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Todd Karehana is a Maori and queer writer-director from Kawerau, and his short film Socks is in Show Me Shorts. He says the story starts with his own childhood in the Mormon Church. His brother died when he was about nine, and the visiting missionaries were around at the same time. Todd says the film is in black and white because colour pulled attention away from the performance. He describes the...

Dylan Reeve takes Perlina through The Reality Machine, a seven-part RNZ podcast with two episodes a week. He has worked in and around reality TV for more than 20 years and was a contestant in the first season of The Traitors NZ. He says reality TV gets written off, yet ratings show plenty of people watch it. Dylan talks about duty of care and the tension between producers and participants. He also...

Dan Slevin joins Perlina on Zoom to review three films. Sense & Sensibility is Georgia Oakley's adaptation of the Jane Austen novel, written by Diana Reid. The Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, move to a cottage in Devon after the family estate passes to their half-brother. Daisy Edgar-Jones plays Elinor and Esmé Creed-Miles plays Marianne. Whalefall is a survival thriller directed by Brian D...

Dan Slevin joins Perlina on Zoom to review three films. Sense & Sensibility is Georgia Oakley's adaptation of the Jane Austen novel, written by Diana Reid. The Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, move to a cottage in Devon after the family estate passes to their half-brother. Daisy Edgar-Jones plays Elinor and Esmé Creed-Miles plays Marianne. Whalefall is a survival thriller directed by Brian D...

Duncan and Erin McKellar talk about turning their family story into a musical. Duncan is a psychiatrist who works with people living with dementia, and his mother was diagnosed with younger onset dementia at 60. The show grew from a song Erin wrote using lyrics her dad had written. Duncan says the aim is to bring the person back into the story, and he has heard from families who used what they lea...

Jason Te Mete explains how Battle Chorus works. The audience is split into two teams, learns a set of choruses on the night, then sings off. Jason co-created it with Rutene Spooner, and it began in 2019 as a commission for the Auckland Cabaret Festival. This year's disco edition is at the Nelson Arts Festival, with songs from Earth, Wind and Fire and the Village People, and Jason says most people...

Megan Brown, Artistic Director of the Tauranga Arts Festival, gives Perlina a heads up on this year's festival highlights.

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Bonnie Harrison is here guiding us through the latest weird and useful headlines from the world of science including how "star bathing" could help calm the nervous system, a breakthrough that may allow damaged knee cartilage to be regrown, and a development in tattoos that can be switched on and off.

Research tracking nearly 100,000 university students across the US, UK, and Canada over 35 years shows perfectionism is on the rise. Surprisingly, the trend began well before social media and smartphones became part of daily life. So what's driving it? Thomas Curran is a Professor of Psychology at the London School of Economics and one of the world's leading experts on perfectionism. He joins Jim...

Pioneering electronic artist Gary Numan will be making a long-awaited trip Down Under in the new year as part of a three-date arena tour with Simple Minds. 

These days Dene Hohweiler calls Freiburg home, a world-renowned cycling city on the edge of Germany's Black Forest. 

Three years ago Tyler Brickley decided to fight back against trolls by starting his own movement, one that floods people with kindness.

Olivia Dean's sold-out Auckland concert on Saturday night is the first major test for the newly redeveloped Western Springs Bowl. The grounds were home to the speedway for nearly 100 years, but the venue has now been transformed into an outdoor venue, complete with a permanent stage and upgraded facilities. With thousands expected through the gates, RNZ's Olivia Wilson went along to see the Britis...

Quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen is back with his Sunday Morning quiz. Jack is the mind behind the questions on BBC's quiz show Only Connect, renowned for being both hard - and at the same time totally obvious. Wake up your brain and have a go!

Could one spy have helped prevent nuclear war? In his latest book Redwood, bestselling author Ben Macintyre uncovers the remarkable true story of a KGB agent who secretly worked for British intelligence at the height of the Cold War, driven by a deeply personal problem he hoped the West could solve. Ben's previous books include The Spy and the Traitor, Operation Mincemeat, and A Spy Among Friends....

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She's been all around the world but she's not conducted her national orchestra in concert before. Tianyi Lu talks about coming home to the NZSO.

A study led by Associate Professor Ryan Paul (Ngāti Maru, Hauraki) has found the wider use of continuous glucose monitoring technology could help thousands of Kiwis with type 2 diabetes live longer and reduce their risk of serious complications including blindness, kidney failure and amputations. Dr Paul says the technology is a game changer. 

In 2025 Pounamu Jade Aikman was the Emerging Māori writer in Residence at Victoria University. From that he produced a new book called Whose Knowledge Counts? From Warp Drive to Waka Huia. He says it's a "story woven of my interlinked passions: Māori knowledge systems, critical theory and Star Trek." 

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Australian comedian Heath Franklin has spent 20 years in the iconic Aviators, fake horseshoe moustache and Sharpie tattoos that transform him into his stand-up comedy version of infamous Aussie jailbird Chopper Read. Ahead of returning to New Zealand next month to roll out some of his greatest hits, he talks to Kate Rodger about what life is like behind the moustache.

It's Shakeout 2026, a day and set time to practice your drill if you're in a potential tsunami danger zone. Principal Scientist at Earth Sciences NZ's Graham Leonard dropped into the studio to talk us through the dangers, and what practical steps you can take to stay safe along with the latest science.