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Professor Ella Henry
Earlier this month Ella Henry delivered her inaugural professorial address at AUT Business School. Her background includes time at poet James K Baxter's commune, Jerusalem, on the Whanganui River in the 1970s, living up a tree in a Queensland rain forest, working on a prawn trawler and sailing to apartheid era South… Audio
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Julian Arahanga on his new documentary Mana Moana, Mana Tangata
12 Jul 2025The world premiere for the film will be in Tamaki Makaurau tomorrow as part of the Doc Edge Festival. It tells the story of how Maori fought to reclaim their… Audio
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Wellington political insider Chris Wikaira
5 Jul 2025Today on Mapuna we sift through the politics of our capital city with Chris Wikaira, a veteran journalist and public relations guru and look back on his career… Audio
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Mapuna Matariki special
21 Jun 2025Mapuna joined RNZ's team at the national hautapu ceremony at Tirorangi Marae near Mount Ruapehu. Today we'll feature different perspectives on Matariki ma… Audio
Saturday 2 August 2025
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One man play 'Ration the Queen's Veges'
Photo: Actor Ngahiriwa Rauhina
Actor Ngahiriwa Rauhina shapeshifts through a dozen different characters drawing from real voices collected by activist Te Wehi Ratana during his 48-hour stint in Rimutaka Prison in 2023. He was part of a protest which painted over the English Treaty of Waitangi exhibit at Te Papa to leave a redacted version of the text. Ngahiriwa Rauhina also talks about his grandfather who started a theatre troupe in an Austrian prisoner of war camp during World War Two.
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