Arts

As the New Zealand International Film Festival makes its way across the country, Dan Slevin has been watching more of the festival's highlights including Cannes favourite Toni Erdmann and Marlon…

A new unique set of green lights have been unveiled on Cuba street this morning. They pay tribute to another local legend, Carmen Rupe, the drag performer, brothel keeper and activisit who was a… Audio

Two New Zealanders - an artist and a curator - are among the team working on a project that's a tribute to one of British painter John Constable's most famous paintings. Audio

Writer and illustrator Leigh Hobbs is using his two year stint as Australia's Children's Laureate to promote libraries, which he worries are under threat. Audio

Victor Rodger is sending out a challenge to other Pasifika writers. Where's the PI book that a nui generation will cherish? Audio

The flamboyant Captain William Henry 'Bully' Hayes was a 'thief, pirate, plunderer and kidnapper' according to newspaper headlines of the time and in subsequent books and movies. But what's the true… Audio

Part 2 of our look back at the output of the National Film Unit as it marks its 75th anniversary this month. Audio

Ethan Stiefel returns to New Zealand to choreograph one of the world's most loved ballets - Giselle. Wallace speaks to Ethan about his time with the Royal New Zealand Ballet and what he's been doing… Audio

Australian writer Kate Holden's first book In My Skin is a brutally honest memoir of her time as a prostitute and heroin addict in Melbourne. She is New Zealand for the Christchurch Word Festival and… Audio

Australian actor and director, John Waters, talks to Wallace about his upcoming stage-show, Through a Glass Onion, a play set in the last moments of John Lennon's life. Audio

American writer and performer Lisa Carver is known for her unflinching writing in the cult zine Rollerderby, and for her revealing memoir Drugs Are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir. Her wild 'gore operas' in… Audio

Kim Hill talks to The Oxfords, six young professional singers from the cathedral choir of Christ Church, Oxford: Henry Kimber (countertenor), Michael Ash (countertenor). Edward Woodhouse (tenor)… Audio