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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:
13 December 2015
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 History Repeated (RNZ); 1:05 Our Changing World (RNZ); 2:05 Spiritual Outlook (RNZ); 2:35 Hymns on Sunday; 3:05 The Elusive Language of Ducks, by Judith White, read by Jane Waddell (7 of 10, RNZ); 3:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi ( RNZ); 4:30 Science in Action (BBC); 5:45 NZ Society (RNZ)
===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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Mrs Parata Rides Again, by Ruth Darroch, told by Tanea Heke; Annie Laurie, by Paddy Richardson, told by Perry Piercy; Dirt is Freedom, by Norman Bilbrough, told by Barrie Duncan; Piggity Wiggity Jiggity Jig goes to Dad's Café, by Diana Neild, told by Peter Land; Bad Tempered Bird Brain, by Janice Leitch, told by Michele Amas; A Summery Saturday Morning, by Margaret Mahy, told by Bronwyn Bradley; Sam, Max, Harold and Jane Roberts make a video for TV, by Roger Hall, told by Bruce Phillips (RNZ)
===7:08 AM. | Sunday Morning===
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A fresh attitude on current affairs, the news behind the news, in-depth documentaries, sport from the outfield, politics from the insiders, music and including:
7:43 The Week in Parliament: An in-depth perspective of legislation and other issues from the house (RNZ)
8:10 Insight: An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs (RNZ)
9:06 Mediawatch: Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in NZ's news media (RNZ)
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07:12
RNZ political reporter on Paris UN climate change conference
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The UN is in the final stages of settling an historic agreement to tackle climate change. RNZ's political reporter Chris Bramwell is there.
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Duration: 7'19"
07:19
Dr Ralph Chapman
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Ralph Chapman was a negotiator of the Kyoto Protocol for the NZ Government, and has worked on climate change policy since 1988.
Topics: environment, economy, climate, energy
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Tags: Paris UN climate change conference 2015, Dr Ralph Chapman, COP21
Duration: 10'26"
07:30
The Week In Parliament Sunday 13 December
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Speaker grants urgent debate on non-renewal of Serco's Mt Eden prison management contract, which is also the subject of questions to the Prime Minister; John Key also questioned about his "Labour backs rapists" comment - something he withdraws and apologises for later in the week; Labour Leader Andrew Little accepts comments made by him and other Labour MPs questioning the Speaker's impartiality were unparliamentary; Reserve Bank Governor updates MPs on OCR cut; Submissions on Paid Parental Leave Bill; SIS Security Director appears before Intelligence and Security Committee for annual review; Adjournment debate provides Speaker David Carter with a chance to give a rundown of the year in the House.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 15'08"
07:47
Tony Blakely on PHARMAC
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Keytruda is the latest potentially life-saving cancer drug to hit the headlines. Like Herceptine before it, there have been many stories in the media about cancer sufferers who would be saved if only PHARMAC would fund it. Some Oncologists are calling Keytruda a real game changer. And as with Herceptine, PHARMAC is resisting until there's solid evidence that the drug really does work - but some politicians are once again arguing it should be fast-tracked.
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Duration: 12'22"
08:40
Dr Jessica Hutchings
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Dr Jessica Hutchings is a kaupapa Maori researcher who says that growing food for one's community is a political act. She is promoting Maori food sovereignty and the system called hua parakore - Maori organic growing, which involves organic practices grounded in a Maori world view.
Topics: te ao Maori, environment, food
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Tags: Maori organic gardening, hua parakore, Dr Jessica Hutchings, Te Waka Kai Ora
Duration: 19'18"
09:40
Plain English champion Lynda Harris
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Lynda Harris started a one woman company 25 years ago called WRITE. With 23 staff, it has become the largest plain language company in the world. In September, Lynda was awarded the MOWAT award in Ireland - recognizing her contribution to the plain English field internationally.
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Duration: 19'17"
10:07
Dame Jenny Shipley
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The right honorable Dame Jenny Shipley talks about her life and influences.
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Dame Jenny Shipley became New Zealand's first female prime minister in 1997.
Since leaving Parliament in 2002 she has chaired a number of boards including Genesis Energy and the China Construction Bank. In this, the latest in our occasional series Influential Kiwis talk about the Influences.
Dame Jenny shares her memories of everyone from her Presbyterian minister father, Len Robson, to Margaret Thatcher.
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Duration: 49'59"
11:07
Peter Wells
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The country's inaugural LGBTIQ writers festival is happening early in 2016. Author and filmmaker Peter Wells who co-founded the Auckland writers festival is behind the new festival which is called 'Same same but different'.
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Duration: 17'07"
11:30
Emma Mildon
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From a young age Emma Mildon was drawn to tarot cards, candles, angel sculptures, aromatherapy. She sleeps with her head facing east and is constantly downloading spiritual insights. She receives spiritual insights from her messengers. She's written a book called the Soul Searcher's handbook - the modern girl's guide to The New Age World.
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Duration: 22'37"
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7:08 Current affairs
Radio New Zealand correspondent Chris Bramwell joins us as the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris wraps up, and Dr Ralph Chapman, the Director of the Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies at Victoria University, gives his opinion on the conference and its outcome; and, professor Tony Blakely examines the case for and against funding the new melanoma drug Keystruda. Plus: The Week in Parliament.
8:12 Insight Albania -Shadows of the Past
In Albania, archives are being unlocked and new monuments put up in an effort to redefine who Albanians are now, after a painful past marked by prison labour camps, concrete bunkers and secret police headquarters. But the BBC's Maria Margaronis investigates if the efforts by the nation's new leaders represent real change, or are they just an attempt to plaster over the cracks and reinforce Albania's plan to enter the EU.
8:40 Jessica Hutchings - Hua Parakore
Dr Jessica Hutchings is a kaupapa Maori researcher who says that growing food for one's community is a political act. She talks about Maori food sovereignty and the system called hua parakore - Maori organic growing which involves organic practices which are grounded in a Maori world view.
9:06 Mediawatch
An inquiry finds no evidence of deliberate delays to reporters' requests for official information - do they accept that? Also: The rising clamour for cancer drug funding, and big name broadcasters doing down big city cycling.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:36 Lynda Harris - Plain English
In her crusade against jargon and other gobbledegook, Lynda Harris is spreading the word about the great benefits of using plain English. She founded the company, Write, 25 years ago to promote and teach plain English and has clients around the world. She set up the Plain English Awards 10 years ago, and this year she also received an international award for her work. She has recently published Rewrite: How to overcome daily sabotage of your brand and profit.
10:06 Dame Jenny Shipley: Life and Influences
Dame Jenny Shipley became New Zealand's first female prime minister in 1997. Since leaving Parliament in 2002 she has chaired a number of boards including Genesis Energy and the China Construction Bank. In this, the latest in our occasional series Influential Kiwis talk about the Influences, Dame Jenny shares her memories of everyone from her Presbyterian minister father, Len Robson, to Margaret Thatcher.
11:05 Peter Wells - Same Same Different
Twenty five years ago Peter Wells wrote a breakthrough book. Dangerous Desires was the the first book to be published by an openly gay author in New Zealand. Since then Peter Wells has gone from strength to strength with his novel writing, as well as writing for stage and screen. He has just launched a literary festival for the LGBTIQ community called Same Same but Different. He joins Wallace to look back on his career and to talk about why New Zealand needs more LGBTIQ voices.
11:35 Emma Mildon - Soul Searcher
Emma Mildon's The Soul Searchers Handbook has just reached number one on the Amazon best seller list - the book is a guide to New Age spirituality for a younger generation. Emma Mildon talks to Wallace about how she was looking for a quick, easy spiritual fix to solve her soul's ache.
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Artist: Taylor Swift
Song: Shake It Off
Composer: (Max Martin / Shellback / Taylor Swift)
Album: 1989
Label: BIGMACHINE
Broadcast Time: 9:40
Artist: Beach Boys
Song: Wouldn't It Be Nice
Composer: B Wilson/T Asher
Album: CAPITOL
Label: Pet Sounds
Broadcast Time: 10:35
Artist: Leonard Cohen
Song: Hallelujah
Composer: Cohen
Album: The Essential Leonard Cohen
Label: COLUMBIA
Broadcast Time:10:55
Artist: ACDC
Song: Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap
Composer: (Scott, Young, Young)
Album: Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap
Label: EPIC
Broadcast Time: 11:30
Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Song: Death to My Hometown
Composer: Springsteen
Album: Wrecking Ball
Label: COLUMBIA
Broadcast Time: 11:55
===12:11 PM. | Spectrum===
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People, places and events in New Zealand (RNZ)
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12:15
Tapping into the Past
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The Cook Islands' traditional form of tattoo which was all but wiped out by colonisation but there are some ta tatau artists who are keeping the old ways alive.
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By Daniela Maoate-Cox
Hands in black pull the skin tight as fine bone points pierce it with ink.
A breeze rustles through the thatched roof and a rooster’s crow floats over the riddims of Bob Marley and the tapping of tatau tools.
"Bob Marley, Salmonella dub or Tiki, those three. It’s just got a good vibe to it,” says the man under the hammer, Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.
“Bob and tatau were made for each other,” tatau artist Croc chips in.
Croc moves the ‘ui tatau, a comb-like chisel, up the back of Thomas’ right leg, matching the markings on his left.
It’s a sensitive spot and the full work, which draws upon traditional Cook Island designs, will require a few more sessions to finish.
While there are many who believe tatau belongs to Samoa and is not a part of Cook Islands culture, Thomas disagrees.
Through his job as head of guidance at a local Rarotongan high school, he discovered that a strong sense of identity is created through knowing about history.
And through exploring the Cook Islands’ history of tatau, he says he found that it had been eradicated by the missionaries who deemed it to be a pagan practice.
“Interestingly people here say 'it’s not in our culture, we don’t tattoo', or 'we didn’t tattoo', or 'if you want to receive a tattoo then that’s not being Maori'.
"Which I find interesting because our very close cousins in New Zealand, Aotearoa, are tattooed.”
The renaissance of Cook Islands tatau is linked back to two events in the early 1990s. One is the teaching of the technique by a Samoan tufuga ta tatau, or master tattooist, Sua Sulu’ape Paulo II who felt tatau should be given back to other Pacific nations.
The other is the 1992 Pacific Arts Festival held in the Cook Islands.
“That really was our awakening around the fact that yes, we can receive tattoo”, Thomas says.
“Now it’s just making the connection to culturally and ancestrally what’s ours, which is tatau. It’s not the machine of course, it’s using traditional tools and traditional methods to receive the tattoo.”
Croc is one of those practicing the traditional method. He’s an Englishman who learned the craft from Moko Ink’s, Inia Taylor, in New Zealand, who in turn learned from Sulu’ape.
“I see it in Europe a lot, tattoo is in its form which is awesome,” he says. “But it’s also out of control, you’ve got young people running around there that have just their hands, or their neck or face tattooed. Sounds odd coming from me but I find it shocking”.
So Croc is practicing his skill in the Cook Islands where the revival is in its early steps and he can help restore what was lost.
Topics: Pacific
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Duration: 20'25"
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===12:37 PM. | Standing Room Only===
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It's an 'all access pass' to what's happening in the worlds of arts and entertainment, including: 3:04 The Drama Hour: Fair Winds to the South Seas, by Brian Millard 13 December 1642 was the first recorded sighting of NZ (RNZ)
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12:40
Christchurch Art Gallery reopens
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After five years of frantic activity, the earthquake damaged Christchurch Art Gallery is about to reopen, earthquake strengthened and with some other nifty alterations. Initially after the big quake, the gallery was the hub for civil defence and the city council. But once the full extent of the damage to the relatively new building was revealed, it had to shut down and the gallery, including director Jenny Harper, came up with new ways of displaying art out on the streets.
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After five years of frantic activity, the earthquake damaged Christchurch Art Gallery is about to reopen, earthquake strengthened and with some other nifty alterations. Initially after the big quake, the gallery was the hub for civil defence and the city council. But once the full extent of the damage to the relatively new building was revealed, it had to shut down and the gallery, including director Jenny Harper, came up with new ways of displaying art out on the streets.
Topics: arts
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Canterbury earthquakes, Christchurch Art Gallery, earthquakes, natural disasters, arts funding, arts policy, community, gallery
Duration: 10'22"
12:52
Film producer Matthew Metcalfe
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Matthew Metcalfe is a film producer who has been working in the industry for nearly 20 years. Among the many films he's produced are Nemesis Game, The Ferryman, Dean Spanley, and the Rhys Darby and Sally Hawkins helmed rom-com Love Birds. As well as features Matthew works on documentaries like Giselle and the Everest epic Beyond The Edge. He's also produced many videos including the Tui Award winning Che Fu clip for Fade Away. 2016 will bring a new film that Matthew has produced, the London set feature 6 Days which looks at the 1980 Iranian Embassy seige.
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Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: film, Iran, London, 6 Days, Iranian Embassy seige, producing, producer, arts funding
Duration: 17'42"
12:52
Film producer Matthew Metcalfe
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Matthew Metcalfe is a film producer who has been working in the industry for nearly 20 years. Among the many films he's produced are Nemesis Game, The Ferryman, Dean Spanley, and the Rhys Darby and Sally Hawkins helmed rom-com Love Birds. As well as features Matthew works on documentaries like Giselle and the Everest epic Beyond The Edge. He's also produced many videos including the Tui Award winning Che Fu clip for Fade Away. 2016 will bring a new film that Matthew has produced, the London set feature 6 Days which looks at the 1980 Iranian Embassy seige.
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Matthew Metcalfe is a film producer who has been working in the industry for nearly 20 years. Among the many films he’s produced are Nemesis Game, The Ferryman, Dean Spanley, and the Rhys Darby and Sally Hawkins helmed rom-com Love Birds. As well as features Matthew works on documentaries like Giselle and the Everest epic Beyond The Edge. He’s also produced many videos including the Tui Award winning Che Fu clip for Fade Away. 2016 will bring a new film that Matthew has produced, the London set feature 6 Days which looks at the 1980 Iranian Embassy seige.
Topics: arts, music
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: film, Iran, London, 6 Days, Iranian Embassy seige, producing, arts funding
Duration: 17'42"
13:33
Eye in the Sky: A Drone Above New Zealand
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An asset or a pest? It all depends on how you look at drones. But for photographer Grant Sheehan, they've opened up all kinds of opportunities to photograph New Zealand from different aerial angles. Well, that was before new laws came in a couple of months ago restricting the way drones are used. Before then Grant was able to fly his drones over much of the country, over landscapes and scrap car yards, farms and city centres. He's brought together a collection of these photos in Eye in the Sky: A Drone Above New Zealand.
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An asset or a pest? It all depends on how you look at drones. But for photographer Grant Sheehan, they've opened up all kinds of opportunities to photograph New Zealand from different aerial angles. Well, that was before new laws came in a couple of months ago restricting the way drones are used. Before then Grant was able to fly his drones over much of the country, over landscapes and scrap car yards, farms and city centres. He's brought together a collection of these photos in Eye in the Sky: A Drone Above New Zealand.
Topics: arts, technology, author interview, books
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Tags: photography, arts funding, drones
Duration: 11'24"
13:50
Bert van Dijk and the World Song Choir of Devonport
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Actor and choirmaster Bert van Dijk believes everyone can sing. He puts his money where his mouth is by conducting the Devonport World Song Choir, an eclectic bunch of enthusiastic amateurs. Bert teaches a very physical style of singing and achieves remarkable results with his students. But he tells Justin Gregory he spent his early years too scared to even open his mouth.
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Actor and choirmaster Bert van Dijk believes everyone can sing. He puts his money where his mouth is by conducting the Devonport World Song Choir, an eclectic bunch of enthusiastic amateurs. Bert teaches a very physical style of singing and achieves remarkable results with his students. But he tells Justin Gregory he spent his early years too scared to even open his mouth.
Topics: arts, music
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: photograhy, choirs, Choral singing
Duration: 12'36"
14:06
The Laugh Track - Leigh Hart
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Leigh Hart has been in comedy shows on New Zealand screens for quite a long time. As well as his current series, The Late Night Big Breakfast and ACC: Champagne Rugby, Leigh has starred in Moon TV, Leigh Hart's Mysterious Planet, Sportscafe, and a long running ad campaign. Leigh also hosts Radio Hauraki's Bhuja, and is a member of iHeartRadio's cricketing comedy show The Alternative Commentary Collective.
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Leigh Hart has been in comedy shows on New Zealand screens for quite a long time. As well as his current series, The Late Night Big Breakfast and ACC: Champagne Rugby, Leigh has starred in Moon TV, Leigh Hart's Mysterious Planet, Sportscafe, and a long running ad campaign. Leigh also hosts Radio Hauraki's Bhuja, and is a member of iHeartRadio's cricketing comedy show The Alternative Commentary Collective.
Topics: arts
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Monty Python, television, comedy
Duration: 19'04"
14:25
Shhh… The Music is Talking
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Kora, Lorde, Delany Davidson, Marlon Williams, Chris Knox, David Dallas, Sole Mio, Orchestra of Spheres, Neil and Tim Finn, Flight of The Conchords, Trinity Roots, Head like A Hole, The Chills, Disasteradio, Kimbra and a plethora of other New Zealand musicians are all documented in photographer Alexander Halag's new book. Shhh… The Music is Talking covers Alexander's last five years of gig going and in the process captures a moment in our fluctuating culture.
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Kora, Lorde, Delany Davidson, Marlon Williams, Chris Knox, David Dallas, Sole Mio, Orchestra of Spheres, Neil and Tim Finn, Flight of The Conchords, Trinity Roots, Head like A Hole, The Chills, Disasteradio, Kimbra and a plethora of other New Zealand musicians are all documented in photographer Alexander Halag's new book. Shhh… The Music is Talking covers Alexander's last five years of gig going and in the process captures a moment in our fluctuating culture.
Topics: arts, music, history, author interview, books
Regions: Wellington Region, Auckland Region
Tags: photography, Chris Knox, Rackets, Kora, Mighty Mighty, Aaron Tokona, Beastwars, Toy Love
Duration: 11'40"
14:40
Olivia Spencer Bower's discoveries
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The cover shot on a new biography about Christchurch artist Olivia Spencer Bower shows her holding a cigarette and staring right into the camera lense with a wicked smile. For almost 60 years she painted primarily landscapes of her adopted country, always keen to experiment with materials and styles, and befriending other artists including Rita Angus and Colin McCahon. Julie King has told Olivia's story in Olivia Spencer Bower: Making Her Own Discoveries, published by Canterbury University Press.
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The cover shot on a new biography about Christchurch artist Olivia Spencer Bower shows her holding a cigarette and staring right into the camera lense with a wicked smile.
For almost 60 years she painted primarily landscapes of her adopted country, always keen to experiment with materials and styles, and befriending other artists including Rita Angus and Colin McCahon. Julie King has told Olivia's story in Olivia Spencer Bower: Making Her Own Discoveries, published by Canterbury University Press.
Topics: arts, author interview, books, history
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Olivia Spencer Bower, landscapes, painting, Rita Angus, Colin McCahon
Duration: 11'29"
14:49
Building our buildings - past meets future
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Are 3D printers and other new technology a threat to traditional Maori crafts - or the way of the future that allows more people to be creative? Architecture student James Durcan is working with iwi in Gisborne to not only print bricks but to use them to build a small Whare. James won the top prize in the New Zealand Institute of Architects Student Design awards. Lynn Freeman spoke to James along with finalist John Belford-Lelaulu who studies at UNITEC - he's designed a museum for Samoan treasures, basing the design on the traditional Samoan Tattoo's intricately woven patterns.
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Are 3D printers and other new technology a threat to traditional Maori crafts - or the way of the future that allows more people to be creative? Architecture student James Durcan is working with iwi in Gisborne to not only print bricks but to use them to build a small Whare. James won the top prize in the New Zealand Institute of Architects Student Design awards. Lynn Freeman spoke to James along with finalist John Belford-Lelaulu who studies at UNITEC - he's designed a museum for Samoan treasures, basing the design on the traditional Samoan Tattoo's intricately woven patterns.
Topics: arts, te ao Maori
Regions: East Coast, Auckland Region
Tags: design, architecture, 3D printers, NZIA Student Design awards, Samoa
Duration: 8'44"
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12:40 Christchurch Art Gallery reopens
After five years of frantic activity, the earthquake damaged Christchurch Art Gallery is about to reopen, earthquake strengthened and with some other nifty alterations. Initially after the big quake, the gallery was the hub for civil defence and the city council. But once the full extent of the damage to the relatively new building was revealed, it had to shut down and the gallery, including director Jenny Harper, came up with new ways of displaying art out on the streets.
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12:50 Film producer Matthew Metcalfe
Matthew Metcalfe is a film producer who has been working in the industry for nearly 20 years. Among the many films he’s produced are Nemesis Game, The Ferryman, Dean Spanley, and the Rhys Darby and Sally Hawkins helmed rom-com Love Birds. As well as features Matthew works on documentaries like Giselle and the Everest epic Beyond The Edge. He’s also produced many videos including the Tui Award winning Che Fu clip for Fade Away. 2016 will bring a new film that Matthew has produced, the London set feature 6 Days which looks at the 1980 Iranian Embassy seige.
1:10 At The Movies
Simon Morris looks at In The Heart Of The Sea, the true story that inspired the classic novel Moby-Dick. And two Festival favourites – Youth, starring Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel, and one of the big winners at Cannes this year, Taiwan’s The Assassin. It's officially the most successful year at the movie box office ever, but have we had to leave our brains at the door? And what happens when we're confronted with award-winning "pure cinema"?
1:33 Eye in the Sky: A Drone Above New Zealand
An asset or a pest? It all depends on how you look at drones. But for photographer Grant Sheehan, they've opened up all kinds of opportunities to photograph New Zealand from different aerial angles. Well, that was before new laws came in a couple of months ago restricting the way drones are used. Before then Grant was able to fly his drones over much of the country, over landscapes and scrap car yards, farms and city centres. He's brought together a collection of these photos in Eye in the Sky: A Drone Above New Zealand.
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1:50 Bert van Dijk and the World Song Choir of Devonport
Actor and choirmaster Bert van Dijk believes everyone can sing. He puts his money where his mouth is by conducting the Devonport World Song Choir, an eclectic bunch of enthusiastic amateurs. Bert teaches a very physical style of singing and achieves remarkable results with his students. But he tells Justin Gregory he spent his early years too scared to even open his mouth.
2:06 The Laugh Track - Leigh Hart
Leigh Hart has been in comedy shows on New Zealand screens for quite a long time. As well as his current series, The Late Night Big Breakfast and ACC: Champagne Rugby, Leigh has starred in Moon TV, Leigh Hart's Mysterious Planet, Sportscafe, and a long running ad campaign. Leigh also hosts Radio Hauraki's Bhuja, and is a member of iHeartRadio's cricketing comedy show The Alternative Commentary Collective.
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2:25 Shhh… The Music is Talking
Kora, Lorde, Delany Davidson, Marlon Williams, Chris Knox, David Dallas, Sole Mio, Orchestra of Spheres, Neil and Tim Finn, Flight of The Conchords, Trinity Roots, Head like A Hole, The Chills, Disasteradio, Kimbra and a plethora of other New Zealand musicians are all documented in photographer Alexander Halag's new book. Shhh… The Music is Talking covers Alexander's last five years of gig going and in the process captures a moment in our fluctuating culture.
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2:40 Olivia Spencer Bower's discoveries
The cover shot on a new biography about Christchurch artist Olivia Spencer Bower shows her holding a cigarette and staring right into the camera lense with a wicked smile.
For almost 60 years she painted primarily landscapes of her adopted country, always keen to experiment with materials and styles, and befriending other artists including Rita Angus and Colin McCahon. Julie King has told Olivia's story in Olivia Spencer Bower: Making Her Own Discoveries, published by Canterbury University Press.
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2:49 Building our buildings - past meets future
Are 3D printers and other new technology a threat to traditional Maori crafts - or the way of the future that allows more people to be creative? Architecture student James Durcan is working with iwi in Gisborne to not only print bricks but to use them to build a small Whare. James won the top prize in the New Zealand Institute of Architects Student Design awards. Lynn Freeman spoke to James along with finalist John Belford-Lelaulu who studies at UNITEC - he's designed a museum for Samoan treasures, basing the design on the traditional Samoan Tattoo's intricately woven patterns.
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3:06 The Drama Hour - Fair Winds to the South Seas
On the 13th of December 1642 seamen aboard one of the Dutch East India Company vessels engaged on an expedition in search of the fabled great southern continent, sighted ‘a large land, uplifted high’. This was the first recorded sighting by Europeans of New Zealand, and the commander of the expedition none other than the Dutch seafarer, explorer and merchant Abel Janzoon Tasman.
Fair Winds to the South Seas by Brian Millard is a dramatized documentary on the life and career of Tasman.
Featuring Paul Robinson as Abel Tasman, Ken Blackburn as Antonie van Diemen, and John Callen as Pilot Major Francois Visscher. With Helen Medlyn, Ross Duncan, Derek Payne and Gilbert Goldie.
The production was recorded by Ian Gordon and directed by John O’Leary.
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Artist: Supertramp
Song: Breakfast In America
Composer: Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson
Album: Breakfast In America
Label: A&M Records 213708
Played at: 12:12
Artist: The Motern Media Holiday Singers
Song: We Wish You A Merry Christmas (English Muffin Version)
Composer: Traditional
Album: Join The Club (Deluxe)
Label: Motern Media
Played at: 12:38
Artist: UB40 ft. Chrissie Hynde
Song: Breakfast In Bed
Composer: Donnie Fritts, Eddie Hinton
Album: The Best of UB40
Label: Virgin 840937
Played at: 12:59
Artist: Flight of The Conchords
Song: Inner City Pressure
Composer: Jermaine Clement, Brett McKenzie
Album: Flight of The Conchords
Label: Subpop 870715
Played at: 1:10
Artist: Bing Crosby, Jack Halloran Singers and Les Brown and His Orchestra
Song: A Christmas Toast
Album: Let It Swing: A Jazz Christmas With Verve
Played at: 1:57
Artist: Monty Python
Song: What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us?
Composer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Album: Life of Brian
Label: EMI 528609
Played at: 2:16
Artist: Ahoribuzz
Song: Sugar
Composer: Ahoribuzz
Album: Into The Sunshine
Played at: 2:29
Artist: Beastwars
Song: Lake of Fire
Composer: Anderson, Woods, Hyde, Hickey
Album: Beastwars
Label: Destroy 816716
Played at: 2:31
Artist: Kora
Song: Love In The Shadows
Composer: Kora
Album: Light Years
Played at: 2:33
Artist: Toy Love
Song: Sheep
Composer: Bathgate, Dooley, Dean, Knox, Walker
Album: Toy Love
Label: Real Groovy
Played at: 2:36
Artist: Rackets
Song: Kids On TV
Composer: Rackets
Album: Friends
Label: Banished 974665
Played at: 2:37
Artist: Elephant's Memory
Song: Yogurt Song Composer
Album: Elephant's Memory
Played at: 2:45
Artist: Chiddy Bang
Song: Breakfast
Composer: Chiddy bang
Album: Breakfast
Label: Virgin, I.R.S.
Played at: 2:58
Artist: Fleur East
Song: Breakfast
Composer: Iain James, Julian Bunetta
Album: Love, Sax, and Flashbacks
Label: Syco
Played at: 3:57
===4:06 PM. | None (National)===
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Misunderstanding Japan
Cultural historian, Christopher Harding explores the impact that Western media representations have had on our view of Japan and its people.
===5:00 PM. | None (National)===
=DESCRIPTION=
A roundup of today's news and sport
===5:11 PM. | Spiritual Outlook===
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Exploring different spiritual, moral and ethical issues and topics (RNZ)
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A Heart and Soul Documentary from the BBC World Service
Canon Andrew White, was know for years as the Vicar of Baghdad, but due to the threat of Islamists in Iraq, he, like thousands of other Christians was forced to flee for his life .
He is now based in Jordan where he has set up a new Parish in the town of Amman, his parishioners are, like him, Christians in exile, forced from their home in Mosul and other parts of Iraq now held by Islamic state.
Dale Gavlak joins Canon White as he travels around his new makeshift parish which has clinics, nurseries, and a church for the Christians that have been fortunate and able to escape persecution. Dale attends Friday mass which Canon White boasts brings together Christians from different denominations to worship in one unifying service.
Alongside Canon White, Dale meets Iraqis, forced into the refugee camp linked to his parish to hear their stories of escaping IS and the role their faith has played. Dale hears Canon White's own story which has taken him to war zones around the world and questions him about his own controversial views on Israel/Palestine and the justification for war which have put him at odds with his church.
Producer and Presenter Dale Gavlak
===5:40 PM. | Te Manu Korihi===
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Maori news and interviews from throughout the motu (RNZ)
===6:06 PM. | Te Ahi Kaa===
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Exploring issues and events from a tangata whenua perspective (RNZ)
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18:06
Huruiki - The Return of a Mountain
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Jeremy Rose is in Whangarei with Brandon Edwards who successfully purchased Huruiki mountain in 2011, after the land was sold in 1961 due to rates arrears.
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Huruiki: The Return of a Mountain
The Shadows fall! The Shadows fall!
And the Māori will be plaited as a rope
Its rates and its taxes are biting!
So begins Sir Apirana Ngata's translation of the Ngāti Pōrou haka Te Kiri Ngutu. And it continues:
Never does the loss of our landed heritage
Cease to burden our minds! A ha ha!
Ever it is upon our lips, clinging
As did the headbands of the warriors
Arranged to parry the enemy's blows!
A ha ha! I was scorched in the fire
Of the sacrifice of blood, and stripped
To the vital heart of the land,
Bribed with the Pakeha gold!
Māori land continued to be alienated due to rates arrears well into the 20th century. And Pakeha "gold" continued to be used to purchase it.
The history of New Zealand Aotearoa in the 19th and 20th centuries is to a large extent a history of the alienation of communally-owned iwi and hapu land – the spiritual and economic life-blood of Māori communities.
As early as 1865 – when the Māori Land Court was set up – 55 percent of the land in Te Paparahi o Te Raki – or Northland – had been lost to Māori through a combination of confiscations and sales to the Crown.
By 1910 another 600,000 acres – or thirty percent of the whenua still owned by Māori – had been purchased by the Crown or private parties. And by the dawn of the 21st century just 10 percent of Te Paparahi o Te Raki was in Maori hands.
The Crown and Northland iwi are yet to settle their claims and no doubt some land will be returned when they do – but with Waitangi Tribunal claims restricted by law to lands currently in Crown ownership it will only be a fraction of the land lost. Sadly all too often the land with the most spiritual value is not in Crown ownership.
That was the case with Mt Huruiki until one of the descendants of its original owners – Brandon Edwards (Ngāti Hau, Ngāpuhi) - managed to buy it back in 2011.
In 1961 Huruiki Station was sold to a local Pakeha farmer and the title was transferred from Māori to general title. Brandon’s grandfather was one of 100 shareholders in the land and held the single biggest share – the third generation in the family to do so.
Brandon, a commercial lawyer and investment banker by trade, doesn’t know exactly how the sale came about but does know that the owners were in rates arrears for three years and owed £76.
“I believe, just looking through the information I’ve had available to me, there was some form of persuasion, pressure, encouragement, if you like, because of the default or the arrears in rates to look to sell the property.
“I can only assume, also that’s the case, because it is the maunga for our hapu. That decision to sell would not have been made lightly.”
Brandon grew up hunting on the land – because his family had remained friends with the Pakeha owners – but access to the whenua and the maunga couldn’t be taken for granted by the many other local Māori who whakapapa to Huruiki. From an early age Brandon dreamed of buying the land back.
In the early 2000s the property came back on the market and Brandon Edwards, who had recently graduated and was a practicing lawyer, scraped together everything he could and put together a bid for the property but it wasn't enough and the property was sold to developers. “So we thought maybe it is just a pipe-dream.”
Brandon and his wife Kiri set about making a life for themselves overseas – with Brandon working as an investment banker in Hong Kong, Singapore and London, and Kiri Edwards bringing up their young family and representing Hong Kong in netball. It was a successful ex-pat life – a long way from Northland.
Then in 2011 Huruiki station came back onto the market; and Brandon and Kiri, having spent 15 years working in investment banking, were in a position to buy it back.
The couple and their children have returned to Aotearoa for good, and are in the process of transforming Huruiki into a sustainable farm.... and much, much more.
Each school holidays children from Brandon's Whakapara marae run up the 465 metre Mt Huruiki and learn about its history, fauna and flora. The mountain has returned to its people.
Topics: te ao Maori, life and society, environment
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Tags: Brandon Edwards, Jeremy Rose
Duration: 32'27"
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===7:05 PM. | One In Five===
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The issues and experience of disability (RNZ)
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19:06
Retailer Reviews
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Going shopping in Taranaki has just become easier for the 29 per cent of its population who live with a disability. The Taranaki Disability Information Centre (TDIC) has been running a campaign encouraging business owners to re-jig the layout of their shops, provide seating, use easy to read signage and labels and make entrance-ways more accessible. Even business cards are being checked to see if they've been designed with everyone in mind. Fifty businesses in New Plymouth have been assessed and now the programme is being rolled out across the province; to Waitara, Eltham, Hawera, Stratford, Inglewood and Opunake. Awards are being given to the most accessible businesses. TDIC general manager Brian Erikson says businesses are assessed and are given feedback on where improvements could be made. Shop-keepers are given the opportunity to take part in disability awareness training. He says at the beginning of the campaign he walked up New Plymouth's main street with a friend who was in a wheelchair. Of the 30 businesses they approached, his friend said he wouldn't go into 15 of them. "And I thought, Man, there's people probably in the shops waiting for him to come in but not realising they need to do something about their entrance or when they get into the shop, have somewhere that he and the wheelchair could go because he wouldn't feel uncomfortable going in the shop and knocking over things." Brian says the campaign has been a great success and he expects business will increase for shops that have become more accessible. "There are no demands to do anything just suggestions…It's a really good campaign because if you haven't had a disability or haven't had to get around a shop with a disability then you don't know and that's the biggest issue - a lot of people don't know."
Topics: disability
Regions: Taranaki
Tags: disability, Disability Awareness, New Plymouth
Duration: 21'40"
19:06
Retailer Reviews
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Going shopping in Taranaki has just become easier for the 29 per cent of its population who live with a disability. The Taranaki Disability Information Centre (TDIC) has been running a campaign encouraging business owners to re-jig the layout of their shops, provide seating, use easy to read signage and labels and make entrance-ways more accessible.
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Going shopping in Taranaki has just become easier for the 29 per cent of its population who live with a disability.
The Taranaki Disability Information Centre (TDIC) has been running a campaign encouraging business owners to re-jig the layout of their shops, provide seating, use easy to read signage and labels and make entrance-ways more accessible.
Even business cards are being checked to see if they've been designed with everyone in mind.
Fifty businesses in New Plymouth have been assessed and now the programme is being rolled out across the province; to Waitara, Eltham, Hawera, Stratford, Inglewood and Opunake. Awards are being given to the most accessible businesses.
TDIC general manager Brian Erikson says businesses are assessed and are given feedback on where improvements could be made. Shop-keepers are given the opportunity to take part in disability awareness training.
He says at the beginning of the campaign he walked up New Plymouth's main street with a friend who was in a wheelchair.
Of the 30 businesses they approached, his friend said he wouldn't go into 15 of them. "And I thought, Man, there's people probably in the shops waiting for him to come in but not realising they need to do something about their entrance or when they get into the shop, have somewhere that he and the wheelchair could go because he wouldn't feel uncomfortable going in the shop and knocking over things."
Brian says the campaign has been a great success and he expects business will increase for shops that have become more accessible.
"There are no demands to do anything just suggestions…It's a really good campaign because if you haven't had a disability or haven't had to get around a shop with a disability then you don't know and that's the biggest issue - a lot of people don't know."
Topics: disability
Regions: Taranaki
Tags: disability, Disability Awareness, New Plymouth
Duration: 15'42"
19:06
Junior Champ: Attitude Award Winner Nic Brockelbank
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Nic Brockelbank has just won the Junior section of the annual Attitude Awards; awards that recognise the achievements of people living with disabilities. The 13 year-old lives in Cambridge, has muscular dystrophy and has written and published cookbooks to raise thousands of dollars for charity. Nic's recently taken up road cycling. At first he could barely cycle one kilometre, now he is cycling 30 kms and has built up the strength in his legs so he no longer needs to use a wheelchair.
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Nic Brockelbank has just won the Junior section of the annual Attitude Awards; awards that recognise the achievements of people living with disabilities.
The 13-year-old lives in Cambridge, has muscular dystrophy and has written and published cookbooks to raise thousands of dollars for charity.
Nic recently took up road cycling.
At first he could barely cycle one kilometre - now he is cycling 30 kms and has built up the strength in his legs so he no longer needs to use a wheelchair.
Topics: disability
Regions: Waikato
Tags: disability, muscular dystrophy, Attitude Awards
Duration: 5'58"
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===7:35 PM. | Voices===
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Asians, Africans, indigenous Americans and more in NZ, aimed at promoting a greater understanding of our ethnic minority communities (RNZ)
===7:45 PM. | In Parliament===
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An in-depth perspective of legislation and other issues from the house (RNZ)
===8:06 PM. | Sounds Historical===
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NZ stories from the past (RNZ)
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20:06
Sounds Historical Hour One - 13 December 2015
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Jim Sullivan offers listeners a chance to learn about the colourful, dramatic and often remarkable events and people of New Zealand's past.
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Duration: 55'40"
21:04
Sounds Historical Hour Two - 13 December 2015
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Jim Sullivan continues his selection of items about New Zealand and New Zealanders the way we were
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Duration: 58'09"
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8:08 Today in New Zealand History.
Tasman first sights New Zealand, 13 December 1642.
8:14 Music Track: The Wreck of the Wahine
Artist: Phillipa Patterson and Hilary Sutton of Dunedin (1969)
Composer: Patterson/Sutton
8:17 A Survivor’s Story
When the Wahine sand with the loss of 51 lives in April 1968 Shirley Hick was a survivor but lost her daughter and her son was severely brain damaged. When Jim Sullivan visited her in Shannon in 1993 she could still recall in detail that tragic day of 25 years earlier.
8:27: Music Track: In The Mood
Artist: Marian Burns (fiddle)
Composer: Garland/Razaf
Album: Memories Are Made of This
Label: Manuka
8:26 Victoria Cross Campaign
In a 1990s interview Jim Sullivan talks to Charles Bennett, wartime commander of the Maori Battalion, about the campaign to have a Victoria Cross awarded to Lance Sergeant Haane Manahi.
8:38 A Great Rugby Moment –
110 years ago. The original All Blacks defeat 3-0 by Wales on 16 December 1905 remains controversial – many claiming Bob Deans scored a try which was disallowed and whish would have kept the All Black’s unbeaten record intact. This extract from a1950s documentary recreates the after game atmosphere in wales and in New Zealand.
8:45 Bookshelf:
“The Penguin Book of War Writing” edited by Harry Ricketts and Gavin McLean. Published by Penguin. [ISBN-978-0143573098]
“The Death Ray Debacle” by David McGill Published by Silver Owl Press [ISBN-978-0992262228]
8:47 Music Track: Oh, My Papa
Artist: Les Andrews
Composer: Burkhard
Album: Memories Are Made of This
Label: Manuka
8:52 War Report 66
An extract from Cecil Malthus’ book “Anzac, a Retrospect” describing the beginning of the evacuation from the Dardanelles and recollections from Sir William Cunningham and Sir Ernest Harston. Jim Meek sums up the soldiers’ feelings. Reports in New Zealand newspapers are yet to confirm evacuation
Music Track: There’s a Long Long Trail A Winding
Artist: John McCormack
Composer: King/Elliott
Album: Oh, It’s a Lovely War Vol 2
Label: CD41 486309
Music Track: Are We Downhearted?
Artist: Arthur Boyton
Album: Oh, It's a Lovely War Vol 2
Label: CD41 486309
8:58 Music Track: The Rose
Artist: Radio New Zealand Studio Orchestra Composer: McBroom
Album: Orchestral Gold
Label: Tartar
00:01 As I Remember.
The Haberdashery Girl by Betty Potts of Manukau
00:06 Music Track: True Love
Artist: Kirsty Bamfield (passed away in January 2015 at the age of 65)
Composer: Zax/Berger
Album: Memories Are Made of This
Label: Manuka
9:13 A Taste of Politics from almost 50 years ago.
A report from the National Party Conference in June 1967 introduced by Ken Funnell of Checkpoint. Extracts from the debates
===10:12 PM. | Mediawatch===
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Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in NZ's news media (RNZ)
===11:04 PM. | Hidden Treasures===
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Trevor Reekie seeks out musical gems from niche markets around the globe, re-releases and interesting sounds from the shallow end of the bit stream (5 of 10, RNZ)
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Artist: Smokeshop
Song: Fusion at Room temperature (opening theme)
Composer: Watson
Album: Fusion at Room temperature
Label: Pagan Records
Artist: Napo De Mi Amor et Ses Black Devils
Song: Leki Santchi
Composer: Napo De Mi Amor et Ses Black Devils
Album: African Scream Contest - Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds from Benin & Togo
Label: Analog Aftrica
Artist: Delaney Davidson
Song: Eastbound
Composer: Delaney Davidson
Album: Lucky Guy
Label: Southbound Music
Artist: Systema Solar
Song: Bienvenidos
Composer: Systema Solar
Album: Afritanga - The Sound of Afrocolombia
Label: Trikont Records
Artist: Galactic
Song: Heart of Steel (feat. Irma Thomas)
Composer: Galactic, Irma Thomas
Album: Ya-Ka-May (Deluxe Edition)
Label: Anti Inc
Artist: Tom Verlaine
Song: Postcard From Waterloo
Composer: Tom Verlaine
Album: Words From The Front
Label: Virgin Records
Artist: The Mighty Mocambos
Song: Where Do We Go From Here (featuring Lee Fields)
Composer: The Mighty Mocambos
Album: The Mighty Mocambos single
Label: Legere Recordings
Artist: Speed Caravan
Song: Diamond Belly Button
Composer: Mehdi Haddab
Album: Mehdi Haddab
Label: Real World Records
Artist: Nitin Sawhney
Song: When I'm Gone (feat. Stealth)
Composer: Nitin Sawhney
Album: Dystopian Dream
Label: Positiv-ID
Artist: Mokoomba
Song: Njoka
Composer: Mokoomba
Album: Rising Tide
Label: Zig-Zag Records
Artist: Allen Toussaint
Song: Rising Tide
Composer: Allen Toussaint
Album: Our New Orleans
Label: Nonesuch Records
Artist: Usman Riaz
Song: Saeen
Composer: Usman Riaz
Album: Circus in the Sky
Label: EMI Pakistan
Artist: Chris Priestley
Song: Von Tempskys Violin
Composer: Chris Priestley
Album: Rogue
Label: Chris Priestley
Artist: Jose Larralde - Chancha Via Circuito (Remix)
Song: Quimey Neuquen
Composer: Marcelo Berbel, Napoleón Milton Aguilar
Album: Rio Arriba
Label: ZZK Records