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Voom’s Buzz Moller: The trick to writing a good song
25 May 2024Buzz Moller from Voom talks about the art of songwriting with Charlotte Ryan ahead of their tour with Reb Fountain, and this year’s Taite award winner Vera Ellen. Audio
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Dawn French embraces shame in new live show
30 May 2024Katie Fitzgerald headed along on a windy Wednesday night to see the Vicar of Dibley take a walk down memory lane.
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Why Chinese migrants change their names when they emigrate
28 May 2024Reporter Ke-Xin went through five names before coming back to her original one. Audio
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What NZ cities can learn from Barcelona’s ‘superblock’ urban design
29 May 2024New Zealand is one of the most car-centric countries in the world and could learn much from Barcelona, Simon Kingham and Marco Amati write.
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Fergus Byett: composing for choirs
28 May 2024Choirs Aotearoa's 2024 Composer-in-Residence, Fergus Byett, talks with Bryan Crump about what he loves about writing music when there's words involved. Audio
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Easy Eats: Sam Parish's eggplant and chicken parmigana
29 May 2024Not sure what to eat tonight? Christchurch-based chef, author and busy mum Sam Parish knows the feeling. She shares a simple and super-tasty recipe for eggplant and chicken parmigana that the whole whānau will love.
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Where does our electricity come from?
27 May 2024Electricity - how do we generate it, how does it get from a hydrostation to our kettles, and where is the technology heading? 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 with Charlotte Ryan. Audio
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Doing things slower, better: Our idea of productivity is 'broken'
29 May 2024Knowledge workers, in particular, are getting exhausted by the "pseudo productivity hamster wheel," Cal Newport says. Audio
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Shannon Lee: Bruce Lee, my father the philosopher
26 May 2024The philosophy of Bruce Lee is more about the power of love than “kicking ass”, says Shannon Lee, daughter of the legendary ‘70s martial artist and actor. Audio
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Meet the student nurse who spends $40 a week on food
28 May 2024When it comes to meal planning, Jordyn Hammond, a 21-year-old student nurse, takes thrift to the next level. Audio
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The amazing sound of the recorder: from sopranino to baroque bass
23 May 2024Recorder specialist Kamala Bain brings a selection of her instruments into the RNZ Concert studio, from the little sopranino recorder to the baroque bass recorder, and gives us a taste of what a recorder can sound like in the hands of an expert. Audio
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Roger Fox: a tribute to the champion of New Zealand jazz
28 May 2024Nick Tipping, host of RNZ’s jazz show Inside Out, pays tribute to NZ jazz great Rodger Fox who has died at the age of 71. Audio
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Embracing random luck and the chance for a better life
27 May 2024How do random events impact the bigger events in our lives and the history of the world? Audio
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The Countess and the Page
27 May 2024Emma Pearson and Hanna Hipp, two of the lead roles in NZ Opera's season of Le Comte Ory, join Bryan Crump to talk about the production and their characters. Audio
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What we're watching: Tokyo Vice
27 May 2024Dan Slevin recommends a crime thriller with a powerful - and unusual - sense of time and place.
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Shapeshifter celebrates 25 years: Drama, anxiety "and a ridiculous amount of good times"
25 May 2024Sam Trevethick and Nick Robinson from the NZ drum and bass band Shapeshifter get nostalgic with Charlotte Ryan. Video, Audio
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The story behind the AI image that shocked the world
26 May 2024Boris Eldagsen became the most notorious artist in the world last year, after winning an award at one of the world's biggest photography competitions with an image entirely generated by AI. Audio
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NZ jazz legend Rodger Fox dies aged 71
28 May 2024Rodger Fox founded his Big Band in 1973 and toured extensively, playing at international jazz festivals including Montreux, Monterey and New Orleans. He also taught generations of musicians at the New Zealand School of Music. Video, Audio
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Take regular 'keto vacation' to get best results, says US scientist
27 May 2024If you take a ketogenic break, senescent, or ageing, cells go away, a US scientist says. 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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'It isn't fruitful to be identified as a yakuza anymore'
Contract law and ordinances - those are the elements author and former journalist Jake Adelstein says have led to a dramatic fall in the number of Japanese mafia members since the 1990s. Audio
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Modern irrationality rooted in cognitive biases, writer says
26 May 2024Every human has cognitive biases, but when they collide with digital information overload, bad things can happen, according to Amanda Montell. Audio
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Music Alive: NZSO Legacy
27 May 2024Hear the world premiere of Gillian Whitehead's retrieving the fragility of peace, Brahms’ magnificent Symphony No 1, and New Zealand pianist Stephen de Pledge perform Mozart 's stormy masterpiece, Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor. Conductor Alexander Shelley.