Culture 101 for Sunday 22 December 2024

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

2:05 PM.83-year-old poet and songwriter Tucker Zimmerman has had something of a cultural Forrest Gump of a career, and 2024 has found him gaining new-found fame.

Acclaimed album Dance of Love, out on 4AD… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Culture 101 speaks to the artist from Berlin about his first solo show in New Zealand and is innovative approach to art. Read more Audio

Our Regional Wrap takes us to somewhere named after the Christmas city itself. Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Since winning the coveted Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Anora has spent the past six months taking the movie world by storm. It finally arrives in New Zealand cinemas on Boxing Day.  

Anora… Read more Audio

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