At just 45 years of age Justin Tipa's election as the Kaiwhakahaere of Ngai Tahu last year marked a generational shift in the iwi's top leadership. How is he faring at the helm with around two billion dollars in assets and more than 85-thousand iwi members?

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The award winning architect Professor Anthony Hoete has written a chapter in a new book, Urban Aotearoa, The Future of Our Cities, and recently the Royal Society Te Aparangi made Professor Hoete a fellow for his advancement of New Zealand and Maori architecture worldwide. He spent 30 years in London before coming home a few years ago and is now a professor of architecture at Waipapa Taumata Rau, Auckland University.

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Julian Wilcox drops in to the Auckland offices of award winning Māori architect Nicholas Dalton and the company he founded, TOA.

Mapuna is at the offices of the leading Māori architect, Nicholas Dalton, and the firm he founded, TOA. Among its many achievements are the award winning Te Taumata O Kupe, the multi-coloured masterpiece at Te Mahurehure marae in Auckland's Point Chevalier, the huge waka which resided on the Auckland waterfront during the 2011 Rugby World Cup along with apartments, houses, childcare centres and much more across the motu.

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Ngai Tahu academic Matthew Scobie has co-written a new book with Anna Sturman from the University of Sydney, called The Economic Possibilities of Decolonisation in which they write 'the future of Aotearoa depends on how Māori engage with capitalism.' And the musical duo, Aro, featuring husband and wife Charles and Emily Looker, join Julian Wilcox in the studio to perform a track from their new album He Rakau, He Ngarara.

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Fran Ebbett was just a schoolgirl when she started dreaming of becoming a pilot and eventually she rose through the ranks to captain an Air New Zealand passenger jet, possibly the first Māori woman to do so.

Fran Ebbett was just a schoolgirl when she started dreaming of becoming a pilot. She joined the navy out of high school and did a seven year stint including overseas deployments to places such as Bougainville. But after leaving the navy her desire to fly remained strong so she trained to become a pilot and eventually rose through the ranks to captain an Air New Zealand passenger jet, possibly the first Māori woman to do so.

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The Auckland Writers Festival starts on May 14 and its promotional push highlights a roll-call of talent from across the arts; Booker prize winner for 2023, Paul Lynch, plus generations of Māori writers from Patricia Grace to Becky Manawatu.

The Auckland Writers Festival starts on May 14 and its promotional push highlights a roll-call of talent from across the arts; Booker prize winner for 2023, Paul Lynch, actor Sam Neill, musician Troy Kingi, Indian politician and author Shashi Tharoor plus generations of gifted Māori writers from Patricia Grace to Becky Manawatu. Julian Wilcox talks to award winning screenwriter, author and director Michael Bennett who's a curator of the Māori sessions at the festival and has just released his second novel, Return to Blood.

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A new stage production in Auckland looks at life for Ngati Whatua through the eyes of one their most prominent tupuna, Apihai Te Kawau, who signed Te Tiriti O Waitangi in March 1840.

A new stage production in Auckland looks at life for Ngati Whatua through the eyes of one their most prominent tupuna, Apihai Te Kawau, who signed Te Tiriti O Waitangi in March 1840. Scriptwriter and producer Joe Pihema tells a story of love, war, loss and destiny during a time which helped to shape how Tamaki Makaurau would become Aotearoa's biggest city.

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For Anzac Day Māpuna takes a look back at a special episode from 2023 when producer Tama Muru visited the Greek island of Crete to delve into the history of the battle in 1941 which pitted New Zealand, Australian and British troops against elite paratroopers from Nazi Germany.

For Anzac Day Māpuna revisits an episode from 2023 when producer Tama Muru visited the Greek island of Crete to delve into the history of the battle in 1941 which pitted New Zealand, Australian and British troops against elite paratroopers from Nazi Germany. Cretan historian Apostolis Panigirakis leads a tour of famous battlefield sites such as Maleme, Galatas and 42nd Street near Suda Bay where the 28th Māori Battalion performed a haka before taking part in a bayonet charge against advancing German troops. He says they were 'undefeated men in a defeated army.'

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Over the past 60 years Māoridom has produced many prominent artists and one who definitely belongs in that category is Sandy Adsett, although he prefers to see himself as a painter.

Over the past 60 years Māoridom has produced many prominent artists and one who definitely belongs in that category is Sandy Adsett, although he prefers to see himself as a painter. He says he's always loved the challenge of working with colour and if it ever feels too easy, too automatic, 'if I paint by numbers, it's no good.' Julian Wilcox visits Sandy Adsett at his home in Hastings.

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Nathan Pohio recently finished his first two years as senior curator, Māori art at Toi o Tamaki, Auckland Art Gallery.

Nathan Pohio recently finished his first two years as senior curator, Māori art at Toi o Tamaki, Auckland Art Gallery. He talks about how he decides what to put on display, the emerging talent he sees and also hear his ideas such as whether New Zealand should offer tax relief to artists.

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