Podcasts by The Podcast Hour
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 3rd August 2019 from 2019-08-03T12:59
A chance encounter fom the past in 'All The Best', tech show 'Reply All' solves online mysteries and tells stories of internet life, find otherworldly laughs in 'This Paranormal Life', and 'The Sou...
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'The Soundtrack Show': the music in our favourite films from 2019-08-03T12:47
'The Soundtrack Show' looks at the role that music plays in creating the fictional universe in some of our favourite films. From Jaws to Star Wars, from Psycho to Jurassic Park...and beyond! We pla...
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'This Paranormal Life': otherwordly laughs from 2019-08-03T12:36
Do you believe in aliens, or doubt that the Moon Landings ever took place? Me neither...but I didn't let that stop me from enjoying 'This Paranormal Life'! We share an excerpt from episode 67 of 'T...
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'Reply All': tech mysteries from 2019-08-03T12:25
For some reason Ben can't listen to one of his favourite podcasts, 99% Invisible with Roman Mars, on the car stereo of his Mazda. But why?! We play some of 'The Roman Mars Mazda Virus', episode 140...
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Chance encounters: 'All The Best' from 2019-08-03T12:15
Have you ever got an unexpected message or a social media notification from a name from your past? One day Stephen got a Facebook alert from somebody very special to him, who he'd lost contact with...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 27th July 2019 from 2019-07-27T12:59
'When We Got To The Seventh' is a quirky fiction show [1:54-13:57], having fun with self improvement in 'Personal Best' [14:01-25:19], celebrating life's simple pleasures in 'The Pleasures of Brech...
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Pink for girls? 'Every Little Thing' from 2019-07-27T12:50
Where did the idea of the colour blue for boys and pink for girls actually come from? It's a question listener Elle Ve poses on the 'Every Little Thing' helpline and it sends host Flora Lichtmann d...
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Celebrating life's simple pleasures: 'The Pleasures of Brecht' from 2019-07-27T12:37
After years of exile from Germany through the Second World War, in 1954 the German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote a simple poem called Vergnügungen or a list of pleasures. 'The Pleasures ...
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Having fun with self help: 'Personal Best' from 2019-07-27T12:25
Have you ever wanted to be a better You?! 'Personal Best' is a Canadian show playing around with the expectations and the conventions of the self help genre. Your life coaches and spirit guides in ...
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'When We Got To The Seventh': a quirky fiction show from 2019-07-27T12:15
Emma Clarke is a voiceover artist and 'When We Got To The Seventh' is her fiction podcast that revolves around an encounter with a seventh something: it could be a marriage, a planet, even a victim...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 20th July 2019 from 2019-07-20T12:59
'Paradise': The unsolved murder of 2 British backpackers [1:45-13:30], 'The Cut on Tuesdays': Family money [13:31-29:38], Word nerds? Try 'Something Rhymes with Purple' [29:39-39:15] and designing ...
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Designing a dream city: Nice Try! from 2019-07-20T12:50
Nice Try! is a 7-part series looking at the elusive idea of utopia- a perfect society or place- and how this concept's been interpreted at various points in history, from Hitler's plans for Berlin,...
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Word nerd? Try 'Something Rhymes with Purple' from 2019-07-20T12:40
Word nerds, Scrabble geeks, and language freaks are going to enjoy 'Something Rhymes with Purple'! Maggie Hough emailed me at pods@rnz.co.nz about it, as it's one of her favourite shows. It's an in...
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'The Cut on Tuesdays': Family money from 2019-07-20T12:25
The Cut is the section of New York Magazine targeted at "women with stylish minds". Visit its website today and you'll find stories covering politics, relationships, work, and equality, alongside b...
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'Paradise': The unsolved murder of 2 British backpackers from 2019-07-20T12:15
Back in 1978 the bodies of two British backpackers were found in the sea off the Guatemalan coast in central America. It was obvious that Chris Farmer and Peta Frampton had been been murdered, but ...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 13th July 2019 from 2019-07-13T12:59
Visiting a threatened Hawaiian ecosystem in 'Offshore', 'Judge John Hodgman' litigates domestic squabbles, classical music mysteries are uncovered in 'Case Notes', and the 'Outside' podcast conside...
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Digital downsizing? The 'Outside' podcast from 2019-07-13T12:48
Even if you worry about using your smartphone too much, the idea of simply unplugging or ditching it altogether just isn't an option for most of us. So how can we strike the right balance between o...
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Classical music mysteries: 'Case Notes' from 2019-07-13T12:37
Black magic, theft, grave digging, gruesome crimes...some of our most famous classical composers led dark and interesting lives. It certainly wasn't all powdered wigs and harpsichord recitals for g...
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'Judge John Hodgman': litigating domestic squabbles from 2019-07-13T12:25
Next time you have a trivial disagreement don't just bicker and squabble about it, have it properly decided by a Minor Television Personality and self-certified 'fake internet judge'! That's the co...
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Visiting a threatened Hawaiian ecosystem: 'Offshore' from 2019-07-13T12:15
Only a select few visit the distant Hawaiian island group, Papahanaumokuakea. It's a massive but remote conservation area, covering ten islands and almost one million square kilometres of the Pacif...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 6th July 2019 from 2019-07-06T12:59
A true crime parody in 'This Sounds Serious', 'Extremities' takes you to the world's most isolated places. Solving screen time struggles in the ABC's 'Parental As Anything', and reviewing every Bla...
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Reviewing every Black film ever: 'The Micheaux Mission' from 2019-07-06T12:48
Robert Monroe emailed us at pods@rnz.co.nz to tell us about his favorite podcast, "The Micheaux Mission". The show's name comes from the pioneering African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux and in ...
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Screen time struggles: 'Parental As Anything' from 2019-07-06T12:37
How to manage screen time is a delicate topic in many households: like how much is too much? Are some screen-based activities better than others? And how can parents make sure they stick to the rul...
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'Extremities': taking you to the world's most isolated places from 2019-07-06T12:25
With 50 people, 75 buildings, and an occasionally dark past, Pitcairn Island's about as isolated as it's possible to get on Earth; more than 5,500 kilometres from New Zealand and just about slap ba...
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True crime parody: 'This Sounds Serious' from 2019-07-06T12:15
'This Sounds Serious' is a comedy fiction show sending up the true crime genre and its conventions. In 'Missing Melissa', host Gwen Radford finds herself on the trail of America's most missing pers...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 29 June 2019 from 2019-06-29T12:59
Featuring 'The Shrink Next Door', 'Inside The Comedian with David Reed', 'True Crime New Zealand' and 'Borrowed'.
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Sharing stories beyond the book shelves: 'Borrowed' from 2019-06-29T12:50
'Borrowed' from Brooklyn Public Library in New York shares the stories happening between the shelves that hold the more than 4 million books in its collection. Like any good library it has reading ...
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'True Crime New Zealand': DIY show scales NZ's podcast charts from 2019-06-29T12:40
A new locally produced true crime show- made by a husband and wife team in their spare time- has been rising up the New Zealand podcast charts to appear alongside big names like Joe Rogan, Stuff Yo...
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Improvising interviews: 'Inside The Comedian' from 2019-06-29T12:30
Do you ever hear celebrity interviews that sound a little bit forced and scripted, like they're trotting out the same old answers to questions they've heard a hundred times before? If so, try a dos...
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'The Shrink Next Door': meet the neighbours from 2019-06-29T12:15
Doctor: patient, lawyer: client- there are some special relationships where we trust a professional to do the right thing and to act in our best interests at all times. The relationship between a p...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 22 June 2019 from 2019-06-22T12:59
'Revisionist History' challenges conventional wisdom. Then what humans can learn from the animal kingdom in '30 Animals That Made Us Smarter', 'The Beautiful Brain' investigates the link between he...
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Music, creation, fandom: 'I Only Listen To The Mountain Goats' from 2019-06-22T12:50
The Mountain Goats' front man, the singer and songwriter John Darnielle, talks about the songs on his latest album 'In League With Dragons' with the writer and podcaster Joseph Fink. Fink's long-ru...
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'The Beautiful Brain': head injuries and sport from 2019-06-22T12:40
'The Beautiful Brain' (Audible) is a series about the brain and how it gets affected by the sports we play. The show focusses on the degenerative brain condition called CTE (short for chronic traum...
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Learning from animals: '30 Animals That Made Us Smarter' from 2019-06-22T12:25
From designing better camouflage to making quieter trains, we humans can learn lots from the animal kingdom. This growing area of research- called biomimicry- is explored in a series called '30 Ani...
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'Revisionist History': challenging conventional wisdom from 2019-06-22T12:15
With the fourth season of Malcolm Gladwell's popular show 'Revisionist History' (Pushkin Industries) starting this week, we share two past episodes. 'Divide and Conquer' tells the story of how a si...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 15 June 2019 from 2019-06-15T12:59
Getting to grips with death and bereavement, the problem with tiki bars, why parole fails, an obsession with escalators, and the challenge of designing Indian army rations.
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Army rations: The Intersection's 'War and Peas' from 2019-06-15T12:55
Feeding an army during wartime's always been a huge logistical challenge. And those challenges were magnified for the Indian army in the Second World War. From an Indian podcast called 'The Interse...
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Escalating obsession: 'People Movers' from 2019-06-15T12:45
'People Movers' is a one woman passion project, an independent podcast mining a very particular niche: escalators! Lindsey Green was commuting through Melbourne station when she started noticing th...
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Parole insights: 'Supervision' from 2019-06-15T12:35
Parole- that intermediate step between prison and freedom- doesn't get much interest or positive coverage in the mainstream press. In the northeastern US state of New Hampshire, about half of all p...
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'Long Distance': tiki (bar) tour from 2019-06-15T12:25
With their blend of kitsch decor, exotic drinks, hula skirts and loud shirts, nothing said fun quite like the tiki bars and Polynesian-themed cocktail lounges that sprang up in the US back in the F...
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A podcast about love, grief and hope from 2019-06-15T12:15
'Death: a podcast about love, grief and hope' (Newshub) is a new locally produced show, that tries to find some answers about how we can cope with grief, and how we can help others do the same. And...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 8 June 2019 from 2019-06-08T12:59
Overthinkers unite in 'Adrift'. 'A Way With Words' explores interesting words and phrases. 'Brexitcast' gives you a behind-the-scenes view of Brexit. And 'Here Be Monsters' offers an anxiety-laden ...
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Unknown pleasures: 'Here Be Monsters' from 2019-06-08T12:50
Back in Ye Olden Days 'Here Be Monsters' is what map-makers are supposed to have written over unknown and unexplored parts of the world on their charts. It's also the name of an offbeat, arty show ...
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Brexitcast: Behind-the-scenes Brexit from 2019-06-08T12:35
Listener Janet emailed pods@rnz.co.nz about Brexitcast, a show she's got addicted to that features some top BBC journalists explaining what's going on with Brexit. As Janet writes "... it's very ba...
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Word games: 'A Way With Words' from 2019-06-08T12:25
'A Way With Words' is a long-running US phone-in show that answers listener questions about the origins and use of interesting words and phrases. For example, when do clothes become laundry? Where ...
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'Adrift': overthinkers unite! from 2019-06-08T12:15
In 'Adrift', serial overthinker Geoff Lloyd and co-host and confidante Annabel Port pick over their listeners' social dilemmas and stories about their failed interactions with other human beings. T...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 1 June 2019 from 2019-06-01T12:59
The podcast poet: 'Have You Heard George's Podcast?' aims for social change. 'Backlisted' brings new life to old books. 'Conversations With People Who Hate Me' introduces online haters to their tar...
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'Words To That Effect': a brainy look at some big ideas from 2019-06-01T12:50
'Words To That Effect' looks at how some big ideas enter the popular imagination through books and film. Zombies, overpopulation, steampunk and imaginary countries are just some of the topics cover...
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'Conversations With People Who Hate Me' from 2019-06-01T12:40
In 'Conversations With People Who Hate Me' the actor and activist Dylan Marron speaks directly to the people making hateful comments about him (and others) online. Four years ago Colleen tweeted "I...
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New life for old books: 'Backlisted' from 2019-06-01T12:25
'Backlisted' takes neglected books and gives them new life for the modern reader. It's a bit like a clever book club where everyone does all the reading! The show's hosted by Andy Miller and John M...
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'George's Podcast' is one you'll want to hear from 2019-06-01T12:15
Can a podcast be a vehicle for social change? Spoken-word poet and social commentator George Mpanga – aka George The Poet – explores that question in the unique, award-winning show Have You Heard G...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 25 May 2019 from 2019-05-25T12:59
'The Document' explores how to cover a free solo climb of a 1000 metre vertical rockface, and speaks to the doco maker who profiled a homicidal African dictator. 'The Untold' takes listeners right ...
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A perfect son? 'Nancy' from 2019-05-25T12:45
'Nancy' is a show that, to use its own words, offers "...stories and conversations about the queer experience today". Hosted by two friends- Tobin Low and Kathy Tu- it's a warm, funny, frequently m...
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'The Untold': taking listeners inside life-changing stories from 2019-05-25T12:25
Imagine getting right into the middle of a true story developing around you while you're listening. That's the narrative approach taken in' The Untold', a BBC show telling stories about life in mod...
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'The Document': meeting a murderer from 2019-05-25T12:15
'The Document' (KCRW) mashes together the worlds of documentary film and audio. In interviews with some of the world's top documentary makers, it uncovers great stories about how they do what they ...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 18 May 2019 from 2019-05-18T12:59
50 years on, '13 Minutes to the Moon' reconsiders the moon landing. 'Studio 360' presents the life of an opera extra. 'Running from COPS' asks if the world's longest running reality TV show can rea...
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Autism insights: 'The Parenting Spectrum' from 2019-05-18T12:50
Finding out that you or someone you care about is on the autism spectrum is a lot to get your head around; for families, loved ones and for the person themselves. Fiona Churchman and Travis Saunder...
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Nothing but the truth? 'Running from COPS' from 2019-05-18T12:40
COPS is the longest running reality show in TV history. The format's simple. Cameras follow police officers on the beat as they catch and arrest baddies. Thirty seasons in there's now more than 100...
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Arty party: 'Studio 360' on life as an opera extra from 2019-05-18T12:35
'Studio 360' is a show about culture and the arts featuring stories about, and interviews with, the people writing or making some of the biggest plays, books, films, and music today. We feature som...
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'13 Minutes to the Moon': the moon landing reconsidered from 2019-05-18T12:15
Almost 50 years ago, in July 1969, the US astronauts Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong went to the Moon on Apollo 11 and then all safely came back to Earth again. A new BBC series cal...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 11 May 2019 from 2019-05-11T12:59
Searching for scientific consensus on 'Science Vs', investigating the male domination of the tech industry in 'A Job For The Boys', and 'The Intersection' records life from a street corner in Silic...
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Homeless in Googleville: 'The Intersection' from 2019-05-11T12:50
'The Intersection' camps out on a street corner in Silicon Valley, close to Google's HQ, to meet the tech workers living in camper vans. We play some of 'Homeless in Googleville' from Season 2 of '...
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Toxic tech? 'A Job For The Boys' from 2019-05-11T12:40
Why, when and how did the tech industry get so blokey? What are the consequences of having a male-dominated technology sector? And how are people trying to change things? These are some of the ques...
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'Science Vs': the search for scientific consensus from 2019-05-11T12:15
'Science Vs' cuts through the trends, the fads and the opinions to get to the real science behind everything from vaccinations to fasting diets. We play an excerpt of the 'Science Vs' episode 'Fast...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 4 May 2019 from 2019-05-04T12:59
'Scene on Radio' presents a powerful history of Whiteness and race; audio rich stories from the Middle East in 'Kerning Cultures'; 'The Food Chain' from the BBC looks at the history of product plac...
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Waxing lyrical: 'Broken Record' from 2019-05-04T12:47
In 'Broken Record' the writer and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell teams up with legendary producer Rick Rubin for longform interviews with famous musicians about their life in music. We share excerpts f...
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'The Food Chain': Product placement from 2019-05-04T12:37
With ad blockers, premium streaming services, and set top recorders, it's never been easier to avoid the adverts in the films and shows we enjoy. So product placement- getting that thing you're try...
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'Kerning Cultures': audio rich stories from the Middle East from 2019-05-04T12:25
'Kerning Cultures' is a podcast showcasing interesting audio documentaries from the Middle East. We share an example from Dubai called 'A Cinema, Demolished' which charts the history of the city's ...
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A powerful history of Whiteness and race: 'Scene on Radio' from 2019-05-04T12:15
Over 14 episodes of 'Seeing White' from 'Scene on Radio', former radio reporter turned academic John Biewen enlists prominent historians, thinkers and writers (including his friend Dr. Chenjerai Ku...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 27 April 2019 from 2019-04-27T12:59
Freddie Mercury is one of the inspiring figures explored on 'Great Lives', 'WTF with Marc Maron' hits 1000 episodes, 'Movie Reviews in 20Qs' is a film podcast made in a Bay of Plenty garage, and 'T...
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Crushing work meetings: 'The Pineapple Project' from 2019-04-27T12:50
Ever wanted to be happier, wealthier, fitter, more productive...an all-round better version of You? Well if you do, there's a podcast for that! NPR's Life Kit series, Happier with Gretchen Rubin, a...
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Movie Reviews in 20 Qs: film chat from a Mount Maunganui garage from 2019-04-27T12:35
What happens when a Kiwi couple invite friends over to their garage to ask each other some funny, poignant and just-plain-weird questions about a newly released film? The podcast Movie Reviews in 2...
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Maron milestone: 'WTF' hits 1000 episodes! from 2019-04-27T12:25
The podcaster, standup comedian and actor Marc Maron has been recording his show WTF in his garage for almost a decade, and has recently celebrated its 1000th episode. In it Maron and longtime prod...
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Inspiring figures: 'Great Lives' from 2019-04-27T12:15
'Great Lives' is a biographical show from the BBC where notable guests choose somebody who's inspired them, and tell host Matthew Parris why. In our featured episode the comedian and TV star Matt L...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 20 April 2019 from 2019-04-20T12:59
'Blackout' presents a fictional world without power, 'Wild Dunedin' meets the animals of Otago, 'Against The Rules with Michael Lewis' examines fairness in modern society (and why referees are gett...
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'NB': life beyond the binary from 2019-04-20T12:45
People use the term 'non-binary' when they don't identify as completely male or completely female. 'NB' offers a first person account of what living as a non-binary person feels like.
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Reffing the refs? 'Against The Rules with Michael Lewis' from 2019-04-20T12:35
In a new podcast called 'Against The Rules', author Michael Lewis looks at the idea of fairness in different walks of life...in law, the media, the financial markets, and in sport...and asks why th...
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'Wild Dunedin': Otago animals from 2019-04-20T12:25
The 'Wild Dunedin' podcast tells stories about the wild things, large and small, that live around the city. For example, the southern right whale used to be a common sight- and sound!- around Duned...
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A world without power: 'Blackout' from 2019-04-20T12:15
'Blackout' is a new fiction podcast looking at what could happen if power went down across the entire US. So imagine a world where mobile communications and the internet fail, and where news is har...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 13 April 2019 from 2019-04-13T12:59
Going into a downward spiral on the BBC's Short Cuts, Out of The Blocks is telling street stories from a gritty city, and ordering dream dishes in an imaginary restaurant in Off Menu.
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Dream dishes in an imaginary restaurant: 'Off Menu' from 2019-04-13T12:50
If you could eat anything at all...anything...what would your dream meal be?! It's the simple question that British comedians Ed Gamble and James Acaster pose to their guests in 'Off Menu', as they...
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'Out of the Blocks': stories from a gritty city from 2019-04-13T12:30
Baltimore in Maryland (Population: 611,000) is the birthplace of baseballer Babe Ruth and of the US national anthem 'The Star Spangled Banner'. It's a historic port and manufacturing centre, with m...
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Going into a downward spiral: 'Short Cuts' from 2019-04-13T12:15
You encounter a rude shop assistant, there are fireworks in your neighbourhood at what is quite clearly the wrong time of the year, or the parking space you had your eye on is lost because somebody...
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Switched On Pop: going deep on pop from 2019-04-06T12:43
'Switched On Pop' goes deep on some of today's biggest hits, with musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding joined by a musical guest. We share a couple of clips: one (with guest K.Fla...
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TL;DR? How tech's changing the way we read from 2019-04-06T12:35
Some people worry that technology could be changing the way we read. So are we all becoming skimmers and headline grasping multi-taskers, losing our ability to concentrate on a long form article, o...
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Getting to grips with language: 'The Allusionist' from 2019-04-06T12:15
The English language is full of weird and wonderful words and 'The Allusionist' (Radiotopia) delights in finding the stories behind them and discovering how we're using language today. We share som...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 6 April 2019 from 2019-04-06T12:01
Getting to grips with language in 'The Allusionist', the 'IRL' podcast asks how technology's changing the way we read, and 'Switched On Pop' goes deep on today's biggest pop hits.
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DIY diplomacy: Spacebridge from 2019-03-30T12:47
It's a far out true story featuring New Age thinking, The Space Race, dream telepathy, the Grateful Dead, and ESP. With the world living under the threat of nuclear attack, the idea was to bypass C...
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward from 2019-03-30T12:37
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by the American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft is a story that only got published after his death. Now it gets a modern makeover 90-odd years after it was written and...
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Chat 10 Looks 3: broadcast banter from 2019-03-30T12:25
In 'Chat 10 Looks 3' two well-known Australian journalists and media personalities- Leigh Sales and Annabel Crabb- share their friendship, and details of their lives outside work. We play some of E...
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Stories in Sound: 'Twenty Thousand Hertz' from 2019-03-30T12:15
Twenty Thousand Hertz is the highest frequency the human ear can hear. It's also the name of a podcast for anyone who's interested in why things sound the way they do. Host Dallas Taylor's a sound ...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 30 March 2019 from 2019-03-30T12:01
Stories in sound from Twenty Thousand Hertz, broadcasting banter from Chat 10 Looks 3, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and a story of DIY alternative diplomacy in Spacebridge.
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Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend: Jeff Goldblum from 2019-03-16T12:55
The US talkshow host Conan O'Brien worked as a comedy writer for Saturday Night Live and on The Simpsons before getting his own show back in 1993. In November he started his podcast 'Conan O'Brien ...
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Paris podcast: Paname from 2019-03-16T12:45
RNZ colleague Kim recommended a podcast she's enjoying called Paname. All about Paris, it uncovers the city's hidden histories, exploring all manner of strange and interesting stuff about the Frenc...
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Walking, no talking from 2019-03-16T12:35
It began as a bit of a joke. The writer and journalist Jon Mooalem started recording the walks he took near his home on a wooded island in the north western US. All you can hear on his podcast 'Wal...
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David Walliams' Marvellous Musical Podcast from 2019-03-16T12:25
His children's books have sold more than 25 million copies in just 10 years. As well as being a writer, he's an actor, comedian, talent show judge, and a long-distance swimmer: so is there anything...
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Container ship crew combat loneliness with karaoke from 2019-03-16T12:15
Crew members on giant container ships crossing the world are singing karaoke to combat homesickness and loneliness. Richard Scott checks out a recent BBC programme that allows listeners rare access...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 16 March 2019 (radio broadcast 23.3.19) from 2019-03-16T12:01
Karaoke battles on giant container ships, David Walliams wants to get more kids into classical music, a show that's just one guy going for a walk, a Parisian podcast telling the French capital's hi...
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'Over My Dead Body': a picture perfect relationship goes South from 2019-03-09T12:55
From the outside, it looked like the perfect marriage. Dan was an Ivy League-trained lawyer and academic who seemed to be on the fast track to success when he met Wendi, another bright and accompli...
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Sweeping The World: A hidden history of brushes and brushing from 2019-03-09T12:45
Long, long ago, in a time before bagless vacuum cleaners and Marie Kondo, sweeping with a brush was the best way we had to tidy up the places we work, rest, and play. To this day, some people still...
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'Podcast From The Past': a postcard podcast from 2019-03-09T12:25
Tom Jackson got into postcards more than 25 years ago, and since then he's built up a massive collection of around 60,000 of them. He's also written a book and started up a popular Twitter account ...
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Was Melody Rules 'The Worst Sitcom Ever Made'?! from 2019-03-09T12:15
The homegrown comedy 'Melody Rules' that came out on TV3 in the 1990s has been panned as one of the worst sitcoms ever made. The critics called it cringeworthy, atrocious, awful, and a disaster in ...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 9 March 2019 from 2019-03-09T12:01
Was Melody Rules really 'The Worst Sitcom Ever Made'?! 'Podcast From The Past' uses postcards as springboards into stories. Then 'Sweeping The World' offers a hidden history of brushes and brushing...
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E-scooter safety concerns: 'Post Reports' from 2019-03-02T12:50
Seen by some as a viable, cheap and fun urban transport solution, Lime electric scooters got taken off the streets of Auckland and Dunedin last week over safety concerns. We share an e-scooter inve...
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Tracking a serial conman: 'Who The Hell is Hamish?' from 2019-03-02T12:40
Tracy Hall had been separated from her husband for over a year when she first met a man called Max Tavita via a dating app. He seemed witty, charming, intelligent, and attractive....a successful in...
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A boxer's murder conviction overturned: 'The Hurricane Tapes' from 2019-03-02T12:20
Early in the morning of Friday June the 17th 1966, two African-American men walked into the Lafayette Bar and Grill in Paterson, New Jersey and shot four white people, killing three of them. Rising...
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'David Tennant Does A Podcast with...Olivia Colman' from 2019-03-02T12:15
He's probably best known for playing Doctor Who, or for his role as a dishevelled detective in Broadchurch...now the Scottish actor David Tennant's got his own podcast too! His first guest is his f...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 2 March 2019 from 2019-03-02T12:01
'David Tennant Does A Podcast with...Olivia Colman'. A famous boxer's murder conviction overturned: 'The Hurricane Tapes'. On the trail of a serial conman in 'Who The Hell is Hamish?' and an e-scoo...
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NEON: the history behind popular culture from 2019-02-23T12:50
NEON uses our favourite films, TV shows, and computer games as the vehicle to find out more about the history behind them. Presented by Jem Duducu and produced by Dan Morelle, we play some of an ep...
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Conviction: true crime with a colourful private eye from 2019-02-23T12:37
Conviction's a new release from Gimlet Media centring on a colourful private eye called Manuel (Manny) Gomez and his attempts to clear the name of a teenager accused in a shooting. We play some of ...
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Finding Drago: the search for a mysterious writer from 2019-02-23T12:25
In 'Finding Drago' (ABC) Aussie film geeks, comedians and Rocky fans Alexei Toliopoulos and Cameron James go on the hunt for a mysterious author called Todd Noy. He's the writer of a piece of fan f...
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So where ARE the aliens? New BBC podcast looks at what we know for sure from 2019-02-23T12:15
Do you believe extraterrestrials exist? Astronomer Seth Shostak explores what we do and don't know about potential life on other planets in the new BBC podcast So Where Are The Aliens?
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 23 February 2019 from 2019-02-23T12:01
Hunting for ET: So Where are the Aliens? 'Finding Drago' goes on the search for a mysterious writer. 'Conviction' is a true crime series starring a colourful private eye. And NEON explores the hist...
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Proof: When celery was in vogue from 2019-02-16T12:50
Proof from America's Test Kitchen is a new-ish show trying to solve some food mysteries. Like should you put ketchup on burgers, and how do odd jellybean flavours get designed?! Writer and producer...
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BBQ history: The Sporkful from 2019-02-16T12:45
Listener Ange emailed us at pods@rnz.co.nz as she's loving The Sporkful with Dan Pashman. She says the show's become a "recent podcast obsession", and strongly recommends an episode called 'A Brief...
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From politics to pleasure: The Food Programme from 2019-02-16T12:30
BBC Radio 4's Food Programme turns 40 this year. With a mission to explore the world of food "from culture to cooking, from politics to pleasure" each week host Sheila Dillon, producer Dan Saladino...
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Burger battles: Business Wars from 2019-02-16T12:25
Business Wars from Wondery recreates the stories of some of the big rivalries that have shaped consumer history. Past series have followed Nike vs Adidas, Xbox and Playstation, and Coke versus Peps...
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Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonald's? from 2019-02-16T12:15
For a few years back in the 1980s and 90s, McDonald's sold pizza at some of its restaurants. Then it stopped doing so. These simple facts have propelled Brian Thompson into an investigation spannin...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 16 February 2019 from 2019-02-16T12:01
Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonald's? Also battling burger chains, the future of seeds, Instagram and food culture, American BBQ, and that time when celery cost more than caviar!
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Shedunnit: detective mysteries from 2019-02-09T12:50
If you're a fan of classic detective fiction- think Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers, maybe some Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot- then check out Shedunnit. It's made by Caroline Crampton who writes for...
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Quake safe? Surviving The Big One from 2019-02-09T12:35
Sooner or later 'The 'Big One'- a 7.8 magnitude earthquake- is going to hit Los Angeles and Southen California. In fact, there's a 50:50 chance this is going to happen in the next 30 years. When it...
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Imaginary Advice: blending fact and fiction from 2019-02-09T12:25
Ross Sutherland's a writer, poet and actor from Edinburgh who also makes a podcast called 'Imaginary Advice'. He does it all himself and calls the podcast the most important thing he makes, and a '...
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Self help Sixties style: The Complete Woman from 2019-02-09T12:15
'The Complete Woman' is a 6-part series sending up domestic life back in 1960s America. Drawing her inspiration from old self-help guides, Amanda Lund creates domestic guru Marabel May. And you don...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 9 February 2019 from 2019-02-09T12:01
A parody of self help Sixties style in 'The Complete Woman'. 'Imaginary Advice' blends fact and fiction in clever audio stories about the human condition. 'The Big One' explores LA's and California...
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'Reveal': the "alt right" moves into comics from 2019-02-02T12:50
The white nationalist movement that calls itself the "alt right" is moving into comic books as a way of pushing its political agenda. It's a story told by Reveal, an investigative podcast aiming to...
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'Ladies, We Need To Talk': is it OK to settle for average? from 2019-02-02T12:40
'Ladies, We Need To Talk' is a podcast from the ABC in Australia that tackles potentially delicate topics head on. Recent episodes have covered mean girls, menopause, cosmetic surgery, and anxiety....
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Taking the local global: 'Multi Story' from 2019-02-02T12:25
Every community's got its colourful characters and memorable stories to tell. But how do you take a great local story and get it in front of the widest possible audience? That's the challenge that ...
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'Planet Money': The Land of Duty Free from 2019-02-02T12:15
I've always been a bit of a sucker for the duty free shop at the airport. And I'm not alone...the global duty free market is worth an estimated US$70 billion a year and that's predicted to rise to ...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 2 February 2019 from 2019-02-02T12:01
'Planet Money' explores the origins of duty free shopping, 'Multi Story' takes English local radio stories global, 'Ladies, We Need To Talk' considers if it's ever OK to settle for average in relat...
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The Last Days of August: what caused a porn star's death? from 2019-01-26T12:50
The author and journalist Jon Ronson made the podcast "The Butterfly Effect" about the many and sometimes surprising consequences of the rise in free online pornography. He's also written a book ab...
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Inside Health: the BBC podcast taking a close look at medical advice from 2019-01-26T12:40
Every week, the latest medical treatments, clinical trials, food, drug and supplement recommendations fill the media... and it seems we have a boundless appetite for advice on how to live a longer,...
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Tai Asks Why: the 11-year old pondering life's big questions from 2019-01-26T12:30
He's 11 years old but Tai Poole's searching for answers to some of life's big questions. Like...what happens after we die?....and how can we fix climate change?! From the Canadian Broadcasting Corp...
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Hunting for Bigfoot: Wild Thing from 2019-01-26T12:15
The legend of Sasquatch, of a hairy hominid living out in the wild, is widespread and enduring. Laura Krantz found out that she'd got a distant relative who'd devoted his academic career, and riske...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 26 January 2019 from 2019-01-26T12:01
Hunting for Bigfoot: Wild Thing. Tai Asks Why: an 11-year old ponders life's big questions. Updating medical advice: Inside Health. The Last Days of August: what caused a porn star's death?
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Space archaeology: SAPIENS from 2018-12-22T12:50
Space isn't just some vast arena for people to explore using the latest, shiniest technology. It's also a place that can hold important stories about us humans too...and that's what the emerging di...
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Sound Opinions: Diss tracks from 2018-12-22T12:35
'Sound Opinions' is a long-running music show that's been on air for around 25 years. In it hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share their encyclopedic and evolving knowledge of music ranging from th...
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Bomb On Board: who bombed a Canadian airliner? from 2018-12-22T12:25
In July 1965 Canadian Pacific Air Lines flight 21 crashed in British Columbia when a bomb went off. Everybody on board died, but more than 50 years later still nobody knows who planted it. The Cana...
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The Nightmare Before Christmas! from 2018-12-22T12:15
Christmas is almost here...that special, festive time for family, friends, food and fun. Over in Australia, Mike Williams' extended family can only all get together every couple of years to celebra...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 22 December 2018 from 2018-12-22T12:01
The Nightmare Before Christmas! Bomb On Board: who bombed a Canadian airliner in 1965? Sound Opinions shares its favourite diss tracks, and the SAPIENS podcast looks into the emerging discipline of...
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A powerful account of mental illness: No Feeling Is Final from 2018-12-15T12:50
In 'No Feeling is Final ' from the ABC the writer and podcaster Honor Eastly presents a highly personal account of her experiences of living with anxiety and suicidal thoughts. The show weaves toge...
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Freakonomics Radio: How could open-plan offices be less terrible? from 2018-12-15T12:40
Journalist Stephen J Dubner explores the "hidden side of everything" with "Nobel laureates, provocateurs, intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and various other underachievers" in the super-popular podcas...
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The mysterious death of a high-ranking Nazi: The Ratline from 2018-12-15T12:30
A recently released BBC series called' The Ratline' tries to uncover the truth about a senior Nazi, Baron Otto Gustav von Wächter, who disappeared after the Second World War, then died in mysteriou...
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Unspooled: dissecting the top 100 films ever made from 2018-12-15T12:15
In each episode of 'Unspooled' the film critic Amy Nicholson and the actor, comedian, and all-round movie buff Paul Scheer take a film from the American Film Institute's Top 100 list, and pull it a...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 15 December 2018 from 2018-12-15T12:01
'Unspooled' dissects the top 100 films ever made. The mysterious death of a high-ranking Nazi is investigated in 'The Ratline'. 'Freakonomics Radio' asks the question; do open plan offices (help us...
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'Eating Fried Chicken in the Shower': headspace and happiness from 2018-12-08T12:55
In 'Eating Fried Chicken in the Shower' the comedian James Nokise gets 8 well-known New Zealanders to open up about their mental health. They are in his shower. They stay fully clothed. There's no ...
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'Front Burner': serving up daily news from 2018-12-08T12:45
We play an extract from a Canadian contribution to the burgeoning daily news podcast scene. CBC's 'Front Burner' looks at Google's plans to turn an area of Toronto into a hi tech testing lab for ou...
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Girl power: 'Fierce Girls' from 2018-12-08T12:35
The ABC series 'Fierce Girls' tells inspiring stories about Australian women, targeted at younger listeners. After previous episodes involving athletes, aviators, scientists, tennis players and spi...
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'Simple Pleasures': famous foodies from 2018-12-08T12:25
In 'Simple Pleasures', the popular chef Yotam Ottolenghi gets some interesting guests round to his place and makes them a meal from his new cookbook. The focus isn't just on food either, but also o...
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Everyday people face up to grievances and regrets in the podcast Heavyweight from 2018-12-08T12:15
In Heavyweight, Canadian writer Jonathan Goldstein is a kind of "therapist with a time machine” leading people back into their own pasts to face the truth about a crucial life event,
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 8th December 2018 from 2018-12-08T12:01
Domestic detective stories in 'Heavyweight', Yotam Ottolenghi interviews famous foodies in 'Simple Pleasures', 'Fierce Girls' tells stories of Aussie girl power, 'Front Burner''s a Canadian offerin...
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Casefile: true crime with a mysterious host from 2018-12-01T12:50
Casefile's a popular collection of true crime stories from around the world told with a keen appreciation of narrative and suspense. It's not like some other true crime podcasts where the productio...
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Human/Ordinary: In The Neighbourhood from 2018-12-01T12:40
You don't need lots of fancy gear, or a cold case, or ads for mattresses, or heaps of sound design wizardry to make a great podcast. Sometimes you can just walk around the place you live with recor...
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Listening to the city: To The Best of Our Knowledge from 2018-12-01T12:25
TTBOOK (as it's known to its friends) started life as a radio show back in 1990 on Wisconsin Public Radio. 28 years later and it's still on the radio on nearly 200 different US stations, and of cou...
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Ghosts in the Machine: how our ears can deceive us from 2018-12-01T12:15
Our sense of hearing isn't nearly as well developed as our sense of sight. And as we devote less of our brain power to perceiving sounds, it's relatively easy to trick the human ear into hearing th...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 1 December 2018 from 2018-12-01T12:01
Ghosts in the Machine: auditory hallucinations (or how our ears can deceive us). We listen to the city in To The Best of Our Knowledge. Human/Ordinary explores a Melbourne neighbourhood with a reve...
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Parental Guidance Recommended: parenting tips from famous Aussies from 2018-11-24T12:50
Ever wondered what high-profile Australians are like as parents? Comedian and mother-of-two Terri Psiakis coaxes some into sharing their parenting tips and fessing up to some of the challenges and ...
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On robots and remembering: This Is Love from 2018-11-24T12:40
'This Is Love' is made by the same team that makes 'Criminal', a show that we featured on The Podcast Hour a few months' back. 'Criminal' tells true stories about right and wrong, and how to tell t...
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Instant noodles: BBC podcast tells their untold story from 2018-11-24T12:25
Sold in pots, packets, cups and bowls, the instant noodle turns 60 this year. And love them or loathe them, this cheap DIY fast food is still celebrated as a triumph of modern food production and e...
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Headlong, Surviving Y2K: remembering the millennium hysteria of 1999 from 2018-11-24T12:15
Remember the fearful run-up to the moment when the calendar clicked over to Saturday 1 January 2000 and the whole of modern civilisation as we knew it would fall off a cliff? In Headlong: Surviving...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 24 November 2018 from 2018-11-24T12:01
Surviving Y2K, The Eternal Life of the Instant Noodle, This Is Love, and Parental Guidance Recommended.
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A light-hearted look at self improvement: The Self Renovators from 2018-11-17T12:50
Caroline Mabey and Taylor Glenn are friends and comedians, trying to keep an open mind when it comes to self improvement. So in each episode of their podcast 'Self Renovators', they test out some o...
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People doing unpopular things: How Do You Sleep At Night? from 2018-11-17T12:40
The ABC series 'How Do You Sleep At Night?' introduces 6 people doing unpopular or controversial things. From abortion clinic protesters, to big game hunters and people making billions from running...
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Building empathy: A Mile In My Shoes from 2018-11-17T12:25
Could listening to other people's stories be an important way to build empathy- that valuable ability to put yourself in someone else's position to understand their feelings? That's one of the inte...
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Colourful slices of California life: Welcome to LA from 2018-11-17T12:15
Los Angeles is the second biggest city in the US with 4 million people and its importance as a major centre for film and TV production means that for ages people have been moving there, lured by th...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 17 November 2018 from 2018-11-17T12:01
Colourful slices of LA life, building empathy by hearing stories, people doing unpopular things, and a light-hearted look at self improvement.
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Love + Radio: artfully crafted first-person stories without studio banter from 2018-11-10T12:50
For 13 years, the American podcast Love + Radio has been quietly serving up personal narratives (sometimes adult-themed) with cutting-edge sound design. As one happy listener puts it: "The stories ...
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Food pod: 'Hoovering' from 2018-11-10T12:40
Talking while you eat, even with your mouth full, isn't a problem in 'Hoovering'; in fact it's positively encouraged! The show's host Jessica Fostekew is a British writer and comedian who some of y...
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'Endless Thread': Reddit stories from 2018-11-10T12:30
'Endless Thread' uses the popular social news site Reddit and its massive online communities as the source for its stories. We play two clips: one story concerning a Reddit user called Prufrock 451...
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Listening in on couples' counselling: 'Where Should We Begin?' from 2018-11-10T12:15
'Where Should We Begin?' lets you eavesdrop on couples talking about their problems in a recorded therapy session. The person helping these people deal with issues like infidelity, divorce and bere...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 10 November 2018 from 2018-11-10T12:01
Listening in on couples' counselling: 'Where Should We Begin?', 'Endless Thread': Reddit stories, food pod: 'Hoovering' and 'Love+Radio': crafted audio.
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The Dream: From 'the plane game' to pyramid schemes from 2018-11-03T12:50
'The Dream' explores the shady, complex world of pyramid schemes and multi-level marketing, ways of selling stuff which also encourage you to recruit new people as participants. So if you can get y...
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Interviews with lots of laughs: 'Fortunately...with Fi and Jane' from 2018-11-03T12:40
Fi Glover and Jane Garvey are BBC presenters who apparently met up hosting an event together a few years ago: they got on well and made people laugh, so 'Fortunately...with Fi and Jane' was born. N...
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Black Sheep: controversial characters from New Zealand history from 2018-11-03T12:30
'Black Sheep' is back for a new season, with host William Ray telling more stories about colourful and controversial characters from New Zealand history. We play part of the first episode of a two-...
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The Daily: delivering the news to your ears from 2018-11-03T12:15
The New York Times' daily news show 'The Daily' has proved a major hit: it's currently sitting at number 2 in the US podcast charts, with 5 million monthly listeners, and annual advertising revenue...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 3 November 2018 from 2018-11-03T12:01
'The Daily' delivers the news to your ears. 'Black Sheep' portrays controversial characters from New Zealand history. 'Fortunately...with Fi and Jane' is an interview show with lots of laughs. And ...
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Improvising stories: The Bear Pack from 2018-10-27T12:50
The Australian improv duo The Bear Pack take one random word and use it as the centrepiece for a whole unscripted story. Steen Raskopoulos and Carlo Ritchie of The Bear Pack bring us some chilli-re...
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Dirt Church Radio: trail running nirvana from 2018-10-27T12:35
'Dirt Church Radio' is a locally produced show with a focus on trail running- basically running done in New Zealand's great outdoors. We play some of Episode 7 featuring the American ultramarathon ...
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Household Name: how the US President made us eat more pizza from 2018-10-27T12:25
'Household Name' takes some of the biggest names in business- global giants like Starbucks and Coca Cola- and uncovers surprising stories from their past. So long ago, way back before he became US ...
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Stripy love letter: Out Of Line from 2018-10-27T12:15
From zebra crossings to prison uniforms, from Where's Wally? to the Breton shirt, stripes have always had a knack for grabbing our attention. In a BBC documentary called 'Out of Line', graphic desi...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 27 October 2018 from 2018-10-27T12:01
Stripy love letter: Out Of Line. Household Name: how the US President made us eat more pizza. Dirt Church Radio: trail running nirvana, and improvised storytelling with The Bear Pack.
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Radio Atlas: international podcasts with English subtitles from 2018-10-20T12:45
Radio Atlas brings non-English audio documentaries to an English speaking audience using subtitles that are timed to appear on your smartphone screen at exactly the same time as you hear the audio....
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Loving letters: Dispatch to A Friend from 2018-10-20T12:35
Dispatch To A Friend involves two real-life friends Gillian Bell and Annabelle Hickson reading out the letters they send to each other in a simple celebration of their friendship. We play part of a...
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Globetrotting romance? Stories I Tell On Dates from 2018-10-20T12:25
He's played in the NBA, and stands over 2 metres tall in his socks, but Paul Shirley isn't your typical basketball jock. For starters he's a talented writer, doesn't take himself too seriously, and...
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Soul Music: the story behind Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' from 2018-10-20T12:15
'Hallelujah' by Leonard Cohen took years to write, once had as many as 80 verses, and was practically ignored when it first came out 34 years ago. The BBC Radio 4 series Soul Music tells the story ...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 20 October 2018 from 2018-10-20T12:01
Soul Music: Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah'. Globetrotting romances: Stories I Tell On Dates. Loving letters: Dispatch to A Friend. And Radio Atlas: subtitling foreign language audio.
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Zig Zag: demystifying Blockchain from 2018-10-13T12:50
'Zig Zag' tells the story of two people navigating their way through a profound period of personal change against a backdrop of technological upheaval. Manoush Zomorodi used to host New York Public...
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Little Tiny: small things that changed the course of history from 2018-10-13T12:40
The ABC series 'Little Tiny' tells short stories about small things that have shaped world history, including one very special cartoon rabbit (who isn't called Bugs!).
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The Modern Mann: veteran podcaster Olly Mann from 2018-10-13T12:25
The English writer and presenter Olly Mann's still only in his thirties, but he's already a seasoned veteran of the UK podcasting scene. A few years back, Olly Mann launched his podcast 'The Modern...
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Bubble: a sci fi comedy from 2018-10-13T12:15
'Bubble' is a comedy imagining what life would be like inside a giant, corporate-controlled dome powered by the gig economy. It's a place where everyone seems to either be building their own app, o...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 13th October 2018 from 2018-10-13T12:01
Bubble: a sci fi comedy. The Modern Mann: lost overboard. Little Tiny: small things that have changed the course of history. Zig Zag: demystifying Blockchain.
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Floral audio: Branch Out from 2018-10-06T12:50
In 'Branch Out', host Vanessa Fuchs goes rustling through the undergrowth at The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney to show off the science and the stories behind some of its most interesting plants. Trev...
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American Scandal: sporting cheats from 2018-10-06T12:40
Back in the early 2000s, a steroids scandal rocked world sport. Famous athletes including the baseball player Barry Bonds, and the track star Marion Jones, got caught taking performance enhancing d...
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Meat: a podcast about flesh and body image from 2018-10-06T12:25
Jonathan Zenti is an independent radio producer living in Rome. He is also overweight. Jonathan doesn't see his size as a problem, but it often seems to be an issue for the people he comes into con...
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Articles of Interest: Children's clothing from 2018-10-06T12:15
Finding children clothes that they actually want to wear is no easy task. Could part of the problem be that their gaudy designs and garish colours and patterns are probably the work of an adult? An...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 6 October 2018 from 2018-10-06T12:01
Articles of Interest, Meat, American Scandal and Branch Out.
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The world's biggest art theft: Last Seen from 2018-09-29T12:55
Nearly 30 years ago, thieves posing as police officers broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and made off with 13 artworks. The total value of the heist in today's market? A cool...
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A murder mystery? Death In Ice Valley from 2018-09-29T12:35
The badly burned body of a woman is discovered in a valley in Norway. Arranged around her is an odd assortment of objects, and all the labels have been removed from her clothes. Although it sounds ...
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The Teenage Taxidermist from 2018-09-29T12:25
Tristan Meyer Odell is a typical Canadian teenager with an unusual hobby: he's into taxidermy. And even though stuffing dead animals isn't perhaps the pastime you'd choose for your offspring, his p...
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Serial season 3: judging US justice from 2018-09-29T12:15
Season 1 focussed on one single, extraordinary case, Season 3 looks at the often humdrum, high volume world of daily life in the hulking Justice Center in Cleveland, Ohio for insights into how the ...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 29 September 2018 from 2018-09-29T12:01
Serial season 3: judging US justice. CBC's The Teenage Taxidermist. A murder mystery? Death In Ice Valley. And the world's biggest art theft: Last Seen.
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The Realness: how a blood disease shaped hip hop history from 2018-09-22T12:55
The rapper Prodigy and his collaborator Havoc came to fame in the 1990s as the influential US rap duo Mobb Deep. But Prodigy also suffered from sickle cell anaemia, dying from complications related...
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Generation X: Beyond Kate from 2018-09-22T12:45
'Beyond Kate' marks the 125th anniversary of the suffrage petition, and the decision to allow women in New Zealand to vote. RNZ's Sonia Sly tells the story of how this momentous decision was reache...
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How tech is shaping our lives: The Digital Human from 2018-09-22T12:35
'The Digital Human' explores our sometimes troubled relationship with technology, and how it's changing our lives. In each episode a one word topic (for example Echo, Secrets, Memory, Isolation, Ch...
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Where Are You Going? Meeting strangers in 11 cities from 2018-09-22T12:15
Meet strangers in 11 cities and then start up a conversation with them by asking one straightforward question: Where Are You Going? Because of the open-ended nature of the question, and the disarmi...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 22 September 2018 from 2018-09-22T12:01
Where Are You Going? Meeting strangers in 11 different cities. How tech's shaping modern life: The Digital Human. Generation X: Beyond Kate. And The Realness: how a blood disease shaped hip hop his...
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Ghibliotheque: reviewing the works of Studio Ghibli from 2018-09-15T12:50
The Japanese anime studio Studio Ghibli is 33 years old this year, and from Spirited Away to Kiki's Delivery Service, it's responsible for some of the most popular animated films ever made. Film ge...
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Stories of the night: Nocturne from 2018-09-15T12:35
A nocturne is a piece of music that's inspired by, or which evokes, the night. It's also the name of a podcast I've been enjoying recently. Nocturne is made by the independent American audio produc...
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Tāringa: a funny, bilingual podcast about 'all things Te Ao Māori' from 2018-09-15T12:20
Te Puaheiri Snowden and Paraone Gloyne have made are around 60 episodes of Tāringa so far, which blend kupu (Māori words), interviews with iwi, information about the history of tikanga (customs and...
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What Are The Odds? A radio documentary about coincidence from 2018-09-15T12:15
What's the biggest coincidence you've ever experienced? Unfortunately it's unlikely that any of them will impress David Spiegelhalter all that much. He's a Professor of the Public Understanding of ...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 15 September 2018 from 2018-09-15T12:01
What Are The Odds? Collecting coincidences. Taringa: learning more about Te Ao Maori (the Maori world). Nocturne tells stories of the night and The Ghibliotheque reviews the works of Studio Ghibli.
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Have you ever seen a dead body? The Dead Bodies podcast from 2018-09-08T12:50
Have you ever seen a dead body? That confronting question is the starting point for an Australian podcast called Dead Bodies, which discusses this macabre but fascinating topic. The two hosts, Dee ...
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The Foreign Desk: global news stories from 2018-09-08T12:40
'The Foreign Desk' from Monocle is an award-winning show covering big global news stories in a bright and breezy style. According to its host, the Australian journalist Andrew Mueller, what sets Th...
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Country music history: Cocaine&Rhinestones from 2018-09-08T12:20
Cocaine & Rhinestones is a one-man history of country music that's attracting new fans to this often mocked and neglected musical genre. We speak with host Tyler Mahan Coe about his story, and play...
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Everything is Alive: talking soap, chatty lamp posts from 2018-09-08T12:15
If the everyday objects that surround us could speak, then what would they say? That's the whimsical central idea of 'Everything Is Alive', a show that brings inanimate objects to life. The chatty,...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 8 September 2018 from 2018-09-08T12:01
Everything is Alive: talking soap, chatty lamp posts. Country music history: Cocaine & Rhinestones. The Foreign Desk: global news stories. Have you ever seen a dead body? The Dead Bodies podcast.
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Ologies: science with a sense of humour from 2018-09-01T12:50
In the popular science show 'Ologies', host Alie Ward speaks to some of the best ologists on the planet about their passions, and the most interesting stuff they're discovering. The featured episod...
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Dissecting comedy classics: Rule of Three from 2018-09-01T12:45
'Rule of Three' dissects comedy classics. Two switched-on comedy writers, Joel Morris and Jason Hazeley, get a guest to come in and nominate something that really makes them laugh: the episode we'r...
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Swipe Left Swipe Left!: a podcast about looking for love from 2018-09-01T12:25
London-based couple Gavin Wong and Claire Curran were having way too much fun hearing stories about their single friends' dating exploits not to turn them into a podcast.
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Criminal: the podcast exploring crime and humanity from 2018-09-01T12:15
Criminal is a weekly podcast bringing to life the true stories of people who have "done wrong, been wronged, or got caught somewhere in the middle" – from serial killers to serial streakers.
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 1 September 2018 from 2018-09-01T12:01
Criminal: telling right and wrong. Swipe Left Swipe Left: looking for love. Dissecting comedy classics: Rule of Three, and Ologies: science with a sense helping of humour.
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Everyone Else: capturing chance encounters in a podcast from 2018-08-25T12:50
Most of us let random, interesting-looking strangers walk on by - but not so Eva Krysiak. Richard Scott meets the audio producer behind the award-winning 'photographic podcast' Everyone Else.
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Unearthing hidden histories: The Kitchen Sisters from 2018-08-25T12:30
The audio producing duo The Kitchen Sisters started working together on a live local radio show in California back in the late 1970s. Since then Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson have made about 500 aud...
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Lost Notes: the strange tale of 'Louie, Louie' from 2018-08-25T12:15
The Kingsmen's 1963 anthem 'Louie Louie' has become a soundtrack to raucous parties and good times; you might remember John Belushi beerily belting it out with the other frat boys in the 1978 film ...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 25 August 2018 from 2018-08-25T12:01
Lost Notes: the strange tale of 'Louie, Louie'. Unearthing hidden histories: The Kitchen Sisters. 'Everyone Else': capturing chance encounters.
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Celebrity revelations over a home-cooked dinner: Table Manners from 2018-08-18T12:50
Celebrity chat shows don't always give you many major insights into what makes the biggest stars tick. But when you throw in some food, have some famous mates, and get your mum to do the cooking, y...
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Cracking a cold case? The Teacher's Pet from 2018-08-18T12:40
'The Teacher's Pet' is an Australian true crime series that centres on the disappearance and suspected murder of Sydney woman Lyn Dawson in 1982. The show's uncovered new evidence and witnesses to ...
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An Unexpected Kitchen: The George Foreman Grill from 2018-08-18T12:35
The American audio producing duo The Kitchen Sisters have made hundreds of sound-rich documentaries over their 30-plus years in the business. This is one of their stories that involves a famous hea...
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Caliphate: reporting on Islamic State from 2018-08-18T12:15
The New York Times' series 'Caliphate' shows up the challenges of reporting on Islamic State. We speak to the journalist at the centre of it, Rukmini Callimachi, and the show's producer Andy Mills ...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 18 August 2018 from 2018-08-18T12:01
Caliphate: reporting on Islamic State. An Unexpected Kitchen: The George Foreman Grill. Cracking a cold case? The Teacher's Pet. And celebrity revelations over a home-cooked dinner: Table Manners w...
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Slow Burn: impeaching Bill Clinton from 2018-08-11T12:50
After digging deep into Watergate, the highly-rated 'Slow Burn' is back this week, covering events around the Monica Lewinsky scandal that led to the impeachment of US President Bill Clinton. We pl...
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Mic Drop: teens take the microphone from 2018-08-11T12:40
Teenagers tell their own stories in their own words on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation podcast Mic Drop. We tune into a boy called Evans talking about growing up far away from his father on t...
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Sleep With Me: the podcast that lulls you to sleep with inconsequential talk from 2018-08-11T12:25
Drew Ackerman doesn't care if his podcast puts you to sleep – in fact, that's kind of the point. Every month, hundreds of thousands of people around the world tune in to help them drop off.
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A Very Fatal Murder: A Very Funny Parody from 2018-08-11T12:15
'A Very Fatal Murder' sends up 'Serial', 'S-Town' and other true crime podcasts. Whether you're a fan of these true crime shows or not, then this might be for you. From Onion Public Radio, we play ...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 11 August 2018 from 2018-08-11T12:01
A Very Fatal Murder: sending up true crime. Tune in and drop off? Sleep With Me. Teens take the mic to talk about the challenges of modern life, and Slow Burn: impeaching Bill Clinton.
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Inside Jaws: filming a movie classic from 2018-08-04T12:40
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in water, 'Inside Jaws' comes along! The series inter-cuts between dramatisations of famous shark attacks, scenes from Steven Spielberg's directing care...
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Crazy/Genius: should we go to Mars? from 2018-08-04T12:35
Some people are already thinking about the concrete realities of getting to Mars, and what living and working there would actually be like. According to journalist Tim Urban, one day hundreds of pe...
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The Habitat: six volunteers simulate a Mars mission in an isolation dome from 2018-08-04T12:15
What if the technological challenge of getting to Mars and back isn't the biggest obstacle we have to overcome? Could human relationships, our ability to manage stress and conflict and solve proble...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 4 August 2018 from 2018-08-04T12:01
'The Habitat': simulating a Mars mission and 'Crazy/Genius' discusses whether we should go to Mars. Also 'Inside Jaws' goes behind the filming of a movie classic.
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NPR's Hidden Brain: Baby Talk from 2018-07-28T12:50
NPR's Hidden Brain is a show that combines science and storytelling and uses them to understand our unconscious choices and biases, and how these can shape our behaviour. We play an excerpt from a ...
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The Tip Off: behind breaking news from 2018-07-28T12:40
The Tip Off takes you behind the scenes of the biggest investigative journalism scoops in the news today. It's just won an award for Best New Podcast at the British Podcast Awards, and each week ho...
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Disgraceland: the death of Mr Wonderful from 2018-07-28T12:30
Disgraceland bills itself as a true-crime podcast involving some of the biggest names in music- stars like Jerry Lee Lewis, Sid Vicious, Tupac Shakur and James Brown. Host Jake Brennan brings infam...
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The Lip: extraordinary tales from ordinary Kiwis from 2018-07-28T12:15
The Lip is an independent, locally produced podcast created by former magazine journo Megan McChesney. She speaks with Richard Scott about the challenges of getting The Lip off the ground - and sha...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 28 July 2018 from 2018-07-28T12:01
The Lip: compelling NZ stories, Disgraceland: the death of Mr Wonderful, The Tip Off: behind breaking news, and NPR's Hidden Brain: Baby Talk.
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How skyscrapers work: Stuff You Should Know from 2018-07-21T12:55
Take two engaging hosts, one interesting topic, add some reading and background research, and then record a conversation where they explain the subject's complexities, and tell each other all the m...
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Griefcast: comedians share tales of bereavement and loss from 2018-07-21T12:35
Bereavement and grief are major life events that happen to all of us eventually. But there aren't many how-to guides to help you navigate your way through the death of a loved one, and it isn't alw...
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The Boring Talks: on sneezes and ice cream vans from 2018-07-21T12:30
Slow TV, those relaxing images of ferry rides and burning logs and people knitting, could be facing some serious competition from 'The Boring Talks', a BBC series celebrating the seemingly mundane ...
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An open and shut case? The RFK Tapes from 2018-07-21T12:15
In 1968, the American senator and politician Robert F. Kennedy was shot and killed at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. It was just 4 and a half years after the assassination of his older brothe...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 21 July 2018 from 2018-07-21T12:01
An open and shut case? The RFK Tapes. The Boring Talks: on tracking sneezes and ice cream vans. Griefcast: comedians share their tales of bereavement and loss. How skyscrapers work: The Stuff You S...
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The Beef And Dairy Network: Meat matters from 2018-07-14T12:50
The Beef And Dairy Network is a show that parodies highly specialised industry newsletters dedicated to the intricacies of food production. It describes itself as 'The number one podcast for those ...
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Decoder Ring: The laugh track from 2018-07-14T12:40
Decoder Ring's a new monthly podcast hosted by Slate's TV critic Willa Paskin that tries to crack all kinds of cultural mysteries. So far, it's deciphered clowns and when and why they got so scary,...
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Ear Hustle: a prison podcast from 2018-07-14T12:15
Ear Hustle (prison slang for eavesdropping) is a podcast recorded and made inside San Quentin State Prison in California. With thousands of inmates, and the country's largest Death Row, San Quentin...
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The Podcast Hour for Saturday 14 July 2018 from 2018-07-14T12:01
Ear Hustle, Decoder Ring and The Beef And Dairy Network.
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