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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:
19 July 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Spectrum (RNZ); 1:15 From the World (BBC); 2:05 Hidden Treasures (RNZ) 3.05 The Conductor by Sarah Quigley read by Peter Bland (14 of 15) (RNZ); 3:30 An Author's View (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)
===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 Tuesday 19 July 2016
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Russia guilty of state-sponsored doping at Olympics. How will Russia doping report impact Rio Olympics? RNZ learns Chinese officials warn Zespri of retaliation. Housing costs major contributor to Auckland teacher shortage. Police searching for two children missing from Tuakau.
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Duration: 31'32"
06:06
Sports News for 19 July 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'18"
06:12
High housing contributes to teacher shortage in Auckland
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Primary teachers' union welcomes survey showing schools are struggling to attract teachers in Auckland. It says hopefully the Ministry of Education will now acknowledge there's a problem.
Topics: education
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: NZEI, Auckland Primary Principals Association, Teacher Shortages
Duration: 3'01"
06:19
Early Business News for 19 July 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 2'38"
06:26
Morning Rural News for 19 July 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'20"
06:38
Russian reaction to report on state-sponsored doping
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New report finds the Russian government commissioned and oversaw doping in 30 different sports after it was unhappy with its medal haul in the Winter 2010 Olympics.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Russia, doping, Olympics
Duration: 3'34"
06:38
Baton Rouge police killer posted angry videos online
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The man who killed three police officers yesterday in Baton Rouge has been identified as an ex-Marine who posted videos online angry about the police's treatment of African Americans. We cross to Baton Rouge for the latest.
Topics: crime
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Tags: Baton Rouge, police, shooting, Louisiana
Duration: 4'11"
06:50
Two rate cuts this year to counter low inflation possible
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Two interest rate cuts this year to a record low 1.75 percent cannot be discounted in the wake of another soft inflation reading and persistently high currency.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: interest rates, inflation
Duration: 2'27"
06:52
NZ dolllar is under pressure as an interest rate cut is likely
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The New Zealand dollar was knocked around yesterday after the inflation data, which markedly rtaised the odds of an interest rate cut next month.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: dollar, inflation
Duration: 1'08"
06:53
Tainui looks around the world for inland port developer
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Hamilton-based, Tainui Group Holdings, is looking around the world for a ports operator to develop its inland port as a freight hub for the Auckland, Hamilton and Tauranga golden triangle.
Topics: business, economy
Regions: Waikato
Tags: Tainui Group Holdings, ports, Ports of Auckland
Duration: 2'11"
06:57
Morning markets for 19 July 2016
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U.S. markets are subdued with lower oil prices offsetting reasonable corporate earnings.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'07"
06:59
Business briefs
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An unlisted commecial property fund -- the Pacific Property Fund -- is looking to raise $15 million so it can buy two Auckland properties and build a warehouse in Tauranga.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Pacific Property Fund
Duration: 32"
07:07
Sports News for 19 July 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'09"
07:11
Russia guilty of state-sponsored doping at Olympics
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An independent report into allegations of doping by Russian athletes has found damning evidence of state-sponsored cheating at the Sochi Winter Olympic and other events. We talk to the World Anti Doping Agency which is recommending tough sanctions on Russian athletes.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Russia, Olympics, doping, Wada
Duration: 6'55"
07:17
How will Russia doping report impact Rio Olympics?
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The fallout from the Russian doping report is only just beginning. Our reporter Barry Guy will be going to the Rio Olympics and has the analysis of what's likely to happen.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Russia, Olympics, doping
Duration: 3'36"
07:21
RNZ learns Chinese officials warn Zespri of retaliation
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RNZ News has been told the kiwifruit marketing company Zespri was warned by Chinese officials there could be retaliation if New Zealand investigates claims of Chinese steel dumping. Our reporter Eric Frykberg has the story.
Topics: economy, business
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Tags: Zespri, China, kiwifruit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, steel
Duration: 5'03"
07:26
Housing costs major contributor to Auckland teacher shortage
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Auckland primary schools blame the high price of Auckland housing for the difficulties they're facing as they try to fill teacher vacancies. Joanna MacKenzie has the story.
Topics: education, housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Teacher Shortage, house prices, Auckland Primary Principals Association
Duration: 3'35"
07:34
Police searching for two children missing from Tuakau
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Police searching for two children missing from Tuakau. We have latest from the police.
Topics: life and society
Regions: Auckland Region, Waikato
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Duration: 1'03"
07:35
Skeen 'grateful' to jury for manslaughter decision
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After 5 hours of deliberation, Vincent Skeen was found not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter after he stabbed Luke Tipene at least seven times with a broken beer bottle during a street brawl in late 2014. We speak to Skeen's lawyer.
Topics: crime
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Duration: 2'14"
07:37
Republican National Convention kicks off in Cleveland
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The Republican National Convention starts today in Cleveland Ohio but already it's fraught with security concerns and protests over the divisive nominee. Our correspondent Simon Marks joins us now from Cleveland.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Republican National Convention, Cleveland
Duration: 4'54"
07:43
Kevin Rudd wants to join Helen Clark in race for UN job
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Labour's deputy leader Annette King is right behind her old boss Helen Clark's bid to become United Nations secretary-general. She's not impressed by former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd's late entry to the race.
Topics: politics
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Tags: United Nations secretary-general, Australia
Duration: 3'34"
07:47
Turkish government cracks down after coup attempt
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Turkey's President Erdogan is not backing down from talk of reintroducing the death penalty to punish coup plotters.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Turkey, coup, death penalty
Duration: 5'16"
07:52
French PM booed at minute's silence for Nice attack victims
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The French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has been booed as he attended a minute's silence in Nice for the people killed in the Bastille Day attack.
Topics: politics
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Tags: France, prime minister, Nice
Duration: 2'53"
07:55
South Dunedin could be slowly sinking but council taking action
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Otago Regional Council is about to publish a report seven years in the making identifying risk factors contributing to South Dunedin's flooding. We talk to council chief executive Peter Bodeker.
Topics: environment
Regions: Otago
Tags: Otago Regional Council, Dunedin, flooding
Duration: 3'43"
08:07
Sports News for 19 July 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'23"
08:11
Drug Free Sport New Zealand backs Russia Olympics ban
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Drug Free Sport New Zealand tells Morning Report why, in the wake of a new report on state sponsored doping, Russian athletes must be banned from next month's Rio Olympics.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Olympics, Drug Free Sport New Zealand, Russia
Duration: 6'04"
08:17
Auckland housing behind shortage of primary school teachers
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Auckland primary schools blame the city's increasingly high housing costs for difficulties trying to fill vacancies. The Auckland Primay Principals Association says a survey reveals just how serious the problem is.
Topics: education, housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Teacher Shortage, Auckland Primary Principals Association, house prices, cost of living
Duration: 5'42"
08:23
Thousands gather in Cleveland to protest against Trump
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Thousands have gathered in Cleveland to protest against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. We talk to one of the protestors.
Topics: politics
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Tags: America, Republican National Convention, protests
Duration: 2'37"
08:26
Beef dispute with Indonesia could be over soon
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After years of uncertainty for New Zealand's beef exporters, a trade dispute with Indonesia could be settled in the coming months. Our Deputy Political Editor, Chris Bramwell, is in Jakarta.
Topics: economy, politics
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Tags: Indonesia, beef, World Trade Organisation
Duration: 2'49"
08:29
Markets Update for 19 July 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: economy, business
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'02"
08:34
Urban Maori win court case over $20 million fisheries fund
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Urban Maori groups win long-running battle over who should control a $20 million trust set up to make sure urban Maori get a share of treaty fishery settlements. John Tamihere led the fight.
Topics: te ao Maori, business, politics
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Tags: Fishery settlements, The National Urban Maori Authority, Te Whanau o Waipareira
Duration: 4'34"
08:39
Kevin Rudd seeks Australian support to run for UN top job
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Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has officially put his hand up to run for the United Nations' Secretary General position, but first he needs the support of Malcolm Turnbull and his government. So far, 12 candidates are in the running for the job - including former NZ Prime Minister Helen Clark.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Australia, United Nations Secretary General
Duration: 3'54"
08:43
More home births encouraged in Auckland
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An overhaul of maternity policies at Auckland and Waitemata District Health Boards is to see more emphasis placed on home births. Rowan Quinn takes a look at the pros and cons.
Topics: health
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Home Birth
Duration: 3'24"
08:47
Decision to axe pepi pod funding criticised
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The inventor of the pepi pod for babies who sleep with their parents is accusing the Health Ministry of institutional racism for deciding to stop funding their distribution. The Maori Women's Welfare League agrees.
Topics: health, te ao Maori
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Tags: Maori Women's Welfare League, Pepi Pod, wahakura, SUDI, babies
Duration: 3'52"
08:51
Blackbirding film sheds light on dark history of Australia
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Film sheds light on the dark history of "blackbirding" - the kidnapping mainly of Melanesians who were then taken to Australia as cheap labour on plantations in the 1800s
Topics: movies, history, Pacific
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Tags: Blackbird, Blackbirding, Australia, documentary, Melanesians
Duration: 2'44"
08:54
Hopes exhibition will show the real Opotiki to city slickers
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A new exhibition in Ponsonby will be showcasing the best art Opotiki has to offer. More than 20 established and emerging artists are featured and they hope their work will give Aucklanders a more positive image of the town.
Topics: arts
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: Opotiki
Duration: 3'24"
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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: When We Wake, by Karen Healy. Sixteen-year-old Tegan is happiest when playing the guitar, she's falling in love for the first time, and she's protesting the wrongs of the world. (Part 7 of 12, RNZ)
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09:07
Endorsement of reforming Government policy on cannabis.
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An Official Information Act request by Nelson lawyer Sue Grey on the economic cost of prohibiting access to Cannabis has turned up a previously secret Drug Classification note from Treasury. It says that instead of spending 400 million dollars a year enforcing prohibition of illegal drugs , 150 million dollars a year could be generated from legalising and taxing cannabis.
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The government could generate $150 million annually by taxing cannabis, rather than spending $400m a year enforcing drug prohibition, a Treasury note says.
An Official Information Act request by Nelson lawyer Sue Grey turned up the Drug Classification note, part of an internal Treasury forum from 2013.
The previously unreleased document said studies showed alcohol and tobacco caused far more harm than cannabis; that there was no evidence it was a gateway drug, and that Māori "take the brunt of current policies" - making up 14.5 percent of the population, but receiving 43 percent of cannabis convictions.
Finance Minister Bill English, who Ms Grey's information request was directed to, said the document was not an official Treasury recommendation or advice.
"It was a document prepared by a single staff member for an internal forum and did not come to me,” Mr English said.
Ms Grey told Nine to Noon the government could save a huge amount of money and resources by decriminalising or legalising cannabis.
"What is really interesting about this document is that they tend to say that cannabis has got this huge cost for society.
"But when you look at the Treasury information, and whether it is opinion or not it is still based on data that Treasury has got access to, that the cost is really a cost of the law and current government policy.
"It's nothing actually to do with the cannabis at all, it is not the cost of people getting ill or having side effects, it's all about the cost of enforcing the law."
She said the paper noted that 95 percent of cannabis users brought to police attention continued to use it, whether they were prosecuted or not.
Ms Grey said irrespective of whether the note was official advice or not, it showed Treasury had information that cannabis policy cost New Zealand.
"With information comes responsibility.
"If they've got policies that (are) costing New Zealand a lot of money, and there's sensible, logical ways of reforming those policies that are consistent with best international practice, then surely it should be a wider issue for Treasury to be looking at and for the Minister to be looking at."
The Treasury note pointed to counties such as Denmark, Germany, Portugal, parts of Australia, and the United States that have all decriminalised possession of cannabis to varying degree and have had "positive" experience "and don't seem to have an increase in drug use".
The document concluded by saying drug reform "isn't a particularly radical idea these days".
"It's supported by The Economist and the Global Commission on Drug Policy, as well as reports by our Health Select Committee and the Law Commission."
The Drug Foundation said the millions spent on law enforcement would be better spent on drug prevention, education and treatment.
Its executive director Ross Bell said the document aligns with an earlier review done by the Law Commission.
"Sadly politicians misread the public mood and they think that it's too scary to look at alternatives to this status quo approach.
"I think government has the responsibility to do something with this analysis. If the advice is 'do something different, look at the alternatives', then they should be doing that, they shouldn't be running scared," Mr Bell said.
He said the analysis showed the current system was not only expensive, but it did not do what it was designed to do, which was reduce drug use.
"Whether you are coming at this from a health perspective or an economic perspective, the status quo approach to drugs isn't working. It doesn't stack up," Mr Bell said.
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Topics: law, life and society, economy
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Tags: drugs, cannabis, taxation
Duration: 10'21"
09:18
A Picture of Health?
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Liggins Institute guest, University of Pretoria geneticist Vinet Coetzee has been developing an affordable 3D camera that could assist in the early detection of genetic disorders such as Down Syndrome in very young babies. This imaging technology can also be useful in signalling health issues related to poor nutrition in adults, even for solving crimes.
Topics: health, technology, science
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Tags: 3D camera, Genetic Disorders
Duration: 17'54"
09:37
US correspondent Susan Milligan
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The latest from the US from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, and more about Donald Trump's right hand man, Mike Pence.
Topics: politics
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Tags: America, Republican National Convention
Duration: 9'07"
09:46
Will Russia be banned from the Rio Olympics?
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A damning report by the World Anti-Doping Agency released overnight confirms allegations by the former head of Russia's national anti-doping lab that urine samples from athletes were swapped clean ones with the help of Russian intelligence and anti-doping officials. The International Olympic Committee is holding a phone conference tonight and has said it will not hesitate to use the toughest sanctions available. German investigative journalist Hajo Seppelt who was one of the first people to expose the extent of Russia's drug cheating, with a documentary called "Top Secret Doping: How Russia Produces Its Winners".
Topics: sport
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Tags: Russia, doping, Olympics, Rio
Duration: 7'19"
09:54
The Reserve Bank proposes new lending restrictions
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The Reserve Bank is proposing extending lending restrictions to try to cool the housing market. RNZ's business editor Gyles Beckford joins Kathryn to discuss the proposal.
Topics: economy, business
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Tags: housing, lending, investing, Reserve Bank
Duration: 5'33"
10:08
From Fargo to Before the Fall - Noah Hawley
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Screenwriter and author Noah Hawley is behind the television adaptation of the classic Coen brothers movie, Fargo. He is a much in demand film and television producer and scriptwriter. His latest novel, Before the Fall, tells the tale of a fatal private jet crash, with two survivors, a man and a child. On the face of it an accident which evolves into a thrilling yarn weaving in the stories of each of the passengers, and examining who might be responsible for the crash.
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Screenwriter and author Noah Hawley is behind the television adaptation of the classic Coen brothers movie, Fargo. He is a much in demand film and television producer and scriptwriter.
His latest novel, Before the Fall, tells the tale of a fatal private jet crash, with two survivors, a man and a child. On the face of it an accident which evolves into a thrilling yarn weaving in the stories of each of the passengers, and examining who might be responsible for the crash.
He speaks with Kathryn Ryan about translating a film to television screen, juggling multiple writing projects and his new novel.
Read an edited excerpt from their interview below:
I would love your thoughts on what it is about Fargo, that made it so unique. What was it that you saw in that particular film?
It’s interesting on so many levels. First of all, it’s a true story that isn’t true. It starts out by saying this is a true story, but it’s not. Because it’s saying that this is a true story, Joel and Ethan Coen were able to include these peculiar and very regionally specific details that made the movie feel truth-ier. There’s this Mike Yanagita character who calls Frances McDormand’s character out of the blue, they went to high school together. They have this meal together and he tells her that he married the girl from high school and she died of leukaemia and it turns out that that story is a lie and this woman had a restraining order against him. And you think, why is this in the movie, it has nothing to do with this investigation into the death of a state trooper and the kidnapping of this woman. Except it’s the kind of detail that you would include because it happened. I love that sense of it, which is that truth is stranger than fiction.
The language and the specificity of the characters in the world… it seems like a very ambitious thing to do and a terrible idea to turn this movie into a show, except the network was open to the idea that we do it without Frances McDormand’s character, by which we agreed that none of the characters in the movie would be in the show, at which point you’re adapting a movie without any of the characters or the story – what are you doing? Except creating an homage in a way to a type of true crime story. That was really interesting to me, this idea that I could create anything I wanted as long as it made you feel the same things you felt watching this movie and that was a really fascinating challenge.
What for you is the main difference between writing the novel form or the scriptwriting form?
I’m a firm believer that the structure of the story should reflect the content of a story, so what was exciting with Before the Fall is that it is a story that starts with a bang, literally. A small plane goes into the water and two people survive and eleven people don’t survive. So at a certain point, once we’ve got through the survival part of the story and Scott and the boy are safely on land, then the question was, why did the plane go into the water? What was exciting to me was you solve that mystery by solving the characters. By looking at everybody who was on the plane and telling their stories and trying to add up the clues as to why that plane might have ended up on the water. I then ended up with a book with a very strong central narrative but then I digressed from time to time into these chapters about these different people on the plane.
With Legion it’s a show about a man who is either schizophrenic or has these extra-sensory abilities, so therefore he’s a character who’s never really sure about what’s real or who’s real and therefore that should be the subjective experience of the audience. I always look for, what is the story about and how can we tell the story in a way that really puts the audience in the character’s mindset?
Topics: movies, author interview
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Tags: Before the Fall, Fargo, writing
Duration: 27'40"
10:40
Book Review - The Quiet Spectacular by Laurence Fearnley
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Reviewed by David Hill, published by Penguin Random House.
Topics: books
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Duration: 4'01"
11:08
Business commentator Rod Oram
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Rod Oram looks at some aspects of presumptive Republican candidate, Donald Trump's economic policies and where the TPP stands in American politics. Also, how consumers might benefit from the rewriting of New Zealand telecommunications regulations.
Topics: business
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Tags: TPP, Reserve Bank
Duration: 17'38"
11:28
Stag Doo
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Christchurch based 'Big Al' Lester's ninth book about hunting, 'Stag Doo' tells camp-fire tales of what went wrong on the hunt. He also shares 40 years of his own deer-hunting experiences in the South Island.
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Christchurch-based "Big Al" Lester retells stories normally only heard around the camp fire at the end of a long day's hunting.
Described as "Fred Dagg meets Barry Crump", retired detective sergeant Lester is just about to publish his ninth book about hunting in New Zealand.
Stag Doo is a humourous collection of somewhat apocryphal hunters' tales about what went wrong on the hunt - as told to him over the years in the hut or while propping up a bar.
He talks to Kathryn Ryan about his new book and shares 40 years of his own deer-hunting experiences in the South Island.
Topics: life and society, rural
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Tags: hunting
Duration: 15'33"
11:44
Media commentator Gavin Ellis
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Farewell to RNZ's Spectrum's 44 year long run and a look at the role journalistic organisations still play in public discourse.
Topics: media
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Tags: Spectrum, RNZ
Duration: 14'32"
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09:05 Endorsement of reforming Government policy on cannabis.
An Official Information Act request by Nelson lawyer Sue Grey on the economic cost of prohibiting access to Cannabis has turned up a previously secret Drug Classification note from Treasury. It says that instead of spending 400 million dollars a year enforcing prohibition of illegal drugs , 150 million dollars a year could be generated from legalising and taxing cannabis. The documents can be accessed here
09:20 A Picture of Health?
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Liggins Institute guest, University of Pretoria geneticist Vinet Coetzee has been developing an affordable 3D camera that could assist in the early detection of genetic disorders such as Down Syndrome in very young babies. This imaging technology can also be useful in signalling health issues related to poor nutrition in adults, even for solving crimes.
09:30 Will Russia be banned from the Rio Olympics?
A damning report by the World Anti-Doping Agency released overnight confirms allegations by the former head of Russia's national anti-doping lab that urine samples from athletes were swapped clean ones with the help of Russian intelligence and anti-doping officials. The International Olympic Committee is holding a phone conference tonight and has said it will not hesitate to use the toughest sanctions available. German investigative journalist Hajo Seppelt who was one of the first people to expose the extent of Russia's drug cheating, with a documentary called "Top Secret Doping: How Russia Produces Its Winners".
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09:45 US correspondent Susan Milligan
The latest from the US from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, and more about Donald Trump's right hand man, Mike Pence.
10:05 From Fargo to Before the Fall - Noah Hawley
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Screenwriter and author Noah Hawley is behind the television adaptation of the classic Coen brothers movie, Fargo. He is a much in demand film and television producer and scriptwriter. His latest novel, Before the Fall, tells the tale of a fatal private jet crash, with two survivors, a man and a child. On the face of it an accident which evolves into a thrilling yarn weaving in the stories of each of the passengers, and examining who might be responsible for the crash.
10:35 Book review - The Quiet Spectacular by Laurence Fearnley
Reviewed by David Hill, published by Penguin Random House
10:45 The Reading
When We Wake by Karen Healy read by Francesca Emms (Part 7 of 12)
11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram
Rod Oram looks at some aspects of presumptive Republican candidate, Donald Trump's economic policies and where the TPP stands in American politics. Also, how consumers might benefit from the rewriting of New Zealand telecommunications regulations.
11:30 Stag Doo
Christchurch based 'Big Al' Lester's ninth book about hunting, 'Stag Doo' tells camp-fire tales of what went wrong on the hunt. He also shares 40 years of his own deer-hunting experiences in the South Island.
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11:45 Media commentator Gavin Ellis
Farewell to RNZ's Spectrum's 44 year long run and a look at the role journalistic organisations still play in public discourse. He refers to a piece in the Guardian, How technology disrupted the truth.
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Song: It Ain't Over Till It's Over
Composer: Kravitz
Album: Mama Said
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Song: Going up the Country
Composer: White/Wilson
Album: Kitty, Daisy and Lewis
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===Noon | Midday Report===
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RNZ news, followed by updates and reports until 1.00pm, including: 12:16 Business News 12:26 Sport 12:34 Rural News 12:43 Worldwatch
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12:00
Midday News for 19 July 2016
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17 years for a man who killed his baby daughter. The Reserve Bank moves again to cool the housing market.
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Duration: 15'17"
12:17
RBNZ lending limits likely to have temporary effect
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The Reserve Bank's latest set of rules to limit bank lending on housing to try to cool the hot property market has come as no surprise but is likely to have only a limited impact.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Reserve Bank
Duration: 2'14"
12:19
Oceania Natural says new partners will open doors in China
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The food and supplements export company, Oceania Natural, is setting up an operation in Hong Kong to speed up its growth in China.
Topics: business
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Tags: Oceania Natural
Duration: 1'55"
12:21
NZX expects mid-cap market to grow with changing attitudes
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The head of the NZX says a shift in thinking about long-term savings and investment is the key to unlocking the growth potential of smaller New Zealand companies.
Topics: business
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Tags: NZX
Duration: 1'41"
12:23
Midday Markets for 19 July 2016
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Angus Marks at First NZ Capital.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'16"
12:25
Business Briefs
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The mining exploration company, Aorere Resources, plans to raise 126-thousand dollars of capital through a private placement of new shares, to help pay for the purchase of American Innovative Minerals.
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Duration: 31"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 19 July 2016
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The latest addition to the New Zealand Olympic team for Rio, the Greco-Roman wrestler Craig Miller, says his sport will be changed forever by the Russian doping saga.
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Duration: 2'26"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 19 July 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 8'11"
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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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13:14
Reserve Bank proposes Lending Restrictions
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The Reserve Bank has proposed tough new loan-to-value ratios, targeting borrowing for investors, in a bid to cool the housing market. Governor Graeme Wheeler released the details this morning. Economist Geoff Simmons is with us to talk through what it all means.
Topics: economy, housing
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Tags: Reserve Bank
Duration: 4'45"
13:19
Day One of the Republican Convention
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Correspondent, Simon Marks is among the thousands at the Republican convention in Cleveland Ohio, where Donald Trump will be officially endorsed as the Republican presidential candidate
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An estimated 50,000 people, including 15,000 media are at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland Ohio - a media presence second only to the Rio Olympics.
There was uproar at the start of the convention when some opponents of presumptive U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump stormed out of the room and chanted in protest at their failure to win a symbolic vote opposing his candidacy.
Simon Marks talked to Jesse Mulligan live from the event.
Topics: politics
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Tags: US, Trump
Duration: 9'18"
13:28
What We Value In Our Leaders
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The world is talking about who will be the next President of the United States. But what qualities do we value in our leaders? And how has that changed over time?
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The world is talking about who will be the next President of the United States. But what qualities do we value in our leaders? And how has that changed over time?
Dr Suze Wilson is a lecturer at the School of Management at Massey University. She's also written a book called, Thinking Differently about Leadership, which looks at ancient Greek, medieval and modern theories of leadership.
Read an edited excerpt of the interview below:
The idea that leaders have to be charismatic (or visionary is another word we use)… is that new or has that always been around?
It really came into prominence over the last two or three decades, starting from about the '80s and emerging from research and ideas promulgated by people in the US. It travelled through management education and business schools around the globe and that’s how it has come to be such a popular idea today. But in many ways it’s kind of a rehash of the ideas a lot of the Ancient Greek and medieval thinkers had, who saw leaders really as divine beings who knew the answer to everything. I guess in today’s climate, there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that not only they don’t have the answer to everything, it’s quite impossible for them to do that.
Did the rise for the charismatic leader, or the desire for a charismatic leader, mirror the rise of celebrity? You look at the famous leaders like Richard Branson, for example, did we see people like him and think, ‘that must be what we’re looking for’?
From the '80s, there was a real cult around the CEO that you helicoptered in to save an organisation from itself. There were clearly some success stories that came out from that. A lot of researchers have looked into it and what we’re seeing is the dark side of this approach to leadership - these kinds of leaders actually believe their own press releases. They become very arrogant, they don’t want to listen to other people’s ideas, they genuinely believe they are the smartest people in the room and actually, of course, they’re not. They end up making disastrous decisions and often breeding not-strong cultures where you can actually contest ideas and work through issues in an open and healthy way, but cultures that are more like cults, where you are actually with the leader, or out of the play.
Although we tend to think of a charismatic leader as a strong leader, in fact you make the point that it’s almost the opposite, and we get swayed into thinking it is because of the way they get into power.
Yeah, it is. They put on a really good show. If you don’t stop and actually think of the substance of the message, which is often really simplified.
They make the issues simplistic, don’t they, so it’s easy to come up with a simple answer.
Yeah, so they have nice little sayings and catchphrases that they’re trying to sell, but when you actually scratch in a serious fashion below that, you see that there’s not much substance there. What you’ve got is the glamour and the hype, but no substance. What you’re seeing is a form of leadership that is very, very self-serving. It’s not oriented around serving others, or pro-social values. It’s really about the personal ambition of the leader and them trying to gather people around them to reinforce and reflect how glorious they are.
Where does John Key fit in with this theory?
In the New Zealand political climate, we have been pretty leery of fine rhetoric. Probably David Lange was the closest we got to a great rhetorician and even then his rhetoric was actually self-deprecating. He could get away with making flowery speeches because he peppered it with humour at his own expense.
Generally we don’t like that kind of leader. We want our political leaders to seem a little bit more down to earth and of course that is what the Prime Minister does and he goes to a lot of effort to sustain this narrative of being an ordinary Kiwi, but of course the facts don’t actually back that up.
Most of us didn’t go and work as merchant bankers, we don’t have $50 million, we don’t travel round with security guards and we’re not the Prime Minister. His life is actually very, very different for most of ours and has been for a long time, but he makes this enormous sustained effort to try and present himself as an ordinary Kiwi. That’s a big part of his appeal.
But if you look at our business culture, you do see more of the American influence. There’s more of the grand CEO who is flown in to save organisations, to bring about bold change.
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Duration: 13'58"
13:42
Can a movie reboot ruin your childhood?
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Dan Slevin discusses the increasing cynicism towards movie reboots, like Ghostbusters, and asks if a remake is really so bad.
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For a long time audiences have been getting increasingly cynical about what they perceive as Hollywood's lack of imagination by remaking, rebooting, sequel-ising and franchising until every character is living in one brand of shared universe or another.
Dan Slevin talks about the reaction to the rebooted Ghostbusters, and the concept that a new version of a film can "ruin someone's childhood" despite the original continuing to be freely available. And he asks what show or film from your childhood is so precious to you that if someone made a new film or tv version of it, you would feel personally offended.
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Duration: 7'46"
13:49
Favourite album
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Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion, chosen by Adam Goodal.
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Duration: 10'00"
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Book Critic - Paul Little
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'Behind the tape: Gripping real-life stories from New Zealand's top police crisis negotiator' by Lance Burdett, published by Allen and Unwin.
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Great New Zealand Album: Last Exit to Garageland
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Last Exit To Garageland singer Jeremy Eade talks about how this student radio classic broke into the mainstream.
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The Great New Zealand album this week was not a mainstream monster hit nor did it dominate sales charts for any great length of time but it was the seminal album for the band that created. It also garnered much critical acclaim and exposed these four kiwi musicians to audiences in the UK and US.
This debut album from 1996 did make a big splash on student radio though, with five fresh pop songs getting regular airplay and, finally, they broke into the top five on the nation's album chart.
The album is "Last Exit To Garageland" and lead singer, principal songwriter and guitarist Jeremy Eade joined Jesse in the Auckland Studio.
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Duration: 43'36"
15:06
Cryonics: will we ever really bring people back from the dead?
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Cyronic freezing has long been scoffed at by the science community, but despite that some people remain convinced that if they can preserve their bodies immediately after death, one day in the future the technology will exist to bring them back to life. The first person to cryopreserved was Dr. James Bedford in 1967. Around 250 people have been preserved in the US, and another 1500 have made arrangements for this to happen when they die. Science journalist and author, Helen Thomson has been investigating cryogenics, the latest developments and the complex laws around it.. including talking to those who freeze the dead for a living, and getting a tour of a planned state of the art cryopreservation centre in Texas, called Timeship.
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Cyronic freezing has long been scoffed at by the science community.
But despite that, some people remain convinced that if they can preserve their bodies immediately after death, one day in the future the technology will exist to bring them back to life.
The first person to cryopreserved was Dr. James Bedford in 1967. Around 250 people have been preserved in the US, and another 1500 have made arrangements for this to happen when they die.
Science journalist and author, Helen Thomson has been investigating cryogenics, the latest developments and the complex laws around it.. including talking to those who freeze the dead for a living, and getting a tour of a planned state of the art cryopreservation centre in Texas, called Timeship.
Helen Thomson talks to Jesse Mulligan.
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Duration: 22'23"
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The Panel pre-show for 19 July 2016
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3D printing a bionic arm
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As part of the 2016 International Science Festival in Dunedin, teenager Corey Symon was gifted a 3D-printed bionic arm by Limbitless Solutions.
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Corey Symon is a trombone-playing 14-year old with a passion for the sport of fencing. He was also born without his right-hand and forearm. Now, thanks to Dunedin’s International Science Festival and US non-profit Limbitless Solutions, he is the proud owner of a 3D-printed bionic arm.
Limbitless Solution was set up by Albert Manero two years ago, when he realised there was a need for cheap prosthetic arms for kids who were missing all or part of their arm. He decided that open source software and 3D printing was a way to produce a robust arm that could then be fitted with electronics, powered by a rechargeable battery.
The arms are decorated to match the personality of the recipient – the first arm that Limbitless Solution built and gifted went to Alex, a boy with a love of the robotic character Iron Man. Corey’s arm is sleek and grey, modelled on a sports car’s racing lines.
It takes about 30 hours to 3D print a bionic arm, and costs about US$330 in material, says engineer Brendan Jones, who has been in New Zealand to help fit (and fix) Corey’s new arm.
Corey has had prosthetic arms before, but they have had limited movement, relying on him flexing his whole arm to make the thumb open and close.
His new arm has a fully opening and closing hand. Corey wears three electrodes that are glued to his stump, and small electric signals produced as he contracts and relaxes his muscles are enough to open and then close the hand.
Albert is an aerospace engineering student, and Limbitless Solution relies on donations and volunteers to make each arm.
You can hear Albert in conversation with Jesse Mulligan here.
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1:15 Reserve Bank proposes Lending Restrictions on property investors
The Reserve Bank has proposed tough new loan-to-value ratios, targeting borrowing for investors, in a bid to cool the housing market. Governor Graeme Wheeler released the details this morning.
Economist Geoff Simmons is with us to talk through what it all means.
1:25 Day One of the Republican Convention
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We cross to Simon Marks at the Republican convention in Cleveland Ohio, where Donald Trump will be officially endorsed as the Republican presidential candidate
1:30 What We Value In Our Leaders
The world is talking about who will be the next President of the United States. But what qualities do we value in our leaders? And how has that changed over time? Dr Suze Wilson is a lecturer at the School of Management at Massey University. She's also written a book called, Thinking Differently about Leadership, that looks at ancient Greek, Medieval and modern theories of leadership.
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1:35 Dan Slevin on movie reboots
For a long time audiences have been getting increasingly cynical about what they perceive as Hollywood's lack of imagination by remaking, rebooting, sequel-ising and franchising until every character is living in one brand of shared universe or another.
Dan talks about the reaction to the rebooted Ghostbusters, and the concept that a new version of a film can "ruin someone's childhood" despite the original continuing to be freely available.
And He asks what show or film from your childhood is so precious to you that if someone made a new film or tv version of it, you would feel personally offended.
1:40 Favourite album
2:10 Book Critic - Paul Little
2:20 Great New Zealand Album: Last Exit to Garageland
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The Great New Zealand album this week was not a mainstream monster hit nor did it dominate sales charts for any great length of time but it was the seminal album for the band that created. It also garnered much critical acclaim and exposed these four kiwi musicians to audiences in the UK and US.
This debut album from 1996 did make a big splash on student radio though, with five fresh pop songs getting regular airplay and, finally, they broke into the top five on the nation's album chart.
3:10 Cryonics: will we ever really bring people back from the dead?
Cyronic freezing has long been scoffed at by the science community, but despite that some people remain convinced that if they can preserve their bodies immediately after death, one day in the future the technology will exist to bring them back to life
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The first person to cryopreserved was Dr. James Bedford in 1967. Around 250 people have been preserved in the US, and another 1500 have made arrangements for this to happen when they die.
Science journalist and author, Helen Thomson has been investigating cryogenics, the latest developments and the complex laws around it.. including talking to those who freeze the dead for a living, and getting a tour of a planned state of the art cryopreservation centre in Texas, called Timeship.
3:30 Science and environment stories
Stories from Our Changing World.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
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JESSE MULLIGAN : AFTERNOONS 1 - 4pm
Tuesday 19th July
JESSE'S SONG:
ARTIST: Jody Direen
TITLE: Together
COMP: Jody Direen
ALBUM: Jody Direen Breaks out
LABEL: Jodydireen
FAVOURITE ALBUM:
ARTIST: Carly Rae Jepsen
TITLE: Run Away With Me
COMP: Carly Rae Jepsen, Mattias Larsson, Robin Fredriksson, Karl Schuster, Oscar Holter, Jonnali Parmenius
ALBUM: Emotion
LABEL: Interscope
ARTIST: Carly Rae Jepsen
TITLE: Warm Blood
COMP: Carly Rae Jepsen, Rostam Batmanglij, Tino Zolfo, Joe Cruz
ALBUM: Emotion
LABEL: Interscope
THE GREAT NEW ZEALAND ALBUM:
ARTIST: Garageland
TITLE: Beelines To Heaven
COMP: Jeremy Eade, Andrew Gladstone, Debbie Silvey, Mark Silvey
ALBUM: Last Exit To Garageland
LABEL: Flying Nun
ARTIST: Garageland
TITLE: Fingerpops
COMP: Jeremy Eade, Andrew Gladstone, Debbie Silvey, Mark Silvey
ALBUM: Last Exit To Garageland
LABEL: Flying Nun
ARTIST: Garageland
TITLE: Come Back
COMP: Jeremy Eade, Andrew Gladstone, Debbie Silvey, Mark Silvey
ALBUM: Last Exit To Garageland
LABEL: Flying Nun
ARTIST: Garageland
TITLE: Nude Star
COMP: Jeremy Eade, Andrew Gladstone, Debbie Silvey, Mark Silvey
ALBUM: Last Exit To Garageland
LABEL: Flying Nun
ADDITIONAL MUSIC:
ARTIST: Family Cactus
TITLE: In Transit
COMP: Adam Ladley, Matt Armitage, Sam Norton, Reece McNaughten, Holly Beals
ALBUM: Come Howling
LABEL: Sony
THE PANEL (HALF TIME SONG)
ARTIST: The Beatles
TITLE: A Hard Day's Night
COMP: John Lennon, Paul McCartney
ALBUM: A Hard Day's Night
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An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
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The Panel pre-show for 19 July 2016
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The Panel with Michelle Boag and Brian Edwards (Part 1)
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What the Panelists Michelle Boag and Brian Edwards have been up to. Westpac's acting Chief Economist Michael Gordon talsk about the new RBNZ rules for property investors. Chief political reporter for Politico Mike Allen with an update from the RNC in Cleveland. PM John Key is paving the way for Indonesia to develop its own dairy industry.
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The Panel with Michelle Boag and Brian Edwards (Part 2)
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Research from Melbourne shows working more than 25 hours a week when you're over 40 could be bad for your intelligence. What the Panelists Michelle Boag and Brian Edwards have been thinking about. Soraiya Daud talks about being Muslim and whether it's getting harder or easier.
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40% deposit for property investors
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Westpac's acting Chief Economist Michael Gordon talsk about the new RBNZ rules for property investors.
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Duration: 6'55"
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Republican National Convention
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Chief political reporter for Politico Mike Allen with an update from the RNC in Cleveland.
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Duration: 9'08"
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NZ-Indonesian dairy deal
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PM John Key is paving the way for Indonesia to develop its own dairy industry.
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Duration: 5'09"
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Full-time work could be bad for your brain-power
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Research from Melbourne shows working more than 25 hours a week when you're over 40 could be bad for your intelligence.
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What the Panelists Michelle Boag and Brian Edwards have been thinking about.
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Mounting scrutiny of Muslims
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Soraiya Daud talks about being Muslim and whether it's getting harder or easier.
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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Checkpoint with John Campbell, Tuesday 19 July2016
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RBNZ announces new lending measures
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The Reserve Bank is targeting property investors with its announcement that new loan-to-value ratios will see investors requiring a 40 percent deposit.
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17:12
Banana Republic: the ugly story behind New Zealand’s most popular fruit
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From the top of a rusting observation tower, the leaves stretch out in every direction: thick, glossy, utterly uniform, as far as the eye can see.
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From the top of a rusting observation tower, the leaves stretch out in every direction: thick, glossy, utterly uniform, as far as the eye can see.
It is silent at the centre of the plantation. No birds calling, no hum of insects, only the low whine of planes dumping their loads of pesticide in the distance. Banana bunches wrapped in blue plastic hang like alien egg sacs from the branches. The plantations cover around 10,000 hectares, encircling small villages, networks of roads, and the entire lives of the growers, who work, eat, sleep, live and die among the trees.
Francisco B. Milallos, 65, has worked here his whole life, but this season he was too old to be granted a contract. He helps his wife with her work, and today has taken it upon himself to act as guide. Pausing to scuff the ground, he spits, and sweeps out an arm to gesture at the trees.
“So! This is where your bananas come from.”
Stacked in bright supermarket aisles, sliced over Weet-Bix, and left to turn soft, brown and fragrant in the bottom of schoolbags; New Zealanders spend more on bananas than any other fruit.
With the country’s climate making it impossible to grow them commercially, New Zealand imports more bananas per capita than any other developed country, and we are the second-largest importers globally.
But it comes at a terrible human cost: Filipino workers forced to work 18 hour days, paid as little as 30 cents per hour, constantly exposed to toxic chemicals, and threatened with violence or death when they campaign for better conditions.
This is the true story of New Zealand’s bananas.
Video credit: Luke McPake
It is still dark when Francisco rises at 3am, up from the woven floor mat, still aching from the work of the previous day. The sky is just starting to grey as he lights the fire, boils the kettle, brews charred corn grits to make coffee. He is silent, scuffing over the dust in grey rubber Crocs, playing with his dogs as the sky grows pale.
A little after 5am, the workers begin their walk to the plantation to sign in for the start of the day. As the sun lifts and the first heat of the day starts to set in, around 30 men lean on motorbikes and smoke, assigning blocks of the plantation for picking, spraying, planting and pruning.
This group often work for around 12-14 hours a day, in 35 degree heat. It’s tough, physical work for those out in the fields. Men carry the bananas through the plantations to the packing houses, lengths of plastic looped around their hips. They drag the 40 kg banana bunches, roped together in sets of up to fifty, on rails to the packing houses. For the workers in the packing houses, mostly women, the days are longer. Some start at 6am, and work through until midnight - then it’s home for a few hours of sleep before they return to do it all again.
Bananas are big business. New Zealand imports 72 million kilograms per year, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation. Around 70 percent of that comes from this region in Mindanao, the southernmost island of the Philippines.
Each New Zealander eats an average of around 18kg of bananas annually, at a cost of around $88 per household, or more than $142 million every year.
But while the banana companies and exporters report billions of dollars in revenue, the workers on the plantations face a very different picture.
“The truth is I work 18 hours,” says Janet Gorgio, who spends her days labouring in the packing plants.
“But when we got the payslip I hid it from my husband! I know that my husband will be hurt, because I work for how many hours and that’s what we get.”
Gorgio has spent around 20 minutes trying to communicate the structure of her pay, and her eyes are now filling with tears with frustration.
She works in one of the packing plants - and rather than being paid by the day, she is often paid by the box. She and her team work 15 to 18 hours per day to meet their packing targets of around 800 boxes. For that they are paid 200 pesos, the equivalent of NZ$6.
“Last year we packed for New Zealand,” she says.
“When we processed the bananas, there was a selector who checked the bananas carefully, all the good quality bananas were sent. Our selector said, ‘You should be careful with that because it’s going to New Zealand, it’s valuable.’
But little of that value makes its way into the hands of Janet, or her fellow packers.
While her wage is enough to cover rice and meals, there’s none left over for education, transport or health costs, let alone unexpected bills. She can get by because her husband, as well as working on the banana plantation, earns additional income from running a barbershop.
“My husband has other income... so if I don’t have enough money then how much are my colleagues suffering?”
She begins to cry.
“If I’m hurting, then how much worse is it for those who rely on the banana plantation?”
“Life in banana plantation for workers in the Philippines is very hard,” sighs Ebenezer Tan.
A thin, tall man clad in a loose grey-stripe polo shirt, he has worked in the unions for banana workers for years.
“Some receive as little as 200 pesos, 120 pesos [NZ$3.60 per day]. It really cannot suffice the basic needs of the families.
“In the Philippines, government has calculated a family of five has to earn 1088 pesos a day to meet the basic needs of the family - if we compare below 200 pesos to that, it is very difficult.”
But not everyone on the banana supply chain is losing.
Labourers spoken to for this story worked on plantations supplying bananas to Sumifru and Dole - two of the largest banana corporations operating in New Zealand. In the Philippines, they can sell 8kg box for around 160 pesos, or 27 cents a kilogram. By the time that box reaches New Zealand supermarkets, its retail value has increased by around 1100 percent, to $3-4/kg.
Sumitomo, the Japanese corporate which owns banana subsidiary Sumifru, reported gross profits of almost NZ$12 billion for the 2015 financial year. The company does not break down of how much of those profits come from bananas.
Dole Foods does not provide public profit figures, but its revenue last financial year was more than NZ$6.9 billion.
“It’s definitely unfair,” says Tan. “It’s very exploitative for the workers because they are the ones who toil from the very beginning in caring for the bananas, but they are just paid a meagre amount for their labour.
“That’s why the banana companies here rake in huge profits from the workers’ labour - that is the situation.”
Tan works with Joel Maglunsod, a short, muscular man with dark jeans belted high at his waist and black leather boots incessantly drumming the floor. He was imprisoned for two years under the Marcos dictatorship for his involvement in trade unions.
“The situation is much worse today,” he says.
“While Mindanao is rich in natural resources, is considered the promised land, the food basket of the south, people are very poor - we have so many unemployed workers here.
“Not just Mindanao - the whole Philippines in general is rich in natural resources - yet the people are very poor. Why? Because our resources were exploited, our people oppressed by the ruling elites in our country, in cahoots with the foreign multinational corporations. We call that ‘imperialismo’.”
At the plantation, Jerome scuffs ahead through the trees. The air here is sweet with the smell of bananas. It’s thick and pungent - the smell of fruit ripened to the very edge of rot. Walk further and the smell becomes so strong, so sweet, it catches in the throat and leaves a bitter taste at the back of the tongue - until you realise it’s not fruit at all, it’s spray: pesticides descending in a fine mist to cover the plants, the ground, the men at work.
The sprays are a deep source of anxiety for the workers, Tan says.
“They feel itchiness; their skin is irritated, some get blinded, some have infertility, some get allergies from the chemicals.” He says they want to be given paper masks to wear while they are spraying, to have their gloves replaced when they are ripped, and boots provided.
“They don’t have any necessary goggles, masks, boots, they are usually just wearing like slippers, no gloves, t-shirts. So they are exposed to various chemicals applied in the plantations.”
Many of the workers live in small villages within the borders of the plantations. Their nights, as well as days, are spent amongst the fine mists of chemicals that coat the trees.
Rovelyn Selda is serving a chicken soup and rice for breakfast when the men start spraying. You can see them moving through the trees just a few metres away, faces wrapped in t-shirts and torn gloves, one man wearing a motorcycle helmet for protection. The men spray twice a week, every week.
She says when the chemicals touch their skin, it itches, then all the skin peels off.
Her son has 5 months old when he started coughing. When she took him to a doctor in the city, he was diagnosed with pneumonia.
“He [the doctor] asked us, ‘Where do you live?’” she says.
“He told us to take him miles away from the sprays, that he should not breathe in the spray.” She looks around at the men tramping through the bush. “But you can see the reality is this: we live here.”
Her son is six now, but he still coughs.
An 2014 report by Oxfam New Zealand found the men on these plantations were regularly working with chemicals labelled as the herbicide Paraquat, which has been banned across the EU since 2007; insecticide Lorsban, which was banned in US homes in 2001; and insecticide Furadan, currently banned throughout the EU and on food crops in the United States. All the plantations surveyed were exporting to New Zealand.
According to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, exposure to the above chemicals can cause headaches, light-headedness, weakness, abdominal cramps, nausea, blurred vision, convulsions, tremor and coma.
Longer term exposure caused multi-organ failure, Parkinson’s disease, cancer and lung disease; and exposure during pregnancy was linked to delays in the mental development of children.
The workers talk of the way their breath shortens after long days with the sprays, how strange rashes sometimes erupt on their skin. They worry too about less immediate, visible effects: cancers, the slow failure of their lungs, infertility or birth defects in their children.
“I remember when I was out covering the banana workers, and a spray plane flew overhead - the workers would all jump up and cover their crotch with their hands,” a local photographer says. “They were afraid of becoming infertile - I didn’t tell them then, that’s not how it works.”
For those workers who do choose to campaign for safer conditions, higher wages and more secure contracts, the path is fraught with danger.
On the wall of Ebenezer Tan’s office in Davao hang a series of portraits of union leaders killed in the last two decades. Front and centre hangs a photo of Oscar Bantayan, a union activist from Davao’s banana plantations who was gunned down in 1988. Beside his hangs a plaque: “Life is Sacred. Let there be life, not death. Life with dignity, justice, freedom!”
“Of course, we are terrified,” Tan says. “We have been killed - our leaders have been killed.”
Vincente Barrios has a gentle, open face that slips easily into a wide-mouthed smile. He lifts his shirt to show where the bullets hit.
“I got hit by a bullet right here, and straight out here.” He points: here, the scars where one entered and exited through his bicep, and there, a small circular burn mark where another pierced his stomach.
Barrios has worked on the plantations for almost 20 years, and has spent much of that time as a union leader, agitating for more secure contracts and higher wages. Currently he is paid around 300 pesos ($9 NZD) a day. He expects his children, when they grow up, will work among the bananas too, and wants better pay and job security for them.
It was 2005 when they started the union, and threats began almost immediately.
“The first one was at my house, they kick our door down and they bring high-powered guns,” he says. He was not home when they arrived, and neighbours saw the men in balaclavas leave.
“We knew at that time that my life was in danger. So I made a request to the company to start work at 6am instead of 4am. The company said OK.”
The next day at 6 am, he and a friend were gunned down as they rode to work on a motorbike. His friend, behind him on the back of the bike, was killed. Four bystanders were injured. The men who ambushed them were never caught, and no investigation was launched, he says.
“The reason why we were ambushed was because we organise the union. The company wants to neutralise our union. They want to destroy our unity to protect the profits of the company.
“If they kill me, the company will neutralise the union. That’s why they planned this ambush, they want to try to kill me. But the problem is they failed to assassinate me.”
Attempts on the lives of unionised workers and labour rights activists are common in the Philippines. Usually, shootings are carried out by anonymous assassins from the back of a motorbike.
A 2006 Amnesty international report detailed hundreds of such ‘politically motivated’ assassinations, mostly of left-leaning activists, trade union leaders, human rights activists and politicians. The report concluded the numbers of killings was intensifying, with 50 prominent activists killed in the first six months of 2006.
This year, the CTUHR found cases of harassment and intimidation against trade unionists and labor activists had soared in 2015. Their documented cases increased by 200 percent, including extrajudicial killings, physical assaults, destruction of property, death threats.
Local human rights groups have documented 318 targeted killings of union members and activists since 2010, but say underreporting means the true number is likely to be much higher.
For those who are killed, the chances their assassins will be brought to justice are slim.
The Kilusang Mayo Uno Union, including Tan, has made a formal complaint in 2007 to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) about the murders of 44 of their labour union members. The ILO launched an investigation and urged the government to take further action, noting that in every case not a single suspect been questioned or any concrete step taken to investigate the murders.
Human Rights watch found in 2011 that only seven extrajudicial killing cases had been successfully prosecuted in the past decade.
Barrios and the other workers spoken to for this investigation worked in plantations and packing plants supplying companies Stanfilco and Sumifru, whose bananas are sold in New Zealand under the brands Dole, Sumifru or Seeka.
Dole did not provide comment after repeated requests for interviews and information on their practices in the Philippines.
Seeka chief executive Michael Franks said the bananas from Sumifru Philippines currently make up around 15 percent of their overall supply.
“Seeka believes Sumifru to be a reputable company with good business practices,” he said, and noted Sumifru was certified by Global GAP, an independent body which offers inspects annually and certifies responsible agricultural practices. Dole’s supplier, Stanfilco, is also Global GAP certified.
The Philippine agricultural system has moved away in recent years from enormous corporate-owned plantations with reforms that returned hundreds of smaller blocks of land to local farmers. Many of these landowners remain too poor to farm the land themselves, and lease the land back to banana-growing companies who maintain the plantations. The result is that chains of supply and accountability are blurrier than ever.
As well as growing their own, Franks said Sumifru purchased bananas from third party small growers, which he said were also Global GAP certified. But GAP’s database includes only three other banana producers in the region, two of which are large-scale international exporters.
Franks said Seeka could not reliably ensure all the smaller growers were complying with minimum wage or worker protection practices.
“We or Sumifru cannot completely guarantee the growers’ compliance with the mandated minimum wage law, but Sumifru continues to educate its growers and conducts spot check audit on its compliance to laws and safety standards.”
After the assassination attempt, Barrios thought of leaving this plantation, looking for other work.
But no, he shakes his head. “I don’t know of any other jobs.”
Instead, he stays, pushing the company to increase the wages and push back the trend toward unstable labour contracts.
“I think that my children will follow in my footsteps,” he says. “If we pass a collective bargaining agreement, it will be good because when I’m old I want my children to inherit these rights.”
It’s a lot to risk, for a job that pays so little. Does he think it’s fair, I ask, that his colleagues are paid for a day’s work the same amount as a single banana bunch is sold in New Zealand?
“We pack boxes of clusters for New Zealand. But I don’t know the price in New Zealand.”
I tell him the bananas he picks go for up to NZ$3 a bunch.
“What?” he breaks into a half-smile, looks up in disbelief, shakes his head.
“No, It’s too much,” he says. “That would not be fair.”
*Travel for this story was funded by a grant from the Asia New Zealand Foundation
Clarification: A previous version of this story said New Zealanders eat more bananas per capita than any other developed country and are the second largest consumers globally. This has been updated to say New Zealanders import more bananas than any other developed country and are the second largest importers globally.
Topics: food, life and society, inequality
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Duration: 3'13"
17:14
Akld property overpriced, says Brash
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Former RBNZ Governor Don Brash says the RBNZ should not focus on tackling inflation while the Auckland property market is seriously overpriced.
Topics: politics, economy
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Duration: 4'45"
17:19
Todd McClay aware of Zespri, China talks
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The Trade Minister now says he was made aware that Chinese officials had approached Zespri about trade retaliation and that the company was worried.
Topics: politics
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Tags: China
Duration: 2'16"
17:23
RNC held in Cleveland, Ohio
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Simon Marks reports from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
Topics: politics
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Tags: US, Trump
Duration: 4'53"
17:28
Woman charged with mother's manslaughter
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An Auckland woman is charged with the manslaughter of her mother, who was found found dead in her bed with broken ribs, a broken breast bone, open sores and lying in her own waste.
Topics: crime
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Tags: Ena Dung
Duration: 3'55"
17:32
Waikato children missing since last night
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Police say they are confident two children who went missing from a Waikato house are safe despite being missing since 10 o'clock last night.
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Tags: Temorehu McLean, Anahera McLean
Duration: 1'13"
17:36
Evening Business for 19 July 2016
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News from the business sector including a market report.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'55"
17:39
Where do NZ's bananas come from?
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An RNZ investigation into the conditions faced by the Philippine workers who pick bananas for New Zealand has uncovered an ugly picture of exploitation, violence and underpayment - with workers paid less than 30c an hour.
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Tags: bananas, Philippines
Duration: 3'49"
17:43
Russia facing total ban from Rio Olympics
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Calls are growing for Russia to be banned outright from next month's Olympic Games in Rio de Janiero after a damning report detailed widespread state-sponsored doping.
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Duration: 6'41"
17:53
Serco under fire for treatment of sick inmate
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Serco is once again in the spotlight for the wrong reasons after a report revealed a sick prisoner had to get his cellmate at Mt Eden Prison to scrub his gangrenous toes with toilet paper.
Topics: health
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Duration: 2'13"
17:55
'Tower of Terror' slide requires full-time security guard
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The Christchurch Crown company Otakaro Limited has a security guard onsite to monitor children on a slide at the Margaret Mahy Family playground.
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Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Margaret Mahy Family playground
Duration: 3'47"
18:08
Don Brash says all solutions will be "politically damaging"
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The former Reserve Bank governer, Don Brash, says any solution to make housing more affordable in New Zealand will be politically damaging because prices simply have to fall.
Topics: economy, politics
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Tags: Reserve Bank, RBNZ
Duration: 3'06"
18:12
Rising sea levels and Otago
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South Dunedin residents are expected to spend the coming months and even years discussing how to deal with the forecast effects of rising sea levels in their region.
Topics: climate
Regions: Otago
Tags: climate change
Duration: 3'36"
18:15
New Zealander describes Nice experience
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In France, the shock and sadness that immediately followed the truck terror attack in Nice seems to have been replaced by anger and frustraton. Rebecca Whitlocke is a New Zealand expat living in Nice.
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Tags: France, Nice, terrorism
Duration: 5'23"
18:21
Youth politicians hit parliament
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138 of New Zealand's future political leaders descended on Parliament today, to take part in the Youth Parliament and get a taste of politics.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 2'33"
18:24
Update from Indonesia with Deputy political editor
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We go to Indonesia where the Prime Minister John Key has just landed in Surabaya, the capital of East Java. Our deputy political editor Chris Bramwell is travelling with him and joins us by phone.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Indonesia
Duration: 4'08"
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===6:30 PM. | None (National)===
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Highlighting the RNZ stories you're sharing on-line
The Montreal Olympic Boycott 40-years on
===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information
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19:08
Our Own Odysseys - The dead can't hurt you
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Traveller and photographer Danial Eriksen spent time with the community of people living in a Manilla graveyard.
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Duration: 14'48"
20:06
Object lights up South Island skies
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The object was seen in the lower South Island this evening, with most people thinking it was a meteor.
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Duration: 2'46"
20:12
Nights' Pundit - Left Thinking
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University of Otago political historian A.Prof Brian Roper looks at the debate amongst socialists about Brexit.
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Duration: 18'45"
21:06
Meteor sighting - Alan Gilmore
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Former superintendent of Mount John Observatory in Lake Tekapo, Alan Gilmore, said the object was moving too slow to be considered a meteor or meteorite.
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Duration: 2'37"
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7:12 Our Own Odysseys - The Dead Can't Hurt You
Traveller and photographer Danial Eriksen spent time with the community of people living in a Manilla graveyard.
7:30 The Sampler
This week Nick Bollinger considers the eternal ingredients of teenage angst and distorted guitars in the music of Car Seat Headrest; the Congolese rhythms and Portugese collaborations of Konono No. 1; and a four-disc supplement to a Van Morrison classic.
8:12 Nights' Pundit - Left Thinking
University of Otago political historian A.Prof Brian Roper looks at the debate amongst socialists about Brexit.
8:30 Window on the World
World Cup - Ghana's World Cup boycott of 1966 was a protest at the number of places at the World Cup given by FIFA to Africa. It is a story of politics, decolonisation and pan-Africanism. Missing the World Cup meets two players who regret their World Cup absence to this day.
9:07 Tuesday Feature
Obama's World- After eight years in office, how has Obama shaped the world? Nahal Toosi, foreign affairs correspondent for Washington-based news outlet Politico, talks to people in the countries most affected by Obama's decisions. She finds out how lives have changed, from the people living through drone warfare in Pakistan to the residents of Cuba who witnessed Obama's historic visit. She hears from those inside Obama's foreign policy machine on why and how key decisions on Egypt, Syria and Ukraine were taken. And she asks how the world will look back on Obama's time in office.
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
WOMAD 2016 - Episode 3: Calexico - Tonight's concert recorded at WOMAD features a live performance from Calexico, a 7 piece band hailing from Tuscon Arizona. Formed by vocalist Joey Burns and drummer John Covertino over 20 years ago, Calexico are a band with a serious commitment to touring that has seen them visit New Zealand a few times. Their passion for collaboration is refelected in their back catalogue of 9 studio albums, and on tonight's show they are joined for a guest appearance by Hollie Fullbrook from Tiny Ruins.
[gallery:2280] Photographs of Cemeterio Del Norte. Manilla by Danial Eriksen
===7:35 PM. | The Sampler===
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A weekly review and analysis of new CD releases
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19:30
Teens Of Denial by Car Seat Headrest
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Nick Bollinger considers the eternal ingredients of teenage angst and distorted guitars in the music of Car Seat Headrest.
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Nick Bollinger considers the eternal ingredients of teenage angst and distorted guitars in the music of Car Seat Headrest.
Some things, it seems, are eternal - distorted guitars and teenage angst among them. What is surprising is when someone can make those things seem, if not new, then at least as vital as they have ever been.
Car Seat Headrest are a four-piece band, currently based in Seattle, built around the songs of Leesburg, Virginia native Will Toledo. And from the opening track of Teens Of Denial you might think you were hearing one of any number of bands that came before. The power chords and slacker singing style took me straight back to the mid-80s prime of Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr. and the Replacements.
What Toledo shares with The Replacements’ Paul Westerberg in particular is an almost-crippling self-awareness, which he ultimately overcomes with wit. The opening song ‘Fill In The Blank’ starts out as an all-purpose moan to the universe. ‘I’m so sick of (fill in the blank)’ yawns Toledo. Yet before the end of the chorus, the song has turned on its own writer, and is telling him ‘you have no right to be depressed… stop your whining and try again.’
It’s that kind of self-mockery – combined with a classic pop-writer’s ear – that makes Toledo worth hearing, even if you’ve heard all the elements before. And as this album unfolds, his slacker pop-craft, and his timeless set of neuroses, reveal their own increasingly charming idiosyncrasies.
Songs featued: Fill In The Blank, Cosmic Hero, Vincent, Drugs With Friends, Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales, Unforgiving Girl.
Teens Of Denial is available on Matador Records.
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Tags: music, music review, Car Seat Headrest
Duration: 9'05"
19:30
The Sampler for 19 July
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In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger considers the eternal ingredients of teenage angst and distorted guitars in the music of Car Seat Headrest; the Congolese rhythms and Portugese collaborations of Konono No. 1; and a four-disc supplement to a Van Morrison classic.
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In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger considers the eternal ingredients of teenage angst and distorted guitars in the music of Car Seat Headrest; the Congolese rhythms and Portugese collaborations of Konono No. 1; and a four-disc supplement to a Van Morrison classic.
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Tags: music, music review, Car Seat Headrest, Konono No. 1, Van Morrison, Batida
Duration: 29'45"
19:30
It's Too Late To Stop Now by Van Morrison
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Nick Bollinger revels in a four-disc supplement to a Van Morrison classic.
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Nick Bollinger revels in a four-disc supplement to a Van Morrison classic.
As someone who has been listening to Van Morrison almost as long as I’ve been listening to anything, I’m always surprised when I meet anyone who is avowedly not a fan. I have to remind myself that if all I knew of Van Morrison was the present-day image of an ageing, scowling, Irish knight, or the handful of songs perpetually played on oldies radio and bad café sound systems, I probably wouldn’t be much of a fan either.
And yet the Van Morrison I always think of is one of the most risk-taking, magic-making artists in popular music. And if I were asked to defend such a claim, I might play them It’s Too Late To Stop Now. Recorded live in the northern summer of 1973, I first heard the double album in the mid-70s. I was already a fan of Van by this time, especially the mystical and overwhelming Astral Weeks. But It’s Too Late To Stop Now introduced me to another side of the man: Van the live performer. It helped that around the same time I saw, for the first time, Van on television, in an hour-long special made at the same time as the record. The short, unsmiling figure I watched in black and white gripping the microphone like a grenade hardly looked like the romantic poet I’d pictured listening to Astral Weeks. Still his presence was indelible, and I’ve carried the memory of that single viewing for decades.
So there’s something about seeing it again, all these years later, which oddly connects me to a younger version of myself. That concert film, along with three more CDs of recordings made during that tour, makes up this all-new package. Though the original double album supposedly plucked the best performances from eight recorded shows, this set reveals other things every bit as great that were left in the can.
One of the revelations from the original live album was the peppering of cover versions – old blues and soul tunes from the likes of Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland – which gave a hint of his influences, though he always made them feel like his own. And there are a whole lot more on this new supplementary set, not just from Morrison’s soul idols, but country heroes as well, like Hank Williams.
There are also things that seem almost like comic novelties, like ‘Buono Sera’ – apparently Van’s set closer at the time – which he picked up from Vegas lounge star Louis Prima.
And then there are the epic reimaginings of his own songs, some of them delving even deeper into the material than the versions I know from the original records.
Van is on fire here, seamlessly blending the blues with some kind of elemental Celtic spirit. But equally important is the band. Van’s always had good bands and might arguably have had better ones, still there is something special about the way they played for these shows. He called them the Caledonia Soul Orchestra, and in many ways they are a classic soul band – blazing horns, and a funky bass and drums. But the crowning touch is the live string section. They are like some baroque quartet, set down in the middle of a soul show. It should seem out of place, and yet it works magnificently. It’s as though they represent a different part of Morrison’s soul – not the part that identifies with Hank Williams or Bobby Bland, but some deeper throwback – perhaps to Caledonia, or Denmark or Scandanavia – those places he so often sings of, that seem to have some mystical link to his Celtic heritage.
Van Morrison’s It’s Too Late To Stop Now has always stood as one of the great live albums. Now it’s been supplemented by four more volumes, and I feel like I’m discovering it all over again.
Song featured: Cypress Avenue, Sweet Thing, Into The Mystic, Listen To The Lion, Hey Good Lookin’, Buona Sera.
It’s Too Late To Stop Now, Vols. II, II, IV is available on Exile/Sony Legacy.
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Tags: music, music review, Van Morrison
Duration: 10'04"
19:30
Konono No.1 Meets Batida by Konono No.1
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Nick Bollinger samples the Congolese rhythms and Portugese collaborations of Konono No. 1.
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Nick Bollinger samples the Congolese rhythms and Portugese collaborations of Konono No. 1.
It’s about a decade now since a sound essentially indigenous to a specific region - the area on the Angolan/Congolese border known as Bazombo – found an unexpected cult following in dance clubs across America and Europe.
From the 1960s, the Congolese capital of Kinshasa had seen an influx from the rural areas that brought a number of players of the likembe – a plunking, chiming instrument, sometimes called an African thumb piano. But when music travels it also changes, and finding that their simple likembes – essentially strips of scrap metal attached to resonant slabs of wood – were no match for Kinshasa’s urban din, the likembes went electric.
It was one band of heavily amplified likembe players calling themselves Konono No. 1 whose 2004 album Congotronics found unexpected favour with deejays and dancers, though listening to this it is not hard to see why. The rhythms are insistent yet intricate, the sounds organic yet oddly industrial. But the challenge after a success like that is what to do next. After all, Konono No. 1’s electrified likembe music is, for all its exciting qualities, essentially repetitive. Their new album proposes an answer: collaboration.
Konono No. 1 Meets Batida represents the fruits of a summit between the likembe stars and Angola-born, Lisbon-based deejay and producer Batida. A long time fan of the group, Batida had been incorporating Konono tracks into his radio shows, and mixing their records with other beats, since 2007. And the spacier moments of this new album could simply be one of those remixes. You can still hear the likembes rattling away, but they are just part of a densely woven sound that includes drummers, vocalists, and electronics.
But there was an organic aspect to the collaboration as well. To record, Konono travelled to Portugal where they worked in Batida’s Lisbon studio. And at different times they were visited by other Lisbon-based musicians: drummers, vocalists, slam poets, and guitarist Papa Juju.
Bands playing in ethnic styles on traditional instruments have usually found their audiences on the ‘world music’ circuit, which makes Konono – with their dancefloor audience - something of an exception. I can only imagine that this is because with their relentless rhythms and primitive electrification, they didn’t sound like a world music act so much as some weird kind of electronica. With guests, a deejay/producer and a more hi-fi sound, Konono No. 1 Meets Batida is undoubtedly the most sophisticated album the group has released. Yet in its stew of styles it is also the one that sounds the most like the accepted notion of world music - the most Womad-y. It will be interesting to see how it’s received in clubland.
Songs featured: Tokolanda, Niele Kalusimbiko, Yambadi Mama, Kuna America, Born Dia, Nzonzing Familia.
Konono No. 1 Meets Batida is available on Crammed Discs.
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Tags: music, music review, Konono No.1, Batida
Duration: 11'33"
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===8:30 PM. | Windows On The World===
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International public radio features and documentaries
===9:06 PM. | 20 Years Out!===
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A documentary marking the anniversary of the passage of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill in New Zealand with a rich collection of rare archival material and personal reflection.
===10:00 PM. | Late Edition===
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Don Brash's take on the Reserve Bank's announcement of new loan-to-value ratios for investors. Why does Donald Trump exist? we'll hear how leadership styles have changed through history and in Dateline Pacific, A film on Blackbirding sheds light on a dark chapter of Australian history in the Pacific.
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RNZ news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from RNZ National
===11:06 PM. | None (National)===
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Coverage from the world music festival (RNZ)