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Listener’s October Viewing Guide: East of Eden, Celebrity Traitors UK, The Diplomat, and more. (opens the original)
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Streaming: Netflix from Thursday October 1 John Steinbeck’s story of good and evil might be primarily set in California at the beginning of the 20th century, but New Zealand is all over this seven-part adaptation by Zoe Kazan (her grandfather, Elia Kazan, directed James Dean in the classic 1955 movie version), which used locations in Oamaru, Dunedin, Central Otago and Devonport, among others. Florence Pugh stars as the anti-hero Cathy Ames, and Joseph Zada, Christopher Abbott, Mike Faist, Joe An
Art Land: Cornelia Parker blows up in Wellington (opens the original)
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As I arrive for a peek at preparations for the survey of British contemporary artist Cornelia Parker, which is reopening City Gallery Wellington on October 10, an exhibition installer is carefully polishing a silver flute that’s been flattened by a steamroller. Nearby, seven others are working together to begin hanging low from the ceiling 1000 pieces of similarly crushed second-hand household silverware: everything from cutlery to a chandelier, to be looked down upon in carefully arranged float
Where to see and hear the biggest political debates of Election ’26 (opens the original)
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Ready to rumble: Labour leader Chris Hipkins, left, and PM Christopher Luxon. Photos / Getty Images The local news industry is dusting off its podiums and checking microphones as it prepares for the set-piece media events of the 2026 election. With the closure of Three’s Newshub, and the departure of much TVNZ newsroom talent in the intervening years, the forthcoming debate season will look quite different to last time, even if it’s mostly the same political faces that were there in 2023. Modera
Win with the Listener: Kete of kupu (opens the original)
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The six book you could win in the Listener's Kete of kupu competition. Images / Supplied To win these six books, email listenergiveaways@aremedia.co.nz with MLW in the subject line by September 25, 2026. by Atakohu Middleton (Auckland University Press) Believing this is the first sole-authored story collection written entirely in te reo Māori, author and journalist Atakohu Middleton says she started writing stories for fun, given the lack of original te reo fiction for adults. The stories, which
Simon Wilson: Art is not the cause of runaway roads budgets (opens the original)
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Te Manu Rangimaarie: Public art doesn’t fly for Act’s Simon Court. Photo / NZTA Poor old Simon Court, the Act Party’s spokesperson for infrastructure. I imagine him driving happily down State Highway 1, just south of Cambridge, when he comes across a giant bird in the middle of the road. It’s a 12m-tall sculpture in weathered steel, towering over the new Piarere roundabout. Not quite a kārearea or falcon, not quite a kāhu or swamp harrier, but a mythical manu, great bird of your dreams. One wing
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