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It's Labour Weekend, which in Raglan means the studio doors are open. The Raglan Arts Weekend is in its 16th year, with more than 70 artists inviting thousands of visitors in to see where the work gets made. Co-ordinator Nicky Brzeska joins Perlina to talk about what's on show, from ceramics to taxidermy, and how the weekend makes room for emerging artists alongside the familiar names.

There's a lot more singing in season two of Happiness, and Luke Di Somma is the one writing it. This time the show within the show is a Sherlock Holmes musical. Luke helps run the writers room, so the songs are planned from the ground up rather than dropped in later. TV is tough on a songwriter, though. A stage number can run six minutes. On screen, two minutes is a long song, and a close-up can s...

Not many people decide to sit down and watch a 40-minute drama on their phone. Plenty of people will watch 40 one-minute episodes, though, one easy decision at a time. That's the hook behind micro-dramas, the vertical, cliffhanger-loaded soaps turning up in social media feeds, more and more of them made with AI. University of Auckland business lecturer Johnny Chan has been studying why they're so...

Jonathan Smart knew artist Mark Braunias since 1988, the year Jonathan opened his gallery and Mark graduated from Ilam with a remarkable class of artists. Almost two year's after Mark's death, Gliff, the current show at Jonathan Smart Gallery, offers a glance across a career that began with Donald Duck in conversation with the Virgin Mary and ended in bright fluoro colour. Jonathan remembers Mark...

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In the 1990s, Suzanne Paul earned the affectionate nickname "the infomercial queen" after rising to fame promoting Natural Glow makeup on television. 

In her memoir Beyond the Gates of Gloriavale, Rosanna Overcomer details the difficulties of leaving the religious sect and the challenges of adjusting to the freedoms that came with starting over.

Bonnie Harrison is here guiding us through the latest weird and useful headlines from the world of science including a song proven to stop children crying, the ideal length of time for hand washing, and who is most likely to be given money after a lotto win.

Former broadcaster Graham Bolton explains why he initially baulked at using a white cane, and how eventually it became a tool that re-opened his world.

In celebration of 50 years of heavy metal, Iron Maiden are heading back to New Zealand as part of their Run For Your Lives World Tour 2026. 

As chatbots become more human-like, a growing debate is emerging over whether artificial intelligence deserves moral consideration.

Law and order has hit the election agenda big-time after controversies about candidates and gangs. Also: political parties' media policies, and a tech expert from the 'NZ of the North' on political policies to ban social media for teens.

Neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff believes creating "tiny experiments" give us opportunities to learn. 

Quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen is back with his Sunday Morning quiz. J

Paris correspondent Ross Cullen joins Jim from the French capital with the latest on the demonstrations and the political mood in France.

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Scenic Soundscape is a beautiful project that sees musicians perform in places that mean something to them, exploring the connection between music, people and the whenua. The filmmaker behind the project, Jean Thoral, joins Kara Rickard on the show from our Poneke wellington studio.

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Labour weekend is traditionally the long weekend we rip into the garden. There are sales on, the sun (hopefully - whereever you are in the motu) is shining! It's a time for clearing out the weeds and new plantings... a time of new beginnings. The queen of green thumbs, Hannah Zwartz is here to help us make the right choices.

Sleeping Beauty is back with the Royal New Zealand Ballet this month - and touring around the country. The ballet steps us into a fairytale of magic, telling the story of Princess Aurora, a wicked curse and of course, true love. It's all happening under the watchful, wise eye of Greg Horsman came into the Wellington studio to talk it through.

More than a century after his great-grandfather arrived in New Zealand, Harpreet Singh still gets told he doesn't belong here. Sikhs have been confronted at public events, racist graffiti has appeared outside schools, and anti-immigration rhetoric has once again entered the public conversation.

Three people develop dementia every hour - that's 500 new cases every week. And our aging population means the number of people with dementia is expected to nearly double by 2050. But navigating the disease is incredibly difficult, both for those who have it and their caregivers. Nurse, Naomi Anderson, spent 20 years working in dementia care and says there are ways we can make that journey a whole...

Around the world most people imagine penguins on icebergs and icy plains, while here in Aotearoa we're more likely to see the Little Blue paddling in through the waves and nesting on our bountiful rocky shores. But the elusive Fiordland penguin or tawaki much prefers the living deep in the green over the blue, burrowing under the native trees. Dr Thomas Mattern stopped by for a chat after days out...