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Tonight on The Panel, Wallace Chapman and panellists Anna Dean and Alan McElroy discuss a new survey showing renter despair in Queenstown and parent volunteers in junior sports. Also, we open up the Friday mailbag and respond to your feedback from the past week.

All the top stories and other headlines from the day

The 2024 NZ Children’s Music Awards have been announced with the NZ On Air Best Children’s Music Video awarded to a two minute ode to flatulence. ‘Let it Out’ by Don McGlashan and Harry Sinclair, featuring Tami Neilson, is from the pair’s hit claymation TV series Kiri and Lou.

Arts News for 5 May 2024

In early 2021 writer Stuart McKenzie and director Miranda Harcourt’s verbatim play Transmission opened to sell-out houses at Pōneke’s small, dynamic BATS Theatre. Fast forward three years and a sequel Transmission Beta is about to premiere. And it’s a quite different, more complex story. McKenzie and Dame Miranda joined Mark Amery on RNZ’s Culture …

Festival Opera is celebrating 10 years of introducing, training and supporting young people in the opera through the Project Prima Volta community programme in Hawkes Bay.

Known for its surf and beaches, Mangawhai may not strike you as a hub for arts and culture. But locals are extremely proud of the modern museum which celebrates the town’s rich history, life around the harbour and the fight to save the endangered fairy tern.

Hamiltonians are getting the last laugh as the first-ever comedy club in the city is opening this month. Coinciding with the Comedy Festival, Last Laugh Comedy Club is the only comedy club in the Waikato region.

Actor, director and writer John Davies is celebrating 50 years in theatre with a national solo tour. Te Tupua - The Goblin is travelling to 16 regional centres, with Davies playing nine characters in English and te reo Māori.

The closure of the City Gallery building won't stop it from bringing art to the capital, its boss says.

A familiar face from stage and screen in New Zealand and Australia, Sara Wiseman is on stage with ATC for the first time in 20 years, as Dr Lorna James in The Effect.

The top stories and other headlines at midday

The Kingdom of Lochac is a regional branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism. They're celebrating their Autumn Coronation this weekend in Christchurch.

Mary Argue is back guiding us through the latest weird and wonderful headlines from the world of science

How blinking can help your sight and why scientists think worsening vision can predict dementia.

We catch up with journalist and author. Naomi Arnold who’s walking Te Araroa.

Jim asks actor Mark Hadlow if someone’s choice of Shakespeare play gives any clues as to their character

Animal behaviorist Mark Vette joins us with advice on how to negotiate the practical and emotional aspects of health spending for our animal companions.

Originally from Manawatu, Jack Royd-Hall is calling home from Tallin, Estonia.

One opinion poll prompts intense political pushback; new report urges sweeping changes to media, law and funding - and fast; Wairoa Star closes after more than a century in print.

A new study suggests attachment style could be a major factor. We're joined by Geoff MacDonald, PhD, one of the study's authors.

It’s Sunday morning, so wake up your brain and have a go!

Dr Richard Webby is a prominent infectious diseases researcher at St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

James Shaw's valedictory statement included thanks, humour, yarns, surprising allies, warnings and advice for MPs on avoiding the endless policy tug-of-war.

This morning's top stories and other headlines

Hymns from the 12th century to the 20th this week, including Jesu, the very thought of thee (based on a poem by Bernard of Clairvaux) and NZ hymn writer Colin Gibson’s He came singing love.

The Auckland Writers Festival starts on May 14 and its promotional push highlights a roll-call of talent from across the arts; Booker prize winner for 2023, Paul Lynch, plus generations of Maori writers from Patricia Grace to Becky Manawatu.

The Auckland Writers Festival starts on May 14. Its promotional push highlights a roll-call of talent from across the arts; Booker prize winner for 2023, Paul Lynch, actor Sam Neill, musician Troy Kingi, Indian politician and author Shashi Tharoor plus generations of gifted Maori writers from Patricia Grace to Becky Manawatu. Julian Wilcox talks to…

Saturday morning listener feedback.

You might remember women "getting their colours done" in the 1980s. Thanks to social media, the art of analysing which shades complement a person's natural colouring is again having a moment. Rachel Bilu of Colour Lab Stylist tells Susie Ferguson about the benefits.

A collection of letters written to and from iconic New Zealand painter Colin McCahon sheds light on a special relationship spanning four decades. McCahon met penpal Ron O'Reilly in 1938, when the pair were just 19 and 24 respectively. They wrote to each other regularly, amassing hundreds of letters covering McCahon's art practice, the contemporary …

Thirty years ago, nurse Maybelle Ngapere McLeod realised a genetic link to the stomach cancer which killed many of her whanau was much more likely that the effect of a curse. She took her suspicions to Otago university, and the rest is history. Maybelle is part of the team awarded the top Prime Minister's Science Prize for transformative impact. Th…

For those with asparagus patches: what to do to prep for a boomer crop in spring. Or, if you are planning an asparagus patch: how to kick start it.

Grace Blakeley takes aim at capitalism in her latest book Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom. In the book, Blakeley asserts that rather than failing, capitalism is working exactly as intended - allowing corporate and political elites to advance their own interests at the expense of the rest of us. Susie…

From the A303 in Wiltshire, motorists can catch sight of the megalithic structure of Stonehenge. But as a primary route for both commuters and holiday makers the road is notoriously traffic-clogged, and plans to upgrade the road have been decades in the making. However, the plans face strong opposition. They include building a road tunnel under the…

It's thirty years since the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda, perpetrated by the Hutu-led government. British journalist Michela Wrong's book Do Not Disturb, The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad explores the legacy of the genocide, exposing a murderous in-coming regime that operates on a "grand scale deceit", exe…

The latest RNZ Pacific news and sport

The latest RNZ Pacific news and sport

The latest news in Niuean language (Vagahau Niue) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

The latest RNZ Pacific news and sport

Pacific journalists reflect on the state of the media; Children in nine Pacific Island countries will now be better protected from life threatening diseases because their governments are adopting an immunisation program; Pasifika Sipoti for 4 May.

Pacific journalists reflect on the state of the media.

Children in nine Pacific Island countries will now be better protected from life threatening diseases because their governments are adopting an immunisation program.

Pasifika Sipoti for 4 May.

The latest news in Cook Islands Maori (Te Reo Maori Kuki Airani) - brought to you by our partner - Pacific Media Network.

The band’s Oliver Leupolu and Filiva’a James share the crowd reactions to their first metal gig in Samoa and the influence of church music on their songs.

Delaney Davidson talks honestly about his latest album and how turning 50 has changed his perspective.