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RNZ dresses to impress for New Zealand Music T-shirt Day 2023
26 May 2023It's New Zealand Music T-shirt Day! Here's what our best-dressed RNZ team are wearing to show their support for music charity MusicHelps.
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When Light Breaks
18 May 2023Voices New Zealand's next concert combines choral performance with puppetry. Audio
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Tina Turner - rugby league icon
25 May 2023News of the American singer's death was met with great sadness and, here in Australasia, a wave of reminiscence about her unlikely connection with rugby league. Video
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RNZ dresses to impress for New Zealand Music T-shirt Day
26 May 2023Today is a chance to show your support for the sweet and varied sounds of Aotearoa by wearing some merch from your favourite local band. Here at RNZ we couldn’t wait to get our favourite New Zealand music t-shirts on.
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Museum will bring Girmit experience in Fiji to life
Fiji's first living museum will honour the contributions and struggles of the indentured labourers, known as Girmitiyas, who played a pivotal role in shaping the country's economy. Audio
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Competition from cashed up codes 'massive challenge' for netball
25 May 2023Netball is facing a massive challenge as it tries to compete with codes that are being cross subsidised by cashed up men's sports, the head of the NZ Netball Players' Association says.
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Music Alive: Orchestra Wellington - Fanfare for the Common Man
26 May 2023LISTEN: Aaron Copland's Third Symphony, and violinist Amalia Hall performing Samuel Barber's violin concerto, in an American double bill led by music director of Orchestra Wellington Marc Taddei.
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Parenting: Inside the dyslexic mind
25 May 2023Expecting a dyslexic child to thrive in a neurotypical education system is like filling a diesel engine with petrol, a retired psychologist says. Audio
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Our Masquerade
19 May 2023As they prepare to attend a prestigious American music school, young Christchurch singers Will Luhrs and Monet Schutte have released a beautiful, sleepy, saxophone-rich soul ballad. Video, Audio
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2023 DocEdge festival preview
25 May 2023Widescreen - Dan Slevin previews three titles from this year’s DocEdge festival, on the understanding that the full programme is so diverse this small selection can’t possibly be representative of the whole.
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The complexities of soil
25 May 2023Listen - Our Changing World digs up the dirt on the surprising complexity of soil. From top-notch compost to dung beetles to kauri die-back. Audio
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Ask the expert: How to quit vaping
24 May 2023Ditched the smokes for a vape, but worried about what it might be doing to your lungs? Health behaviour change expert Hayden McRobbie weighs in with some advice.
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Blackball black garlic can't keep up with demand
22 May 2023After two years in business, the founders of Blackball Black Garlic say they cannot keep up with demand. Audio
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At The Movies: Fast X
24 May 2023Fast X is the tenth, if not quite the final, episode of Vin Diesel's petrol-head epic. Co-starring Rita Moreno, Jason Statham, Helen Mirren, Charlize Theron and, as the film's villain, a showboating Jason Momoa. Video, Audio
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Music Alive: APO - Kia Kaha!
25 May 2023This concert from 2020 has an overarching theme of tribute and hope. It is dedicated to all those who lost their lives to COVID-19, the people they left behind and everyone working to eliminate the virus and make the world safe again.
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Let's lose our shame about money, says financial podcaster
24 May 2023Kiwis are too shy – and ashamed – to talk honestly to friends and family about money, financial expert Simran Kaur says. Audio
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Annie Crummer: 'Music is the drug I have a penchant for'
21 May 2023Singer Annie Crummer talks about family and heritage, being herself and what she learned from a close call in a plane crash ahead of performing with her father Will Crummer for NZ Music Month. Audio
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One family's reckoning with their slaver past
22 May 2023When BBC Laura Trevelyan newsreader recently discovered her family had owned more than a thousand slaves on a sugar plantation in the Caribbean, she knew there had to be a reckoning. Video, Audio
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'Music is the drug I have a penchant for'
21 May 2023After 40 years in the music industry, Annie Crummer is still delighting audiences. Next week she is performing alongside her father Will Crummer as part of New Zealand Music Month. Audio
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Bilingual Māori children's book retells legend of Manawatū Gorge's creation
23 May 2023A bilingual Māori children's book is bringing new eyes to the legend of the creation of the Manawatū Gorge, writes Pokere Paewai.
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Early NZ glam rock band reforms for tour 50 years on
20 May 2023After 'blowing the socks off the country' in the 70s Space Waltz have reformed after a 50-year haitus, with a new album and tour - frontman Alastair Riddell tells Music 101 it feels good. Video, Audio
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A dash, a dollop, a pinch: A history of weights and measures
21 May 2023When they say in recipes to add a dash of salt or a pinch of salt; how much is that, exactly? How about a dollop, a drizzle of olive oil or a smidgen? Author Claire Cock-Starkey explains all. Audio
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The NZ Song I Wish I'd Written - part three
24 May 2023For New Zealand Music Month - Te Marama O Puoro, Music 101 have asked a bunch of local musicians to pick one New Zealand song they wish they'd written.Featuring The Beths, DARTZ, Lips, Muroki and Andrew Fagan.
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Women's football pioneer Patricia Gregory
22 May 2023Women's football is one of the fastest growing sports in the world, reaching new heights in spectator and player numbers, and none of this might have happened if not for the pioneering efforts of Patricia Gregory. Audio