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Graphic designer Paula Scher: painting with words
10:05 AM.New York-based Paula Scher is one of the world's most influential graphic designers. A partner at Pentagram design studio since 1991, she began her career as an art director in the 1970s and 80s, when… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Calling in the debt owed by slave-holding nations
9:40 AM.A report co-authored by a UN judge has added to growing international calls for reparations to be paid by perpetrators of transatlantic slavery. The Brattle Group Report calculates 31 former… Read more Audio
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David Scheel: the mysteries of octopuses
9:05 AM.The octopus is a highly intelligent and deeply mysterious creature. It changes colour as quickly as it can move, and it thinks with its tentacles. Marine biologist David Scheel has had a life-long… Read more Audio
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City Shaper Roger Madelin
How do you transform an underused inner-city area into an attractive and thriving place to live and work? Awarded a CBE for Services to Sustainable Development, Roger Madelin is credited with… Read more Audio
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How to talk to kids about fatphobia
5:05 PM.The word 'fat' has been weaponised against people living in bigger bodies and it's time we stripped away its negative connotations, says American journalist Virginia Sole-Smith. She helps parents… Read more Audio
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Listener feedback for 19 August 2023
11:55 AM.Listener feedback for 19 August 2023. Audio
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Playing favourites with When The Cat's Away
11:05 AM.When the Cat's Away is reuniting at Auckland Town Hall for a one night special on October 1st to celebrate and farewell their friend and fellow band mate Margaret Urlich, who died last year. It's the… Read more Audio
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Richard von Sturmer: a year walking and dreaming in the Waikato
10:35 AM.A travel guide like no other, combining poetry, photos and history, Walking with Rocks - Dreaming with Rivers - My Year in the Waikato is the result of Richard von Sturmer's year as writer in… Read more Audio
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From cage fighter to writer: Airana Ngarewa
10:05 AM.Airana Ngarewa left school to become a cage fighter. He hated English. Now a teacher, he's being described as a major new literary talent. His first novel is The Bone Tree. Born and raised in Patea… Read more Audio
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'There's never a cheaper time to retreat than straight after a disaster'
9:35 AM.Rivers have been given room to flood safely in the Netherlands for two decades, mitigating against flooding during severe weather events. Forest and Bird freshwater advocate Tom Kay is touring the… Read more Audio
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Barrie Rice: We Were Blackwater
8:10 AM.The aftermath of the 2003 Iraq invasion is told by former New Zealand SAS soldier Barrie Rice in his book We Were Blackwater - Life, death and madness in the killing fields of Iraq. Read more Audio
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Listener feedback for August 12 2023
12:00 PM.Kim Hill's listener feedback for Saturday 12th August 2023 Audio
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Prof John Plotz: finding new meaning in old books
11:30 AM.Among his varied interests, leading Victorian literature scholar and prison educator Professor John Plotz revisits forgotten novels, giving them a second life, and explores the redeeming value of… Read more Audio
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Jared Davidson: how prison labour built New Zealand
11:05 AM.Some of New Zealand's most important roads, buildings, botanic gardens and great walks were constructed by forced labour, in an era where idleness and waste was deemed more criminal then crime… Read more Audio
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Darryl Leigh Thomson (DLT) reflects on 50 years of hip hop
10:05 AM.A party in New York's Bronx neighbourhood on August 11th, 1973, DJ'ed by Kool Herc, is considered to be hip-hop's genesis moment. The art form that was born that day has since gone global, becoming a… Read more Video, Audio
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Megan Dunn: worshipping art
9:45 AM.Art writer and author Megan Dunn is taking us to church. A surprising amount of art can be found on the walls and windows of Aotearoa's places of worship. Milan Mrkusich, Doreen Blumhardt, Nigel Brown… Read more Audio, Gallery
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The personal artistic agony of Gabriel Krauze
9:05 AM.Gabriel Krauze's extra curricular activities were a little different from the average English literature student. While completing his degree at London's Queen Mary College, he was involved in gangs… Read more Audio
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Dr Ratu Mataira: Kiwi physicist joins the nuclear fusion race
8:10 AM.Physicist Dr Ratu Mataira is on a mission to harness the power of the sun. The 31 year old leads OpenStar Technologies, a Wellington based start-up building a 'levitated dipole' fusion reactor… Read more Audio
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Emojis expert tells all: Characters and their alternative meanings
6:00 PM.Face with Tears of Joy, Skull, Melting Face, Eyes. Emoji have been called the first language born of the digital world, with over 3,000 "picture characters" available to add emotional nuance to… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Listener feedback for 5 August 2023
11:55 AM.Listener feedback for 5 August 2023. Audio
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Anna Funder: how George Orwell wrote his wife out of his story
11:10 AM.All That I Am and Stasiland author Anna Funder's new book Wifedom rewrites the life of her literary hero George Orwell to put a main character back in the story. Blending forensic research, fiction… Read more Audio
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Dr Cady Coleman: the loneliness of life in space
10:30 AM.Beyond our romanticized vision of space exploration is a day-to-day life of physical and social isolation and confinement in an unnatural environment of microgravity and artificial light. New… Read more Video, Audio
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Dr Roderick Mulgan: How to boost your immunity to disease
10:05 AM.Aged-care doctor Dr Roderick Mulgan has a long-held interest in preventative medicine, with a research focus on inflammation, longevity, immunity and the role of functional foods. His new book, Build… Read more Audio
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Former US Judge Nancy Gertner on Trump's charges and chances
9:11 AM.Former U.S. federal judge Nancy Gertner was appointed to the bench of the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts by President Bill Clinton in 1994, retiring in 2011 to teach at Harvard Law School, and… Read more Audio
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Gez Medinger: an insider's guide to Long Covid
8:10 AM.One in ten people who test positive for Covid-19 develop Long Covid, immunologist Danny Altmann told RNZ a couple of weeks ago. His recent book The Long Covid Handbook was co-written with a Long Covid… Read more Video, Audio