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World News Wrap for 10 September 2025
Let's catch up with what's been going on around the world with Alice Wilkins. Audio
Jessica Leigh
Jessica Leigh joins us in studio to chat about her latest single and upcoming music pursuits. The team updates you on recent events including the baseball Karen from all over the internet Audio
World News Wrap for 9 September 2025
Let's catch up with what's been going on around the world with Alice Wilkins. Audio
When a retirement village feels more like a student hostel
Retirement village living should feel like home, but in some cases residents have the status of students in a hostel
Skinsuit
Content warning: This episode of Tukua contains discussions of nudity and sexual practices and may not be suitable for everyone.
Skinsuit is an artistic expression of pole dance, striptease, and… Audio
World News Wrap for 8 September 2025
Let's catch up with what's been going on around the world with Alice Wilkins. Audio
The power imbalance that hits in old age
Retirement village living should feel like home, but in some cases residents have the status of students in a hostel. Audio
Jay Epae, Aotearoa's secret Scandinavian star
In 1961, a singer from a small Taranaki town had a No.1 hit in Sweden with a te reo song, but few people in Aotearoa heard the record at the time.
Kapa haka brings first Koroneihana of Māori monarch to close
With a waiata and lowering of the flags, the first Koroneihana of Te Arikinui Kuini Nga wai hono i te po came to an end.
Decades of living a lie - being lesbian before the 90s
In the 1990s, Lois Cox interviewed lesbian women about their lives in Wellington. Some 25 years later, those stories have been published.
Stories of sexuality as the closet door opened
In the 1990s, Lois Cox interviewed lesbian women about their lives in Wellington. Some 25 years later, those stories have been published. Audio
Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Featuring new music from Varda, Blood Orange and Skepta & Fred Again... Audio
The influence and legacy of Giorgio Armani
Murray Crane of Crane Brothers has been designing New Zealand menswear for more than 25 years, with Armani a constant presence throughout his career. Audio
IVY & Mila Vandelle
We speak with Dunedin band IVY about all things being insanely cool indie rockers. We're lucky to have Mila Vandelle visit for one of her first ever interviews after her debut release. Audio
92wrld & Salem Mahia
We have chats with both 92wrld and Salem Mahia and have some team debates around the Polish CEO who in the viral clip online took a tennis players gifted hat out of the hands of a child Audio
The point of life, with puppets
Puppeteer Chye-Ling Huang joins Emile Donovan to preview her existential puppet show Let It Die showing at Auckland's Basement Theatre this week. Audio
The phenomenal impact of Outlander
If there's any country that understands and appreciates what film or television can do for tourism, it's us, here in New Zealand. Over the past decade, Scotland has been experiencing something… Audio
Jennifer Ludlum returns to stage as fierce matriarch
Jennifer Ludlum is on stage again and this time, as a ferocious, complicated and dramatic matriarch in Silo's Mother Play. Written by American Pulitzer-winning playwright, Paula Vogel, it first… Audio
