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<\/p>\n9:05 The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is marching into Auckland\u00a0<\/p>\n
In celebration of its 75th anniversary, the iconic Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is coming to Auckland for the first time – bringing more than one-thousand performers together at Eden Park for ‘The Heroes Who Made Us’.\u00a0When it last visited New Zealand in 2015, Wellington Stadium saw a full house – and this performance outside of Edinburgh is the first in a while. Susana speaks to the narrator for the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Terrence Rae.<\/p>\n
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9:30\u00a0Anna Crighton<\/p>\n
Cartoonist, satirist, and ceramicist Anna Crighton shares how she moves between media in pursuit of creativity.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\nAnna Crichton’s cartoon ceramics
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9:45 It’s Quiz Time!\u00a0<\/p>\n
Each day on Summer Weekends we’ve been meeting quiz whizzes from around the motu who write their own questions. Paul Glennie – known also as Digger – has been writing quizzes for 14 years and puts teams through their paces each week at The Bond in Wellington.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If you think you have the answers, text\u00a02101 with the\u00a0first correct answer will win a much coveted\u00a0RNZ mug.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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10.07 Lorraine Moller ONZM MBE\u00a0on her glittering athletics career\u00a0<\/p>\n
There was a very familiar name in the New Year\u2019s honours list.\u00a0New Zealand track, cross-country and marathon runner Lorraine Moller\u00a0was\u00a0made an\u00a0Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit\u00a0 for services to athletics.\u00a0Lorraine\u00a0has\u00a0won\u00a016 international marathons, including the Boston Marathon, an Olympic bronze medal and\u00a0a\u00a0Commonwealth Games silver and two bronzes.\u00a0But she\u2019s also given back\u00a0off the track and now lives in\u00a0Colorado where she joins Susana from.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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10:30\u00a0Beaumont Boot Bash\u00a0<\/p>\n
Love is in the Air all the way down in South Otago, where locals are gearing up for the return of the infamous Beaumont Boot Bash<\/a>. A beloved rural singles event that began in 2010, it’s a night of hilarity and fun, hosted at the Beaumont Hotel. After a 5-year hiatus, it’s making a grand return with the help of event organiser Olivia Montgomery, who speaks to Susana.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n Photo: Supplied\n<\/p>\n 10:50\u00a0Safety update from Coastguard\u00a0Hibiscus\u00a0<\/p>\n Coastguard is on track to double the number of\u00a0emergency\u00a0calls it has responded to this month compared to January 2025 \u2013 and is asking everyone to\u00a0be prepared before hitting the water. Coastguard Hibiscus\u00a0president Rachel Hessey says her all-volunteer team have rescued\u00a0numerous\u00a0boaties\u00a0over the past few weeks, including a commercial fishing vessel which was towed back to shore.\u00a0Rachel\u00a0tells\u00a0Susana\u00a0some\u00a0vital safety tools boaties should know<\/a>.<\/p>\n \nCoastguard Hibiscus vessel. 11:07\u00a0Lower Hutt’s House of Books<\/p>\n We’ve been touring New Zealand through the lens of second-hand bookshops this summer and our final destination is a sizeable store in Wellington’s Lower Hutt.\u00a0House of Books has been open in Waterloo for 23 years, but\u00a0despite the name, it’s not just books on his shelves. Shop owner Des Schollum joins Susana to talk about his life in books.\u00a0<\/p>\n \nDes Schollum in his pre-loved book store, House of Books. 11:25 Annabel Langbein\u00a0<\/p>\n Tomatoes and summerfruit are in abundance at this time of year \u2013 so cook, food writer and keen gardener Annabel Langbein joins Susana with some delicious meal ideas.\u00a0<\/p>\n \nAnnabel Langbein 11:40\u00a0Island roundup: Kapiti Island\u00a0<\/p>\n We’re doing some island hopping on the programme, heading to a few of New Zealand’s outer islands to find out what life is like there. We’ve done Great Barrier Island, the Chatham Islands and D’Urville Island. Today we’re heading to two different islands! First up\u00a0is\u00a0Kapiti\u00a0Island.<\/p>\n Manaaki Barrett from Kapiti Island Nature Tours joins Susana.\u00a0<\/p>\n \nManaaki Barrett of Kapiti Island Nature Tours 11:50\u00a0Island roundup: Stewart Island\u00a0<\/p>\n Our final stop on our tour of New Zealand’s outer islands is to Stewart Island!\u00a0<\/p>\n Emma Simpson-Boyce is a local who wears many hats – she joins Susana for a chat.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n Photo: Supplied \/ Department of Conservation \/ Brent Beaven<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"9:05 The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is marching into Auckland\u00a0 In celebration of its 75th anniversary, the iconic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-249968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Left:](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JUG7A3_Beaumont_Boot_Bash_jpg.jpeg\")
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