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12:45 PM.It’s a 2024 thriller concerned with race, podcast-making and the criminal justice system high on a fair few 2024 best-of lists.

17 Years Later is Melbourne-based bestselling New Zealand writer JP… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.She joins Culture 101 to talk about her time in the South of France for the 2024 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, her new novel and her highlights of 2024. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.The Pōhutukawa - our Christmas tree - once bountifully fringed the West Coast north of Taranaki, and the East Coast north of Tairāwhiti Gisborne. While now found even further south, these trees with… Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Renowned Māori actor and filmmaker Cliff Curtis has been honoured with the prestigious International Federation of Film Producers Associations Award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

The event, held… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Dean Roberts, aka The Moth, was an experimental composer and multi-instrumentalist who lived in Auckland, New York, Bologna and Berlin. A student of the sound artist Phil Dadson, he went on to lecture… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.A survey of recent film work by Jon Rafman Oh, the humanity! opens at Whangārei Art  Museum on December 20. It is, the gallery say “a harrowing meditation on the digital era’s fraught promises, and… Read more Video, Audio

1:25 PM.For the regional wrap we head to Raglan Wharf to speak with Tony Sly of Tony Sly Pottery where the scenic views inspire his work.  Among his Raglan cultural highlights Tony Sly mentions artists Chris… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Tāmaki Makaurau's eclectic Karangahape Road is known as a creative hub for alternative arts and events, unique hospitality and independent retailers. Now it can add a new fine arts gallery to its… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.The Indian cinema scene is thriving in Aotearoa with nearly 300 Indian movies screened in New Zealand over just the past two years. Pritesh Raniga is the proprietor of Indian distribution company… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Joar Nango is one of only a few practicing Sámi architects in the world. He has travelled to Aotearoa New Zealand to present, with collaborators, the exhibition Building an archive of Indigenous… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:10 PM.Izzy joins Culture 101 to share her Fast Favourite choices, and why she is passionate about continuing the legacy of her father.

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3:05 PM.What has been described of the arts this week on RNZ Audio

2:35 PM.RNZ’s Simon Morris was listening to one of the most popular series in the UK - Sherlock & Co - when he recognised the voice of Dr Watson’s girlfriend and later his good lady wife, Mary Morstan.  It… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.White footed ants made from freshwater pearls, a scorpion's sting carved out of ebony, and an orangutan and a gibbon in yew wood and hollywood, respectively. What about a giant petrel beak in… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Oriwa Morgan Ward joins Culture 101 to share her passion for promoting of Māori art and Te Reo Māori through creative activity. Read more Audio

1:07 PM.If there’s an aspect of the arts Cadence Chung isn’t involved in, you sense it won’t be long before she tackles it. Encounter is a narrative-led audio walk in Pōneke that follows the stories of early… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.The Te Tai Tokerau screen producer joins Culture 101 to talk about his SPADA Screen Industry Award and why he is passionate about empowering a new generation of storytellers.

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12:30 PM.It’s a roll call of turn-of-the-century Kiwi greats: John Clarke, Neil and Tim Finn, Bic and Boh Runga, Jenny Morris, Chris Knox, The Topp Twins, Che-Fu, Don McGlashan, King Kapisi and Dave Dobbyn… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.2024 has been quite the year for screen actor and filmmaker Chelsie Preston Crayford.

A week ago she finished filming her first feature film Caterpillar, a work she has directed and been writing for… Read more Video, Audio

2:27 PM.A 600-page new book that took 12 years to create is set to reframe the history of Maori art. Toi Te Mana (Auckland University Press) brings together work from Maori artists and museums from around the… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Dunedin artist Kari Morseth is weaving harakeke history back into the city's daily life.

The Rope/Walk community art project is centred around the South Dunedin's Rope Walk Building where Morseth has… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Jeff Thomson, one of Aotearoa’s senior professional sculptors, is best known for doing absolutely everything that’s possible with corrugated iron. His corrugated iron Holden sits in the Te Papa… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Suzanne Tamaki has many feathers in her cap.

Of Ngāti Maniapoto, Hikairo, Tūhoe and Te Arawa iwi, Suzanne Tamaki is known for her jewellery and costume design - her work is inspired by Pacific… Read more

12:50 PM.The Pacific Fashion Fusion Show is preparing to run its annual catwalk through downtown Auckland's freshly designated Komititanga.

Komititanga is the area that joins the end of Queen Street with the… Read more Audio