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Arts news: A Rita Angus bridge, controversial portraits & the book awards
3:05 pm todayArts news for 19 May 2024 Video, Audio
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Best of the Fest: Auckland Writers Festival
2:30 pm todayThe Auckland Writers Festival has set central Tāmaki Makaurau abuzz this week with a strong lineup of leading local and international authors, panel discussions, and events, including the Ockham New… Audio
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Bringing an indigenous house of storytelling alive in Ōtautahi: Juanita Hepi
2:20 pm todayTe Whare Tapere in the Christchurch Arts Centre is neither a European-style gallery or theatre. As a space principally by Māori, for Māori, it is, says co-founder artist Juanita Hepi, “a… Audio
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Feeling icky: What makes us uncomfortable with Viki Moananu
2:05 pm todayYou know those embarrassing uncomfortable thoughts and feelings you have you usually keep inside? Pōneke playwright and comedian Viki Moananu uses theatre and comedy to let them out. He calls them… Audio
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Gore: Capital of country music and moonshine with Jenny Mitchell
1:25 pm todayGore is quite rightly known as our Capital of country music. But there’s always been much more going on culturally in this East Southland town. Video, Audio
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Finding a city's memory in the rubble of Chernobyl
1:07 pm todayVast exclusion zones operate around the cities of Pripyat, near the ruined Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, and Plymouth, on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, decimated by the island’s… Video, Audio
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Joika: The brutal world of the Bolshoi ballet
12:45 pm todayThe notoriously punishing, elite world of the Moscow Bolshoi Ballet Academy is centre stage in Joika - the first ever film collaboration between New Zealand and Poland. Video, Audio
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Practising Hawaiian culture across the sea: Ahilapalapa Rands
Over 100 years ago artist Ahilapalapa Rands’ great-grandfather, the ukulele virtuoso Ernest Ka’ai wrote the song ‘Across the Sea’, the lyrics speaking to the pull that Hawai’i has for Kānaka Maoli… Audio
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Fast Favourites: Rhys Mathewson’s 10th rodeo
12:15 pm todayA professional in the comedy scene for more than a decade now, Rhys Mathewson knew he was going to pursue comedy as a career after taking part in Class Comedians in 2006 at the age of 15.
From that… Audio
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The mind-body connection to recover faster
11:30 am todayTime heals all wounds, the saying goes, but our thoughts play a rather important part in determining how long that recovery time is. Audio
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Deo Kato: Running the length of Africa
11:05 am todayDeo Kato is an ultra/trail runner, coach, and activist currently running the length of Africa. Audio
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The headlines we didn’t read
10:45 am todayMary Argue is back guiding us through the latest weird and wonderful headlines from the world of science. Audio
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The Sunday Morning Quiz with Jack Waley-Cohen
10:42 am todayOur Quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen is back for another Sunday Morning quiz. Jack is the mind behind the questions on BBC quiz show 'Only Connect' which is known for being both difficult to crack and… Audio
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Why China’s Cultural Revolution Still Matters
10:10 am todayTania Branigan spent seven years as The Guardians China correspondent and was stationed in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution - where at least two million people died. Audio
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Calling Home: Thomas Powers in LA
9:40 am todayWe're heading to Hollywood today. Thomas Powers is a Kiwi living in LA. Audio
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Mediawatch for 19 May 2024
9:08 am todayA long-running plan to reform the oversight of our media has come to a sudden halt; how public toilets suddenly became political this week. Audio
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Fergus Grady at Cannes
8:45 am todayNew Zealand's biggest film festival is back for its 18th year. 'The French Film Festival Aotearoa' launches on the 30th of May and will run across the country throughout June. Audio
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Should men use moisturiser?
8:25 am todayDr Michelle Wong is a cosmetic chemist and science communicator who runs the popular Lab Muffin Beauty Science blog where she tests skin products - turning her into a global beauty influencer. She's… Audio
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Ali Hill: The Nutrition Edition
8:10 am todayDr Ali Hill from Otago University's Department of Human Nutrition is back on Sunday Morning again. This time we're digesting the five-a-day advice - and if we're heeding it. Audio
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Ali Hill: The Nutrition Edition
8:10 am todayDr Ali Hill from Otago University's Department of Human Nutrition is back on Sunday Morning again. This time we're digesting the five-a-day advice - and if we're heeding it. Audio
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Leaving the partisan: Gerry Brownlee on being Speaker
7:00 am todayWe talk with the Speaker, Gerry Brownlee, about Question Time, MP porkies, and stepping above the fray after 27 years or partisan politics, to instead become 'Parliament's man'. Audio
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Nashville Babylon: 18 May 2024
18 May 2024On this week's show there's ska from Joya Landis, classics courtesy of Joni Mitchell and Look Blue Go Purple plus a birthday tune for Big Joe Turner. Audio
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The Mixtape: The hero guitars of NZ music with Glen Moffatt
18 May 2024This special NZ Music Month Mixtape celebrates the hero guitars played by some of our most legendary musicians. Country singer/songwriter Glen Moffatt wrote a definitive list of the ten hero guitars… Audio, Gallery
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Lyrics to NZ’s most misquoted song up for auction
18 May 2024The words to Supergroove's iconic song Can't Get Enough will soon be revealed as the lyrics go up for auction on Trade Me. Dr Karl Steven, former Supergroove frontman, has written down the "accurate"… Audio