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Performance poet Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh
Audio 1 Dec 2013Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh writes about her mother's death and how it's affected her and her family, in a new poetry collection called Dark Sparring. Audio
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Three Days in a Wishing Well
Audio 28 Oct 2012It's taken almost 40 years but Christchurch poet Kerrin Sharpe has realised her dream and published her debut poetry collection, Three Days in a Wishing Well. Audio
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Poet Louise Wallace
Audio 22 Dec 2013Louise Wallace, who's never lost for words, remembers how Alzheimer's affected her grandmother in her new collection, Enough. Audio
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Notes from the South with Dougal Stevenson
Audio 9 May 2010Today Dougal comments on public art in Dunedin. Audio
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Matt Johnson - The The
Matt Johnson has being playing music since he was 11 years old. Best known for his band, The The, Matt Johnson has, in recent times, shunned the spotlight, concentrating on writing music for films… Video, Audio, Gallery
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Shackleton team descendants reach the South Pole
Three descendants of legendary Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton and his men reached the South Pole on Sunday, 100 years after the Anglo-Irish pioneer was forced to turn back 180 kilometres from…
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Living on liquid: the floating house called Freedom Cove
Thirty years ago Catherine King and Wayne Adams started a project to build their dream home - a floating complex off the coast of western Canada which they have dubbed Freedom Cove. What they created… Audio
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Phil Jarratt: Beautiful Waves
Audio 18 Oct 2015Surfer and writer and writer mostly about surfing, Phil Jarratt lives in Noosa - on Australia's Sunshine Coast - which is also home to a National Surfing Reserve. He founded and still runs the world's… Audio
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Blandine Massiet
One of the undoubted highlights of the Doc Edge International Documentary Film Festival is an exploration of the life and work of one of our most celebrated artists - painter Frances Hodgkins. Simon… Audio
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Michael Hurst
This isn't Auckland actor Michael Hurst's first visit to the Classical era, though possibly he's happy to leave his days playing Hercules' side-kick on TV in the past. But his new stage show The… Audio
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Festival lights up Nelson
About 55,000 people turned out for the Light Nelson festival over its four-night run and it has secured a place on the mid-winter calendar, organisers say. Video
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Friends actor James Michael Tyler dies age 59
The US actor, who played Gunther on the show, had been diagnosed with stage four prostate cancer.
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The art of the dull: 'we're the opposite of hipsters'
The Dull Men's Club is an online club for dullsters who celebrate the ordinary and eschew glitz and glam. Audio
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A Korero Between a Poet and an Activist Accounting Scholar
An excerpt from the collab poem 'A Korero Between A Poet and An Activist Accounting Scholar About COVID-19' by Selina Tusitala-Marsh and Pala Molisa. Audio
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Stella Duffy
Author Stella Duffy has written 15 novels, 60 short stories and 11 plays, and is working on an unfinished novel by Dame Ngaio Marsh. Born in England, Stella grew up in Tokoroa, studied in Wellington… Audio
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Good Friday Hymns, 29 March 2024
A selection of hymns for Good Friday. Audio
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Good Friday Hymns, 7 April 2023
A special selection of hymns to mark this important day in the Christian liturgical calendar. Audio
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Israel Adesanya's meteoric rise to UFC champion
The Kiwi who has officially become one of the biggest stars in one of the world's fastest growing sports says he's just getting started.
On Sunday Israel Adesanya became the undisputed world… Video, Audio
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Bill Frisell - Jazz Virtuoso
Grammy award winning guitar legend Bill Frisell joins Wallace to talk about how he has forged his own musical path in the world of jazz. Bill Frisell is coming to Aotearoa for the Wellington Jazz… Audio
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Lord of the Rings actor Bernard Hill dies aged 79
Bernard Hill enjoyed a career spanning decades in film and television.
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Tony McNeight - Giant Poppy
A poppy the size of a football field is being pieced together at Auckland Domain in time for ANZAC Day. Tony McNeight has been working on the project for the past year. Audio
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Sameena Zehra
From performing on street corners in India to the National Theatre in London, comedian, actor, writer, and blues singer Sameena Zehra has spent her life telling stories and, in her own words, holding… Audio
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The Mixtape: DJ Tina Turntables, Station Manager at Radio One
Our guest on the RNZ Mixtape is Kristina Simons, aka DJ Tina Turntables. She started her career in music television, working at Juice TV, Max TV and Alt TV and continued to work in entertainment media… Audio
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The Fantasy of the Middle Ages - Anne Wallentine
Anne Wallentine is a writer and art historian based in Los Angeles. She discusses an exhibition at the Getty Center, The Fantasy of the Middle Ages, which depicts how people have reimagined the… Video, Audio
