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2:07 PM.Artist and landscape architect Bridget Allen wouldn't have known how appropriate the name of her gardening business was to be when she set it up, out of Ilam art school and working at the Christchurch… Read more Audio

1:27 PM.Hikurangi, 20 minutes north of Whangarei, is an old dairy and mining town known for some of the most specular limestone formations in the region. 

It's a "one coffee one pub" kind of town, says Craig… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.It's commonly assumed that Māori women don't carve. Carving is a tapu occupation with its own tikanga and ritual. Women have often not been allowed to be present while a carver is working. It's a… Read more Audio

12:47 PM.Two years ago this month RNZ National's Culture 101 was launched. And a guest on our very first show, introducing comedy radio drama series The Mysterious Secrets of Uncle Bertie's Botanarium was… Read more Audio

12:29 PM.A bootleg is something illegally made, copied or distributed. The term originated in the prohibition practice of hiding illicit liquor in your boot, next to your leg. But it's more familiar in recent… Read more Audio

12:14 PM.Pasifika people make up almost 17% of Tamaki Makaurau Auckland's population, but Pasifika women in particular are considered underrepresented when it comes to the professional comedy scene. It's… Read more Audio

3:06 PM.Arts News for 3 August 2025 Audio

2:00 PM.Films covered include: Prime Minister, It was just an accident, Grace, Toitu Visual Sovereignity, Workmates, Bati, One on One: John and Yoko, Maya, Give Me a Title, Sex/Dreams/Love trilogy, Not Only… Read more Audio

1:28 PM.This week we are heading to the south side of the Hokianga harbour, in Northland to the town of Rawene. Read more Audio

1:07 PM.As private funding organisation The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi celebrates 25 years of supporting artists, what's changed with arts patronage?  Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Notes from a Fish is a surreal comedy crime caper set in the murky world of the exotic fish black market.  Read more Audio

12:30 PM.A new exhibition in Tamaki Makaurau hosted by the New Zealand Fashion Museum is set to showcase and celebrates the art of knitting and all yarn-based fashion creation.  Read more Audio

12:15 PM.30 years ago this last week organisation Arts Access Aotearoa was founded by Penny Eames to better drive access to the arts for people who can get excluded from cultural life.  Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Arts News for 27 July 2025 Audio

2:35 PM.Musically interacting with plants and fungi - what does that sound like? That is, when we - humans - take the time to stop, listen and respond? Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Banksy's street art and graffiti is some of the most recognisable and iconic images of the modern art world. Although his work started in the 90s in Bristol, Banksy's identity remains a mystery. Read more Audio

1:25 PM.This week for our Regional Wrap on Culture 101 we visit the beautiful Waikanae River on the Kapiti Coast, and the settlements on its banks of Waikanae and Otaihanga. Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Jim Hosking's third comedy feature Ebony and Ivory is one of the films opening Whanau Marama New Zealand International Film Festival in four centres soon. It is an unapologetically bonkers fictional… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Weaver, sculptor and academic, Maureen Lander, is currently exhibiting at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth. But as the title suggests He Tukutuku Auahatanga: Maureen Lander with… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Can we control the weather? Or, do we need to get better again at reading it for ourselves, rather than relying on technology?  Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Madeleine Chapman will be stepping down from her role as editor of news and culture website The Spinoff later this year. Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Arts news for 20 July 2025. Audio

2:30 PM.Erena and Balamohan Shingade are partners in life and in a distinctive publishing enterprise. Based in Titirangi, they describe Spoor Books as a community-oriented platform.  Read more Audio

2:07 PM.It's one of the greatest and most famous love stories and we already know how it ends before it begins. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is now on stage with ATC, re-envisioned in a 60s thriller, high… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Each week Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different part of the country for our regional wrap. Today Perlina heads to Greytown - which is celebrating it's Festival of Christmas and heading into… Read more Audio