The Kiwi Animal has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 23 May 2017. The Kiwi Animal's music has been featured on 15 episodes.

The Kiwi Animal was the creation of Brent Hayward and Julie Cooper. Together they released two full-length LPs in the mid-eighties, 1984's 'Music Media' and the following year's 'Mercy.' 'Music Media' is an ethereally beautiful folk affair, at once sinister and lovely, and possessing of a clear experimental bent. Hayward was previously involved in the fantastic art-punk quartet Shoes This High