Labour weekend gardening tips and trips
Labour weekend is traditionally the long weekend we rip into the garden. There are sales on, the sun (hopefully - whereever you are in the m...
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A magazine programme hosted by Kim Hill, with long-form, in-depth feature interviews on current affairs, science, modern life, history, the arts and more.
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20 of 256 episodesEn pointe with the ballet classic Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty is back with the Royal New Zealand Ballet this month - and touring around the country. The ballet steps us into a fairytale...
Belonging in Aotearoa
More than a century after his great-grandfather arrived in New Zealand, Harpreet Singh still gets told he doesn't belong here. Sikhs have be...
Talking to your loved one about dementia
Three people develop dementia every hour - that's 500 new cases every week. And our aging population means the number of people with dementi...
Penguins go bush
Around the world most people imagine penguins on icebergs and icy plains, while here in Aotearoa we're more likely to see the Little Blue pa...
Tracking social media's role in NZ elections
Social media bans for under 16s have seen cross-party support this election. But while most parties are wary of it - social media has also b...
Breakthrough Treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Dr Marthinus Bekker, clinical psychologist and senior lecturer at the University of Auckland, is behind a new programme which offers a break...
Should We Rework Work?
Perpetual Guardian founder and four-day work week advocate Andrew Barnes has been putting some work into answering whether the way we think...
Behind the moustache for 20 years
Australian comedian Heath Franklin has spent 20 years in the iconic Aviators, fake horseshoe moustache and Sharpie tattoos that transform hi...
Graham Leonard on tsunamis and next week's drill
It's Shakeout 2026, a day and set time to practice your drill if you're in a potential tsunami danger zone. Principal Scientist at Earth Sci...
Fifty years of Otara Markets
On any given Saturday, before much of Auckland is stirring the Ōtara Markets are already humming. For 50 years they've been a fixture of Sou...
The Piano Teacher of Montparnasse
The Kiwi-born best-selling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz is back with another work of historical fiction, this time detailing the sto...
Are older Kiwis being excluded from the digital world?
With an aging population and everyday tasks that seem to involve more and more tech, technological progress marches on, but is it leaving so...
The 4,500 year old shipwreck discovered off Turkey's coast
What may be the world's oldest shipwreck has been found off the coast of Turkey. It's a discovery that could transform our understanding of...
New Zealand is on screens around the world
East of Eden, Heart of the Beast, Tenzing and Minecraft. New Zealand locations have been front and centre in some of the biggest film and te...
The Wild Horses of the Last Land
Biologist Wayne Linklater on tracking the wild horses of the Kaimanawa Ranges
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is With Luke Kemeys
Question Time with Luke Kemeys: Financial literacy and helpful tips
Matty Blomfield on AI and apples
The secret to start-ups with Matty Blomfield, CEO at Hectre who's done all the hard yards
Why has Lizzie Borden haunted America?
Why the spotlight is back on the Lizzie Borden story which gripped the world and has haunted folklore since.
The Kiwi Words That Have Made It to the Oxford English Dictionary
The latest update to the Oxford English Dictionary adds a suite of words commonly used in New Zealand