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Gerry Paul on Gráda
30 Jul 2023At a time when the answer to virtually any question about music is either "The Internet" or "AI", there's something incredibly reassuring about the increasing popularity of traditional acoustic music… Read more Audio
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Tim Balme for 12:10p Sun 30 July 2023
30 Jul 2023Season 9 of The Brokenwood Mysteries launched last week on TVNZ. What began as a little slice of Kiwi murder-mystery now has a huge global audience, writer and producer Tim Balme says. We first knew… Read more Audio
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Finding the words for The Strangest of Angels
25 Jul 2023Georgia Jamieson Emms is the librettist for an opera based on writer Janet Frame's time spent at Seacliff Psychiatric Hospital. Read more Audio
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Nightsong
23 Jul 2023Right now all the headlines are about the movie industry, currently all but closed down because of strikes by writers and performers. But here in Aotearoa, live theatre is booming, it seems -… Read more Audio
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New doco pays tribute to cover art pioneers Hipgnosis
London design company Hipgnosis were the creators of some of the most famous imagery in 20th century rock music - from the prism of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon to the all-star prison breakout… Read more Video, Audio
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"I've always just loved her music"
21 Jul 2023New Zealand flutist Alexa Still has released Wish, an album of music by composer Valerie Coleman. Read more Audio
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Wellington artist to show work at Burning Man festival
20 Jul 2023A New Zealand artist is the first ever Wellingtonian to build an art installation for the famous Burning Man festival, becoming the third-ever New Zealand artist to do so since the festival's… Read more Audio
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Aural hygiene at the dentist
20 Jul 2023Sounds at a dentist's surgery can sometimes set your teeth on edge, so when Bryan Crump heard the mellifluous tones of a clarinet as he walked past, he had to find out more. Read more Audio
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Music feature: Mike Chunn's favourite bass players
18 Jul 2023For this week's music feature we're looking at some of the best bass players in the world. Bassist Mike Chunn was a founding member of Split Enz and played with group alongside his brother Geoff from… Read more Audio
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Motown Drums Mike Enoka
16 Jul 2023We're all familiar with the likes of The Temptations and Stevie Wonder, but these stars weren't the only ones responsible for pioneering the Motown sound. Many great but somewhat underappreciated… Read more Audio
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Manjit Singh
16 Jul 2023Our sister station, RNZ Concert, focusses mainly on Western Classical Music. But there's another classical music tradition, that's growing in strength and popularity here - music from India. This… Read more Audio
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LITTLE RICHARD DOCO - I am everything
16 Jul 2023Kim Hill talking to director Lisa Cortes about Little Richard, the subject of her documentary I am everything. It's showing at the New Zealand International Film Festival at the end of the month. Audio
