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.

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Tough Enough? • An effective drug and alcohol treatment programme is being misrepresented and underfunded, says Roger Brooking.

Just Horsing Around

Quips & Quotes

10 Quick Questions

Bright Lines • Creative words competition

Fight To The Bottom • A stoush between competing economic theories is doing little to help balance New Zealandʼs books.

Continental Drift

Break With Reality

Sweeping Charges

Hope Towns

The Great Art Heist • Te Papa’s collection contains some of the greatest artworks ever produced in this country, from pre-European times to the present day. So why won’t our national museum let us see them?

Tim Shadbolt

Pass the parcel • Parents of high-needs children who turn violent have nowhere to turn under a system in denial.

Stringing them along • Marionettist Rašid Nikolić gew up in a camp for nomads and spends his time advocating for Roma people in his home country of Italy.

You spin me round • From corporate geezer to sock maker, Tim Deane is trying to restore New Zealand’s love of wool one foot at a time.

Battle royal • The rivalry between two cousins who would be kings in 14th-century England reads like a real-life Game of Thrones.

Vice, far and wide • The year kicks off with page turners set in the King Country, Australian beach towns and the frozen Arctic.

Less Bond, more brain • How academics transformed the CIA from a Cold War embarrassment and gave the US an intelligence edge.

Lease of life • This exhaustive look at human societies through history concludes that living to a ripe old age is nothing new.

Life in an Idle world • For many, Matinee Idle was the esoteric sound of summer holiday afternoons for more than 20 years. With RNZ calling time on the show, co-host SIMON MORRIS reflects on its final silly season.

Radical optimism • In his one-man play at the Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts, Khalid Abdalla finds inspiration in the face of a crisis.

A love supreme • Awards magnet serves up a fine, twitchy performance from Timothée Chalamet.

Exposed secrets

Taking the long view

Tv Picks of the week

Tv Films

Saturday/Rāhoroi January 24

Sunday/Rātapu January 25

Monday/Rāhina January 26

Tuesday/Rātū January 27

Wednesday/Rāapa January 28

Thursday/Rāpare January 29

Friday/Rāmere January 30

Radio January 24 – January 30

Strings detached

Wearing thin • Hope is at hand for women suffering from a common post-menopausal symptom.

Meatless morsels • UK food writer Yasmin Khan has returned to her Middle Eastern roots for her latest book of vegetarian recipes.

Dancing with flavours • Rare vines dating back to the 1980s have been given a new lease on life.

Personal effects • Connecting topics to things we can relate to is more likely to get the message across.

Boom time • The endangered kākāpō is on track for an excellent breeding season.

To The Barricades

Intelligence overlooked, again