Dr Jonathan Stalling is using ancient and now obscure poetics to help Chinese speakers to teach and learn spoken English more quickly and efficiently. Rebecca Fox talks to the American specialist in Chinese-English poetry and language.
For two decades a St Clair street regularly filled up with cars and people traipsed down the path into a house, to reappear hours later inspired and refreshed. REBECCA FOX talks to Judith Cullen about a tradition about to end.
''SITE 15'' is a chance to celebrate the work and accomplishments of Dunedin School of Art students. Rebecca Fox talks to two artists whose works' features could not be more different.
She is a best-selling cookbook author who gets the most pleasure out of knowing people are cooking her food. Chelsea Winter tells Rebecca Fox about her transition from corporate life to cook and writer.
Spanish flautist Jamie Martin's transition to conducting has been described as ''meteoric''. Rebecca Fox discovers the history behind the move on the eve of his first trip to New Zealand to conduct the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Joe Brown's dances at the Dunedin Town Hall in the mid-20th century became a meeting place for many Otago couples. The cast of Flagons and Foxtrots tell Rebecca Fox it is this era they hope to evoke in the Fortune Theatre's latest production.
Mark Adams looks through his camera lens with a Pakeha view while his wife Areta Wilkinson looks at her work with a Maori point of view. They tell Rebecca Fox how they meet in the middle.
Like many businesses, small-retail butchery has struggled over the years but a Dunedin butcher is learning new tricks in an effort to survive. Rebecca Fox talks to Ian Kennedy.
Discovering good health himself led Ben Warren to change his lifestyle and career. He tells Rebecca Fox about how people can feel the best they can.
Digging into the Dunedin Public Art Gallery's collection has been very exciting for its newest curator, Lucy Hammonds. On the eve of her first exhibition, she tells Rebecca Fox about her love of art.
American craft brewer Matt Walsh will visit Dunedin to attend this weekend's Craft Beer and Food Festival. He tells Rebecca Fox about the craft beer movement in the United States.
A play about the dark side of Otago's gold rush era will feature in the New Zealand Festival next year. Rebecca Fox talks to a young theatre company about to take the next step.
New Zealand's first and only Master Sommelier with the Court of Master Sommeliers will attend the inaugural Down to Earth celebration of wine in Central Otago. Rebecca Fox asks Cameron Douglas for his advice on wine and food pairing.
Tessa Petersen first saw the Southern Sinfonia when she was just 6 years old. Now, decades later, she will be taking the lead. Rebecca Fox talks to the orchestra's 11th concertmaster.
Patience and practice are the two key things to casting glass art. Rebecca Fox talks to Di Tocker in her borrowed studio space at Dunedin Art School about her journey with glass.
Climate change, the TPPA, the refugee crisis and the effects of war are all among the issues being tackled by a group of New Zealand and Australian artists being exhibited in Dunedin. Rebecca Fox talks to members of The News Network.
When Lara Macgregor became artistic director at the Fortune Theatre, there had been no-one in the role for years. Rebecca Fox finds out what legacy she will leave behind.
It is a staff kitchen like no other - gleaming stainless steel, polished subway tiles and an island bench the size of a small runway.
Dr Libby Weaver's latest book Exhausted to Energized was the number one non-fiction best seller in its first two weeks of release. She tells Rebecca Fox why it is so popular.
Dunedin father and son Doug and Geoff Williams will exhibit their work together for the first time in about 20 years this month. They chat to Rebecca Fox about their shared love of art.
