Arts

Christine Fernyhough is the author of the bestselling memoir The Road To Castle Hill: A High Country Love Story, and she set up Books in Homes and then the Gifted Kids Programme for high-achieving… Audio

Auckland photographer and film-maker Gavin Hipkins has been described as a "tourist of photography" - both because he travels and because he constantly explores what's possible in the medium of… Audio

At the age of 50, Otaki author Renée (Scots/Ngati Kahungungu) started to write plays - Wednesday to Come was her best loved. She has written eight novels and more than 20 plays and she often focuses… Audio

Jaya Beach-Robertson and Aria Dehar are the talented team behind the New Zealand (and decidedly NSFW) web series PSUSY. Audio

On Saturday 11th November Jesse hosted Short Story Club Live at Litcrawl. Three short stories were discussed, all unpublished. They were selected from around 50 stories submitted.  Audio

The Royal New Zealand Ballet is teaching inmates at Arohata Women’s prison how to jeté, pirouette and plié.  Audio

Auckland Art Gallery is about to be transformed by a sea of dots! Designer Hannah Manning-Scott talks about the opportunity the gallery is giving visitors to follow the lead of Japanese artist Yayoi… Audio

Auckland Art Gallery has recently hired its very first head of public engagement - bringing in an expert in the field from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Audio

Sarah Wilkins is the only New Zealand illustrator involved in the wildly successful Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls book series. She's also designed a mural in Paris and just collaborated on the… Audio, Gallery

Out of town visitors to the Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth will have to pay for the privilege from August 2018. At a feisty debate on Tuesday, mayor Neil Holdom broke with convention and used his… Audio

The New Zealand Architechture Awards were held on Friday night, and one of the winners was the designer of the stunning Lesieli Tonga Auditorium in Mangere. We speak to architect Michael O'Sullivan. Audio

The Ngai Tuhoe meeting house Te Wharehou o Waikaremoana and its designers have won the Ted McCoy Award for Education at this year's New Zealand Architecture Awards. Kathryn Ryan talks to Hugh Tennant… Audio, Gallery

As her vision fades, New Zealand's first Poet Laureate seems to see the world more clearly. Michele Leggott, who received the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry in 2013 has just… Audio

Forgetting Ida Rubinstein - Part 2 - Death of the Myth. Presented by Elric Hooper & Des Wilson. Audio, Gallery

Lynn Freeman caught up with Australian theatre director Katy Maudlin who is in Auckland at the moment working on a cautionary tale called Earthquakes in London. Mike Bartlett's play spans 1968 to… Audio

The most prolific partnership on our classical music scene, composer Ross Harris and poet Vincent O'Sullivan have been pouring out operas, songs, oratorios, even symphonies for some 13 years now after… Audio

It's become one of the biggest - and most frenetic - events on the New Zealand film calendar - the annual 48 HOUR FILM CHALLENGE, where teams from all over the country are given specific themes… Audio, Gallery