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Going but not forgotten
The Kiwi television institution that is Fair Go faces the axe after 47 years on screen. Here’s how the Listener captured the history of the once-pioneering series and its effect on New Zealand.
9 min |
March 23-29, 2024
New Zealand Listener
I just had to do better'
A desire to prove himself is just part of the reason Alastair Carruthers has so many jobs. Just don’t ask him to talk about the main one that’s in the news at present.
8 min |
March 23-29, 2024
New Zealand Listener
Doctor DNA
Using genetic information to prevent and treat illness is touted as medicine’s holy grail but NZ has largely been a bystander until now.
10+ min |
March 23-29, 2024
New Zealand Listener
Behind the pain
Self-harm is on the rise, and it is not just something that young people do.
3 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
New Zealand Listener
Sound check
A new app is giving hope to, s6me of the more than 200,00Q'people who suffer from tinnitus.
3 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
New Zealand Listener
Big in Japan
The first adaptation of samurai epic Shogun made television history. The new remake goes deeper.
2 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
New Zealand Listener
In MacGowan's wake
Lisa O’Neill who sang at Shane MacGowan’s funeral is bringing her distinctive sound to Womad.
3 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
New Zealand Listener
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.
3 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
New Zealand Listener
Love in the murder factory
An extraordinary romance was somehow able to blossom amid Auschwitz’s horrific conveyor belt of death’.
3 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
New Zealand Listener
Words do not fail her
Smart, funny, playful novel tackling the 21st century’s most pervasive fear dementia is a delight to read.
2 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
New Zealand Listener
A touch of magic
Christchurch writer spins an enchanting story around shape-shifting kelpies.
3 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
New Zealand Listener
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.
4 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
New Zealand Listener
(S)mall fortunes
What was intended as a pedestrian-friendly version of European street life has become the bane of many shoppers' lives.
5 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
New Zealand Listener
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.
4 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
New Zealand Listener
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.
8 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
New Zealand Listener
Primary colours
The presidential primaries set the stage for a November rematch that most American voters don’t want, but seem unable to avert.
9 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
New Zealand Listener
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?
8 min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
New Zealand Listener
Ahead of the curvature
Research suggests declining bone health may have links to brain disease. What can we do to slow these processes?
10+ min |
February 24 - March 1, 2024
New Zealand Listener
Treading water
Even some of our national parks are failing the bare-minimum water-quality standards.
2 min |
February 10-16 2024
New Zealand Listener
What's your poison?
A global survey of recreational drug use can help policymakers and consumers to reduce risk.
3 min |
February 10-16 2024
New Zealand Listener
The King and I
Sofia Coppola delivers a poignant portrait of the powerless Queen of Graceland.
2 min |
February 10-16 2024
New Zealand Listener
A new purple patch
Acclaimed novel and movie gets a stunning musical treatment.
1 min |
February 10-16 2024
New Zealand Listener
Outdoor pursuit
Eric Bana and director Robert Connolly talk about why detective mystery The Dry 2 is much wetter than their hit original.
5 min |
February 10-16 2024
New Zealand Listener
Grin and hear it
Radiohead offshoot's solid new LP, more high drama from Future Islands.
2 min |
February 10-16 2024
New Zealand Listener
Popping his cork
The National's frontman Matt Berninger on his need for close audience interaction, and the gravitational pull of Taylor Swift
7 min |
February 10-16 2024
New Zealand Listener
Truth will out
Compelling stories of those who are determined to defy the Communist Party line to expose tyranny and suffering.
3 min |
February 10-16 2024
New Zealand Listener
Wheels coming off
First-time novelist takes readers along with four young expats on a satisfying if tense Italian road trip.
2 min |
February 10-16 2024
New Zealand Listener
The one who stayed behind
Kiwi expat delivers a multilayered, literary-minded debut novel inspired by an Australian icon.
2 min |
February 10-16 2024
New Zealand Listener
Art in high places
In the Queensberry Hills between Cromwell and Wänaka, the Poison Creek Sculpture Project is enriching Central Otago's cultural scene.
6 min |
February 10-16 2024
New Zealand Listener
The pain that remains
Former MasterChef contestant Alice Taylor says finally putting a name to the cause of her agony was just a beginning.
8 min |