Listener feedback for 10 December 2022.

In the play-within-a-play which is Thomas Sainsbury and Chris Parker's The Opening Night Before Christmas, the Levin Community Players are presenting the town's annual Christmas pageant. It's currently being produced up the road at Palmerston North's Centrepoint Theatre, with real-life Centrepoint general manager and artistic director Kate Louise Elliot playing the writer and director of Levin's show. Elliot knows all about the comedy and tragedy of theatre.

Stonehenge discoveries have been numerous in recent years, with new techniques allowing us to learn more about a monument so ancient there are no records to explain why or how it was created. A leader in this research is archaeology professor Mike Parker Pearson.

"It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men" is one of Jaye Pukepuke's favourite quotes. After a promising rugby league career and a prison sentence, Jaye now runs the Christchurch-based youth education programme Bros for Change.

If you had told people 150 years ago how well off the world would become, they would have anticipated paradise. So why do things feel so broken? A former advisor to President Clinton and a professor of economic history at Berkeley, Brad DeLong's magnum opus Slouching Towards Utopia is a big 150 year history of the creation of the modern world. It begins in 1870, with the birth of free market capitalism and the industrial research lab, and takes in the rise of globalisation and the multinational corporation before bringing us to the present.

It's been a busy year for space exploration. Phase one of NASA's Artemis mission is scheduled to conclude on Monday, bringing us spellbinding new images of our moon.

In 1990, writes Sir Hugh Rennie in Chathams Resurgent: How the Islanders overcame 150 years of misrule, the islanders had lived with "years of muddlement, some good intentions, financial waste, exploitation and theft and failure to deliver democratic rights and basic infrastructure."

It's a film some people say is like watching paint dry, whilst others say it will change your life. And it's the film that this month 1600 film critics and academics voted the greatest film of all time, knocking Vertigo from the top slot. 1975's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels, by Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman is a three hour and 21 minute long film following the daily routine of a widow, whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner, and turning the occasional trick. Otago University Professor in Film and Media Catherine Fowler has been studying the film for 30 years and this year published a study of the film for the British FiIm Institute Classic book series. An example ahead of its time of slow cinema, Fowler describes it as a "contrary classic" - choosing to do what other films don't: stay in the kitchen.

One of the countries most under threat from climate change, Pacific neighbour Vanuatu is taking a lead in the fight against climate change.

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