New Zealand Listener

New Zealand Listener is the country’s most respected general interest magazine, bringing you a wide variety of news, stories, columns, reviews, plus TV listings, every week.

Colophon

Nature’s gains look set to be lost • A $1.2 billion scheme that led to nearly 500 conservation projects up and down the country is coming to an end, and Lily Duval is worried.

Moving Backwards

Damn The Torpedoes • Coalition confidence aside, bulldozing the barriers to an infrastructure onrush could harm more than merely the environment.

Class warfare

A dim Aussie view

Poor countries are happier? Yeah, nah

Doctor Dna • Using genetic information to prevent and treat illness is touted as medicine’s holy grail but NZ has largely been a bystander – until now.

Making a Leap • A test helping New Zealanders to use their genetic data to avoid adverse drug reactions should be available by the end of the year.

‘I just had to do better’ • A desire to prove himself is just part of the reason Alastair Carruthers has so many jobs. Just don’t ask him to talk about the main one that’s in the news at present.

Going but not forgotten • The Kiwi television institution that is Fair Go faces the axe after 47 years on screen. Here’s how the Listener captured the history of the once-pioneering series and its effect on New Zealand.

Friend or foe • Some call him a panda-hugger, others say he’s ‘gone native’, but a Kiwi Sinophile is unapologetic. He believes it is time for us to embrace China.

Living in the past • Going to town in an annual celebration of art deco style doesn’t require embracing the era’s suspect values.

Talking books • Auckland will be awash with authors in May as they converge on the city to chat about writing, art, history and everything else under the sun.

How to make yourself heard • Being deaf in Victorian England, a woman surviving in postwar America and a relationship drama in a Kiwi small town.

Off-kilter classic • Kerry Andrew’s third novel throws us into an uneasy world centred on four siblings who must survive an apocalypse.

Worth a look • A very occasional peek at five works of fiction from boutique publishers coming your way.

Money matters • Kiwi financial journalist shares decades’ worth of hard-won knowledge about the money markets and why they matter.

The eye of the beholder • As he opens his first solo exhibition at home in more than a decade, painter Sandro Kopp talks about the emotions driving his latest work and what it’s like to whip up a faux oeuvre for a Wes Anderson film.

She and Ms Jones • New offerings from New York veterans from very different neighbourhoods.

Missionary imposition • Overdone exposition takes the intensity out of Lee Tamahori’s Musket Wars drama.

Khartoum characters • A first-time director and actor deliver an entrancing Sudanese feature.

Fussing on cussing • Best add some smelling salts to the popcorn for this foulmouthed Brit caper.

The cult light of day • Escaping Utopia is another documentary about Gloriavale, the religious community that has attracted prying cameras for decades. But its makers say the three-part series finally tells the whole story.

TV Picks of the week

Tv Films • The big movies on TV this week

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Radio

Easter rising • MacMillan’s demanding Cantos Sagrados could end in tears for some choir members.

Sporting chance • A rare study of women in later life confirms light-to-moderate exercise makes a big difference to their heart health.

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