Arts on Sunday - Radio NZ National -27 November 2011

2.30pm Chapter & Verse: A new poetry collection from Sue Wootton, By Birdlight; and in her memoir Twelve Minutes of Love, Kapka Kassabova explores the two sides of tango obsession, the light and the dark.

2:50pm Canterbury Society of the Arts: Warren Feeney talks about the often turbulent history of the Canterbury Society of the Arts, which still has its fair share of critics who believe it was too conservative and favoured British work to New Zealand art. He's written a complete history of what he was the most influential of the country's art societies, despite its critics.

3:05pm A History of the World in 100 Objects: The landmark BBC series in which the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, explores two million years of human history through one hundred objects at the Museum.

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