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12:30 PM.Known for her gregarious nature, powerful vocals and wicked sense of humour - Jackie Clarke is one of the country's favourite entertainers. With four decades of experience under her belt, Jackie was… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Welcome to May and a bumper crop of cultural events -  which makes this week's Culture 101 Fast Favourite guest an easy pick, given he embraces all fields, often at once. Otepoti Dunedin's David… Read more Audio

3:00 PM.Arts News for Sunday 27th April 2025 Audio

2:05 PM. At the NZ International Comedy Festival in May the Naked Samoans will reunite for the first time in seven years. They join a new generation of makers and comedians. So on Culture 101 we thought it a… Read more Audio

1:28 PM. Metalfest4 is at the Collards Tavern on Friday May 3, and alongside headliners from around the country it features a number of heavy locals. Joining visitors Captured Kings and Grym Rhymney is new… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.The brand new long awaited home for The Court Theatre officially opens Saturday May 3 in Otautahi Christchurch. It is an impressive $61.4 million purpose-built home for New Zealand's largest… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Whether it's a brand like 100% Pure or paintings and film of a rural idyll, we've become familiar in Aotearoa New Zealand with the tension between our depiction of the landscape, and the reality when… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Renowned lighting designer Angus Muir is launching a new immersive experience in the heart of Tamaki Makaurau next week. He's worked locally and internationally on many recognised installations… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Kiwi actor and comedian Bailey Poaching is one of the stars in the new Netflix comedy series North of North. Set in the small village of Ice Cove in the Arctic Circle, it's a delightful show that… Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Arts news for 20 April 2025 with Mark and Angie Audio

2:32 PM.In the bringing together of art and mental health, Kim Morton is a champion. Following the Christchurch earthquakes, Kim founded Otautahi Creative Spaces, a busy creative community in inner city… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Well known interior designer Sonja Hawkins joined Culture 101 to talk about her passion for art, and to share some tips for displaying art in the home. Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Ildica Boyd joins Culture 101 from the 9th biennial Easter Art exhibition hosted by Castle Hill Village Creative.  Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Wellington based artist Michele Bryant joins Culture 101. Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Mike Beer aka Ghostcat joins Culture 101 to discuss his The Ghosts on Every Corner exhibition. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Screening Sunday April 27 in Poneke Wellington is FW Murnau's classic 1922 spooky silent film Nosferatu: A symphony of Horror, with a few sensory twists. Not only will it be accompanied by a live… Read more Audio

12:14 PM.On Saturday May 10 author, podcaster and self confessed Dracula tragic Noelle McCarthy will be giving a personal tour of the Victorian Gothic in the small Wairarapa town of Featherston.  Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Arts News from across the country with Mark and Angie - for the second week of April 2025. Audio

2:32 PM."I am like the active verb to be and to do," wrote the determined trailblazing early New Zealand painter and writer Emily Cumming Harris. "I am," she added, "too necessary an appendage to be left… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Isabel Frey is singer and ethnomusicologist from Vienna, who is attempting to carry the musical tradition of the Jewish Labour Bund, the Yiddish-speaking socialist party in pre-World War II Eastern… Read more Audio

1:23 PM.On the road between Christchurch and Queenstown, the town of Fairlie often gets called gateway to the Mackenzie Country.  Read more Video, Audio

1:08 PM. Shawn Simpson is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and joined Culture 101. Read more Audio

12:45 PM.The Kaikoura titi, or Hutton's shearwater is a remarkable bird. Endemic to Kaikoura and endangered, it is the only alpine-breeding seabird in the world.  Read more Audio

12:29 PM.Thousands of students were outside Parliament in Wellington on Friday for the School Strike 4 Climate protest. The core team organising were aged between 14 and 17 and their overarching theme "Don't… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.The Auckland-based artist shares some of his cultural recommendations. Read more Audio