Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFast Favourites: Joel Vinsen, Billy T Award winner
Joel Vinsen took out this year's Billy T Award for best newcomer in Aotearoa comedy with his show Renaissance Man, joining a list of previous winners…
1 week ago
Te Ara Minhinnick on heading to the Venice Biennale
Te Ara Minhinnick is a Maori artist from Waiuku, descended from Ngati Te Ata, whose practice begins with gathering uku, sand and soil from the waterw…
2 weeks ago
Jenny Scown built Inspirit gallery on her family farm. Nineteen years later, it's going strong.
Jenny Scown spent years as a magazine photographer in Auckland before moving back to the Waikato to have "country kids". She built a purpose-built ga…
2 weeks ago
Paul McLellan-Smith: Artsenta turns 40 and wants to hear from you
Artsenta, the Otepoti Dunedin creative space supporting people experiencing mental health and addiction challenges, turns 40 on 17 June. To mark the …
2 weeks ago
Amanda Nguyen: from rape survivor to astronaut, Nobel Peace Prize nominee and Time Woman of the Year
Amanda Nguyen was sexually assaulted while at Harvard, then discovered her rape kit would be destroyed in six months unless she filed for an extensio…
2 weeks ago
Duncan Pepe Long won the Adam Portraiture Award. He found out just before a class he had to teach.
The call came in on a Wellington number. Self-taught Auckland artist Duncan Pepe Long knew he should probably call back. He was asked to sit down, to…
2 weeks ago
Fast Favourites: Ana Scotney – mentored by two Dames and the pasta she can't get enough of
Ana Scotney is currently starring in Playfight at Silo Theatre. Written by British playwright Julia Grogan in the aftermath of the Grace Millane tria…
2 weeks ago
Big Screens, Small Towns: Starlight Cinema in Taupō's Tamasin Prince
After appearing in RNZ's story on rural cinemas, Tamasin Prince joins Culture 101 to talk about what's driving booming audiences in small-town New Ze…
3 weeks ago
Venice Biennale: the jury resigned, Russia returned and New Zealand is back with a pavilion
The Venice Biennale jury resigned two weeks ago after announcing they wouldn't award prizes to countries whose governments have been charged with cri…
3 weeks ago
Karen O'Leary ahead of Poneke House Party
Actor and comedian Karen O'Leary joins Culture 101 ahead of her appearance at Poneke House Party, in Wellington.
3 weeks ago