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Can Silver Ferns defend the World Cup for the first time?
Can Silver Ferns defend the World Cup for the first time?
26 Jul 2023Analysis - Over the next two weeks the Silver Ferns will attempt to do something they've never done before - win back-to-back Netball World Cups, writes Bridget Tunnicliffe.
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Anxiety a 'liar' telling us we are less than we are
Anxiety a 'liar' telling us we are less than we are
23 Jul 2023From body shaming to overworking and catastrophic thinking, there's a whole gamut of behaviours that come under the umbrella term anxiety, says Dr Stephanie Dowrick. Audio
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'I’ve been carrying this strange little town around in my head for 10 years'
'I’ve been carrying this strange little town around in my head for 10 years'
23 Jul 2023Season 9 of The Brokenwood Mysteries launched at the weekend on TVNZ. This little slice of Kiwi murder-mstery now has a huge global audience, writer and producer Tim Balme says. Video, Audio
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The mysterious artefact in Te Papa with an inscription that's puzzled historians
The mysterious artefact in Te Papa with an inscription that's puzzled historians
27 Jul 2023A ship's bell sitting in Te Papa Museum that contains an inscription in Tamil has long puzzled historians in New Zealand.
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Photo essay: Cross-party MP group visits Samoa
Photo essay: Cross-party MP group visits Samoa
23 Jul 2023The House - Five New Zealand MPs from across the political spectrum are visiting Samoa to build relationships within the country - and among themselves. Audio
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Netball World Cup: The players to watch
Netball World Cup: The players to watch
25 Jul 2023From the clinically reliable, to the entertainers of the game - sports reporter Bridget Tunnicliffe reporting from Cape Town highlights five players to look out for at the Netball World Cup in South Africa.
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Procurement without purpose: the problems with broader outcomes
Procurement without purpose: the problems with broader outcomes
The Long Read - Nikki Mandow joins The Detail's Alexia Russell to tell how she got interested in procurement strategy and why the government has gone quiet on its 2018 'broader outcomes' strategy. Audio
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Classical music in unexpected places
Classical music in unexpected places
24 Jul 2023This year’s Classical on Cuba includes performances in a furniture store! Elliot Vaughan is Artistic Director. Audio
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Tony Chen Lin and the Sonoro Quartet
Tony Chen Lin and the Sonoro Quartet
19 Jul 2023Pianist Tony Chen Lin is performing Schumann's Piano Quintet in Eb with the Sonoro Quartet around the country for Chamber Music New Zealand. Audio
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The Whanganui forest which never stopped growing opportunity
The Whanganui forest which never stopped growing opportunity
Richard Thompson planted Papaiti forest with alternative species 30 years ago. He never dreamt at the time he would become a timber merchant with a joinery workshop and retail shed. Audio
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Paying tribute to cover art pioneers Hipgnosis
Paying tribute to cover art pioneers Hipgnosis
Design studio Hipgnosis were the creators of some of the most famous imagery in 20th century rock music - from the prism of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon to the all-star prison breakout on the front of Wings' Band on the Run. Video, Audio
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Widescreen's film festival picks
Widescreen's film festival picks
25 Jul 2023Dan Slevin previews two more titles from this year’s Whānau Marama New Zealand International Film Festival; an Iranian film No Bears and Sisu by Jalmari Helander.
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Paying tribute to cover art pioneers Hipgnosis
Paying tribute to cover art pioneers Hipgnosis
Design studio Hipgnosis were the creators of some of the most famous imagery in 20th century rock music - from the prism of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon to the all-star prison breakout on the front of Wings' Band on the Run. Video, Audio
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'It just happened to be my day when I went out to bat'
'It just happened to be my day when I went out to bat'
24 Jul 2023One of New Zealand's most intriguing cricket mysteries is how Rodney Redmond could score a test 100 on debut and never play for his country again, writes Jimmy Ellingham. Video, Audio
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'Scary' signs of disease found in long Covid sufferers - scientific review
'Scary' signs of disease found in long Covid sufferers - scientific review
Some of the effects of long Covid on patients' bodies are debilitating, and the future burden could be "so large as to be unfathomable", says world leading immunologist Professor Danny Altmann. Audio
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Poll analysis unhitches itself from reality
Poll analysis unhitches itself from reality
23 Jul 2023Nothing much changed in a 1News Verian poll released on Monday. Some commentators treated the boring results as a blank canvas on which to express their creativity. Audio
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NZ Live: Seth Haapu
NZ Live: Seth Haapu
21 Jul 2023Award-winning Pacific Soul singer Seth Haapu plays tracks from his highly anticipated new album WHAI ORA. Audio
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Tony Bennett: The great interpreter of the American songbook
Tony Bennett: The great interpreter of the American songbook
Tony Bennett was the great interpreter of the American songbook. Bennett, who died on Friday in New York, delighted generations of audiences from the 1950s to the 2020s with stylish renditions of classic songs.
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'Survived the test of time': Vegemite spread still popular 100 years on from invention
'Survived the test of time': Vegemite spread still popular 100 years on from invention
22 Jul 2023When Vegemite first appeared 100 years ago it failed to excite people, the grandson of its inventor says. Video, Audio
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The dark shadow of disinformation in Aotearoa
The dark shadow of disinformation in Aotearoa
22 Jul 2023RNZ's new multimedia series Undercurrent explores why political conspiracy theories are ringing true to many New Zealanders in 2023.
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'I'll keep doing Below Deck as long as my sanity will let me'
'I'll keep doing Below Deck as long as my sanity will let me'
Kiwi superyacht stewardess Aesha Scott says delivering five-star service while filming a reality show is the hardest thing she's ever done. Video, Audio
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Movie review - The Out-laws
Movie review - The Out-laws
19 Jul 2023A bank manager becomes suspicious of his fiancée's parents in this formulaic American comedy now on Netflix. Video, Audio
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Hard work makes farming couple's dream come true
Hard work makes farming couple's dream come true
Christopher and Siobhan O'Malley have finally scored their own slice of rural paradise on the West Coast. Audio
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How to bake like a vegan (without breaking the bank)
How to bake like a vegan (without breaking the bank)
23 Jul 2023Food writer and doctor Alby Hailes shares his go-to recipe for a versatile vegan cake.