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Nashville Babylon: 25 May 2024
25 May 2024On this week's Nashville Babylon there's blues from Junior Wells and RL Burnside, swamp rock courtesy of Tony Joe White, reggae from Susan Cadogan plus an Americana classic from the Willard Grant… Audio
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Best Country Music Song winner a tribute to a 'real cowboy'
25 May 2024South Island folk songwriter Holly Arrowsmith has won the 2024 APRA Best Country Music Song for 'Desert Dove' - a song about "distance, loss and grief". Video, Audio
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The Mixtape: The Bat’s Paul Kean
25 May 2024Musician Paul Kean from The Bats is picking the tunes on the Mixtape this week. Paul has been a member of several bands, The Basket Cases, Toy Love, The Bats, Minisnap, and more recently a musical… Audio
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Voom’s Buzz Moller: The trick to writing a good song
25 May 2024Indie perennials Voom have been playing their heart-on-their-sleeve music for a long time in Aotearoa and are still releasing perfectly formed pop songs. Buzz Moller from Voom talks about the art of… Audio
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Beth Gibbons is in reflective form on her revelatory solo debut Lives Outgrown
25 May 2024The Portishead singer unveils her first album, tackling motherhood and mortality on an collection that's sometimes gloomy, but often gorgeous. Video, Audio
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Gareth Shute on his favourite Auckland venues
25 May 2024Tony Stamp is in Auckland for a guided tour of the music historian and writer's favourite local venues, in the final of this four part series. Audio
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Byllie-jean at the Christchurch Art Gallery
25 May 2024Byllie-jean, Ngati Kahungunu ki Heretaunga, Ngati Pahauwera, performs live at the Christchurch art gallery for Music 101 and NZ Music Month. Winner of the 2022 APRA Maioha Award for her song with Aja… Video, Audio
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Shapeshifter celebrates 25 years of drum and bass distinction
25 May 2024Shapeshifter formed in Christchurch back in 1999. This year the trailblazing live drum-and-bass band celebrate 25 years of performing around the world. Music 101's Charlotte Ryan - a "very early fan"… Video, Audio
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Kate De Goldi: reading for pleasure
25 May 2024Kate De Goldi is one of New Zealand's most celebrated authors, an Arts Foundation Laureate, and a voracious reader. She joins Susie to share three books she's loved; Ironopolis by Glen James Brown… Audio
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The website revealing how much jobs might pay
25 May 2024Recruiters are reporting an unprecedented jump in job applications in the wake of thousands of layoffs across the public and private sectors. But for those seeking new work, a key question often… Audio
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Jake Adelstein: A unique view into Japan's seedy underbelly
25 May 2024Having grown up in Missouri, Jake Adelstein moved to Japan at age 19 to study Japanese literature. A few years later, he became the first non-Japanese staff writer at Yomiuri Shimbun, one of the… Audio
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Aussie Lego Masters bring their RELICS exhibition to Auckland
25 May 2024In 2020, childhood friends Alex Towler and Jackson Harvey won the Australian reality show Lego Masters. Four years on, their elaborate retrofuturistic Lego exhibition RELICS: A New World Rises is… Video, Audio, Gallery
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Pasi Vainikka: The next step in the food revolution
25 May 2024Creating food from 'thin air' sounds like a futuristic dream. But it's a future that's already arrived in the form of Solar Foods - Europe's first factory dedicated to making human food from… Audio
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Opera director Simon Phillips: A new spin on 'Le comte Ory'
25 May 2024The 1828 comic opera 'Le comte Ory' has been given a facelift by internationally acclaimed director Simon Phillips ('North by Northwest', 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert', 'The Elixir of Love')… Audio
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Matt Brown: What if Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis debated God
25 May 2024American film director and script writer Matt Brown's new movie, just about to be released in cinemas here, is 'Freud's Last Session'. It stars Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode as two of the greatest… Video, Audio
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Blooming magic: Toby de Lacey - the Chelsea Flower Show
25 May 2024Gardeners flock to the 'Chelsea Flower Show' for ideas about cutting-edge garden design and to see fabulous floral displays. Floral designer Toby de Lacey - a regular behind the scenes - is also… Audio, Gallery
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Should all drugs be decriminalised?
25 May 2024More than 150 experts have signed an open letter calling on the NZ Government to legalise and regulate all psychoactive substances. The letter marks the launch of the Harm Reduction Coalition… Audio
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Out Lately with Finn Johansson
Tonight Finn's bag of fresh new tracks traverse the full range of musical genres, from Pōneke anarcho-hardcore to midwestern psych-tinged folk-pop. Audio
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Explained: New Zealand's Heritage List
There are more than 6,000 buildings, homes and places on Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga's historic place register. How do they get there? Audio
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Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
Nights' resident film critic Dan Slevin is back this week with an Australian theme. Dan takes a look at the next edition of the Mad Max franchise Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, You Can Go Now! a documentary… Audio
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This Weekend: 130th Otago Capping Show
For more than 100 years, the Capping Show has been delighting and offending audiences, poking fun at everyone from university authorities and landlords to sanctified philanthropists and world leaders.
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"Nature's itching to put the bush back"
From a block of gorse-infected scrubland on Banks Peninsula, renowned botanist Hugh Wilson has spent half a lifetime growing Hinewai Reserve into a 1600-hectare paradise of regenerated native forest… Audio
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Forging through tough times
Blacksmith Jamie Hughes has a niche business crafting knives and hand-forged metalwork for chefs, farmers and tourists from his smithy in Norsewood. Tough economic times means he's feeling it from all… Audio
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Shear-will and the power of traditional healing
Serena Lyders has found her calling as a traditional Māori healer, giving back to rural communities and working with shearers all around the motu. Audio