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On The Margins
What do you think of when somebody mentions England’s countryside? Do you picture nice eccentric people in the Yorkshire Dales, as seen, say, in the TV series All Creatures Great and Small? In his debut novel, The Borrowed Hills, Scott Preston presen
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Charm Comes Before A Fall
THE FALL GUY Directed by David Leitch The Fall Guy is quite silly, largely incoherent and not really worthy of the talents of its stars, Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling. But with Aaron Taylor-Johnson –the rumoured James Bond-to-be –in support, the movi
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Monday May 13
South African violinist Daniel Hope goes in search of the Hollywood sound in this documentary that expands on his album Escape to Paradise. Following the migration of composers who were forced out of Europe by the Nazis, Hope explores artists who, he
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Vincent O’Sullivan 1937-2024
Vincent O’Sullivan was someone who could walk into your life and change it. He had that kind of life spirit. Immense generosity. Thoughtfulness. The self-effacement that comes with enormous reserves of sophistication and intelligence and is often rea
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NZ Stars Cover The Classics
FIRST, THERE WAS The Last Waltz: 40th Anniversary Concert Tour, a live re-creation of The Band’s farewell concert performed here in 2016 by the likes of Delaney Davidson, Tami Neilson, Kevin Borich and original member of The Band, Garth Hudson. Liber
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Tuesday May 14
Award-winning documentarian Irene Taylor (Beware the Slenderman and Leave No Trace: A Hidden History of The Boy Scouts) explores our relationship with trees through a variety of individuals – or rather, as she puts it, their entanglements with a life
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On The Beaten Track
We meant to stop in at Cambridge for a sandwich and a look at the antique shop, we really did. But we thundered past the sign on the Waikato Expressway, expecting there might be another exit for the town centre. By the time we realised there wasn’t,
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Off The Grid
For three long years, Ingvar walks across the strikingly diverse landscape of rural Victoria in Australia –across “a wide treeless plateau of rolling hills and swirling mist”, under “thin clouds [as they] skated across a full moon”, and through “remn
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Women We Love
One day, my mother got a call to say her mother, my grandmother, had just died. She wasn’t confident driving out of town and she asked if I would take her to view the body. I dropped what I was doing, and soon we were speeding down the Southern Motor
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Tv Films
Warmed-over beefcake Three, 8.30pm In the rambling second of Channing Tatum’s three malestripper flicks, the first one’s MVP Matthew McConaughey is missing. It’s also a pointless, plot-free film that the previous movie somehow avoided becoming. (2015
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Confounded Science
The most reliable but also the most disempowering sentence ever uttered has to be, “It’s not that simple.” There was an outpouring of “At last!”at the publication of bestselling psychologist author Jonathan Haidt’s latest book, The Anxious Generation
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Saturday May 11
Four parts for each of the Stones, of course, but while Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood appear on camera for interviews, the final episode is a tribute to drummer Charlie Watts, who died in 2021 and was, says Richards, “the best drummer E
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Crashes Down
HAS THE BUILDING OF BIKE infrastructure made cycling safer? A recent peer-reviewed paper in the New Zealand Medical Journal tentatively concludes that it has, noting that while cycling numbers have increased, cycling crash injuries have stayed stable
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Emotional Rescue
‘I didn’t know you had a side hustle with the Listener,” said one of my new master’s students. “I’ll have a look next time I visit my grandparents.” Ouch. Old people read the Listener, apparently. We were meeting Tyla’s co-supervisor, my colleague Pa
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Fixing The Fissures
Ask a serving ambassador for a personal opinion on matters of world or national import and you will likely be met with a carefully crafted diplomatic response. Ask a retired ambassador the same question and you might open the floodgates of frankness:
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Sunday May 12
An unflashy biography of a down-to-earth band, even if publicity describes them as “the most iconic and influential Scottish band in history”. One thing’s for certain: they were big in the 80s, after switching from punk to a new wave-synth rock hybri
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Lens On A Legend
Would it be improper to suggest that one of the most striking images in this new biography of the legendary Ans Westra was not made by her? It’s on the book’s cover, a compelling close-up of Westra gazing straight at the camera, one held by Wellingto
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In A Pickle
Greg said: “I can’t wait for you to stop pickling things. I’m sick of the smell of vinegar. I think I’m turning into a gherkin.” I am contemplating pickling his head. I do like pickling things. I don’t know why. The pickled things mostly sit in the p
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Whole Lotta Fakin'
He knows what his audience wants and he’s still delivering after all these years. His sets will almost certainly include Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?, Hot Legs and Reason to Believe. “He says Kiwis are some of the best audiences, if not the best audiences
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A Tight Knit Group
This month, Plunket marks its 117th year of service to the whānau of Aotearoa. The nurses’ starched veils and white uniforms may have gone the way of controlledcrying theories and playing Mozart in utero, but today’s Plunket nurse is still helping wi
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Conflicts Of Interest
National campaigned hard on the Gang Legislation Amendment Bill – the gang patch ban – recently scrutinised by the Justice select committee. Civil rights groups and legal experts oppose the new law. The Attorney-General, Judith Collins, has advised P
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Cheep Music
‘You know,” says Bruce Paine, “I’m not very good at this marketing thing.” Classical guitarist/composer Paine says it with a chuckle but he’s not joking. His last concert was by invitation only. His next concert, which happens as this issue of the Li
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Friday May 17
This four-part 2021 documentary is partly based on 30 years of work by American TV journalist George Knapp on UFO-related stories. Rolling Stone described Knapp as the “John the Baptist of the UFO movement” and his championing of Area 51 “researcher”
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Poetry And Rugby
There have been many tributes paid to Vincent O’Sullivan and rightly so, as he was one of our finest writers. Although O’Sullivan was a master of all literary genres and a distinguished poet himself, he didn’t have much time for most other poets. He
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Masthead
Editor Kirsty Cameron Chief Subeditor Geoff Cumming Managing Editor Ruth Brown Art Director Derek Ward Books Editor Mark Broatch Entertainment &Arts Editor Russell Baillie Television Editor Fiona Rae Digital Editor Dionne Christian Subeditors Patrice
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Bright Lines
For Competition No 41, we asked for a haiku about the new fast-track legislation. Are they three wise men? Or wise guys on gravy trains Pulling a fast one? ‒Garth Thornton, Wellington Dig, drill, dredge and hack, Productivity must grow – Get on the
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From The Grassroots
Every March, when feijoas start dropping, New Zealanders greet the first arrivals with excitement (or, in a few cases, disgust). Over the following weeks, the green glory keeps falling, and as April wears on, the trickle of thuds thickens to a flood.
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Greece Is The Word
This recipe is great for using up any leftover greens in your fridge. I use whatever I have – spinach, chard, sometimes beetroot leaves. Similarly, with the herbs, use a mix of whatever you have on hand. Serves 4 as a side GETTY IMAGES ■
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Her Day Has Come
BACK TO BLACK Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson Back to Black is an engrossing and deeply affecting biopic of the late singer Amy Winehouse. She died of alcohol poisoning in 2011, aged just 27, having become tabloid fodder due to addiction issues and a
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Taken For A Ride
It’s a pleasant Thursday evening in central Auckland and a portable canopy outside the Aotea Centre is steadily filling up with bikes. Volunteers from Bike Auckland, the city’s venerable cycle advocacy group, are running free “valet bike parking” for
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