Arts & Culture

In this episode of Voices, we learn about a Taiwanese Kiwi story about identity, love and loss told non-verbally on stage. Produced by Sara Vui-Talitu. Audio

Comic sans has both fans or those who want it banned. Vincent Connare talks to Jim about inventing the font 25 years ago and how ubiquitous it has become. Audio

Eva Radich takes a guess at likely highlights at this year’s WOMAD, and shares a favourite bluegrass band.

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UK-based New Zealand poet Fleur Adcock is marking her recent 85th birthday with the publication of her Collected Poems. Adcock talks to Kim Hill about her career and reads some of her favourite poems… Video, Audio

Dutch architect, planner, architectural theorist and writer Reinier de Graaf is in New Zealand for In:Situ, the NZ Institute of Architects Conference. de Graaf is a partner in the Rotterdam-based… Audio, Gallery

Nathan Joe is a NZ Broadcasting School graduate who has become an award-winning playwright and a theatre critic. He's staged Hippolytus Veiled and Like Sex at Auckland's Basement Theatre (winners of… Audio

Leon Fenemor's picture of the Tasman bushfires - and the crews fighting them - has received positive feedback from around the world. Video, Audio

Auckland's Fringe Festival gets started next week and one of the many weird wacky shows on display is Amy Mansfield's I Didn't Invite You Here to Lecture Me. Audio

Actor John Rhys-Davies has been a screen and stage actor for more than 50 years. Best known for his role as Gimli the puncacious dwarf in Lord of the Rings, he's also had roles in many other films… Audio

A unique dance tour of the country is getting underway that sees a collaboration between two of the longest-running contemporary dance companies in New Zealand and China. Footnote New Zealand Dance… Audio

Oil and gas executives and energy sector insiders rubbed shoulders with environmental activists yesterday at a workshop designed to help create a plan for Taranaki's transition to a low emissions… Audio

As it's Valentine's Day we thought we'd celebrate love poems. Audio

Dan Slevin recommends preparing for for the Oscars by renting and streaming some previous winners. Video

Royal New Zealand Ballet’s principal ballerina Abigail Boyle has announced her retirement after more than 13 years. Abigail's swan song will be in the new work Artemis Rising created specially for her…

One of our last traditional Marae-taught carvers Matahi Brightwell is about to start restoring one of New Zealand's most visited tourist attractions - his own work - the Mine Bay Māori rock carvings… Audio

The story of Horatio Robley continues... How did a man once dubbed a "predator of culture" for his collection of Maori heads become better known as a "friend of the Maori"? Audio

Horatio Robley witnessed the most famous battle of the New Zealand Wars, he fathered a child with the daughter of a sworn enemy, his sketching helped end a war, his book helped save the art of Maori… Audio