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When Jim becomes James
'What would white people do to a slave who had learned to read?' This impressive reimagining of Huckleberry Finn seeks to find out.
4 min |
April 27-May 3, 2024
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Manhattan transfer
A Kiwi movie star led the charge for an Anzac garden atop New York's Rockefeller Centre that's still in use today.
5 min |
April 27-May 3, 2024
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A Wylde life
How a West Coast mechanic who lost a leg at Gallipoli ended up living in luxury on the banks of the Thames, rubbing shoulders with artists, composers and poets.
8 min |
April 27-May 3, 2024
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'That German boy'
Paul Oestreicher's Jewish family escaped the Nazis in 1938. Once here, he was ostracised for being German. How did this committed pacifist end up leading a military Anzac Day service in East Germany?
5 min |
April 27-May 3, 2024
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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.
3 min |
April 27-May 3, 2024
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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.
8 min |
April 27-May 3, 2024
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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.
9 min |
April 27-May 3, 2024
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Branching out
A lexander Hamilton described the courts as the least dangerous branch of government.
2 min |
April 27-May 3, 2024
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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.
2 min |
April 27-May 3, 2024
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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.
2 min |
April 27-May 3, 2024
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All going to pot
What would happen when Germany legalised cannabis?
2 min |
April 27-May 3, 2024
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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.
4 min |
April 27-May 3, 2024
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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.
2 min |
April 20-26, 2024
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Return of the queen
Beth Orton brings the personal songs of her career-reviving album to NZ.
4 min |
April 20-26, 2024
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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.
4 min |
April 20-26, 2024
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It's in the blood
Michael Bennett returns his Maori detective to her roots ina convincing, highly anticipated second novel.
3 min |
April 20-26, 2024
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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.
6 min |
April 20-26, 2024
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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.
4 min |
April 20-26, 2024
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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.
8 min |
April 20-26, 2024
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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.
7 min |
April 20-26, 2024
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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?
10+ min |
April 20-26, 2024
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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.
2 min |
April 20-26, 2024
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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.
2 min |
April 20-26, 2024
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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.
2 min |
April 20-26, 2024
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All stuffed up
New Zealand requires more than a strong decongestant to clear the circuitous routes to effective change.
4 min |
April 20-26, 2024
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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.
3 min |
April 13-19, 2024
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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.
2 min |
April 13-19, 2024
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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?
4 min |
April 13-19, 2024
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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.
2 min |
April 13-19, 2024
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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.
2 min |