Reflections by two participants of Rue-Jade Morgan’s cultural engagement programme with inmates at Otago Correctional Facility.
A highlight of Arts Festival Dunedin 2018 will be a dazzling circus-style adventure that brings to life the air we breathe. Bruce Munro talks to Air Play creators Seth Bloom and Christina Gelsone.
Volcanoes are powerful, mysterious and, too often, deadly. Bruce Munro asks renowned volcanologist Prof Colin Wilson how long it will be until we know enough to forecast volcanoes' behaviour.
After quarter of a century, industrial strikes are suddenly all the rage again. What forces have unleashed them? Should we be afraid or pleased?
Bruce Munro talks to influential coder Ally Watson and aeronautics professor Karen Willcox about life in male-dominated worlds and how to create a better one.
Pam McKinlay is saving the planet, not one, but a dozen interactive art works at a time. Bruce Munro talks to the Dunedin artist and curator.
Top-down approaches to community development are so very 20th-century. But how's it going, putting communities in charge? Bruce Munro looks at Teviot Valley and a couple of older Otago schemes.
A cataclysmic decline in insects is taking place, virtually unnoticed. Bruce Munro talks to renowned entomologist Anthony Harris.
Millennials look to be the first generation in a long time to have it worse than their parents. Who is to blame? Or is that the wrong question? ODT's Bruce Munro investigates.
A Dunedin woman who is leaving her teeth to rot because she can't afford to go to the dentist is symptomatic of a national oral health crisis. Bruce Munro investigates.
How we view our mother is shaped by our own experiences, which build with the years. To mark Mother’s Day, Bruce Munro asked nine people, spanning eight decades, to tell him ... ‘‘What I think about my mum now that I’m ...’’
Midhun Shankar’s mother helped him choose a bride for his February wedding. Bruce Munro asks what it’s like to have an arranged marriage, and looks for lessons from this ancient practice.
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, the celebrated Aussie drag-queen story we all thought we knew, turns out to have fabulous New Zealand roots, Bruce Munro discovers.
On Friday, 100 years ago, New Zealand soldier Michael "Morgan'' O'Connor was shot dead by a German sniper on the frontline in the Somme, France.
Retiring Fish and Game boss Niall Watson is clear about who is at fault for the poor state of our waterways.
Bruce Munro talks to Dunedin''s next Catholic bishop, Fr Michael Dooley, about church abuse, celibate priests, Jesus and the future of Christianity.
Chris Heaphy tells Bruce Munro about the constant evolution of his art and the underlying, unchanging aim.
A Otago artist who once exhibited alongside New Zealand's art elite is back on the map. Bruce Munro talks to some of those championing the work of the late Elizabeth Stevens.
Syphilis, mumps and rickets, along with other ‘‘old’’ diseases, are on the comeback trail. Why? And what can we do to protect ourselves? asks Bruce Munro.
A new talent is restoring the fortune of narrative poetry. Bruce Munro talks to Michael Steven about experiences, gritty and sublime, in Dunedin and elsewhere, that fashioned his first collection of work.