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Jennifer Senior penned an article four years ago titled, 'Why Parents Hate Parenting' ... it caused a bit of a stir for suggesting that some parents are not totally enamoured with taking care of their… Audio

Professor Kirsten Thompson, Director of Victoria University's Film Programme, recounts the history of artificially created colour and its effects on film, technology and advertising over the past two… Audio

Peter Mechen surveys some of the great Beethoven symphony cycles: from the intense and visionary accounts of Bruno Walter in 1949, to the formative 1962 Karajan recordings, and into the 21st century… Audio

New York based trio Dawn of Midi are a group who met at the Californian Institute of Arts, and play upright bass, drums and piano, to create a kind of dance music, or to be more specific- a kind of… Audio

Senior fellow at public policy think tank Demos, and author of All the President's Bankers: the Hidden Alliances That Drive America's Power. Audio

Jazz saxophonist previews his show at the Wellington Jazz Festival. The Joshua Redman Quartet hails from New York and also includes pianist Aaron Goldberg, bass Reuben Rogers, and drummer Gregory… Audio

New York City's commissioner of transportation under Mayor Bloomberg, and leader of many innovative projects. Audio

Bulgarian-born violinist returns to NZ to give the premiere of Anthony Ritchie's 'Violin Concerto', with the Southern Sinfonia and conductor Tecwyn Evans this Saturday Bella won the 2007 Michael hill… Audio

The leaked New York Times digital innovation report and what can learn from it about moving to on-line publication. Audio

Science writer Sam Kean has researched, for his latest book, the wild and mysterious cases of severe and bizarre brain injuries that made up the foundations of modern neuroscience. In The Tale of the… Audio

New York based NZ pianist performing Beethoven's Emperor Piano Concert with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra this week. Audio

Expat jazz bassist Matt Penman has based himself in the USA for over 20 years. He gives us an insight into his early years of playing at Berklee College of Music and the ensuing years in New York… Audio

Topics - Should we be dressing for bed in order to wrest more happiness from those long hours of the night? A behavoural modification expert writing in the Huffington Post, Dr Beth Ricanati, argues… Audio

Viola player Bryony Gibson-Cornish is back in New Zealand this week, for the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's "Discovery" concert. She will perform a new work custom-written by local composer Phillip… Audio

The next presidential election and changes at The New York Times. Audio

Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza has been found guilty by a New York court of supporting terrorism and accused of conspiring to aid organisations like al-Qaeda. With David Usborne, a Journalist for the… Audio

As a musical genre built on wordplay, hip hop is home to some of the wordiest lyricists about. New York data scientist Matthew Daniels took it upon himself to work out just how wordy rappers are… Audio

One of the 2011 Tahrir Square protesters, Yasmine el-Rashidi's continuous coverage of the Egyptian revolution for the New York Review of Books was collected and published as "The Battle for Egypt"… Audio

Twenty years ago, Nasir Jones - the Queensbridge New York rapper known simply as Nas - released Illmatic, his debut album, produced by a who's-who of early 90s East Coast hip hop, including Q-Tip… Audio

On At The Movies, Simon Morris looks at a big budget sci-fi drama, Transcendence, starring Johnny Depp, and a low-budget musical, Scotland's Sunshine On Leith. And ultra-cool New York director Jim… Audio

Lawyers for a radical Islamist preacher on trial in New York on terrorism charges will try to show the court evidence that he helped British authorities and gave them information. Audio

Entrepeneur Emerson Spartz is, at 26 years of age, a world expert in internet virality. As CEO of Spartz Inc, he runs one of the fastest-growing digital media publishers with 160 million page views… Audio

Writer and lecturer on politics, culture and psychology Andrew Solomon talks about his latest book 'Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity', which won the National Book… Audio

The world première performance of Ross Harris' work for tenor, choir, string quartet, with text by Vincent O'Sullivan, and taonga puoro by Horomona Horo. Written in commemoration of World War I… Audio

Fiji's representative to the United Nations says he is confident Fiji's upcoming general elections will be free and fair. Audio

A top New Zealand scientist is to be a star prosecution witness in a major terrorism trial underway in New York. Audio

L.A.-based trio Liars stood out in the electroclash scene of the early 2000s, with their evocatively titled debut They Threw Us All In A Trench and Stuck A Monument On Top. It was dark, propulsive… Audio

International Bach authority, Masaki Suzuki, and his renowned Bach Collegium of Japan perform the JS Bach's dramatic setting of the St. John Passion as part of the 2014 New Zealand International Arts… Audio