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1:26 PM.About 45 minutes from Queenstown, on the northern shores of Lake Wakatipu and a gateway to hiking trails is Glenorchy. Surrounded by mountain ranges and with Dart River for jet boating and kayaking… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Ration the Queen's Veges: Turning Te Papa activism into a stage show In 2023, a group spray painted over the English Treaty of Waitangi Exhibition at Te Papa sparking controversy. The redacted words… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.On Banks Peninsula in Canterbury fingers of lava have created a landscape of many deep bays and rugged hills. This is the distinctive setting of our next story and one that has made a deep impression… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Six is 80 minutes of high-energy, girl power pop songs and a rewriting of 500 years of history. Or herstory rather. The show title refers to the six wives of Henry the VIII who come together to battle… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.A strong champion of fellow indie musicians, our guest for Fast Favourites this week is singer songwriter Vera Ellen. Last year Vera toured China, Australia with Crowded House, released an EP, and… Read more Audio

3:05 PM.The latest arts news from around the motu. Audio

2:33 PM.Have you ever considered how green that TV show or movie you're watching is? Non-profit organisation, Greenlit is now working alongside Aotearoa productions leading the screen industry towards a… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.This weekend marks the beginning of Pride Christchurch, with events across the month. In a week's time Poneke Wellington joins in the festivities. As part of Pride, Sunday 2 March saw the third… Read more Audio

1:26 PM.Kohukohu, a village on the Hokianga Harbour was according to Te Tai Tokerau tradition so named by legendary Polynesian explorer Kupe. Angry at food from a hangi being insufficiently cooked, Kupe swore… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.A new report by AUT's Te Ipukarea Research Institute shows 12-year-olds who participate in arts and culture through extra-curricular and free-time activities experience better wellbeing, peer… Read more Audio

12:48 PM.Aotearoa Queer indigenous arts collective FAFSWAG is in Melbourne showcasing their latest work at the Asia Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts. The three-week festival lights up the city bringing… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Next weekend is one of Aoteaora New Zealand's cornerstone summer festivals - Auckland's Pasifika, celebrated across eight Island stages at Western Springs in Auckland. As it heads towards dark… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.From political reporter, Europe correspondent for Newshub, to hosting a morning and drive show, broadcaster Lloyd Burr has done it all. In what has been a tumultuous few years for the media industry… Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Major concerns over censorship in Australian Venice Biennale decision and a new NZSO CEO Audio

2:40 PM.Picture this: it's 2030, in the seaside suburb of Sumner in Otautahi Christchurch. That's only five years' time, but the sea is already to quote novelist and science writer Jane Shearer, tearing off… Read more Audio

2:10 PM.The Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts has kicked off in Melbourne returning after a five-year hiatus. For the next three weeks, the city will be celebrating diverse and dynamic creatives and… Read more Audio

1:27 PM.Each week, Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different part of Aotearoa for our Regional Week. This week, we're heading north of Auckland Tamaki Makaurau to the Matakana region. A 45-minute drive… Read more Audio

1:12 PM.Nadia Freeman's show The Girmit takes us back to the time between 1879 and 1916 when more than 60,000 people were transferred from India to Fiji by the British to work on sugar-cane plantations as… Read more Audio

12:44 PM.David Cronenberg's 1979 body horror The Brood teases in its trailer that it's "a film so terrifying that it will devastate you totally". What possesses us to love horror films so? Curator of Screams… Read more Audio

12:28 PM.The Hamilton Arts Festival has kicked off for another year. Music, theatre, dance, comedy and artistic experiences fill the Hamilton Gardens with more than 800 peformers this year, across 9 days. Most… Read more Audio

12:14 PM.Tina, the debut feature film of Miki Magasiva is a love letter to both Samoan culture and how choral music, across cultures, can assist people in change. The way art can enable acceptance of the… Read more Audio

3:05 PM.The latest arts news from around the motu. Audio

2:36 PM.How can we live better, closer and more affordably together? New Zealand young architecture studio Space Craft are one of the winners of a recent competition to design the housing of the future for… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Tackling the Tamaki Makaurau performing arts scene and keeping it alive is part of Daniel Clarke's new role as Director of Performing Arts at Tātaki Auckland Unlimited. Clarke leads a team which… Read more Audio

1:27 PM.The large town of Ashburton is to be found on the Canterbury Plains, halfway between Christchurch and Timaru. It is home to the increasingly celebrated Ashburton Art Gallery and Heritage Centre, whose… Read more Audio