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The Good Life: A pipe dream

Detective Dixon faces 'corpse conundrum' in Lush Places mystery.

Listener weekly quiz: July 31

For what film did Shelley Duvall win a Cannes film festival award?

Half of NZ’s homeless are women so why isn’t more help available?

At least 50,000 women identify as homeless but few get beds in transitional housing.

Budget food and a cold rental: The retirement reality for many women in NZ

The number of older women facing homelessness is rising sharply.

Why moth plant is now the number one enemy in NZ’s war on weeds

Gorse used to be the scourge of the earth, now moth plant has become the quiet invader.

Captain’s call: The force behind 1924′s invincible All Blacks

The 1924 All Blacks were unbeatable over 32 matches, thanks to their inspirational captain

Listener weekly quiz: July 24

Alan Alda played Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H, but what about the movie?

The 1984 Revolution part III: Demolition men

How Rogernomics changed the look of our cities and towns.

Sustainable minerals key to clean energy revolution success

Clean energy revolution needs minerals, but they must be extracted and used wisely.

Quiet achievers, rebels and dreamers: 50 of NZ’s most inspiring people

50 Kiwis who make New Zealand a great place to be.

What it’s like to be: Living with motor neurone disease

NZ has one of the highest rates of MND in the world.

The Listener weekly quiz: July 3

What ancient-NZ made item was recently found in Shackleton's Antarctica hut?

The final countdown: Just four days before Stuff takes on broadcast news

Does it have the right stuff to reboot ThreeNews and match up to its polished predecessor?

The caring trap: Are we too empathetic towards our children?

Sometimes being a good parent is doing what the child does not want.

Budget cuts silence environmental defenders

Fund that helped community groups wage environmental battles axed.

The Listener weekly quiz: June 26

What's the name of Dan Carter's latest bestselling book?

Battle for the Bight: Wind farms vs seabed mining in Taranaki

A seabed mining project could spell doom for renewable energy off the Taranaki coast.

New push to extract minerals raises thorny issues but could it lead to greener future?

Digging deep: Green tech and the debate we should be having about mining.