Arts

Patrick Davies reviews "The White Guitar", the stunning new play that in which hip-hop star Scribe features with his father John and brother Matthias, it tells the true family story of the Luafutus. Audio

Red Leap Theatre is touring its latest show round the North island. Ella Becroft plays the central character in Dust Pilgrim, a young girl running away from her troubled mother. Audio

Renowned journalist Mike Crean and musician Mark Walton talks about their afternoon of Words and Music celebrating Great Cantabrians to raise money for the Christchurch School of Music. Mike has… Audio

Nederlands Dans Theater is performing in New Zealand for the first time this week in Auckland. Artistic Director Paul Lightfoot talks about spending over thirty years working with the company he… Audio

Six young members of Massive Nui Ensemble, are heading from New Zealand to Scotland to attend an exchange programme with the National Theatre of Scotland. They will take with them The Island, a story… Audio

International Film Festivals come and go but no one has the staying power of Bill Gosden, the man who still loves his job after thirty five years. He always delivers a fine festival... But how does he… Audio

Listener feedback from the discussion on 12 year-olds going to the movies without an adult.. Audio

Stjohn Milgrew & Brendan Kitto explore the discarded and forgotten through their exhibition Us and Them as part of the 2016 Auckland Festival of Photography. The use both Polaroid film and instant… Audio

Borderless Productions' documentary On the Backs of Women offers a window into the lives of three entrepreneurial women battling poverty in Myanmar. The film has recently won best documentary at the… Video, Audio, Gallery

Global jewellery retailer and Whangarei old boy, Sir Michael Hill, has given fundraising for the city's Hundertwasser arts centre a boost - and his generosity has encouraged others to dig a little… Audio

Linda Burgess is on to talk about binge viewing and reviews The Secret, The Wrong Mans, Almost Royal, and Sidewalk Karaoke. Audio

Performer and academic Marianne Schultz looks at how Maori extravaganzas - both here and overseas - helped to shape New Zealand's identity in her new book, Performing Indigenous culture on stage and… Audio

Crime stories regularly dominate what the news media offer us, as well as TV , movies, and most of all, bookshelves full of crime stories. But writer Fiona Sussman takes a step back in her new novel… Audio

Irish writer-director John Carney sprang to fame in 2007 with the surprise hit movie Once, about two struggling musicians in Dublin. He hit again with the more star-studded Begin again. Now he's back… Audio

Creating a synthesiser with potatoes as the main ingredient is one of the recent challenges jazz composer, bass-player and sound designer Tom Dennison set himself. Audio