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Classic: Moana & The Moahunters
Classic: Moana & The Moahunters
28 May 2016Moana & The Moahunters will receive the 'Classic Record' Award for their 1993 debut album, Tahi at the 2019 Taite Music Prize awards tonight, Here's some of Moana's story. Video, Audio
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Train like a girl: optimising nutrition and training for women
Train like a girl: optimising nutrition and training for women
Working on the premise that women are not small men, an exercise physiologist and former triathlete has spent the last two decades researching female physiology and high performance sport. Audio
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The Bells of Notre-Dame
The Bells of Notre-Dame
16 Apr 2019They rang out to communicate the end of World War 2, and to commemorate those who lost their lives in the 2015 Paris terror attacks. Today the bells of Notre-Dame are silent.
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Solomon Island MPs playing 'the numbers game'
Solomon Island MPs playing 'the numbers game'
15 Apr 2019With the date for the Solomon Islands parliament to elect a prime minister expected to be announced this week, MPs may be trading more than just horses, writes RNZ Pacific's Koroi Hawkins.
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How Bob Marley’s 1979 concert changed NZ music
How Bob Marley’s 1979 concert changed NZ music
16 Apr 2019Bob Marley played his first and only New Zealand concert 40 years at Western Springs.Gareth Shute looks back on that visit and the seismic effect it had on this country’s relationship with reggae music. Video, Audio
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New Zealand Youth Choir members reflect on performing at Notre-Dame
New Zealand Youth Choir members reflect on performing at Notre-Dame
16 Apr 2019As part of their 2016 European tour NZ Youth Choir sang during a mass at Notre-Dame de Paris.
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What should the media do with content created by those spreading terror?
What should the media do with content created by those spreading terror?
14 Apr 2019Today's news media are forced to make tough calls about the grim content created by terrorists and extremists. Roxane Cohen Silver has studied the effects of extreme images - and what the media need to know. Audio
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Making New Zealand gin among the vines
Making New Zealand gin among the vines
15 Apr 2019Chris Reid started out as a winemaker in Martinborough and making gin was a little side project, although as Reid says, “it accidentally became my full-time job”. Audio, Gallery
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How Bob Marley’s 1979 Western Springs concert changed NZ music
How Bob Marley’s 1979 Western Springs concert changed NZ music
16 Apr 2019Bob Marley played his first and only NZ concert on Monday, April 16 1979, at Auckland’s Western Springs. Gareth Shute looks back on that visit and the seismic effect it had on this country’s relationship with reggae music. Video, Audio
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Organist of Notre-Dame Cathedral
Organist of Notre-Dame Cathedral
16 Apr 2019Olivier Latry talks with Upbeat about his work at Notre-Dame in Paris, during his visit to NZ last year.
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Understanding Neanderthals and our relationship to them
Understanding Neanderthals and our relationship to them
A reconstructed Neanderthal was disabled and quite old when he died showing Neanderthals cared for their old and frail, a paleoanthropologist says. Audio
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Music Alive: Gomyo plays Beethoven
Music Alive: Gomyo plays Beethoven
15 Apr 2019Karen Gomyo brings her star-power to Beethoven's only Violin Concerto and then the NZSO plays Sibelius' Lemminkäinen Suite.
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The bejewelled life of Queen Henrietta Maria
The bejewelled life of Queen Henrietta Maria
14 Apr 2019In 17th century London the gilded rich of the day stuffed their palaces with ostentatious possessions to show off their wealth, perhaps the most bling of all was Queen Henrietta Maria, the French wife of King Charles I. Audio
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Eight composers to have works recorded by NZSO
Eight composers to have works recorded by NZSO
17 Apr 2019A mix of younger and established local composers including four women have been selected for the 2019 NZ Composer Sessions.
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Why has the plug just been pulled on Vice NZ?
Why has the plug just been pulled on Vice NZ?
14 Apr 2019For the last four years, a small local team of journalists has published NZ and Pacific stories for the multimedia outlet. Colin Peacock looks at why that's all over now. Video, Audio
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NZ song map: songs about New Zealand places
NZ song map: songs about New Zealand places
15 Apr 2019With school holidays and Easter travel ahead, we've found a bunch of songs about New Zealand and added them to a map... Road trip, anyone?
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Is the Provincial Growth Fund a slush fund or a lifeline?
Is the Provincial Growth Fund a slush fund or a lifeline?
As the government pours money into Northland, are local communities reaping the rewards? Lois Williams investigates. Audio
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VIDEO PREMIERE: Blaze the Emperor ‘Before’
VIDEO PREMIERE: Blaze the Emperor ‘Before’
15 Apr 2019RNZ Music is proud to present the new video from rising Kiwi-Rwandan rapper Blaze the Emperor. ‘Before’ is a jazz and soul-infused hip hop track with a vid that’s dripping with luxury.
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Watch: Doggy pool party
Watch: Doggy pool party
15 Apr 2019It's a four-legged frenzy which unleashes sheer doggy delight. As Christchurch's Waltham Pool prepares to empty for the winter, it invites its canine community in for a one-off event - a pooch-only plunge.
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Opinion: How can a minister have "no responsibility"?
Opinion: How can a minister have "no responsibility"?
11 Apr 2019To the casual observer, the melee in Parliament can look like a collapsed maul at the try line. Phil Smith wades in. Audio
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NZ Live: Nathan Haines
NZ Live: Nathan Haines
12 Apr 2019New Zealand's biggest-selling jazz artist drops by our Auckland studio to play some hits from his groundbreaking 1994 album Shift Left. Video, Audio
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Damon Krukowski: 'Spotify discourages surprise'
Damon Krukowski: 'Spotify discourages surprise'
In the podcast and book Ways of Hearing, Galaxie 500 drummer Damon Krukowski looks at how digital audio has changed how we relate to sound, music and even each other. He chats to Elliott Childs about his discoveries. Video, Audio
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Opera on Sunday: Das Rheingold
Opera on Sunday: Das Rheingold
14 Apr 2019The Metropolitan Opera begins the mammoth journey of The Ring Cycle with 'Das Rheingold'. The high-tech staging by Robert Lepage makes it one of the most ambitious productions ever conceived for the operatic stage. RNZ Concert from 6pm.
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New musical pathways for Christchurch prison inmates
New musical pathways for Christchurch prison inmates
15 Apr 2019Most of the men who've learnt to play instruments with members of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra in recent months have never had the opportunity to learn music before.