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Brian Christian: AI’s ethical alignment problem
8:10 AM.Computer scientist and author Brian Christian writes about one of the fundamental problems of AI development in his book The Alignment Problem: how do we ensure machine learning systems represent the… Read more Audio
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Natarsha Ganley: Women calling the shots in top tier rugby
8:12 AM.New Zealand Rugby hopes to triple the number of women referees in the game announcing a new scholarship for women referees this week. One of the best in the game, referee Natarsha Ganley joins us to… Read more Audio
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Listener feedback for 25 March 2023
11:55 AM.Listener feedback for 25 March 2023. Audio
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Playing Favourites with artist Judy Darragh
11:06 AM.Life-long creative Judy Darragh is known for her bright and brilliant use of colour and found materials as a sculptor, painter and jeweller. Not afraid to use plastic, Darragh wants us to reflect on… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Fire vs ice: volcanologist Graham Leonard on Tongariro
10:40 AM.Ruapehu, the largest active volcano in Aotearoa, and its neighbour Tongariro, are iconic mountains in the central North Island. They don't look like most other New Zealand volcanoes though - their… Read more Audio
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Chloe Gong: #BookTok and the remarkable rise of a writer
10:05 AM.Those not familiar with TikTok might not have heard of #BookTok, but, gathering 196,000 followers and 10 million likes, its been an important part of Chloe Gong's journey to becoming a New York Times… Read more Audio
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Jai Grewal: pickleball - the best sport you've never heard of
9:40 AM.Pickleball – a form of paddle tennis played on a downsized court – is the fastest-growing sport in the US. Already well-established with older Americans, the game is now attracting people of all ages… Read more Video, Audio
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Author Bonnie Garmus on her debut bestseller "Lessons in Chemistry"
9:07 AM.Bonnie Garmus's debut novel Lessons in Chemistry has become a multi-million selling bestseller largely through word of mouth.The story concerns a American scientist who, sacked for being pregnant in… Read more Audio
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Dr Ellen Nelson: local hero who helped evacuate Afghan colleagues to NZ
8:39 AM.NZ Army leader Dr Ellen Nelson worked night and day for almost a year to help evacuate 563 Afghan Defence Force allies and their families after the country fell to the Taliban in 2021. Ellen Nelson is… Read more Audio
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Adharanand Finn: Zane Robertson and Kenyan running culture
8:12 AM.New Zealand runner and two-time Olympian Zane Robertson has been banned from all sport for eight years. Fellow runner, author and journalist Adharanand Finn raced with Robertson in Kenya in 2011 and… Read more Audio
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Listener feedback for 18 March 2023
11:55 AM.Listener feedback for 18 March 2023. Audio
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Megan Dunn on art: looking at crocodiles
11:36 AM.Author and art writer Megan Dunn joins Kim to talk crocodiles. From sculptor Mike Hewson's wooden crocs, to historic paintings and children's books, she examines why we like to look at crocodiles, and… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Gordon Collier's magical home gardens
11:06 AM.Gardener Gordon Collier's first major project was on his family's farm, west of Taihape, Over 30 years he transformed a sunny clay hillside into an internationally celebrated garden, Titoki Point… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Evana Belich: how to get fired
10:30 AM.Evana Belich has plenty of experience dealing with other's employment woes. She has worked as a trade union official, a mediator, an employment relations adviser, and has degrees in law and dispute… Read more Audio
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Prof Peter Deardon: the genetic secrets of the velvet worm
10:05 AM.Peripatus (aka velvet worms or ngaokeoke) are an ancient and fascinating native nocturnal crawling creature. This week in an Otago University fridge a group of peripatus had babies. Celebrating the… Read more Audio
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Kat Tua: young Māori designer turning fashion heads
9:30 AM.Auckland-based fashion designer Kat Tua (Ngati Kahu, Ngati Raukawa) is the powerhouse behind menswear label Manaaki, which is already proving popular with high-end fashion buyers. In its first year… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Tom Bateman: protest and the future of Democracy in Israel
9:05 AM.Mass protests have rocked Israel in recent weeks, in response to planned changes to the judicial system by the country's far-right coalition, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. If the… Read more Audio
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Sam Neill releases revealing memoir
8:10 AM.Sir Sam Neill is known as an open book, sharing yarns from his Central Otago vineyard home with his social media following, but in his soon to be released memoir Did I Ever Tell You This? Sir Sam… Read more Audio
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The Fan Brigade: unlikely unruly librettists
11:35 AM.In January 2019 the media were captivated with the rude antics of a holidaying British family, littering, stealing and being generally obnoxious. Opera New Zealand artistic director Thomas De Mallet… Read more Audio
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Victoria Finlay: How Fabrics are woven into our lives
11:05 AM.Victoria Finlay's latest book Fabric looks at our relationship with textiles: from woven barkcloth in Papua New Guinea to the famous tweed of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Finlay considers how… Read more Audio
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Peter Lynn: a legend of kite design
10:38 AM.Like many of us, designer, engineer and inventor Peter Lynn flew kites as a child, but by the time Lynn was 27, he'd started building one of the most important kite making businesses in the world. Read more Audio
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Simon Armitage: the UK poet laureate on why poetry matters
10:09 AM.UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage is the author of a dozen poetry collections, and in his recently published series of Oxford lectures A Vertical Art: On Poetry, Read more Audio
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Holli McEntegart: the art of postpartum care
9:38 AM.Merging her work as an artist, mother and full spectrum doula, Holli McEntegart's project Inhabit brings together mothers and their infants to examine how community, cultural and whanau postpartum… Read more Audio
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Peter Meihana: exploding the myth of Māori privilege
9:09 AM.The misconception that Māori have more privilege than Pākehā is kept alive today for the same reasons it evolved back in the 19th century – to maintain a cultural power imbalance, says historian Dr… Read more Audio
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Jon Tunnicliffe: releasing waterways from a stranglehold
8:32 AM.Cyclone Gabrielle resulted in major shifts in our waterways, causing significant damage - but it's in their nature for rivers to move. Read more Audio, Gallery