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Untouchable Girls: The Topp Twins in their own words
9:05 AM.For over 40 years, twin sisters Lynda and Jools Topp have performed as the joyfully anarchic and comedic country music duo The Topp Twins. Now 65, Dames Jools and Lynda Topp speak to Kim Hill about… Read more Video, Audio
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Kim Stanley Robinson: Imagining the future and finding hope
8:10 AM.US writer Kim Stanley Robinson spends a lot of time imagining the future. The author of more than 20 novels, including his best-selling The Mars Trilogy, he's considered one of the greatest writers of… Read more Audio
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Tracking down stolen masterpieces: 'It's a dangerous game'
1:35 PM.Dutch art detective Arthur Brand is known as 'the Indiana Jones of the art world', having spent decades tracking down stolen masterpieces, including Picassos, Van Goghs and missing artifacts such as… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Akram Khan: Jungle Book reimagined
11:05 AM.One of the world's most respected contemporary choreographers, award-winning British dancer of Bangladeshi-descent Akram Khan is bringing a retelling of Rudyard Kipling's much-loved classic to New… Read more Audio
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Nicola Joyce: empathy in song-writing
10:35 AM.Traditional Irish band Gráda are reforming and returning to tour New Zealand in October. Two members of the band, Gerry Paul and Andrew Laking are Kiwis. Gráda is known for its energy on stage… Read more Audio
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Jennifer Egan on homelessness
10:05 AM.In her non-fiction writing, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan has explored solutions for homelessness in America. Her year-long reporting on street… Read more Audio
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Prof Benjamin Oldroyd: Epigenetics and evolution
9:05 AM.Emeritus Professor of Behavioural Genetics at the University of Sydney, Benjamin Oldroyd is an experimental scientist who has published more than three hundred scientific papers, mostly on honey bees… Read more Audio
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Nathan Rarere at half time
8:45 AM.The All Blacks play Italy in a game they can't afford to lose in Lyon. RNZ sports aficionado Nathan Rarere checks in at half time with how the All Blacks are performing with a full strength team in a… Read more Audio
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Trent Dalton: 'If you have kindness and enthusiasm you're gonna be leading a pretty solid life'
8:10 AM.In his new novel Lola in The Mirror, Trent Dalton brings to life the experience of homelessness in his usual compelling and strangely uplifting style. The Australian writer talks to Kim Hill about… Read more Audio
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Prof Mark Blagrove: The stories dreams tell
12:00 PM.After years of exploring the function of dreams, sleep scientist Mark Blagrove suspects human connection may be at the heart of our brain's unconscious storytelling. "Humans may have evolved to have… Read more Video, Audio
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Prof Emma Teeling: bats may hold the secret to living longer
3:40 PM.Cultural omen of darkness, reservoir of deadly viruses - bats don't have the best reputation. But they do have some impressive and potentially helpful biological quirks, including the ability to… Read more Audio
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Olive Jones: anarchy and idealism at the Graham Downs commune
11:35 AM.In 1979, inspired by the countercultural movement sweeping the country, teenager Olive Jones embraced rural communal living. By the age of twenty-one she was one of the founders of the Graham Downs… Read more Audio
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Melanoma researcher experimenting on his own brain tumour
11:05 AM.Pathologist professor Richard Scolyer's melanoma research is credited with saving tens of thousands of lives, but now he's in a race to save his own. Read more Audio
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Playing Favourites with Kerry Ann Lee
11:01 AM.Kerry Ann Lee is a collage artist, scholar, DJ, and fanzine maker whose work explores Cantonese urban settlement and cultural collisions. A third-generation Chinese New Zealander, Lee's parents ran… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Supreme WOW Winner: Gill Saunders does it again
9:45 AM.Nelson designer Gill Saunders is the Supreme Winner at the 2023 World of WearableArt™ show for her garment Earthling. It's Saunders' second Supreme WOW award, and her seventh award win in the show… Read more Audio
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David McAllister: Ballet Confidential
9:08 AM.Internationally-acclaimed former principal dancer and artistic director of The Australian Ballet, David McAllister recently completed his tenure as acting artistic director of the Royal New Zealand… Read more Audio
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Prof Kevin Tracey: How vagus nerve stimulation will revolutionise medicine
3:05 PM.It won't be too long before electronic vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is helping to treat inflammatory illness, says bioelectronic medicine specialist Kevin Tracey. Read more Audio
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Peter Butler: Night Tribe
11:40 AM.Nelson-based author and entrepreneur Peter Butler's fourth book is Night Tribe, a young adult novel set in the Kahurangi National Park. Peter's first job in Golden Bay was working on the Heaphy Track… Read more Audio
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One performer/ten Divas: Bernadette Robinson
11:00 AM.What makes a diva? In her one-woman show DIVAS, Olivier-nominated Australian singer Bernadette Robinson brings to life Maria Callas, Edith Piaf, Judy Garland, also Shirley Bassey, Miley Cyrus and Amy… Read more Audio
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Ron Crosby: Te Kooti's Last Foray
10:40 AM.Long-time bush man, lawyer and historian Ron Crosby's new book Te Kooti's Last Foray re-tells a forgotten period of Te Urewera history. With the help of recently discovered diaries and by tramping the… Read more Audio
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Graham Leonard: how prepared are we for a tsunami?
9:40 AM.Long or Strong - Get Gone! - most of us know this advice on when to evacuate due to tsunami risk following an earthquake, but if it happened would we actually act? Surveys suggest around a third of… Read more Audio
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Julia Ebner: how extremist ideas are taking over
9:05 AM.UK counter-extremism expert Julia Ebner thinks we are at the beginning of a digital dark age. QAnon proponents run for U.S. Congress, neo-fascists win elections in Europe, and celebrity influencers… Read more Audio