{"podcast":{"title":"Culture 101","slug":"culture-101-6608135","podcast_index_feed_id":6608135,"rss_url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/acast/culture-101.rss","website_url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/culture-101","image_url":"https://media.rnztools.nz/rnz/image/upload/s--b9SMWAlB--/c_fill,f_jpg,h_2000,q_50,w_2000/v1769638787/4JU1RBB_culture_101_cover_external_v2_png.jpg?_a=BACCd2AD","author":"RNZ","episode_count":869,"summary":"Perlina Lau hosts a weekly show about creativity and culture in Aotearoa.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/culture-101-6608135"},"episode":{"title":"Denzel Panama: Pasifika conductor says everyone should do choir","slug":"denzel-panama-pasifika-conductor-says-everyone-should-do-choir","published_at":"2026-05-31T01:10:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/culture-101-6608135/denzel-panama-pasifika-conductor-says-everyone-should-do-choir","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/culture-101-6608135","url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/culture-101/audio/2019037336/denzel-panama-pasifika-conductor-says-everyone-should-do-choir","audio_url":"https://flex.acast.com/podcast.radionz.co.nz/coo/coo-20260531-1310-denzel_panama_pasifika_conductor_says_everyone_should_do_choir-256.mp3","summary":"Denzel Panama has been given a Pasifika conducting internship by Choirs Aotearoa New Zealand, working alongside the directors of the National Youth Choir, the Academy Choir and Voices New Zealand, of which he is already a member. From Niue, he currently directs senior school choirs at St Kentigern and St Cuthbert's colleges. He joins Culture 101 to talk about the physical art of conducting, why a tense conductor makes a tense choir, and why he thinks singing together is one of the best antidotes to loneliness going.","meta_description":"Denzel Panama has been given a Pasifika conducting internship by Choirs Aotearoa New Zealand, working alongside the directors of the National Youth Choir,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":845,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/culture-101-6608135/episodes/denzel-panama-pasifika-conductor-says-everyone-should-do-choir/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/culture-101-6608135/denzel-panama-pasifika-conductor-says-everyone-should-do-choir.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}