Matt chats with Michael Pederson and Hollie McNish about their poetry and upcoming events at the WORD Christchurch Festival.

Matt talks with Christchurch author, Chessie Henry about the upcoming book launch for her memoir, We Can Make A Life.

This week, we’re joined by electro-pop artist Shayna to talk about her musical evolution and selection for this weekend’s Going Global Music Summit.

SHaynas picks are “Something Good” by Bic Runga (2000) and “Hey”by Matthew Young.

Matt chats with artist, Dudley Benson, about his latest album, Zealandia. Dudley talks about what it’s about and all the time and capital that went in to making it.

Matt chats to Phoenix Foundation front man, Luke Buda, about the band’s recent collaboration with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, soon to be preformed in Christchurch at the Isaac Theatre Royal.

This week, Rachel from Scorpio reviews The Diary of a Bookseller by real life Bernard Black, Shaun Bythell

Matt chats with Anita (Rehearsal Director) and Adam (Dancer) of Footnote New Zealand Dance about the companies upcoming production, Balancing Point, a double bill night of modern dance playing in Christchurch for one night only – tomorrow at Aurora Theater.

Folk singer, Holly Arrowsmith, joins The Guest List this week to chat about being selected to play at the 2018 Going Global Music Summit in Auckland at the end of this month, and play a couple of kiwi tracks she likes of course!

Holly’s picks are “Darkness And The Way We Are” by Luke Thompson (2012) and “Dream” by Lydia Cole (2017)

Act made a lot of headlines this week for putting the abolition of Maori seats front and center so Matt thought it would be natural to talk to David about that.

After a fortnight off, Alex is back! This week he fills us in on Turkey’s current economic crisis.