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'Fame without fortune is a burden for any performer’. In the 2020 Lilburn Lecture, Karyn Hay explores the realities of an artist's life in NZ. Audio, Gallery

Comments from the Director-General of Health around whether Auckland university lectures can go ahead next week have caused confusion for thousands of tertiary students - and the universities… Audio

Adventurous spirits will be rewarded by the New Zealand String Quartet and soprano Jenny Wollerman's New Zealand Festival of the Arts programme, Secrets of Sea and Space. Video, Audio

Professor Peter Adams is posing that question as a way to get people thinking about how the community sector is being propped up by the proceeds of gambling. Once gambling was commercialised it… Audio

Simon Moutter, sets out the case for business to become more responsive, more diverse, and more led by the heart. Audio

How much has changed for New Zealand's female composers in the 125 years since women's suffrage? In the 2018 Lilburn Lecture, acclaimed composer Eve de Castro-Robinson reflects on her own journey as a… Audio, Gallery

John Bluck explores his memories of growing up in Nuhaka in Hawke's Bay during the 1940s and 1950s. Audio

Composer and now Professor Anthony Ritchie discusses whether composing music constitutes research, we discover which Wes Anderson movie Beethoven’s 7^th symphony appeared in, and we hear a Kronos…

Professor Eric Topol is the director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and Professor of Genomics at The Scripps Research Institute. He is one the world's foremost experts in digital… Audio

Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal tells the story of his journey as a bicultural composer in Aotearoa New Zealand in 'Searching for Voice, Searching for Reo'. Audio

Sir Richard Evans is an historian of 20th century Europe with a focus on Germany and World War II. The author of 18 books, Sir Richard is also known for his role as an expert witness in a high profile… Audio

Brought up in a small rural town with no other connection to the fields of science or medicine Sir Richard Faull says it was growing up in a community minded family that ultimately led to him falling… Audio

We know about driverless cars, but are reporterless stories and podcasts just around the corner too? And what does a "true-blue Aussie" robot reading the news sound like? (Spoiler: not good) Video, Audio

'Prosaic Notes from an Unwritten Journal': Composer Jenny McLeod considers Lilburn’s thoughts on tradition and language, and continues with her own personal reflections, in illustrated verse.

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Tame Iti discussed the concept of mana in the 2016 Bishop Sir Paul Reeves Memorial Lecture – From the Raindrop to the River to the Sea. Audio

Chris Bourke will deliver the 2015 Lilburn Lecture on Wednesday at the National Library in Wellington. He talks to Clarissa Dunn about that lecture and his current work as Lilburn Research Fellow at… Audio

Dr William Dart gives the 2014 Lilburn Lecture before an audience in Victoria University's Adam Concert Room. His subject, Signatures and Footprints. Audio

In the 2014 Reeves Lecture, Dr Mary Quin, the inaugural CEO of Callaghan Innovation and the first New Zealand woman to graduate with an MBA from Harvard Business School, offers insights into what… Audio

James Gardner interviews Brian Hodgson, electronic music composer; for many years at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop where, among other things, he created the sounds of the Tardis for Dr Who.

James Gardner interviews Morton Subotnick, electronic music composer, known for his pioneering album 'Silver Apples of the Moon'.

James Gardner interviews Morton Subotnick, electronic music composer, known for his pioneering album 'Silver Apples of the Moon'.

James Gardner interviews Peter Zinovieff, who established EMS in 1969 and made a series of now-classic synthesizers.