Arts & Culture

We announce the two runners up and call the winner to let them know! Audio, Gallery

A  celebration of country rock from the 70's to the present including classic recordings by Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris and new music by English icons Norma Waterson and Eliza Carthy plus vocal… Video

Scottish poet and writer Michael Pedersen co-runs and founded Neu! Reekie! a UK arts collective which produces shows all over the globe and hosts take-overs for National Galleries, National Museums… Audio

Rob Lucas has traveled to some of the country's most remote and inaccessible areas, photographing the country's native flora. More than 3200 of his images feature in New Zealand's Native Trees… Audio, Gallery

Ang Lee is trying to reinvent the technology of cinema and Gemini Man is his latest attempt. Dan Slevin investigates. Video

Last Friday the Best Design Awards took place, celebrating the very best of New Zealand-designed products and services. Audio, Gallery

Film and TV reviewer Sarah McMullan looks at Joaquin Phoenix's Joker, Zombieland: Double Tap, starring Woody Harrelson, and some shows to put you in the Halloween mood - including some for the kids. Audio

Broadcaster MediaWorks is cutting key local TV comedies. Mediawatch says it’s a further sign of the company’s deepening problems and wider troubles in free-to-air television. And it is also a headache… Audio

Australian dancer Roshanne Wijeyeratne has Sri Lankan heritage but has become a passionate advocate for Andalusian flamenco. She is running flamenco workshops in Auckland before bringing her show Ida… Audio

El Camino is a new Netflix feature following up events from the final episode of Breaking Bad. Dan Slevin asks whether it is necessary (or just welcome). Video

Actor and director Jennifer Ward Lealand talks about her earliest memory of music in ‘This Time it’s Personal’. In this year's Settling the Score poll, she’ll be voting for Violetta’s aria “Croce e… Video, Audio

Found objects, traditional instruments, computer generated material - they're all part of an orchestra of sounds New York composer Sxip Shirey taps into for his creations. Lynn Freeman gets a chance… Audio, Gallery

A futuristic Aotearoa ,where very different lives are lived inside and outside a fenced settlement, where plastic is mined and the future is uncertain, is created in Lawrence Patchett's second novel… Audio

Hawke's Bay boy Cameron Jones is bringing his play that won awards at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in the States back home for the first time. Cameron's been studying in Los Angeles at the Stella… Audio

Lathe-cut records - handmade polycarbonate discs - have been a fixture of independent record labels for years, and they're still being produced. But as ever, in short runs - including one of the… Audio, Gallery

British actor Lennie James is best known for his lengthy stint on the popular Walking Dead TV series. But he says that writing three plays for Auckland's Massive Theatre company has been one of the… Audio