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B416: The high-profile group backing a social media ban for under-16s
Behind-the-scenes with those battling to keep kids safe from online harm.

Book of the day: The Compulsion in Us by Tina Makereti
The dualities, paradoxes and sadness at the heart of a Māori-Pākehā writer’s life exposed.

From Aitutaki to algebra: Teaching maths through culture — now without government help
Educators on why a Pacific-focused maths programme is losing funds, but not support.

NZ Music Month: Music-loving Gen Z/Millennials pick their top Kiwi songs
NZers have always been great songsmiths, something shared across generations.

NZ Music Month: Why these are the country’s best songs
From Now Is The Hour to What Was That, the songs that speak to our national identity.

Listener weekly quiz: April 30
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How FOMO played a part in motivating Treaty Principles Bill submissions
Submitters who killed Act’s Treaty Principles Bill deployed tactics shoppers know well.

Duncan Garner: When did our teens stop working and whose fault is it?
Thousands of young Kiwis are drifting -- and not in a good direction.

The Bigger Picture: They also served
Some 550 Kiwi nurses served overseas in World War I.

Anzac Day 2025: The concrete book, a POW’s legacy and a family’s surprising discovery
A diary kept by a serviceman in a German prison camp was discovered only after his death.

Anzac Day 2025: Grief cast in stone
NZ remembers its war dead with monuments that seem to bury the sadness in dates and names.

Anzac Day 25: Spoils of war - how the dining spots and dessert shops of WWII changed the way NZers eat
Food historian David Burton on the wartime influences that inspired his "foodie" father.

Danyl McLauchlan: Bussy being green?
Partners or Rivals? The strategic bind facing Act and the Greens.

Interpretive talent: The Kiwi linguist at the heart of world affairs
Nicole Jamieson has worked with prime ministers and presidents, dissidents and exiles.

Listener weekly quiz: April 21
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Anzac Day 2025: Expert tips on how to keep family taonga safe
Fragile mementoes tell stories of what our forebears went through. They can be preserved.

Listener weekly quiz: April 16
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Inside the Kiwi business sending body parts overseas
"We’ve gone from face-painting little kids to selling stuff to the army in France."

Policy reversals threaten progress NZ has made on reducing emissions
Economies can grow even as emissions decline.

How to keep Trump from derailing your retirement plans
A financial survival guide to stop Trump, tariffs and turbulence sending your broke.

Listener weekly quiz: April 9
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Seared into memory: 50 years on, a Vietnam War reporter looks back
Nothing prepared me for the Vietnamese children, many orphans who had limbs blown off...

From jeweller to literary gem: The remarkable career of Jenny Pattrick
The Denniston Rose author Jenny Pattrick is turning her attention to modern-day issues.

NZ’s glaciers shrink and retreat at alarming rate
The number of glaciers that have vanished forever in half a century might come as a shock.

Listener weekly quiz: April 2
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Oh my, godwits: Michele Hewitson on birdman Keith Woodley
Keith Woodley is “somewhat evangelical” about shorebirds. He explains why.

Our competing weather agencies may have put lives at risk, so can Niwa & MetService now play nicely?
Merging the two agencies may reduce confusion as dangerous storms grow more frequent.

Listener weekly quiz: March 26
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NZ’s stolen children: Aaron Smale’s investigation into abuse in state care reaches the screen
The Stolen Children of Aotearoa documentary opens up space for other survivors to speak.

Mapping the Motu: How a new book tells the story of the NZ Wars through Māori perspectives
The Māori history redefining our understanding of the NZ Wars.

TVNZ's Indira Stewart on Polyfest: From performer to reporter and backstage mum
TV journalist on 50 years of Polyfest - and her enduring links to giant cultural gathering

Listener weekly quiz: March 19
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