paolo Rotondo… Audio

Another year, another Diversity Report on gender ethnicity balance - this time from New Zealand On Air. The most glaring imbalance, once again, is among Asian creatives - on the small screen and also… Audio

Alice Procter is an art historian, tour guide and museum enthusiast who thinks institutions need to be more honest about how they came to acquire their collections. She runs "Uncomfortable Art Tours"… Audio

Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police murderer Ned Kelly is both a man and a myth. From Sir Sydney Nolan's epic paintings to Peter Carey's 2001 Booker Prize-winning novel… Audio

Artist, activist and film maker Mika X's new short film GURL will debut in the festival. It's inspired by the story of Carmen Rupe, and Mika plans to add to it to make a feature length film titled The… Audio