Deafness
Fiona Murphy: The Shape of Sound
Fiona Murphy is an award winning poet and essayist whose new memoir The Shape of Sound explores her experience of being deaf. She was in her first year of school when a hearing test confirmed she was… Audio
Hidden plight: One in six Kiwis affected by hearing loss
In New Zealand, hearing loss is already an issue affecting almost one in six Kiwis, and a sense of stigma can delay people from getting help. Clinical audiologist Karen Pullar joins the show to… Audio
Insight: Our Noisy World
A building boom in Auckland, open plan offices and classrooms and urban intensification - Teresa Cowie has been out onto the streets and into homes asking about noise levels and what all that racket… Video, Audio
Calls made for deaf people to receive Cochlear Implants
Andrew McRae talks to Ngaire Mathews, who is 75, about how she became a past-master at lip-reading and managed to get through her schooling without a hearing aid. She got her first hearing-aid at the… Audio
Nights' Science - Body Parts
Professor Emerita in Science Communication at the University of Otago Jean Fleming, on (quirky) human anatomy... the structure of the inner ear (and how it hears)... Audio
Zoo staff battle to preserve hearing in chimpanzee
More surgery beckons for a chimpanzee at Wellington Zoo as staff seek to preserve hearing in the chimp's only functioning ear. Audio