Standing Room Only for Sunday 4 December 2016

12:15 PM.Musician Warren Maxwell's trip to Antarctica has changed him and deepened his appreciation of the power of silence. Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

12:35 PM.From 2017 songwriting will be added as a Level 3 NCEA subject. Play It Strange CEO, Mike Chunn, has been part of the campaign to bring in the new NCEA qualification. Read more Audio

12:50 PM.A $368,000 government grant has guaranteed the future of Hamilton's Meteor Theatre. The One Victoria Trust through its 'Save The Meteor' fundraising campaign had already raised a million dollars… Read more Audio, Gallery

7:30 PM.On At the Movies this week: Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard as spies fighting Nazis in Allied, Terence Davies adapts a Scottish classic in Sunset Song and Michael Keaton changes the face of food… Read more Video, Audio

1:40 PM.The rise of fast fashion, the move towards zero waste garments, and the abandonment of catwalks by designers who instead market their work online, are just some of the seismic shifts happening in the… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.Among many other things, 2016 has turned out to be the year where we lost an unusually high number of our musical and showbiz heroes - from music legends like Bowie, Prince and Leonard Cohen, to… Read more Video, Audio

2:30 PM.The time of the Queen's visit to New Zealand for the 150th Treaty of Waitangi signing celebrations, is the setting for a new novel, We The Ones. Julie Helean has created an activist group where… Read more Audio

2:45 PM.The 1986  pulp and paper mill strike in Kawerau were so bitter and divisive, they cast a shadow even now over the town. That's what author and former psychologist Helen McNeill discovered when she… Read more Audio

2:55 PM.Traditional Maori creation stories begin with Te Kore, the concept of nothingness and that's what is being explored in  PANGO/BLACK - the latest work from Atimara Dance Company. It's about to be… Read more