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Listener feedback for 22 October 2022
11:55 AM.Listener feedback for 22 October 2022. Audio
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Joel Little: 'I just love writing songs so I'm not going to stop doing it'
11:05 AM.Award-winning music producer Joel Little talks to Kim Hill about songwriting, ambition and the brand-new music-making hub he's created in Auckland. Read more Video, Audio
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Russell Tregonning: from sawing bones to sexism
10:30 AM.The knee is the largest and most complex joint in the body and retired orthopaedic surgeon Russell Tregonning is passionate about the evolving science of knee injuries and replacement surgery. In his… Read more Audio
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Megan Dunn: what’s art got to do with mermaids?
10:05 AM.Our regular art correspondent Megan Dunn has an exhibition of her own just opened at Wellington's Adam Art Gallery, revealing another long standing obsession: mermaids. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Dr Matt Baker: life on ancient Mars and Rubisco
9:30 AM.Sydney-based New Zealander Dr Matt Baker returns for a chat about some of the latest science news. This week: there are reports that ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of harbouring an… Read more Audio
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The Yeah Yeah Yeahs: still spitting after 20 years
9:05 AM.Indie-sleaze darlings the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are back with their fifth album, Cool It Down. The New York triple-Grammy nominated band started out over two decades ago opening for the White Stripes… Read more Audio
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Ned Fletcher: are the English and Maori texts so different?
8:40 AM. Flowing from his interest in the Colonial Office of the 1830s and how English law was brought to New Zealand, historian and lawyer Ned Fletcher argues in The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi… Read more Audio
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Shehan Karunatilaka: 'Forgetting things hasn’t seemed to work for us'
8:10 AM.The dead do tell tales: sometimes they are the only ones who can speak to the living about the costs of civil war, terror and corruption. Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka won the Man Booker Prize… Read more Audio
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Chris Parker: finding the extraordinary and the hilarious in the ordinary
3:05 PM.Lockdown made Auckland comedian Chris Parker an Instagram sensation. He talks to Kim Hill about his recent wedding and new book Here For a Good Time: Organised Thoughts From A Disorganised Mind. Read more Video, Audio
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Sally Gates: quantum physics inspired jazz metal fusion
5:35 PM.'Relentless Attrition' and 'Infernal Assault' - the names of guitarist Sally Gates's early '00s bands betray her beginnings in the Auckland death metal scene. Since, she has moved to the United States… Read more Video, Audio
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Catherine Chidgey: life on the farm from a magpie eye’s view
4:05 PM.In a remarkable literary feat Catherine Chidgey's seventh novel The Axeman's Carnival is told entirely from the perspective of a magpie on a high country farm. T Read more Audio
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Ian Johnson: Are major changes on the way for China?
2:10 PM.When the Chinese Communist Party elite gather in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Sunday 15 October for the 20th Party Congress, all will not be as it seems. Read more Audio
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Saturday Morning listener feedback Saturday 15 October
11:55 AM.Saturday morning listener feedback Audio
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Playing Favourites with fashion icon Doris de Pont
11:05 AM.As a fashion maker and curator Doris de Pont's career has been dedicated to what we wear and why. And it's in the blood: both of her grandfathers contributed to the garment industry in the… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Esther Perel: helping couples find clarity and responsibility – together or apart
9:30 AM.Belgian-American psychotherapist Esther Perel talks to Kim Hill about the modern religion of romance and the "relationship accelerator" that is Covid-19. Read more Video, Audio
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Prof Tim Bale: UK politics again in turmoil
8:40 AM.After 39 days in office the UK Prime Minister Liz Truss has done a dramatic U-turn on her tax-cut plans in an effort to reassure financial markets. She has also dropped her close ally Kwasi Kwarteng… Read more Audio
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Hannah Gadsby on comedy, change and Nanette
7:30 PM.Hannah Gadsby says only in the last year has she "come out the other side" after being catapulted to fame by her 2018 Netflix comedy special Nanette. The Australian comedian is currently in New… Read more Video, Audio
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Saturday Morning Feedback from 8 October
12:00 PM.Kim reads out listener feedback from the show. Audio
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Playing favourites with The Dunedin Study’s Richie Poulton
11:05 AM.Professor Richie Poulton, director of the internationally-renowned Dunedin Study, joins Kim Hill to look back on his own life’s developments and play some favourite songs. Read more Audio
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Nick Ascroft: a nearly award-winning word finder
10:45 AM.Poet Nick Ascroft considers one of his claims to fame to be "nearly winning the Kathleen Grattan Prize four times, the most anyone has nearly won it". Which might partly explain why his fifth… Read more Audio
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Kris De Decker: 'We need to reduce energy consumption no matter where the energy comes from'
10:05 AM.After 11 years working as a science and tech journalist, Kris De Decker realised that low-tech is actually the way of the future. He's the creator of Low-Tech Magazine - a solar-powered website hosted… Read more Audio
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Dorian Llywelyn: miracles on the way to sainthood
9:30 AM.The path to sainthood can be long - as long as a 1000 years. For Meri Hohepa Suzanne Aubert, who died in 1926, that path hit a snag earlier this year when the Vatican Medical Council decided a… Read more Audio
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Jamie McLellan: taking New Zealand design to the world
9:05 AM.On Friday 7 October Jamie McLellan won the John Britten Black Pin at the Designers Institute of NZ's Best Design Awards, the most prestigious award on the New Zealand design calendar. Currently based… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Roxana Saberi: ‘Iran will never be the same again’
8:10 AM.The headscarves women are required to wear by the Islamic Republic of Iran are now becoming a symbol of defiance. London-based CBS News correspondent Roxana Saberi was born in the United States to an… Read more Audio
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Ruby Tui: ‘You learn things at rock bottom’
6:00 PM.New Zealand rugby star Ruby Tui tells Susie Ferguson why she's sharing the rough details of her early life in the new memoir Straight Up. Read more Video, Audio