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In this week's New Zealand Listener

March 13-19 2010 Vol 222 No 3644

Features

  • Cover Story A dicey business by Joanne Black
    The global recession has been and possibly gone, yet New Zealand’s house prices remain stubbornly high. Who’s going to blink first – sellers or buyers? And what part do greed and fear play?

  • Feature A race to the bottom
    The battle for viewers is destroying the public broadcasting ethos. Paul Norris argues it’s time for a dramatic new alliance.

  • Feature Clipping their wings by Karl du Fresne
    As vineyards and dairy farms expand into new areas, this “violent” change to the landscape is threatening the survival of some of our butterfly species.

Arts & Books

  • Film The road to nowhere by David Larsen

  • Music The reinvigoration will not be televised by Jim Pinckney

  • Classical Eighth wonder by Rod Biss

  • Theatre Dumb and dumber by Anna Chinn

  • Dance Three's company

Books

  • Books Geoff in London by Jane Westaway

  • Books Pleasant inertia by Louise O'Brien

  • Books The outsiders by Siobhan Harvey

  • Books There's a change a-comin' by Caren Wilton

  • Books Who does she think she is? by Elizabeth Alley

  • Books Land of milk and honey - and traumatic memories by Helen Watson White

TV & Radio

  • The Lounge Northern lites by Fiona Rae

  • TV Week Black Caps play final test against Australia, __Supernatural__ features in black and white by Fiona Rae

  • TV films Cult classic __Mommie Dearest__ and new school __Old School__ rules the weekend by Fiona Rae

  • Radio Week The Archbishop of York and Neil Gaiman star on Saturday Morning with Kim Hill by Fiona Rae

  • Radio frequencies Small country, big choice

  • TV information Classifications and addresses

  • Cast List

Columnists

  • Editorial A soldier’s job

  • The Internaut War of nerves by Deborah Hill Cone

  • Television Lost cause by Diana Wichtel

  • Life Listen up by Bill Ralston

  • Politics Baby, you can't drive my car by Jane Clifton

  • Health Going for a song by Linley Boniface

  • Nutrition Cut it out? by Jennifer Bowden

  • Sport Mighty McCullum by Richard Becht

  • Inbox Slip sliding away by Jon Bridges

  • Business The moral priority by Rebecca Macfie

  • Ecologic Wasted opportunity by Sarah Barnett

  • Food So refined by Martin Bosley

  • Wine Caught red-handed by Michael Cooper

  • Travel By tradition by Peter de Graaf

  • The Black page Trickledown theory by Joanne Black