Arts
Drawing lines between mathematics and art
Artists find inspiration everywhere. For Kiwi-born, Australia-based artist Peter James Smith another passion – mathematics, influences his art. Peter is in New Zealand for Artweek Auckland next week… Audio
50 years of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship
A new book celebrates the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, which has produced some of New Zealand's finest artworks. Arts commentator Priscilla Pitts and journalist Andrea Hotere (daughter of the 1969… Audio, Gallery
4CAST - Ep 2
Rhys Mathewson hosts from The Classic in Auckland with guests Lana Walters, Penny Ashton and Cori Gonzalez Macuer. Audio
Composer Victoria Kelly
Jesse Mulligan's guest is composer, performer and music producer Victoria Kelly. Victoria is also the Director of New Zealand Membership at APRA AMCOS - The Australasian Performing Rights… Audio
Book critic Catherine Roberston
Catherine Roberston talks about the 3rd addition of Mimicry - a journal of comedy, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, music, art and design by young NZ creatives. And she also looks ahead to her new role… Audio
Debauchery comes to Auckland
We go beyond the red velvet rope for a glimpse of what Studio 54 might have looked like if it was a true circus. Aria nominated, Velvet is an Australian created hit show, which has been on the global… Audio
Scottish comedian Kevin Bridges pays us a visit
Scottish comedian Kevin Bridges is well-known from TV show Would I Lie to You? and his stand-up appearances on Live at the Apollo. Audio
Christchurch rolls out red carpet for The Changeover premiere
Christchurch last night hosted the world premiere of The Changeover, a film adaptation of Margaret Mahy's award-winning novel, starring newcomer Erana James. Video, Audio
Mana Tangata: Linda Munn
Artist Linda Munn is well-known as one of the creators of the Tino Rangatiratanga flag, but these days she is pretty content teaching art in Tauranga. Te Ahi Kaa catches up with her for a kōrero at… Audio
Anahera, Snothead and a boat called Baby
Cynthia steals money from her father to pay for a boat called Baby, a sanctuary for her, her dog Snothead and Anahera, her fitness instructor and the woman of her dreams. But the reality of their life… Audio
Artist Derek Lardelli is inspired by three women
Senior Rongowhakaata artist Professor Derek Lardelli has carved three giant pou that tell the story of three women with a very special place in the history of his Gisborne iwi. Te Papa commissioned… Audio
The Wagner Tuba
Erica Challis takes a look at the instrument Wagner invented especially for his orchestra. Audio
The long - very long - shots of photographer Peter Latham
Few photographers get to see their work blown up to be 28 metres long, but that's one of the biggest commissions so far for New Zealand landscape photographer Peter Latham. The alpine scene mural now… Audio
Unearthing and cataloguing buried treasure
Artist Alex Monteith is behind a push to catalogue hundreds of boxes of material excavated from Fiordland back in the late 1960s and early 70s.The material, mainly from maori sites, has been stored at… Audio
A century of Wellington's Paramount cinema
This week sees the end of an era. After almost exactly 100 years, Wellington's Paramount Cinema is finally closing its doors tomorrow. It opened as a picture palace in 1917, but more recently, it's… Audio
CK Stead - The Allen Curnow I knew
One of New Zealand's greatest poets, Allen Curnow (1911-2001), is being remembered in two new books to be launched in September, The Collected Poems of Allen Curnow and a major new biography, Simply… Audio
Douglas Wright - Limbs@40
Acclaimed dancer and choreographer Douglas Wright danced with Limbs Dance Company of New Zealand (1980-1983), and companies in New York and London before forming the Douglas Wright Dance Company in… Audio
Indonesian designer takes out top WOW award
A silver-booted, lycra-heavy outfit engulfed in what looks like two halves of an illuminated black egg, has taken out the supreme award at this year's World of Wearable Arts.
Dateline Pacific evening edition for 22 September 2017
We talk with the ANU about the expansion of Australia's Pacific Labour Scheme; Political parties in New Zealand outline their Pacific policies ahead of the election this weekend; Samoan myths and… Audio
'Everything has to be unmistakably NOM*d'
NOM*d founder Margi Robertson talks about her iconic 30-year-old brand, the one thing she would save in a fire and why summer is a season that never feels quite right. Audio
