All episodes
Sunday, 5 May 2024
- 12:15 Fast Favourites with Sara Wiseman
- 12:30 With City Gallery closing for two years, what's next for Wellington?
- 12:45 From a Red Mole to a Goblin in a mask: John Davies addresses our shared violent history
- 1:07 The Last Laugh but first-ever comedy club in Hamilton
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Mangawhai with Angela Cook
- 2:05 Project Prima Volta: A decade of helping teenagers to find their voices
- 2:30 How the fight against Covid became a war between each other: Stuart McKenzie and Dame Miranda Harcourt
- 3:05 Arts News - 5 May 2024
- 3:10 Don McGlashan and Harry Sinclair’s ode to farting wins NZ on Air Award
Sunday, 28 April 2024
- 12:10 The return of Auē: fast favourites with Becky Manawatu
- 12:30 From aquatic algae to Niuean rites of passage: Loading Docs back for 10th season
- 12:45 Arovision: NZ's little battler in the digital streaming wars
- 1:07 Sir Roger Hall and the end of summer time
- 1:25 Taupō: a secretly prolific arts hub with Jeffrey Addison
- 2:00 Fixing a screen industry in crisis
- 2:30 Stitching bling, satin & velvet into Toi Māori with Maungarongo Te Kawa
- 3:05 Arts news: NZSO head resigns, World Choir Games news & Springboard artists revealed
Sunday, 21 April 2024
- 12:15 Fast Favourites with veteran broadcaster Julian Wilcox
- 12:15 Mataaho Collective scoops Golden Lion at Venice Biennale in a huge weekend for art from Oceania
- 12:30 Origin: Ava Duvernay’s thought-provoking new film on caste systems
- 1:07 Champagne Problems at the new look Aotearoa Art Fair
- 1:25 Regional Wrap in ‘mural town’ Katikati
- 2:05 Choreographing intimacy in a post-#MeToo era
- 2:30 Dealing with trauma through poetry: Hazara-Afghani Abdul Samad Haidari’s remarkable story
- 3:00 Arts News: NZ wins Golden Lion at Venice while Israel keeps its doors closed, Aardman Animation in NZ & government talks arts strategy
Sunday, 14 April 2024
- 12:10 From flaming kūmara to East Timor: Te Radar performs five different shows over five nights
- 12:30 Christchurch playwright scoops an award trifecta with The Odyssey
- 12:45 Artwork copyright in the age of social media and AI
- 1:07 Prominent portrait photographer Jae Frew shifts focus
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Sean McDonnell’s Baylys Beach
- 2:05 Trailblazing Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap in Aotearoa
- 2:30 Keeping the lights on in our public galleries not just about funding
- 3:05 Arts news: NZ in Italy, a screen crisis, new dance festivals & annual fests skip a year
Sunday, 7 April 2024
- 12:15 Masterchef winner Sam Low on Fast Favourites and new podcast
- 12:30 A feast for the eyes: The hyperrealist paintings of Alice Toomer
- 12:45 Slavfest! Music and culture from the Balkans through to Asia with Irina Mosina
- 1:07 From Marx and Austen to stranded in an airport: Jonathan Dove on keeping opera relevant
- 1:25 Regional wrap: Whakatipu, Wānaka & Hāwea - a creative Queenstown-Lakes District
- 2:00 Aminé Ramer: the vital role of the music supervisor
- 2:30 The art of being a cultural translator
- 3:00 Arts News: Toi Te Papa & City Gallery Wellington face closures while Christchurch Arts Centre threatens insolvency
Sunday, 31 March 2024
- 12:15 New Zealander of the Year: Fast Favourites with Dr Jim Salinger
- 12:30 An unlikely pairing? K-pop meets Pasifika
- 12:45 Fashion designer Jimmy D and the fight against the dull and turgid hick town
- 1:05 12-year-olds in NZ highly engaged in arts and culture
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Blenheim with Tyler Redmond
- 2:00 Travelling through Asian and Pasifika cultures in batik with Rozana Lee
- 2:30 Guitar maker and carver Nui Stretch: Two parallel careers in wood
- 3:00 Arts News Sunday 31 March
Sunday, 24 March 2024
- 12:45 Best of the Fest #5: A very old man with enormous wings, The Sun and the Wind, Aiga and in the thick of Dunedin Fringe
- 12:10 The vital electricity of contemporary poetry: Fast Favourites with Tracey Slaughter
- 12:30 Rugby becomes art: a scrum suspended in time
- 12:50 Māoriland Film Festival Wrap
- 12:55 Arts News Sunday 24 March
- 1:07 Travelling from North Yorkshire to Aotearoa via the sun: theatremaker Alexander Wright
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Francisca Griffin in Port Chalmers
- 2:00 Making Mischief with West End and Broadway star Nancy Zamit
Sunday, 17 March 2024
- 12:00 Best of the Fest #4: Tim Minchin, The King’s Singers, Arooj Aftab, Bernie Dieter’s Kabarett, Lost Lear, Belle, and In the Name of the Son
- 12:10 Fast Favourites: Black Grace choreographer Neil Ieremia gives movement to Pacific anger
- 12:30 The 12-year-olds who meet a mountain in Rachel House's first feature
- 12:50 Aiga: Lusi Faiva’s disability-led Pasifika show on her life in her own words
- 1:07 Ju Percussion: powerhouse ensemble performs in NZ for the first time
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Ngāmotu New Plymouth’s Fin Rah Zel at WOMAD
- 2:05 New report shows increased interest in Asian arts and culture among Kiwis
- 3:00 Arts News for Sunday 17 March
- 12:45 Best of the Fest #5: A very old man with enormous wings, The Sun and the Wind, Aiga and in the thick of Dunedin Fringe
- 12:30 Rugby becomes art: a scrum suspended in time
Sunday, 10 March 2024
- 1:00 Best of the Fest #3 - Māori cirque theatre, exploring fa’a Sāmoa, iconic waiata and Gravity & Grace
- 12:10 Musicians who paint: The Bats’ Robert Scott plays Fast Favourites and remembers Hamish Kilgour
- 12:30 Boy: a tragic and compelling story of gender identity
- 12:45 Oscars predictions with Gemma Gracewood in Los Angeles
- 1:05 Reimagining a map from a Tongan perspective: Icao Tiseli
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Timaru and what’s next for South Canterbury’s arts institutions
- 2:00 When art and film become entwined: painter Sandro Kopp
- 3:00 Arts News Sunday 10 March
Sunday, 3 March 2024
- 12:00 Best of the Fest #2: a morning rave, the Savage Coloniser, Witi’s Wahine, The National, Soweto Gospel and the mighty Waikato
- 12:15 Fast Favourites: Kiwi Actor Yoson An in modern Aussie rom-com
- 12:30 Tackling climate change with bonkers creative ideas: inventor artist Steve Mushin
- 12:45 How to Have Sex: rising British acting star Mia McKenna-Bruce
- 1:07 The Waikato Wars: What painter Richard Lewer didn’t learn at school
- 1:25 Regional wrap: Tauranga arts groups face up to 300% rent increases
- 2:00 NZ Artist Simon Denny in Berlin and New York on NFTs, meta landscapes and space colonies
- 3:00 Arts News for Sunday 3 March
Sunday, 25 February 2024
- 12:10 Sculpture on the islands of Waiheke and Venice: fast favourites with Brett Graham
- 12:30 A thoroughly modern Māori cabaret
- 12:45 Reinventing the savage club as SaVĀge K’lub with performance artist Rosanna Raymond
- 1:07 ‘The wind whistling you in behind the springtime’: celebrated Irish musician Lisa O’Neill
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Waikato with Louisa Drummond
- 2:00 ‘Swiftonomics’ - the unparalleled influence of Taylor Swift
- 2:00 Arts News for 25 February 2024
- 3:30 Best of the Fest #1: taniwha time machine, aerial displays and a slightly isolated dog
Sunday, 18 February 2024
- 12:15 Fast favourites: Billy T winner Abby Howells
- 12:30 A shaky time for Aotearoa’s International Film Festival
- 1:07 Kristen Ng: bridging Aotearoa and China’s musical undergrounds
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Kaikoura with Te Awhina Rangimarie Arahanga
- 2:05 From Christopher Walken to JLo: the best ads of Super Bowl 2024
- 2:30 Bringing the dance floor to the poetry book: Sylvan Spring’s Killer Rack
- 2:45 Kōpū: Leaving white feminism at the door
- 4:00 Music on Culture 101 - 18 February
Sunday, 11 February 2024
- 12:05 Neil Finn: 'Music will save the world'
- 12:42 Queer comedian Jess Karamjeet: Redundant and living with a hidden disability
- 12:54 Arts News Sunday 11 February 2024
- 1:07 Lunar New Year: celebrations with paediatrician, poet and playwright Renee Liang
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Winton with Deow of South Sea Spray Festival
- 2:06 Maureen Lander: weaving with string games and Te Rā our oldest sail
- 2:30 An unlikely musical fusion: India Meets Ireland
- 3:05 Music featured on Culture 101 11 February 2024
Sunday, 4 February 2024
- 12:08 Music featured on Culture 101 4 February 2024
- 12:15 Fast Favourites: Kiwi actor Morgana O’Reilly cast in White Lotus
- 12:30 Performance art with Dad: Tame Iti’s son Toi Iti
- 12:45 Pride: Playwright Sam Brooks on queer storytelling
- 1:07 When does protest become art? Defacing an English version of the Treaty of Waitangi
- 1:57 Arts News Sunday 4 February 2024
- 2:00 Arranging 110 chairs from 170 years: Objectspace's Kim Paton
- 2:30 The future of arts funding with Creative New Zealand boss Stephen Wainwright
Sunday, 28 January 2024
- 12:10 Witi Ihimaera on the massive rise to come of Māori culture in 2024
- 12:30 H.R. The Musical - putting office culture on stage
- 12:45 Pring It On! A Polyfest parody hits the stage
- 1:05 Pub Choir brings mass singing to Aotearoa
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Te Tairawhiti with Tama Waipara
- 2:00 Culture 101 Arts News January 28 2024
- 2:05 WATCH: Immerse yourself in Alan Parkinson’s giant inflatable cathedral
- 2:30 Pump up a 1990 jam with playwright Albert Belz
Sunday, 17 December 2023
- 12:10 Music featured on Culture 101 Sunday 17 December 2023
- 12:15 Fast Favourites: Grace Palmer on landing an American sitcom
- 12:30 Connecting to our landscapes through artist Marilynn Webb
- 12:45 Bruce Mason Playwriting Winner: Tainui Tukiwaho
- 12:58 Arts News Sunday 17 December
- 1:05 ‘Don’t look behind you!’ A history of folk horror with Kier-La Janisse
- 1:30 Regional Wrap: creative Kerikeri
- 2:05 The year that was: best of Aotearoa culture 2023
Sunday, 10 December 2023
- 12:10 Fast Favourites: Paul Goldsmith, Aotearoa's new Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage
- 12:30 Renowned Chinese haute couture designer Guo Pei in Aotearoa
- 1:07 Ngahuia Harrison: the consequences of cannibal capitalism on the land
- 1:20 Regional Wrap: Motueka with Donna McLeod
- 2:05 Writing and performing a third act in your ‘third age’
- 2:20 Tango with world champion accordionist Grayson Masefield
- 2:40 Dame Anne Salmond: connecting people through culture
Sunday, 3 December 2023
- 12:15 Fast Favourites: The Brokenwood Mysteries star Fern Sutherland
- 12:30 Moutere valley jeweller wins gold at Florence Biennale
- 12:45 Celebrating traditional Fijian hair practice from a Wairarapa farm
- 12:57 Arts news for Sunday December 3 2023
- 1:07 Kauae Raro Research Collective's passion for earth pigments
- 1:27 Regional Wrap: Marton building turns into an ‘unsettling immersive’ sculpture
- 2:05 Manu Vaea: the spiritual and mundane in being fakaleitī - Tongan third gender
- 2:30 Fixing the desperate state of arts and culture coverage in the media
- 3:01 Music on Culture 101 December 3 2023
Sunday, 26 November 2023
- 12:15 Snort: the end of an era
- 12:30 ‘Anything can be art’ an eight year old artist and curator’s Ōtautahi exhibition
- 12:45 Using AI photography to reconnect with humanity
- 1:07 Ōtautahi’s great inner-city cultural revitalisation
- 2:00 Gamblers, monks and courtesans: a fifth century play in 2023
- 2:30 Ōtautahi’s whiskey-chasing advocate for mental health and poetry
- 2:30 Culture 101 Arts News Sunday 26 November
- 2:45 Madison Kelly’s call and response with the kakī
- 3:00 Music played on Culture 101 Sunday November 26
Sunday, 19 November 2023
- 12:00 Dr Rebecca Rice: our early colonial women botanical artists recovered
- 1:14 Tana Tupai on making Pasifika music symphonic
- 12:10 The time warp turns 50: Rocky Horror’s Richard O’Brien and his Kingdom of Bling
- 12:45 Sweeping up the road tacks: cycling performance artist Marcus McShane
- 1:08 Culture 101 Arts News: November 19 2023
- 2:05 A ‘Māori Elite’ tours the nation
- 2:35 Dr Huhana Smith: the quiet revolution in Māori art
Sunday, 12 November 2023
- 12:05 Songs featured on Culture101 Sunday November 12
- 12:15 Fast Favourites with Te Kohe Tuhaka
- 12:30 Making Moriori and Rēkohu Chatham Island culture contemporary
- 12:45 Irish chef in Japan breaks world record for non-stop cooking
- 1:07 Celebrity Treasure Island winner James Mustapic goes back to school
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Ōtepoti Dunedin with Pip Laufiso
- 2:05 Greta Anderson’s strange, psychically charged images of the ordinary
- 2:30 From lighthouse keepers to taxi drivers: publishing lesser read voices with Adrienne Jansen
Sunday, 5 November 2023
- 12:10 Jon Toogood: 'In a solo show, I can actually talk to people in the room'
- 12:30 Our birds and landscapes defined: the complex cultural legacy of painter Don Binney
- 1:07 Former Vogelmorn Bowling Club now a trailblazing community cultural centre
- 1:20 Regional Wrap: Raglan’s Karin Bettley
- 2:05 Pacific Arts Aotearoa recorded: Lana Lopesi in conversation with Susana Lei'ataua
- 3:30 Turning 50: Hannah Playhouse, Playmarket and director Murray Lynch
- 3:30 Phil Dadson on Jim Allen: NZs centenarian father of arts experimentalism and education
Sunday, 29 October 2023
- 2:10 All Buttons Great and Small: Lucy Godoroja
- 12:10 Fast Favourites: Dr Mike Joy on the role of artists in preventing ecological collapse
- 12:30 Ballet legend Sir Jon Trimmer remembered by young and old close to him
- 12:45 Small, precious and shiny new: Kāpiti Coast regional gallery opens
- 1:00 Making visible the relationship between hard labour and the Pacific: John Vea and Jasmine Togo-Brisby
- 1:20 Regional wrap: Wairoa's Denise Eaglesome-Karekare
- 2:35 American slime mould tours Aotearoa
Sunday, 15 October 2023
- 12:10 Fast Favourites with Raised by Refugees creator Pax Assadi
- 12:28 John ‘Happy Feet’ Vaifale: Aotearoa’s world-beating hip hop dancer
- 1:07 Sounds of the underground: Dunedin’s Lines of Flight Festival
- 1:25 Regional Wrap: Balmy in Palmy with Spankie Jackzon
- 2:06 The enduring legacy of visionary architect Rewi Thompson
- 2:30 Can sculpture help you sleep at night?
- 5:50 Dr Maia Nuku: taking Pacific power back at The Met
Sunday, 8 October 2023
- 12:10 Fast favourites with vampire turned goth Jonny Brugh
- 12:30 Taking cinema back to Dunedin’s ‘81 tour with Uproar
- 12:45 Tokyo's Techno Kiwi: George Nelson
- 1:00 Why Polynesia remains still there, still strong in inner city Tamaki Makaurau
- 1:30 Regional Wrap: in Hastings with Pitsch Leiser
- 2:05 NZ’s role in the peace and culture of Bougainville
- 2:33 Making photographs with mud and glowworms
- 2:47 Carcass: picking over the bones of our political parties' cultural policy
- 3:30 Jamie McCaskill: recovering te reo and tikanga with two guitars