Upbeat for Wednesday 13 December 2017

1:45 PM.A new Scholarship to research dance and dementia has been established. The Lady Rosemary Buchanan Dance Scholarship is named after the high-profile Kiwi Expat and will encourage and support a PhD… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.In the past five years New Zealand’s female prison population has almost quadrupled to nearly 800. The new minister for Corrections, Kelvin Davis pledged to reduce the prison population by 30 percent… Read more Video, Audio

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New Zealand tenor Simon O’Neill has performed and recorded his first Siegfried, after multiple appearances as Siegmund in Wagner’s demanding Ring Cycle.  The new Siegfried recording has just been… Read more Audio