Oil and gas exploration: New Zealand's future
1 CommentsBy Ruth Laugesen in Current Affairs
Issue Listener Plus 3827 26th Nov 2013
Will the deep-sea oil and gas exploration boom herald an economic bonanza or an environmental disaster?
Mag Features
50 best children's books 2013
By Ann Packer in Books
Issue Listener Plus 3837 25th Nov 2013
Ann Packer picks the year’s reading highlights for children and young adults.
After the typhoon
By Mark Broatch in Current Affairs
Issue 3838 25th Nov 2013
A Kiwi who runs a business in the Philippines is trying to help typhoon victims the best way he knows: by keeping them employed.
The 100 best books of 2013
Subscriber contentBy Guy Somerset in Books
Issue 3838 21st Nov 2013
Books & Culture editor Guy Somerset and the Listener’s team of reviewers on the year’s reading highlights.
The world according to Gladwell
Subscriber contentBy Louise Chunn in Books
Issue 3838 21st Nov 2013
Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell tells New Zealander Louise Chunn how the weak can outsmart the strong.
Rebuilding Sri Lanka
Subscriber contentBy The Listener in Current Affairs
Issue 3838 21st Nov 2013
Kiwi Tearfund CEO Ian McInnes was in Sri Lanka when the devastating 2004 tsunami struck, and was there as the civil war ended in 2009.
Different strokes
Subscriber contentBy Margo White in Health
Issue 3838 21st Nov 2013
Treatment for strokes has leapt ahead in the past 20 years, but seeking treatment as soon as possible is crucial.
Crisis in the Arctic Circle
Subscriber contentBy Rod Vaughan in Current Affairs
Issue 3838 21st Nov 2013
The son of a former Governor-General is alarmed by potentially catastrophic events unfolding in the Arctic but believes there is still time to act.
Pike River Mine: fatally flawed
By The Listener in Current Affairs
Issue Listener Plus 3837 20th Nov 2013
Rebecca Macfie, author of a new book on the Pike River explosion, answers questions about our worst mining disaster in nearly a century.
Diana Wichtel: the full Mandy
Subscriber contentBy Diana Wichtel in Entertainment
Issue 3837 18th Nov 2013
Criminal Minds got to him, Homeland suits him fine, but music provides vitamins for his soul, actor-singer Mandy Patinkin tells Diana Wichtel.