This week Country Life is behind a team of Clydesdale horses on a vintage wagon, finding out about the increasingly rare breed, and heads to a sale of farm gear in Wairarapa, where one of the last local rehab soldier farms has been sold into forestry.

Country Life for Friday 26 April 2024

News & Politics

In the heart of the of Queensland Outback lies the small town of Longreach, adults are running around hiding from each other - for weeks at a time.

You're it! The Outback town where adults play a month-long game of tag

Aside from a few notable exceptions, the depiction of love making on film has dramatically declined in the past 20 years.

Sex on screen: Why is Hollywood shying away from sex and nudity?

Education minister Erica Stanford has announced that New Zealand schools will be pivoting to teaching structured literacy. Dr Nina Hood joins Nights to explain the approach.

What is structured literacy and why is the government talking about it?

RNZ News at 10pm, May 8

Classics enthusiast and educator Ben Jackson is back to celebrate Rome's birthday, allegedly founded on 21 April, 753 BCE, by brothers Romulus and Remus.

Country Life for Friday 26 April 2024

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