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Hold the line, caller
Fifty years on, RNZ National listeners need have no fear that the station's signature bird call faces extermination.
5 min |
February 10-16 2024
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What's the wAlt?
NZ needs to act as the talk of the technology world quickly becomes a key tool of business and government.
8 min |
February 10-16 2024
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Entreaties of Waitangi
In its short time in office, the government has set the scene for a fiery commemoration of New Zealand's national day.
10+ min |
February 10-16 2024
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Boarding school bluff
In bygone days, harassed parents used to threaten their offspring with boarding school as the ultimate Dickensian punishment for persistent misbehaviour.
2 min |
February 03-09, 2024
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Tractors at the gates
The halls are decked with flowers and loops of sausages and salami hang from the rafters.
2 min |
February 03-09, 2024
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An autumn of ordinariness?
It's been a summer of discontent for the coalition government but it will be hoping for calmer times ahead.
4 min |
February 03-09, 2024
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Out of gas
The barriers to electric vehicle uptake in NZ go further than range anxiety.
2 min |
February 03-09, 2024
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Acting on impulse
Theft is more common when the economy is down but shoplifting can signal a serious disorder.
2 min |
February 03-09, 2024
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Dairy dilemmas
Dairy milk has been shown to be a cause of excess mucus production in some people, but now the finger is being pointed at processed foods.
2 min |
February 03-09, 2024
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Warming to the idea
Adaptation to climate change is focus of NZ-made nature series with global reach.
2 min |
February 03-09, 2024
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It's from Hōne to Heke
Tāmati Rīmene-Sproat's Waitangi Day special isn't the treaty treatise he'd planned. But it's still an illuminating look back at our national day.
3 min |
February 03-09, 2024
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Emotions to the fore
Sleater-Kinney make a grief-stained return and the debut by London's Folly Group suggests they are going post-punk places.
2 min |
February 03-09, 2024
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Tainui uprising
He taught a mate to dance in a beer ad and portrayed Billy T James on television, but actor-playwright Tainui Tukiwaho's heart is in the creative possibilities of theatre and three new shows he has on the go.
6 min |
February 03-09, 2024
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Listen up
An exploration of noise that will open your mind to the world of sounds in nature and beyond.
3 min |
February 03-09, 2024
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Vital acts
Patricia Grace's late-life story collection weaves together myth and contemporary tales.
3 min |
February 03-09, 2024
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University blues
Come and Get It is an intricate campus novel that intersects class, race, desire and indiscretion.
2 min |
February 03-09, 2024
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First impressions
What does the year hold for fiction? Mark Broatch checks out five promising titles from first-time novelists.
4 min |
February 03-09, 2024
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Hell in high waters
A year ago, Auckland flooded. Since then, many residents have been living in limbo with glacial progress on repairs.
5 min |
February 03-09, 2024
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Past & present tensions
Contested histories - including treaty interpretations - stem from individual memories and experiences, historian Rowan Light suggests.
8 min |
February 03-09, 2024
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Turtle recall
Red-eared slider turtles have gone from pets to pests. Until now, it's been too cold for them to breed here but global warming could change that, putting our native species further at risk.
10+ min |
February 03-09, 2024
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Tour of terror
After one of the most explosive encounters involving NZ soldiers since Vietnam, traumatised soldiers returned home from Iraq - to silence.
10+ min |
February 03-09, 2024
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Child's play
Ann Packer surveys some summery reads for young ones.
2 min |
January 27 - February 02, 2024
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Fighting back
The hell that was slavery is relayed in all its horror in award-winning writer’s first historical novel.
2 min |
January 27 - February 02, 2024
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Charting the abyss
Real-life adventure story reveals the daring efforts being made to map vast tracts of the world's unexplored seabed.
3 min |
January 27 - February 02, 2024
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Songs, the key of life
Music-loving novelist Michel Faber explores the psychology and sociology behind the sounds that keep us hooked.
3 min |
January 27 - February 02, 2024
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Austerity attractions
Auckland Philharmonia has some stellar concerts planned, despite budget constraints.
2 min |
January 27 - February 02, 2024
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Rock of ages
Ancient rocks may foretell the future of Antarctica's glaciers as the planet warms.
3 min |
January 27 - February 02, 2024
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It's a wind up
As humiliating as they can be, those reminders of past blunders are all part of being mates.
3 min |
January 27 - February 02, 2024
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2024 flaxes its muscle
What's that old aphorism for something being better than nothing? That it is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick? Well, let me tell you, that expression is pointless: everything is better than getting a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, and I have just had the extremely pointed experience to prove it.
3 min |
January 27 - February 02, 2024
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BFR-your new BFF
A simple pressure cuff is giving hope to those people with rheumatoid arthritis who want to continue exercising.
4 min |