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Lately for Thursday 24 June 2021

  • The Rest Is History: Launch of The Listener in 1939

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    10:32 PM.Tonight we look back in time to 1939 when the first issue of the Listener was published It's almost a year since the Listener was relaunched after its near death experience when Bauer Media dumped its… Read more Audio

  • Vive le cinema Francais!

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    10:25 PM.The French Film Festival Aotearoa is traveling around the country with its programme of French films for 2021. Karyn speaks with the festival's director Fergus Grady after their opening night in… Read more Audio

  • Alert Level 2 and the Covid tracer app

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    10:18 PM.Wellington has had its first day at Alert Level 2 after a tourist from Sydney visited the Capital last weekend while infected with Covid-19. There are 20 locations of interest listed on the Ministry… Read more Audio

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Photo: RNZ

10:20 Alert Level 2 and the Covid tracer app

Wellington has had its first day at Alert Level 2 after a tourist from Sydney visited the Capital last weekend while infected with Covid-19. There are 20 locations of interest listed on the Ministry of Health website tonight.

Karyn speaks with Dr Andrew Chen about how important the Covid tracer app is to help track the movements of the infected person while they were in Wellington to establish who has been a close contact.

A woman using the Covid Tracer app at a QR code in the window of a business during level 2 in Wellington on15 February 2021

Photo: RNZ / Dom Thomas

10:30 Vive le cinema Francais!


The French Film Festival Aotearoa is traveling around the country with its programme of French films for 2021.

Karyn speaks with the festival's director Fergus Grady after their opening night in Hamilton tonight.

Fergus Grady is the director of the French Film Festival Aotearoa

Fergus Grady is the director of the French Film Festival Aotearoa Photo: Noel Smyth

10:40  The Rest Is History: Launch of The Listener in 1939

Tonight we look back in time to 1939 when the first issue of the Listener was published

It's almost a year since the Listener was relaunched after its near death experience when Bauer Media dumped its New Zealand stable of magazines during lockdown last year.

One of those who has edited the Listener along the way is Finlay Macdonald. He joins Karyn to look back at that first issue and the way things were back then.

First issue of The Listener

First issue of The Listener Photo: Alexander Turnbull Library