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How to open an OXO cube!
21 Sep 2018Taking stock with the week that was, James Elliott and Justine Smith run through how to open an OXO cube, and the astounding story of the airline company which couldn't spell its name right. Let's be… Audio
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Theatre Critic - Lin Clark
20 Sep 2018Lin Clark is with us from our Christchurch studio to talk about the play Mum's Choir on at the Court Theatre. Audio
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Giant bong thwarts robbers
14 Sep 2018Radar and Pinky Agnew with the lighter side of life, including the Canadian robbers who used bear spray to try to disable staff at the Recreational Cannabis Farmers market in Ontario, but were fought… Audio
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Fishy fresh eyes and other funnies
7 Sep 2018Michele A'Court and Justine Smith with the lighter side of life, including the Kuwaiti shop selling fish with stuck on googly eyes, in attempt to make it look fresher. And a Cornwall supermarket, in… Audio
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Go Ahead Caller - Ser 11, Ep 4 'Simon Bridges Plays Drums'
7 Sep 2018Simon Bridges gets a little funky and NZ Politics Museum opens. Audio
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Theatre Critic - John Smythe
6 Sep 2018John Smythe from Theatreview joins us to review two very different plays among the many gracing stages throughout the country for New Zealand Theatre Month; MODERN GIRLS IN BED at Circa One until 22… Audio
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"Susan" sounds off, Bridezilla's wedding cancelled
31 Aug 2018Radar and Melanie Bracewell tell us about the Canadian bride "Susan" who cancelled her wedding after guests were reluctant to fork out $1500 a head. She then took to social media to diss friends and… Audio
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Rawiri Paratene on NZ Theatre Month
30 Aug 2018September marks New Zealand Theatre month - which was the brain child of playwright Roger Hall. With us to talk about what's happening is a stalwart of New Zealand theatre, Rawiri Paratene. Audio
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Why Oamaru is more Pacific than Auckland
29 Aug 2018The ways in Pacific communities and cultures are affecting New Zealand is explored by Damon Salesa, an associate professor of Pacific Studies at the University of Auckland. Discussing ideas set out in… Audio
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Revived Andromeda Theatre complex to be built in weeks
28 Aug 2018Theatre producer Michael Bell has got permission to build a temporary theatre complex using shipping containers, a giant tent, and temporary staging, right in the heart of the partially completed… Video, Audio
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Edinburgh Fringe win an 'out-of-body experience' - Matafeo
27 Aug 2018New Zealand comedian Rose Matafeo says she's "completely overwhelmed" to win best comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She won for her show 'Horndog' - about a woman in her 20s looking for… Audio
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Albert Belz's Cradle song
26 Aug 2018A nunnery near where a mass children's grave is discovered is the setting for the latest play by Albert Belz, written after he heard about a similar real life discovery in Ireland. Audio
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Playwright Tom Minter
26 Aug 2018In 2001, African-American playwright Tom Minter dashed off a script that described a world in chaos. However, when Dione Joseph agreed to bring the production home to New Zealand at the end of 2016… Audio
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The week that was, art's black hole
24 Aug 2018Elisabeth Easther and James Elliott with the Friday funnies, including the 8 foot black hole art installation in a Portuguese Gallery that claimed an art enthusiast. Audio
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Theatre Critic John Smythe
23 Aug 2018John Smythe reviews a new play at Circa as part of the Womens Theatre Festival - Bloomsbury Women and the Wild Colonial Girl. Audio
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Professor Deanne Williams - Looking for Shakespeare's Girls
18 Aug 2018Deanne Williams is a professor of English at York University, Toronto, and a Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Prof Williams specialises in medieval and renaissance literatures, and is recognised… Audio
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Old love letters & pigging out on KFC
17 Aug 2018Radar and Irene Pink with The Week that Was, tell of the shock that awaited some British sisters who found their late parents' explicit old love letters, and KFC proved the secret weapon deployed by… Audio
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Comedy's Earl of Whimsy returns to NZ
12 Aug 2018Bill Bailey's a man of many talents. As well as making people laugh, he's an enthusiastic stand-up paddle boarder, passionate conservationist, accomplished musician and an author. He's back in New… Audio
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Clip-on man buns & office tea etiquette ?
10 Aug 2018The Week That Was with James Elliott and Justine Smith includes a look at the gift for the hard to buy for - a clip-on man bun, and the minefield that is office tea etiquette. Audio
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Theatre Critic Hannah August
9 Aug 2018Dr Hannah August, an English lecturer at Massey University in Auckland is with me in our Auckland studio to talk about the Q theatre's production of Burn Her. Audio