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20 years of Whakaata Maori
12:10 PM.Mapuna looks back at 20 years of Whakaata Maori with CEO, Shane Taurima, and Ngatapa Black who was a young production assistant back in 2004 who then went on to do "a gazillion" different jobs at the… Read more Audio
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Mapuna A celebration of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa at 80
12:10 PM.Mapuna takes an in-depth look at the career and influence of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa who turned 80 earlier this month. Vocal coach Robert Wiremu talks about her impact on his early singing career and the… Read more Audio
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Mapuna Stacey Jones
12:10 PM.As a player Stacey Jones was known as the 'Little General' and is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of New Zealand rugby league across club and international competitions… Read more Audio
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Aotearoa's long history with wool and blankets
12:10 PM.For the past 200 years blankets have formed part of Aotearoa's history, part of our early trade, providing warmth and comfort during the New Zealand Wars and for our soldiers fighting overseas during… Read more Audio
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A week long wananga about opera
12:10 PM.In April New Zealand Opera will hold a week long wananga at Waikato University with an open invitation to Aotearoa's story tellers to embrace one of music's most challenging genres. Could one of them… Read more Audio
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A week long wananga about opera
12:10 PM.In April New Zealand Opera will hold a week long wananga at Waikato University with an open invitation to Aotearoa's story tellers to embrac one of music's most challenging genres. Could one of them… Read more Audio
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Dallas King and the story of the Omanaia River.
12:15 PM.This week on Mapuna we speak with Ngati Hau, Ngati Kaharau kaikorero Dallas King of Omanaia. She discusses the story of the Omanaia River, a story that she presented at the commemorations at Mangungu… Read more Audio
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The crowds, politics and culture of Waitangi Day
12:15 PM.Mapuna takes a look back at this year's Waitangi Day commemorations as tens of thousands of people packed into the treaty grounds. Julian Wilcox and the rest of the RNZ team were there every step of… Read more Audio
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Hirini Moko Mead: 'One could say that yes, I did walk the talk'
12:10 PM.96-year-old Māori leader and academic Sir Hirini Moko Mead reflects on a life dedicated to strengthening his people and culture. (An extract from a conversation recorded for the podcast Indigenous… Read more Video, Audio
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Emily Karaka on her dedication to te ao Maori through her art
12:15 PM.Julian Wilcox talks to Emily Karaka Read more Audio
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Charlie Tawhiao on Ngai Te Rangi's Urgent Tribunal claim
12:07 PM.For some Maori there is growing alarm over the new government's policies towards Te Tiriti o Waitangi and te reo Maori. Last week saw protests around the motu and this week the Tauranga based iwi Ngai… Read more Audio
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Whaea Esther Jessop & Ngati Ranana's sellout concert
12:40 PM.More than sixty years ago, Esther Jessop and a few other Maori in London founded a little group in the suburb of Putney to meet and keep their language going. Since then, Ngati Ranana has become a… Read more Audio
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Historian Dr Aroha Harris on National Maori Action Day
12:15 PM.Dr Aroha Harris is a professor of history at Auckland University and is the author of the book Hikoi, Forty Years of Maori Protest. How does she view this week's protests against the new government's… Read more Audio
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Maori musician's drive to attract young talent to Otago
12:42 PM.Musician David Harrison is keen to attract more young Maori to Otago University's School of Performing Arts where he's a teaching fellow and mentor to emerging talent. But he says the school has an… Read more Audio
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Social work award winner mentoring young Maori to success
12:14 PM.Florence Tamehana is a student engagement adviser at MIT in Manukau. Two months ago she won the Tangata-o te whenua Practice Award at the Social Work Awards 2023. She works with troubled rangatahi to… Read more Audio
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We're going to 'Māori up' Fortnum & Mason
12:15 PM.Mapuna producer Tama Muru meets London based Ngati Raukawa chef Matt Burgess for a korero and a mean kai. Read more Audio
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Creating pathways for Māori into STEM
12:35 PM.Genevieve Doube (Kai Tahu), is a Resource Management Planner and the Pou Whakawhanake within Te Ahi Tūtata, the Māori business team at Beca, one of Asia Pacific's largest independent… Read more Audio
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Magic mushrooms with a social impact
12:15 PM.As one of few Māori-born biotech businesses in Aotearoa, Rua Bioscience in Tairāwhiti is the only New Zealand-based medicinal cannabis company with an explicit focus on delivering social impact. Last… Read more Audio
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CEO for the Kaupapa Māori and Cultural Communities at FENZ
12:35 PM.This week on Māpuna we speak to Piki Thomas, the newly appointed deputy chief executive for the kaupapa Māori and cultural communities branch of Fire and Emergency NZ. In his 35 years as a career… Read more Audio
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Author Jade Kake on decolonising through design
12:10 PM.Up and coming Maori designer, Jade Kake, has been making waves in both the architectural and literary worlds. She's the director and founder of Matakohe Architecture and Urbanism, a kaupapa Maori… Read more Audio
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Lead te reo Māori commentator for the Rugby World Cup, Te Aorere Pewhairangi.
12:10 PM.This week on Māpuna we speak to social media phenomenon Te Aorere Pewhairangi. Pewhairangi has attracted a huge following on both his TikTok and Instagram accounts, but recently he's been putting on… Read more Audio
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Tauranga prepares to host Te Pūtake o te Riri
12:10 PM.This week on Māpuna we speak to Tauranga community leader Charlie Rahiri as Tauranga Moana prepares to host Te Pūtake o te Riri, the national commemorations for the New Zealand Wars. This year is the… Read more Audio
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Former player Daniel Browne on the 'Wild West' of French club rugby
12:12 PM.As the Rugby World Cup in France enters the knockout stages, Māpuna talks to a former rugby professional, Daniel Browne, who lifts the lid on the way it used to be in French club rugby. After leaving… Read more Audio
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The godfather of Māori sports commentary Hemana Waaka
12:12 PM.This week on Māpuna we speak to one of legends of Māori broadcasting and one of the first people to do sports commentary in te reo Māori, Hemana Waaka. Waaka has called everything from rugby, league… Read more Audio
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Kirsten Te Rito on performing at the Wellington Jazz Festival.
12:10 PM.Our guest on Māpuna this week is Wellington based singer songwriter Kirsten Te Rito. Who is one of only two artists who have been commissioned to perform at the Wellington Jazz Festival which runs in… Read more Audio