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Steven Osborne: owning the music
15 Aug 2023"The fundamental thing about performing music is your passion for it and your sense of ownership of it, and that you're really expressing something that feels very true to you." Scottish pianist Steven Osborne is performing Ravel's Piano Concerto in G with the Auckland Philharmonia. Audio
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How design can make for a better world
14 Aug 2023Think the world is in a mess, with growing climate problems and inequality? Humans designed it this way - and we're the only ones who can fix it, Professor Don Norman says. Audio
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Is fish the new farming frontier for New Zealand?
16 Aug 2023The Detail - The government has a goal to grow aquaculture to a $3 billion-a-year industry. But red tape - and red flags - stand in the way. Audio
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William Sitwell discusses a life of writing about food
20 Aug 2023Smart Talk - MasterChef UK judge and restaurant critic William Sitwell joins the ABC's Richard Fidler for a conversation about a life in food. A highlight of the 2023 Auckland Writers Festival. Audio
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'We really need to listen to people who don't have power'
Martin Baron was editor of the Boston Globe and its award-winning Spotlight investigative team, which tenaciously uncovered widespread sexual abuse by priests, now retired, he joined Nine to Noon to tell his story. Audio
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The personal artistic agony of Gabriel Krauze
12 Aug 2023While completing his literature degree, Gabriel Krauze was involved in London gang life and living on a notorious estate in South Kilburn. His gritty, Booker long-listed debut novel, Who They Was, captures this double life. Audio
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True crime series retells stranger than fiction meth bust in Far North
13 Aug 2023In 2016, one of Aotearoa's largest-ever meth busts, was delivered into the laps of some bewildered Northland cops. Video, Audio
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Long Read: What happened when two young Jehovah’s Witnesses quit the church
12 Aug 2023The Detail - After leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses, Brad Miller and Cassie Dean were cut off from almost everyone they'd ever known. Audio
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Rosinha de Valença was one of Brazil's greatest guitarists
12 Aug 2023The Sampler - Tony Stamp reviews a cracking collection of covers from 1971 - Rosinha de Valença's A Guitar in the Foreground. Audio
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Major music awards finalists named
15 Aug 2023Finalists in four sections - the Maioha Award, SOUNZ Contemporary Award, Best Original Music in a Feature Film Award, and Best Original Music in a Series Award - have been announced ahead of the awards night on 4 October.
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Can Women’s World Cup have spin-offs across the Pacific?
10 Aug 2023The Women's World Cup being co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia is showcasing the two countries to the world. But with no Oceania team having managed to qualify it's hard to see what benefits there could be for the Pacific in the wider sense.
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Moce Sri Krishnamurthi . . . sports journalist, democracy activist, storyteller and advocate
10 Aug 2023New Zealand-adopted Fiji journalist, sports writer, national news agency reporter, anti-coup activist, media freedom advocate, storyteller and mentor Sri Krishnamurthi has died. He was just two weeks shy of his 60th birthday.
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Development aid - help or hindrance to Pacific countries?
9 Aug 2023Analysis - There are suggestions that Chinese aid to some Pacific nations is making their debt situation worse.
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Aunty's House: A new collective for the South Asian diaspora
14 Aug 2023Aunty's House has been founded as a collective focused on celebrating and uplifting the South Asian diaspora in New Zealand, and launched with its first event, the Chai Session, Jogai Bhatt reports.
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Hungry for change: Fixing Aotearoa's broken food system
13 Aug 2023Analysis: If NZ is such a great food producer, why are so many of us going hungry, or eating lower-grade food, asks food systems expert Emily King.
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The David Garrett vibe: something innovative in combination with tradition
14 Aug 2023Classical crossover violinist David Garrett is coming to New Zealand in September as part of his Iconic tour. Video, Audio
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Lambing takes off as planes fly overhead
10 Aug 2023Country Life - The paddocks on James Thompson's city-limits sheep farm are starting to look like the arrivals lounge at Christchurch Airport. Audio
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You never thought that hip hop would take it this far
13 Aug 2023To celebrate 50 years of hip hop, Sam Wicks looks back at Aotearoa's take on the art form.
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At the Movies - Chevalier
9 Aug 2023Chevalier tells the incredible-but-true story of 18th-century swordsman, composer, virtuoso violinist and lover Joseph Bologne. Video, Audio
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Music Alive: Romantic symphony and songs
14 Aug 2023LISTEN: The NZSO with tenor Simon O'Neill on stage with symphony and songs from two of the greatest romantic composers, Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, live at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington.
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The Hawkes Bay butcher bringing home prize-winning bacon
11 Aug 2023Jordan Hamilton-Bicknell was the supreme winner in both categories at this year's 100% New Zealand Bacon and Ham Awards. Audio
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History repeats in media coverage of tougher crime strategies
Mediawatch: As the election approaches, political calls to crack down on crime are echoing through our media once again. Audio
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Darryl Leigh Thomson (DLT) reflects on 50 years of hip hop
12 Aug 2023Darryl Leigh Thomson says he and the rest of Upper Hutt Posse had no idea their 1988 debut single 'E Tū' would become a cultural landmark. Video, Audio
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Album review - Rich by Homeboy Sandman
12 Aug 2023Tony Stamp reviews the veteran MC's latest off-the-cuff gem. Audio