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Uncovering our past
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Uncovering our past

For veteran broadcaster Cameron Bennett, navigating the origins and consequences of the New Zealand Wars has been both confronting and exhilarating.

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3 mins  |
April 27-May 3, 2024
Friend or foe?
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Friend or foe?

An ambiguous war memorial on the banks of the Waikato River raises confronting questions about what it is commemorating.

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8 mins  |
April 27-May 3, 2024
Taonga tales
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Taonga tales

Collections of war memorabilia no longer just signify battles and bravery; they have evolved to tell us about ourselves.

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9 mins  |
April 27-May 3, 2024
Branching out
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Branching out

A lexander Hamilton described the courts as the least dangerous branch of government.

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2 mins  |
April 27-May 3, 2024
A real head banger
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A real head banger

We owe an incalculable debt to scientists but they could have done with a crash course in tact before laying their latest, inevitably disempowering, tranche of findings on us: intermittent fasting could kill you, they now tell us in their pitiless way.

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2 mins  |
April 27-May 3, 2024
New media epoch
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New media epoch

The week it was confirmed that a significant chunk of the nation's news media landscape was to disappear was also the week I officially retired my own long-standing media venture. No jobs were lost.

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2 mins  |
April 27-May 3, 2024
All going to pot
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All going to pot

What would happen when Germany legalised cannabis?

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2 mins  |
April 27-May 3, 2024
Dying of the light
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Dying of the light

If the coalition sees any value in preserving balanced journalism, its lifeline might be a little late in coming.

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4 mins  |
April 27-May 3, 2024
Candid cameras in wartime
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Candid cameras in wartime

Clandestine photos have been unearthed and turned into a documentary showing Kiwi soldiers during World War II as they have never been seen before.

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2 mins  |
April 20-26, 2024
Return of the queen
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Return of the queen

Beth Orton brings the personal songs of her career-reviving album to NZ.

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4 mins  |
April 20-26, 2024
Fanny, the musical
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Fanny, the musical

How do you turn Jane Austen into opera and why pick Mansfield Park, her most demanding novel? Composer Jonathan Dove explains his approach to Richard Betts.

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4 mins  |
April 20-26, 2024
It's in the blood
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It's in the blood

Michael Bennett returns his Maori detective to her roots ina convincing, highly anticipated second novel.

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3 mins  |
April 20-26, 2024
Touchstones
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Touchstones

Ahead of the Aotearoa Art Fair, Sally Blundell asks New Zealand artists about their favourite local artwork and why it moves them.

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6 mins  |
April 20-26, 2024
Room at the Top
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Room at the Top

The Opportunities Party could well be a force to be reckoned with as a centrist voice - it's just lacking a leader, a campaign and a lot of money.

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4 mins  |
April 20-26, 2024
Brought to book
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Brought to book

He's rich, opinionated and believes in doing good for the community. Property developer Mark Todd is a study in contrasts.

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8 mins  |
April 20-26, 2024
'Why aren't you listening to me?!"
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'Why aren't you listening to me?!"

To really understand each other, our brains need to be in sync, says author Charles Duhigg. And, yes, there are ways to get on to the same wavelength.

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7 mins  |
April 20-26, 2024
The virus that came to stay
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The virus that came to stay

With current funding for our Covid response drawing to a close, there’s growing recognition that many people are suffering debilitating long-term effects. What’s the next move?

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10+ mins  |
April 20-26, 2024
The chips are down
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The chips are down

It's a forecast no Irish person with a sense of history expected ever to hear again: a severe potato shortage looms.

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2 mins  |
April 20-26, 2024
Faces turned to the horizon
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Faces turned to the horizon

In a public library in Wellington, I said to the librarian, \"I'm losing my mind.\" He was a kindly young man, unfazed as he showed me what to do. He was so helpful my spirits began to rise.

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2 mins  |
April 20-26, 2024
Money down the drain
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Money down the drain

At the end of last month, the annual Oxford-Cambridge boat race took place on the River Thames.

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2 mins  |
April 20-26, 2024
All stuffed up
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All stuffed up

New Zealand requires more than a strong decongestant to clear the circuitous routes to effective change.

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4 mins  |
April 20-26, 2024
A recipe for life
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A recipe for life

On the shelves here at Lush Places are fusty-smelling two old books. One is a green contacts book. Its cover is faded and the edges battered. The other is an equally faded maroon recipe book. It has a chunk out of the spine.

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3 mins  |
April 13-19, 2024
Walking the plank
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Walking the plank

On November 19, 2023, a helicopter operated by the Houthi-controlled Yemeni navy hovered over the vehicle carrier Galaxy Leader, passing through the Red Sea.

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2 mins  |
April 13-19, 2024
Familiar faces into the fray
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Familiar faces into the fray

The government’s new consultants and advisers have decades of experience between them, but do they also come with vested interests?

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4 mins  |
April 13-19, 2024
In tune with the times
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In tune with the times

What's a tune worth? Not as much as previously anticipated for Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the Guernsey-registered company that launched in 2018 on the promise of the song as an unbeatable financial asset.

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2 mins  |
April 13-19, 2024
Advance Australia, without NZ
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Advance Australia, without NZ

At nearly 70, Don Farrell is the oldest minister in the Australian government-a wily backroom tactician who has spent 16 mostly invisible years in Parliament.

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2 mins  |
April 13-19, 2024
Flights of fancy
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Flights of fancy

Peter Walker cleverly weaves Arabian tales, early Chinese and Persian voyages, eccentric amateur fossil hunters and a colonialist hardman” into one intriguing story.

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3 mins  |
April 13-19, 2024
Shots in the mist
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Shots in the mist

Early photography was regarded as magic when it arrived in New Zealand. But soon, everyone was doing it.

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1 min  |
April 13-19, 2024
A sight for Sora eyes
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A sight for Sora eyes

OpenAl’s latest text-to-video tool takes AI to a new level but raises some troubling questions in the process.

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2 mins  |
April 13-19, 2024
My great admirer
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My great admirer

Narcissism is characterised by a deeply ingrained sense of deserving respect - yet some narcissists lack self-esteem.

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3 mins  |
April 13-19, 2024