Bryan Crump

NZ viola player Sophia Acheson is heading off to the International Viola Congress in Brazil next month, where she'll be performing works for viola and taonga pūoro with Ariana Tikao. Audio

Spiderman swings from the top of New York's high-rises, fighting crime and beating super-villains. But could spider silk really hold up a full-grown man? Dr Paul Hume and Bryan Crump discuss the super… Audio

Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator is a cyborg sent back in time to change the future. Duncan McGillvray discusses the metal that makes up the murderous robotic endoskeleton. Audio

Congratulations to arts administrator Warner Haldane, whose work behind the scenes in New Zealand arts and music organistations has been recognised in this year's King's Birthday Honours. Audio

In tune with the NZSO. Audio

“I just revere this work, and the poem, and Elgar. I’m so lucky to be doing it!” Hamilton-based singer Kristin Darragh will be performing the role of The Angel in Edward Elgar's epic work, The Dream… Video, Audio

The cello section gets to shine at the Auckland Youth Orchestra's upcoming concert, which includes a performance of 'Symphony for Eight' by Philip Glass. Young musicians Damon Herlihy-O'Brien and… Video, Audio

Wonder Woman can stop bullets with her Feminum bracelets but, apart from needing the reflexes to achieve this, could any material that's light enough to wear on your wrists do that?  Audio

Elizabeth Holmes is serving prison time for fraud after convincing the world she had developed a simple blood test that could diagnose a range of diseases. Professor Duncan McGillivray looks at… Audio

Winner of this year's Nicholas Tarling Aria Competition, Sarah Mileham will be performing in Manukau Symphony Orchestra's next concert as part of her prize. Audio

Colm Healy chats about the magic of material science and possible real life equivalents to Harry Potter's invisibility cloak. Audio

What if 19th-century composer Hector Berlioz met 21st-century Chinese New Zealander Hector Wong? Poet, composer and playwright Cadence Chung has written a new play, Hector, which imagines just that… Audio

Ryan Smith talks with Bryan Crump about the contribution of composer John Charles to New Zealand film music. Charles died in early May at the age of 83, and is particularly remembered for his… Video, Audio

Spoiler Alert: In the Christopher Nolan movie Interstellar, an astronaut gets sucked into a black hole but manages to communicate with his daughter and find his way out. Richard Easther tells us the… Audio

Greedy corporations seeking Unobtainium are the bad guys in James Cameron's Avatar movie franchise. Associate Professor Nicola Gaston discusses the parallels between the fictional mineral and solid… Audio

Dr Patrick Savage, Science Officer for The Global Jukebox project, talks with Bryan Crump about the free, interactive online database of coded songs from more than a thousand cultures around the… Audio

Rodrigo Martinez Gazoni chats with Bryan Crump about the scientific plausibility of Batman's cape and some of his other gadgets. Audio

Rachel Leach - composer, music educator and animateur - is in New Zealand to present a series of children's concerts with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Video, Audio

Sound artist and experimental musician Gabriel Byrne has created a soundscape to be listened to at three green spaces in Wellington, as part of this year's Loemis Festival. Audio

The Starship Enterprise crew's tricorders have a multitude of uses, from scanning a new planet's surface to staff health checks. Dr Michel Nieuwoudt chats about whether we could even construct such a… Audio