Wellington is playing host to one of the city's most important arts events this year - the contemporary indigenous arts festival Kia Mau. It's grown from its enthusiastic but smaller-scale beginnings eight years ago to an extraordinary collection of indigenous talent from all round the Pacific Rim. Aotearoa New Zealand, of course, but also Samoa, Tonga, ... Show More
Dec 2022
Frances Edmond and her mother, poet Lauris
Even a three-volume autobiography doesn't come close to telling the full story of poet Lauris Edmond OBE. So her daughter and literary executor, Frances Edmond, is filling in the gaps in a biography called Always Going Home. This includes assessing in depth the death of another o ... Show More
15m 21s
Dec 2022
Lynn and Catriona MacLeod reminisce
Lynn Freeman writes: "This is the last Standing Room Only as I'm leaving to work with Forest & Bird. While I've hosted this programme for more than 21 years, I started at RNZ way, way back, in the era of typewriters and teletexting our copy to Wellington from the Dunedin 4ZB stud ... Show More
7m 42s