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Artists at Work - Pouwhenua
Four NZ artists have a Festival residency to explore the markers on the land – pouwhenua – the often neglected traces of people living and travelling through the region over the centuries. Listen to ... > See More
   
Bill McKibben - Dealing with global warming
Dealing with global warming Climate change may force us to look at the way our societies function. American writer Bill McKibben argues in his book Deep Economy that we have to abandon the ceasele... > See More
   
Bill McKibben and Gareth Renowden - The impacts of global warming
The impacts of global warming Bill is an American environmentalist and writer. He has written for The New York Times, National Geographic, Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Review of Boo... > See More
   
Christina Lamb - Afghanistan, Pakistan and Zimbabwe
Writer at war Christina Lamb is an author, an award-winning foreign correspondent and a mother. She was named 2007 Foreign Correspondent of the Year in the British Press Awards and continues to cov... > See More
   
Christina Lamb - War reporting
Writer at war Christina Lamb is an author, an award-winning foreign correspondent and a mother. She was named 2007 Foreign Correspondent of the Year in the British Press Awards and continues to cov... > See More
   
Glenn Colquhoun - The poet's eye
The poet's eye Glenn Colquhoun wields a stethoscope for his day job of GP in Otaki, and a pen for his other life as a poet, living down by the beach. He won the 2004 Prize in Modern Letters (NZ’s m... > See More
   
Hamish Keith and Christopher Finlayson - What use is art?
Hamish Keith has talked and written and made television programmes about our art and culture for the last 50 years. He chaired the Arts Council and ran the Auckland Art Gallery, but this cultural cur... > See More
   
Joe Bennett - Where underpants come from
Where underpants come from When Joe Bennett bought a five-pack of underpants for $8.59 at The Warehouse, he wondered who could be making money out of them. So he embarked on a journey to China, tr... > See More
   
Jim Bolger - New Zealand and the world after the global financial meltdown
Jim Bolger entered politics in 1972 and represented the King Country until his retirement in 1998. In 1975 he was made a minister in Muldoon’s cabinet. Following an unsuccessful election in 1987, Nat... > See More
   
George Fergusson - NZ and the UK in the 21st Century
George Fergusson was appointed British High Commissioner to New Zealand in 2006. But he first came here in 1962 when he was seven when his father was Governor-General. “I went to St Mark's School ... > See More
   
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