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- 3215 - Aboriginal artist and activist Richard Bell
Aboriginal artist Richard Bell's documentary You Can Go Now is screening at the Maoriland Film Festival, underway in Otaki . In it, he poses provocative and humourous challenges to the status quo and to our preconceived ideas of Aboriginal art.
Sat, 23 Mar 2024 - 15min - 3214 - Fearless fighter for marginalised New Zealanders
Clinical psychologist Dr Olive Webb is nominated in the Local Hero category of the Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year awards. A strong defender of some of the most marginalised members of our community, she tirelessly advocated and revolutionised care for people with learning disabilities. Most recently she also gave evidence to the Royal Commission into the Abuse in State Care and supported others to tell their stories. Dr Webb released From Behind Closed Doors last year, a poignant reflection on her 50-year journey alongside individuals with intellectual disabilities.
Sat, 23 Mar 2024 - 32min - 3213 - Jamey Stutz: Dating rocks in Antarctica
Glacial geologist Jamey Stutz dates Antarctic rocks 'dropped like breadcrumbs from melting glaciers' to help determine the scale of glacial retreat. Jamey has recently joined the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center in Ohio as a research scientist in the Polar Rock Repository, having completed his Ph.D at the Antarctic Research Center at Victoria University in Wellington. Jamey says he's excited to be part of the more than 60 year exchange of Antarctic knowledge between New Zealand and America.
Sat, 23 Mar 2024 - 14min - 3212 - Kathy Lette: The Revenge Club
Dubbed "deliciously rude and darkly funny", "chick lit" author Kathy Lette has a new book out which wreaks revenge. The Revenge Club features four best friends approaching their sixties, feeling invisible and bent on vengeance. It continues the Australian-British writer's observations of the best and worst parts of being a woman, with female friendships one of the perks. Kathy Lette has written fifteen bestselling novels, and has been recognised for her advocacy of equality, human rights, physical and mental health.
Sat, 23 Mar 2024 - 34min - 3211 - Escaping Utopia: What it takes to break free from Gloriavale
Around 600 people (including around 350 children) currently live at Gloriavale – a strict Christian community on the West Coast. In TVNZ's upcoming three-part doco Escaping Utopia, former church member Rosie Overcomer talks about her experiences there, including years of childhood sexual abuse. Rosie joins Susie Ferguson with Liz Gregory, one of the people who helped her family make a new life and founder of the Gloriavale Leavers' Support Trust.
Sat, 23 Mar 2024 - 43min - 3210 - Caro Claire Burke: The rise of #Tradwife social influencers
Social media content makers celebrating their role as "traditional wives" are enjoying a startling rise in popularity. Influencers such as Nara Smith, Emily Mariko and Ballerina Farm are baking, procreating and home-making their way to millions of followers. So why is their #Tradwife vision of submissive domesticity so appealing in 2024? We ask Caro Claire Burke, a cultural critic and journalist at Katie Couric Media.
Sat, 23 Mar 2024 - 16min - 3209 - Catherine, Princess of Wales announces she has cancer
Catherine, Princess of Wales has announced she has cancer. Kate Middleton is in the early stages of treatment after cancer was found in tests, and is undergoing chemotherapy. Details of the cancer have not been made public, but Kensington Palace says it is confident the princess will make a full recovery.
Sat, 23 Mar 2024 - 08min - 3208 - Prof Chris Barratt: male contraceptive pill enters human trials
Women still take most of the responsibility for contraception, but a long anticipated "male pill" could soon become a reality. Several non-hormonal male contraceptive pills that work by slowing sperm are under development, with one entering human trials. Head of the Reproductive Medicine Group at the University of Dundee Professor Chris Barratt has dedicated his career to understanding male infertility, human spermatozoa and sperm-egg interaction. He joins us to explain how these new pills work and why it's taken so long to get to this point.
Sat, 23 Mar 2024 - 19min - 3207 - Saturday morning listener feedbackSat, 16 Mar 2024 - 06min
- 3206 - Australian jazz legend James Morrison
One of the many musicians hitting the stage at Tauranga's National Jazz Festival later this month is Australian jazz legend James Morrison. He's a multi-instrumentalist, playing the trombone, piano, saxophone and double bass, but is perhaps best known for the trumpet. He started playing instruments aged six and formed his own band by the time he was nine.
Sat, 16 Mar 2024 - 16min - 3205 - Ann Patchett: Tom Lake
Ann Patchett is one of the world's most acclaimed, prize-winning novelists and non-fiction writers. She was named one of Time magazine's '100 Most Influential People in the World' and is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and Harper's Magazine. She also famously co-owns indie bookstore Parnassus Books in Nashville with her husband. Her collection of essays These Precious Days was chosen by Barack Obama as one of his books of the year in 2021. Ann is appearing at the Auckland Writer's Festival in May, where she'll be talking about her latest novel, Tom Lake.
Sat, 16 Mar 2024 - 31min - 3204 - Kath Irvine: how to prep your garden to feed you through winter
If you want your garden to feed you through winter, now's the time to get prepping. Brassicas like Broccoli need three months to grow, so need to be planted, and it's a perfect time to make compost with all your late summer garden waste Organic gardener Kath Irvine from Edible Backyard joins Susie with tips and tricks for both small and large gardens. Plus she'll answer your questions.
Sat, 16 Mar 2024 - 11min - 3203 - Liam Dann: How money works and why it matters
Should you fix or float a mortgage? Is now a good time to buy - or sell? Why does cheese cost so much? And what even is money? These questions and many more are tackled by New Zealand Herald business editor at large Liam Dann in his new book, BBQ Economics He draws on his 25 years of reporting, sharing anecdotes to make economic concepts more accessible.
Sat, 16 Mar 2024 - 36min - 3202 - Lulu Wang examines the cultural class divide in her TV series Expats
Filmmaker Lulu Wang explores the complex power dynamics between Hong Kong's rich expats and their domestic 'helpers' in a new Amazon Prime series.
Sat, 16 Mar 2024 - 19min - 3201 - Gretchen Daily: the cost of not valuing nature
Traditional systems of wealth measurement don't include nature's contributions. Faculty Director of Stanford University's Natural Capital Project Professor Gretchen Daily thinks putting a dollar value on a mangrove, or a creek, or a honeybee is a vital paradigm shift. Gretchen and her team help governments, international banks, and NGOs determine their gross ecosystem product, or GEP - a parallel concept to GDP.
Sat, 16 Mar 2024 - 30min - 3200 - Is there a good way to tell someone they're losing their job?
With proposed job cuts at TV3's News Hub and TVNZ's Midday and Late News, and the loss of Sunday and Fair Go, is it possible for employers to 'do' redundancy well? The news of the proposed redundancies was delivered in very different ways to each newsroom, each coming as a huge shock to employees. Top employment lawyer Susan Hornsby-Geluk joins Susie with her take on how they each played out.
Sat, 16 Mar 2024 - 16min - 3199 - Freebirth: Why women are choosing to birth alone
Concerns about the rising practice of "freebirth" escalated last month, following the death of premature twins in Byron Bay. Freebirthing, also known as unassisted birthing, is when women choose to give birth without medical assistance, rejecting both hospital care and midwife supported homebirth. It's increasingly a movement that NZ midwives are running into too. So what is motivating women to choose this path? And how risky is it? Joining Susie, Australian Professor of Midwifery Hannah Dahlen and NZ College of Midwives CE Alison Eddy.
Sat, 16 Mar 2024 - 28min - 3198 - Saturday morning Listener feed backSat, 09 Mar 2024 - 04min
- 3197 - Playing favourites with James Shaw
This Sunday, after nine years as Green Party co-leader, including a five year stint as Climate Change Minister, James Shaw is stepping down. He's joining Susie to talk about everything other than politics and share some favourite music.
Sat, 09 Mar 2024 - 53min - 3196 - Volcanologist Graham Leonard: all about ash
The plumes of ash that can accompany volcanic eruptions are spectacular, but often damaging, in multiple and surprising ways. Most people think what comes out is like fire ash, but volcanic ash is something quite different. GNS principal scientist Graham Leonard join us to talk about exactly what ash is, how it can affect the health of both humans and animals, and all the ways it can disrupt everyday life.
Sat, 09 Mar 2024 - 12min - 3195 - Angélique Kidjo: genre-defying music superstar
Multi Grammy award winning Beninese musician Angélique Kidjo has been named one of the most influential people in the world by Time Magazine. Her career spans four decades and her music is a fusion of West African with American R&B, funk and jazz, dancehall and European and Latin American influences. Angélique serves as a UNICEF and OXFAM ambassador. She founded Batonga to support the education of young African girls. She also won last years Polar Music Prize, seen on a par with Nobel awards. Angélique Kidjo is playing in Auckland on Saturday night.
Sat, 09 Mar 2024 - 39min - 3194 - Rolling out big ideas: Sir Geoff Mulgan and James Plunkett
Why is the idea of a four-day working week seen as radical? What did the pandemic teach us about the role of science in politics and the reality of human interdependence? English thinkers Geoff Mulgan and James Plunkett are currently in Aotearoa as Australia & New Zealand School of Government visiting fellows. They join Susie Ferguson to discuss some of the big challenges and opportunities for governments in the next decades.
Sat, 09 Mar 2024 - 45min - 3193 - Lee Tamahori and Robin Scholes: The Convert
Film director Lee Tamahori and producer Robin Scholes have a long history of collaboration, beginning with 1994's Once Were Warriors, which launched both their careers. Their latest offering, The Convert, starring Guy Pearce, opens in cinemas next week. A loose adaptation of Wulf by New Zealand author Hamish Clayton, The Convert features a largely Maori cast and follows the story of Munro, a war veteran-cum-preacher who comes to Aotearoa in 1830.
Sat, 09 Mar 2024 - 18min - 3192 - Aliya Danzeisen: becoming Muslim
Lawyer, linguist and teacher Aliya Danzeisen converted to Islam as an adult four months before 9/11. Today, Aliya is the national co-ordinator and spokesperson for the Islamic Women's Council, and a standard bearer for the contribution Muslim women are making in New Zealand. Danzeisen prepared the Islamic Women's Council's response to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch mosque attacks. A week out from the 5th anniversary of the massacre, she joins Susie to reflect on the gains made for Muslim New Zealanders, and ongoing barriers and prejudice.
Sat, 09 Mar 2024 - 40min - 3191 - Aotearoa's long history with wool and blankets
For the past 200 years blankets have formed part of Aotearoa's history, part of our early trade, providing warmth and comfort during the New Zealand Wars and for our soldiers fighting overseas during two world wars. For Whakaawa and Josh Te Kani, the history of wool in this country is integral to the stories they weave into their blankets and their work will feature in a new exhibition, Paraikete Threads, which opened yesterday at the Pataka Art Museum in Porirua.
Sat, 02 Mar 2024 - 45min - 3190 - Feedback for Saturday Morning March 2nd 2024Sat, 02 Mar 2024 - 06min
- 3189 - Kowtow founder Gosia PiatekSat, 02 Mar 2024 - 14min
- 3188 - AC Grayling: Who owns the Moon?
As private corporations invest billions in the space race, tighter regulation of their off-Earth activity is urgently needed, says British philosopher AC Grayling. "If you could put in place a set of really robust and binding and enforceable agreements which would restrain people from acting badly in outer space, our future selves would thank us," he tells Susie Ferguson.
Sat, 02 Mar 2024 - 31min - 3187 - Photographer Fiona Amundsen: Nuclear (in)visibilitySat, 02 Mar 2024 - 21min
- 3186 - Colum McCann and Diane Foley: 'American Mother'
The loss of a child is unbearable. To lose them in a brutal public beheading, unimaginable. But then to come face to face with their killer?
Sat, 02 Mar 2024 - 37min - 3185 - John Sharp: Why IVF is at risk in post-Roe AmericaSat, 02 Mar 2024 - 12min
- 3184 - Dr Judith Mackay: Tobacco industry critic on NZ's fight for control
The world-first law that would have created a smokefree generation in Aotearoa New Zealand was repealed under urgency by the coalition government on Wednesday. A tobacco control expert tells Susie Ferguson why we're ''swimming against the tide".
Sat, 02 Mar 2024 - 31min - 3183 - Listener feedback for 24 February 2024Sat, 24 Feb 2024 - 04min
- 3182 - Kate De Goldi: reading for pleasure
Kate De Goldi is one of New Zealand's most celebrated authors, an Arts Foundation Laureate, and a voracious reader.
Sat, 24 Feb 2024 - 19min - 3181 - Death by talons - did an owl frame a husband for murder?
The story of North Carolinian husband and wife, Kathleen and Michael Peterson, took the world by storm after Kathleen's mysterious death in 2001.
Sat, 24 Feb 2024 - 31min - 3180 - Alexander James Holloway: making fake fighting look real
The biggest BBQ festival in Australasia, Meatstock, is back at Mystery Creek, Kirikiriroa Hamilton, this weekend after a three year hiatus.
Sat, 24 Feb 2024 - 15min - 3179 - Sue Egersdorff: the benefits of intergenerational careSat, 24 Feb 2024 - 23min
- 3178 - Documentary filmmaker Benoit Lalande: surfing in Africa
When you think of surfing, Africa might not be the first place that springs to mind. Documentary filmmaker Benoit Lalande makes short films about that very thing.
Sat, 24 Feb 2024 - 09min - 3177 - Emily Nagoski: how couples create a lasting sexual connection
Couples who sustain a strong intimate bond over time approach sex with "compassion, confidence, joy and a sense of playfulness," says sexual wellness educator Dr Emily Nagoski.
Sat, 24 Feb 2024 - 35min - 3176 - Tuning out tinnitus with Dr Fabrice Bardy
Over 200,000 New Zealanders are affected by tinnitus, a condition experienced as ringing in the ears.
Sat, 24 Feb 2024 - 09min - 3175 - Oleksandra Matviichuk: Fighting for peace in Ukraine
This weekend marks two years since Russia invaded Ukraine, a war that has killed tens of thousands of people since.
Sat, 24 Feb 2024 - 35min
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