Culture 101

Perlina Lau hosts a weekly show about creativity and culture in Aotearoa.

Culture 101 is a society podcast hosted by RNZ, with 948 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

RNZ hosts Culture 101, a society show with 948 episodes published.

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  James Dansey on Reo Journeys, cycling Te Tai Tokerau and sounds of the trail

  Sep 12, 202610 min

  Reo Journeys: Te Pou Herenga Tai is a new five-part RNZ podcast debuting this afternoon, following documentary makers Eugene Bingham and Adam Dudding as they cycle the 90km Twin Coast Cycle Trail in Northland, with sound recordist and composer James Dansey recording the land, the people and the korero along the way. Dansey came to the project through te reo Maori class with Eugene and Adam, and describes it as the first time two worlds he thought would never coexist, sound and music on one side, te reo and tikanga on the other, came together for him. He joins Culture 101 ahead of the first episode airing at 3pm.

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  Ashley Turner and Lissy Turner on designing the world of Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant

  Sep 12, 202620 min

  Production designer Ashley Turner and costume, hair and makeup designer Lissy Turner are the pair who built the world of Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant, the local body-horror comedy now in cinemas. They set the film in what they described internally as aspirational Invercargill, a deliberately familiar semi-rural New Zealand brick-and-tile apartment that makes the alien elements land harder when they arrive. They also took the alien foetus hero for a ride through the streets of Park City in a pushchair at Sundance, where the mounted police obligingly stopped for a photo. Ashley and Lissy join Culture 101 to talk about building the contrast between the mundane and the outlandish, and why every costume had to be made in multiple copies.

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  The Big Screen with Michelle Langstone

  Sep 12, 202623 min

  Michelle Langstone reviews three new releases: The Rivals of Azmiah King, Andrew Patterson's film with Matthew McConaughey as a beekeeper and bluegrass musician reconnecting with his former foster daughter while fending off threats to his honey business; The Weight, in which Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe star in a Great Depression survival story about smuggling gold through a hundred miles of wilderness; and Practical Magic 2, Susanne Bier's long-awaited sequel reuniting Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as sisters trying to protect the next generation from the love curse that has followed their family for generations.

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  Reuben Kirkwood and Tessa Harris: Creators behind Auckland's new CRL station artwork

  Sep 12, 202618 min

  Auckland's City Rail Link opens today, and two of the artists whose work now fills the new underground stations joined Perlina for a guided walk-through. At Karanga-a-hape Station, Reuben Kirkwood designed a vaulted ceiling made from metal sections inspired by the pupurangi, a large snail that lives in the trees, alongside carved kauri lunar discs and a sun-and-moon installation tracking the tides. At Maungawhau Station in Mt Eden, Tessa Harris, who is Reuben's cousin, created a water wall installation shaped around the mountain, its triangle form representing strength, purity and the tupuna.

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  Jess Reiner Reed: Turning Wolverine into a PlayStation blockbuster

  Sep 12, 202617 min

  Jess Reiner Reed is the senior project director for Wolverine at Insomniac Games, the studio best known for its Spider-Man series. She's visiting New Zealand for the game's release and joins Culture 101 to talk about what you have to get right when you take on a character that exists across decades of comics, films and cartoons, how her team landed on a specific vision rather than trying to please everyone, and why a woman who plays video games every day still doesn't think of it as work.

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