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A 24-hour recording of Radio New Zealand National. The following rundown is sourced from the broadcaster’s website. Note some overseas/copyright restricted items may not appear in the supplied rundown:
19 November 2015
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 One in Five (RNZ); 1:05 Discovery (BBC); 2:05 The Thursday Feature (RNZ); 3:05 The Night Book, by Charlotte Grimshaw, read by Michael Hurst (11 of 12, RNZ); 3:30 NZ Books (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC); 5:45 The Day in Parliament (RNZ)
===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
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RNZ's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour 6:20 and 7:50 Business News 6:26 Rural News 6:48 and 7:45 NZ Newspapers
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06:00
Top Stories for Thursday 19 November 2015
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Global tributes for Jonah Lomu, Lomu was rugby's only global superstar - Sean Fitzpatrick; Lomu mourned at his old Sunday school church; Two terrorism suspects killed in Paris raid; Speeding car full of young teens flips following a police chase in Auckland; Stop-Go murder accused in New Plymouth court today; Former New Zealand soldier remains in Australian prison.
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Duration: 32'04"
06:07
Sports News for 19 November 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'17"
06:11
Wallaby great recalls Lomu's intimidation and grace
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Jonah Lomu's death yesterday, aged just 40, has shocked and saddened New Zealanders and rugby fans around the world.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Jonah Lomu
Duration: 4'37"
06:15
South Africa stunned by Lomu's death
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The famous match against England in the 1995 Rugby World Cup was played in South Africa. SuperSport broadcaster Clinton van der Berg talks to RNZ from Johannesburg.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Jonah Lomu
Duration: 1'47"
06:20
Lomu mourned at his old Sunday school church
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Churchgoers in South Auckland, where Jonah Lomu went to Sunday school, are mourning the loss of a man they say was a humble superstar.
Topics: sport
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Jonah Lomu
Duration: 3'03"
06:26
Early business news for 19 November 2015
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The property sector looks set to continue delivering strong profit growth, with high rental yields in the medium term.
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Duration: 2'27"
06:27
Morning Rural News for 19 November 2015
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'10"
06:38
Frank Bunce: Lomu still inspires kids in South Auckland
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Former All Black Frank Bunce says Jonah Lomu's legend will live on for youngsters in South Auckland.
Topics: sport
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Jonah Lomu, Frank Bunce
Duration: 3'05"
06:41
Historian Ron Palenski on Lomu's impact
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Comment from author and rugby historian Ron Palenski.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Jonah Lomu
Duration: 4'09"
06:50
Listed property sector likely to see continued strong growth
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The property sector looks set to continue delivering strong profit growth as low occupancy keeps rental yields high, at least in the medium-term.
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Duration: 1'34"
06:52
Sanford says full year satisfactory, despite fall in net profit
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The seafood company, Sanford's full year net profit is down more than 38 percent, impacted by one-off restructuring costs.
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Duration: 1'25"
06:55
Coats to delist from NZX
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Shares in the British based yarn maker Coats dived nine percent to a four month low on the local exchange yesterday after it said it plans to delist from the NZX and Australian exchange from the middle of next year.
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Duration: 1'37"
06:57
Morning markets for 19 November 2015
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Wall Street is trading firmly driven by shares in Apple and healthcare stocks.
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Duration: 1'06"
06:59
Business briefs
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Port of Napier has posted a near 4 percent fall in annual profit and Air New Zealand and Flight Centre have announced a strategic partnership agreement over three years.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 46"
07:07
Sports News for 19 November 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 1'45"
07:10
Global tributes for Jonah Lomu
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Tributes have been pouring in from around the world for world rugby's first superstar, Jonah Lomu, who died yesterday at the age of 40.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Andy Gomarsall, Frank Bunce, Gavin Hastings, George Gregan, John Eales, Jonah Lomu
Duration: 4'00"
07:15
Lomu was rugby's only global superstar: Sean Fitzpatrick
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Sean Fitzpatrick was the captain of the All Blacks when Jonah Lomu was first picked for the team.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Sean Fitzpatrick, All Blacks, Jonah Lomu
Duration: 5'12"
07:25
Two terrorism suspects killed in Paris raid
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A woman who killed herself by detonating an explosive vest is one of two dead after a large-scale terrorism raid in Paris overnight.
Topics: conflict
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Tags: Paris Attacks
Duration: 7'47"
07:38
Speeding car full of young teens flips following chase in Ak
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A speeding car, driven by a 17-year-old, ended upside down in the driveway of an Auckland house after a police chase early this morning.
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Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: police, high speed chase
Duration: 3'17"
07:41
Stop-Go murder accused in New Plymouth court today
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A 45-year-old man will appear in the Taranaki District Court today charged with the murder of George Taiaroa.
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Tags: George Taiaroa
Duration: 3'38"
07:45
Former New Zealand soldier remains in Australian prison
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Twelve New Zealand criminals being deported from Australia are expected to arrive in Auckland on a charter flight later this morning.
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Tags: Christmas Island, deportation
Duration: 4'28"
07:47
The first time Jonah Lomu touched a rugby ball
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Wesley College is where a quiet and shy Jonah Lomu began his bond with the game he loved.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Wesley College, Jonah Lomu
Duration: 3'09"
07:50
RNZ rugby reporter looks back at Lomu career
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RNZ rugby reporter looks back at Lomu career.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Jonah Lomu
Duration: 3'55"
07:56
Pike River families remember five years on
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Today is the fifth anniversary of the Pike River disaster.
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Duration: 3'22"
08:07
Sports News for 19 November 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'07"
08:10
Lomu an inspiration for young Pacific Island players
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It was with shock that New Zealanders heard yesterday of the death of Jonah Lomu.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Jonah Lomu
Duration: 4'25"
08:20
Lomu mourned here and abroad
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To discuss Lomu's legacy, both on and off the field, we're joined by the coach of the New Zealand sevens team Sir Gordon Tietjens, rugby commentator Keith Quinn and former All Black Ian Jones.
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Tags: Jonah Lomu, Gordon Tietjens, Keith Quinn, Ian Jones
Duration: 8'49"
08:26
New Zealand offers to host TPP signing next year
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New Zealand has offered to host the signing of the Trans Pacific Partnership early next year, despite ongoing uncertainty the deal will get over the line in the United States.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: TPP
Duration: 2'47"
08:29
Assaulted nurse wins ACC battle
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A nurse who was brutally beaten by a psychiatric patient has won a three-year battle with ACC for compensation.
Topics: health
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Tags: ACC
Duration: 3'25"
08:32
Markets Update for 19 November 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 58"
08:37
Affco ruling set potential precedent for seasonal work
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Seasonal workers, such as those working in the meat industry and on orchards, may have greater job security after a win by Affco workers in the Employment Court.
Topics: law
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Tags: seasonal workers
Duration: 4'07"
08:42
PETA: government-supported Saudi farm puts reputation at risk
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The Government is refusing to rule out sending more sheep to a controversial farm in the Saudi desert despite the catastrophic lamb losses that have occurred there.
Topics: politics, farming
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Duration: 3'06"
08:51
Monarchs could starve in Auckland this summer
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The Trust that works to protect monarch butterflies is warning that the colourful insects are facing a famine in Auckland this summer.
Topics: climate, weather
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Tags: monarch butterflies
Duration: 3'17"
08:58
A final look back at All Black great Jonah Lomu's life
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A final look back on Jonah's Lomu's life.
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Tags: Jonah Lomu
Duration: 1'46"
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===9:06 AM. | Nine To Noon===
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Current affairs and topics of interest, including: 10:45 The Reading: An Awfully Big Adventure, by Jane Tolerton (9 of 15, RNZ)
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09:08
Lack of drivers licences problem for rural youth
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Thousands of young people are struggling to pay for their full drivers licences. Hawkes Bay's Intersectoral Leadership Group (made up of council, iwi leaders & representatives from education, health and the department of corrections) - is trying to get accurate figures. It says there is clearly a problem which impacts on young people across many areas - including the justice system because they are driving without a full licence, as well as affecting their employment prospects and education. We discuss the issue with Kelly Annand from Connecting for Youth Employment who says many young people can't afford the 338 dollar cost of getting a licence, let alone the cost of driving lessons.
Topics: transport, rural, crime, education
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Tags: unemployment, drivers licence
Duration: 16'19"
09:28
Senior doctors feel they can't take sick leave
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For the first time, a nationwide study has looked at how many senior doctors are going to work despite being sick. The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists asked senior doctors and dentists at all 20 of the country's DHB's about their rates of presenteeism and sick leave. It's found three quarters of senior doctors and dentists have gone to work while unwell with an infectious illness Many of the doctors said they don't take sick leave because they don't want to let their patients or fellow staff down.
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Duration: 10'48"
09:40
Tongan High School graduates
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Two hundred high school students in Tonga who were at risk of failing school have graduated with new skills thanks to a joint initiative with New Zealand. The Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT), the Tonga Institute of Science and Technology (TIST), and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade are behind the project, in which students were selected because they were starting to disengage from school. Over the last year they have been getting technical and vocational training in areas like building, electrical, plumbing, horticulture and hospitality, alongside mathematics, digital, and social skills. Sina Aiolupotea-Aiono is the Project Coordinator for the partnership and Pasifika Development Manager at MIT and 'Oto Misi is in Tonga as the In-Country Programme Coordinator
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Two hundred high school students in Tonga who were at risk of failing school have graduated with new skills thanks to a joint initiative with New Zealand.
The Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT), the Tonga Institute of Science and Technology (TIST), and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade are behind the project, in which students were selected because they were starting to disengage from school.
Over the last year they have been getting technical and vocational training in areas like building, electrical, plumbing, horticulture and hospitality, alongside mathematics, digital, and social skills.
Sina Aiolupotea-Aiono is the Project Coordinator for the partnership and Pasifika Development Manager at MIT and 'Oto Misi is in Tonga as the In-Country Programme Coordinator.
She talks to Kathryn Ryan.
Topics: education, Pacific
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Tags: training, Tonga, school, MIT, TIST, MFAT
Duration: 10'43"
09:51
UK correspondent, Kate Adie
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Kate Adie reports from the UK where the news is dominated by the Paris attacks, and their consequences.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 5'49"
10:05
Alex Honnold: If you fall, you die
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Free climber Alex Honnold scales the toughest rock faces in the world, with just chalk on his fingers and rock shoes on his feet, hundreds of metres above the rocks below.
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Alex Honnold scales the toughest rock faces in the world, with just chalk on his fingers and rock shoes on his feet, hundreds of metres above the rocks below.
The 30-year-old climber started serious climbing at the age of 11, and has set a number of speed records for free solo climbing on some of the world's toughest rock faces over the past decade.
Free solo climbing is one of the most dangerous sports in the world, and with no room for error, some have died doing it.
That danger, and the very thought of climbing a rock face with no safety ropes, might seem terrifying to most people, but Honnold told Nine to Noon today that taking on these challenges was not about controlling the fear.
"I just think that I do a good job of differentiating between irrational fear and true, appropriate fear, when you are actually in danger. So the thing with all the big free solos that I've done is that I don't feel like I'm in danger. I'm prepared for them, so I just know that I can do it, so there is nothing really to be afraid of.
Listen to the full Nine to Noon interview with Kathryn Ryan here:
"If I thought that I could fall off, then I would still experience fear, the same as anybody. There are plenty of walls that I look up at and think about soloing it and it fills me with fear, and then obviously I don't solo those routes.
"I don't need to control the fear because when I'm ready to go, there is no fear. I'm not suppressing fear, I don't feel fearful of something I know I can do. If you looked at a ladder, you probably wouldn't feel any fear, because you know you can climb up that ladder no problem, so these walls, when I'm ready for them, I look at them and I'm excited to do them."
He said the key to overcoming the fear and conquering the crock faces he ascended was preparation, on both a physical and mental level.
"The physical preparation is going up and rehearsing and memorising all the movements making sure I know exactly how to do it. And the mental preparation is visualising it and making sure my head is in the right place and I'm properly motivated and all those kinds of things.
"At the most basic level, you just have to climb your way up there like a ladder, so you identify where all the holds are - this one is for my left hand, and this one is for my right hand, and then I bring up my right foot and shift my weight over my hips and then I go to my next hold. It's very mechanical, really. You just have to memorise all these movements."
But all the preparation in the world can go right out the window when the unexpected occurs, hundreds of metres up a cliff face. When that happened, Honnold admitted he got the fear.
"I do still experience jolts of fear the same as anybody when something goes wrong like that. When I was doing a free solo on the Rainbow Wall at Las Vegas, when I got up to the spot where I was supposed to jump - and I suddenly realised there was a jump involved that I hadn't really prepared for - it was suddenly something unexpected and I thought 'oh no'. That's why I had to hesitate and work through it over time and figure something out."
Safety versus difficulty
However, Honnold said the more dangerous the climb looked, the less likely it was that something could go wrong.
"That's why several of the world's best soloists have died on easy terrain, because it's almost like it's too easy and they don't have to give it the 100 percent focus and they make one little error.
"The statistic I like to throw out is that no soloist has ever died pushing the limits of the sport, nobody has ever died doing anything cutting edge, they've only died due to trivial, little errors on easy routes. You can't say that with other sports."
Honnold's breathtaking climbs have been captured in documentaries and articles, and he recently wrote a book, Alone On The Wall, which detailed his climbing exploits.
He told Nine to Noon when people asked him when he made the decision to become a professional climber, he couldn't give them an answer, because it had been a long, slow progression.
"It's never been one moment. I think one of the keys to my success as a climber has been its gradual progression - constantly taking lots of baby steps and pushing myself a little bit further and a little bit further. There have been a few solo climbs that I did, such as soloing Half Dome in 2008, where I pushed myself further outside my comfort zone than I expected, I thought it was going to be a baby step, but it turned out to be a pretty big step for me."
He said he felt compelled to keep climbing and was almost obligated to see if he could take on the toughest challenges.
Honnold shows little sign of stopping, and said he would continue solo free climbing for some time to come.
"I don't really see a point when I will stop climbing in general. I probably will stop with the solo freeclimbing at some point, maybe I just won't feel comfortable any more because I won't have that confidence. But for now I'm still improving physically and I'm still hoping to climb harder things, so I'll cross that bridge when I come there.
"But I'm sure at some point it will just be clear to me that I don't have the hunger for it or don't have the fitness for it. We'll just see."
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Duration: 26'57"
10:40
Book review: Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving
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Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving, published by Doubleday, reviewed by Rae McGregor.
Topics: books
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Duration: 6'45"
11:10
New technology with Sarah Putt
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Mobile competition, Tech's role in disaster relief during Paris terror attacks and why Emoji is Word of the Year :-)
Topics: technology
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Duration: 15'46"
11:30
Parenting - Psychologist Ben Sedley
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Ben Sedley is a Wellington based clinical psychologist and ACT therapist (Acceptance and Commitment). He has experience working with children, adolescents and families facing mental health difficulties in both primary health centres and community mental health teams in New Zealand and the UK. He says it's hard being a teenager, harder now, than say 20-30 years ago. Ben Sedley has written a book Stuff that Sucks, which aims to help young people with life's challenges.
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Ben Sedley is a Wellington based clinical psychologist and ACT therapist (Acceptance and Commitment).
He has experience working with children, adolescents and families facing mental health difficulties in both primary health centres and community mental health teams in New Zealand and the UK.
He says it's hard being a teenager, harder now, than say 20-30 years ago.
Sedley has written a book Stuff that Sucks, which aims to help young people with life's challenges.
He talks to Kathryn Ryan about his book.
Topics: life and society, author interview
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Tags: Ben Sedley, parenting, teenagers, psychologist
Duration: 20'14"
11:49
Lara Strongman: viewing
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Lara discusses two recent documentaries: NZ Women in Rock on Prime, and the Women of Pike River on TV One.
Topics: arts, media
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Tags: documentary
Duration: 11'12"
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09:05 Lack of drivers licences problem for rural youth
Thousands of young people are struggling to pay for their full drivers licences. Hawkes Bay's Intersectoral Leadership Group (made up of council, iwi leaders & representatives from education, health and the department of corrections) - is trying to get accurate figures. It says there is clearly a problem which impacts on young people across many areas - including the justice system because they are driving without a full license, as well as affecting their employment prospects and education.
We discuss the issue with Kelly Annand from Connecting for Youth Employment who says many young people can't afford the 338 dollar cost of getting a licence, let alone the cost of driving lessons.
0930 Tongan High School graduates
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Two hundred high school students in Tonga who were at risk of failing school have graduated with new skills thanks to a joint initiative with New Zealand. The Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT), the Tonga Institute of Science and Technology (TIST), and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade are behind the project, in which students were selected because they were starting to disengage from school. Over the last year they have been getting technical and vocational training in areas like building, electrical, plumbing, horticulture and hospitality, alongside mathematics, digital, and social skills. Sina Aiolupotea-Aiono is the Project Coordinator for the partnership and Pasifika Development Manager at MIT and 'Oto Misi is in Tonga as the In-Country Programme Coordinator
09:45 UK correspondent, Kate Adie
Kate Adie reports from the UK where the news is dominated by the Paris attacks, and their consequences.
10:05 Free solo climber, Alex Honnold
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Free climber, Alex Honnold has scaled the toughest rock faces in the world, all without tools or ropes of any kind. When asked once if he was afraid he was going to die, he replied "We've all gotta die sometime. You might as well go big". He talks to Kathryn Ryan about testing his limits and the climbs he is most proud of.
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Video of Alex Honnold's free-solo climb of El Sendero Luminoso (The Shining Path) in El Portrero Chico, Mexico On January 15, 2014
10:35 Book review: Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving
10:45 The Reading
An Awfully Big Adventure by Jane Tolerton
New Zealand Works War One veterans tell their stories
11:05 New technology with Sarah Putt
Mobile competition, Tech's role in disaster relief during Paris terror attacks and why Emoji is Word of the Year :-)
11:25 Parenting - Psychologist Ben Sedley
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Ben Sedley is a Wellington based clinical psychologist and ACT therapist (Acceptance and Commitment). He has experience working with children, adolescents and families facing mental health difficulties in both primary health centres and community mental health teams in New Zealand and the UK. He says it's hard being a teenager, harder now, than say 20-30 years ago. Ben Sedley has written a book Stuff that Sucks, which aims to help young people with life's challenges.
BOOK - Stuff that Sucks by Ben Sedley, published by Allen and Unwin.
11:45 Lara Strongman: viewing
Lara discusses two recent documentaries: NZ Women in Rock on Prime, and the Women of Pike River on TV One
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Artist: Goodshirt
Song: Sophie
Composer: Arnold
Album: Good
Label: Loop 182400
Time: 9.25
Artist: Ryan Adams
Song: Firecracker
Composer: Adams
Album: Gold
Label: Lost Highway 170235
Time: 9.40
Artist: Mark Vanilau
Song: Long Ride Home
Composer: Vanilau/Dyne
Album: Dark Horizon
Label: Ancientman 845504
Time: 10.34
Artist: Feist
Song: 1234
Composer: Feist/Seltmann
Album: The Reminder
Label: Interscope 984741
Time: 10.44
===Noon | Midday Report===
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RNZ news, followed by updates and reports until 1.00pm, including: 12:16 Business News 12:26 Sport 12:34 Rural News 12:43 Worldwatch
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12:00
Midday News for 19 November 2015
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Christmas Island detainees touch down in Auckland and a new 50 million dollar gondola project is announced for Queenstown.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 15'18"
12:17
Richie McCaw retires from rugby
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All Blacks' captain Richie McCaw has announced his plans for the future saying "it is time to hang up the boots"
Topics: sport
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Tags: Richie McCaw
Duration: 7'51"
12:25
Midday Sports News for 19 November 2015
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Former All Black teamate Zinzan Brooke says many players have been compared to Jonah Lomu but none have had the same impact on the game as the late All Black winger.
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Duration: 55"
12:26
Midday Markets for 19 November 2015
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by James Malden at Macquarie Private Wealth.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'53"
12:27
Business briefs
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The pick up in economic activitiy since the middle of the year looks to be feeding through to the labour market, according to the ANZ Bank's latest survey of job advertisements.
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Duration: 49"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 19 November 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
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Duration: 8'16"
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===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
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An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)
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13:10
First Song
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'New Histories' - Brooke Fraser
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Duration: 4'59"
13:14
Richie Retires - Barry Guy
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RNZ's rugby reporter Barry Guy has been to hear Richie McCaw announce his retirement as All Blacks captain. All Blacks captain Richie McCaw has announced his retirement. It comes after intense speculation since he led the team to historic back-to-back World Cup victories last month. RNZ's sports journalist, Barry Guy, was at the media announcement at New Zealand Rugby House, in Wellington earlier today.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Richie McCaw
Duration: 8'51"
13:23
The World of Roses - Leanne Killalea
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In May, the Lady Norwood Rose Garden, was presented with one of the Garden of Excellence Awards, at the World Federation of Rose Societies, in France. And today, a plaque will be unveiled at the Wellington Botanic Gardens. Leanne Killalea is team manager of plant collections at Wellington City Council's Botanic Gardens.
Topics: environment
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Tags: roses
Duration: 7'54"
13:32
The Coywolf - Professor Roland Kays
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It's rare for a new animal species to emerge in front of our very eyes, but that seems to be happening in the US, with a new animal scientists are calling the coywolf, with the hunting skill of a coyote and the strength and speed of a wolf. Roland Kays is Research Associate Professor and Director, Biodiversity & Earth Observation Lab, Nature Research Center, at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and he's been studying the new species.
Topics: environment
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Tags: Coywolf
Duration: 10'12"
13:42
Favourite album
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The Best Of Phoebe Snow. Chosen by Wendy Hawkey.
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Duration: 18'13"
14:08
Money With Mary Holm
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Financial author and columnist and seminar-leader, Mary Holm is back to discuss your personal finances. On today's programme we'll be talking about how you can get through Christmas without going broke.
Topics: economy
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Duration: 23'54"
14:45
Food Guest - Storm Bellamy
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Our next guest has her own brand of tea based here in New Zealand. She is Storm Bellamy of Storm and India, in our Auckland studio.
Topics: food
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Duration: 12'10"
15:09
Masterpieces - Ray Henwood
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Ray has chosen his favourite New Zealand acting performance.
Topics: arts
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Duration: 12'43"
15:22
The Expats - Sammy Curtis
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Imagine not having a winter for a few years. That's what Sammy Curtis has been doing. He's a keen cricketer, playing domestic cricket here in NZ, then spending time in the UK playing county cricket. He's now in Australia passing on his cricket knowledge to the next generation.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 9'33"
15:45
The Panel Pre-Show
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What the world is talking about with Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zara Potts.
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Duration: 14'18"
21:46
Fishes of New Zealand
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The Fishes of New Zealand is the first definitive guide to all of our freshwater and marine fishes since 1872, and it includes more than 1260 species
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“I’ve never met a fish I didn’t like.”
Andrew Stewart, collection manager and fish expert, Te Papa
It weighs 11 kilograms, comes in four fat volumes, and includes descriptions of every one of New Zealand’s more-than 1250 marine and freshwater fish, ranging from rock pool favourites to mysterious deep sea creatures known from just a single specimen.
Twenty years in the making, The Fishes of New Zealand, published by Te Papa Press (2015), is a big, scholarly work that will also have huge public appeal for everyone who is passionate about fishing or just curious about the natural world.
The smallest fish in the book is a clingfish, while the largest is the whale shark, which is an occasional summer visitor in warmer northern waters and can reach more than 12 metres in length.
It involved 44 authors from New Zealand and overseas, and was edited by Te Papa vertebrate curator Clive Roberts, collection manager Andrew Stewart, and research and technical officer Carl Struthers.
“Over 20 per cent of the fish fauna is native to New Zealand, unique to our waters,” says Clive Roberts.
Eighty per cent of the fishes found here are found elsewhere as well, and one of the challenges of the book was to ensure that the naming of fish in book agreed with fish names from other places.
“There’s a lot of ocean that hasn’t been explored,” explains Andrew Stewart. “More than half of our EEZ [exclusive economic zone] is deeper than 2000 metres and … we only have a handful of specimens from below 2000 metres. And so this area is just a great white page to us. What’s there? We don’t really know.”
Each species in the book has a page that includes either a photograph or an illustration, and a description, notes about names and a brief description about the biology.
While primarily a reference book that ensures the correct naming of all known fish species, the editors hope that the book will have wider appeal.
The editors had to impose a cut-off date of 2013 for the book, and since then 14 new fish species have been discovered in New Zealand’s Exclusive Economic Zone, which is the area covered in the book.
Carl Struthers says the thrill of discovering new species never wears off, whether that’s a new specimen coming into the museum from one of the many people who collect fish for the Te Papa collection, or from recognising that an existing specimen in the collection is not what was previously thought.
There are more than 300,000 specimens in the Te Papa collection that have been named, and Andrew estimates there are still a further 100,000 species that need to be worked on.
The Fishes of New Zealand has been published with financial support from Te Papa, the Foundation for Science and Technology, and NIWA. It involved 44 authors from New Zealand and overseas.
While there have been other books covering various groups of fishes, this is the first definitive guide to New Zealand fish since the 1872 book written by Frederick Hutton and James Hector.
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Duration: 18'31"
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1:10 First Song
'New Histories' - Brooke Fraser.
1:20 Richie Retires - Barry Guy
RNZ's rugby reporter Barry Guy has been to hear Richie McCaw announce his retirement as All Blacks captain. All Blacks captain Richie McCaw has announced his retirement. It comes after intense speculation since he led the team to historic back-to-back World Cup victories last month. RNZ's sports journalist, Barry Guy, was at the media announcement at New Zealand Rugby House, in Wellington earlier today.
1:27 The World of Roses - Leanne Killalea
In May, the Lady Norwood Rose Garden, was presented with one of the Garden of Excellence Awards, at the World Federation of Rose Societies, in France. And today, a plaque will be unveiled at the Wellington Botanic Gardens. Leanne Killalea is team manager of plant collections at Wellington City Council's Botanic Gardens.
1:34 The Coywolf - Professor Roland Kays
It's rare for a new animal species to emerge in front of our very eyes, but that seems to be happening in the US, with a new animal scientists are calling the coywolf, with the hunting skill of a coyote and the strength and speed of a wolf. Roland Kays is Research Associate Professor and Director, Biodiversity & Earth Observation Lab, Nature Research Center, at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and he's been studying the new species.
1:40 Favourite album
The Best Of Phoebe Snow. Chosen by Wendy Hawkey.
2:10 Money With Mary Holm
Financial author and columnist and seminar-leader, Mary Holm is back to discuss your personal finances. On today's programme we'll be talking about how you can get through Christmas without going broke.
2:30 Sirocco - Peta Mathias
In part eight of 'Sirocco', Hicham (pron. Ee'-sham) and Latifa (La' tee far') take Peta Mathias and her photographer friend Anna up the coast towards Tangier, where eventually they will be staying.
2:45 Food Guest - Storm Bellamy
Our next guest has her own brand of tea based here in New Zealand. She is Storm Bellamy of Storm and India.
3:10 Masterpieces - Ray Henwood
Ray has chosen his favourite New Zealand acting performance.
3:25 The Expats - Sammy Curtis
Imagine not having a winter for a few years. That's what Sammy Curtis has been doing. He's a keen cricketer, playing domestic cricket here in NZ, then spending time in the UK playing county cricket. He's now in Australia passing on his cricket knowledge to the next generation.
3:30 Our Changing World
It weighs 11 kilograms, comes in four fat volumes, and includes descriptions of every one of New Zealand's more-than 1250 marine and freshwater fish, ranging from rock pool favourites to mysterious deep sea creatures known from just a single specimen. Alison Ballance heads to Te Papa to meet the editors of the new book 'The Fishes of New Zealand'.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about with Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zara Potts.
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Thursday 19 November
OPENING SONG:
ARTIST: Brooke Fraser
TITLE: New Histories
COMP: Fraser
ALBUM: Brutal Romantic
LABEL: Sony
FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST: Phoebe Snow
TITLE: Poetry Man
COMP: Snow
ALBUM: Best of Phoebe Snow
LABEL: Columbia
ARTIST: Phoebe Snow
TITLE: Every Night
COMP: McCartney
ALBUM: Best of Phoebe Snow
LABEL: Columbia
ARTIST: Phoebe Snow
TITLE: Don't Let Me Down
COMP: Lennon, McCartney
ALBUM: Best of Phoebe Snow
LABEL: Columbia
ARTIST: Phoebe Snow
TITLE: Harpo's Blues
COMP: Snow
ALBUM: Best of Phoebe Snow
LABEL: Columbia
HALFTIME:
ARTIST: Sedaka
TITLE: The Immigrant
COMP: Cody, Sedaka
ALBUM: Neil Sedaka: Laughter In The Rain, The Best Of 1974-1980 (Compilation)
LABEL: Varesesarabande
===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
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An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
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The Panel Pre-Show
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What the world is talking about with Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zara Potts.
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16:06
The Panel with Tony Doe and Selwyn Manning (Part 1)
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What the Panelists Tony Doe and Selwyn Manning have been up to. The impact of Jonah Lomu's life and death around the world. Ritchie McCaw today officially announced his retirement from rugby. Should he have waited until after the Jonah Lomu news had settled? A dozen convicted criminals have today arrived in New Zealand from the Australian detention centre at Christmas Island and indigenous studies professor Jon Altman of the Australian National University talks about Tuhoe's proposal to run it's own schools, healthcare and welfare.
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The Panel with Tony Doe and Selwyn Manning (Part 2)
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Americans are fearful of accepting Syrian immigrants. What the Panelists Tony Doe and Selwyn Manning have been thinking about. Adam Mercer of the Auckland Architectural Association talks about why employers want hot desking and the economics of it. Under a new proposal Dunedin secondary schools would have strict zoning with students to attend the school closest to them. November 19, 2010. 3.45 pm. The first explosion at Pike River. You don't forget those days.
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The Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Tony Doe and Selwyn Manning have been up to.
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16:12
Jonah sensation
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The impact of Jonah Lomu's life and death around the world.
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16:19
Bye bye Ritchie McCaw
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Ritchie McCaw today officially announced his retirement from rugby. Should he have waited until after the Jonah Lomu news had settled?
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Duration: 1'28"
16:20
Christmas Island deportees arrive
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A dozen convicted criminals have today arrived in New Zealand from the Australian detention centre at Christmas Island.
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Duration: 4'57"
16:25
Tuhoe want to run their own social services
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Indigenous studies professor Jon Altman of the Australian National University talks about Tuhoe's proposal to run it's own schools, healthcare and welfare.
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Duration: 8'36"
16:36
Americans reject refugees
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Americans are fearful of accepting Syrian immigrants.
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Panel Says
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What the Panelists Tony Doe and Selwyn Manning have been thinking about.
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16:44
Hot desking
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Adam Mercer of the Auckland Architectural Association talks about why employers want hot desking and the economics of it.
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16:52
Pike River
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November 19, 2010. 3.45 pm. The first explosion at Pike River. You don't forget those days.
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School zoning and specialisation
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Under a new proposal Dunedin secondary schools would have strict zoning with students to attend the school closest to them.
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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RNZ's two-hour news and current affairs programme
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Checkpoint Top Stories for Thursday 19 November 2015
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New heights for Richie McCaw, Christmas Island detainees arrive in Auckland and a stark warning for New Zealanders living near the sea.
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17:08
Richie McCaw says farewell to his 14-year All Black career
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Today Richie McCaw has said farewell to his 14-year All Black career.
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Duration: 4'22"
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12 Christmas Island detainees land in Auckland
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Twelve New Zealanders deported from Australia have landed at Auckland International Airport and are now in the community.
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17:17
Rising sea levels like an unfolding red zone - PCE Jan Wright
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The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Jan Wright, has delivered a strong warning about rising sea levels describing the damage as a slowly unfolding redzone.
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Duration: 3'42"
17:20
Raid on a flat in a northern suburb of Paris ends in bloodshed
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The fate of the suspected organiser of the Paris attacks remains unknown following a police raid on a flat in the northern suburb of St Denis which ended in bloodshed.
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Duration: 4'26"
17:25
Domestic flights may soon have luggage screened
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Passengers travelling on domestic flights within New Zealand may soon need to have their luggage screened.
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Duration: 3'14"
17:28
61-year-old saves elderly neighbour from fire
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A woman who helped her neighbour escape from a burning house says she would not have been able to live with herself if she hadn't gone to the rescue.
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17:34
Today's market update
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The pick up in economic activitiy appears to be feeding through to the labour market.
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Duration: 1'57"
17:36
Man accused of killing stop-go road worker appears in court
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The man charged with killing road worker George Taiaroa has been granted name supression after appearing in court today.
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Duration: 2'05"
17:38
Union battling "toxic" environment in DHBs
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The senior doctors union says it's had to employ extra industrial officers to cope with an increasingly toxic environment in district health boards.
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Duration: 4'14"
17:42
Former Ak Grammar teacher sentenced to home detention
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A former maths and economics teacher at one of Auckland's top schools got credit cards in the name of a missing man and ran up thousands of dollars in debt to fund his gambling addiction.
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Duration: 2'18"
17:45
Christmas Island detainees sent home in handcuffs
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As 12 detainees from Christmas Island touch down in Auckland, the co-leader of a government ally, the Māori Party, has come out swinging, saying the actions of Australia have been disgusting.
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Duration: 2'22"
17:47
Lack of info on detainees "stinks"
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The grandfather of a detainee is frustrated he's not been able to find out whether his 22 year old relative was flown back to New Zealand today.
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Duration: 2'28"
17:50
The Taranaki missing person case
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A search and rescue expert has told a court he immediately suspected a missing persons case in Taranaki, involved foul play or a suicide.
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Duration: 1'57"
17:52
Destination Queenstown welcomes new gondola
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A developer in Queenstown hopes to build a fifty million dollar gondola rising nearly ten kilometres up into the Remarkables ski field
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Duration: 3'22"
17:54
Calls for tourism workers to be paid more
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Tourism operators have been told they need to pay their workers more, and offer better training and career paths to attract tens of thousands more people to the industry within ten years.
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Duration: 3'35"
18:07
Sports News for 19 November 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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18:12
New heights for Richie McCaw
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The All Black captain Richie McCaw has confirmed he is hanging up his boots.
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Duration: 8'05"
18:20
$39m rebuild for Wellington school
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The government has announced yet another multi-million dollar rebuild of a school with dodgy buildings.
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Duration: 3'15"
18:23
Trade and security the main topics at APEC
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Trade and security will be the main topics of conversation at the APEC leaders retreat, which is now underway in Manila.
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Duration: 4'52"
18:27
Christchurch Art Galley work completed on time and on budget
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After thousands of hours, blood, sweat and tears, foundation work on the Christchurch Art Gallery has been complete, on time and on budget.
Topics: arts
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Christchurch Art Gallery, regional developement
Duration: 2'30"
18:34
Under 17 coach remembers young Jonah
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The coach who first put Jonah Lomu into a black jersey has paid tribute to the rugby great, who died suddenly yesterday at the age of forty.
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Duration: 4'31"
18:39
US presidential policy scrabble post Paris
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The Paris terror attacks are forcing US presidential candidates to focus on national security, and fast.
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Duration: 5'48"
18:45
PNG drought situation grim despite recent rain
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Recent heavy rain across much of Papua New Guinea's Highlands, seems to have done little to ease the severe drought affecting three million people.
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Duration: 3'39"
18:50
Today In Parliament for 19 November 2015 - evening edition
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Urgency ends after completion of committee stage of the Local Government (Auckland Transitional Provisions) Amendment Bill; ACT's David Seymour puts questions about Auckland public access issues to Treaty Negotiations Minister Christopher Finlayson.
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Duration: 5'13"
18:54
Indigenous health workers visit prisoners
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Indigenous health workers from around the world have visited the special treatment and dependency treatment unit at Waikeria Prison, with some saying it is a model for what could be done in their countries.
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Duration: 3'40"
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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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Entertainment and information, including: 7:30 At the Movies
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19:30
At The Movies 19 November 2015
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On At The Movies, Simon Morris looks at the well-received science fiction drama, Ex Machina. And the 24th James Bond movie, Spectre, is an excuse to look back on the inexorable rise of the film franchise. When did sequels start to completely dominate the box office?
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Duration: 23'41"
7:30 At the Movies with Simon Morris: Current film releases and film related topics (RNZ) 8:13 Windows on the World: International public radio features and documentaries 9:06 Our Changing World
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21:06
The good and the bad of sunshine
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Material scientist Martin Allen has developed wearable UV sensors that allow school children to monitor their exposure to the sun's ultra-violet radiation.
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Exposure during childhood is very important and it can be quite a large percentage of your total lifetime exposure. Reducing excessive exposure is one way we can reduce the burden of melanoma in this country.
Martin Allen, University of Canterbury
Sun light defines how we perceive our world. The visible spectrum of wavelengths emitted by the sun allows us to see, the infrared radiation provides life-giving warmth, and the ultra-violet radiation is essential for the production of Vitamin D, which in turn is important for bone health.
But too much exposure to UV radiation, which accounts for 9 per cent of the sun’s spectrum, burns our skin, damages collagen and DNA in skin cells, and is responsible for New Zealand’s high rates of melanoma.
The same high-energy wavelengths are both essential and damaging for health, says Martin Allen, a material scientist at the University of Canterbury, who has developed wearable electronic UV sensors to measure people’s exposure to UV and to work out how much is good and how much is bad.
Historically, UV exposure was measured with chemical badges, but the latest technology includes an electronic detector, linked to a micro-processor, which delivers a continuous measurement of how much UV is taken up by skin.
The size of a large button, the sensors can be pinned to a shirt, worn like a watch on a wrist band or attached to helmets or hard hats to monitor UV exposure of people who spend most of their day outdoors.
Martin Allen says he is particularly interested in monitoring UV exposure in children.
"Exposure during childhood is very important and it can be quite a large percentage of your total lifetime exposure. Reducing excessive exposure is one way we can reduce the burden of melanoma in this country.”
Working with expat Kiwi researcher Myles Cockburn at the University of California, he has already introduced a sun-smart educational programme in schools in Los Angeles, with promising results.
Students were equipped with UV detectors which display their exposure levels in real time, and they set up their own dosimetry laboratory where they mapped out UV levels throughout their school grounds and set up experiments to test the protection levels of sunscreens, shaded areas and hats.
He says a similar programme is already underway at a school in Christchurch, mostly initiated by a student whose family has a history of melanoma, but he would like to see it rolled out in schools across New Zealand.
The whole idea is that if you get kids to learn things for themselves, with some guidance, but you actually give them the tools to learn for themselves, this leads to more lasting behavioural changes. And this is what they found. They found that sun safe behaviour improves when children do these kinds of experiments.
As part of his Rutherford Discovery Fellowship, he is also working on new materials that can pick up individual wavelengths in the sun’s UV spectrum to work out which of them are responsible for the skin damage and which are necessary for the Vitamin D production.
Martin Allen is one of the speakers in the Royal Society of New Zealand’s Luminaries lecture series which marks the International Year of Light. If you’re in Nelson on Monday, November 23, you can catch his lecture live at 7.30 at the Masonic Hall, or you can watch it on a live-stream.
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Duration: 12'03"
21:20
Coastal crabs - a go-to-guide
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NIWA has produced some electronic field guides to coastal creatures, including one on crabs
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Clambering around a beach to find starfish, sponges, and crustaceans lurking in the rock pools is part of a classic kiwi summer.
But more often than not the exact details of what each species and its varieties are called remains a mystery, so NIWA, has released a series of interactive PDF e-guides to help amateur scientists identify the creatures around them.
Behind the latest guide on Coastal Crabs is marine biologist Serena Wilkens who was hooked on marine life from an early age.
“Even as a little girl I was always playing in the water and growing up in the water and I think it was just a natural progression for me. As I got older and I could learn to scuba dive I did, I went snorkelling as much as I could, I went fishing whenever I could. Then when I found out I could do this for a career it was all on”.
Serena went on to study marine biology at University where she gained a PhD which landed her a job doing what she loves at NIWA.
“I’m pure marine biology. Whether it’s on top of the water or under the water, I do a lot of diving, a lot of field work and obviously there’s office work as well,” she says.
“It’s a job with a lot of variation and is a very rewarding career, being out on boats; I think it’s all just really enjoyable.”
She’s not the only one who finds it attractive. Statistics New Zealand data shows the number of women working in life sciences jumped to 44 percent in 2013. Double what it was in 1991.
Serena’s hopeful the guides will lure more people to paying attention to what’s around them and encourage the next generation to enter the career as well.
“I think New Zealanders have grown up with the marine environment right on their back doorsteps and I think it’s fair to say most children have a fascination with what’s hiding under rocks and living in rock pools,” she says.
That fascination can be found in New Zealanders as young as two years old. At Kindercare Upper Hutt the children already know two songs and a story about kai moana, taniwha and sharks.
Their knowledge of crabs is diverse. Benji Murdoch knows crabs are orange and Madison Wilkens knows they can pinch and live in the water.
Everyone agrees that crabs eat grass but that might be something best checked in the guide which Serena says is purposely designed for anyone to pick up and use.
“They are really clear and they’re really easy to follow, which is one of the reasons we developed them and made them simple,” she says.
As well as crabs, NIWA’s free e-guides to coastal critters cover Awesome Ascidians, Splendid Sponges and Extraordinary Echinoderms.
Serena Wilkens has been on Our Changing World previously, talking about how marine larvae are attracted to the hulls of boats by underwater ship noise such as generators.
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Duration: 13'02"
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Sir James Hector's scientific legacy
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Science historian Simon Nathan discusses his biography of Sir James Hector, New Zealand's first government scientist.
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Hector’s work and encouragement to publish results marked the beginning of the growth of science in New Zealand. People stopped thinking that you had to send material overseas to have it described.
Simon Nathan, Hector's biographer
It’s 150 years since a young James Hector arrived in Wellington to take up his position as New Zealand's first government scientist. His legacy continues to this day, with several science institutions that can trace their beginnings to Hector’s insistence that New Zealand needed them.
The Colonial Museum he founded is now Te Papa Tongarewa, the Geological Survey he headed has since evolved into GNS Science and the New Zealand Institute has become the Royal Society of New Zealand.
We also have Hector to thank for the MetService, Wellington’s botanical gardens, and the fact that time is standardised across the country. His name lives on in more than 50 plants and animals, with Hector’s dolphins perhaps the best known example.
In his new biography – James Hector: Explorer, Scientist, Leader – science historian Simon Nathan charts Hector’s rise to becoming NewZealand's go-to person for anything to do with science.
Hector first came to New Zealand to carry out a geological survey of the Otago province, but after gold was discovered in Central Otago, he was appointed New Zealand’s first government scientist, tasked with the management of a nation-wide geological survey.
Hector’s own definition of his job was far broader than geology. During a year he spent in London he had been inspired by various learned societies and initiatives to start museums. When he was asked what he needed to carry out a geological survey of New Zealand, he asked for a museum to store any specimens he would find and for a laboratory to analyse mineral samples.
He thought of it as part of the job. He was exploring a new country and as well as looking at the rocks he should be looking at the plants and animals and he was very strong on weather recording.
Once several institutions were set up, Hector went through a “biological period”, collecting fossils, dispatching other naturalists across the country to collect plants and animals and focusing his own efforts on describing New Zealand’s whales and dolphins.
As it turned out, he was so busy with fieldwork that he couldn’t attend the opening of the Colonial Museum, leaving scientist-cum-politician Walter Mantell to design the layout of the collections and exhibits.
Mantell’s most notable association was with Richard Owen at the British Museum, whom he supplied with crates full of moa bones. Simon Nathan says Mantell was regarded as the moa expert in New Zealand, but in the end, it was Owen who gained fame and fortune from the reconstruction of the largest moa skeleton. This colonial relationship was typical of the time, with New Zealand scientists being seen as mere collectors.
"One of the reasons we can be grateful to Hector is that he was very keen that anything that was done under his direction should be published."
To this end, he founded the first scientific journal in New Zealand, the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, which he edited for 35 years.
Up to that point every specimen was usually sent to Britain for experts there to work on it. All plants and animals and fossils. Hector’s work and encouragement to publish results marked the beginning of the growth of science in New Zealand. People stopped thinking that you had to send material overseas to have it described.
You can also listen to Simon Nathan's interview with RNZ's Kim Hill, in which he explores Hector's relationship with Julius von Haast.
Hector had his fingers in many pies, but he was good at delegating. “He was fairly controlling, but also encouraging. He encouraged staff to write up scientific papers and he directed them as to where they should go. He told them what they should do but left the doing to them.”
He employed the same approach to the study of New Zealand’s natural history, appointing Walter Buller and Frederick Hutton to study birds and John Buchanan to describe plants. His own focus turned to cetaceans, New Zealand’s whales and dolphins.
Simon Nathan thinks that Hector wanted to use his medical training and his knowledge of anatomy and dissection techniques to make his own contribution. “He described a lot of [species] in a major paper on what was then known about whales and dolphins in New Zealand, and that’s where he first described Hector’s dolphin. The interesting thing for people studying the dolphins now is that it was much more widely spread when he described it than it is today.”
One of Hector’s lesser known contributions is the standardisation of time across New Zealand. Back then, time was determined astronomically and every town had its local astronomer. It was only in 1868, when the first Cook Strait cables were laid to allow for the transmission of telegrams that it became important that offices in different places had the same opening hours.
Always a diplomat, Hector suggested that the time at longitude 172’30’’, which runs through Christchurch, should be used as a national standard to avoid an argument between the new capital Wellington and Dunedin.
“Because of that New Zealand was one of the first countries in the world to have a standard time.”
Simon Nathan says Hector would be gratified to know that many of the organisations he founded are still here today. “He would have had a little chuckle that he had the weight of responsibility for all those organisations on his shoulder.”
James Hector: Explorer, Scientist, Leader is published by the Geoscience Society of New Zealand, and Simon Nathan will also speak at the History of Science conference at Victoria University next week.
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Duration: 15'18"
21:46
Fishes of New Zealand
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The Fishes of New Zealand is the first definitive guide to all of our freshwater and marine fishes since 1872, and it includes more than 1260 species
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“I’ve never met a fish I didn’t like.”
Andrew Stewart, collection manager and fish expert, Te Papa
It weighs 11 kilograms, comes in four fat volumes, and includes descriptions of every one of New Zealand’s more-than 1250 marine and freshwater fish, ranging from rock pool favourites to mysterious deep sea creatures known from just a single specimen.
Twenty years in the making, The Fishes of New Zealand, published by Te Papa Press (2015), is a big, scholarly work that will also have huge public appeal for everyone who is passionate about fishing or just curious about the natural world.
The smallest fish in the book is a clingfish, while the largest is the whale shark, which is an occasional summer visitor in warmer northern waters and can reach more than 12 metres in length.
It involved 44 authors from New Zealand and overseas, and was edited by Te Papa vertebrate curator Clive Roberts, collection manager Andrew Stewart, and research and technical officer Carl Struthers.
“Over 20 per cent of the fish fauna is native to New Zealand, unique to our waters,” says Clive Roberts.
Eighty per cent of the fishes found here are found elsewhere as well, and one of the challenges of the book was to ensure that the naming of fish in book agreed with fish names from other places.
“There’s a lot of ocean that hasn’t been explored,” explains Andrew Stewart. “More than half of our EEZ [exclusive economic zone] is deeper than 2000 metres and … we only have a handful of specimens from below 2000 metres. And so this area is just a great white page to us. What’s there? We don’t really know.”
Each species in the book has a page that includes either a photograph or an illustration, and a description, notes about names and a brief description about the biology.
While primarily a reference book that ensures the correct naming of all known fish species, the editors hope that the book will have wider appeal.
The editors had to impose a cut-off date of 2013 for the book, and since then 14 new fish species have been discovered in New Zealand’s Exclusive Economic Zone, which is the area covered in the book.
Carl Struthers says the thrill of discovering new species never wears off, whether that’s a new specimen coming into the museum from one of the many people who collect fish for the Te Papa collection, or from recognising that an existing specimen in the collection is not what was previously thought.
There are more than 300,000 specimens in the Te Papa collection that have been named, and Andrew estimates there are still a further 100,000 species that need to be worked on.
The Fishes of New Zealand has been published with financial support from Te Papa, the Foundation for Science and Technology, and NIWA. It involved 44 authors from New Zealand and overseas.
While there have been other books covering various groups of fishes, this is the first definitive guide to New Zealand fish since the 1872 book written by Frederick Hutton and James Hector.
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Tags: fish, fishes, sharks, books, natural history, Te Papa, taxonomy
Duration: 18'31"
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The sound of shark skin
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The prickly dogfish is a small deepsea shark with very rough skin. Shark skin is made from 'dermal denticles' which are like teeth
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Shark skin is made from 'dermal denticles' that are effectively tiny teeth - and a shark is covered in thousands of them, which makes them streamlined in one direction and very sharp and rough in the other. So what does shark skin sound like? Like a very unshaven man's face.
This little story about a deep sea shark called a prickly dogfish features Carl Struthers from Te Papa, and is part of a longer story about the Fishes of New Zealand.
Our Changing World also recently featured Brit Finucci talking about other small deep sea shark species, including spookfish and chimaeras.
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Duration: 47"
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Dance with a difference
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exploring one's own fears while adjusting to life with multiple sclerosis - Restless Dance Theatre artistic director and ballet dancer Michelle Ryan on returning to the stage for Intimacy...
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Duration: 18'55"
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The Cultural Ambassadors - Poetry
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VUW Modern Letters Creative Writing workshop convener Cliff Fell recites the influence of the "classic" poems and poets... Emily Dickinson, the mysterious mystical recluse of Amherst, Massachusetts...
Topics: life and society
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Duration: 17'18"
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Conundrum - clues 7 and 8
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Conundrum - clues 7 and 8.
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