Drama

Lucy Prebble, the BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Emmy award-winning writer behind HBO's drama Succession, talks about her play, The Effect. Audio

Earlier this month, Here Now went live in front of an audience at the Podfest at Q.  Producer and host Kadambari Raghukumar spoke to thespians Jacob Rajan and Pedro Ilgenfritz all about the magic of… Audio

This mystery series from Pito Productions revolves around the disappearance of a young woman Mihi, bringing together her three estranged cousins together to try and piece together what happened to…

An ominous warbler brings news that the dreaded Anderlugians seek a rendezvous, but Lord Joseph Banks faces a greater enemy within his own ranks... Audio

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

Audiences are returning to theatres, but the future is uncertain for university-level theatre education. Audio

Claire Baylis is a fiction writer and legal researcher based in Rotorua. After 12 years as a law lecturer at Victoria University, Claire Baylis joined a trans-Tasman Jury Research project, and was… Audio

Do you know someone who seems to thrive on chaos? Maybe even yourself? Holistic psychologist Dr Scott Lyons explores the stress-related condition and offers advice for healing in a new book. Audio

Beloved Kiwi comedian Tom Sainsbury is busy as ever. He's about to hit the road with his nationwide Snapchat Dude Live! tour. The 15-stop tour, which kicks off in New Plymouth next Sunday, will see… Audio

Actor and comedian Laura Daniel joins the show to discuss what she has on at the moment, her desire to get overseas to perform, and why 'King of Wishful Thinking' by Go West should be viewed as one of… Audio

New Zealand actor and winemaker Sam Neill is in Sydney filming Australian courtroom drama The Twelve at the moment he joined Jim Mora to talk about Australia's "tone deaf" national day - and the best… Audio

New Zealand-American actress Stefania LaVie Owen stars in the new Netflix series Sweet Tooth which was filmed in New Zealand. The show is a fantasy drama in a post-apocalyptic world with many… Audio

A stage play about the abuse of a boy in state care and the lifelong emotional damage that came from that traumatic time, is about to be broadcast as a radio drama. The bold move is partly due to… Audio, Gallery

Shocking, lacerating and wicked - that's how the judges of this year's Adam New Zealand Play Award describe the winning script & Sons by Dunedin writer Emily Duncan. She also took out the award for… Audio

Having burst onto the scene in 2017 with a lead role in the film The Changeover, Kiwi actress Erana James' career has continued on an upward trajectory ever since, She is currently starring in the… Audio

A teacher who helped to shape the NCEA secondary school Drama curriculum - and fought to have it included as a NZQA subject - is about to retire after more than 40 years. David Chambers was appointed… Audio

When the Chinese dreamed up the terrible threat "may you live in interesting times" they were probably thinking about a year like 2020. In a world that's been locked down, divided and cut off, it's… Video, Audio

If ever there was an idea whose time had come it may be a TV movie called Toke. When the country is getting ready to make a decision about marijuana - to legalize it or not - what better time for a… Audio, Gallery

New local film Savage follows Danny (Jake Ryan) across three decades of his life, trying to understand the boy who eventually becomes the brutal enforcer of a gang. Porirua-raised writer and director… Video, Audio