Arts

Author Patricia Grace was honoured for her work at the recent Te Waka Toi Awards in Rotorua. Justine Murray sat down for a chat with Patricia in Rotorua, where she talked about her mission to complete… Audio

The Se-le-ka Club started in Nuku'alofa back in 2008. It's now turned into a safe haven for vulnerable young people, and a place for young artists to experiment with techniques and materials. Audio

The thriller brings together a private detective, Johnny Molloy, an ambitious journalist and some shady politicians and unionists. Audio

Michael Wolfe tells Lynn Freeman the last decade has changed everything for writers. Audio

Songs for the Fallen is coming to New Zealand as part of an Internationl Cabaret Season. Sheridan Harbridge tells Lynn Freeman cabaret is hard to define. Audio

Lynn Freeman asks Toi Whakaari Head of Costume Kaarin Macaulay, and aspiring costume-maker Monique Bartosh how the industry's changed over the past decade. Audio, Gallery

A hui this week held on Suffrage Day brought together around a hundred people to kick around some ideas. Lynn Freeman talks to two of the speakers, Kate JasonSmith and Hannah Banks. Audio

Lynn Freeman talks to Military historian Dr McGibbon, and also to 92-year-old Hilary Haylock, whose father's letters home made up some of the book. Dr Ian McGibbon's New Zealand's Western Front… Audio

Swaggers, sugarbags, special constables and the Queen Street Riots - The Depression of the 1930s were grim years in our history, remembered in a comprehensive new book. Malcolm McKinnon takes us back… Audio

Composer Claire Cowan and a group of talented musicians play us some numbers from 'Dreams' - their one off show at the upcoming Auckland Live Cabaret season. Audio

Kim Hill talks to Scottish-born Australian rock singer Jimmy Barnes, whose career with the band Cold Chisel and as a solo artist has made him one of the most popular and best-selling Australian… Audio

Kim Hill talks to Professor Piri Sciascia, ONZM, retired recently as Deputy Vice Chancellor Maori at Victoria University of Wellington. He was one of four recipients of Nga Tohu a Ta Kingi Ihaka at… Audio

The Auckland Live International Cabaret Season is about to begin its third year featuring a suite of critically-acclaimed cabaret shows from across the globe and closer to home. The Basement theatre… Audio

Photographer Jenny O'Connor’s reflection on what it means to be heading towards the big ‘Six O’. Audio, Gallery

Sydney-based Julie Foa’i has been the manager of South Pacific Fusion group Te Vaka since it began. The now-Australia based group has had global success, which looks to be expanded on with them being… Audio

Prolific and highly regarded and awarded New Zealand-born pianist Mike Nock is about to return to New Zealand. The Mike Nock Trio and NZ Trio work have developed, Vicissitudes which they premiered at… Audio, Gallery

Some of Jim's favourite writers feature in this episode - V.S. Naipaul and Kazuo Ishiguro who, he says, is "perhaps the greatest novelist of our generation. His work is going to make him one of few… Audio