RNZ National. 2016-05-02. 00:00-23:59.

A 24-hour recording of RNZ National. The following rundown is sourced from the broadcaster’s website. Note some overseas/copyright restricted items may not appear in the supplied rundown:

02 May 2016

===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 At the Movies with Simon Morris (RNZ); 1:05 Te Ahi Kaa (RNZ); 2:30 NZ Music Feature (RNZ); 3:05 Closed, Stranger by Kate de Goldi read by Scott Wills (1 of 12, RNZ); 3:30 Science (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, including: 6:16 and 6:50 Business News 6:18 Pacific News 6:26 Rural News 6:48 and 7:45 NZ Newspapers

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06:00
Top Stories for Monday 2 May 2016
BODY:
A fire at the same house where the Police dog Gazza was shot and killed last month is being labelled suspicious. The 1-1-1 system went down for two hours at midnight on Saturday night. The Prime Minister, John Key, says his lawyer went too far when lobbying the Revenue Minister not to change the rules governing foreign-owned trusts.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 32'16"

06:06
Sports News for 2 May 2016
BODY:
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 1'47"

06:11
More openness needed on elective surgery results: Labour
BODY:
Doctors want more research into why thousands of New Zealanders are missing out on the specialist medical care their family doctors think they need.
Topics: health, politics
Regions:
Tags: doctors, Specialist Care
Duration: 1'38"

06:13
Education New Zealand says foreign student numbers have fallen
BODY:
Visa figures show foreign student numbers have fallen in the first quarter of this year after a bumper year in 2015.
Topics: education
Regions:
Tags: visas, students, India
Duration: 1'22"

06:15
Maritime industry source joins in criticism of new Tokelau ferry
BODY:
Maritime industry sources have joined in the criticism of the stability and performance of a new ferry linking Tokelau and Samoa.
Topics: transport, Pacific
Regions:
Tags: Tokelau, Samoa, ferry, MV Mataliki
Duration: 3'17"

06:18
Early Business News for 2 May 2016
BODY:
A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: Somerset Healthcare, markets
Duration: 2'35"

06:24
Morning Rural News for 2 May 2016
BODY:
News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 4'10"

06:45
Christchurch gets its circus school back
BODY:
The city was once home to New Zealand's only degree in circus arts before the 2011 quake shut the Christchurch Polytechnic course.
Topics: education, life and society
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Circus School, Christchurch, Circotica
Duration: 3'42"

06:50
Solid job market numbers expected
BODY:
The consensus is that we'll see a slight lift in the unemployment rate to about 5.5 percent from 5.3 pecent at the end of last year, with about 15-thousand jobs being created, but perhaps not quite enough to keep up with those looking for work.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: jobs
Duration: 2'00"

06:52
Summerset picking solid earnings growth on village expansion
BODY:
Listed rest home and retirement village operator Summerset is expecting another solid lift in earnings as it pursues an increased building target of 400 units this year, up from 300 last year.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: Summerset
Duration: 1'29"

06:54
NZX and Ralec trial gets underway after 5 years of to-and-fro
BODY:
The long, dragged-out litigation between the sharemarket operator, NZX, and the Melbourne-based grain exchange operator, Ralec Commodities, appears to be nearing an end as their trial gets underway at the High Court in Wellington today.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: NZX, Ralec Commodities, Lawsuit, trial
Duration: 1'22"

06:55
Commerce Commission's merger test has narrow scope
BODY:
The Commerce Commission says it wouldn't stop a merger going ahead unless it's likely to substantially lesson competition in the marketplace -- even if that marketplace isn't very competitive in the first place.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: Commerce Commission, Caltex, Merger, Z Energy
Duration: 1'25"

06:57
Jim Parker in Australia
BODY:
The Australian government unveils its annual budget tomorrow, the last before an election scheduled for early July.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: Australia
Duration: 1'03"

06:58
Business agenda
BODY:
Several big banks are reporting financial results - Westpac, ANZ and BNZ.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 48"

06:59
Morning markets for 2 May 2016
BODY:
Wall Street had a soft Friday the Dow falling 57 points, about a third of a percent to 17,774 .
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: markets
Duration: 49"

07:06
Sports News for 2 May 2016
BODY:
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'07"

07:10
Fire at Porirua siege house
BODY:
A fire at the same house where the Police dog Gazza was shot and killed last month is being labelled suspicious.
Topics: crime
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: fire, Porirua
Duration: 2'09"

07:12
Police are investigating 111 phone system outage
BODY:
The 1-1-1 system went down for two hours at midnight on Saturday night.
Topics: technology, life and society
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: 111, police, Telecommuinications, Communication Centres
Duration: 3'36"

07:16
Key rejects allegations his lawyer influenced trust decision
BODY:
The Prime Minister, John Key, says his lawyer went too far when lobbying the Revenue Minister not to change the rules governing foreign-owned trusts.
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags: lawyer, Revenue Minister
Duration: 5'30"

07:22
Huge turnout for Whangarei march after assault
BODY:
Whangarei people marched in huge numbers yesterday evening to show their support for a woman attacked as she jogged around the city's Hatea Loop.
Topics: life and society
Regions: Northland
Tags: Whangarei, March, Hatea Loop
Duration: 3'29"

07:25
American student passed on her dying wishes to her mother
BODY:
The American student who was lost with her mother in the Tararua Forest Park for four days told her mother her dying wishes moments before they were rescued.
Topics: life and society
Regions:
Tags: Tararua Forest Park, American student
Duration: 2'52"

07:25
South Pacific top of mind for French PM's visit
BODY:
The Prime Minister John Key meets his French counterpart Manuel Valls later today.
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags: French Prime Minister, France, UN
Duration: 4'09"

07:36
White Island eruption no cause for concern - GNS
BODY:
A new crater has been created on White Island after an eruption on Wednesday night.
Topics: environment
Regions:
Tags: White Island, volcano, Crater
Duration: 3'24"

07:40
Taranaki farmer in standoff with oil giant
BODY:
A Taranaki farmer is involved in a tense stand-off with Shell after refusing to let the oil giant set off seismic surveying explosives on his land.
Topics: environment, farming
Regions: Taranaki
Tags: Shell, farm, Seismic surveying
Duration: 3'11"

07:44
Immigration failed to spot 'Vietnamese refugee' was Chinese
BODY:
A man who fraudulently applied for asylum by pretending to be Vietnamese has been stripped of his refugee status, but told he will remain a New Zealand citizen.
Topics: refugees and migrants
Regions:
Tags: Vietnam, China, immigration
Duration: 3'17"

07:51
Kenya torches more than $200M worth of ivory
BODY:
Kenya has torched more than 200 million New Zealand dollars worth of ivory.
Topics: environment, crime
Regions:
Tags: Kenya, ivory
Duration: 4'14"

07:55
NZ Music Month takes centre stage
BODY:
More than 800 gigs will be held around the country this May as New Zealand Music Month marks its 16th year.
Topics: music, arts
Regions:
Tags: New Zealand Music Month
Duration: 4'16"

08:06
Sports News for 2 May 2016
BODY:
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'51"

08:11
Barry, Campbell departures just the tip of the iceberg for TV3
BODY:
A former TV3 current affairs journalist says the shock departure of Hilary Barry is just the tip of the iceberg for TV3.
Topics: media
Regions:
Tags: TV3
Duration: 4'05"

08:16
Bill to improve rental houses up in Parliament
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A woman who has lived in damp and mouldy houses for decades says she desperately needs a law change that would improve the state of rental homes.
Topics: housing, law
Regions:
Tags: damp, rental housing
Duration: 3'41"

08:19
French PM visit focuses on trade, Clark's bid for UN job
BODY:
An official welcome is just about to get underway for the French prime minister in Auckland.
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags: French Prime Minister
Duration: 2'28"

08:22
Doctors seek clear, consistent info on elective care need
BODY:
Doctors say there needs to be more research into why thousands of New Zealanders are missing out on the specialist medical care their family doctors think they need.
Topics: health
Regions:
Tags: Specialist medical care
Duration: 3'37"

08:25
Warriors woes cause headaches for the Kiwis
BODY:
Just one Warrior has been selected for this Friday's Anzac Test after the NRL club made several of its players ineligible for international duty.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags: The Warriors, rugby league
Duration: 4'32"

08:30
Markets Update for 2 May 2016
BODY:
A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: markets
Duration: 58"

08:36
Fifth aniversary of the killing of Osama Bin laden in Pakistan
BODY:
To mark his death the CIA is live tweeting events as they happened 5 years ago.
Topics: conflict, internet
Regions:
Tags: CIA, Live Tweeting
Duration: 5'30"

08:41
Foreign student numbers fall
BODY:
Visa figures show schools and private tertiary institutions are bearing the brunt of a 17-hundred-student drop in overseas enrolments.
Topics: refugees and migrants, education
Regions:
Tags: visas, students
Duration: 2'57"

08:44
Salvation Army says demand for food parcels on the rise
BODY:
More people are turning to the Salvation Army to help them put a meal on their table.
Topics: life and society
Regions:
Tags: Salvation Army, charity
Duration: 3'20"

08:49
Doctors say much to be gained from traditional Māori medicine
BODY:
Some doctors are urging their peers to learn about rongoā Māori, a traditional healing system that's embedded in Māori cultural traditions and beliefs and becoming more popular.
Topics: te ao Maori, health
Regions:
Tags: rongoa Maori
Duration: 3'11"

08:52
Demand for low-alchohol beer due to tighter drink-driving rules
BODY:
New Zealand craft brewers have taken on the tricky task of making light alcohol beer tasty.
Topics: food
Regions:
Tags: Croucher Brewing, beer, Alchohol
Duration: 3'24"

08:56
Phil Kafcaloudes with news from Australia
BODY:
Time to chat to our Melbourne correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags: Australia
Duration: 3'35"

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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: Pack and Rifle by Philip Holden told by Russell Smith (1 of 3, RNZ)

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09:08
ECan wants polluted lakes exempted
BODY:
The government is currently consulting on it's National Policy Statement for freshwater and has proposed that the national freshwater standards should include lakes and lagoons which periodically open to the sea. That would include Lake Ellesmere and Lake Forsyth in Canterbury - which consistently rank as the most polluted in the country.
Topics: environment, farming
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: pollution, dairy, fresh water
Duration: 14'44"

09:23
Improvements to health of Maori children
BODY:
Maori children are more than twice as likely as Pakeha children to grow up in households experiencing significant hardship, and fare worse in most indicators.
But the new report by the University of Otago-based Child and Youth Epidemiology Service shows increasing numbers of Maori pre schoolers are getting early childhood education. There's also been a halving of school suspensions for Maori students, an increase immunisation rates, fewer young Maori smoking, and falling hospitaliszion rates for Maori children for injuries from assault, neglect or maltreatment. Dr Mavis Duncan is one of the co-authors of the study and the acting director of the Child and Youth Epidemiology Service.
Topics: te ao Maori, health
Regions:
Tags: children
Duration: 11'59"

09:35
Why can't engineers be as famous as rock stars ?
BODY:
Naomi Climer is one of the UK's most senior female engineers and the first female president of Institution of Engineering and Technology. The IET is one of the world's largest engineering professional bodies with over 167,000 members in 150 countries. As part of her presidency, Naomi has launched a campaign called - Engineer a better World - to promote engineering and, in particular, to attract and retain more women in the profession.
Topics: technology
Regions:
Tags: Institution of Engineering and Technology
Duration: 15'36"

09:51
Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney
BODY:
Clashes in Germany as rising anti-immigrant party adopts tough stance against Islam and Belgium & The Netherlands in mass distribution of iodine pills in case of nuclear disaster.
Topics: life and society
Regions:
Tags: Europe, Germany
Duration: 8'51"

10:07
Marina Lewycka on tractors, black humour and success
BODY:
British novelist Marina Lewycka is daughter of Ukranian refugees who was approaching her 60s when she got her first big break eleven years ago. Her debut novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian became a world wide hit and has been translated into around 30 languages. It was a very funny, but dark story about a gold-digging Ukrainian, who snares an elderly widower for his British passport.
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British writer Marina Lewycka found fame in her late 50s with her debut novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian ¬– inspired by the experience of her Ukranian refugee parents.
The book was a very funny, but dark take on a gold-digging Ukrainian who snares an elderly widower for his British passport. It has been translated into around 30 languages.
Marina Lewycka latest novel – her fifth – is another black comedy. The Lubetkin Legacy is set in the bland suburban streets of North London, where the middle-aged actor Berthold Sidebottom resorts to desperate measures to keep his home.

Read an edited snapshot of the conversation:

Marina Lewycka: To succeed you have to be persistent and you have to be lucky. I think lots of people have got good books in them. They just need to find the right moment and the right reader and off they go.
Kathryn Ryan: What was particular about A Short History that factored into that timing?
ML: I think one of the things is that I did an English degree at university. And I had my models, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Dickens… And I somehow thought that’s how you had to be to be a writer – with long perfectly formed sentences and lots of adjectives, deep and meaningful. And actually what really made the breakthrough for me was learning to be funny. In the end, by the time I’d reached my 50s I thought nobody is going to publish anything I’ve written. So I may as well just give up and have a bit of fun. And that’s when I wrote Tractors and people really enjoyed it…
KR: What an interesting insight, that people who want to become a published writer can try too hard.
ML: You can try too hard and you have to find your own authentic voice, really.
KR: There’s something else about life and certain points in life where just having fun and having a laugh becomes okay again. Was that something else that was happening for you at that time?
ML: I think especially for older women. As you get older, more and more of life’s problems just fall away, and you can actually enjoy life much more. And you can also see the funny side of many things which seemed dreadful and catastrophic when you were young.
KR: How much did your parents story matter to you? What was the driving force in trying to tell it, even if you didn’t quite know how you would tell it [in A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian]
ML: There was a lot about my parents’ story that I didn’t know. Because when I was a child they tried to protect me, really, from the horror of some of it, from the really awful things that they’d experienced and seen. So I sort of grew up knowing that there was a dark secret. And knowing that my sister knew what the dark secret was but I didn’t know. So I became determined to find out.
But actually by the time I came to write the novel my parents were both dead and all I had was a tape that I’d made with my mother. I sat down with her a few years before she died to make this tape, which I knew would be the basis of the novel. But when I came to transcribe the tape and write the story, I realised that there really wasn’t enough there to write a book about and I was going to have to make things up. And that’s when it changed from being a memoir, a personal story, to being really a work of fiction.
KR: When you reflect now on this intimate act of you recording your mother’s intimate memories and experiences what at that stage of her life did she say of the life she’d led and what they’d been through?
ML: When I was a young girl and she talked about their life in rural Ukraine it was all about how they fed the animals and how the snow came up to the eaves of the house in the winter and they had to make a passage through to the barn. But when I was an adult and she spoke to me she spoke about the famine and how they’d survived by eating the thatches on the roof and chewing harness leather. And that she’d both cholera and typhoid and nearly died several times. People in their village had eaten dead children, basically. You have to say that. It was a terrible, terrible time. But by the time I’d spoken to my mother it was history, it was in the past. And somehow by the time I discovered this I was in my 40s and I could take it. I think as a young girl I would have been too shocked.
Topics: author interview, books
Regions:
Tags: Ukranian refugees, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Duration: 28'20"

10:36
Book review: Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben
BODY:
Reviewed by Lisa Finucane, published by Penguin Random House
Topics: books
Regions:
Tags: Fool Me Once
Duration: 5'27"

11:07
Political commentators Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams
BODY:
Political commentators Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams discuss the land tax proposal, the extension of the operating life of the Huntly coal burners and Ken Whitney.
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags: Land tax proposal, Huntly
Duration: 22'52"

11:33
Anarchist cook George Egg
BODY:
Recipes for laughter to tickle the tastebuds with anarchist cook George Egg
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British comedian George Egg is a fanatical cook with a “somewhat anarchic” approach to making meals.
There are no kitchen rules, in fact there is no kitchen. All he needs to knock up a hot meal is an iron, a kettle, a trouser press and even a Gideon’s bible.
Therefore, he has become a master of a making meal from the facilities provided in a standard hotel room.
Egg is also the co-writer of a serious food blog called Mealmen.
He joins Kathryn Ryan from Auckland, where he will be taking part in the international comedy festival from the 3rd to 14th May
Read an edited snapshot of his conversation with Kathryn Ryan
KR: What did you have for breakfast? And how did you knock it up?
GE: For breakfast I had scrambled eggs on toast. The scrambled eggs were made in a kettle… I’m not going to give away all of the methods because I’ve got to tempt people into coming to the show, but suffice to say I used the kettle and they were the most delicious, creamy scrambled eggs you can imagine on a lovely bit of toasted Ciabatta.
KR: How did you come up with the idea of a three-course meal using the equipment provided in a hotel room?
GE: I’ve been doing stand-up for about 20 years and spending night after night in hotels. And it genuinely came from a mixture of wanting to not spend a fortune on overpriced room service, not wanting to eat unhealthily and a kind of post-show, adrenaline-fuelled desire to be a bit anarchic.
How does your average hotel respond to having to scrape bacon off its iron?
I am incredibly stealthful, and incredibly tidy, incredibly well brought up young man, and I’ll leave the room as I find it.
Which came first, the comedy or the food blog?
I’ve been really into cooking for decades, for as long as I’ve been into comedy, but I guess over the last few years the two combined… I’ve married the two. I think that’s why the show works so well, because people come away from it thinking ‘he really is passionate about that is something that he really loves, he hasn’t just come up with an idea and written a show around it, he’s doing something that he’s dedicated to,’ and I think that spark of interest comes across.
George Egg's recipe for Pasta Bianca
Ingredients:
100g of strong white flour (About a teacup)
A sachet of salt (could be pinched from a café)
1 whole egg
1 egg yolk
Parmesan cheese
Butter
Garlic
Method:
First of all clean the flat work surfaces in the hotel room, which could be the sink area or a desk, using a damp flannel and the complimentary shampoo or shower gel.
Then make a well from the flour and the salt, crack an egg into it and knead it together until it’s nice and elastic.
Wrap it in a shower cap (there should be a complimentary one in the bathroom) and leave it to rest for 30 minutes in the mini bar fridge.
The take it out of the fridge and roll it out using a bottle of wine from the mini bar (like a rolling pin).
Cut it out into whatever pasta shape you like.
Bring the kettle to the boil – drop the pasta in, it will take one minute. Leave the lid up so it will stop the steam from triggering the cut-off mechanism.
When it is ready out the lid back on the kettle and pour the water out. It will act as a straining device and the pasta should stay in the kettle. But be careful as it might get out of the spout.
In a bowl mash together some garlic and butter and some seasoning.
Pour the pasta into the bowl and stir it around until it is nicely coated.
When it has cooled down add the single egg yolk, and mix it in.
Then add the parmesan cheese, which you can shave onto the pasta using a disposable razor.
Add any more seasoning if required.
Topics: food, life and society
Regions:
Tags: comedy, New Zealand International Comedy Festival
Duration: 14'31"

11:48
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
BODY:
Outdoorsman and adventurer, Kennedy Warne, has been on the road in the South Island. He shares with Kathryn secrets and discoveries at Mamaku, Charleston and Harihari.
Topics: rural, life and society
Regions: West Coast
Tags: Mamaku, Charleston, Harihari
Duration: 11'06"

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09:05 ECan wants polluted lakes exempted
They're two of New Zealand's most polluted lakes... but the Canterbury Regional Council says they be exempted from national freshwater standards. The government is currently consulting on its National Policy Statement for freshwater and has proposed that the standards should include lakes and lagoons which periodically open to the sea. That would include Lake Ellesmere and Lake Forsyth in Canterbury - which consistently rank as the most polluted in the country. The council says putting the two lakes into the same regime as other lakes, would mean revisiting years of planning work. Nine to Noon speaks to Ken Hughey, a professor of environmental management at Lincoln University
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0915: New report suggests improvements in the health and well-being of Maori children
Maori children are more than twice as likely as Pakeha children to grow up in households experiencing significant hardship, and fare worse in most indicators.
But the new report by the University of Otago-based Child and Youth Epidemiology Service shows increasing numbers of Maori pre schoolers are getting early childhood education. There's also been a halving of school suspensions for Maori students, an increase immunisation rates, fewer young Maori smoking, and falling hospitaliszion rates for Maori children for injuries from assault, neglect or maltreatment. Dr Mavis Duncan is one of the co-authors of the study and the acting director of the Child and Youth Epidemiology Service.
09:30 Why can't engineers be as famous as rock stars ?
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Naomi Climer is one of the UK's most senior female engineers and the first female president of Institution of Engineering and Technology. As part of her presidency, Naomi has launched a campaign called - Engineer a better World - to promote engineering and, in particular, to attract and retain more women in the profession. She is in Auckland today promoting engineering in schools.
In New Zealand, there is a desperate shortage of hundreds of engineering graduates, with the need to more than double the number of graduates, with a need to quadruple the current number of graduates over time.
09:45 Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney
10:05 Marina Lewycka: tractors, black humour & success
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British novelist Marina Lewycka is daughter of Ukranian refugees who was approaching her 60s when she got her first big break eleven years ago. Her debut novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian became a world wide hit and has been translated into around 30 languages. It was a very funny, but dark story about a gold-digging Ukrainian, who snares an elderly widower for his British passport.
Her latest novel, her fifth, is another black comedy. The Lubetkin Legacy is set in the bland suburban streets of North London, where a middle-aged actor, Berthold Sidebottom resorts to desperate measures to keep his home. Marina Lewycka talks to Kathryn about finding success later in life.
10:35 Book review: Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben
reviewed by Lisa Finucane, published by Penguin Random House
10:45 The Reading
Pack and Rifle by Philip Holden told by Russell Smith (Part 1 of 3)
11:05 Political commentators Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams
11:30 Anarchist cook George Egg
Recipes for laughter to tickle the taste buds with anarchist cook George Egg.
[embed] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73fzwiNbJ3Q&feature=youtu.be
You can catch him at the International Comedy Festival in Auckland from 3rd to the 14th May.
He is also a co-writer of a serious food blog
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11:45 Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Outdoorsman and adventurer, Kennedy Warne, has been on the road in the South Island. He shares with Kathryn secrets and discoveries at Mamaku, Charleston and Harihari.
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Artist: Van Morrison
Song: Come Running
Composer: Morrison
Album: Moondance
Label: WARNER 246040
Time: 10.40am
Artist: The National
Song: Anyone's Ghost
Composer: Berninger, Dessner
Album: High Violet
Label: 4AD 373003
Time: 11.30am

===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 2 May 2016
BODY:
The house involved in the Porirua siege will likely be demolished after a fire last night and the French Prime Minister says it's too early to say who France will back to head the UN.
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Duration: 14'36"

12:17
Westpac NZ profits under pressure
BODY:
The profits of the New Zealand arm of Westpac Bank are under pressure, despite growing customer numbers, growth in lending and deposits, and an expanding funds management and insurance business.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags: Westpac bank, Westpac
Duration: 1'35"

12:18
Mighty River name to go
BODY:
The name of the power company, Mighty River Power, will soon disappear.
Topics: business
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Tags: Mighty River Power
Duration: 56"

12:19
Warmer weather pushes down electricity demand
BODY:
The electricity provider, Vector, says power demand may be weaker heading into winter.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags: Vector
Duration: 1'01"

12:20
Jim Parker in Australia
BODY:
Over to Australia, where the odds of a resumption of interest rate cuts have increased, with talk that it could come as soon as tomorrow.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags: Australia
Duration: 1'15"

12:22
Midday Markets for 2 May 2016
BODY:
For the latest from the markets we're joined by Andrew Cathie at Craigs Investment Partners
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'36"

12:25
Business briefs
BODY:
Wellington International Airport is offering up to 50 million dollars of unsecured fixed-rate seven-year bonds to retail and institutional investors.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 1'10"

12:26
Midday Sports News for 2 May 2016
BODY:
The New Zealand Sevens Olympic trial squad has been confirmed for the last two legs of the World Series.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'53"

12:34
Midday Rural News for 2 May 2016
BODY:
News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 8'49"

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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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13:16
Embattled TV3 CEO, Mark Weldon, fronts up to board meeting
BODY:
Just days after Hilary Barry's resignation, TV3's embattled chief executive, Mark Weldon has this morning fronted up to a board meeting amid growing anger among staff and threats of mass resignations. Hayden Donnell of the online magazine, the Spinoff has been speaking with senior mediaworks sources, and says Hilary Barry's resignation was a tipping point for staff, who are waiting for the outcome of today's board meeting to see what action they will take.
Topics: media
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Tags: TV3
Duration: 8'32"

13:24
New political support for campaign over bad hospital food
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Invercargill's mayor and deputy have both thrown their support into the coalition fighting to dump Compass meals at Southern District Health board hospitals. Tim Shadbolt and deputy Darren Ludlow are happy to support he lobby group which is wanting to have meals for hospitals made locally with fresh ingredients. Darren Ludlow talks to Jesse about why they're putting their weight behind the campaign.
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Invercargill's mayor and deputy have both thrown their support into the coalition fighting to dump Compass meals at Southern District Health board hospitals. Tim Shadbolt and deputy Darren Ludlow are happy to support he lobby group which is wanting to have meals for hospitals made locally with fresh ingredients. Darren Ludlow talks to Jesse about why they're putting their weight behind the campaign.
Topics: food
Regions: Southland
Tags: Compass meals
Duration: 8'14"

13:33
Wellington community band kicked out of inner-city practice space
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A Wellington community samba band has been ejected from its inner city practice space after 15 years, because the council says the noise it makes is unbearable. Wellington band Batucada is a percussion group with a rotating membership of around 100 - aged from their mid 20s to their 70s. Jesse Mulligan speaks with band member Alan Shuker.
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A Wellington community samba band has been ejected from its inner city practice space after 15 years, because the council says the noise it makes is unbearable.
Wellington band Batucada is a percussion group with a rotating membership of around 100 - aged from their mid 20s to their 70s. The group plays at street festivals and events around the capital.
For the past 15 years it has been rehearsing for two hours on a Sunday afternoon at Thistle Hall, a community hall in upper Cuba Street. But new neighbours have complained about the noise to the council, and the group has been evicted... which they say is totally unfair because they only practise for two hours a week, on a Sunday afternoon.
One of the group's members is Alan Shuker.

Topics: music
Regions: Wellington Region
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Duration: 10'28"

13:43
Favourite Album
BODY:
Ryan Adams - Gold.
Topics: music
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Duration: 16'01"

14:10
TV review - Linda Burgess
BODY:
'The Cul-de-Sac', 'Mastermind' and Blade NZ.
Topics: media
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Tags: television
Duration: 10'36"

14:20
Books - Pip Adam
BODY:
'Poroporoaki: to the Lord My God: Weaving the Via Dolorosa' (Ekphrasis in Response to Walk (Series C) by Colin McCahon), by Anahera Gidlea. 'Anatomize', Norfolk Press
Topics: books
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Duration: 9'30"

14:30
Music - Colin Morris
BODY:
Curtis Salgado and Robbie Fulks.
Topics: music
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Duration: 17'38"

14:49
Theatre - Terry McTavish
BODY:
' Niu Sula' written by Oscar Kightley and Dave Armstrong.
Topics: arts
Regions: Otago
Tags: theatre
Duration: 6'33"

15:07
Film critic AO Scott
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New York TImes film critic AO Scott's new book argues that thoughtful criticism is essential for art. He talks with Jesse Mulligan.
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These days when anyone can be critical about anything on Twitter or blogs or social media – so what is the role of the professional critic?
Ao Scott has been New York Times film critic since 2000. In his first-ever book Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth, he argues that we need criticism and critical thinking now more than ever for art and creativity to thrive.
Read an edited snapshot of their conversation:

Jesse Mulligan: There’s a great story in the book about a child of a friend of yours who finds out you’re a film critic and says ‘How is that a job?' What is the answer to that question?

AO Scott: In a way the whole book is trying to answer that question and kind of arises from the thought that it is a very peculiar way to make a living, to do for work what most people do for fun - to go to the movies and take them maybe more seriously than most people do or maybe than one should and then to write about them. I was trying to think not only about the specifics of the job, but how that is connected to the ordinary, common everyday experience of seeing movies, experience various kinds of art and reacting to them and judging them and evaluating them and talking about them with other people.
JM: I’ve got 1,000 people I follow on Twitter. Why do I need a critic in 2016?
AOS: I think it’s always a matter of who you trust and you who you are interested in reading. One difference between people on Twitter and people who write longer criticism is that it’s more involved, there’s more of an argument. If you want to think further, if you want to go further and in way extend the conversation that you’re having beyond just ‘Is this good’ ‘Is this bad’ ‘Did I like this or didn’t I’ a critic is there as a kind of companion. I think always what readers want from critics and what critics hope to cultivate from their readers is not agreement. It’s not ‘I say you should like this’, but trust.
JM: Can you indulge me and tell me what happened between you and Samuel L Jackson?
AOS: Of course. That’s the story that starts out the book. I reviewed The Avengers. It wasn’t actually that negative of a review, it wasn’t a total pan. I had some problems with it. There were some things I liked and some things I didn’t like so much. A lot of the writing is quite clever. Josh Whedon is a very good writer, but I did feel like it suffered from that blockbuster imperative to be this large-scale action movie. And what was interesting and fresh about it kind of got smothered in all of that.
So the morning that my review went up on The Times website I went on Twitter – as I do if I’m feeling lonely or bored or like procrastinating – and my feed was full of these angry people who were calling me all kinds of names and telling me that I needed to get a new job and I should just shut up and leave them alone. And it turned out it was at the instigation of Samuel L Jackson who had tweeted "Avengers fans, we need to find AO Scott a new job, one he can actually do’. And I thought it was very funny… So I tweeted back a few clever obnoxious things… I quoted my son saying ‘Why does Mace Windu want to take the food off our table, Daddy?’ It was good. I plagiarised. My son is much cleverer and much better at these things than I am.
Topics: author interview
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Tags: A.O. Scott
Duration: 25'58"

15:30
Best NZ Poems go bilingual
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A tea ceremony, calligraphy painting and readings are launching the first ever bilingual publication of 25 of New Zealand’s best poets and poetry translated into Chinese. It’s an ambitious project initiated by Victoria University with a huge potential readership in China. Lynda Chanwai-Earle attends the celebration to hear our coolest poets and poetry going bilingual.
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Poetry happens where the wind blows, and Wellington is such a place - Liang Yujing translator for Best NZ Poems 2014.

Wai-te-ata Press : Te Whare Tā o Wai-te-ata is tucked at the back of Victoria University's campus, fortunately sheltered from the worst of Wellington's wind.
The publisher was founded in 1962 by the late Professor Emeritus D F McKenzie. It boasts one of the finest collections of historic letterpress printing equipment, metal and wood types and industrial realia (objects in real life used in classroom instruction) in the southern hemisphere.
I'm attending the launch of a new bilingual publication called Best NZ Poems 2014.
The invite spoke of bilingual readings, calligraphy and a tea ceremony for the auspicious occasion. Calligraphy artist Zhang Chen is underway creating a scroll that stretches from one end of the room to the other, for a Chinese scroll it's strikingly long.
Research and publications assistant Meredith Patterson shows me around as we wait for the launch to begin. Some of the typography equipment looks like it dates back centuries. Meredith says that it all works perfectly when printing runs of hand-made books.
Head of the Press Sydney Shep explains that Best NZ Poems 2014. (A Bilingual Edition) was a joy to create because of the new literary worlds these kinds of publications open up for readers of Chinese and of English. Suddenly the Press is surrounded by people and the tea ceremony begins. The audience is delighted by the bilingual poetry readings in English and Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese and Taiwanese).
The newly launched publication is a collaborative project between International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML), the Confucius Institute and the New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation – of Victoria University. The book was translated by Liang Yujing, designed by Ya-Wen Ho and edited by Vincent O’Sullivan.
Dr Luo Hui is a Lecturer at the School of Languages and Cultures at the Centre for Literary Translation. Luo Hui explains that Zhang Chen has painted the 25 titles of each poem onto the scroll from each poet represented. The lengthy scroll has been placed underneath the teapot and cups for the tea ceremony, a ritualised blessing celebrating this new publication and performed by Huang Lihong.
Poets from across the country - including Chris Price, Helen Rickerby, Dinah Hawkin and Marty Smith - read from their work. The bi-lingual readings come from some of our best literary talents along with some very cool emerging NZ Chinese writers like Nina Powles and her poem Volcanology. Nina won the IIML poet of the year for her own collection of poetry too.
Director of the Confucius Institute of Victoria University, Wen Powles is also the proud mother of poet and contributor Nina Powles and both are bilingual Chinese New Zealanders, so the appreciation of literature runs deep in their family. Wen tells me she is thrilled to be able to read Chinese interpretations of these quintessentially New Zealand poems and voices.
Translator Liang Yujing is a poet himself, something that helped when it came to understanding the 25 New Zealand poets in depth. Yujing explains that he was driven to create this bilingual book because of his love of poetry but he cannot emphasise how difficult it is to translate English poems into Chinese. Yujing explains that the two languages originate, geographically, from the two poles of the human language map - the westmost and the eastmost - just like the north and south poles in the earth's magnetic field.
Translating the poems was both challenging and joyful, but more joyful were my interactions with people doing the work.

This marks the first time that the best of our country’s literary talents will be published in Chinese and will make our literature even more accessible to readers in China. Luo Hui and contributing poet Dinah Hawken are excited that this book will act as a bridge between poetry lovers here and the huge audience of poetry lovers in China.
It comes as no surprise that the book designer Ya-Wen Ho is a poet too – she cleverly uses Chinese typography within the cover design. The arrow-like symbols are punctuation marks common within the Chinese writing system - indicating pauses or a kind of visual "bridge" that supports the concept of the book being a literary bridge itself.
Attending the book launch, Mr Guo Zong Guang, (Director, China Culture Centre) and First Secretary, Director of Culture Section at the Chinese Embassy Mr Shen Ming agree that Best NZ Poems 2014. makes a great inaugural 'literary bridge' towards better cultural understanding between China and New Zealand.
New Zealand's literary icon Damien Wilkins is also the Director of the International Institute of Modern Letters. Damien tell me that they are looking forward to this publication being the start of future bilingual literary publications and also potential exchanges between writers from both countries.
We are exporting our poetry to China but it's not like exporting sheep. Poetry when it travels, travels very mysteriously.

Topics: language, arts
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: New Zealand literature, literature, poetry, author interview, arts, languages, China, Chinese culture, identity
Duration: 16'02"

15:49
The Panel pre-show for 2 May 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 10'51"

=SHOW NOTES=

1:10 First Song
Radiohead - 'Street Spirit'.
1:15 Embattled TV3 CEO, Mark Weldon, fronts up to board meeting
Just days after Hilary Barry's resignation, TV3's embattled chief executive, Mark Weldon has this morning fronted up to a board meeting amid growing anger among staff and threats of mass resignations.
Hayden Donnell of the online magazine, the Spinoff has been speaking with senior mediaworks sources, and says Hilary Barry's resignation was a tipping point for staff, who are waiting for the outcome of today's board meeting to see what action they will take.
1:25 New political support for campaign over bad hospital food
Invercargill's mayor and deputy have both thrown their support into the coalition fighting to dump Compass meals at Southern District Health board hospitals. Tim Shadbolt and deputy Darren Ludlow are happy to support he lobby group which is wanting to have meals for hospitals made locally with fresh ingredients. Darren Ludlow talks to Jesse about why they're putting their weight behind the campaign.
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1:35 Wellington community band kicked out of inner city practice space

A Wellington community samba band has been ejected from its inner city practice space after 15 years, because the council says the noise it makes is unbearable.
Wellington Batucada is a percussion group with a rotating membership of around 100 - aged from their mid 20s to their 70s. The group plays at street festivals and events around the capital.
For the past 15 years it has been rehearsing for two hours on a Sunday afternoon at Thistle Hall, a community hall in upper Cuba Street. But new neighbours have complained about the noise to the council, and the group has been evicted... which they say is totally unfair because they only practise for two hours a week, on a Sunday afternoon.
One of the group's members is Alan Shuker.
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1:40 Favourite Album
Ryan Adams - Gold.
2:10 The Critics
TV review - Linda Burgess
Books - Pip Adam
Music - Colin Morris
Theatre - Terry McTavish
3:10 Feature Interview - A.O. Scott
In a world where anyone with access to the internet can write a blog, send a Tweet or post their opinions on Facebook, everyone's a critic. Finding fault is easy but true critical thinking and analysis is harder than it looks according to New York TImes film critic A.O. Scott. His new book , "Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth" he argues that thoughtful criticism is essential for art. We'll talk to A.O. Scott.
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3:35 Voices
A tea ceremony, calligraphy painting and readings are launching the first ever bilingual publication of 25 of New Zealand's best poets and poetry translated into Chinese. It's an ambitious project initiated by Victoria University with a huge potential readership in China. Lynda Chanwai-Earle attends the celebration to hear our coolest poets and poetry going bilingual.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about with Jesse Mulligan and Zara Potts.

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JESSE'S SONG:
ARTIST: Radiohead
TITLE: Street Spirit (Fade Out)
COMP: Radiohead
ALBUM: Radiohead: The Best Of
LABEL: Parlophone
FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST: Ryan Adams
TITLE: La Cienega Just Smiled
COMP: Adams
ALBUM: Gold
LABEL: LOSTHIGHWAY
ARTIST: Ryan Adams
TITLE: New York, New York
COMP: Adams
ALBUM: Gold
LABEL: LOSTHIGHWAY
ARTIST: Ryan Adams
TITLE: Touch, Feel and Lose
COMP: Adams, Rawlings
ALBUM: Gold
LABEL: LOSTHIGHWAY

MUSIC REVIEW - COLIN MORRIS
ARTIST: Curtis Salgado
TITLE: Hook Me Up
COMP: Johnny 'Guitar' Watson
ALBUM: The Beautiful Lowdown
LABEL: Alligator Records
ARTIST: Robbie Fulks
TITLE: Alabama By Night
COMP: Robbie Fulks
ALBUM: Upland Stories
LABEL: Bloodshot Records
ARTIST: Robbie Fulks
TITLE: Aunt Peg's New Old Man
COMP: Robbie Fulks
ALBUM: Upland Stories
LABEL: Bloodshot Records
ADDITIONAL MUSIC:
ARTIST: The Brunettes
TITLE: B-A-B-Y
COMP: The Brunettes
ALBUM: Kiwi Hit Disc 102
LABEL: NZ On Air
THE PANEL: HALFTIME SONG
ARTIST: The Brunettes
TITLE: B-A-B-Y
COMP: Bree/Mansfield
ALBUM: Structure and Cosmetics
LABEL: Lil Chief

===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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15:49
The Panel pre-show for 2 May 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 10'51"

16:03
The Panel with Mai Chen and David Farrar (Part 1)
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What the Panelists Mai Chen and David Farrar have been up to. Bernard Hickey discusses foreign Trusts and how much the Prime Minister was involved in our tax laws. A 12 per cent drop in foreign students applying for visas. Greg Barton of Deakin University talks about why an article in the Sydney Morning Herald says Australia is a bad neighbour.
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Duration: 26'24"

16:05
The Panel with Mai Chen and David Farrar (Part 2)
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UK band Radiohead has abandoned social media. Will the rest of the world follow? .What the Panelists Mai Chen and David Farrar have been thinking about. Al Gilespie talks about what prompted the storming of Iraq'a parliament and why the Syrian city of Aleppo is being annihilated. He may be Trump no-mates. Republican senators are shying away from being his election running mate.
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Duration: 23'27"

16:07
Intro
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What the Panelists Mai Chen and David Farrar have been up to.
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Duration: 6'32"

16:13
Trusts
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Bernard Hickey discusses foreign Trusts and how much the Prime Minister was involved in our tax laws.
Topics: law
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Tags: trusts
Duration: 9'16"

16:23
Fewer foreign students
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A 12 per cent drop in foreign students applying for visas.
Topics: education
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Tags: foreign students
Duration: 3'09"

16:26
Australia a bad neighbour
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Greg Barton of Deakin University talks about why an article in the Sydney Morning Herald says Australia is a bad neighbour.
Topics: politics
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Tags: bad neighbour
Duration: 7'03"

16:36
Is social media dying?
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UK band Radiohead has abandoned social media. Will the rest of the world follow?
Topics: media, internet
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Tags: social media
Duration: 2'48"

16:39
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Mai Chen and David Farrar have been thinking about.
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Duration: 6'41"

16:46
Syria and the storming of Iraq's parliament
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Al Gilespie talks about what prompted the storming of Iraq'a parliament and why the Syrian city of Aleppo is being annihilated.
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Tags: Iraq
Duration: 7'31"

16:54
Senators shy away from being Trumps VP
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He may be Trump no-mates. Republican senators are shying away from being his election running mate.
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Tags: US, Trump
Duration: 5'41"

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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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RNZ's weekday drive-time news and current affairs programme

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17:00
Checkpoint with John Campbell, Monday 2nd May 2016
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Watch Monday's full programe here.
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Duration: 00"

17:09
Questions raised over whether Compass tax
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After months of criticism for its hospital food, multi-national catering company Compass is raising eyebrows with its tax bill. Anusha Bradley reports.
Topics: health, business
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Tags: Compass
Duration: 4'29"

17:13
Pharmac's Keytruda data 'false and misleading'
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After months of criticism for its hospital food, multi-national catering company Compass is raising eyebrows with its tax bill. Anusha Bradley reports.
Topics: health
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Tags: Keytruda
Duration: 5'24"

17:19
Keytruda expensive but efficient, says oncologist
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Dunedin-based oncologist Dr Chris Jackson, speaking to Checkpoint, says Keytruda is extraordinarily efficient - but also very expensive.
Topics: health
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Tags: Keytruda
Duration: 5'30"

17:25
US tourist charged with causing two deaths in car crash
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An American tourist has appeared in court, charged with causing the deaths of two people in a crash near Kerikeri.
Topics: transport
Regions: Northland
Tags: Fatal Crash
Duration: 2'49"

17:28
French PM says Rainbow Warrior bombing a huge mistake
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French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was in New Zealand today, where, while in talks with John Key, he expressed regret for the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in 1985.
Topics: politics
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Tags: France, Manuel Valls
Duration: 2'42"

17:33
Evening Business for 2 May 2016
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News from the business sector, including a market report.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 4'26"

17:38
Disciplined Warriors ruled out of Kiwis Test
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Amid reports of drug use, six Warriors players have been barred from playing in Friday night's ANZAC Test against Australia, in a bid to improve NRL culture
Topics: sport
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Tags: Warriors
Duration: 3'29"

17:42
Domestic violence pilot extended to six more courts
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Judges are making progress in their efforts to extract more information about a defendent's family violence history.
Topics: crime
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Tags: domestic violence
Duration: 3'34"

17:50
Tongan ukelele legend Bill Sevesi's funeral held
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Friends and family gathered today in Auckland to celebrate the life of renowned ukelele and steel guitar player Bill Sevesi, who died last month.
Topics: music
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Duration: 3'29"

17:54
Beautiful weather set to continue in May
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The balmy autumn temperatures enjoyed in many of New Zealand's regions seem set to continue. MetService's Georgina Griffiths joins Checkpoint.
Topics: weather
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Duration: 5'14"

18:08
Christchurch Council's flood modelling 'flawed'
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A community group says the Christchurch City Council's flood modelling has been flawed and some homes have either been rebuilt or are in the process of being rebuilt almost 50 centimetres lower than they should be.
Topics: environment
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: flood modelling, Christchurch
Duration: 6'12"

18:14
Murder-accused posed for photo on burial site
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An undercover policeman spent six months befriending murder-accused Kamal Reddy and persuaded him to pose for a photo where the bodies were later found, a court was told.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Kamal Reddy
Duration: 3'22"

18:18
More and more people are living alone
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More and more people in New Zealand are living alone, according to a new report from Statistics New Zealand.
Topics: life and society
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Duration: 3'21"

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===6:30 PM. | Worldwatch===
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The stories behind the international headlines

===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information

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19:15
To the Memory - NZ's War Memorials
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There are over 1000 war memorials throughout New Zealand. Historian Jock Phillips' new book To The Memory explores the stories behind the stone.
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Tags: World War One, World War Two, memorials
Duration: 15'07"

20:15
Nights Science - Koi Carp Eradication
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They may look like goldfish on steroids but Koi carp pose a serious threat to New Zealand water ecosystems. Self-confessed native fish geek Stella McQueen talks about a recent eradication effort that netted 187 fish, including one chubby specimen weighing nearly 5 kg.
Topics: science, environment
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Tags: fishing, Goldfish, koi carp, whitebait
Duration: 20'28"

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7:12 To the Memory - NZ's War Memorials
There are over 1000 war memorials throughout New Zealand. Historian Jock Phillips' new book To The Memory explores the stories behind the stone.
7:35 Upbeat
It's 20 years since some of the members of Split Enz and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra got together to record ENZSO. The album, which featured classic Split Enz songs arranged by the band's former keyboardist and sound engineer Eddie Rayner, is being re-released. Eva Radich talks with Eddie Rayner.

8:12 Nights' Science - Koi Carp Eradication
They may look like goldfish on steroids but Koi carp pose a serious threat to New Zealand water eco-systems. We'll talk to self-confessed native fish geek Stella McQueen about a recent eradication effort that netted 187 fish including one chubby specimen weighing 4.85 kg.
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8:30 Window on the World
Naomi Alderman tells the story of celebrity poet, playwright, author and thinker Mary Cavendish and finds out why she so fascinated and yet also infuriated the men of the Restoration elite in the mid 16 hundreds. She was known as Mad Madge for her seemingly whacky theories. Mary Cavendish was the first woman to meet the Fellows of the newly formed Royal Society where she was greeted with gritted teeth and fake smiles.

9:30 Insight
Social Bonds -Funding Innovation or Risky Experiment?
This week on Insight, Kate Gudsell explores the government's planned social impact bonds,what exactly are they, what are the risks, and who would want to invest in them?
10:17 Late Edition
A round up of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International
11:07 At the Eleventh Hour
Beale Street Caravan. Ex-Blue Mountain man, Cary Hudson, brings his mixture of Rock and Blues to the picnic in North Mississippi. Also, there is Eric Deaton who moved from North Carolina to Mississippi straight out of high school to learn about moonshine-fuelled hill country blues first hand. Both Cary and Eric are first rate slide guitarists and songwriters. We have Something On the Side from John Paul Keith, he talks about the side players who made the stars sound good, this time it's drummer Howard Grimes.

===8:30 PM. | Windows On The World===
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International public radio features and documentaries

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Monday 2 May Mary Cavendish

Naomi Alderman tells the story of celebrity poet, playwright, author and thinker Mary Cavendish and finds out why she so fsascinated and yet also infuriated the men of the Restoration elite in the mid 16 hundreds. She was known as Mad Madge for her seemingly whacky theories. Mary Cavendish was the first woman to meet the Fellows of the newly formed Royal Society whre she was greetedwith gritted teeth and fake smiles.

Tuesday 3 May Forgetting Igbo

Nkem Ifejika cant speak the language of his forefathers. Nkem is British of Nigerian descent and comes from one of Nigeria's biggest ethnic groups the Igbo. He's one of the millions of Nigerians, who live in the diaspora - almost two hundred thousand of them live in Britain. From Nkem’s own London-based family - where his wife is teaching both him and their son to speak Igbo - to the ancestral villages of Anambra State, 'Forgetting Igbo' reveals shifting perspectives on Nigeria’s colonial past, emerging new ambitions for its future – and deep fault lines at the heart of its society.

Wednesday 4 May Selling Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s plays have been exported to almost every country there is. In Neuss, Germany, a replica of the Globe has stood since 1991. In Bollywood, Shakespeare’s stories have been retold since the dawn of Indian cinema, and become major money-spinners courtesy of movies such as Omkara (Othello) and Haider (Hamlet). In corporate America, his plays have been seized upon by executive training teams. And in China, Shakespeare’s works are being marketed to a new generation of domestic consumers, eager for a taste of historical culture. Author and critic Andrew Dickson goes on a globe-trotting journey to find out how the Bard is still very much in business – and discovers one of the most successful and flexible cultural brands there is.

Thursday 5 May The Forgotten Girls of Dhaka

Farhana Haider enters the world of Duaripara slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh to meet a group of teenage girls who were married and then abandoned by their husbands before they even reached the age of 16. While in the globalized world of opportunity, many of us are discovering and shaping our identities through new possibilities, others less fortunate are having their identities shaped by circumstances out of their control. Farhana hears some of the girls give intimate insights into who they are and what they think the future holds.

===9:30 PM. | Insight===
=DESCRIPTION=

An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs (RNZ)

===10:00 PM. | Late Edition===
=DESCRIPTION=

RNZ news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from RNZ National

===11:06 PM. | Beale Street Caravan===
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David Knowles introduces the Memphis-based radio show with an international reputation for its location recordings of blues musicians live in concert (BSC)