Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKiwi Richard Lewer wins the prestigious Archibald Prize and how he's spending the money
New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based artist Richard Lewer has won Australia's most prestigious portrait prize, the Archibald, for his life-sized paintin…
3 weeks ago
Fast Favourites: Dame Gaylene Preston
Dame Gaylene Preston failed her art school degree. The F appeared in the paper the morning results were published. What followed was a move to Cambri…
3 weeks ago
Tamar Torrance: What our brains are doing when we're looking at art
Tamar Torrence is three years into a PhD in neuroaesthetics at the University of Auckland, studying what happens neurologically when people have peak…
4 weeks ago
Lucy Ryan: The Hamilton Gardens documentary & the master plan
Perlina wanders through the Hamilton Gardens with director Lucy Ryan where she explains that the gardens' founder, Peter Sergel, designed all 30 gard…
4 weeks ago
The Big Screen with Kate Rodger
Kate Rodger joins Culture 101 with reviews of The Weed Eaters and Devil Wears Prada 2.
4 weeks ago
Fast Favourites: 7 Days producer Nigel McCulloch
Nigel McCulloch grew up in Rotorua with a garage full of VHS tapes, courtesy of his father's video delivery business. He never connected that upbring…
4 weeks ago
Morgana O'Reilly: Morgana O'Reilly: From fetish parties in New York to a sold-out film of her one-woman show –
Morgana O'Reilly's one-woman show Stories About My Body started as an idea she half-jokingly pitched to a friend: run onstage topless, read from a 19…
4 weeks ago
Carin Smeaton wrote three poetry books in three years
Poet Carin Smeaton didn't plan a trilogy. She started writing Hibiscus Tart for her sister, then Death Goddess for her mother, then Age of Orpah for …
4 weeks ago
The Small Screen: Karl Puschmann's May TV picks
Karl Puschmann joins Culture 101 with his television and streaming picks for May, including New Zealand Spy on TVNZ+, Jazz Thornton's story Stalked o…
1 month ago
The Hastings Art Gallery art bus taking tamariki to see contemporary art
Hastings Art Gallery launched a free art bus for schools last November, providing transport for students from Hastings, Napier and Central Hawke's Ba…
1 month ago