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Parker a 'better boxer' than Joshua
Parker a 'better boxer' than Joshua
21 Mar 2018A leading British boxing pundit believes there is no doubt Joseph Parker is a better boxer than Anthony Joshua.
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Live session: Rahim AlHaj
Live session: Rahim AlHaj
22 Mar 2018Iraqi oud composer Rahim AlHaj performs 'Eastern Love' live for RNZ Music at WOMAD 2018 in New Plymouth.
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Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
22 Mar 2018It's 100 years since the death of the revered French composer who created a new sound world in classical music. Influenced by poets, painters, nature and eastern sonorities, his music's been described as 'an impressionist marvel, it trembles like a mass of shimmering pointillist particles'.
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At The Movies
At The Movies
21 Mar 2018Simon Morris looks at two films about historic figures who’ve often been sidetracked by history. And once again a movie based on a popular video-game proves a loser on the big screen. Video, Audio
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Explainer: Why you should care about Cambridge Analytica
Explainer: Why you should care about Cambridge Analytica
21 Mar 2018Facebook has lost billions of dollars in value, because of something about data. Confused? Here's what it means, and what could come next. Audio
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Google news move as pressure mounts on 'big tech'
Google news move as pressure mounts on 'big tech'
22 Mar 2018Tech giant Google is splashing out some of its substantial profits on new tools to ease the news media's problems at a time when 'big tech' is under big pressure worldwide.
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Live session: Rahim AlHaj at WOMAD 2018
Live session: Rahim AlHaj at WOMAD 2018
22 Mar 2018Iraqi oud composer Rahim AlHaj performs 'Eastern Love' live for RNZ Music at WOMAD 2018.
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'I find a lot of things to rejoice in'
'I find a lot of things to rejoice in'
17 Mar 2018Sir Lloyd Geering, the controversial theologian famously charged with heresy, has turned 100, and finds there's a lot to be optimistic about. Audio
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Fentanyl found at music festival
Fentanyl found at music festival
More of the dangerous opioid fentanyl is being imported into the country and has now turned up at a music festival, The Wireless reports.
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Clinton's 'horrible' campaign cost her
Clinton's 'horrible' campaign cost her
21 Mar 2018If Hillary Clinton had been more like Jacinda Ardern she would be American president today, says political consultant and pollster Frank Luntz. Audio
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Troubled waters: music's notorious feuds
Troubled waters: music's notorious feuds
20 Mar 2018Whether it's Yoko in the studio, Art on location, Marvin’s messy divorce, the Gallaghers’ brotherly hate or Prince’s corporate enslavement, some great music comes from feuds. Audio
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Walk On By
Walk On By
18 Mar 2018William Dart goes on a digression about the many versions of Burt Bacharach's song 'Walk On By', before looking at the musician Kramer and his new album of Brill Building covers. Video, Audio
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Te Papa's ambitious new art spaces
Te Papa's ambitious new art spaces
18 Mar 2018Te Papa’s biggest revamp in two decades gives a third more space in the national museum to art. Does it do justice to the nation's art collection? Audio, Gallery
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Beatle's drummer finally gets a gong
Beatle's drummer finally gets a gong
The Beatles' drummer Ringo Starr has been knighted for his services to music 21 years after his sole surviving former bandmate, Paul McCartney.
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Brothers from another mother
Brothers from another mother
24 Mar 2018Today's hip-hop 'battles' have interesting similarities with the tradition of Samoan oratory, says music producer Anonymouz. Video, Audio
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Pacific businesses from the region showcase products to NZ
Pacific businesses from the region showcase products to NZ
21 Mar 2018Pacific Trade Invest New Zealand is launching a new market to showcase how businesses from the region are stepping up globally.
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Getting on top of your weeds
Getting on top of your weeds
19 Mar 2018Most weeds are ineffective as a living green mulch to protect desired plants as they compete with with them for nutrients, water and sunlight, ecological scientist Colin Meurk says. Audio, Gallery
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Dissecting Ed Sheeran's record-breaking appeal
Dissecting Ed Sheeran's record-breaking appeal
21 Mar 2018When it comes to Ed Sheeran there are two positions: passionate defence, as exhibited by millions of devoted ‘Sheerios’, or intense vitriol. Melody Thomas attempts to understand the hatred and the appeal.
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'For three days I was on my own climbing around vertical rock cliff faces'
'For three days I was on my own climbing around vertical rock cliff faces'
19 Mar 2018Bruce Hopkins solves an age-old mystery while traversing the Richmond Range on The Long Way Home. Audio
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'Yep, that's good, keep going, don't stop'
'Yep, that's good, keep going, don't stop'
What is consent and how do you know when it's been given? Episode 2 of The REAL Sex Talk explores what 'enthusiastic and keen' might look and sound like.
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
20 Mar 2018From the archives: here you can enjoy all of the sonnets of Shakespeare, read by New Zealanders.
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'There was a fear separatists were behind the petition'
'There was a fear separatists were behind the petition'
18 Mar 2018Sociologist Joanna Kidman tells Te Ahi Kaa why people at first protested the 2015 petition calling for the NZ Land Wars to be commemorated. Audio
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Marshalls president says women key to coping with climate change
Marshalls president says women key to coping with climate change
20 Mar 2018The president of the Marshall Islands Hilda Heine says building on the ingenuity of the Marshalls' outer islands women will be one of the keys for the country to cope with climate change.
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A drug experiment gone wrong?
A drug experiment gone wrong?
Our watered-down synthetic drug law failed to prevent 25 deaths last year. Mava Enoka investigates whether an upcoming amendment will help.