New Zealand Listener – March 02, 2018

GAME SHOW BOOM MIND GENDER Doco: are there differences between male & female brains? WAY TO GO The new, cheaper, smaller Seg ...

2 LISTENER MARCH 10 2018 CONTENTS ISSN 2381-9553: Vol 262, No. 4057. March 10-16, 2018 GETTY IMAGES COVER IMAGE: GETTY IMAGES/LI ...

MARCH 10 2018 LISTENER 3 EDITORIAL Slight of hand I t’s the smallest things that are so often the most telling in our progressio ...

4 LISTENER MARCH 10 2018 LETTERS ROLLINGSTONE Must-see doco on the mag, the myth & the music p BEETROOTERBernard Lagan on ru ...

KOBI OPENS IN NZ CINEMAS ON MARCH 8 READER PROMOTION I n a modest workshop in a remote Central Otago landscape, Swiss goldsmith ...

6 LISTENER MARCH 10 2018 LETTERS ALEX SCOTT “[Opera is when] the tenor and the soprano want to make love and the baritone tries ...

MARCH 10 2018 LISTENER 7 Thomas Adès THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL In Cinemas from March 8 for a limited time http://www.metopera.co.n ...

8 LISTENER MARCH 10 2018 A nxiety remains in US schools in the wake of the Florida high school tragedy but is tempered by the se ...

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10 LISTENER MARCH 10 2018 GETTY IMAGES Externally, he shouldn’t have nearly as big a problem. Simon Bridges’ election will energ ...

MARCH 10 2018 LISTENER 11 CHRIS SLANE trouble to her leaders’ doors over the years that any niceness, when it manifests, is simp ...

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MARCH 10 2018 LISTENER 13 E ven before there was television – appar- ently such a time existed – Kiwis loved a good game show. I ...

14 LISTENER MARCH 10 2018 QUIZ SHOWS laughter. Contestants seem to be more comfortable in front of cameras than they used to be, ...

MARCH 10 2018 LISTENER 15 Off-peak game shows are cost-effective, says McDon- ald. “The set never changes, the lighting doesn’t ...

16 LISTENER MARCH 10 2018 GETTY IMAGES QUIZ SHOWS How do you find the questions for your quizzes? If I hear a surprising fact, ...

MARCH 10 2018 LISTENER The man in the high chair Shaun Wallace, one of the haughty faces peering down at contestants in the hit ...

18 LISTENER MARCH 10 2018 I t’s time to meet the Chaser. As fans of TVNZ 1’s freakishly popular UK television quiz show The Chas ...

MARCH 10 2018 LISTENER 19 offended by being called The Dark Destroyer. The only reason I was a bit hesitant is because there was ...

20 LISTENER MARCH 10 2018 QUIZ SHOWS “It’s true.” Growing up in London, he faced down some challenges. “I wanted to be a lawyer ...