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Tonight on The Panel Wallace is joined by panellists Leonie Freeman and Shane Te Pou discuss whether it's okay to pile up bags of dog poo in protest of bin removal. Plus, they discuss NZDF lost luggage on the way to Gallipoli ANZAC dawn service, and tracking down photos of all 100,000 people who served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Wo…

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Somehow the team are back in the studio after a big night at the Taite Music Prize, so we're of course recapping the evening, playing some interviews with the winners, and potentially holding an intervention to discuss Evie's foul-mouth.

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Bryan Crump caught up with Sue Densem, the Music Director of the New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir, along with choir leaders, Jasmine Hulton and Teddy Finney-Waters, and cultural leader, Siaosi Lavelua. The group discuss their ANZAC performance at Te Papa, their experiences being part of the choir, and even sing a few tunes for us.…

Billy T Award winner, Melanie Bracewell, has graced screens across Australasia with her quick witted charm.

Emeritus Professor Michael Atherton, shares the remarkable story of the lengths troops went too to get pianos to the front during the Second World War.

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Culinary historian, Allison Reynolds, shares the history behind the humble Anzac biscuit.

The New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade was a brigade of horsemen from the New Zealand Army during the First World War.

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We check in with the southernmost ANZAC Day service taking place in Antarctica at Scott Base.

RNZ reporters, Anna Sargent, and Finn Blackwell, report back after attending the Christchurch and Auckland dawn services.

52 All Blacks served in World War I, and 13 didn't return home.

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For Anzac Day Māpuna takes a look back at a special episode from 2023 when producer Tama Muru visited the Greek island of Crete to delve into the history of the battle in 1941 which pitted New Zealand, Australian and British troops against elite paratroopers from Nazi Germany.

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Visitors to Samoa urged to take precaution; 'The Bible is often misinterpreted to justify family violence' - lecturer; 'PNG govt needs to be transparent about its gold plans' - Transparency International Papua New Guinea; Pasifika rugby teams prepare for weekend clash.

Visitors to Samoa urged to take precaution.

'Bible often misinterpreted to justify family violence' - lecturer.

'PNG govt needs to be transparent about its gold plans' - Transparency International Papua New Guinea.

Pasifika rugby teams prepare for weekend clash.

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Kate Evans visits a passionate team as they carpet a remote volcanic island in Tonga with poisoned bait, hoping to eradicate rats. What does it take to complete this kind of project, what are the chances of success, and what will it mean for the island’s ecosystems if they manage to remove the rats once and for all?…

Morrine Martin is a trombone player with Rolleston Brass, and her son will be playing the Last Post on the trumpet at their local service.

The Online Cenotaph is a vast collection of old photos, beloved memories, diaries and records supplied by the public for all to access - from family members to historians and academics.

Henry Erdman designed posters for some of the biggest blockbuster films of the past decade, including Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), Tenet (2020), and The Boy and the Heron (2023). But making his way in the industry required some creative thinking.

A wrap of the day's big stories

Locally, music festivals have pulled back to once every two years - or disappeared completely. Even the New Zealand A&P Show was on the brink of shutting completely after 160 years, saying that it was just no longer financially viable.

In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about the departure of broadcasting minister Melissa Lee - and the arrival of the next one Paul Goldsmith. Also: a controversial TV interview with the Israeli ambassador - and some truly startling stuff in a Stuff illustration.…

ABC Wantok Program for 24 April 2024.

Simon Morris introduces an all-Italian show - from Luca Guadagnino's Challengers, starring Zendaya, to an overview of this year's Italian Film Festival road show with Festival Director and film-maker, Paolo Rotondo. Challengers sees top star Zendaya (Dune) playing a top tennis star, torn between two competing suitors, Mike Faist (West Side Story) a…

Challengers sees top star Zendaya (Dune) playing a top tennis star, torn between two competing suitors, Mike Faist (West Side Story) and Josh O'Connor (TV's The Crown). Directed by Luca Guadagnino (Call me by your name).

Paolo Rotondo introduces this season of the Italian Film Festival, which includes a biopic of bad-boy painter Caravaggio, the first solo film by tbe legendary Federico Fellini, and last year's box office sensation There's still tomorrow, which trounced both Barbie and Oppenheimer in Italy.

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Tonight on The Panel Wallace is joined by panellists Leonie Freeman and Shane Te Pou discuss whether it's okay to pile up bags of dog poo in protest of bin removal. Plus, they discuss NZDF lost luggage on the way to Gallipoli ANZAC dawn service, and tracking down photos of all 100,000 people who served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Wo…

Tonight on The Panel Wallace is joined by panellists Leonie Freeman and Shane Te Pou discuss Melissa Lee and Penny Simmonds being stripped of portfolios after an announcement by Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Also, they discuss how to revitalize Courtenay Place after the Wellington City Council pulled out of its deal with Reading Cinema.…

Tonight on The Panel Wallace is joined by panellists Leonie Freeman and Shane Te Pou discuss Melissa Lee and Penny Simmonds being stripped of portfolios after an announcement by Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Also, they discuss how to revitalize Courtenay Place after the Wellington City Council pulled out of its deal with Reading Cinema.…

Auckland businesses say they will lose out on thousands of dollars in business due to Anzac trading restrictions, and others say the staff costs are too high to justify opening on the public holiday. Lucy Xia reports.

Let's get to South Africa now and we're joined by our correspondent Elna Schutz

Advocates for New Zealanders with disabilities are welcoming Louise Upston taking over from Ms Simmonds as the new Minister for Disability Issues. Chief executive of the New Zealand Disability Support Network, Peter Reynolds speaks to Lisa Owen