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Jared Davidson: how prison labour built New Zealand
11:05 AM.Some of New Zealand's most important roads, buildings, botanic gardens and great walks were constructed by forced labour, in an era where idleness and waste was deemed more criminal then crime… Read more Audio
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Darryl Leigh Thomson (DLT) reflects on 50 years of hip hop
10:05 AM.A party in New York's Bronx neighbourhood on August 11th, 1973, DJ'ed by Kool Herc, is considered to be hip-hop's genesis moment. The art form that was born that day has since gone global, becoming a… Read more Video, Audio
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Megan Dunn: worshipping art
9:45 AM.Art writer and author Megan Dunn is taking us to church. A surprising amount of art can be found on the walls and windows of Aotearoa's places of worship. Milan Mrkusich, Doreen Blumhardt, Nigel Brown… Read more Audio, Gallery
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The personal artistic agony of Gabriel Krauze
9:05 AM.Gabriel Krauze's extra curricular activities were a little different from the average English literature student. While completing his degree at London's Queen Mary College, he was involved in gangs… Read more Audio
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Dr Ratu Mataira: Kiwi physicist joins the nuclear fusion race
8:10 AM.Physicist Dr Ratu Mataira is on a mission to harness the power of the sun. The 31 year old leads OpenStar Technologies, a Wellington based start-up building a 'levitated dipole' fusion reactor… Read more Audio
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Emojis expert tells all: Characters and their alternative meanings
6:00 PM.Face with Tears of Joy, Skull, Melting Face, Eyes. Emoji have been called the first language born of the digital world, with over 3,000 "picture characters" available to add emotional nuance to… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Listener feedback for 5 August 2023
11:55 AM.Listener feedback for 5 August 2023. Audio
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Anna Funder: how George Orwell wrote his wife out of his story
11:10 AM.All That I Am and Stasiland author Anna Funder's new book Wifedom rewrites the life of her literary hero George Orwell to put a main character back in the story. Blending forensic research, fiction… Read more Audio
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Dr Cady Coleman: the loneliness of life in space
10:30 AM.Beyond our romanticized vision of space exploration is a day-to-day life of physical and social isolation and confinement in an unnatural environment of microgravity and artificial light. New… Read more Video, Audio
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Dr Roderick Mulgan: How to boost your immunity to disease
10:05 AM.Aged-care doctor Dr Roderick Mulgan has a long-held interest in preventative medicine, with a research focus on inflammation, longevity, immunity and the role of functional foods. His new book, Build… Read more Audio
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Former US Judge Nancy Gertner on Trump's charges and chances
9:11 AM.Former U.S. federal judge Nancy Gertner was appointed to the bench of the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts by President Bill Clinton in 1994, retiring in 2011 to teach at Harvard Law School, and… Read more Audio
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Gez Medinger: an insider's guide to Long Covid
8:10 AM.One in ten people who test positive for Covid-19 develop Long Covid, immunologist Danny Altmann told RNZ a couple of weeks ago. His recent book The Long Covid Handbook was co-written with a Long Covid… Read more Video, Audio
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Playing favourites with Joel Tobeck
3:05 PM.Years ago, before they'd met, Joel Tobeck's highly recognisable face attracted a kiss from Kim Hill at a Wellington theatre. The versatile 52-year-old actor and musician reunites with Kim to talk… Read more Video, Audio
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How pain affects our pets' behaviour
4:06 PM.How do we know when our cats and dogs are in pain? And how does pain affect their behaviour? These are among the topics being explored by Dr Sarah Heath, keynote speaker at next weekend's Kiwi Vet… Read more Audio
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Saturday morning feedback
12:00 PM.Saturday morning listener feedbacl Audio
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Dr Alyssa Lie: could eye drops replace reading glasses?
10:45 AM.Eye drops are in the frame to replace reading glasses for middle age farsightedness, or presbyopia. The FDA has approved prescription-only Vuity™ drops for sale in the US to aid presbyopia, and… Read more Audio
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Deborah Hunt: the romance of Red Mole
10:05 AM.Founded by the late Alan Brunton and Sally Rodwell in the early 1970s, avant-garde New Zealand performance collective Red Mole doggedly pursued a vision to embrace the energetic, romantic and erratic… Read more Video, Audio
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Marie Darrieussecq: reflections on insomnia
9:40 AM.Shortly after the birth of her first child in 2001 French writer Marie Darrieussecq developed insomnia, and she's not been able to get a good night's sleep since. She's spent some of her many waking… Read more Audio
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Alice Sherwood: the fashion for authenticity in a world of fakes
9:05 AM.Knock-offs are big business, worth $600 billion a year on the world market: anything from whiskey and bags to footwear and hair care products. In her book Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a… Read more Audio
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Prof Peter Ditlevsen: crucial ocean current system heading for collapse
8:10 AM.The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current (AMOC) is part of a conveyor belt of currents that circulate water around the world, regulating weather and sea level. Professor Peter Ditlevsen from… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Listener feedback for 22 July 2023
11:55 AM.Listener feedback for 22 July 2023. Audio
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Thomasin Sleigh on The Words For Her
11:30 AM.People love sharing photos and videos. There are unknowably huge numbers of images on-line. But what if you disappeared from your own photo-album? The rest of the scene still there, but your face is… Read more Audio
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'Survived the test of time': Vegemite spread still popular 100 years on from invention
11:05 AM.It's 100 years since Australian chemist Cyril Callister invented Vegemite as an alternative to Marmite, which had become scarce due to German U-boats sinking the ships bringing the English spread… Read more Video, Audio
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Below Deck star Aesha Scott: 'I'll keep doing it as long as my sanity will let me'
10:45 AM.Superyacht stewardess Aesha Scott is a fan favourite on the American reality show Below Deck for her work ethic and relentless positivity. The Tauranga-born TV personality tells Kim Hill that… Read more Video, Audio
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Filmmaker Nicolas Philibert on the art of patient observation
10:05 AM.French filmmaker Nicolas Philibert is known for his intimate and patiently observed documentaries capturing the beauty of everyday humanity. He's most well known for 2002's Etre et Avoir which… Read more Audio