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Shining a light on child labour: Simon Lister
10:35 AM.In 2016 Sydney based New Zealander Simon Lister started working for UNICEF, travelling the world as its photographer and videographer, and building up an image library for use in its global network of… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Tom Scott: In pursuit of the real Charles Upham
10:06 AM.Since his schooldays, cartoonist and writer Tom Scott has greatly admired one of our national heroes: Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham, the only combat soldier to win the Victoria Cross twice. In his new… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Brannavan Gnanalingam tackles toxic masculinity in new novel Sprigs
9:40 AM.We often see people at their worst when they're put to the test and looking for an easy way out, says Wellington writer Brannavan Gnanalingam. His new novel Sprigs explores the story of a… Read more Audio
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Choreographer Twyla Tharp
9:07 AM.Twyla Tharp, one of the world's greatest living choreographers, is due to bring her dance work "Waterbaby Bagatelles" to New Zealand stages for the first time. Waterbaby Bagatelles is a suite of… Read more Audio
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Crusaders vs Blues Super Rugby match cancelled
8:58 AM.Sports reporter Barry Guy was due to attend the sold out Super Rugby match between the Crusaders and Blues scheduled for Eden Park tomorrow night. How are he and ohter fans feeling about the… Read more Audio
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How is Tokoroa doing?
8:57 AM.The Waikato town on Tokoroa recorded its first two Covid cases yesterday- these are connected to the cluster in Auckland. We checked in with Larry Sullivan has been working at a clothing shop on… Read more Audio
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Limits continue for weddings, funerals and tangihanga in AK
8:55 AM.The extension of the lockdown means weddings, funerals and tangihanga in Auckland are limited to only 10 people for another 12 days. Kim talked to Rachel Nash, an Auckland wedding celebrant and… Read more Audio
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Mangere Budgeting Services Trust chief Executive Darryl Evans
8:50 AM.Mangere Budgeting Services Trust chief Executive Darryl Evans. Audio
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ANZ New Zealand chief economist Sharon Zollner
8:41 AM.ANZ New Zealand chief economist Sharon Zollner. Audio
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Epidemiologist Sir David Skegg - how to avoid future lockdowns
8:30 AM.New Zealand needs to dramatically improve its pandemic response if it is to avoid going in to lockdown every time there is an outbreak. Epidemiologist Sir David Skegg from Otago University says having… Read more Audio
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President of Auckland Secondary Principals Association
8:25 AM.Steven Hargreaves is the President of Auckland Secondary Principals Association and the principal of Macleans College. Audio
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Auckland business owners on Level 3 extension
8:20 AM.Roz Cattell is a cafe owner, general manager of a coffee roaster, and on the board of The NZ Specialty Coffee Association Viv Beck is Chief Executive of Heart of the City, Auckland's city centre… Read more Audio
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Auckland Mayor Phil Goff relieved
8:15 AM.Auckland's mayor is relieved the severity of his city's lockdown has not been ramped up, or extended for too long.
Phil Goff, told Kim Hill the extension of the wage subsidy beyond the end of this… Read more Audio
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Ross and Janette Campbell: escape from Owlcatraz
4:40 PM.Ross and Janette Campbell have run Owlcatraz, an iconic owl and animal sanctuary, from their property in Shannon for the past 23 years. After battling storms and beating cancer, they've decided it's… Read more Audio
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Listener feedback for 8 August 2020
11:59 AM.Kim Hill reads listener feedback. Audio
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Portraits of pregnancy: Mary Kisler
11:40 AM.Art historian and curator Mary Kisler is back to discuss a major exhibition in London that explores portraits of the pregnant body over 500 years. Portraying Pregnancy: From Holbein to Social Media is… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Dixon Chibanda on his revolutionary mental health intervention
11:05 AM.Dixon Chibanda is one of only 12 psychiatrists in Zimbabwe serving a population of more than 16 million people: and over 90 per cent of them don't have access to therapy or antidepressants. To help… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Tim Saunders: This Farming Life
10:05 AM.'An unsentimental yet lyrical love letter to the land' is how reviewer Linda Burgess describes Fielding farmer, Tim Saunders' new book This Farming Life. Tim also writes poetry and won the 2018… Read more Audio
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Paint-maker David Coles: the colourful history of pigments
9:05 AM.Melbourne-based David Coles is one of very few master paint-makers in the world. In his book Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour, he blends art, science and history in tracing some of the… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Concern for merchant sailors stranded in NZ waters
8:30 AM.Maritime unions are worried about the deteriorating treatment, mental health, and employment conditions of an estimated 300,000 merchant sailors stranded at sea, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The… Read more Audio
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TikTok: is time up for the app in the US?
8:10 AM.President Donald Trump has ordered US firms to stop doing business with the wildly popular TikTok app and with WeChat within 45 days in a major escalation in Washington's stand-off with Beijing… Read more Audio
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Listener feedback for 1 August 2020
11:55 AM.Listener feedback for 1 August 2020. Audio
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Kate's Klassics: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
11:45 AM."I am an invisible man....I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids- and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see… Read more Audio
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Pablo Larraín: Chilean director on Ema
11:05 AM.Chilean film-maker Pablo Larraín, whose previous films include No, the Oscar-nominated Jackie, and Neruda, teams up Mexican actor Gael García Bernal and newcomer Mariana Di Girolamo in Ema. A story… Read more Video, Audio