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Sam says he’s been hearing Kiwi birds near his home on the Kaipara and ponders how they’ve been getting round. He also reads a poem from a new collection taking his fancy.

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It’s a week for the fruit with worrying levels of allergies reported in New Zealanders to Kiwi Fruit and a Feijoa has sold for a record price because of it’s unique shape. We ask where supermarket trolleys come from, report on the most complained about billboards and muse on the state of TV news.

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The classic Kiwi film about a man who wakes up all alone in the world, after a government research project he was working on goes wrong, is being re-released on DVD

It was a movie that hatched many childhood dreams about being the only living human left on Earth. Sam Pillsbury wrote and produced this cult classic. Now residing in Phoenix, Arizona, he reflects on the making of The Quiet Earth and it’s effect on his life and work.

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Anna Coddington is one of New Zealand’s foremost heroines of independent pop music, as is clearly evident on her debut, self-produced album “The Lake”, due for release in June 2008. Coddington has been quietly kicking around New Zealand’s music scene for some time now. You may have heard her singing in the background of some well known tunes by artists like Bic Runga, Anika Moa, SJD, Dimmer and more, or in the foreground of a handful of casually released pop gems by her bands Handsome Geoffery and Duchess.

In this live session recorded for the Radio Wammo show on Kiwi FM Anna plays three tracks called Never Change, Hold You Here and What a Shame off her debut album The Lake.

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Video of Kiwi FM studio acoustic performance