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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
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Playing favourites with Joel Tobeck
3:05 PM.Years ago, before they'd met, Joel Tobeck's highly recognisable face attracted a kiss from Kim Hill at a Wellington theatre. The versatile 52-year-old actor and musician reunites with Kim to talk… Read more Video, Audio
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How pain affects our pets' behaviour
4:06 PM.How do we know when our cats and dogs are in pain? And how does pain affect their behaviour? These are among the topics being explored by Dr Sarah Heath, keynote speaker at next weekend's Kiwi Vet… Read more Audio
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Saturday morning feedback
12:00 PM.Saturday morning listener feedbacl Audio
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Dr Alyssa Lie: could eye drops replace reading glasses?
10:45 AM.Eye drops are in the frame to replace reading glasses for middle age farsightedness, or presbyopia. The FDA has approved prescription-only Vuity™ drops for sale in the US to aid presbyopia, and… Read more Audio
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Deborah Hunt: the romance of Red Mole
10:05 AM.Founded by the late Alan Brunton and Sally Rodwell in the early 1970s, avant-garde New Zealand performance collective Red Mole doggedly pursued a vision to embrace the energetic, romantic and erratic… Read more Video, Audio
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Marie Darrieussecq: reflections on insomnia
9:40 AM.Shortly after the birth of her first child in 2001 French writer Marie Darrieussecq developed insomnia, and she's not been able to get a good night's sleep since. She's spent some of her many waking… Read more Audio
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Alice Sherwood: the fashion for authenticity in a world of fakes
9:05 AM.Knock-offs are big business, worth $600 billion a year on the world market: anything from whiskey and bags to footwear and hair care products. In her book Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a… Read more Audio
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Prof Peter Ditlevsen: crucial ocean current system heading for collapse
8:10 AM.The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current (AMOC) is part of a conveyor belt of currents that circulate water around the world, regulating weather and sea level. Professor Peter Ditlevsen from… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Listener feedback for 22 July 2023
11:55 AM.Listener feedback for 22 July 2023. Audio
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Thomasin Sleigh on The Words For Her
11:30 AM.People love sharing photos and videos. There are unknowably huge numbers of images on-line. But what if you disappeared from your own photo-album? The rest of the scene still there, but your face is… Read more Audio
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'Survived the test of time': Vegemite spread still popular 100 years on from invention
11:05 AM.It's 100 years since Australian chemist Cyril Callister invented Vegemite as an alternative to Marmite, which had become scarce due to German U-boats sinking the ships bringing the English spread… Read more Video, Audio
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Below Deck star Aesha Scott: 'I'll keep doing it as long as my sanity will let me'
10:45 AM.Superyacht stewardess Aesha Scott is a fan favourite on the American reality show Below Deck for her work ethic and relentless positivity. The Tauranga-born TV personality tells Kim Hill that… Read more Video, Audio
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Filmmaker Nicolas Philibert on the art of patient observation
10:05 AM.French filmmaker Nicolas Philibert is known for his intimate and patiently observed documentaries capturing the beauty of everyday humanity. He's most well known for 2002's Etre et Avoir which… Read more Audio
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Volcanologist Graham Leonard: the magma under Auckland
9:40 AM.Auckland's iconic landmarks Mount Eden, One Tree Hill, and Rangitoto are all evidence of the 360 km2 volcanic field that lies beneath our largest city. The field has erupted at least 53 times in the… Read more Audio
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Prof Danny Altmann: the burden of long COVID
9:05 AM.World leading immunologist Professor Danny Altmann has declared the future burden of long COVID to be "so large as to be unfathomable". He has published a scientific review of long COVID in Nature… Read more Audio
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Gaia Vince: mass climate migration is inevitable
8:10 AM.As parts of southern Europe and the US swelter in record summer temperatures, Gaia Vince anticipates mass migration to cooler countries, forced by global warming. Her book, Nomad Century: How to… Read more Audio
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Ben Smith: How clicks, likes and shares ruined digital news
2:05 PM.Journalist Ben Smith tells the story of how digital media organisations became addicted to "going viral" in his new book Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral… Read more Audio
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Listener feedback for 15 July 2023
11:55 AM.Listener feedback for 15 July 2023. Audio
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Poet Jenny Bornholdt: A Garden is a Long Time
11:40 AM.Poet Jenny Bornholdt's new book A Garden is a Long Time weaves her words with the life and photographic art of Annemarie Hope-Cross, who died last year. Hope-Cross studied photogenic drawing, wet and… Read more Audio