1Two men have been charged with the theft of Colin McCahon's million dollar Urewera Mural. The Police believe it is clearly a political action, but supporters of the men charged argue that is not the case. The men themselves are remaining silent about their motivations. This theft is the latest in what appears to be a growing list of outrages against treasures and taonga, both Maori and pakeha. Are we witnessing a growing and repugnant trend towards the destruction of cultural artifacts to make a point or is it all just vandalism for the sake of vandalism?
2Short film has been called 'the pottery of the nineties'. Music critic Chris Knox reports on the Short Film programme of the New Zealand Film Festival.
3Interview with Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie OBE, a Scottish virtuoso percussionist. She has been profoundly deaf since the age of 12 and claims to have taught herself to hear with parts of her body other than her ears.
4The Adam International Cello Festival and Competition took place in Christchurch last week. A performance of Haydn's Cello concerto in D major by the first of the four major place winners.
5Artist Charles Goldie died fifty years ago, and his eerily photographic oil paintings have steadily increased in value ever since. However, despite having been a popular and financial success since the beginning of his career, Goldie has been regarded with critical contempt since modernists took the art world by storm. However, Goldie is making a comeback.
6Interview with author Lloyd Jones about his new book "But This House Has Three Walls".
7The Adam International Cello Festival and Competition took place in Christchurch last week. A performance by the second of the four major place winners, Alice Neary of the United Kingdom.
8The Sunday Week Last week on this programme, Sir Bob Jones revealed that in his new book on former Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon, he will argue that the so-called 'constitutional and currency crisis' thirteen years ago when the Labour Government was elected has been greatly exaggerated and that Muldoon did not really try to sabotage the country. Interview with Richard Prebble who believes that Jones' claims have no basis in fact.