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12:34 PM.A powerful dance work examines some of the reasons behind the shockingly high number of Aboriginal youth taking their own lives. It's about to premiere in Aotearoa. Aboriginal dancer, Dalisa Pigram is… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

12:16 PM.It was so nearly lost. As the Christ Church Anglican Cathedral is being rebuilt, historian Edmund Bohan is releasing a history of the distinctive Gothic building. It shows it was controversial even… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:05 AM.Meet Ben Scales, only in his 20s but CEO of KiwiFibre, a company landing international contracts for the fast growing natural fibre composites industry. Already a viable and more sustainable… Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Oud Virtuoso Rahim AlHaj is bringing his acclaimed work, Letters from Iraq, to Aotearoa New Zealand. It's a series of instrumental poems based on actual letters written by people desperately trying to… Read more Audio

10:25 AM.Wellingtonian Andrew Harding explains why his happy place is out with his metal detector searching for hidden treasure. Coins, rings, objects that take a while to identify. He has tips for people… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Grounded in the Celtic musical traditions, multi-instrumentalist Rennie Pearson is about to head around the North Island as he releases his new solo album filled with traditional music of Ireland… Read more Audio

9:40 AM.Mrinali Kumar believes animal-free foods taste better. She has linked that belief with another, trying to reduce food waste. This summer her cauliflower ice cream Kinda, produced from vegetables… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.Eddie Game is an acoustic ecologist, and the Lead Scientist & Director of Conservation for The Nature Conservancy's Asia Pacific region. Rainforests are his favourite places and he's doing his best to… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha University of Canterbury Librarian Lisa Davies (Kai Tahu) is determined to make te reo more accessible. She's also a jazz musician, so she's brought both together. She's… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Ruth Delaney, the main organiser from DIA's Visits and Ceremonial Office team and Rachel Hayward, Acting Secretary of the Cabinet/ Clerk of the Executive Council, are coordinating the State Memorial… Read more Audio

2:49 PM.It's been a while, but finally a play about a black lesbian couple wanting to adopt a child is about to hit the stage. Estelle Chout's script for Po' Boys and Oysters was nominated for an Adam's NZ… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.Sharron Came's first book Peninsula, which won the 2021 Adam Foundation Prize for best MA folio, has been described as ''A novel in stories''. The stories follow three generations of a Northland… Read more Audio

2:27 PM.Nelson is about to host its first Clay Week, celebrating all things ceramic. It will bring together potters from around the country to share their knowledge through conversations, masterclasses and… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:46 PM.NZ Barok - New Zealand's Baroque instrument orchestra is about to reunite after a lengthy hiatus, putting their own spin on famous and lesser-known examples of Baroque - classical music of the… Read more Audio

1:31 PM.The Royal New Zealand Navy has a new taonga - a quilt sewn by 12 serving and retired female naval personnel with each of the 49 squares telling a story of their time in service. Those stories cover 6… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:45 PM.Simone Kaho's poetry collection HEAL! offers up an uncompromising account of an assault that left her traumatised with PTSD, and at times, seemingly without hope. But the Tongan-Pakeha writer is a… Read more Audio

12:33 PM.When the old Datsun 120Y that belonged to his late father is about to be sold, a teenage boy takes his younger brother and cousin out for a final road trip. This is the start of Datsun, the latest… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:16 PM.A 2020 UNICEF report found that only 64.4% of 15-year-olds in Aotearoa have more than a basic proficiency in reading and maths. Research also shows that, over the last 10 years, the proportion of… Read more Audio

2:49 PM.Two historic stone wall specialists will be talking at the upcoming UPSURGE Festival in the Bay of Islands. Kate Ballard's book Stone Wall Country: The Dry Stone Walls of Bay of Islands and Kaikohe… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:37 PM.Several children from a small New Zealand town go missing, one after the other. An unlikely detective enters the police investigation in the form of Lorraine. She's usually found in the bowels of the… Read more Audio