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Light lunch: Buckwheat bread and berry smoothies

Niva & Yotam Kay share some fermented faves from their recent book.

Inform your opinion: Why you need a nature break

Visiting the Coromandel cures stress and anxiety. What's the evidence for this?

The Listener weekly quiz: December 27

Which is not a member of the nightshade family?

Holiday baking: Passionfruit lamingtons

Al Brown shares his recipe for a fresh cream-filled lamington.

Meri Kirihimete, Aotearoa

All the best, Aotearoa

The Bigger Picture: 70 years since the Tangiwai rail disaster

On Christmas Eve, 1953, an express steam locomotive hauling 11 carriages left Wellington.

Hemma Vara: The TikTok trends that need to end in 2024

The worst - and weirdest - TikTok trends of 2023 and why they need to end.

Did we win anything? Our not so bad year in sport

Not a vintage year for NZ sport but it wasn't bad, either. So why does it feel worse?

Little at large: Government tackles crisis you never knew existed - make English official

Of all the urgent problems you didn't know you had, was the status of English one of them?

Law & Society: The problem with wealth taxes and the politics of envy

David Harvey: Welfare state reinforces the concept of the helplessness of the individual.

Behind the Photo: The Te Aroha man keeping 1800s photography alive

Adrian Cook specialises in the wet plate collodion process, which predates film.

Little at Large: English is a linguistic mongrel, born out of various waves of invasion and colonisation of England itself

There are good reasons to temper enthusiasm about the dominance of English language.

Archaeologists race against rising seas and eroding coastlines to explore threatened NZ heritage sites

Sites rich in history are being lost at an alarming rate because of coastal erosion.

The Listener weekly quiz: December 6

Sir Patrick Stewart has a star on the Hollywood Walk of fame. True or false?

Finding Whakapapa: How to grow a credible family tree

Growing a credible family tree requires more than just a web browser.

Finding whakapapa: Colleen Brown’s family history journey and the overwhelming emotions of a welcome home

Unaware of her Ngāi Tahu roots until uni, Colleen Brown set out to find her whakapapa.

Inform your opinion: How did the 15-Minute City concept become a conspiracy theory?

Urban planning philosophy doesn't usually become the stuff of conspiracy theories.

Upfront: Why we're thanking organ donors this week

Organ donation requires precise circumstances, starting with incredible generosity.