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WATCH: The Panel LIVE full show
For your viewing pleasure, the full video of The Panel's outside broadcast from Revelry bar in Ponsonby, Auckland. Click through to watch the panel discuss some of 2025's big stories.
Friday 19 December 2025
The Pre-Panel for 19 December 2025
Wallace Chapman and producers Tessa Guest and José Barbosa preview tonight's instalment of The Panel.
Photo: RNZ / Jeff McEwan
The Panel with Andrew Clay and Denise L'Estrange-Corbet, Part 1
Tonight, on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Andrew Clay and Denise L'Estrange-Corbet.
First up, a Tauranga-based social services organisation is being stretched to the brink by the number of people living in hardship. SociaLink chief executive Lix Davies gives the lowdown.
Then, does the introduction of bigbox retail like IKEA mean the death of local 'block of shops' retail in New Zealand? Butcher and local retail advocate, Reuben Sharples, joins the show.
Photo: Nick Monro
The Panel with Andrew Clay and Denise L'Estrange-Corbet, Part 2
In part two, New Zealand's Yoga Teacher of the Year, Hamish Kenworthy, celebrates the rising popularity of the practice.
Photo: RNZ/Susan Murray
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