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3:42 PM.I went down something of an Instagram rabbithole this week. For some people it's watching cooking or pots being made. For me it's been bookbinding. So meditative, many craft elements are combined. Read more Audio

3:18 PM.Nearly a thousand choir singers converged on Ōtepoti Dunedin over the last few days as the Big Sing competition finished.  Read more Audio

3:06 PM.The Arts news for 31 August. Audio

2:07 PM.If there's any country that understands and appreciates what film or television can do for tourism, it's us, here in New Zealand. Over the past decade, Scotland has been experiencing something… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.St Heliers is celebrating its first Art Festival which started this weekend and will run until the 14th of September. Audio

1:07 PM.UK television game shows like The Chase and Tipping Point still see many New Zealanders gripped to their screens to watch contestants from all walks of life try out their knowledge against chasers and… Read more Audio

12:44 PM.Jennifer Ludlum is on stage again and this time, as a ferocious, complicated and dramatic matriarch in Silo's Mother Play. Written by American Pulitzer-winning playwright, Paula Vogel, it first… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.The government has released a creative and culture strategy to boost the industry by 2030. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku is an art historian, curator and writer who has been a trailblazer in the public representation of culture in Aotearoa New Zealand over seven decades.  Read more Audio

3:07 PM.Arts News for 24 August 2025. Audio

2:30 PM."Writing about music," an old expression goes, "is like dancing about architecture". An expression used to express the futility of translating music into words. So what about translating architecture… Read more Audio

2:07 PM.If you've watched any of the leading television shows in the past 25 years, it's likely Lesli Linka Glatter had a hand in directing them. Mad Men, Homeland, Twin Peaks, Gilmore Girls and The Walking… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.In South Canterbury, Geraldine is home to a unique vinyl and coffee outlet called The Record Keeper. It's entirely powered by solar power and a bit of a stage for up and coming musicians Next week… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Following a notorious night of debauchery, English novelist Mary Shelley becomes the mother of horror. Set in Geneva in Switzerland in 1816, ATC's new thriller, Mary: The Birth of Frankenstein… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.FleaBITE have recently joined up with another popular and prodigious creative talent Takaka's Levity Beet to create the kids music duo BeetBITE. These two artists have between them taken top spots at… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Writer, academic and plus-size model, Kaarina Parker will be walking in this year's Fashion Week. It coincides with RNZ's new documentary series, Cutting The Curve, which looks at the new era of diet… Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Arts News for 17 August 2025 Audio

2:35 PM.Murder, monsters, werewolves and witchcraft… if you encase those elements in a thrilling script performed by beautiful stars, suddenly, we can't look away. Audio

2:05 PM.Culture 101's Mark Amery had to borrow a car this week and, while he was driving, pressed a button on the display console and a female voice startled him, speaking to him in Japanese. Mark doesn't… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.For his latest blending of documentary and fiction, filmmaker Igor Bezinovic has turned the camera on a stranger-than-fiction story from the history of his own port city on the Adriatic coast, Rijeka… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Interactive Comedian George Fenn joins Culture 101 to talk about his acclaimed show, Sexy Ghost Boy Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Simon Lewis Wards plays with the idea of nostalgia through familiar, quotidian objects.

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12:25 PM.This week we are heading to the North Canterbury inland town of Oxford or Tawera as it's known to Māori.  Celia Wilson is an Oxford based painter, and printmaker and joined Culture 101. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.The 'hot mess' that's menopause and midlife with Petra Bagust and some of her cultural highlights. Read more Audio

3:06 PM.A round-up of news surrounding the arts across New Zealand. Audio