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Live: Flora and Sean
Live: Flora and Sean
18 Aug 2017Kiwi fiddle player Flora Knight and Canadian guitar-picker Sean Donald play tracks from their self-titled debut album. Audio
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How to Dissolve a House
How to Dissolve a House
20 Aug 2017Like the Wicked Witch of the West, New Zealand’s parliament will dissolve on Tuesday morning. Audio
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Not just side-kicks! Asian Men debunk stereotypes
Not just side-kicks! Asian Men debunk stereotypes
21 Aug 2017Eight Asian men are challenging stereotypes and baring all as they speak candidly about sex, love and dating in a new Loading Docs documentary. Video, Audio, Gallery
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Worlds of Music: Harry Beckett
Worlds of Music: Harry Beckett
19 Aug 2017Trevor Reekie features a wonderful musician born in Barbados, regarded as one of the great treasures of British jazz culture. Plus tunes from Palestine, Mali and the Kronos Quartet. Audio
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BANG! Talks Love and Marriage
BANG! Talks Love and Marriage
In Episode 4 of sex and relationships podcast BANG! Melody Thomas speaks with couples about the ways intimacy has changed over their years together. Audio
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Charlotte Wood on The Natural Way of Things
Charlotte Wood on The Natural Way of Things
19 Aug 2017Charlotte Wood’s latest book was inspired by one of Australia's most notorious state institutions, a story she says filled her with fury and pushed her to create the powerful novel, The Natural Way of Things. Audio
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Thrash metal, classical, kapa haka and soundtracks in Award finals
Thrash metal, classical, kapa haka and soundtracks in Award finals
22 Aug 2017The finalists for the Silver Scroll Awards for best composition in classical music, waiata and music for film and TV have been announced.
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Christchurch Dilemmas: Beautifying the Avon/Ōtākaro
Christchurch Dilemmas: Beautifying the Avon/Ōtākaro
21 Aug 2017Will a plan to beautify the river help or hinder its ecology?
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Helen Clark and Gaylene Preston: My Year with Helen
Helen Clark and Gaylene Preston: My Year with Helen
20 Aug 2017Helen Clark and Gaylene Preston talk about Preston's film My Year With Helen and the process of making it. Video, Audio
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Selina Tusitala Marsh: Warrior poet
Selina Tusitala Marsh: Warrior poet
20 Aug 2017Pasifika poet Selina Tusitala Marsh talks to Wallace Chapman about her idea to get more boys reading… and perhaps even reading poetry. Video, Audio
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Te reo Māori version of 'Moana' hits cinemas next month
Te reo Māori version of 'Moana' hits cinemas next month
19 Aug 2017“This is an awesome vehicle to promote and champion and normalise te reo Māori within our community as a relevant, living language that can fully rock it next to 54 other languages” – musical director Rob Ruha. Video, Audio
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The time has come, a fact's a fact
The time has come, a fact's a fact
19 Aug 2017Midnight Oil, one of Australia's best loved rock bands, has reformed for a world tour after a 15 year break for political reasons. Trevor Reekie talks to the band's kiwi bass player Bones Hillman. Audio
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Te Taka Keegan on technology, teaching and te reo
Te Taka Keegan on technology, teaching and te reo
19 Aug 2017“I’ve got a real knack with computers. I walk in the room and they all start working.” Audio
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The bike gang with Gold Cards
The bike gang with Gold Cards
1 Apr 2017All you need to hit the rails and trails of Wellington with the Folding Goldies is a Gold Card, a bike (ideally a folding one) and some free time. Audio, Gallery
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Te Tai Hauāuru: the Te Wero debate
Te Tai Hauāuru: the Te Wero debate
20 Aug 2017Candidates for the Māori seat of Te Tai Hauāuru discuss water rights, seabed mining, homelessness, economic policies, welfare and Treaty settlements. Audio
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From Reformation to Syncopation
From Reformation to Syncopation
21 Aug 2017BBC Proms this week on RNZ Concert celebrates a 500th, a 450th and two 100th anniversaries and offers some popular classics and a world première along the way.
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Guantanamo Baywatch
Guantanamo Baywatch
15 Aug 2017With elements of surf, twangy country and even Ennio Morricone’s spaghetti Western scores, the guitars are bright and trashy and Desert Centre is played with bite! Audio
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A Tribute to Glen Campbell
A Tribute to Glen Campbell
20 Aug 2017William Dart looks beyond 'Rhinestone Cowboy' to the lesser-known, but equally brilliant and affecting Glen Campbell. Audio
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The best longreads of the week
The best longreads of the week
A tribute to Taylor Swift's bravery, the new uniform of white supremacy is all-American and The New Yorker pays a visit to Julian Assange.
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New Horizons: tribute to Glen Campbell
New Horizons: tribute to Glen Campbell
20 Aug 2017William Dart looks beyond "Rhinestone Cowboy", "Wichita Lineman", and "Galveston" to the lesser-known but equally brilliant and affecting Glen Campbell. Audio
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'They give you eggs... and they give you love'
'They give you eggs... and they give you love'
18 Aug 2017Chook-lover Kelly Phelps has rescued and rehabilitated 15,000 battery hens at small farmlet in Mamaku. Audio
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'It’s just nothing but competitions and auditions'
'It’s just nothing but competitions and auditions'
Too much pressure on young musicians can lead to performance anxiety and even social anxiety later in life, a psychology and music professor says. Audio
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On the road with three Kiwi food truck chefs
On the road with three Kiwi food truck chefs
“I called and said ‘Hey, I’m thinking about putting a kitchen in this bus, how stupid is that?’ And she was like ‘Yeah, that’s pretty stupid. Let’s do it.’”
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Opera on Sunday
Opera on Sunday
20 Aug 2017Khovanshchina gets a full-blooded performance at the BBC Proms 2017 with a cast of Russian singers, four choirs, huge orchestra and a Russian conductor in Shostakovich's version of Mussorgsky's 'national music drama'.