Best Toby Baker Podcasts (2025)

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Kate de Goldi - Reading for Pleasure 14:34

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Kate de Goldi is the Te Awhi Rito Reading Ambassador, a novelist, children's writer, and Arts Foundation Laureate. Most importantly, she's a voracious reader and she's back this week to share her latest favourite reads.

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NZ photography: earliest to AI - Athol McCredie 21:24

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New Zealand Photography Collected: 175 Years of Photography in Aotearoa spans nearly two centuries in more than 400 pages, exploring our identity as a nation.

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Protesting fishermen take to Auckland streets 7:32

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Recreational fishermen from around the country are converging on Auckland this morning in protest of The Hauraki Gulf Marine Protection Act.

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Navigating career change with Dr Galia BarHava 19:42

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With the eminent close of one year and start of another, it's a time when many of us start to take stock of where we are in life and where we want to go next.

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Calling all cheese lovers 22:51

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Patrick McGuigan and Carlos Yescas are two cheese connoisseurs, who together set out in search of the world's best 100 cheeses.

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The thinking behind the world's greatest thinkers 23:13

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Hugh Mackay explores twenty-five profound quotes from some of the world's greatest thinkers, from Confucius and Plato to Susan Sontag and Gloria Steinem.

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Distinguished Professor Cliff Abraham: How memories are made 22:37

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How good is your memory? Are you more 'memory like a sieve'? Photographic or somewhere in the middle? And have you ever wondered why that is?

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Dr Jonathan Mathias Lassiter: Mental health in marginalised communities 16:54

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Dr Lassiter works primarily with marginalised communities at a time when the US no longer feels like a safe or welcoming place for many.

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From Baldrick to Alfred the Great - Sir Tony Robinson: having fun with history 26:16

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Sir Tony Robinson is perhaps best known for playing dogsbody Baldrick in British sitcom Blackadder. But that's just one highlight of his 50-year acting career.

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The cycling economy 5:24

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Not only are New Zealand's cycle trails helping get more and more people outdoors but they are also boosting the economy by $1.28 billion a year.

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Increased risk of earthquakes with climate change 6:03

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A world-first study by the University of Auckland contributes to the growing body of evidence that climate change effects the likelihood of earthquakes.

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Dame Sue Bagshaw: Puberty blockers 8:43

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The government has put the brakes on the use of puberty blockers which delay the onset of puberty in children and young people experiencing gender dysphoria.

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Latest from the Middle East 8:58

7h ago8:58

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As the UN Security Council voted to adopt a plan by US President Donald Trump for Gaza, Israel launched a strike and Trump hosted the Saudi Crown Prince.

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The future of MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi 8:09

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This weekend people from Tai Tokerau will gather in Kaikohe for a hui with MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. She was expelled from Te Pāti Māori last week.

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Rising tensions: NZ First vs ACT 8:44

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MMP is all about compromise but it appears some serious rifts are appearing in our coalition government.

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Costa Dillon Talks Story with Bill Gwaltney and Tim Merriman on Reflections on Interpretation 45:09

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Costa Dillon is a retired National Park Service ranger and park superintendent who worked in more than a dozen parks in his 35-year career including as Superintendent of Indiana Dunes National Park, Fire Island National Seashore, and the Horace Albright Training Center. He is the recipient of the Department of the Interior’s Meritorious Service Awa…

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S2 Ep3 - Prioritizing more Traditions 38:33

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Send us a text Some memories don’t fade—they just smell like bacon grease and sound like laughter from the next room. There’s something about the sound of an iron skillet in the morning—the hiss of batter meeting bacon grease, the smell of hotcakes that could wake the whole house. Mom always said they had to be golden on the edges, not too thick, n…

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Toby Freeman: The Big Ballsy Challenge – Running Through Grief, Stigma, and Hope 58:01

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A quick note that this episode includes open discussion of cancer, grief, and loss. Please take care while listening, and skip sections if you need to. In this episode, UKRunChat host Michelle talks to Toby Freeman, founder of The Robin Cancer Trust and creator of the Big Ballsy Challenge, a 500km running campaign raising awareness of testicular ca…

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Kereama Taepa's ambitious augmented reality art 17:08

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Kereama Taepa's work 'Whakairo' has been described as one of the most ambitious augmented reality art experiences ever shown in a New Zealand gallery.

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Liam Dann: AI bubble fears and "green shoots" 14:04

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Investors are fearful that the AI bubble may be about to burst but what are the wider implications if that happens?

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Nick Tupara: Waeranga A Hika 160 years on 18:17

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This week hundreds will commemorate the loss, arrest and deportation of their ancestors in a siege that took place 160 years ago on Waeranga A Hika.

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Corey Baker: Dancing with the celebrities 21:27

3h ago21:27

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Corey Baker's career has taken him from Hornby to Hollywood. The choreographer and filmmaker has worked with Lady Gaga, Tim Burton and Dua Lipa, among others.