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Culture 101

Perlina Lau and Mark Amery host a weekly show about creativity and culture in Aotearoa.

  1. 22/12/2024

    Arts News for December 22, 2024

    The latest arts news from around the motu.

    6 min

  2. 22/12/2024

    From Bowie to Big Thief: The extraordinary life of Tucker Zimmerman

    83-year-old poet and songwriter Tucker Zimmerman has had something of a cultural Forrest Gump of a career, and 2024 has found him gaining new-found fame. Acclaimed album Dance of Love, out on 4AD records, is the result of a collaboration with fans who tracked him down in Belgium to record: folk-rockers of the moment Big Thief.  It’s Tucker Zimmerman’s 15th album, in a recording career that stretches back to a 1968 debut produced in London with producer Tony Visconti - while another fan, David Bowie, waited in the corridor outside.

    35 min

  3. 22/12/2024

    From creating waterfalls to giant suns: acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson

    Culture 101 speaks to the artist from Berlin about his first solo show in New Zealand and is innovative approach to art.

    18 min

  4. 22/12/2024

    Regional Wrap: Bethlehem, Aotearoa with expressionist artist Nicola Welten

    Our Regional Wrap takes us to somewhere named after the Christmas city itself.

    6 min

  5. 22/12/2024

    Anora: The movie of the year finally arrives

    Since winning the coveted Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Anora has spent the past six months taking the movie world by storm. It finally arrives in New Zealand cinemas on Boxing Day.   Anora stars Mikey Madison (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Scream) as the titular character, a sex worker from Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.

    16 min

  6. 21/12/2024

    2024’s Kiwi King of the Twist: Crime thriller writer JP Pomare on murder in Cambridge

    It’s a 2024 thriller concerned with race, podcast-making and the criminal justice system high on a fair few 2024 best-of lists. 17 Years Later is Melbourne-based bestselling New Zealand writer JP Pomare’s seventh novel in as many years.  In the book, it’s been 17 years since the violent stabbings of the British immigrant Primrose family while they slept, in Cambridge in the Waikato. And 17 years since the swift charge with the murders of the family's young live-in Māori chef Bill Kareama.

    13 min

  7. 21/12/2024

    The year that was with acclaimed writer and columnist Charlotte Grimshaw

    She joins Culture 101 to talk about her time in the South of France for the 2024 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, her new novel and her highlights of 2024.

    13 min

  8. 21/12/2024

    Painter Karl Maughan’s 2024 favourites and his Pōhutukawa fringed paintings of summer

    The Pōhutukawa - our Christmas tree - once bountifully fringed the West Coast north of Taranaki, and the East Coast north of Tairāwhiti Gisborne. While now found even further south, these trees with their stunning gold tipped crimson blooms remain synonymous with summer on the Northern East Coast.  They are there, at the end of the garden, before the vivid blues of sea and sky in East Coast, a new body of paintings from one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most beloved painters, Karl Maughan. East Coast is at Gow Langsford Gallery in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland until 24 December

    12 min
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Perlina Lau and Mark Amery host a weekly show about creativity and culture in Aotearoa.

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  • Channel
    RNZ Radio
  • Creator
    RNZ
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    490
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © (C) Radio New Zealand 2025
  • Show Website
    Culture 101

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