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'Is this actually vegan?' - NZ's top ice cream and gelato
30 Aug 2024A mango gelato so creamy judges questioned its ingredients has won New Zealand's top gelato award. Audio
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Pacific Music Awards 2024: The winners
30 Aug 2024Aaradhna dominated the competition, taking out three categories at this year's Pacific Music Awards.
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Easy eats: Sam Parish's Mexican bean toasties with grated salsa
29 Aug 2024Sam Parish is back with another recipe for the time-starved cook. Not only are these easy to prepare, they can also be amped up with extra spice for all the dads who need a little extra oomph this Father's Day.
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A woman's lifelong fascination with mermaids
28 Aug 2024At home, in the bathtub, writer Megan Dunn tried to imagine her own mermaid tail forming. She's gone on to pen a new book, The Mermaid Chornicles. Audio
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Choir excitement at perfect fever pitch as The Big Sing begins
29 Aug 2024Twenty-four high school choirs are set to compete at Aotearoa's biggest choral event - including a team of first-timers from Auckland's Avondale College.
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Silver Scroll Award finalists for composition, film and TV music announced
29 Aug 2024The finalists for the APRA Silver Scroll SOUNZ Contemporary Award, Best Original Music in a Film Award and Best Original Music in a TV Series Awards have been announced.
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KOMMI: On 'WitchHop' & working with Marlon Williams
24 Aug 2024Ahead of their show at WORD Christchurch, KOMMI joins Charlotte Ryan to talk about their new EP Tauwhenua which explores being haunted, being hōhā, mākutu (witchcraft) and tūrehu (faeries). Audio
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'Goblincore' and 'Funeral doom' - one of the brains behind Spotify wrapped
28 Aug 2024You might not have heard of music brain Glenn McDonald, but you're almost certainly familiar with the work of the "data alchemist".
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'Kemen is tipping closer and closer toward the darkness'
27 Aug 2024Growing up in Wellington, in full Lord of the Rings fever in the early 2000s, Leon Wadham had no inkling how much part of Tolkien's world he'd one day be. Video, Audio
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Oasis are reforming: here's everything you need to know
After 15 years of batting away any suggestion they might reform, Oasis have reunited to headline a series of live shows in the UK.
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Life preserver: Meet Christchurch's queen of pickles
27 Aug 2024Preserving queen Katherine Riddell shares how getting into pickles can save you cash.
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MMA fighter Janay Harding joins RNZ's TAHI podcast
27 Aug 2024"I'm a yapper ... might as well make that my job," she told new co-host So'omālō Iteni Schwalger. Audio
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Divagations, Doodlings and Downright Lies
26 Aug 2024Lyell Cresswell's posthumously published autobiography is a wonderfully quirky read. RNZ Concert's David Morriss talks with one of the book's editors, Scilla Askew, about the composer and his music. Audio
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What goes on at a smut book club meeting?
26 Aug 2024A romance readers' book club in Auckland meets each month to break down a steamy novel pick.
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Who's the biggest one-hit wonder of all time?
Hanson. Toni Basil. The Knack. Baha Men. Minnie Riperton. Chumbawumba. If you know these acts, reading their names has probably started a song playing in your head. Video
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'A bit kooky': The making of Louisa Nicklin's new album The Big Sulk
24 Aug 2024On Auckland musician Louisa Nicklin’s beautiful new album The Big Sulk, Kiwi music icon Shayne Carter lent a hand as “song doctor”. Video, Audio
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How little exercise can you get away with?
25 Aug 2024Doing short intense exercise bursts provides significant health benefits, new research shows, offering a promising alternative for those struggling to find time to do get enough exercise in. Audio
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Parents are shipping melatonin in from overseas. Why?
Some parents say melatonin is the only way to get their kids to sleep and the medication should be easier to get in New Zealand. Audio
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Surviving and thriving after a break-up
24 Aug 2024When Wellington journalist Sarah Catherall separated from her husband, she couldn't find a book with practical advice to help her family get through. Audio
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From brat to demure - can you keep up?
24 Aug 2024One day you're brat, the next you're demure and mindful. And by the time this story is published, the internet will already have moved on to the next big thing.
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New cast of Celebrity Treasure Island revealed - who's top of the class?
25 Aug 2024A bunch of broadcasters, actors, politicians and athletes have been revealed for the next season of the reality TV show. Former castaway Perlina Lau picks her tops, threats and dark horses of the bunch.
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The call of the pipes
23 Aug 2024Congratulations to organ building apprentice Julian Shaw, who's the recipient of a Neil Stocker Memorial Fund award. Audio
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'Keep your eyes open, your heart alert and allow a little bit of serendipity in'
24 Aug 2024David Merritt has never left Aotearoa and is contented with his life as an off-grid poet. He shares some of his favourite songs on The Mixtape. Video, Audio
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The Mixtape: David Merritt's life in poetry
24 Aug 2024The poet's job description is "keep your eyes open, your heart alert and allow a little bit of serendipity in", David Merritt says. Video, Audio