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Actor Peter Hambleton steps into the Canvas Confession Box

Actor Peter Hambleton in this week's Confession Box on pride, money, gluttony and sloth.

This weekend in film: Beatles romance falls short

All you need is love? Tom Augustine finds it's not enough for re-imagined Beatles story.

Matariki gets NZ Dance Company moving in a new direction

New Zealand Dance Company to debut its first ever kids' show especially for Matariki.

Neil Finn saved me: Australian writer Andrew Stafford on having something to believe in

The note and the will were ready, then journalist Andrew Stafford played a Neil Finn song.

Braunias: Everything about the Monkees show was an agony of suffering

Steve Braunias attends a fun-filled show by 60s act The Monkees

Restaurant review: The Cav

The Cav's cray and chips was Frankenfood that (almost) made sense.

Perfect disaster: how did the little-known Johan Renck make Chernobyl, voted best TV drama of all time?

How did a rookie TV director come to make one of the greatest TV dramas ever made?

She wasn't a lesbian, but she knew they were meant to be

Why the path to true love doesn't always run straight.

Arundhati Roy: Why writing is no small thing

The author of The God of Small Things tells Greg Bruce what she's fighting for, and why.

Michael Morpurgo on why he never expected War Horse to be a success

Why Michael Morpurgo relaxed when critics and theatre stars burst into tears around him.

Punching back - the American author who's taking on Donald Trump

Author Michael Wolff talks with Michelle Hurley about his new book Siege: Trump Under Fire

An episode with: Breakthrough film star Chrissy Metz on busting stereotypes and why you have to wait in line

US actress Chrissy Metz talks about miracles, faith and her new movie Breakthrough.

Gwyneth Paltrow is the oddball friend we need right now

Gwynnie's bewildered appearance on The Chef Show proves she'd be the best BFF

My Kitchen Rules judge on opening his own restaurant

Now it's your turn to pass judgement on the MKRNZ judge...

Soup: To drink or not to drink? That is the question...

Should-you-or-shouldn't you slurp down ramen's broth? It's complicated.

The hopes and fears that come with publishing a book

Ashleigh Young on the thrill and the fear of publishing a book.

Travel: By and pai - memories of a Thai village cooking school and rituals

Anna King-Shahab savours the memory of food and rituals in a village once less visited.

The Obamas as you've never seen them before

Snapshot of a life: the photographer who took the Obama family's most personal portraits.