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A very generic title which concisely manages to cover two of my favourite New Zealand related things at the moment.


First off it’s not very often we hear from New Zealand on this side of the planet, but it turns out they make fantastic tourism adverts (the clip on their website is better). How could anyone watch this and not want to visit Aotearoa?

Secondly a hidden New Zealand gem is a programme called Flight of the Conchords, which for some reason the Beeb have decided to hide in the back end of BBC Four (at these times). The programme is best described as simply genius, okay maybe pure genius, but genius none the less. Take a look for yourself.

It’s a HBO comedy (all the good ‘Merkin ones are) in which New Zealanders - and wannabe musicians - Bret and Jemaine struggle to make it big in New York. They of course have a rubbish manager Murray who also doubles as New Zealand’s cultural attaché, and their stalker and biggest fan Mel.

The BBC’s Rajesh Mirchandani has been finding out if it’s possible to live in a space which is barely the size of your bedroom. An eight-foot wooden box clad in aluminium. The design of the house is part of the Festival of Xtream Building currently taking place in Birmingham.

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