Listener feedback from today's show.

In a summer of Covid cancellations, Performance Arcade is one of the few festivals still standing. Now in its 11th year, a set of shipping containers on the Wellington waterfront is temporary home to an eclectic array of experimental 'live art' and a live music programme. It's the vision of artistic director Sam Trubridge, whose career has been all about exploring the potential for the arts outside conventional venues.

Chris Kraus' upcoming novel The Four Spent the Day Together tells the story of a violent methamphetamine murder involving four teenagers on the Iron Range of Minnesota. Best-known for the semi-autobiographical novel I Love Dick, Los Angeles-based Kraus spent much of her teenage years in New Zealand, studying at Victoria University and working as a journalist.

Wendy Mitchell was diagnosed with young-onset dementia in 2014, when she was just 58 years old. But, rather than this signaling the start of a total decline, for Mitchell the diagnosis offered a new beginning.

Our regular commentator, Cambridge University consultant clinical virologist Dr Chris Smith joins us with the latest Covid-19 science, and to answer your questions.

Rather than being 'starstruck' New Zealander Rose Matafeo has herself truly struck star status.

Kim Hill reads listener feedback for 12 February 2022.

When celebrated and rather unconventional Austrian artist, philosopher and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser died in the Bay of Islands in 2000 part of his legacy were designs for an arts centre for Whangarei. That long-awaited arts centre - complete with the largest afforested roof in the southern hemisphere - opens 20 February.

In 2016 tsunami scientist Kaya Wilson survived an accident that doctors say should have killed him. Up until then, Wilson had been living as a woman and questioning his gender - but the near-death experience was the catalyst for him to make the transition to a man.

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but marketing companies are now exploring the potential of advertising their products to us while we sleep.