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Nigel Pascoe QC - high-profile UK lawyer, actor and playwright
Nigel Pascoe QC is a specialist practitioner in UK criminal jury advocacy, undertaking Courts Martial, and some civil work including serious abuse and baby shaking cases, and defamation. He's been one… Audio
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The week that was, rubbishing chip packets
3 Aug 2018Te Radar and Gemma Gracewood look at the sublime and the ridiculous, including the UK roofer who was fined for having empty chip packets in his van, without having a licence to carry rubbish! Audio
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Theatre Critic - Cate Prestidge
2 Aug 2018Cate Prestidge reviews the Hamilton production of No Holds Bard. Audio
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The week that was
27 Jul 2018James Elliott and Michele A'Court on the cat flap that caught out a Waikato woman, and the Virginia Beach runaway snake. Audio
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Jane Austen - political satirist?
22 Jul 2018University of Otago Professor Emerita Jocelyn Harris tells Lynn Freeman that it remains controversial to argue that Jane Austen was both a celebrity watcher and someone with a keen interest in… Audio
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Chris Marcil and the art of serial sitcoms
22 Jul 2018Chris talks to Lynn Freeman and about How I met your mother, serials in general and the Script To Screen "Episodic Lab" for New Zealand would-be TV scriptwriters. Audio
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Sam Brooks - Award-winning playwright
21 Jul 2018Playwright, journalist and popular culture critic, Sam Brooks has won the Bruce Mason Award, been highly commended twice in the prestigious Adam NZ Play Awards, and won Playmarket's b425 competition… Audio
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The week that was
20 Jul 2018Te Radar and Elisabeth Easther take a look at the more unusual stories of the week including the woman described as 'Britain's worst neighbour' who made headlines for installing a special high pitched… Audio
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Robbie Ellis: composing with the laughs
20 Jul 2018Robbie Ellis is a New Zealander living in Chicago, making his living as radio DJ, performer, music teacher, musical director and he also writes very funny songs. He fully admits that he is very hard… Audio
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Theatre Critic Lin Clark
19 Jul 2018Lin Clark reviews the new production of Elisabeth Easther's play, Seed. Audio
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A young person's guide to film music for the orchestra
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is currently putting together its 2019 season, and with school holidays underway we have engaged the help of a RNZ family member to compile a list of suggestions… Video
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Cheesy mystery with Te Radar & Irene Pink
13 Jul 2018Baffling blocks of cheese in inner-Melbourne gardens, and a train carrying human waste through Alabama causes a stink. Audio
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Pollies and the power of humour
Researching humour is not just a laughing matter for cultural studies lecturer Dr Nick Holm. He specialises in studying its multiple forms - from satire to deadpan - to understand how humour can make… Audio
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Hadlow treads the boards for Shortland Street - The Musical
7 Jul 2018Mark Hadlow is one of New Zealand's most well-known and prominent actors, having performed in over 150 plays, including musical theatre, Shakespeare, and one-man shows. He has appeared in dozens of… Audio
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The week that was
6 Jul 2018Pinky Agnew and James Elliot examine the lighter side of the stories making headlines, including a controversial Mosgiel tree house and a blunt exchange involving the Dutch Prime Minister and the US… Audio
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Great White Man-Eating Shark in Auckland
1 Jul 2018This year Tim Bray Productions is celebrating its 27th year - which is pretty much ancient in New Zealand theatre company terms - that's 27 years of school holiday productions in Auckland. Tim adapts… Audio, Gallery
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Rima Te Wiata on her career and the brilliance of Taylor Mac's Hir
1 Jul 2018Silo Theatre in Auckland's latest production Hir is what its American playwright Taylor Mac called a critique of "troglodyte fascist heteronormative" culture. But as Mark Amery finds out there's some… Audio, Gallery
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Bridges' comedy of errors
1 Jul 2018Last week opposition leader Simon Bridges joked that nothing he said during a Radio Hauraki interview mattered because there was going to be a "news vacuum" following the birth of the Prime Minister's… Audio
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Jemaine Clement on his new TV show 'Wellington Paranormal'
30 Jun 2018Kim Hill was nervous to meet Jemaine Clement as he famously doesn't like interviews. They meet for a sometimes excruciating, sometimes funny conversation about, among other things, his new TV show… Video, Audio
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The week that was with Te Radar and Melanie Bracewell
29 Jun 2018Te Radar and Melanie ponder why more of your clothes are being ruined by moths, a US flamingo's great escape and why a mural in Los Angeles for social media 'influencers' is sparking outrage. Audio