Identity
Transgender woman was 'told to resign'
A transgender woman says she lost her job when she told her employer she was transgender.
Sally Gardner
Prolific award-winning British author who worked in costume design and illustration before deciding to write for children full-time. Her books, including Tinder, Maggot Moon, and I, Coriander, have… Audio
Mark Anderson, Jony Easterby and Kathy Hinde: For the Birds
Leaders of the team of artists who have created the walk-through art experience For the Birds in the native forest of Otari-Wilton's Bush during the New Zealand Festival. Audio
Morgan Godfery: rethinking New Zealand
Wellington writer, commentator and trade unionist who specialises in Maori politics and international indigenous issues. He is the editor of a new collection of essays, The Interregnum: Rethinking New… Audio
Mallory Ortberg: texting classics
Co-founder and editor of website The Toast, and advice columnist for Slate. Her first book, Texts from Jane Eyre: and Other Conversations with Your Favourite Literary Characters reimagines… Audio
Pip Hall
Actor, playwright and self-confessed water ballerina Pip Hall is part of the Spotlight on Playwrights season happening at Circa during the 2016 New Zealand Festival Writers Week. She's joining an… Audio
Nights Pundit - NZ History
a lucky guy whose job is also his hobby, Gavin McLean is a senior historian for the Ministry for Culture and Heritage... it's our 30th anniversary of homosexual law reform... Audio
Kate's Klassic: My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst
Kate Camp discusses My Own Story, the 1914 memoir by suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst. Audio
Jerron 'Blind Boy' Paxton: bringing back the past
Twenty-seven-year-old multi-instrumentalist, who lost most of his eyesight by the age of 16. His music assimilates the raw American jazz, blue, folk and country music of the 1920s and 30s, and he… Audio
John Grant: songs of sobriety
American singer-songwriter John Grant is lauded for his vocal presence and confessional ballads. Now based in Iceland, he and his five-piece band will perform at the Auckland Arts Festival, and WOMAD… Audio
Spoken and Unspoken - 6 March
How we communicate with each other… using words, body language, writing, texting. How did language begin in the first place? And how is technology affecting where language is headed? Host Guy Raz and…
Judy Boyle - Learning Global Mindedness
The No Project aims to educate young people about human trafficking/slavery through film, art, music, education etc - with founder Kiwi Judy Boyle who is now based in Lesbos Greece... Audio
Flag vote: PM accused of scare tactics
The Prime Minister has been accused of handing out threats and using scare tactics to try to frighten people into choosing the alternative flag.
Has the PM mistaken himself for a flag?
OPINION: John Key is arguing that a vote against the silver fern flag is really a vote against him, writes Finlay Macdonald.
Identities - 28 February
Each of us has a sense of who we are, where we come from, and what we believe. But is identity assigned at birth? Shaped by circumstance? Or is it something we choose, that changes over time? In this…
Art with Mary Kisler: the Christchurch Art Gallery
Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Mary Kisler, discussing the recently reopened Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Audio, Gallery
NZ Festival gets under way today
The New Zealand Festival marks its 30th anniversary tonight with a performance by the Royal New Zealand Ballet, and a dead dog in a suitcase. Audio
No getting down on depression
'Every Brilliant Thing' is a UK theatre production that has been referred to as the funniest show you'll ever see about depression. Audio
Courtney Durr: body love blueprint
Personal trainer, whose Body Love Blueprint project works to change the way women think about themselves and others, while they get stronger and fitter was one of the recent Wellington ventures of… Audio
Poetry with Gregory O'Brien: Barry Brickell
Painter, poet, curator and writer Gregory O'Brien is the author of a number of books, including the 2013 book (with David Craig), His Own Steam: the Work of Barry Brickell. He will discuss the poetry… Audio
