Features
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'My new puppy is going to last for 10 years so I have to last 10 years'
2 Mar 2024In the lead-up to her 80th birthday, opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa reflects on her life and career. Audio, Gallery
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The Mixtape: Martin Kwok
2 Mar 2024Wellington sound editor, DJ and music obsessive Martin Kwok shares some of his favourite tracks of all time. Video, Audio
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Who owns the moon?
As private corporations invest billions in the space race, we need tighter regulation of their off-Earth activity, says British philosopher AC Grayling. Audio
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Marlborough Sounds farmers take action to clean waterways
1 Mar 2024"We're all working as a team in the whole district, which is quite nice." Audio
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New Horizons: Allison Russell - From Montreal to Nashville
3 Mar 2024Canadian singer Allison Russell was on Joni Mitchell's Newport and Hollywood Bowl stages, stood alongside Rhiannon Giddens and Leyla McCalla for Songs of Our Native Daughters and has released two splendid solo albums. William Dart follows her career. Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 3 March 2024
3 Mar 2024This week, we’ve hymns that focus on peace, unity and consolation, including Make me a channel of your peace (The Prayer of St Francis), and Margaret Rizza’s In the Lord is my joy and salvation. Audio
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NZ Live: Geneva AM
1 Mar 2024Geneva Alexander-Marsters (aka Geneva AM) is a singer and beatmaker based on Waiheke Island. Video, Audio
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The Mixtape - Martin Kwok: behind the sound in Beatles ‘Get Back’ and ‘Dune: Two’
2 Mar 2024As Dune: Part Two opens in cinemas this week one pair of ears will be tuning in more than most - those of Wellington based, Emmy award winning sound editor Martin Kwok. Video, Audio
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Chaos in the CBD: from the North Shore to London’s top house clubs
2 Mar 2024Ben and Louis Helliker-Hales are Chaos in the CBD, the New Zealand brother DJ duo making waves across the world. Audio
Maggie Tweedie catches up on their touring life abroad, and a special music collaboration with another Aotearoa treasure, Nathan Haines. Audio
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Wool, sweat and shears
Masterton is buzzing this weekend for The Golden Shears - a shearing competition billed as the world's best. Video, Audio
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Life after an ADHD diagnosis at 52
28 Feb 2024Julie Legg shares her own story and those of other Kiwi women in The Missing Piece – a new book about the experience of adult ADHD. Audio
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Recipe: Tomato & Summer Fruit Panzanella
2 Mar 2024Make the most of the last summer fruit with Jess Daniell's twist on an Italian classic.
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Can Newshub be saved?
1 Mar 2024After 35 years, the New Zealand news service is facing closure. The Detail looks at whether a white knight may still appear on the horizon. Audio
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Your opera company needs you
22 Feb 2024Frances Moore from NZ Opera talks about company's efforts to encourage New Zealanders to write new ones. Audio
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'It's wonderful to see how many young people have incredible individual style'
1 Mar 2024Former British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman chats to Kathryn Ryan about the state of fashion. Audio
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Alice Snedden on climate change: 'It's almost too big to handle'
28 Feb 2024Comedian Alice Snedden explores our curiously apathetic response to environmental damage in the doco series Bad News. Video, Audio
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How to go tramping with young children
28 Feb 2024When Canterbury photographer Shoshana Schande hits the hills, it's usually with her five-year-old son and 18-month-old daughter in tow. Audio
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Movie review: Dune Part Two
1 Mar 2024The second instalment of Denis Villeneuve's space sage is long, dense and exciting, writes Dan Slevin. Video
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Health explainer: Continuous glucose monitors
1 Mar 2024You might have seen your favourite wellness or fitness influencer sporting a small white spot on their upper arm. It’s a continuous glucose monitor (GGM) and it’s the latest biohacker ‘wearable’.
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Callum Allardice thinks big
26 Feb 2024Jazz guitarist and composer Callum Allardice has gone seriously big band for his new album, Cinematic Light Orchestra. Video, Audio
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'I felt like I was just living and breathing Middle Earth'
It is 20 years today since Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King swept all 11 categories it was nominated for at the Oscars, including costume design and makeup - for which Wellington's Wētā Workshop was responsible. Audio
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Aivale Cole: back with the old gang
27 Feb 2024Wellington-born Samoan singer Aivale Cole is back into full-time singing, and back in Aotearoa to perform in the Auckland Festival gig The O.Gs, a celebration of the first wave of Pasifika opera stars. Video, Audio
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The undersea orchestra
29 Feb 2024The Voice of Tangaroa - Crackle, pop, woof, crunch, click. In the ocean, an undersea orchestra is in full swing. Journalist Kate Evans discovers who’s playing in it and why, and what happens when human noise drowns out this symphony in the sea. Audio
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At The Movies: The Zone of Interest
28 Feb 2024The Zone of Interest is a harrowing film about the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp and his family - the pictures are almost home movies, the sound is pure horror, writes Simon Morris. Video, Audio