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Concert for 'solidarity, love, and compassion' five years after mosque shootings
7 Mar 2024Christchurch musicians who will take to the stage to mark the commemoration of the 2019 mosque shootings say the performance will be a once in a lifetime musical event.
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At The Movies: American Fiction
6 Mar 2024American Fiction, the multi-Oscar nominated satirical comedy about racism, expectations and giving the public what it wants, features a note-perfect performance from Jeffrey Wright, writes Simon Morris. Video, Audio
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Celebrating Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's recording career
Singer and radio host Clarissa Dunn returns from a dusty mission to the RNZ basement with some of the earliest recordings, and her personal recollections, of a true Kiwi icon, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. Video, Audio
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Dame Kiri at 80
6 Mar 2024New Zealand's greatest opera singer on her approach to Mozart and to life, the demands - and sacrifice - of caring for an instrument "that you can never put in a case", and getting a new driver's licence, in conversation with Bryan Crump. Audio
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Julia Grace on how to cope with 'wobbly days'
5 Mar 2024Julia Grace likens her experiences with depression and anxiety as “saddling up the Chihuahua”, her life a long series of "getting knocked off my high horse and getting back on progressively smaller horses." Audio
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Dame Kiri & Friends - The Gala Concert
6 Mar 2024LISTEN: A spectacular gala concert from 2006. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa performs with her long-time friend and colleague, Frederica von Stade, and two young up-and-coming singers, Anna Leese and Seung Wook Seong.
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How much do authors get paid in New Zealand?
"Very few" book authors make a living as a full-time writer in New Zealand, with a 10 percent royalty rate in a small market barely paying the bills. Audio
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Robyn Malcolm on writing her own rules
5 Mar 2024In this episode of It's Personal, Robyn Malcolm talks to Anika Moa about her latest role. Video, Audio
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Rising British acting star Mia McKenna-Bruce
3 Mar 2024The star of acclaimed British coming-of-age drama How to Have Sex, Mia McKenna Bruce, says the script by Molly Manning Walker brilliantly captures the unabashed confidence and insecurity that comes with being a 15-year-old. Video, Audio
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Happy 80th Birthday to Dame Kiri
6 Mar 2024Music lovers and performers across New Zealand share their memories and best wishes on the occasion of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 80th birthday.
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Annika Pfitzinger: 'I could still have a very long career ahead of me'
4 Mar 2024Next month Annika Pfitzinger will represent New Zealand at the World Cross Country Championships in Serbia. A huge feat considering six years ago she was confined to the couch, suffering from crippling headaches and inexplicable exhaustion. Audio
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Wellington clothing label cuts out synthetics
2 Mar 2024Ever considered how much plastic is in the clothes you wear? Gosia Piatek has. She's spent the last 17 years trying to eliminate plastic from Kowtow, the clothing label she founded in Wellington in 2006. Audio
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Credit where credit’s due: Super Round really was super
4 Mar 2024Analysis: You have to hand it to the players, coaches and officials because they couldn't have delivered a better advertisement for the competition, Jamie Wall writes Video
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The Waikato Wars: What painter Richard Lewer didn’t learn at school
3 Mar 2024Lewer’s exhibition What they didn’t teach me at school about the Waikato Wars has been his most difficult project, he tells Culture 101’s Mark Amery. Audio
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Taite Music Prize finalists announced
5 Mar 2024The award recognises creatively outstanding New Zealand albums released in the past year. The 10 albums in contention for the 2024 Taite Music Prize span genres from hip hop to indie folk to metal.
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Japanese trio Shonen Knife on 42 years of pop-punk
2 Mar 2024"I didn't know Nirvana and they looked very wild and I was very scared to tour with them ... but they were very kind and I found that they were gentlemen." Video, Audio
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What we're watching: Secret City, season 1
4 Mar 2024Sleepy old Canberra is the scene of political and diplomatic shenanigans - and murder - in this Netflix series. Dan Slevin explains why it's worth a watch.
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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