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Teenage Muslim poet and songwriter Sabreen Islam
1:45 PM.Sabreen Islam revisits her teenage years when she was severely bullied, and describes her new-found peace of mind in her new self-published collection of poetry, spring clean. Sabreen started writing… Read more Audio
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Pianist Paul Lewis's Beethoven marathon
1:31 PM.In what's believed to be a first for Aotearoa, a pianist is playing the full Beethoven Piano Concerto cycle over three consecutive days in the same city. Englishman Paul Lewis is undertaking the… Read more Audio
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A new production of Oscar Kightley's groundbreaking Dawn Raids
12:45 PM.A quarter of a century after its premiere, Oscar Kightley's play Dawn Raids - dealing with the injustice of the 1970's government crackdown on overstayers - is being reimagined. The incident was still… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery
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The Contemporary Arts Awards are announced in Hamilton
12:32 PM.A work called "Red" handed by multimedia artist Emma Hercus won this year's $20,000 National Contemporary Art Awards. The collage on MDF of an abstract masked figure with upraised hands, was chosen… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Developing our feature films - Leanne Saunders
12:16 PM.It's been a good year for New Zealand film-makers - Dame Jane's Oscars, Taika topping the charts with the new Thor epic, Sam Neill back where he belongs in a Jurassic movie, and Thomasin McKenzie… Read more Audio
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Time travelling poet, Briar Wood
2:48 PM.Briar Wood has reimagined the lives of Rongo and Te Rangahau, two 19th century tu puna of her iwi, Ngapuhi, in a new collection of time travelling poetry.Rongo was the daughter of leader and warrier… Read more Audio
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Theatre director Ben Crowder on THE WORM
2:35 PM.A play about a worm that almost never saw the light of day, is about to premiere in Tamaki Makarau. It comes from the vivid imaginations of father and son Peter and Carl Bland, and it's the latest… Read more Audio
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Poet James Brown's treasure trove
2:25 PM.Lynn meets Wellington poet James Brown, whose latest collection is called The Tip Shop. It's a treasure trove of surprises and appropriately includes some 'found poems'. The collection also offers… Read more Audio
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Gracie Matthews
1:48 PM.Gracie Matthews is bringing new life to old clothes. In the latest in our occasional series about people who repair and restore, we focus on the intricacies of repairing often fragile vintage… Read more Audio
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Twin Cultivation
1:30 PM.Two strangers meet at a miniature garden and are invited to dig up a ceramic vegetable or eel, to gift to the other to take home. This is the idea behind Twin Cultivation - a two-week installation… Read more Audio
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Frocks, divas and celebrating women over 40
12:43 PM.After the death of a close friend in 2003, a group of Tauranga based mothers decided to stage an extravaganza to offer women over 40 the chance to express themselves however they damn well please. The… Read more Audio
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David Mason - composing Maori orchestral sound
12:27 PM.Integrating the style and colour of traditional Māori music with the vast range of an orchestra is the goal of award winning composer and sonic artist, David Mason, this year's National Youth… Read more Audio
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Designer Emma Kingsbury's new interpretation of Cinderella
12:10 PM.Film, ballet, television, theatre and opera - Emma Kingsbury has made a name for herself as a designer across them all. Her latest commission is to design a new interpretation of Cinderella for the… Read more Audio
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Jessica Palalagi returns home
2:50 PM.An art collective of self proclaimed ex-pat misfits that formed in London back in 2018, is about to unveil their first exhibition over here in Aotearoa. The Water Tastes Different Here includes work… Read more Audio
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National Flash Fiction Day celebrates a new decade
2:40 PM.The last decade's gone by in a flash for the organisers - 2022 marks the 10th anniversary of National Flash Fiction Day. As part of the celebrations, today sees posters go up around the motu, starting… Read more Audio
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Larissa McMillan brings indigenous art to the Hundertwasser
2:30 PM.It is her dream job but one that carries a massive responsibility to the country's contemporary Maori artists. Larissa McMillan, Ngapuhi, is the first director of the Wairau Maori Art Gallery, part of… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Stevei Houkāmau and traditional clay sculpture
1:45 PM.Artist Stevei Houkamau originally planned to study Ta Moko before she was seduced by the feeling of clay in her hands and her ability to carve into it. It was 2011 when she met members of the Nga… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Judene Edgar's play about the Dr Seuss controversy
1:31 PM.When six books by Dr Seuss were withdrawn from publication last year over their content, Nelson playwright and Seuss fan Judene Edgar started wondering how the writer would feel about it, were he… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Sara Hughes takes her art to the street
12:43 PM.Several years after feeling unsafe while at a notorious bus shelter in Tauranga, artist Sara Hughes is transforming it into a brightly coloured and illuminated work of art. It will be suspended above… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Leon Narbey returns to the famous land march of Whina Cooper
12:10 PM.The Director of Photography on the new film Whina, Leon Narbey, actually filmed the 1975 land march that the cast and crew were recreating for the movie about the Maori matriarch who led it. Leon was… Read more Video, Audio
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Popular podcast ArtCurious explores some intriguing questions
2:40 PM.Was the woman featured in Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" really a maid from his household, as portrayed in the Scarlett Johanssen movie? Are there hidden messages in Leonardo's "The Last… Read more Audio
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Short story writer Michael Botur turns to horror
2:26 PM.The Devil Took Her: Tales of Horror is the first time Whangarei-based short story writer Michael Botur has dipped his toe into this popular genre. He's written 12 stories, leading us, as he descibes… Read more Audio
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The sacred harbour island, or Motutapu
1:46 PM.Pacific nations often have a Motutapu, or sacred island, positioned at the entrance of their harbours. Aotearoa has Motutapu Island in Waitemata Harbour in Tamaki Makaurau, and there are others in… Read more Audio
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An exhibition of the late potter Ross Mitchell-Anyon
1:31 PM.The day before he was due to received his ONZM at the Governor General's house last month, potter Ross Mitchell-Anyon passed away. His niece Milly Mitchell-Anyon is a curator at Whanganui's Sarjeant… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Wind instrument repairer, Jennifer Weigel
12:36 PM.We look at repairing wind instruments - which include flutes, clarinets, oboes and bassoons. Wood instruments can swell when they get damp so the rainy winter months are particularly hard on them… Read more Audio, Gallery