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  • Review: The Old Oak

    Audio
    movies
    6 Dec 2023
    Movie still from 2023 Ken Loach film The Old Oak

    Dan Slevin reviewsThe Old Oak, 87-year-old director Ken Loach's latest film about a clash of cultures in an English village. Audio

  • Review: The Old Oak

    News
    At the Movies movies
    6 Dec 2023
    Movie still from 2023 Ken Loach film The Old Oak

    Dan Slevin reviewsThe Old Oak, 87-year-old director Ken Loach's latest film about a clash of cultures in an English village.

    Audio

    Review: The Old Oak
  • Book review: The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas

    Audio
    books
    6 Dec 2023

    Phil Vine reviews The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas published by Allen & Unwin Audio

  • Book Critic: Catherine Ross

    Audio
    books
    5 Dec 2023

    Today Mt Roskill Grammar Library Manager Catherine Ross has a great list of summer reads for younger people. Today she reviews: For ages 6-10 years: Whetu Toa and the Magician by Steph Matuku For ages… Audio

  • Book review: A Memoir of My Former Self by Hilary Mantel

    Audio
    books
    5 Dec 2023

    Louise O'Brien reviews A Memoir of My Former Self by Hilary Mantel published by Hachette Audio

  • Book review: Wish I Was Here by M. John Harrison

    Audio 4 Dec 2023

    David Hill reviews Wish I Was Here by M. John Harrison published by Serpent's Tale Audio

  • Review: Rugby League in New Zealand: A people’s history

    Audio
    sport
    1 Dec 2023
    Ryan Bodman’s Rugby League in New Zealand A People's history tells the story of the sport its introduction to the country in 1907,
revealing the deep-rooted connections between rugby league’s development and the evolving cultural fabric of New Zealand.

    A masterpiece of its genre, examining the history of the sport  from the inside out, Ryan Bodman makes us realise that rugby league has done well to survive, let alone thrive, writes Michael Burgess.

    …
  • Book review: Secret Gardens of Aotearoa by Jane Mahoney and Sophie Bannan

    Audio
    books
    1 Dec 2023

    Sonja de Friez reviews Secret Gardens of Aotearoa by Jane Mahoney and Sophie Bannan published by Allen and Unwin Audio

  • Book review: Rugby League in New Zealand: A People's History

    Audio
    books
    30 Nov 2023

    Dean Bedford reviews Rugby League in New Zealand: A People's History by Ryan Bodman published by Bridget Williams Books Audio

  • Slowing property market hits Ryman Healthcare

    News
    Business health
    29 Nov 2023
    Ryman Healthcare

    Retirement village operator Ryman Healthcare has posted a lower half-year profit on lower property value gains.

    Slowing property market hits Ryman Healthcare
  • Book review: Went to London, Took the Dog by Nina Stibbe

    Audio
    books
    29 Nov 2023

    Hannah August reviews Went to London, Took the Dog by Nina Stibbe published by Pan Macmillan Audio

  • Book review: The Stirrings by Catherine Taylor

    Audio
    books
    28 Nov 2023

    Kiran Dass reviews The Stirrings by Catherine Taylor published by Weindfeld and Nicholson Audio

  • Man faces painful delays getting abcesses treated at Southland Hospital

    News
    New Zealand health
    27 Nov 2023
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    A man with recurring, painful abscesses suffered unacceptable delays while trying to get treated at Southland Hospital.

    Man faces painful delays getting abcesses treated at Southland Hospital
  • Booker Prize: 'Prophet Song' announced as 2023 winner

    News
    World
    27 Nov 2023
    The six finalists for the 2023 Booker Prize

    Paul Lynch's dystopian novel tells the story of a family trying to survive as Ireland descends into Civil War. Audio

    Booker Prize: 'Prophet Song' by Paul Lynch announced as 2023 winner
  • Book review: The Conversion by Amanda Lohrey

    Audio
    books
    27 Nov 2023

    Bel Moneypenny from Scorpio Books in Christchurch reviews The Conversion by Amanda Lohrey published by Text Publishing Audio

  • The Week in Detail: Congestion, divorce, and toxic algae

    Audio
    conservation politics
    26 Nov 2023
    A close up of caulerpa seaweed. It has green-yellow, feathery leaves. A clump sits on a beach.

    The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

  • The Week in Detail: Congestion, divorce, and toxic algae

    News
    The Detail conservation
    26 Nov 2023
    A close up of caulerpa seaweed. It has green-yellow, feathery leaves. A clump sits on a beach.

    The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

    Audio

    The Week in Detail: Congestion, divorce, and toxic algae
  • Watchdog warns media laws need urgent upgrade

    Audio
    media politics
    26 Nov 2023
    Stacey Wood, chief executive of the Broadcasting Standards Authority

    The chief of the country’s most powerful media watchdog says we need new laws now to hold media to account in future. The outgoing government had a plan for one single body to oversee rules for all… Video, Audio

  • Watchdog warns media laws need urgent upgrade

    News
    Mediawatch media
    26 Nov 2023
    Stacey Wood, chief executive of the Broadcasting Standards Authority

    The chief of the country’s most powerful media watchdog says we need new laws now to hold media to account in future. The outgoing government had a plan for one single body to oversee rules for all…

    Video, Audio

    Watchdog warns media laws need urgent upgrade
  • Read all about it: The 2023 Booker Prize Shortlist

    News
    World Comment & Analysis
    25 Nov 2023
    A stack of the six books on the Booker Prize shortlist for 2023

    Devoted reader Jeremy Rees read all the books in the 2023 Booker Prize shortlist (so you don't have to). Here's what he and the judges have to say about the six novels on this year's shortlist.

    Booker Prize 2023 cheat sheet: All the shortlisted books, reviewed
  • Long Read: Weighing the Booker Prize shortlist

    Audio
    life and society books
    25 Nov 2023
    Man Booker Prize winner Anna Burns holds her book 'Milkman'.

    By Jeremy Rees: I read every book shortlisted for the most prestigious literary award in the world. Here's what I found. Audio

  • Long Read: Weighing the Booker Prize shortlist

    News
    The Detail life and society
    25 Nov 2023
    Man Booker Prize winner Anna Burns holds her book 'Milkman'.

    By Jeremy Rees: I read every book shortlisted for the most prestigious literary award in the world. Here's what I found.

    Audio

    Long Read: Weighing the Booker Prize shortlist
  • Who triumphs within the triumvirate?

    News
    Politics
    24 Nov 2023
    Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and ACT leader David Seymour on 24 November, 2023.

    Power Play: The coalition leadership's first public appearance gave a taste of the dynamics around the incoming administration and the personalities that will drive it.

    Who triumphs within the triumvirate?
  • Explainer: Who will win the 2023 Booker Prize?

    News
    World
    24 Nov 2023
    The six shortlisted authors for the 2023 Booker Prize. From top left: Paul Murray, Sarah Bernstein, Paul Lynch. From bottom right: Paul Harding, Jonathan Escoffery, Chetna Maroo.

    The most celebrated literary award in the English-speaking world is announced next week. Jeremy Rees explains what all the fuss is about.

    Explainer: Who will win the 2023 Booker Prize?
  • Book review: Rambling Man My Life on the Road by Billy

    Audio
    books
    24 Nov 2023

    Lisa Adler from Unity Books Wellington reviews Rambling Man My Life on the Road by Billy Connolly published by Hachette Audio

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