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Karl Puschmann joins Culture 101 with his television and streaming picks for May, including New Zealand Spy on TVNZ+, Jazz Thornton's story Stalked on Sky Open, and BBC crime drama Mint.

Hastings Art Gallery launched a free art bus for schools last November, providing transport for students from Hastings, Napier and Central Hawke's Bay to visit the gallery, with priority given to high-equity and rural schools and those affected by Cyclone Gabrielle. Hundreds of students have already visited. The Gallery's audience and Learning Manager Elham Salari joins Culture 101 to talk about what happens when transport stops being a barrier.

The Southside Queens of Comedy are six Maori and Pasifika wahine from South Auckland who came together through a free community comedy workshop in 2025 and haven't stopped since. Their NZ Comedy Festival show, Once Upon a Struggle, runs 7-9 May at Poppy's Comedy in Manurewa. Ama Mosese, MC, radio host and podcaster, joins Culture 101 ahead of the shows.

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Rose Matafeo came home from London to star in New Zealand Spy, a new local comedy set in the 70s about the country's intelligence agency recruiting the only three people who applied to protect the nation from the threat of Australia. Written by Paul Williams, the show also stars Bret McKenzie, Joe Thomas and Tim Key, and is streaming on TVNZ+ now. Matafeo, who won Best Show at the Edinburgh Fringe for Horndog and wrote and starred in three seasons of BBC series Starstruck, joins Culture 101 to talk about the show and what it means to be recognised at home.

Marion Crawford, known as Crawfie, was nanny to Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret for 16 years before a very public falling out with the royal family. The Queen's Nanny, written by Australian journalist and radio presenter Melanie Tait, puts her story centre stage at Takapuna's Pumphouse Theatre. Actor Anna Jullienne plays Crawfie and joins Culture 101 to discuss power, loyalty, sacrifice, and perfecting a Scottish accent bedtime story by bedtime story.

Artist and book cover designer Todd Atticus is parked up in the window of Unity Books in Wellington this week, designing cover artwork for Mia Farlane's new novel And How Are Things With You in real time, turning his practice into a performance. Atticus has designed covers for Catherine Chidgey, Duncan Sarkies and Tusiata Avia. He joins Culture 101 live from the shop window.

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