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Students not reaching literacy or numeracy requirements. Audio

Kate Camp discusses My Own Story, the 1914 memoir by suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst. Audio

Lecturer in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London who is currently writing a book about swearing, and wrote the essay Naughty Words recently for online journal Aeon. Audio

How we communicate with each other… using words, body language, writing, texting. How did language begin in the first place? And how is technology affecting where language is headed? Host Guy Raz and…

Speech and language therapist Christian Wright discusses children and language comprehension. How can parents support a child's understanding of the spoken language, or spot developmental delays? Audio

He's loud, aggressive and some say offensive, but billionaire property tycoon Donald Trump is striking a chord with Republican voters, winning three states in a row in the party's presidential… Audio

Morgana James, Anand Rose, Peter Egli, Adrian Whelan are four of the musicians involved in the Beneath the Words, Beneath the Land (Kei raro i te kupu Kei raro i te whenua) project which crosses a… Audio

Emeritus Professor at the University of Cumbria who teaches at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, and Chairman of Council of the Clan Gregor Society of Scotland, co-ordinating the Clan… Audio

Director of Wellington theatre company The Bacchanals and associate director of Twelfth Night, one of the productions of the Pop-Up Globe Auckland. He discusses the first Shakespeare tragedy, Titus… Audio

Associate Professor Paul Warren of the School of Linguistics at Victoria University has written a book about its use and history. Uptalk has been published by Cambridge University Press, which… Audio

Kate discusses six board books for babies and toddlers: The Pencil by Paula Bossio, The Noisy Book by Soledad Bravi, What's your Favourite Animal? by Eric Carle and Friends, and My New Zealand ABC… Audio

Soprano singer from Bluff, who pursued a successful opera career in the UK and sings the role of Poppea in the Handel opera Agrippina at the annual Opera in a Days Bay Garden. Audio

Members of the council of the New Zealand Society of Translators and Interpreters who are administrators for the Treaty Times Thirty project to translate the English and Maori versions of the Treaty… Audio

Lecturer in history and religious studies at the School of Humanities, University of Auckland, who researched, co-wrote and presented the historical documentary series The Prophets for Maori… Audio

Dunedin artist and scientist who has three degrees from the University of Otago (sculpture, health science, and a PhD in Anatomy). She uses her art and anatomy skills to work with cadavers and living… Audio