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Saturday morning listener feedback
12:00 PM.Saturday morning listener feedback. Audio
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Playing Favourites with Dame Jane Campion
11:05 AM.Dame Jane Campion talks to Susie Ferguson about the intense job of directing movies, her love of napping in the bush and losing a baby as she won international acclaim for her 1993 film The Piano. Read more Audio
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Singer Hollie Smith unveils her debut art exhibition
10:45 AM.Many people will be familiar with the name Hollie Smith, she is one of the country's most successful music artists with three #1 debuting solo albums, and a slew of awards under her belt. But in… Read more Audio
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Joy Womack: the American ballerina who danced for Russia
10:05 AM.At just fifteen years old Joy Womack left her family home in Texas and travelled to Moscow to follow her dream of becoming a Prima Ballerina at the world-renowned Bolshoi Ballet Company. In the face… Read more Video, Audio
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Vincent Deary: Why rest is vital to beat burnout
9:30 AM.When recovering from burnout it's essential to prioritise rest. says clinical fatigue specialist Vincent Deary. Read more Audio
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Connie Walker: Stolen, murdered and ignored, Indigenous women
9:05 AM.Award-winning Canadian investigative journalist Connie Walker had been telling stories about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls for years, and wondering why they received so little… Read more Audio
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Jonathan Rauch: Allowing free speech
8:35 AM.American author Jonathan Rauch argues free speech and robust criticism should be encouraged and defended, even when it's racist, sexist or causes hurt. A gay, Jewish writer and thinker Rauch admits… Read more Audio
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New Caledonia unrest explained
8:10 AM.Police have used tear gas and stun grenades on rioters at an airport near Nouméa as the unrest and rioting in New Caledonia goes into its sixth day. Five people, including two police officers, have… Read more Audio
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Framing a life: Ans Westra
11:35 AM.Over almost sixty years, Dutch-Kiwi photographer Ans Westra took hundreds of thousands of pictures of life in New Zealand. A new illustrated biography Ans Westra - A life in photography interrogates… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Nazeem Hussain: the totally normal comedian
11:05 AM.Following a two-year hiatus, comedian Nazeem Hussain is back on the tour circuit with his new stand-up show Totally Normal. Having cut his teeth in the Melbourne scene in the 1990s, Hussain is one of… Read more Audio
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The case for living on Mars
10:45 AM.In the race to colonize Mars, millions - if not billions - of dollars have been poured into research by people like Elon Musk to see what would make the planet's environment less hostile for humans… Read more Audio
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India's elections and the cost of colonialism: Dr Sashi Tharoor
10:05 AM.In a crucial year for India, millions of voters are going to the polls in the mammoth six-week election in the most populous country on earth. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is hoping to secure a rare… Read more Audio
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Madison Nonoa: singing her way from the Waikato to European opera houses
9:30 AM.Kiwi soprano Madison Nonoa will use an "absolutely life-changing" $50,000 grant to develop her professional opera-singing career in Europe. Read more Video, Audio
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The Australian shaming dodgy landlords
9:05 AM.Housing solution advocate Jordan van den Berg received a wave of fury from landlords and real estate agents recently after posting a video suggesting people squat in houses left empty by their owners… Read more Audio
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Climate change from a wild animal's point of view: Adam Welz
8:10 AM.Promising a new kind of environmental journalism, Cape Town-based conservation writer Adam Welz's book The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown explores climate change from the… Read more Audio
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Saturday Morning feedback for 4th May 2024
12:00 PM.Saturday morning listener feedback. Audio
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Colour instinct: the art of personal colour analysis
11:30 AM.You might remember women "getting their colours done" in the 1980s. Thanks to social media, the art of analysing which shades complement a person's natural colouring is again having a moment. Rachel… Read more Audio
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Finn McCahon-Jones: letters between best friends
11:05 AM.A collection of letters written to and from iconic New Zealand painter Colin McCahon sheds light on a special relationship spanning four decades. McCahon met penpal Ron O'Reilly in 1938, when the pair… Read more Audio
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A curse and a genetic code: PM's Science Prize winners
10:10 AM.Thirty years ago, nurse Maybelle Ngapere McLeod realised a genetic link to the stomach cancer which killed many of her whanau was much more likely that the effect of a curse. She took her suspicions… Read more Audio
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Asparagus tips: Preparation and patience the key
9:45 AM.For those with asparagus patches: what to do to prep for a boomer crop in spring. Or, if you are planning an asparagus patch: how to kick start it. Read more Audio
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Grace Blakeley: Vulture Capitalism
9:05 AM.Grace Blakeley takes aim at capitalism in her latest book Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom. In the book, Blakeley asserts that rather than failing… Read more Audio
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John Adams: stopping the Stonehenge road tunnel
8:45 AM.From the A303 in Wiltshire, motorists can catch sight of the megalithic structure of Stonehenge. But as a primary route for both commuters and holiday makers the road is notoriously traffic-clogged… Read more Audio
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The sinister side of the man who saved Rwanda: Michela Wrong
8:10 AM.It's thirty years since the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda, perpetrated by the Hutu-led government. British journalist Michela Wrong's book Do Not Disturb, The Story of a Political Murder… Read more Audio
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Shaun Higgins: the dawn of NZ photography
11:40 AM.The arrival of photography to New Zealand in 1848 was more about business than art. A cumbersome kit meant photographers needed carriages or horses to lug their gear across unsealed roads to sell… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Christian Lewis: Finding Hildasay
11:05 AM.Former soldier Christian Lewis had hit rock bottom and was so severely depressed he would shut himself in his flat for weeks. But one day he made an impulsive decision, setting himself the challenge… Read more Audio