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The Warratahs celebrate 30 years
The Warratahs celebrate 30 years
10 Sep 2018Legendary country band The Warratahs are taking to the road to celebrate 30 years since they released their debut album The Only Game In Town. Trevor Reekie spoke to Barry Saunders about how to group got to where they are today. Video, Audio
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APRA Silver Scroll 2018: a beginner's guide
APRA Silver Scroll 2018: a beginner's guide
20 Sep 2018New Zealand's most prestigious songwriting awards take place in Auckland next month. Nick Bollinger gives us a rundown of what they're all about.
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Minimum: 'You don't want anyone to get hurt'
Minimum: 'You don't want anyone to get hurt'
20 Sep 2018Episode 9: Bus driver Wendy feels under pressure to go quickly to meet timetables and also needs to concentrate really hard for hours to avoid hitting pedestrians. Video
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Transgender musician Eddie Ayres on depression, love and terrorism
Transgender musician Eddie Ayres on depression, love and terrorism
19 Sep 2018Professional viola player and radio presenter Eddie Ayres struggled with depression for years until realising in his 30s that he was a transgender man. Audio
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'Weave' with NZTrio
'Weave' with NZTrio
20 Sep 2018Somi Kim and Natalie Lin join Ashley Brown of NZTrio for the first of the 2018 Loft Series.
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Steve Jackson to be appointed Manu Samoa coach
Steve Jackson to be appointed Manu Samoa coach
The Samoa Rugby Union is set to name former Blues Assistant, Steve Jackson, as the new coach of the national team.
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Auckland Philharmonia announces 2019 season
Auckland Philharmonia announces 2019 season
20 Sep 2018Well-known classics will be joined by big names, circus performers, kiwi hits, BBC’s Planet Earth and music inspired by Roald Dahl for the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s 2019 season. Video, Audio
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Native birds in a pest-free sanctuary - the winners and the losers
Native birds in a pest-free sanctuary - the winners and the losers
20 Sep 2018Twenty-five years of bird counts have revealed an unexpected consequence from the creation of the predator-free Zealandia Sanctuary, Alison Ballance reveals. Audio
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Sun safety: 'slip slop slap' even on grey days
Sun safety: 'slip slop slap' even on grey days
18 Sep 2018New Zealanders should use sunscreen even on the shortest, darkest day in winter to prevent skin damage and cancer, the co-author of a new study, NIWA's Richard McKenzie, says. Audio
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Wellington's south coast gets a spring clean
Wellington's south coast gets a spring clean
20 Sep 2018Last Saturday, nearly 400 people wandered sandy beaches, clambered around rocks and fossicked under roadside bushes in a massive rubbish clean-up along the much-loved Wellington coastline. Audio
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Inspirational women in music
Inspirational women in music
20 Sep 2018After some feedback from our audience, RNZ Concert staff share their personal reflections about the women who have been heroes to them in their musical life.
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The meteoric rise and fall of Brit-Pop!
The meteoric rise and fall of Brit-Pop!
18 Sep 2018The early 1990s, musicians, artists, film-makers and even politicians led a pop culture renaissance in Britain, which we now call "Britpop". Audio
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Egypt Station by Paul McCartney: unforced yet ambitious
Egypt Station by Paul McCartney: unforced yet ambitious
18 Sep 2018The songs still seem to pour out of Paul McCartney - good, bad and indifferent. Nick Bollinger considers what his latest set adds to the best-known songbook in pop. Audio
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Bringing Ngāi Tahu sustainability knowledge to Canterbury farmers
Bringing Ngāi Tahu sustainability knowledge to Canterbury farmers
14 Sep 2018Farmers in the Te Waihora / Lake Ellesmere community are becoming environmental stewards as they learn the indigenous practices of mahinga kai, ECan's cultural land management advisor Mananui Ramsden says. Video, Audio
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Standing on the Shoulders: Suffrage from the archives
Standing on the Shoulders: Suffrage from the archives
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision's new exhibition will feature recordings of 125 incredible NZ women including Lorde, WWI doctor Agnes Bennett and one of the first openly lesbian Māori feminists Professor Ngāhuia Te Awekotuku. Audio
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New Zealand women make their voices heard
New Zealand women make their voices heard
19 Sep 2018About 400 people gathered in Auckland's Aotea Square this morning to celebrate the 125th anniversary since women were granted the vote. Audio
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Minimum: Teacher aide's pay makes her feel like dirt
Minimum: Teacher aide's pay makes her feel like dirt
19 Sep 2018Episode 7: Vanessa and Linda love their jobs, and know they're making a huge difference to kids who need them - but the pay they get is just not enough to live on. Video
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Why should women have to sell their music based on how they look?
Why should women have to sell their music based on how they look?
Moana Maniapoto, Victoria Kelly and Cherie Mathieson talk with Karyn Hay about the role of women in the music industry to mark the 125th-anniversary women's suffrage. Audio
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Beyond Kate, Episode 1: Unwrapping the petition
Beyond Kate, Episode 1: Unwrapping the petition
19 Sep 2018Podcast - In this first episode of the suffrage podcast by Sonia Sly, we visit the grave of Mary Jane Carpenter, whose name is the very first of the more than 30,000 that appear on the petition delivered to Parliament. Audio
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Call me 'Madame Maestro'
Call me 'Madame Maestro'
19 Sep 2018For Suffrage Day, Amanda Brown shakes a stick at some female conductors who have blazed their own trails.
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How Papua New Guinea brought back polio
How Papua New Guinea brought back polio
17 Sep 2018This June, PNG became one of the few countries to buck an international trend towards eradicating polio - an incurable virus which causes paralysis in children. Experts say the return of the disease was years in the making.
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Ten Young Kiwi Trailblazers in Music
Ten Young Kiwi Trailblazers in Music
19 Sep 2018The future for New Zealand women in music looks bright if these young trailblazers are anything to go by.
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Five feminist moments in music history
Five feminist moments in music history
19 Sep 2018From English composer Ethel Smyth hurling rocks to Australian conductor Simone Young leading the notoriously conservative Vienna Philharmonic...
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Redressing the balance
Redressing the balance
19 Sep 2018Victoria Kelly, a staunch advocate for a stronger female presence in the music industry, is one of the women composers NZTrio are presenting in their concert 'Braid' to mark Suffrage 125. Audio