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Live: Maarja Nuut and Ruum at WOMAD 2019
Live: Maarja Nuut and Ruum at WOMAD 2019
17 Mar 2019This Estonian duo have a captivating repertoire of songs that feature Maarja’s folk-like vocal delivery and electric violin, while Ruum’s electronic soundscapes provide an expansive and creative back-drop to their sound. Audio
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Music Alive: NZSO plays Stravinsky & Rachmaninov
Music Alive: NZSO plays Stravinsky & Rachmaninov
9 Oct 2019The two works by Igor Stravinsky are pared-back and restrained, but the symphony by Rachmaninov is full-strength romanticism.
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Deciding on abortion law: Proposals, process, and perspectives
Deciding on abortion law: Proposals, process, and perspectives
6 Oct 2019The House - MPs are working on legislation to reform abortion law and their decisions are often shaped by those who turn up to talk to them at select committee. Audio
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This time it's personal: settling the score
This time it's personal: settling the score
There's one piece of classical music in particular that always thrills NZ writer Joy Cowley. Video, Audio
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Song Crush: Post Malone, Tame Impala and Master Fader
Song Crush: Post Malone, Tame Impala and Master Fader
4 Oct 2019It's school holidays so time to find out what young people are loving! Song Crush guests this week are music fans Benny Lindsay Williams (15) and Oscar Horner (14), as well as the slightly less youthful Mark Cubey and Yadana Saw. Video, Audio
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Movie review: Domino is tired and dated hackwork
Movie review: Domino is tired and dated hackwork
8 Oct 2019Widescreen - Brian De Palma is back in the director’s chair after seven years –and his new thriller is out of time and out of taste, writes Dan Slevin.
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Call for Jihadis to go to West Papua following unrest
Call for Jihadis to go to West Papua following unrest
7 Oct 2019Jihadis are being encouraged to go and fight in West Papua by Indonesian Muslim hardliners.
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Adesanya chasing 'legacy, history'
Adesanya chasing 'legacy, history'
8 Oct 2019The Kiwi who has officially become one of the biggest stars in one of the world's fastest growing sports says he's just getting started. Video
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New songs the teens are loving
New songs the teens are loving
4 Oct 2019Music fans Benny Lindsay Williams (15) and Oscar Horner (14) weigh in on their favourite new releases in this week's special school-holiday edition of Song Crush. Video, Audio
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Excluded from an inclusion conference
Excluded from an inclusion conference
The Detail - The Power of Inclusion conference in Auckland was supposed to be an affirming event for a new generation - instead, young artists told organisers why they felt left out. Audio
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New exhibition challenges the legacy of James Cook
New exhibition challenges the legacy of James Cook
7 Oct 2019In light of the Tuia 250, dozens of Māori artists put their masterpieces on display that freely express their responses to the commemorations as well as highlights the kōrero.
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Miss Samoa steps up to help stop measles spread
Miss Samoa steps up to help stop measles spread
The recently crowned Miss Samoa NZ 2019 takes up her duties in Apia this week and hopes to use her new platform to help prevent measles from spreading to the island nation. Video
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Rugby World Cup: All Blacks on the rise
Rugby World Cup: All Blacks on the rise
7 Oct 2019Opinion - No team has been more impressive so far at the Rugby World Cup than New Zealand, according to Hamish Bidwell.
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We Are Here: Aotearoa song map
We Are Here: Aotearoa song map
8 Oct 2019The New Zealand Song Map has been honoured in a new book which visualises all sorts of interesting information about Aotearoa. Now more people can find songs inspired by our unique country. Play with our original map here:
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Who's up for a 6am dance party? The Morning People
Who's up for a 6am dance party? The Morning People
8 Oct 2019Once a month, 'The Morning People' take over Whammy Bar. Its a morning rave were over 100 people have a pre-work dance party, with coffee and kombucha. First Up's Ellie Jay went along to have a dance. Audio
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Kiwi conductor Holly Mathieson: 'Home is where my sock drawer is!'
Kiwi conductor Holly Mathieson: 'Home is where my sock drawer is!'
2 Oct 2019Holly Mathieson chats to Clarissa Dunn about the life of an international freelance conductor. Audio
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Green Rush: Foreign forestry companies NZ's biggest landowners
Green Rush: Foreign forestry companies NZ's biggest landowners
10 Oct 2019In Depth - Despite a clampdown on some overseas investment, the four largest private landowners in New Zealand are foreign-owned forestry companies, an RNZ investigation has found.
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The Aotearoa History Show: how Zealandia was formed
The Aotearoa History Show: how Zealandia was formed
7 Oct 2019Learn how New Zealand came to be in a new series hosted by William Ray and Leigh-Marama McLachlan. First up, our geological origins...
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64 years between visits but HK Gruber will never forget NZ
64 years between visits but HK Gruber will never forget NZ
The composer was last here with the Vienna Boys’ Choir in 1955. Now he will conduct the NZSO and sing in his most famous work Frankenstein!!, a set of children's poems performed on toy instruments and whirled plastic hoses. Audio
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Legendary Cream drummer, Ginger Baker, dies aged 80
Legendary Cream drummer, Ginger Baker, dies aged 80
A co-founder of Cream, he also played with Blind Faith, Hawkwind and Fela Kuti in a long and varied career. Video
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Rugby World Cup: the top tries
Rugby World Cup: the top tries
7 Oct 2019Was TJ Perenara's the greatest try ever by the All Blacks at a Rugby World Cup tournament? RNZ Sport does a deep dive to find out. Video
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Straight male escort John Oh: 'I love my job'
Straight male escort John Oh: 'I love my job'
5 Oct 2019Monogamy isn't necessarily the most important aspect of a marriage, says Sydney sex worker John Oh. Among his clients are women who want to have sex outside marriage without having an 'affair', John tells Kim Hill. Audio
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Movie review: Dora and the Lost City of Gold
Movie review: Dora and the Lost City of Gold
2 Oct 2019It may be cashing in on a popular title, but Dora and the Lost City of Gold is funny enough that you won't feel ripped off – or swiped, as Dora might say. Video, Audio
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Dame Tariana Turia: 'I was so disappointed in my colleagues'
Dame Tariana Turia: 'I was so disappointed in my colleagues'
26 Sep 2019VIDEO - Tariana Turia recalls being the only Māori Labour Party politican to vote against 2004's Foreshore and Seabed Act, in the series Matangireia. Video, Audio