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Huge new Vanuatu wharf a boon for tourism
Huge new Vanuatu wharf a boon for tourism
28 Aug 2017A new wharf that has opened on Vanuatu's Espiritu Santo iss expected to be a boon for the island's tourism industry. Audio
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The Valley – a multimedia spotlight on the fog of war
The Valley – a multimedia spotlight on the fog of war
Fairfax Media’s new investigative series is New Zealand's most ambitious multimedia journalism project yet and was funded from the public purse. What did it reveal? Audio
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Hard Truths: documentary in the 'post-truth' era
Hard Truths: documentary in the 'post-truth' era
27 Aug 2017Four leading NZ documentary-makers talk candidly about navigating uncharted waters and their duty to the truth in a conversation chaired by Julie Hill. Audio
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BBC Proms 2017 - Week Five
BBC Proms 2017 - Week Five
28 Aug 2017There's unfinished business at The Proms this week, not to mention sensational playing from Joshua Bell and a ground breaking performance of Philip Glass and Ravid Shankar's cross-cultural collaboration 'Passages'.
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'These stories belong to the dead'
'These stories belong to the dead'
26 Aug 2017Always expect the unexpected from the dead, says Palmerston North pathologist Dr Cynric Temple-Camp. He tells interesting tales from his 30-year career in a new book The Cause of Death. Audio
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'What boot camps teach young offenders is how to be fitter and faster little crims'
'What boot camps teach young offenders is how to be fitter and faster little crims'
27 Aug 2017Candidates for the Māori seat of Te Ikaroa-Rāwhiti debate welfare, health funding, the Ture Whenua bill, Treaty Settlements and boot camps. Audio
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Opera on Sunday
Opera on Sunday
27 Aug 2017Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva makes a big impression as Bellini's Norma in this production from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
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Barnaby Joyce: New Zealander of the Year?
Barnaby Joyce: New Zealander of the Year?
The Australian Deputy Prime Minister has received the second highest number of nominations for New Zealander of the Year.
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Is Alien Weaponry the world’s first te reo metal band?
Is Alien Weaponry the world’s first te reo metal band?
22 Aug 2017“I think there’s a lot of Māori in NZ that have at one point known te reo and forgotten. The band writing in Māori has really been a huge help. It’s an awesome way for us to get that back.” Audio
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Beyond the Beehive: Wairoa
Beyond the Beehive: Wairoa
If you were prime minister and had $1 million to spend in Wairoa, how would you do it? Max Towle asks young locals.
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Houstoun and Chopin
Houstoun and Chopin
27 Aug 2017New Zealand pianist Michael Houstoun talks with Tim Dodd about his approach to playing the elusive music of Chopin. Audio
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Tech talk: worries over fake news & Samsung's new smartphone
Tech talk: worries over fake news & Samsung's new smartphone
26 Aug 2017Internet users' worries about fake news, a new survey has revealed. Plus Samsung tries to put its exploding battery woes behind it by launching another big smartphone. Audio
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At The Movies
At The Movies
23 Aug 2017Simon Morris enters the cinematic universe of Stephen King's The Dark Tower and checks out plus Steven Soderberg's heist film Logan Lucky and another Steve Coogan/Rob Brydon road trip, The Trip to Spain. Video, Audio
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Gutsy Gusta Peach
Gutsy Gusta Peach
25 Aug 2017Former shepherd Gusta Peach came to New Zealand in 1951 to be a land girl. Now 87, her life story takes in a human skull on the mantlepiece, lost love with a married man and buried cars in Indonesia during WW2. Audio
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Nashville Babylon
Nashville Babylon
21 Aug 2017Mark Rogers turns back the clock with Justin Townes Earle, Pokey LaFrage Son Volt, Nick Drake and Blind Willie McTell anong others. It's a beautiful thing. Audio
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Hymns on Sunday
Hymns on Sunday
27 Aug 2017Hymn-singing is usually (not always) accompanied by the pipe organ and this week's selection takes a moment to appreciate different cathedral organs from Westminster Abbey to St Paul's in Dunedin. Audio
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The Big Sing Gala Concert
The Big Sing Gala Concert
26 Aug 2017For the last three days, 24 secondary school choirs have been singing their hearts out at The Big Sing. Watch the finale live on RNZ Concert from 630pm.
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Live Video: The Big Sing Finale 2017 Gala Concert
Live Video: The Big Sing Finale 2017 Gala Concert
26 Aug 2017The Gala Concert is the culmination of three days of exciting singing for the 24 secondary school choirs at The Big Sing Finale. Watch the live video stream here from 6.30pm.
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'Some old-school heat, some sugar and some weirdo rippers'
'Some old-school heat, some sugar and some weirdo rippers'
25 Aug 2017American rock band Queens Of The Stone Age return with their most danceable album yet, Villains. Aroha Harawira chats with bassist Dean Fertita and drummer Jon Theodore. Video, Audio
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The Science Of... Vitamin C
The Science Of... Vitamin C
What is vitamin C and why do we need it? And can vitamin C really cure cancer, or is it all hype? Alison Ballance and Simon Morton are on the case. Video, Audio
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Widen the frequences and we'll all benefit
Widen the frequences and we'll all benefit
25 Aug 2017The fact that we're exclaiming about the historic all-women Silver Scroll shortlist shows how far we've got to go, writes Jessie Moss.
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Someday Stories: Puoro
Someday Stories: Puoro
Follow the journey of young Māori taonga pūoro practitioner Jerome Kavanagh, in one of a series of shorts from emerging young filmmakers that explore sustainability.
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Prokofiev's Soviet Homecoming
Prokofiev's Soviet Homecoming
When Sergei Prokofiev returned to Soviet Russia in 1936, life was not exactly what he expected. Audio
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First Pasifika woman awarded NZ Poet Laureate
First Pasifika woman awarded NZ Poet Laureate
26 Aug 2017New Zealand has awarded a Pacific woman as the nation's Poet Laureate for the next two years on National Poetry Day. Video, Audio