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Home for a bit - RSE workers in Matapihi
21 Aug 2023Supporting their families back home in Samoa is the main drive of a group of ten young men. Some of them feature in this episode of Voices, produced by Justine Murray.
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World Press Photo Exhibition returns to NZ
14 Aug 2023After a three-year absence, the most powerful images from professional photojournalists across the globe are now showing in Auckland at the World Press Photo Exhibition. RNZ's Justin Gregory speaks to…
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"You have to experience it live" - Steven Logan on the APO
7 Aug 2023Timpanist Steven Logan chats with Voices about his love for classical music, growing up in the US and joining the APO seven years ago.
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'Sport needs to have an existential conversation with itself' - Sheila Nguyen
31 Jul 2023Sheila Nguyen talks to Kadambari Raghukumar about the focus on sustainability in this FIFA Women's World Cup.
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The Elephant in the Yoga Studio - Part 2
24 Jul 2023Yoga - when does appreciation become appropriation? In this two-part series, Voices talk to New Zealand practitioners about the commodification of ancient Indian practice.
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The Elephant in the Yoga Studio - Part 1
Yoga - when does appreciation become appropriation? In this two-part series, Voices talk to New Zealand practitioners about the commodification of ancient Indian practice.
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Marking five decades of Mexico-New Zealand relations
10 Jul 2023Mexico and New Zealand first began bilateral relations in 1973. 50 years on, what does this connection mean to both the diaspora living here in New Zealand and the for Mexico?
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Finding comic relief - Jess Karamjeet
Jess Karamjeet talks to Kadambari Raghukumar on finding comedy through her time in New Zealand.
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Critical spaces - green areas and urban planning
26 Jun 2023Growing up in Germany, researcher Mirjam Schindler always had an interest in how green spaces shape the way people interact with each other and spaces around them. In this episode, she talks to…
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"We got there in the end" - Vukan Cavor on life in Montenegro
In the events in the early 1990s after the collapse of Yugoslavia Vukan Cavor's family to fled to Aotearoa. In this Voices episode we meet Vukan about keeping up his connection to his home country of…
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"It's all just static" - Uyghurs and Kazakhs detained in Xinjiang
29 May 2023In Xinjiang, more than a million Uyghurs and Kazakhs have been arbitrarily held in "re-education" camps. In this episode of Voices, Kadambari Raghukumar speaks to people behind a new documentary based…
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'Aotearoa and Bharat' - new manuscript on historical Indian-Maori links
22 May 2023In this episode, we look back at the historical ties between tangata whenua and Indian settlers in New Zealand, through NZOM Professor Edwina Pio's latest research.
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Reconciling worlds - vocalist Briar Prastiti
In this episode, composer and vocalist Briar Prastiti talks about bridging her two worlds through her music - Greece and New Zealand.
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'Into it to win it' - Ibrahim Omer MP on the Wellington Central seat
8 May 2023In this episode, Labour's Ibrahim Omer talks to Kadambari Raghukumar on what the nomination to contest for Wellington Central means for him.
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'It's beyond description' - NZ diaspora desperate to evacuate family members from Sudan conflict
In this episode, as the conflict in Sudan is driving thousands of people to cross borders, diaspora in New Zealand are trying their level best to help family members reach safety.
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NZ on Air leads 'a cultural shift' with new music fund for Pan-Asian artists
24 Apr 2023In this episode of Voices, Kadambari Raghukumar talks to arts practitioners about the latest New Zealand on Air music fund to support pan-Asian artists and musicians in New Zealand.
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Race Unity Speech Awards - fostering teenage talent for 21 years
17 Apr 2023Each year, hundreds of high school students compete in New Zealand's Race Unity Speech Awards. For many past winners, the awards have been a career springboard. In this episode of Voices, three past…
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"To live within the dissonance of yourself" - Hweiling Ow
In this episode of Voices, Filmmaker Hweling Ow talks to Kadambari Raghukumar about her latest play "Not Woman Enough" directed by Sananda Chatterjee.
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'There is no logic' - former Afghan refugee on ban on women's education
27 Mar 2023Nowroz Ali first spoke to Voices from Kabul in 2021, while he waited for one of the evacuation flights operated by New Zealand Defence Force. In this episode Kadambari Raghukumar catches up with him…
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"We all dream of going to Banaba" - Phosphate plunders from the Pacific and a forgotten community
20 Mar 2023The forgotten community of Banaba who were displaced from their homes to the Pacific island of Rabi in 1945, are seeking justice and restoration of their island. Banaba was all but destroyed by over…
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"We're just doing this out of our own hearts" - Hawkes Bay relief volunteers
13 Mar 2023In this Voices episode, we're talking to volunteers coming together to help the Hawkes Bay's community back on its feet again after Cyclone Gabrielle.
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'A social science perspective is needed'- Bruce Glavovic on climate change
6 Mar 2023Professor Bruce Glavovic talks to Kadambari Raghukumar in this episode about natural disasters and why not just a scientific, but a social science perspective is crucial if we are going to adapt and…
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"It began with wanting to know how things work"- Kartikay Lal on curiosity, and robots
27 Feb 2023In this episode, we hear about how a Massey University electronics engineer took his love for robotics to school students in Rotorua. Produced by Kadambari Raghukumar.
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Loan words and linguistics - "Children are drivers of change"
20 Feb 2023How do te reo Maori words find their way in to children's speech in New Zealand and what context do they signify? In a With a new Marsden research grant, two linguists plan to investigate this.
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