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Ria Hall on her bid for the Tauranga Mayoralty
12:40 PM.Tauranga has been without an elected council for four years and earlier this week singer-songwriter Ria Hall put her hat in the ring for the position of Mayor. Those elected this year will serve for… Read more Audio
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Koro Nicholas talks about the new documentary
12:15 PM.Last week saw the 160th anniversary of the battle of Pukehinahina Gate Pā and coinciding with the anniversary was the release of the documentary NZ Wars Stories of Tauranga Moana the 5th in a series… Read more Audio
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Maori talent alongside Booker & Pulitzer prize winners
12:10 PM.The Auckland Writers Festival starts on May 14. Its promotional push highlights a roll-call of talent from across the arts; Booker prize winner for 2023, Paul Lynch, actor Sam Neill, musician Troy… Read more Audio
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Sandy Adsett: 'If I paint by numbers it's no good'
12:12 PM.Over the past 60 years Maoridom has produced many prominent artists and one who definitely belongs in that category is Sandy Adsett, although he prefers to see himself as a painter. He says he's… Read more Audio
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Maori art pioneer Fred Graham
12:10 PM.Mapuna visits Maori artist Fred Graham at his home in Waiuku at the lower reaches of the Manukau Harbour. He was part of a generation of young Maori artists who emerged after World War Two who forged… Read more Audio
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Food sovereignty & whole snapper with marmite sauce
12:18 PM.Mapuna takes a look at the growing and eating of kai with Dr Jessica Hutchings from the Papawhakaritorito Charitable Trust and chef Kia Kanuta. Next week the trust will hold a three-day wananga in… Read more Audio
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Mapuna for 30 March 2024
12:10 PM.Mapuna for 30 March 2024. Audio
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20 years of Whakaata Maori
12:10 PM.Mapuna looks back at 20 years of Whakaata Maori with CEO, Shane Taurima, and Ngatapa Black who was a young production assistant back in 2004 who then went on to do "a gazillion" different jobs at the… Read more Audio
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Mapuna A celebration of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa at 80
12:10 PM.Mapuna takes an in-depth look at the career and influence of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa who turned 80 earlier this month. Vocal coach Robert Wiremu talks about her impact on his early singing career and the… Read more Audio
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Mapuna Stacey Jones
12:10 PM.As a player Stacey Jones was known as the 'Little General' and is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of New Zealand rugby league across club and international competitions… Read more Audio
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Aotearoa's long history with wool and blankets
12:10 PM.For the past 200 years blankets have formed part of Aotearoa's history, part of our early trade, providing warmth and comfort during the New Zealand Wars and for our soldiers fighting overseas during… Read more Audio
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A week long wananga about opera
12:10 PM.In April New Zealand Opera will hold a week long wananga at Waikato University with an open invitation to Aotearoa's story tellers to embrace one of music's most challenging genres. Could one of them… Read more Audio
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A week long wananga about opera
12:10 PM.In April New Zealand Opera will hold a week long wananga at Waikato University with an open invitation to Aotearoa's story tellers to embrac one of music's most challenging genres. Could one of them… Read more Audio
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Dallas King and the story of the Omanaia River.
12:15 PM.This week on Mapuna we speak with Ngati Hau, Ngati Kaharau kaikorero Dallas King of Omanaia. She discusses the story of the Omanaia River, a story that she presented at the commemorations at Mangungu… Read more Audio
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The crowds, politics and culture of Waitangi Day
12:15 PM.Mapuna takes a look back at this year's Waitangi Day commemorations as tens of thousands of people packed into the treaty grounds. Julian Wilcox and the rest of the RNZ team were there every step of… Read more Audio
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Hirini Moko Mead: 'One could say that yes, I did walk the talk'
12:10 PM.96-year-old Māori leader and academic Sir Hirini Moko Mead reflects on a life dedicated to strengthening his people and culture. (An extract from a conversation recorded for the podcast Indigenous… Read more Video, Audio
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Emily Karaka on her dedication to te ao Maori through her art
12:15 PM.Julian Wilcox talks to Emily Karaka Read more Audio
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Charlie Tawhiao on Ngai Te Rangi's Urgent Tribunal claim
12:07 PM.For some Maori there is growing alarm over the new government's policies towards Te Tiriti o Waitangi and te reo Maori. Last week saw protests around the motu and this week the Tauranga based iwi Ngai… Read more Audio
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Whaea Esther Jessop & Ngati Ranana's sellout concert
12:40 PM.More than sixty years ago, Esther Jessop and a few other Maori in London founded a little group in the suburb of Putney to meet and keep their language going. Since then, Ngati Ranana has become a… Read more Audio
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Historian Dr Aroha Harris on National Maori Action Day
12:15 PM.Dr Aroha Harris is a professor of history at Auckland University and is the author of the book Hikoi, Forty Years of Maori Protest. How does she view this week's protests against the new government's… Read more Audio
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Maori musician's drive to attract young talent to Otago
12:42 PM.Musician David Harrison is keen to attract more young Maori to Otago University's School of Performing Arts where he's a teaching fellow and mentor to emerging talent. But he says the school has an… Read more Audio
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Social work award winner mentoring young Maori to success
12:14 PM.Florence Tamehana is a student engagement adviser at MIT in Manukau. Two months ago she won the Tangata-o te whenua Practice Award at the Social Work Awards 2023. She works with troubled rangatahi to… Read more Audio
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We're going to 'Māori up' Fortnum & Mason
12:15 PM.Mapuna producer Tama Muru meets London based Ngati Raukawa chef Matt Burgess for a korero and a mean kai. Read more Audio
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Creating pathways for Māori into STEM
12:35 PM.Genevieve Doube (Kai Tahu), is a Resource Management Planner and the Pou Whakawhanake within Te Ahi Tūtata, the Māori business team at Beca, one of Asia Pacific's largest independent… Read more Audio
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Magic mushrooms with a social impact
12:15 PM.As one of few Māori-born biotech businesses in Aotearoa, Rua Bioscience in Tairāwhiti is the only New Zealand-based medicinal cannabis company with an explicit focus on delivering social impact. Last… Read more Audio