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Sound check
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Sound check

A new app is giving hope to, s6me of the more than 200,00Q'people who suffer from tinnitus.

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3 mins  |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
Big in Japan
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Big in Japan

The first adaptation of samurai epic Shogun made television history. The new remake goes deeper.

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2 mins  |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
In MacGowan's wake
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In MacGowan's wake

Lisa O’Neill who sang at Shane MacGowan’s funeral is bringing her distinctive sound to Womad.

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3 mins  |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
Fifth symphony
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Fifth symphony

Composer John Psathas talks about the careful thought and cross-cultural collaboration that went into a work to be performed by the NZSO marking the fifth anniversary of the Christchurch mosque attacks.

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3 mins  |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
Love in the murder factory
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Love in the murder factory

An extraordinary romance was somehow able to blossom amid Auschwitz’s horrific conveyor belt of death’.

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3 mins  |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
Words do not fail her
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Words do not fail her

Smart, funny, playful novel tackling the 21st century’s most pervasive fear dementia is a delight to read.

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2 mins  |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
A touch of magic
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A touch of magic

Christchurch writer spins an enchanting story around shape-shifting kelpies.

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3 mins  |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
You say you want a revolution
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You say you want a revolution

Beginning with the Arab Spring, the 2010s ushered in a new dawn of protest. This lucid account of recent political and social history explains why the uprisings failed.

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4 mins  |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
(S)mall fortunes
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(S)mall fortunes

What was intended as a pedestrian-friendly version of European street life has become the bane of many shoppers' lives.

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5 mins  |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
A class of their own
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A class of their own

Dontt dismiss the bottom-feeders’ in today’s schools history shows us the battlers can make it through, with some focused guidance.

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4 mins  |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
A blank canvas
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A blank canvas

For Melbourne-based Richard Lewer, discovering the brutal history of the Waikato War meant confronting the silence he encountered in his Kirikiriroa upbringing.

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8 mins  |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
Primary colours
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Primary colours

The presidential primaries set the stage for a November rematch that most American voters don’t want, but seem unable to avert.

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9 mins  |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
Green ticket to ride
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Green ticket to ride

She has geckos behind her bread board, long-tailed bats and eels on her property and she drives an electric all-terrain vehicle. Is Celia Wade-Brown the perfect Green MP?

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8 mins  |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
Ahead of the curvature
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Ahead of the curvature

Research suggests declining bone health may have links to brain disease. What can we do to slow these processes?

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10+ mins  |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
Treading water
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Treading water

Even some of our national parks are failing the bare-minimum water-quality standards.

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2 mins  |
February 10-16 2024
What's your poison?
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What's your poison?

A global survey of recreational drug use can help policymakers and consumers to reduce risk.

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3 mins  |
February 10-16 2024
The King and I
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The King and I

Sofia Coppola delivers a poignant portrait of the powerless Queen of Graceland.

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2 mins  |
February 10-16 2024
A new purple patch
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A new purple patch

Acclaimed novel and movie gets a stunning musical treatment.

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1 min  |
February 10-16 2024
Outdoor pursuit
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Outdoor pursuit

Eric Bana and director Robert Connolly talk about why detective mystery The Dry 2 is much wetter than their hit original.

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5 mins  |
February 10-16 2024
Grin and hear it
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Grin and hear it

Radiohead offshoot's solid new LP, more high drama from Future Islands.

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2 mins  |
February 10-16 2024
Popping his cork
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Popping his cork

The National's frontman Matt Berninger on his need for close audience interaction, and the gravitational pull of Taylor Swift

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7 mins  |
February 10-16 2024
Truth will out
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Truth will out

Compelling stories of those who are determined to defy the Communist Party line to expose tyranny and suffering.

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3 mins  |
February 10-16 2024
Wheels coming off
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Wheels coming off

First-time novelist takes readers along with four young expats on a satisfying if tense Italian road trip.

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2 mins  |
February 10-16 2024
The one who stayed behind
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The one who stayed behind

Kiwi expat delivers a multilayered, literary-minded debut novel inspired by an Australian icon.

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2 mins  |
February 10-16 2024
Art in high places
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Art in high places

In the Queensberry Hills between Cromwell and Wänaka, the Poison Creek Sculpture Project is enriching Central Otago's cultural scene.

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6 mins  |
February 10-16 2024
The pain that remains
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The pain that remains

Former MasterChef contestant Alice Taylor says finally putting a name to the cause of her agony was just a beginning.

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8 mins  |
February 10-16 2024
Hold the line, caller
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Hold the line, caller

Fifty years on, RNZ National listeners need have no fear that the station's signature bird call faces extermination.

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5 mins  |
February 10-16 2024
What's the wAlt?
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What's the wAlt?

NZ needs to act as the talk of the technology world quickly becomes a key tool of business and government.

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8 mins  |
February 10-16 2024
Entreaties of Waitangi
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Entreaties of Waitangi

In its short time in office, the government has set the scene for a fiery commemoration of New Zealand's national day.

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10+ mins  |
February 10-16 2024
Boarding school bluff
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Boarding school bluff

In bygone days, harassed parents used to threaten their offspring with boarding school as the ultimate Dickensian punishment for persistent misbehaviour.

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2 mins  |
February 03-09, 2024