Arts
Conroy Hu Ligeti Musica Ricerata - Allegro con spirit
Conroy Hu plays Gyorgy Ligeti's Musica Ricerata - Allegro con spirit and Franz Liszt's La Campanella at the 2016 Wallace National Junior Piano Competition at the University of Auckland Music Theatre.
…Artist Judy Millar's bright, bold colours span 30 years
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Two canvases by Judy Millar painted around 30 years apart but similar in many ways, are being brought together for the first time. Judy has represented New Zealand at the Venice… Audio, Gallery
Sue Younger - Days Are Like Grass
Sue Younger swapped a career in documentary-making for the life of a novelist. Her debut, Days are Like Grass, is set in part at Starship Children's Hospital, the workplace of paediatric surgeon… Audio
Escaping the advertising rat-race?
What do ad men do when they escape the pressures of the well-designed commercial? If they can draw whatever they like, what do they choose to do with that freedom? A group of Devonport artists who are… Audio
Getting our young opera singers export-ready
This weekend young New Zealand opera singers with their eye on an international career are starting a new programme aimed at equipping them with crucial skills that are nothing to do with singing and… Audio
Winners - Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel
Announced at the 2016 WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival, the 7th Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel had a record number of entries this year, and a brand new award for debut authors… Audio
Revered - and occasionally feared - reviewer Peter Calder calls it a day
Auckland Cinema managers and restaurant owners can sleep a little easier after this week. Peter Calder, the highly respected - but often ruthless - movie and food critic for the New Zealand Herald is… Audio
Restoration of the silent classic Moana
90 years ago American filmmaker Robert Flaherty decided to follow his hugely successful Inuit documentary Nanook of the North with another one set in faraway places - this time in exotic Samoa. Moana… Audio
Jenny Bornholdt - A Selection of Poems
Lower Hutt poet Jenny Bornholdt's new book, Selected Poems, represents her work over nine collections and nearly 30 years of writing. She was the winner of the 2002 Katherine Mansfield Memorial… Audio
Duncan Grieve - Reality Television
Editor and publisher of The Spinoff, Duncan Grieve tells us why we should all be watching The Real Housewives of Auckland. Audio
Eowyn Ivey - Bright Lights in Alaska
Eowyn Ivey's first novel, The Snow Child, became an international best-seller. She talks to Wallace from her home in Alaska about how her life got bigger when The Snow Child became a finalist for a… Audio
Tom Burlinson - Becoming Sinatra
Australian Tom Burlinson says he started listening to Frank Sinatra when he was three - and these days he channels the voice of Sinatra at live performances of songs from the man known as 'Ol' Blue… Video, Audio
Siberia's mammoth gold rush
They call it Siberia's white gold and the men risking their lives to dig up mammoth tusks are every bit as tough as the gold miners of the 19th century. Audio
Sonia Sly - Front Row at Fashion Week
Sonia Sly is a RNZ producer, runs her own fashion website and presents RNZ's fashion podcast My Heels are Killing Me. She's been attending New Zealand Fashion Week in Auckland. Audio
Jay Clarkson: pluck and luckies
Kim Hill talks to singer-songwriter Jay Clarkson, who has been performing since 1980 as a solo artist and in bands that include The Playthings, They Were Expendable, and Breathing Cage. Her latest… Audio
Sam Crofskey and Joseph Hullen: thriving in Christchurch
Kim Hill talks to Sam Crofskey, the owner of C1 Espresso in the Christchurch CBD, which reopened in 2012 after the Canterbury earthquakes and will celebrate its twentieth anniversary this year. He… Audio
Mohamed Hassan: slam poetics
Kim Hill talks to Mohamed Hassan, an Auckland journalist for RNZ, and co-founder of Waxed Poetic Revival, a member of the South Auckland Poets Collective, and the 2015 National Poetry Slam Champion… Audio
Elizabeth Hay: Canada and nostalgia
Kim Hill talks to Canadian writer Elizabeth Hay, a former radio broadcaster, and the author of many short story collections and novels, most recently, His Whole Life. She speaks at two WORD… Audio
Nicholas Isherwood: The Electric Voice (2)
The most famous bass-baritone in new music - in the world. Nicholas Isherwood has been right here in New Zealand on a Distinguished Visitors Award at the University of Auckland School of Music, and… Audio
Selevasio Tu'ima in finals of Stand Up Stand Out
Checkpoint's video of Selevasio Tu'ima singing Hallelujah last week has since gone viral, with 600,000 views on Facebook. The 13-year-old is in the finals of Stand Up Stand Out, at Vodafone Event… Video, Audio
