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Creativity blooms when you can't leave home
Creativity blooms when you can't leave home
15 Apr 2020Chalk, toilet rolls and rubbish destined for recycling are providing people with both creative license and distraction during the lockdown.
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Terry Waite: tips on surviving isolation from a former captive
Terry Waite: tips on surviving isolation from a former captive
15 Apr 2020In the late '80s, Terry Waite was captured by Hezbollah militants and spent the next 1,736 days chained to the wall in a dark cell in Beirut. He tells Jesse Mulligan how he coped. Audio
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Sport: Pacific stresses caution on World Rugby promises
Sport: Pacific stresses caution on World Rugby promises
17 Apr 2020The Pacific Rugby Players Welfare group is stressing caution over big promises being made by the two contenders for the World Rugby Chairmanship.
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Podcast of the Day: Voice of the Iceberg
Podcast of the Day: Voice of the Iceberg
27 Feb 2017Looking for some lockdown escapism? Set sail to Antartica with artist Joseph Michael as he records the sights and sounds of icebergs. Audio, Gallery
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Join in with the NZSO
Join in with the NZSO
16 Apr 2020The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra invites you to sing or play Pōkarekare Ana with them at 3pm Saturday. You could also record yourselves and share it online. More information here. Video, Audio
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Grieving in the lockdown: 'I wish I could have sat with her at the end'
Grieving in the lockdown: 'I wish I could have sat with her at the end'
15 Apr 2020Opinion – Covid-19 is denying families all the things that it's natural to do together when a loved one dies, writes Sharon Stephenson.
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Story of the Day: Moe Makes Music
Story of the Day: Moe Makes Music
11 Nov 2019Country singer Big Al Ammo visits Moe the Monster from Mount Moehau to sing a silly song about a tiny pony called Tony. Hilarity ensues! Audio
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Free tomorrow afternoon? Join the nationwide 'Pokarekare Ana' singalong
Free tomorrow afternoon? Join the nationwide 'Pokarekare Ana' singalong
16 Apr 2020The free online event is hosted by the NZSO and wil be held at 3pm on Saturday afternoon. Paraire Huata – who composed the well-loved waiata – would be chuffed, his granddaughter says. Video, Audio
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Live: Avantdale Bowling Club at the Powerstation
Live: Avantdale Bowling Club at the Powerstation
11 Apr 2020The jazz / hip-hop collective founded by rapper and main songwriter Tom Scott perform to an energetic sold-out audience at Auckland’s Powerstation. This RNZ Music recording is also available on streaming services. Audio
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Life 'comes up roses' for Fiona Pears under lockdown
Life 'comes up roses' for Fiona Pears under lockdown
17 Apr 2020Quarantunes - The Lyttleton violinist and her musical hero Roby Lakatos perform 'La Vie En Rose' together while 12,000 miles apart.
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Native birds thrive under lockdown
Native birds thrive under lockdown
14 Apr 2020New Zealand birds are loving this lockdown, no longer having to compete with cars, buses, trains, planes or people.
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Fiji declares second State of Natural Disaster as Covid-19 cases increase
Fiji declares second State of Natural Disaster as Covid-19 cases increase
Fiji's government has declared the country's second State of Natural Disaster in a week, following the country's 17th confirmed case of Covid-19.
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How to be intimate during the Covid-19 outbreak
How to be intimate during the Covid-19 outbreak
14 Apr 2020Opinion - Physical distancing is fast-becoming the new normal. But what does that mean for our sex lives? Melody Thomas investigates.
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Podcast of the Day: NZ Wars / Stories of Waitara
Podcast of the Day: NZ Wars / Stories of Waitara
17 Mar 2020Tim Watkin looks back at the Waitara Dispute of 1860, which sparked decades of conflict and set the scene for his ancestors' arrival in Aotearoa. Audio
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Finally, the WFH playlist you’ve been waiting for
Finally, the WFH playlist you’ve been waiting for
16 Apr 2020One of the silver linings of working from home is you always get to pick the music! RNZ Music’s Tony Stamp has put together an eight-hour workday playlist.
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Story of the Day: How Māui Fished Up the North Island
Story of the Day: How Māui Fished Up the North Island
16 Apr 2020When Māui and his brothers go fishing, Māui pulls up something amazing! Listen to this super-classic Aoteraroa origin story in te reo Māori or English – or both! Now, that's a great idea.
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Do women have better sex under socialism?
Do women have better sex under socialism?
12 Apr 2020Dr Kristen Ghodsee thinks so. The American writer and professor spoke to Kim Hill at last month's New Zealand Festival of the Arts in Wellington. Audio
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‘As if it was bombed’: Vanuatu’s Pentecost devastated by Cyclone Harold
‘As if it was bombed’: Vanuatu’s Pentecost devastated by Cyclone Harold
Vanuatu's Pentecost is in desperate need of aid after Tropical Cyclone Harold devastated the island.
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Sam Hunt: 'I don't think I'm missing anyone but I'm sort of wondering how they are'
Sam Hunt: 'I don't think I'm missing anyone but I'm sort of wondering how they are'
13 Apr 2020Kiwi poet Sam Hunt is holed up in the far north listening to Bob Dylan and German composer Ernest Bloch, but mostly listening to silence. He talks to Karyn Hay and reads a couple of poems. Video, Audio
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VIDEO: NZSO Play Our Part
VIDEO: NZSO Play Our Part
17 Apr 2020Join musicians from the NZSO string section beam in from their bubbles for this week's 'Play Our Part' performance. Online only.
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How do we move together into the 'new normal'?
How do we move together into the 'new normal'?
14 Apr 2020Opinion - As New Zealand looks towards moving out of lockdown, fear and ambiguity remain. Dr Jess Berentson-Shaw explores the public narratives we need.
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Podcast of the Day: Conversations With My Immigrant Parents
Podcast of the Day: Conversations With My Immigrant Parents
15 Apr 2020New Zealand's immigrant whānau talk frankly about love, ancestry and home in this RNZ series from last summer.
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The Sampler: new music worth exploring
The Sampler: new music worth exploring
13 Apr 2020Nick Bollinger reviews songs with a southern accent from Waxahatchee; jazz-soul fusion from Thundercat and minimalist meditations from Nils Frahm. Audio
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Seven fun classical pieces for kids of all ages
Seven fun classical pieces for kids of all ages
15 Apr 2020Heard enough Baby Shark to last a lifetime? Wishing you could escape into childhood right now? RNZ Concert offers you the best classical music-with-a-story, written with children in mind.