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Tackling climate change with bonkers creative ideas: inventor artist Steve Mushin
3 Mar 2024Habitat-printing robot birds, water-filtering sewer submarines, and flying bikes launched on waste heat thermals are just a few of the 100-plus bonkers ideas artist and industrial designer Steve Mushin is suggesting to our cities to address climate change. Audio
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High blood pressure and no time to exercise? Try wall squats
3 Mar 2024A study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine suggests isometric exercises like wall sitting (or wall squats) help reduce blood pressure more effectively than other forms of exercise. Audio
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NZ's fight for control over tobacco
Big tobacco companies will be "delighted" by the New Zealand government's legislation u-turn on tobacco sales, says a World Health Organisation advisor. Audio
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At The Movies: Drive-Away Dolls
28 Feb 2024Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke's latest, Drive-Away Dolls, harks back to the classic screwball comedies of Hollywood's past, writes Simon Morris. Video, Audio
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Best of the Fest
1 Mar 2024What is it with tall people up the front at gigs? Should morning raves replace gym sessions? Joining Culture 101 this week on Best of the Fest are writers Emily Perkins and Arihia Latham, artist Suzanne Tamaki and theatre critic Cate Prestidge. Audio
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Nashville Babylon
2 Mar 2024Mark Rogers showcases reggae from Trinity, John Martyn covering Portishead, classic soul from Donny Hathaway, and Dinah Washington plus a rock 'n' roll smash courtesy of Eddie Cochran.. Audio
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Does it cost too much to 'slip, slop, slap'?
1 Mar 2024WATCH - We have one of the highest skin cancer rates in the world yet many Kiwis say SPF products are unaffordable. Audio
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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