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Overthinking Us
Overthinking Us
4 Jul 2019Widescreen - Us is out on home video today. Dan Slevin looks at some of the critical responses to the ideas behind one of the most creative films of the past ten years.
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Facebook becoming a ‘digital graveyard’
Facebook becoming a ‘digital graveyard’
4 Jul 2019Within 50 years, the dead are expected to outnumber the living on Facebook. Max Towle asks if being 'friends' with our deceased loved ones helps or hinders the grieving process?
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Samoan survivor on mission to save lives from suicide
Samoan survivor on mission to save lives from suicide
After an attempted suicide Tuala Tusani turned his life around from a violent gang past to becoming one of South Auckland's most successful businessmen. Video, Audio
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As Beijing counts the cost - what next for Hong Kong?
As Beijing counts the cost - what next for Hong Kong?
3 Jul 2019Analysis - As Hong Kong ponders the way ahead after protests that rocked the territory this week, RNZ's Graeme Acton writes Beijing has made it clear those protests will change nothing.
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Why low polling doesn't always kill a political career
Why low polling doesn't always kill a political career
4 Jul 2019The Detail - Low personal polling for National Party leader Simon Bridges doesn't necessarily mean that replacing him before the election is a sure thing. Audio
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Progress, Patriotism & Protest
Progress, Patriotism & Protest
From the archives: Matthew Crawford navigates the turbulent confluence of music and politics in 20th century America. Audio
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The untold history of China's one child policy
The untold history of China's one child policy
3 Jul 2019Nanfu Wang grew up in a small farming village in south-eastern China hearing stories of women being forced to abort a second child for violating the one child policy introduced in 1979. Video, Audio
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Fighting to fund thousands of dying first responders
Fighting to fund thousands of dying first responders
Nearly 18 years after the attacks on the World Trade Centre, a battle is being waged to replenish the fund to support emergency responders and their families as thousands are sick with terminal illness. Audio
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Resurrecting Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace
Resurrecting Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace
29 Jun 2019A 1972 performance by Aretha Franklin is the highest-selling live gospel music recording of all time. There was also supposed to be a film, directed by Sydney Pollack, but various problems held it back for nearly half a century. We talk to the man who finally completed Amazing Grace. Video, Audio
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Surveillance capitalism and the trade in human futures
Surveillance capitalism and the trade in human futures
Every time we go online data is collected about us and that data is being used to not only predict our behaviour, but shape it too, says Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff. Audio
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Pacific eye specialists continue to serve communities despite strain
Pacific eye specialists continue to serve communities despite strain
A small group of Pacific eye care specialists are determined to make a difference despite the challenge of a heavy workload, large areas to cover and often minimal resources at their disposal. Audio
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PNG rugby league launches appeal to assist volcano victims
PNG rugby league launches appeal to assist volcano victims
3 Jul 2019The Kimbe Cutters rugby league team has launched an appeal to assist the volcano victims in West New Britain during this weekend's round of Digicel Cup domestic matches in Papua New Guinea.
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Pacific stance frustrated at Bonn climate talks - SPREP
Pacific stance frustrated at Bonn climate talks - SPREP
2 Jul 2019A Pacific climate change specialist says the region's representatives had their goals frustrated at global talks in Germany last week.
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Amendments of Samoa land lease laws clear uncertainty
Amendments of Samoa land lease laws clear uncertainty
Samoa's newly passed amendments of the 1965 Alienation of Customary Lands Act has cleared uncertainties raised by local and overseas based Samoans.
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Fiji-born Sevu Reece one of four All Blacks new caps
Fiji-born Sevu Reece one of four All Blacks new caps
Crusaders winger Sevu Reece is one of four new caps in the All Blacks squad named for the Rugby Championship.
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Rugby: The 'ins and outs' of All Black selections
Rugby: The 'ins and outs' of All Black selections
3 Jul 2019For those who experience it, getting your name read out as part of the All Blacks for the first time is a dream come true, writes Clay Wilson.
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Song Crush: Hot new music
Song Crush: Hot new music
29 Jun 2019Make a cuppa and pull up the blankies as we serve some toasty new tunes to warm you up. featuring new tunes from The Comet is Coming, Iron & Wine and Calexico and Jordan Rakei amongst others. Video, Audio
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The science of Matariki
The science of Matariki
4 Jul 2019Our Changing World - Dr Rangi Mātāmua talks about the 120-year-old book which has preserved his ancestors' knowledge of Māori astronomy. Audio
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Was Shakespeare a woman?
Was Shakespeare a woman?
It's common for scholars to question the true authorship of Shakespeare's work, but it's rare to suggest a woman crafted some of the most famous plays in English history - a British journalist begs to differ. Audio
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Fifty years since Five Leaves Left
Fifty years since Five Leaves Left
30 Jun 2019Nick Drake was practically unknown when he died at 26 in 1974, but his slim volume of work has since achieved classic status. RNZ spoke to Joe Boyd who produced Drake's debut, Five Leaves Left, released 50 years ago today. Audio
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Māori health: give us a system that works for us
Māori health: give us a system that works for us
3 Jul 2019The Detail: A watershed Waitangi Tribunal report backs claims the system is racist, finding the Crown has breached the Treaty in failing to give Māori control over their health. Audio
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Lynn Hill: Free climbing her way to the top
Lynn Hill: Free climbing her way to the top
2 Jul 2019Lynn Hill is a pioneer in the rock climbing community and continues to influence the current generation of female climbers. In the 1990s she changed the definition of what was possible in the sport. Audio, Gallery
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Volunteers help drive support for mosque victims
Volunteers help drive support for mosque victims
1 Jul 2019In this episode of Voices, we meet a former refugee heading up an organisation specifically supporting families affected by the Christchurch mosque attacks. Audio
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Nick Drake producer Joe Boyd on the 50th anniversary of Five Leaves Left
Nick Drake producer Joe Boyd on the 50th anniversary of Five Leaves Left
30 Jun 2019American record producer Joe Boyd signed Nick Drake in 1968 and produced his first two albums. He speak to Trevor Reekie about Drake's shy and delicate nature, his incredible music, and how he's become such a beloved figure. Audio