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COMMENTARY
3 | Editorial
4 | Letters Plus Caption Competition, Quips &
Quotes, Life in NZ and 10 Quick Questions
8 | Bulletin from Abroad
Andrew Anthony in London
10 | Back to Black Joanne Black11 | Life Bill Ralston
12 | Politics Jane Clifton
94 | The Good Life Michele HewitsonDIVERSIONS
60-63 | Diversions & Puzzles
61 | Wordsworth Gabe AtkinsonTHAT’S ENTERTAINMENT
64 | Television Fiona Rae
69 | TV Films Fiona Rae
71 | TV Review Diana Wichtel
72 | Radio Fiona Rae
73-93 | TV programmes
75-93 | Radio programmesTHIS LIFE
32 | Health Aside from success, what do
Sir Richard Branson and Jamie Oliver have
in common? Dyslexia. by Nicky Pellegrino
34 | Nutrition Diabetics taking metformin
may need extra vitamin B12 because of a
side effect of the drug. by Jennifer Bowden
36 | Food We’ve learnt to cook with
dried shiitake mushrooms, but with fresh
ones now being grown here, umami flavours
can come to the fore. by Lauraine Jacobs
38 | Wine It’s never been easier to
find a good, mid-priced pinot noir.
by Michael Cooper
40 | Psychology Obsessive-compulsive
disorder causes enormous distress to
sufferers, but it is treatable. by Marc Wilson
41 | Technology A digital currency
planned by social media’s persona non grata
looks like a non-starter. by Peter GriffinFEATURES
COVER STORY
14 | Scourge of the superbugs
Fitness and youth are no guarantee of
protection when an antibiotic-resistant form
of infection takes hold, as two Kiwis recently
found. by Glenda Lewis21 | Evolving threat
The flu season has been particularly bad this
year, but the way we record deaths may be
masking the true impact of the virus.
by Sally Blundell24 | Apology excepted
Activist, feminist and celebrated author of
The Vagina Monologues Eve Ensler never
received an apology from her father for his
sexual and emotional abuse, so she did it
for him in an act of “heroic ventriloquism”.
by Diana Wichtel28 | The past is our country
An “ill-tempered” letter to the Listener got
the writing career of one of New Zealand’sBOOKS & CULTURE
44 | Our modernist master This rare
interview with Colin McCahon, by Sheridan
Keith, ran in the May 17, 1980, Listener,
towards the end of the celebrated painter’s
career. McCahon’s centennial year starts on
August 1, his birthday, and is being marked
with events around the country.
48 | NZ International Film Festival
Film-maker Vea Mafile‘o and her documentary
about tithing, For My Father’s Kingdom
50-53 | Books By Sandra Newman, Māori
myths retold, a kids’ book about pioneer
women, a history of New Zealand’s first
tramping club and a round-up of crime novels
54 | Music From Leisure
55 | Classical New Zealand music performed
by guitarists Jane Curry and Owen Moriarty
56 | Film Booksmart, The Keeper, The Publicmost influential historians, Jock Phillips, off
to a flying start. by Clare de Lore42 | Sport The sporting gods came to their
senses in handing the nation a netball win
over our old foe. by Paul ThomasTe Kaiwhakarongo Aotearoa
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