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Quintessential Lauris Edmond
23 Apr 2017As a tribute to her mother, respected writer Lauris Edmond, her daughter Frances has co-edited a new anthology of favourite poetry and prose. She and Sue Fitchett approached family, friends and other… Audio
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The Historic Pumphouse Theatre Celebrates its 40th Anniversary
After surviving near demolition back in the 1970s, the North Shore's Pumphouse Theatre is about to celebrate its 40th anniversary. The building's changed a lot - there's heating and dressing rooms for… Audio
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Ed Byrne - Outside Lookin' In
23 Apr 2017Irish comedian Ed Byrne has been touring Aotearoa for 20 years and many of his NZ experiences have been woven into his stand-up shows. He talks to Wallace about opting for comedy over horticulture… Audio
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The Week That Was with Te Radar and Elisabeth Easther
21 Apr 2017The New Zealand couple attempting to set a world record with their Princess Leia gathering and the woman who comforted her dying ex husband, by convincing him that Donald Trump had been impeached. Audio
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Theatre Critic - Nik Smythe
20 Apr 2017Nik Smythe reviews Olive Copperbottom featuring the multi-personalities of Penny Ashton. The show is on, as part of the New Zealand International Comedy Festival, at Auckland's Basement Theatre… Audio
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Jim Gaffigan: fatherhood, laziness and food
12 Apr 2017As a father of 5 who embraces laziness and the middle age spread that comes with that, Jim Gaffigan was destined to be a comedian. Video, Audio
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Trading geometry for comedy
12 Apr 2017From teaching maths to British teens to being an acclaimed stand-up comedian, Romesh Ranganathan says following his comedy aspirations has not always been easy. Video, Audio
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First distinctively NZ comic voice - John Clarke in his own words
11 Apr 2017The creator of Fred Dagg, John Clarke who died on Sunday, is being remembered as arguably the first distinctively New Zealand comic voice. Audio
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The Week that Was with Te Radar and Irene Pink
7 Apr 2017Bill English's pineapple, spaghetti pizza offends New Zealand, the six-year battle at a Christchurch retirement village over a fence, and it is now illegal in Russia to share an image of Vladimir… Audio
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Theatre Critic - Alistair Browning
6 Apr 2017Actor, director, writer and dramaturge Alistair Browning reviews Kate McGill's "WEAVE" - Yarns with New Zealanders" in which Kate plays the characters of 20 people she interviewed before writing the… Audio
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Attention buglers! Andy Zaltzman
5 Apr 2017Andy Zaltzman is one of Britain's leading comedians best known for writing and presenting the hit satirical podcast, the Bugle which he created with John Oliver. He is also a top cricket writer. He's… Audio
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Can't pop this: bubble scientist's passion for physics
Dr Helen Czerski talks to Kathryn Ryan about how looking closer at everyday objects opens the door to the fundamentals of physics. She is a lecturer in the Mechanical Engineering Department at… Audio
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Facing death in Colombia to life in NZ
3 Apr 2017Daniel Gamboa is 22, an actor, son, humanitarian, student, young leader and former refugee. In 2006 Daniel and his mother fled Colombia when rebels threated to kill the then 12-year-old boy because… Audio, Gallery
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Remembering actor Bernard Kearns
Respected New Zealand actor, Bernard Kearns, who died on the 21st of March at the age of 92. Bernard became a familiar face across New Zealand in screen roles like Sleeping Dogs, The God Boy and… Audio
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Hamilton's Meteor Theatre runs into unexpected snags
Asbestos and soggy foundations have put an expensive spanner in the works for the team behind the renovations and earthquake strengthening at Hamilton's historic Meteor Theatre. They've added around… Audio, Gallery
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Winner of the Adam NZ Play Award David Mamea
A play about a lonely octagenerian Samoan woman and her friendship with a chicken has won David Mamea the 2017 Adam New Zealand Play Award. Still Life with Chickens is David's third play and it also… Audio
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Eleanor Bishop - Foreskin's Lament revisited
1 Apr 2017New Zealander Eleanor Bishop is a theatre director and writer based in New York. She's back home for the upcoming world premiere of her adaptation of Greg McGee's Foreskin's Lament, BOYS, as part of… Audio
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The Week that Was
31 Mar 2017Te Radar and Pinky consider whether playing Ed Sheeran on repeat constitutes torture, and whether yoghurt should banned from lunchboxes. Audio
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Kiwi meets Classical
26 Mar 2017Kiwi artists, writers and musicians who feel a connection to the Ancient World are being asked to share their stories for a new website. New Zealand was after all where the long running series of… Audio
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How to Keep An Alien: Australia To Ireland
26 Mar 2017We like Irish performers here in New Zealand.
Partly it's because they're terrific - a line of genius from Oscar Wilde, Dave Allen, Father Ted and Dylan Moran.
Case in point: writer-actor-comedienne… Audio