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Adam Wills: changing food culture
Expatriate Wellingtonian Adam Wills co-founded Gourmet Burger Kitchen in 2001, changing the UK burger scene. Five years ago, he co-founded Kopapa Café and Restaurant in Seven Dials, London, and just… Audio
Russell Gray: DNA and language
Professor Russell Gray, FRSNZ, is the Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany. Audio
Photography and science
Anne Noble, ONZM, is Distinguished Professor of Fine Art (Photography) at Whiti o Rehua School of Art, Massey University. As a photographer and curator her work spans still and moving image… Audio
Ross Ashcroft: economics and Europe
Ross Ashcroft is a British filmmaker, renegade economist, essayist and strategist. He is the founder of the media company Motherlode, and the online platform Renegade Inc., and his 2011 feature… Audio
Africa to Aotearoa
Lisa Matisoo-Smith is Professor of Biological Anthropology and Allan Wilson Centre Principal Investigator at the University of Otago, and has been conducting a 2000-sample DNA survey of New Zealanders… Audio
BBC reporter mistakenly tweets Queen's death
A BBC reporter mistakenly tweeted the Queen had died last night. Audio
Jeremy Clarkson dropped by BBC
The BBC has announced that it's not renewing Jeremy Clarkson's contract. Audio
Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson fired
Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson been fired by the BBC. Audio
Top gear's top gun gone
Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson is out the car door. The BBC has finished its inquiry and found Clarkson did assault a producer. We talk to lawyer Steph Dyhrberg what it takes to get fired. Audio
Media: byting back
Glenn Williams, Cate Owen, Vaughn Davis, Lynn Freeman, and Shaun D Wilson discuss what technology media will take advantage of, and be pushed into in 2015. Audio
Playing Favourites with Sandi Toksvig
Author, playwright and broadcaster who is a regular panelist on the quiz programme QI, and is a guest of the Auckland Writers Festival. Audio
Outtake - The 'Crystal Palace'
Mark Ayres talks about the 'Crystal Palace' - a device built by Dave Young, renowned engineer at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Audio
Outtake - Malcolm Clarke and 'The Sea Devils'
Mark Ayres talks about Malcolm Clarke's 'in-your-face' electronic score for the Dr Who series The Sea Devils from 1972, realised on the Delaware, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's huge Synthi 100… Audio
Outtake - Delia's tapes
Mark Ayres talks about Delia Derbyshire's archive of tapes - and the cataloguing problems it caused - and discusses her prescient use of a synthesised rhythm track on her Dance from 'Noah' from about… Audio
Urban Disturbance in Broadcasting House
The career of BBC Radio One presenter Zane Lowe and his challenge for the title of NZ's Most Successful Broadcaster. The programme also looks back through Lowe’s diverse musical history, tracing his… Audio
