Arts

John Drummond explores critical moments in the history of Western music when things might well have turned out differently. When Mozart arrived in London at the age of eight he needed someone to teach… Audio

The 1980 documentary no broadcaster dared to screen and the police once tried to confiscate is about to be screened publicly for the first time. Audio

Sharon Murdoch is the first woman to have a regular cartooning spot in a New Zealand newspaper and this year became Cartoonist of the Year at the 2016 media awards. You can see her work in the Sunday… Audio

Jim agrees with Wallace's love for Disgrace, by South African writer J.M. Coetzee - though Jim says Coetzee's "not brilliant". He describes the Cairo trilogy by Egyptian Nobel Prize winner Naguib… Audio

Kim Hill talks to Wellington writer Kate De Goldi, whose most recent novel, From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle won the junior fiction category at the 2016 Book Awards for Children and Young… Audio

Kim Hill talks to Auckland singer and songwriter Anna Coddington, who has been nominated for the APRA Silver Scroll four times since 2010, and is a regular collaborator on the Fly My Pretties… Audio

Kim Hill talks to Mary Kisler, Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She discusses the role of serendipity when travelling, discussing a… Audio

Kim Hill talks to British comedian and musician Bill Bailey, whose new show, Larks in Transit, is a compendium of tales from his twenty years as a travelling entertainer. He is visiting New Zealand… Audio

Young writers from around the country will take to the stage this weekend to compete in the Rising Voices Youth Poetry Slam finals. Carrie Rudzinski knows all too well what it’s like to stand up and… Audio

Mention dance in New Zealand and more often than not Malia Johnston’s name will pop up. Her experience stretches far and wide, from WOW, to working with Rodney Bell on Meremere. Malia was awarded the… Audio

After WWII, around 50,000 Japanese women left for the United States with American husbands. Three journalists – and daughters of Japanese ‘war brides’ – have made an intimate short documentary telling… Video, Audio, Gallery

The creative talents behind some of the country’s best-known performers have been recognised in the inaugural Vodafone New Zealand Music Artisan Awards. Video, Audio

Hera Lindsay Bird talks about her 2016 ascent to poetry rockstardom, the strange emails she gets, and why she loves the art of Yvonne Todd. Audio, Gallery

Artist and curator Amelia Harris has been collecting examples of amateur art from op shops over the past year. Audio, Gallery

Life is the theme for Footnote NZ Dance’s biggest work of the year. Lifeworld (In five parts) is choreographed by Claire O’Neil and explores concepts around the human condition and the world we create… Audio