Arts
A bit of Variety
Composer Johannes Contag has written a new score for the 1923 silent film Variety to be played live during the New Zealand International Film Festival in Wellington on 7th August. Contag says the tale… Audio
Eve Armstrong's Trading Table
Wellington artist Eve Armstrong's interactive work the Trading Table brings buyers and sellers together, but no money changes hands. Rather, people offer up an object or a commitment in return for… Audio
Pokemon makes a comeback with new smartphone app
The news editor of the gaming website, Kotaku, Jason Schreier talks to Phillippa Tolley about the smartphone game, Pokemon Go. Japanese gaming giant Nintendo's stock soared 25 percent on the back of… Audio
ROTN Ser 2 Ep 5 "Head Starts or Moai the Long Face" 11 July 2016
Millie Neal reports back from 14th Century AD Easter Island where Rapa Nui are struggling with the intergenerational economic devide. The question is, how easy is it to get a head? Audio
Oh the Absurdity!
The Absurdity of Humanity is the latest work from The New Zealand Dance Company. The double bill show brings together works from Ross McCormack and Lina Limosani, both with an absurdist view on the… Audio
Rancho Notorious 4/14: Morning Tea with BG
NZIFF director Bill Gosden visits Rancho Notorious for freshly baked muffins and freshly brewed coffee and to chat about this year's event which opens in Auckland on Thursday. Dan also talks to the… Audio
Stand-up comedian Billy Crystal
Award-winning comic, turned movie star, Billy Crystal talks to Kathryn Ryan about his career in show business and his first time performing in New Zealand. Billy Crystal heads to the Auckland 's ASB… Audio
Red Hot and Recent
Centring around the new tribute album to the Grateful Dead from the Red Hot label, William Dart looks also at some of the label's other releases - many of which aim to raise awareness of HIV and the… Audio
Sound Domes
There's a new playground for sonic artists and composers who want to experiment with more than conventional musical instruments - the 'sound dome'. Auckland University's Dr John Coulter and Multimedia… Audio
The Revelations of Carey Ravine by Debra Daley
Journalist-turned-screenwriter and novellist Debra Daley has set her third book The Revelations of Carey Ravine in the midst of 1770s buccaneering London society. The Bay of Plenty-based writer has… Audio
Variety - the classic silent movie gets a new live score
Germany after the First World War was bleak. Poverty was all around, and the only place to escape it was at the live variety shows - if you could afford it. That's the theme to the German silent… Audio
Creative Activism
Can art make a difference? Hell, can it change the world? Should art make us feel uncomfortable, make us think, make us ask questions? Audio
Copenhagen Architecture
Copenhagen is regularly acclaimed as one of the world's "most liveable" cities. So just how have designers made it work so well and can we steal any of their ideas? Rasmus Frisk started up Copenhagen… Audio
Duncan Hope - Fundraising for Orlando
Performance poet Duncan Hope is organising two variety shows in Wellington, with every dollar raised going to the victims and the families of those who lost loved ones in the Orlando mass shooting… Audio
Pusi Urale - Returning Gauguin's Gaze
Pusi Urale is a Samoan artist who didn't take up painting until she was well into her 50s. The 77-year-old painter's latest exhibition, Blond Maidens, is on show at the Whau Gallery, Great North Rd… Audio, Gallery
Shining a light on Nelson
First Person - An illuminated art and technology show in Nelson has the power to weave a little magic into gloomy winter nights, writes Nelson Reporter Tracy Neal.
Elaine Yan Ling Ng: textiles and tehnology
Kim Hill talks to Hong Kong-based designer Elaine Yan Ling Ng who interweaves technology with her textiles and furnishings at The Fabrick Lab. She visited Wellington as a keynote speaker for Nature… Audio
Sir Andrew Davis: eclectic conductivity
Kim Hill talks to British conductor Sir Andrew Davis, music director and principal conductor of Lyric Opera of Chicago, and chief conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He visited New Zealand… Audio
The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever
Ready to let your inner Cathy free? On Saturday 16th July, large groups of red-clad men, women and children will gather at events around the world to dance to Kate Bush's 1978 hit song, Wuthering… Audio
Sarjeant Gallery meets funding target
A last-minute rush of donations has allowed Whanganui's Sarjeant Gallery to meet a deadline crucial to its survival.
