Aleks Krotoski: What the Internet is Doing to You
By Mark Broatch in Books
Issue Listener Plus 20th May 2013
'Kids know online creepiness when they see it.'
New Zealand Listener Gala Night: True Stories Told Live
By Mark Broatch in Books
Issue Listener Plus 17th May 2013
Les-BEE-ans, rock pigs and a gentlemen's magazine as authors interpret An Open Book.
Young, gifted & on the right track
Subscriber contentBy Mark Broatch in Current Affairs
Issue 3811 17th May 2013
New Zealander Derek Handley, 35, who has launched two successful mobile technology start-ups, talks to Mark Broatch about breaking rules, learning hard lessons and giving Richard Branson a hand.
Fat and fiction: Discomfort food
Subscriber contentBy Mark Broatch in Current Affairs
Issue 3809 8th May 2013
Lionel Shriver’s new novel was inspired by the death of her morbidly obese brother.
Cop it sweet
1 Comments Subscriber contentBy Mark Broatch in Current Affairs
Issue 3808 30th Apr 2013
Sugar is being blamed for our obesity woes, and our designed-for-the-Stone-Age bodies are struggling to cope with the overload of sweet, salty, fatty food served up by ingenious manufacturers. Is there a way out?
Two minutes with: Lauraine Jacobs
By Mark Broatch in Two Minutes With
Issue Listener Plus 21st Apr 2013
The Listener’s food writer has just released a culinary memoir. She trained at Le Cordon Bleu London and is the author of eight cookbooks.
Two minutes with: Chris Slane
Subscriber contentBy Mark Broatch in Two Minutes With
Issue 3807 18th Apr 2013
The Listener’s cartoonist talks about capturing the character of the Kiwi soldier in graphic form and why every serious news story should come with a side helping of humour.
Technological change: The net effect
By Mark Broatch in Technology
Issue 3806 12th Apr 2013
What is the internet doing to us? Not as much as we fear, social psychologist Aleks Krotoski tells Mark Broatch.
Two minutes with: Nina Conti
Subscriber contentBy Mark Broatch in Two Minutes With
Issue 3804 28th Mar 2013
Groundbreaking UK ventriloquist Nina Conti takes her late mentor’s puppets to Vent Haven, a museum for dummies that have said their last words, and produces a moving and sometimes hilarious docu-mockumentary.
Climate change: The haywire syndrome
Subscriber contentBy Mark Broatch in Science
Issue 3803 23rd Mar 2013
Manipulating the Earth’s climate to counteract the e ffects of global warming is attracting the attention of vested corporate interests and “dodgy entrepreneurs”, warns Australian author and ethics professor Clive Hamilton.