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Country's newest music venue gets ready for business
9 Jul 2024"We'll be ready in time... we don't have a choice," promises the owner of Meow Nui, whose self-imposed deadline is approaching fast.
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Celebrating brass banding at the Pacific Festival of Brass
8 Jul 2024The 2024 national brass band championships begin on Wednesday, and this year the contest is widening participation to outside New Zealand and into the Pacific. RNZ Concert's David Morriss talks with two of the organisers, William Kingi and Owen Melhuish. Audio
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A burned-out writer, 12 sheep, and 12 life lessons
8 Jul 2024When writer John Connell found the creative well had run dry, he found solace in "12 little Buddhas wrapped in white fleeces". Audio
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Jess Cornelius delivers rock songs about parenthood
7 Jul 2024NZ-born, L.A.- based singer-songwriter Jess Cornelius has a reputation for lyrical candor, with lines on her new album Care/Taking dealing with pregnancy, breaking up with the father of her child, and death. Video, Audio
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The Banks Peninsula musician who does weather data visualisations
6 Jul 2024Lyttelton creative TG Shand is not a "city person", and instead loves to watch the weather change over Banks Peninsula. Video, Audio
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'I found some peace' - how The Dirty Three saved Warren Ellis
6 Jul 2024Australian musician Warren Ellis, a long-time member of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, tells Music 101 he was spiritually bereft before forming the instrumental rock trio Dirty Three in the early '90s. Audio
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'It felt like you were part of a revolution'
6 Jul 2024Legendary music critic Colin Hogg tells Charlotte Ryan about the birth of New Zealand's original music scene in the 1970s. Video, Audio
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The "gnarly and hardcore" reality of motherhood
6 Jul 2024Science writer Lucy Jones explores the profound challenges of becoming a mother in her new book Matrescence. Audio
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Taranaki powerlifter on top of the world after battling grief, serious illness
7 Jul 2024Just before her father died last year, champion athlete Ashleigh Hoeta made him three promises. She's kept them all. Audio
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What's the model sheep of the future?
Sheep breeders will increasingly have to address animal welfare and the right to farm but right now their biggest challenge is profitability. Audio
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East Coast farmers 'feel forgotten'
Landowners in East Coast-Te Tai Rāwhiti have made huge progress clearing their farms and orchards after Cyclone Gabrielle but the work is far from over. Audio
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Recipe: Weeknight Baked Chicken Curry
7 Jul 2024Let the oven do all the work with this easy-but-aromatic curry from Julie Le Clerc.
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TG Shand: a musician with an eco mission
6 Jul 2024To accompany her new single, TG Shand created a real-time animation of Banks Peninsula's ever-changing weather. Video, Audio
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New Horizons: The Power of the Heart
7 Jul 2024William Dart features an enticing new tribute album reminding us of the magic and the loss of Lou Reed. The Power of the Heart has a stellar line-up of contributors: Keith Richards, Rufus Wainwright, Rosanne Cash, Lucinda Williams, Rickie Lee Jones and others. Audio
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Newshub at 6 signs off with a bang - and a whimper
7 Jul 2024Since launching in 1989, TV3 staff have delivered a 6pm news bulletin every single day. Mediawatch tuned in to their final broadcast on Friday.
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Hymns on Sunday, 7 July 2024
7 Jul 2024You might think the life of a 19th century hymn translator was pretty uneventful. Not so for John Mason Neale, who translated the first hymn in this week’s programme, Christ is made the sure foundation. His fairly short life (48 years) was marked by disagreements with church authorities, his writings were often controversial, and he had to put up with verbal abuse in the street from time to time. Audio
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Auckland pizza chef grabs slice of glory
5 Jul 2024Enis Bacova from Dante's Auckland nabbed a silver trophy at the recent pizza world champs in Naples. Audio
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The strange story of Julian Assange
Secret files, sexual assault allegations, embassies, jails... the Julian Assange saga has been going on for so long most of us have probably forgotten how it started. Audio
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Are the movies you loved as a kid still good?
At the "risk of ruining their childhoods", Kiwi podcasters Rob Johnson and Christopher Webb regularly revisit their favourite films from decades past. Audio
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The world through squid eyes
Our Changing World - We might think deep-sea squid look a bit strange, but if they had the capacity for it, they would likely consider us monsters. Audio
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Which All Black coach made the best start?
5 Jul 2024RNZ looks back at the first and last tests of All Blacks coaches for the past 40 years.
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The flicks to look out for, according to the International film festival director
3 Jul 2024Paolo Bertolin plucks some highlights from this year's programme, including Cannes sensation The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Video, Audio
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How a Gisborne DJ ended up peforming at Glasto
The call to play Glastonbury came very last minute - and it only panned out because of a pre-planned trip to the UK and Europe in July.
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There's a reason those mobile game ads are annoying: They're designed that way
3 Jul 2024"They're interested in having terribly, terribly annoying ads so you'll pay money to make them go away," an academic says. Audio