New Zealand Listener

New Zealand Listener is the country’s most respected general interest magazine, bringing you a wide variety of news, stories, columns, reviews, plus TV listings, every week.

Masthead

The power is in your hands • Is our slow uptake of electric cars all in the mind, asks John McClure. Of course, good legislation could help grow the EV fleet.

Down among the weeds

Bright Lines

Quips & Quotes

10 Quick Questions

Crouching Kiwi, hidden tax breaks • A New Zealand economy that aspires to be like Ireland’s and Singapore’s might have to borrow their tax policies.

Class divide

The weather for it

Aye, thar’s a tickler

Strictly limited discounts

Snowflakes in a snowstorm • Our one-size-fits-all breast cancer screening programme continues to miss many cancers and keep women in the dark about breast-tissue density. Could AI usher in a more tailored approach that saves lives?

Unknown Risk

A Precautionary Tale • ‘I was never told that my A A-cup breasts were dense.’

Trigger point • New Zealand’s levels of workplace bullying and harassment are startingly high, with dire economic and health consequences. Is it time the law was strengthened?

Wake-Up Call • Good-practice guidelines in New Zealand lack legal clout but the courts are starting to make bullying employers pay.

A fateful passage • The sinking of HMNZS Manawanui off the Samoan island of Upolu on October 6 was a disaster for the navy and the environment but without loss of life, unlike New Zealand’s worst disaster at sea almost 150 years ago.

Patterns of life • Booker-shortlisted novel traversing four generations of one family is complex, fragmentary and steeped in quietude.

Unfinished business

The other London

Oh, you beast

Finely drawn

Desperate times

Short cuts

Off brand

A Dream awakened • After Covid crimped an earlier production, the RNZB and Queensland Ballet take A Midsummer Night’s Dream around the country.

Tale o’ Swift • Scottish harpist Esther Swift shares stories of community, desire and life.

Viva la pre-révolution • An ageing Iranian couple kindling romance dream of the good old days.

Steamy days of Summer • Gripping tension – and some restraint – from France’s taboo breaker.

Hirsute pursuit • A bearded lady seeking love pulls the wool over her cruel husband’s eyes.

Fresh frequency • More Yorke-Greenwood smiles, 80s Kiwi pop echoes and dang good dad rock.

TV Picks of the week

TV Films

Saturday/Rāhoroi October 26

Sunday/Rātapu October 27

Monday/Rāhina October 28

Tuesday/Rātū October 29

Wednesday/Rāapa October 30

Thursday/Rāpare October 31

Friday/Rāmere November 1

Radio

No pianist needed • Singer Deborah Wai Kapohe takes on Gershwin classic with a Kiwi connection.

Bite by bite • Eating less meat makes sense for our health and the future of the planet. And getting there doesn’t have to be a battlefield.

Simple pleasures • Global cooking sensation Jamie Oliver aims to make mealtimes a doddle with his latest collection of achievable recipes.

A sense of place

Character building • We share common personality traits with our parents, but where we live has a bearing as well.

Through a glass darkly • Meta’s new AI-powered smart glasses are innovative but also a privacy nightmare.

Light Up

Hole lotta bother