Arts & Culture

Dr Rebecca Rice, Curator in Historical New Zealand Art has been rethinking Aotearoa New Zealand’s colonial visual culture, and her current research focuses on nineteenth-century female botanical… Audio

Samoan-born writer, director, playwright and actor Vai To'elau Osa Isa'ako Mase Kightley, known as Oscar, is widely regarded as a bit of a legend. But now it's official, with the announcement that… Audio

Gerry Conlon spent fourteen years in jail as one of the Guildford Four, following the 1974 IRA Guildford pub bombing. New play In the Name of the Son chronicles the heady aftermath of his wrongful… Audio

Dame Malvina Major is one of New Zealand's foremost opera sopranos and has just gifted her personal archives to Waikato University. Dame Malvina speaks to Jesse. Audio

Dan Slevin makes his first trip to Japan in his survey of the Sight & Sound top 50 films of all time. Video

It's a big one, on today's show, Aaradhna, what more can we say, also joining us is the incredibly talented YAHYAH, it doesn't get much better than this folks! Audio

Film and TV reviewer Tamar Munch joins Kathryn to talk about the second season of British prison drama Time (Neon, SkyGo), A Murder at the End of the World (Disney+), a drama about a Gen Z amateur… Audio

Miriam Margolyes "can't resist naughtiness". The actor famed for her character roles and her outrageous chat show appearances is described as someone for whom currency is laughter - by any means… Audio

Japan’s infatuation with monsters continues with the brilliantly weird Shin Ultraman, reports Dan Slevin. Video

An unlikely collaboration between a sound and video artist and a mechanical engineer has resulted in an exhibition exploring the cross roads of science, art and technology. Depth of Field is video and… Audio

His latest film, The Killer, is streaming on Netflix, so Dan Slevin looks at three older David Fincher works to see if they provide clues to help us appreciate him.

When Evie's away, the mice...? Evie usually writes these things, So'omalo and Waimirirangi here, we're holding things down while everyone's away - On the show today we have Brandn Shiraz and Jupita… Audio

Now the story of a witch - the baddest witch in all the world! She can turn children into sausages, she turns policemen into apple trees and bananas into mice!

Badjelly the Witch, written by the… Audio

Spooky, beautiful, yet funny, Greta Anderson’s photography transforms day into night, while invasive flora and domestic objects glow with spiritual electricity. 

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Fleur is a contemporary fibre artist Fleur Woods and has documented her own journey in a beautiful new book - The Untamed Thread - which explores the creative process and teaches us why it matters to… Audio

This weekend, Wellington's Verb Festival hosts its annual worst poet wins event which rewards aspiring writers for indulging their most cliched, cringeworthy tendencies.

Harry Ricketts is a poet… Audio

On today's show, Evie catches up with celebrity bird debate moderator Katie Fitzgerald, So'omālō talks music with KY Canoy, and Waimirirangi shares wisdom passed onto her from the Kaumātua Audio

​Dan Slevin has watched three recent streaming series that try – sometimes not all that hard – to entertain a casual viewer while delivering thrills to long-time fans. Video