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Radio New Zealand National. 2015--. 00:00-23:59.
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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:

16 August 2016

===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Tuesday Special (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (RNZ); ; 2:05 Hidden Treasures (RNZ) 3:05 The Stove Rake, by Denise Keay, read by Tandi Wright (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
6:26 Rural News
6:48 and 7:45 NZ Newspapers

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06:00
Top Stories for Tuesday 16 August 2016
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Donald Trump lays out plan to tackle IS. Schools shut as sickness numbers rise in Havelock North. Kayaker Carrington wins semifinal to reach canoe sprint final. Calls for government to take review migration policies. Government welcomes the Unitary Plan. Govt: Immigration is under control.
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Duration: 32'00"

06:06
Sports News for 16 August 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'45"

06:10
Kayaker Lisa Carrington through to finals in canoe sprint
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All the latest from what's happened in Rio overnight. Kayaker Lisa Carrington is into her canoe spirit final and the Black Sticks down Australian to make it into the women's hockey semifinals.
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Duration: 3'45"

06:16
Rain has stopped but waters continue to rise in Louisiana
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Thousands of people in Louisiana are homeless and at least 6 people are dead as unprecedented flooding hits the city. The worst of it is now over but we speak to one woman who's was caught up in the flooding.
Topics: climate
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Duration: 3'54"

06:17
Unitary Plan evolution not revolution says Property Institute
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Auckland Council has finally signed off a blueprint for the city's development for the next two decades. The chief executive of the Property Institute, Ashley Church, is delighted with the outcome.
Topics: housing
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Duration: 2'25"

06:20
Early Business News for 16 August 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 2'32"

06:26
Morning Rural News for 16 August 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'47"

06:38
New Zealand women's hockey beat Australia to reach semifinals
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The Black Sticks beat Australia to make it into the semi-finals into the Olympics women's hockey semifinals. Their coach Mark Hager says the team stuck to their game plan - and it worked.
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Duration: 3'44"

06:40
Bug leaves Havelock North a 'ghost town', residents say
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Havelock North's being described as a ghost town as bugs in the water leave thousands sick, schools closed and authorities struggling to find out what's gone wrong.
Topics: health
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Duration: 3'28"

06:43
Spy agencies given green light to spy on New Zealanders
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The Government is seeking wider powers for intelligence agencies to spy on New Zealanders, but leaves room for more debate on how and when they'll be allowed to pry.
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Duration: 3'39"

06:50
House-buying confidence takes a hit
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House-buying confidence has taken a hit, with a sharp drop in the number of people thinking it's a good time to buy a house falling to the lowest level in more than four years.
Topics: business
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Duration: 1'45"

06:53
Tough trading conditions set to continue for electricity
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Competition continues to be tough for the country's electricity retailers.
Topics: business
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Duration: 2'24"

06:55
Summerset expects solid performance ahead
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Investors were buoyed by the half year result from retirement village operator Summerset sending its shares to a record high.
Topics: business
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Duration: 55"

06:57
Freightways says data business evolves with move to cloud
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The company's information management business is evolving to take advantage of the increasing use of the cloud to store data.
Topics: business
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Duration: 1'11"

06:57
NZ's passion for sport makes some too sick to go to work
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The Rio Olympics is well into its second week and there's a good bet that more than few people have been "too sick to turn up for work" ... if you get our meaning.
Topics: business
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Duration: 1'27"

07:06
Sports News for 16 August 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'44"

07:10
Donald Trump lays out plan to tackle IS
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Donald Trump has laid out his plan to rid the world of Islamic State. He's vowing to use very tool at his disposal to fight IS.
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Duration: 6'46"

07:15
Schools shut as sickness numbers rise in Havelock North
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RNZ's Hawke's Bay reporter says Havelock North looks like it's been hit by a silent earthquake as thousands of residents stay home as a bug in the water supply leaves up to 2000 people sick. Residents will find out today whether chlorine that's been added to the water mean they can now safely drink straight from their taps.
Topics: health
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Duration: 4'09"

07:20
Kayaker Carrington wins semifinal to reach canoe sprint final
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All the latest from Rio. Lisa Carrington's into her final, the Black Sticks trounce Australia to make the women's hockey semifinal and there's a medal chance in yachting for Sam Meech but his event cancelled today.
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Duration: 3'50"

07:28
Calls for government to take review migration policies
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Labour leader Andrew Little calls for a review on migration laws. He says the rules are having an unintended impact and there needs to be another look.
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Duration: 6'17"

07:38
Govt: Immigration is under control.
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Immmigration Minister Michael Woodhouse defends immigration decisons - and some of the more unusual jobs that have been filled for foreigners.
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Duration: 6'12"

07:50
Wellington Airport backs initial report on passenger demand
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Wellington airport insists its planned $300 million runway extension would be a money-maker, despite an industry body report saying the numbers don't stack up.
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Duration: 3'30"

07:55
Jamaica celebrates Usain Bolt's sprint victory
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Kingston, Jamaica is still celebrating after Usain Bolt's historic 100 metres sprint win in Rio yesterday. We cross to a sports reporter in Kingston.
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Duration: 4'42"

08:06
Sports news for 16 August 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'22"

08:10
Investigations underway over Hawke's Bay campylobacter crisis
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Public Health Professor Michael Baker says campylobacter outbreak could have affected 3 thousand people. He describes it as a significant event.
Topics: health
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Duration: 5'48"

08:15
Immigration driving high house prices and low stock
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The head of Harcourts New Zealand, Chris Kennedy, says record immigration levels and poor planning are driving a shortage of housing.
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Duration: 4'42"

08:20
Auckland Council finally signs off on development blueprint
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RNZ's Auckland correspondent Todd Niall looks at the city's Unitary Plan, signed off by councillors yesterday, which sets out a blueprint for the city's development over the next two decades.
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Duration: 2'52"

08:25
NZ women into semi finals of hockey
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The chief executive of Sport New Zealand and former Black Sticks player, Peter Miskimmin, on the women's hockey team one-upping their male counterparts to make to their Rio semifinals.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 5'30"

08:30
Markets Update for 16 August 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'02"

08:35
Australia finds more legal avenues to detain NZers
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Australia turns to another provision in its law to detain New Zealanders indefinitely. The latest case to come to light involves a man who's been charged but not yet tried on domestic violence charges, and who had been granted bail by a judge.
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Duration: 2'32"

08:43
Can the party drug ketamine treat major depression?
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The largest ever trial has begun to evaluate the effectiveness of the hallucinogenic drug ketamine as a treatment for major depression - and New Zealanders are involved.
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Duration: 3'43"

08:55
NZ team clock record time in Mini on Bonneville flats
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A new speed record's been broken in Utah, by a TEAM of New Zealanders.
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Duration: 4'05"

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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: Soon, by Charlotte Grimshaw, read by Michael Hurst. A satirical novel following the fortunes of National Party Prime Minister David Hallwright and his Auckland set (Part 12 of 12, RNZ)

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09:08
Latest on Hawkes Bay gastro outbreak
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Kathryn Ryan speaks to Massey University's Director of Infectious Diseases Nigel French about the contamination of Havelock North's drinking water. The outbreak of gastroenteritis, likely caused by campylobacter in local tap water, has closed schools, made thousands sick, and left two people in a critical condition in intensive care.The town's residents should find out today whether their water is safe to drink.
Topics: health
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: gastroenteritis
Duration: 9'04"

09:17
Public sector IT with Silicon Valley flair
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Kathryn Ryan speaks to Eric Hysen, the head of U.S. Digital Service at the Department of Homeland Security about his organisation's efforts to streamline and improve government IT projects.
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Kathryn Ryan speaks to Eric Hysen, the head of U.S. Digital Service at the Department of Homeland Security about his organisation's efforts to streamline and improve government IT projects. He is speaking next week at Open Source Open Society in NZ.
Topics: media, technology
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Tags: open data, IT, computers
Duration: 14'30"

09:31
Positive signs emerge in gastro outbreak
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Medical officer of health Nick Jones has the latest on the gastro illness in Havelock North .
Topics: health
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Tags: gastroenteritis
Duration: 11'52"

09:47
US correspondent - Susan Milligan
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US correspondent Susan Milligan with the latest from the American politics.
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US correspondent Susan Milligan with the latest on American politics.
Topics: politics
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Tags: USA, US, Susan Milligan
Duration: 12'57"

10:06
The Age of Bowie
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Kathryn Ryan speaks to veteran arts commentator and rock journalist Paul Morley, about his new biography of David Bowie. One of pop culture's most significant figures, whose body of work encompassed not only music, but film, video, fashion, mime, fine art criticism and writing. Over five decades, David Bowie created enduring characters from Major Tom, to Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane and the Thin White Duke. His final album Blackstar was released just days before his death in January this year.
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Kathryn Ryan speaks to veteran arts commentator and rock journalist Paul Morley, about his new biography of David Bowie.
One of pop culture's most significant figures, David Bowie's body of work encompassed not only music, but film, video, fashion, mime, fine art criticism and writing. Over five decades, he created enduring characters from Major Tom, to Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane and the Thin White Duke.
His final album Blackstar was released just days before his death in January this year.
Read an edited excerpt of the interview below:
You finish the book with this paragraph that almost suggests, the way he exited with the release of one particular single and the album, and then his death just days afterwards, suggests yet another transition into another dimension in some ways. It’s almost as if he orchestrated it that way.
I think there was an element of someone who was very much in control of his own image. He wanted to be in control of it at the end, because I think that is a brave thing to confront, but the idea of, what happens to you after you die in the world of rock and in the world of show business? There is a tendency for everyone to scrap over the remains and look for scandal and gossip and look for the worst side.
I think to the end he wanted to be in control of how that happened. I think he literally wanted to turn his death into a work of art. He wanted everything that happened afterwards to be a performance that he was still in control of. So it was both very brave and a very modern thing to do.
If you look at the way that someone like Prince or Michael Jackson dies, it almost immediately becomes scandal and gossip; who is the children? How did he die?
Bowie managed to make it a performance, which sounds sometimes glib to say this, as if no one else can do that, but I think it was something that he’d considered for a long time, how we would remember him. It was very important to him because he had his vanity, he had his ego. He wanted us to remember him in the best possible way; as this astonishing artist.
You mentioned the ego, and undoubtedly it was present, it has never not been present in any pop star. It’s probably essential for them to live the life that they do. What were the other essential elements of the artist in him?
I think he was constantly questing for the new. Unlike a lot of other rock musicians who are continually telling you what you already know, he had an urge to always go further. If he achieved something and it was successful, he would often sabotage that by not turning it into a formula. He didn’t want to be fixed in place.
I think he had a ruthlessness, a craving for artistic and therefore human freedom that entered into the way he made his music. There were these constant changes throughout the 1970s, because just as he was possibly being accepted as one thing, this worried him, that he would be fixed in a box. He immediately changed.
At the time it was mesmerising and so exciting to see what his next costume would be, what his next musical style would be, what his next performance art would be. But I think they were rooted in an artist who was making sense of the world around him through the way that he was presenting himself as a performer and in a sense as a work of art. That was very unusual and we took it for granted at the time, but in hindsight we realised how unusual that was, someone using pop music to also having these experimental, artistic tendencies.
What to make of the various personae, particularly in the 1970s? Yes you can call it an act of creativity, an act of artistry, but was it something else as well?
I think he was filling in the blanks of his personality. He came from a family that was fraught with mental illness and he was always anxious that there was a fine line between creativity and madness. It kind of filtered through most of his work. There was always the sense of madness and the betrayal of madness and what was it like to see the world if you weren’t necessarily stable.
His half-brother Terry who was 10 years older spent most of his life in mental institutions. It was the kind of thing that clouded Bowie all the way through, a sense of fear that it might drag him down, so he would take the most enormous creative risks, and risks with his body and mind if you like, to escape a certain kind of madness. Almost confronting it in the mid-late ‘70s, there was a world when he could have died then. In the middle of it he left remarkable evidence through these astonishing albums of the most vivid… you wouldn’t believe looking at him in 1976, 1977 that he could produce these most extraordinary albums.
Topics: music
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Tags: Paul Morley, David Bowie, music, the age of Bowie
Duration: 26'16"

10:32
Book review - Dadland by Keggie Carew
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Reviewed by Naomi Arnold, published by Penguin Random House.
Topics: books
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Duration: 7'12"

11:06
Business commentator - Rod Oram
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Kathryn Ryan talks to Rod Oram about : the row over the effectiveness, or not, of the 90-day trail employment period. the problems facing Silver Fern Farms' proposed joint-venture with Shanghai Maling and Microsoft makes two surprising acquisitions
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Rod Oram
Duration: 14'18"

11:26
Advocate for indigenous Australian art
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Australian Bronwyn Bancroft is an Aboriginal artist, fashion designer and illustrator. She has illustrated 30 children's books and is a passionate advocate of arts and education for Indigenous Australians. Bronwyn Bancoft has Master of Studio Practice and a Master of Visual Arts from the University of Sydney and she holds a board position with Copyright Agency, the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience. She will be in New Zealand later this week for the IBBY childrens literature congress, where she will be taking part in a discussion about art across genres, age groups and culture.
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Bronwyn Bancroft is an aboriginal artist, fashion designer, illustrator and arts administrator.
Her art celebrates the natural environment and uses a vibrant colour palette.
Bancroft is a Western Bandjalung artist, and a passionate advocate of arts and education for indigenous Australians.
She has illustrated 30 children's books and has Master of Studio Practice and a Master of Visual Arts from the University of Sydney.
She will be in New Zealand later this week, Friday 19 August for the IBBY children’s literature congress, to take part in a discussion about art across genres, age groups and culture.
After being “tied to a pencil” since she was eight, it was fashion that gave Bancroft her first big break in the art world.
“Art has always been an important part of my life. From the age of 6 I was involved in doing a lot of creative things, basically because I had three elder brothers and three elder sisters; so I was left alone a lot.
“So i just had to explore creative mediums in a way to understand what I wanted to do and I was good at it, I was good at it.”
Bancroft soon realised that by entering competitions, her art could also be a source of income.
“I'd probably clean up and get like $12 worth of first prize winnings and that would be, that was like an enormous amount of money.”
Bancroft says the essential joy of creativity has never changed.
“You start with just an idea in your mind and what you're feeling in your heart and your body and from your journey, and then you just basically start and create something from virtually nothing and build it up.”
Topics: arts
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Tags: Bronwyn Bancroft, Artist, Aboriginal, illustrator, indigenous Australians IBBY, children's books.
Duration: 19'25"

11:46
Media commentator - Gavin Ellis
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Our right to know is being eroded and official information is assessed for political risk before it is authorised for release. Do New Zealanders care? Gavin Ellis issues some serious warnings in a new book, Complacent Nation.
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Our right to know is being eroded and official information is assessed for political risk before it is authorised for release. Do New Zealanders care? Gavin Ellis issues some serious warnings in a new book, Complacent Nation.
Topics: media
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Duration: 13'15"

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09:05 Latest on Hawkes Bay gastro outbreak
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Kathryn Ryan speaks to Massey University's Director of Infectious Diseases Nigel French and Hawkes Bay Medical Officer of Health, Dr Nick Jones about the contamination of Havelock North's drinking water. The outbreak of gastroenteritis, likely caused by campylobacter in local tap water, has closed schools, made thousands sick, and left two people in a critical condition in intensive care.The town's residents should find out today whether their water is safe to drink.
09:20 Public sector IT with Silicon Valley flair
Kathryn Ryan speaks to Eric Hysen, the head of U.S. Digital Service at the Department of Homeland Security about his organisation's efforts to streamline and improve government IT projects. He is speaking next week at Open Source Open Society in NZ.
09:35 Positive signs emerge in gastro outbreak
Kathryn Ryan speaks to Medical officer of health Nick Jones on the gastro illness in Havelock North .
09:45 US correspondent
US correspondent Susan Milligan with the latest on American politics
10:05 The Age of Bowie
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Kathryn Ryan speaks to veteran arts commentator and rock journalist Paul Morley, about his new biography of David Bowie. One of pop culture’s most significant figures, whose body of work encompassed not only music, but film, video, fashion, mime, fine art criticism and writing. Over five decades, David Bowie created enduring characters from Major Tom, to Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane and the Thin White Duke. His final album Blackstar was released just days before his death in January this year.
10:35 Book review - Dadland by Keggie Carew
Reviewed by Naomi Arnold, published by Penguin Random House.
10:45 The Reading
Soon by Charlotte Grimshaw read by Michael Hurst. (Part 12 of 12)
11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram
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Kathryn Ryan talks to Rod Oram about : Unusually strong tourism numbers, given that we’re in the middle of winter, and how we might cope with further growth.

11:30 Advocate for indigenous Australian art
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Australian Bronwyn Bancroft is an Aboriginal artist, fashion designer and illustrator. She has illustrated 30 children's books and is a passionate advocate of arts and education for Indigenous Australians. Bronwyn Bancoft has Master of Studio Practice and a Master of Visual Arts from the University of Sydney and she holds a board position with Copyright Agency, the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience. She will be in New Zealand later this week for the IBBY childrens literature congress, where she will be taking part in a discussion about art across genres, age groups and culture.
11:45 Media commentator Gavin Ellis
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Our right to know is being eroded and official information is assessed for political risk before it is authorised for release. Do New Zealanders care? Gavin Ellis issues some serious warnings in a new book, Complacent Nation.

===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 16 August 2016
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Havelock North's gastro bug classed as an unprecedented event and rising rugby league star's killer is sent to jail.
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Duration: 15'27"

12:17
Heartland Bank's FY profit rises 12.5% to $54.2m
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The small banking and financial services company, Heartland Bank, has beaten expectations with a 12.5% increase in its full-year profit.
Topics: business
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Tags: Heartland Bank
Duration: 1'49"

12:19
House-buying sentiment falls, points to further weakness ahead
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House-buying sentiment is down across the country and expected to weaken further as new mortgage lending restrictions take hold in October.
Topics: business, housing
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Tags: mortgages
Duration: 1'17"

12:20
Spark opposes Sky TV-Vodafone merger
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Telecommunications company Spark has come out against the proposed merger between rival Vodafone and Sky Television because of the dominance they would have over sports viewing.
Topics: business, housing
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Tags: Spark
Duration: 52"

12:21
Axe hangs over Contact's Stratford plant
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The future of Contact Energy's Stratford combined cycle power station hangs in the balance as the economics of the little-used plant remain marginal.
Topics: business
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Tags: Contact Energy
Duration: 1'12"

12:22
ANZ Banking Group profit falls
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New Zealand's largest bank, the ANZ Banking Group, says its net profit from all its local operations fell 11 percent in the nine months ended in June to 1-point-2 billion dollars, compared with 1-point-3 billion the year earlier.
Topics: business
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Tags: ANZ Banking Group
Duration: 38"

12:22
Midday Markets for 16 August 2016
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Andrew Cathie at Craigs Investment Partners.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'18"

12:25
F&P Healthcare files proceedings in US
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The healthcare appliance manufacturer, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, has filed patent infringement proceedings in the United States against a competitor, over the manufacture of a range of products.
Topics: business
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Tags: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare
Duration: 50"

12:26
Midday Sports News for 16 August 2016
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The track cyclist Dylan Kennett says his rivals showed their class after he missed out on a medal in the men's multi-race omnium at the Rio Olympics.
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Duration: 2'35"

12:33
Midday Rural News for 16 August 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 8'57"

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===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
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An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)

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13:10
The 'Acoustic Ninja'
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His fans dub him as the 'acoustic ninja', for his finger tapping and legato skills. Trace Bundy is an instrumental acoustic guitar player, based in Boulder, Colorado. He's here in Auckland for his debut New Zealand tour.
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His fans dub him as the 'acoustic ninja'... for his finger tapping and legato skills.
Trace Bundy is an instrumental acoustic guitar player, based in Boulder, Colorado.
He's here in Auckland for his debut New Zealand tour and joined Jesse in the Auckland studio
Topics: music
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Duration: 11'06"

13:20
US election - an unpopularity contest
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What will America's future look like with either Trump or Clinton at the helm? And what will this mean for New Zealand? Henry Olsen is a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and he's in the country at the moment, speaking at the Public policy think tank hosted by The New Zealand Initiative.
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What would America's future look like with either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton at the helm? And what will this mean for New Zealand?
Henry Olsen, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is in New Zealand speaking at the public policy think tank hosted by The New Zealand Initiative.
Described as "the smartest commentator on American politics and elections out there", Mr Olsen has predicted the results of all US elections of the past decade.
He didn’t give Mr Trump much of a chance at the start of the Republican primaries. But now he sees the result of November’s election, barring unforeseen events, going only one way – a Clinton victory.
The Trump effect was mainly taking place among the minority of Americans who are active Republicans, and that niche constituency won’t win a general election, he says.
“He’s done nothing effective at broadening his appeal since he clinched the nomination.
“Clinton is on track to win, she remains unpopular; if it were an up or down vote on Hillary Clinton the resolve of the American people would clearly be down. It’s also clear that even more people dislike Donald Trump than dislike Hillary Clinton.”
Mr Trump has lost a bolted-on Republican constituency, he says.
“The Republican Party traditionally does well among college-educated whites. The Republican Party in polls is on track to lose them for the first time in polling history.
“Nothing will attract them back; they don’t like his view of the world, they don’t like his character.”
Mrs Clinton is the consensus, elite candidate and Mr Olsen says she will is likely increase taxes on the well-off, increase the minimum wage and increase social security. Traditionally pro trade deals and pro-globalisation she faces significant political headwinds with TPP.
“TPP I think is dead unless there are significant revisions to it.
“If TPP is restructured so that there’s less likelihood that countries such as Vietnam be an effective competitor for American low-skilled jobs, then I think TPP can come back. But TPP in its current form is dead.”
Although a Clinton victory was almost certain, If Mr Tump wins, he joked, a “mass-exodus” to New Zealand was likely.
Topics: politics
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Tags: US, Trump, Clinton
Duration: 10'30"

13:29
The Shark that lives to over 300 years old
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They're almost blind, live in freezing arctic waters, grow to more 6 metres in length and live to 300 years old. The Greenland shark has been identified as the world longest living vertebrate.
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They're almost blind, live in freezing arctic waters, grow to more 6 metres in length and live to 300 years old...
The Greenland shark has been identified as the world longest living vertebrate.
Marine physiologist, Peter Bushnell from Indiana University conducted studies of the sharks to try and identify just how old they were, and says it is now clear they live much longer than any other vertebrate animal.
He's just co-authored a study in the journal science, and talks to Jesse from Indiana.
Topics: science
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Duration: 13'17"

13:42
Dan Slevin: An Appreciation of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
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He's the biggest movie star around - not just in the bicep department. His films have grossed nearly US$4b worldwide, just short of his antecedent Arnold Schwarzenegger, but in only about 15 years.
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He's the biggest movie star around - not just in the bicep department. His films have grossed nearly US$4b worldwide, just short of his antecedent Arnold Schwarzenegger, but in only about 15 years.
Our movie guy, Dan Slevin from RNZ's Widescreen, decided that Jesse needed to learn to appreciate The Rock for the great modern-day movie star he is.
Topics: movies
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Duration: 7'59"

13:50
Favourite album
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Syd Barret - Barret, chosen by Julian Edmonds.
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Duration: 9'30"

14:09
Book Critic - Pip Adam
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Big books.
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Duration: 9'50"

14:20
Was 1971 the greatest year in rock history?
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Was 1971 the greatest year in rock history? Music journalist David Hepworth believes it was, and he's written an entire book to argue his case. In 1971: Never A Dull Moment, Hepworth admits it could look like it's just his personal opinion, given he turned 21 that year, but he says the difference in this case is that he is right.
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Was 1971 the greatest year in rock history? Music journalist David Hepworth believes it was, and he's written an entire book to argue his case.
In 1971, Never A Dull Moment, Hepworth argues that this was the year rock came of age - the year of Hunky Dory, Sticky Fingers, Every Picture Tells A Story, Pink Floyd's Meddle, Elton John's Madman Across the Water, The Who’s Who's Next and Led Zeppelin IV. And that was just in the UK.
In California Joni Mitchell was putting out Blue, The Doors LA Woman, James Taylor Mud Slide Slim, David Crosby If I Could Only Remember My Name, Graham Nash Songs For Beginners and Carole King released Tapestry.
Hepworth admits it could look like it's just his personal opinion, given he turned 21 in 1971, but he says the difference in this case, is that he is right - it was the best year in rock - and will never be surpassed.
“Had there been a Mercury Prize in 1971 the shortlist in the UK would have been David Bowie’s Hunky Dory, Rod Stewart’s Every Picture Tells a Story, The Who, Who’s Next, the Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers, John Lennon Imagine and Paul McCartney Ram
“The fact is that 45 years later those records are still very familiar to lots of people and not just to the people who remember them at the time, but also to my children in their teens and 20s. They’re records that are part of the furniture of everybody’s lives
Hepworth’s theory is that in 1971 the planets were aligned for the burgeoning rock star.
“I don’t think it ever could happen again – the uninterrupted focus isn’t there anymore.
“I wouldn’t inflict British TV from 1971 on my worst enemy, and there wasn’t a huge amount happening in the cinema in 1971. It was all about music and particularly the long playing album.”
And the record business was growing exponentially.
“Carol King’s Tapestry comes out in February 1971, no fanfare at all, it’s a very modest record, by the middle of the year it was selling 150,000 copies every week in the US alone.”
Hepworth says it’s hard now to imagine such a time, with the record business now all but gone.
The year was also notable for those absent. There was a large Beatles-shaped hole as the Fabs had effectively disbanded in 1970. Bob Dylan had nothing to offer this year; nor did Paul Simon.
The absence of the Beatles left some creative oxygen in the room, according to Hepworth
“One of the reasons there was this activity was there suddenly was vacant crown to be had.”
The Rolling Stones, newly tax-exiled in France, put out Sticky Fingers the middle child in their run of classic albums that started with Gimme Shelter in 1969 and culminated with Exile on Main Street in 1972.
Artists were also prolific, Hepworth says.
“Lots of these people were contracted to do two albums a year. Not one in three years. Those records have an immediacy about them.
“They weren’t remixed endlessly, they weren’t thought about endlessly; it was first thought best thought.”
Here’s David Hepworth’s 1971 Spotify list:
His favourite album? Who’s Next. Best track? Baba O’Riley. Best moment? 1 minute 6 seconds into that song.
"If you have to explain popular music to a Martian – that’s what you do. Play them that”
Ten of the best from ‘71
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones
Who’s Next – The Who
Tapestry – Carole King
Meddle – Pink Floyd
Hunky Dory – David Bowie
What’s Goin’ On? – Marvin Gaye
Every Picture Tells a Story – Rod Stewart
Blue – Joni Mitchell
Songs of Love and Hate – Leonard Cohen

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Duration: 39'08"

15:09
Walking again after 25 years in a wheelchair
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John MacLean was a promising young rugby league player and triathlete when he was hit by an 8 tonne truck while cycling on Sydney's M4. The 22 year old was left with a broken back, pelvis and punctured lungs. He was paralysed, with no use in his right leg and just 25 percent in his left.
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John MacLean was a promising young rugby league player and triathlete when he was hit by an 8 tonne truck while cycling on Sydney’s M4. The 22 year old was left with a broken back, pelvis and punctured lungs. He was paralysed, with no use in his right leg and just 25 percent in his left. That was 28 years ago. Since then he has become one of the most accomplished disabled athletes in the world, becoming the first wheelchair athlete to complete the Ironman World Champs.
But perhaps his biggest achievement was teaching himself to walk again. He describes his journey in his new book, “How far can you go?: My 25-year quest to walk again.” John Maclean talks with Jesse about how he managed to achieve this despite his spinal injuries.
Topics: sport, health, life and society
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Tags: injury, John MacLean
Duration: 24'45"

15:48
One Quick Question for 16 August 2016
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We find the answers to any queries you can think up.
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15:53
The Panel pre-show for 16 August 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 6'43"

21:20
Online dating and the game of love: a psychologist’s approach
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Online dating is a popular way of meeting people, and Sonia Sly finds out some of the benefits and pitfalls of starting relationships online.
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Finding love online is big business. In the U.S, dating sites are as popular as video games and and downloading digital music.
Global online dating site match.com reports that in 2015 alone, online dating led to 517,000 relationships and 92,000 marriages.
But what are the secrets to establishing relationships in the virtual space, and how should people navigate the pitfalls?
Dr Martin Graff is a reader in Psychology at the University of South Wales, Australia, and a contributor to the Psychology Today segment Love, Digitally. Over the past six years, he has been conducting research into romantic relationships, specifically, decision-making in relation to online interaction and dating.
Graff says there are no keys to absolute success and that online dating primarily serves as an introduction service that will hopefully lead to face-to-face encounters. But men, he says, could end up doing themselves a disservice because they tend to focus on physical attractiveness, without reading written profiles.
One of Graff’s most surprising discoveries was related to jealousy.
“We found the same things online that also motivate jealousy in face-to-face interaction, which was a little surprising [because] you would expect that there wouldn’t be the same threats as there might be face-to-face.”
According to Graff, there are gender differences in the way that jealousy is triggered: females become jealous of a partner being emotionally unfaithful, while men’s jealousy is triggered by a partner being sexually unfaithful.
So how does this translate via the online environment?
“When we set up a scenario with emotional content, [alongside] those who are engaging in cybersex, we found the same gender differences online as face-to-face,” Graff says.
“It goes back to an evolutionary past where you would expect females to be more jealous of males who are engaging in emotional disclosure with another female. That poses a bigger threat for females,” he says.
Graff has also conducted research into dating scams, looking at predictors that may make someone susceptible to being scammed online. The outcome was contrary to expectations and less likely to be age-related or people being lonely and desperate.
“In terms of personality measurements we found that people who were more conscientious were more likely to be scammed [because] they do things by the book, [and therefore, fall victim to the scam].”

One of the biggest pitfalls of online dating is the promise of finding love in a vast pool where plenty of potential opportunity awaits. Graff is quick to add that the right approach is about being realistic, and maximising your chances.
“Online dating appears to offer so much choice, [but] people should probably limit themselves to a 'manageable' set of people in making choices. Otherwise it becomes confusing.”
Topics: science, internet
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Duration: 11'53"

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1:10 The 'Acoustic Ninja'
His fans dub him as the 'acoustic ninja', for his finger tapping and legato skills. Trace Bundy is an instrumental acoustic guitar player, based in Boulder, Colorado. He's here in Auckland for his debut New Zealand tour.
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1:20 US Election Analyst, Henry Olsen
Back in January we spoke with US election analyst, Henry Olsen, ahead of the Iowa Caucuses. Since then, we've seen the rise of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and it's been like no other Presidential election we've seen before. But what will America's future look like with either Trump or Clinton at the helm? And what will this mean for New Zealand?
Henry Olsen is a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and he's in the country at the moment, speaking at the Public policy think tank hosted by The New Zealand Initiative.
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1:25 The Shark that lives to over 300 years old
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They're almost blind, live in freezing arctic waters, grow to more 6 metres in length and live to 300 years old...
The Greenland shark has been identified as the world longest living vertebrate.
Marine physiologist, Peter Bushnell from Indiana University conducted studies of the sharks to try and identify just how old they were, and says it is now clear they live much longer than any other vertebrate animal.
He's just co-authored a study in the journal science, and talks to Jesse from Indiana.
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1:35 Dan Slevin: An Appreciation of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
1:40 Favourite album
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2:10 Was 1971 the greatest year in rock history?
Was 1971 the greatest year in rock history? Music journalist David Hepworth believes it was, and he's written an entire book to argue his case.
In 1971, Never A Dull Moment, Hepworth admits it could look like its just his personal opinion, given he turned 21 that year, but he says the difference in this case, is that he is right.
3:10 Walking again after 25 years in a wheelchair
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John MacLean was a promising young rugby league player and triathlete when he was hit by an 8 tonne truck while cycling on Sydney’s M4. The 22 year old was left with a broken back, pelvis and punctured lungs. He was paralysed, with no use in his right leg and just 25 percent in his left. That was 28 years ago. Since then he has become one of the most accomplished disabled athletes in the world, becoming the first wheelchair athlete to complete the Ironman World Champs.
But perhaps his biggest achievement was teaching himself to walk again. He describes his journey in his new book, “How far can you go?: My 25-year quest to walk again.” John Maclean talks with Jesse about how he managed to achieve this despite his spinal injuries.
3:30 Science and environment stories
Stories from Our Changing World.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show

===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
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An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)

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15:48
One Quick Question for 16 August 2016
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We find the answers to any queries you can think up.
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Duration: 5'02"

15:53
The Panel pre-show for 16 August 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 6'43"

16:03
The Panel with Michele A'Court and Dita de Boni (Part 1)
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What the Panelists Michele A'Court and Dita de Boni have been up to. Michael Baker of the University of Otago talks about the water contamination which has led to a gastroenteritis outbreak in Hawke's Bay. Talking about team GBs success, Nick Willis, the Black Sticks, Lisa Carrington, and the gender issues surrounding South Africa's Caster Semanya. A fundraiser has been launched for David Bain. More on the Drug Foundation poll on cannabis legalization.
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Duration: 25'53"

16:05
The Panel with Michele A'Court and Dita de Boni (Part 2)
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You're more likely to get sick in the evening. What the Panelists Dita de Boni and Michele A'court have been thinking about. Lawyer Michael Bott talks about the changes to our laws around spying on New Zealand citizens. Will the unitary plan safeguard quality of building design in Auckland?
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Duration: 26'00"

16:06
Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Michele A'Court and Dita de Boni have been up to.
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Duration: 4'40"

16:11
Campylobacter in Hawke's Bay
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Michael Baker of the University of Otago talks about the water contamination which has led to a gastroenteritis outbreak in Hawke's Bay.
Topics: health
Regions: Hawkes Bay
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Duration: 7'24"

16:19
The latest from Rio
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Talking about team GBs success, Nick Willis, the Black Sticks, Lisa Carrington, and the gender issues surrounding South Africa's Caster Semanya.
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Duration: 7'37"

16:26
Wellington Council spends $77k on awning
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The Environment Court has decided half of what's been called an ugly awning can stay the rest has to be taken down.
Topics: politics, law
Regions: Wellington Region
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Duration: 2'15"

16:28
Givealittle to David Bain campaign
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A fundraiser has been launched for David Bain.
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Duration: 42"

16:29
Cannabis legalization
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More on the Drug Foundation poll on cannabis legalization.
Topics: health
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Duration: 2'53"

16:34
Time to get sick
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You're more likely to get sick in the evening
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Duration: 4'42"

16:39
Panel says
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What the Panelists Dita de Boni and Michele A'court have been thinking about.
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Duration: 5'39"

16:44
Re-vamped spy laws
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Lawyer Michael Bott talks about the changes to our laws around spying on New Zealand citizens.
Topics: politics, law
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Duration: 9'32"

16:54
Tracking tourists in Thailand
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Lawyer Michael Bott talks about the changes to our laws around spying on New Zealand citizens.
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Duration: 2'12"

16:56
Auckland unitary plan
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Will the unitary plan safeguard quality of building design in Auckland?
Topics: housing
Regions: Auckland Region
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Duration: 2'15"

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

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17:00
RNZ Checkpoint with John Campbell, Tuesday 16 August 2016
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Watch Tuesday's full programme here.
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Duration: 00"

17:08
Havelock North locals struggle with campylobacter outbreak
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Civil Defence and Red Cross workers took to the streets of Havelock North today to try to find out how many people are sick, while businesses say they're seriously out of pocket.
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Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: Civil Defence, Red Cross, Campylobacter
Duration: 3'24"

17:11
Cancer patient one of hundreds with campylobacter
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Kirsty Webb is a mother of two who has been living with cancer for several years. The Havelock North woman is also one of more than 1000 people who have being sick with campylobacter.
Topics: health
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: Campylobacter, cancer
Duration: 3'44"

17:15
Financial cost to campylobacter outbreak
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The campylobacter outbreak in Havelock North is affecting businesses as well as people, creating a personal and financial cost, Pipi Cafe & Food Truck Owner Chris Morris says.
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Duration: 2'52"

17:20
Vincent Skeen sentenced for killing Luke Tipene
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Vincent Skeen has been sentenced to five years and two months in jail after he fatally stabbed Luke Tipene several times with a broken beer bottle in 2014.
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Tags: Vincent Skeen, Luke Tipene
Duration: 3'34"

17:24
266 hairdressers given work visas
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Of the 200,000 people issued work visas last year, 266 were hairdressers, 104 dairy farmers, 17 sales and marketing managers and 42 cafe managers. Opposition parties are outraged.
Topics: politics
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Tags: visas, employment
Duration: 3'37"

17:28
Disappointment in velodrome and triumph on the water in Rio
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It was disappointment in the velodrome and triumph on the water in Rio overnight, as New Zealand's best remaining medal hopes thrived.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'15"

17:34
Evening business for 16 August 2016
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News from the business sector, including a market report.
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Duration: 3'07"

17:37
Calls for broader representation on security committee
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Only National and Labour are set to sit on the Intelligence and Security Committee, but the Greens say more voices are needed.
Topics: politics, law
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Tags: GCSB, SIS
Duration: 2'44"

17:43
Headache the only sign before woman died of meningitis
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Public health officials in Dunedin have been contacting 21 friends and associates of 20-year-old Brittany Arthur, who died suddenly of meningitis on Saturday.
Topics: health
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Duration: 4'14"

17:53
Motorcyclist's organs help seven people
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Riley Baker died after a motorcycle crash. His organs, however, live on in 7 other people. His partner Amy McCarthy talks to Checkpoint.
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Duration: 4'34"

17:57
Controversial lost luggage bill getting air time in Parliament
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The government has tried to get a roundly-mocked lost luggage bill off the parliamentary agenda, but was stymied by New Zealand First.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 2'25"

18:08
Campylobacter 'same as labour', mother says
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A family of five are among more than 1000 hit with campylobacter in Havelock North. Deborah Berlin tells Checkpoint the pain was equivalent to labour.
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Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: Havelock North, Campylobacter
Duration: 5'30"

18:13
Hastings councillor talks from site of water bores
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Hastings District Councillor and Age Concern board member Wayne Bradshaw talks to Checkpoint from the site of the Te Mata acquifer, where Havelock North's gastro bug comes from.
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Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: Havelock North, Campylobacter
Duration: 3'18"

18:18
Eliza McCartney chases pole vault dream
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New Zealand's pole vaulting hope at the Rio Olympics, Eliza McCartney, is only 19 and hitting new heights every time she takes to the track.
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New Zealand's pole vaulting hope at the Rio Olympics, Eliza McCartney, is only 19 and hitting new heights every time she takes to the track.
She's ranked seventh in the world and currently holds the world junior record.
Nevertheless, she said she would be battling nerves once the competition started tomorrow morning.
"The last vault session we had before coming to Rio was awesome. It was everything I could hope for," she said.
"We're working hard still on the same things so I'm really happy with how training's been going... I think it's really important to enjoy it and, as long as I'm out there and enjoying it and giving it everything I can, it'll be fine."

Topics: sport
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Tags: Rio Olympics 2016, Pole Vaulting
Duration: 2'32"

18:22
Gisborne fishers want town basin protected
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Recreational fishers in Gisborne are building a case for a marine park to cover the town basin to protect it from commercial interests.
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Tags: marine park, recreational fishing
Duration: 4'29"

18:50
Today In Parliament Tuesday 16 August 2016-evening edition
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After asking no questions about the drinking water contamination in Havelock North Labour wins the Speaker's approval for a snap debate. Labour's health spokeswoman, Annette King, accuses the government of lack of leadership, saying there should have been a ministerial statement at least. Acting health minister, Peseta Sam Lotu-Iinga calls on the opposition to stop playing politics and indicates there will be an inquiry.
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Duration: 5'10"

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===6:30 PM. | None (National)===
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Highlighting the RNZ stories you're sharing on-line

===6:55 PM. | In Parliament===
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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information

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19:10
Our Own Odysseys - Mike Butler
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Mike Butler's walked all over the world for charity. The ANZ Wellington employee has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars by trekking through Asia, India, Europe and South America.
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Duration: 17'52"

20:12
Nights' Pundit - Economics
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There's no such thing as a free lunch - with independent scholar Brian Easton.
Topics: economy, business, history, life and society, money
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Duration: 21'01"

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7:12 Our Own Odysseys - Mike Butler
Mike Butler's walked all over the world for charity. The ANZ Wellington employee has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars by trekking through Asia, India, Europe and South America. Unfortunately his latest walk from Auckland to Wellington with his two beloved dogs came unstuck due to an accident. He's joins Bryan Crump to talk about his travels with his dogs, Toby and Idol and when he expects to be back on the charity trail.
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7:30 The Sampler
In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger discusses a soulful sophomore set from Michael Kiwanuka, Kirsten Johnstone reviews the first new music in seven years from local singer, songwriter and social activitst Steve Abel; while Sam Wicks lends an ear to Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane's first post-prison release.

8:12 Nights' Pundit - Brian Easton
Independent scholar Brian Easton talks to Bryan Crump about migration and economic freedoms. He talks about his latest article which explores the difficulties in getting the balance of migration and pressure on resources right.
8:30 Window on the World
BBC World Service Farhana Haider enters the world of Duaripara slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh to meet The Forgotten Girls of Dhaka.
9:07 Tuesday Feature
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The Late Series at Auckland Museum is underway. One of the first curated evenings involved a panel discussion exploring of New Zealand history. Last Tuesday's Smart Talk panel looked at he intricacies of feminism in New Zealand and examined the everyday realities of the quest for equality. RNZ's own Mihingarangi Forbes was part of the panel discussion.
10:17 Late Edition
A roundup of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International.
11:07 World Music
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The Sampler for 16 August
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In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger mulls over the jazz-African-electronic hybrid of London-based band Melt Yourself Down; ponders the jangling pop of The Prophet Hens and Blair Parkes; and considers the small town tales of Nashville songwriter-turned-singer Brandy Clark.
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In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger mulls over the jazz-African-electronic hybrid of London-based band Melt Yourself Down; ponders the jangling pop of The Prophet Hens and Blair Parkes; and considers the small town tales of Nashville songwriter-turned-singer Brandy Clark.
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19:30
Last Evenings On Earth by Melt Yourself Down
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Nick Bollinger mulls over the jazz-African-electronic hybrid of London-based band Melt Yourself Down.
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Nick Bollinger mulls over the jazz-African-electronic hybrid of London-based band Melt Yourself Down.
As anyone who has ever experienced WOMAD can tell you, the urge to combine electronic dance music with the indigenous sounds of just about anywhere is just too much for some to resist. Whether it is a good idea or not is another thing. Often the results are cacophonous, other times offensively bland. And – very occasionally – some genuinely exciting synthesis occurs. This is one such occasion.
Melt Yourself Down is a London septet that have been around for the past four years. They were formed by saxophonist Pete Wareham, who had played in progressive jazz groups Polar Bear and Acoustic Ladyland.
The second album from Melt Yourself Down is a rowdy blast of rhythm and noise that derives a lot of its melodic and rhythmic drive from Wareham’s saxophone lines, which lean heavily on the modes and scales of North Africa.
At times you could almost have stepped into some sort of Moroccan trance ritual. But then there are the vocals, which are a fusion in themselves. Singer Kushal Gaya originally comes from Mauritius, which has its own traditions of trance-inducing music, but there’s something about his performance that’s also very London: a punk, aggressively in-you-face quality combined with a piercing tone that – even through a Mauritian accent - makes me think of John Lydon in his Public Image prime.
Gaya’s brief in this band is clearly to get the audience excited. His voice seems to have only two settings: off and full-throttle. There are moments here where he’s practically hyperventilating. But there’s excitement in the rhythms as well, which are propulsive and energetic even when they come in unusual multiples of nine in a track like ‘Jump The Fire’.
For all their anarchic sonics, Melt Yourself Down have tight arrangements. There are verses and choruses and parts where everything comes together – horns, electronics, drums and Gaya’s wild, incantatory vocals. But jazzer that he is, Wareham also leaves room for spontaneity, and some of the most rousing moments are when he or fellow saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings go out onto that knife-edge of improvisation.
The title Last Evenings On Earth has a faintly apocalyptic ring to it, and so does the music. But if Melt Yourself Down are the house band for the end of the world, then one thing’s for sure, they’ll be going down partying.
Songs featured: Dot To Dot, Yazzan Dayra, The God of You, Body Parts, Jump The Fire, Bharat Mata, Listen Out.
Last Evenings On Earth is available on The Leaf Records.
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Duration: 9'36"

19:30
The Prophet Hens and Blair Parkes
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Nick Bollinger ponders the jangling pop of The Prophet Hens and Blair Parkes.
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Nick Bollinger ponders the jangling pop of The Prophet Hens and Blair Parkes.
Auckland was always the place musicians went in this country if they wanted to produce shiny, up-to-the-minute-sounding pop. With today’s laptop technology, there’s no reason why that should still be the case. Yet it sometimes feels as though the further away from Auckland you get, the less musicians care about what current pop sounds like anyway.
The Prophet Hens are a four-piece from Dunedin whose music makes few concessions to current pop. They are not deejays, they don’t use drum loops, MPC samplers, synthesisers or auto-tune. In fact their music gives little indication that we’re even in the 21st century. And that can be quite a refreshing thing.
Not only does one get the sense that The Prophet Hens have been immunised against any popular music made since some time in the 80s, but it also seems as though the music they have been exposed to has been of a specific local strain. They remind me of other Dunedin bands from earlier decades - particularly the more melodic ones that inhabited the Flying Nun convent in the 80s like The Chills or perhaps Sneaky Feelings. Some of that comes down to the instrumentation. It’s the classic line-up of guitars, bass, drums and keyboards. But it’s also the songs: wry vignettes that often seem to end in thwarted romance. Could there be a more downbeat – or quintessentially Dunedin – title for a love song than ‘Drunk In A Park’?
The he-and-she vocals of Karl Bray and Penelope Esplin are one of the real strengths of the group, with the pair swapping between the lead and harmony roles from track to track. Performance-wise it’s got a whole lot tighter, the songs and arrangements more ambitious. The jangly guitars and warm beds of organ may feel familiar, yet they still find fresh voicings and little harmonic details, which, in combination with the lovely woozy harmonies, take their essentially traditional songwriting to some new places.
If The Prophet Hens are a relatively new band with echoes of 80s’ Flying Nun, Blair Parkes is a southerner whose roots can actually be found in the Flying Nun archives.
This Christchurch-based songwriter-musician – and visual artist – released his first recordings with his then-band All Fall Down on a Flying Nun EP in the 80s. Since then he’s played and recorded with various Christchurch bands including Creely, Range, and the L.E.D.s, while building up an impressive catalogue of solo recordings. Cardigan Bay is the latest of them.
‘Sunday Morning Coming Down’ is the title of one of Kris Kristofferson’s immortal songs, but Parkes might have the written the matinee version here. He calls his ‘Sunday Evening Coming Down’ and performs it with co-writer Andrew Moore. It’s not a drunkard’s lament like Kristofferson’s, so much as a gentle psychedelic reverie with a dash of melancholy, and that’s the prevailing mood of this album.
You can hear in this song – or any of the eleven tracks here – Parkes’ love of lush melodic pop. He layers his gentle, tuneful vocals, then swathes them in reverbs, creating the harmonic landscape of a late-60s soft-rock record.
The album’s title hints at the nautical theme that runs through it. There are songs about boats, fish, and stormy seas and he creates appropriate musical settings, that bathe you in deep, warm, currents of sound. But my favourite track has its feet firmly on land. It’s called ‘Footpath’. It’s a song about standing still as time moves on, and feeling okay about it. ‘I love the past/I’m from the past’ he sings. And the tune lets you know he means it.
Not one of these tracks clocks in at more than a modest 3 minutes in length. No drawn-out intros or protracted solos. Parkes usually starts with a vocal right from the opening bar, and when the song’s over, it’s just over – always too soon, leaving me with no choice but to play it again.
Cardigan Bay is available on Bandcamp.
The Wonderful Shapes Of Backdoor Keys is available on Fishrider Records.
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Duration: 13'22"

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Big Day In A Small Town by Brandy Clark
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Nick Bollinger considers the small town tales of Nashville songwriter-turned-singer Brandy Clark.
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Nick Bollinger considers the small town tales of Nashville songwriter-turned-singer Brandy Clark.
Modern country is full of names that - unless you’re into modern country - you might rarely encounter, big stars though they are. But Brandy Clark was, until recently, little known even to country fans, though her music had been right in front of their ears.
The 40-year-old singer had been working in Nashville for more than a decade as a Music Row songwriter, and her credit has appeared on hits by the likes of Miranda Lambert, LeAnn Rimes and Keith Urban.
It was her rising profile as a writer that reignited Clark’s performing career. In 2013 she released 12 Songs, a stonking collection of mainstream country songs, but with a twist. One involved a gay couple’s coming out; another was a housewife’s ode to the therapeutic benefits of cannabis.
12 Songs was a big critical hit, and justly so. But her new album is clearly aimed beyond just the critics. The tunes, and to a large degree the sentiments, are the kind Nashville has been running on now for decades. These are drinkin’ smokin’ cheatin’ songs – in fact Clark has a song called ‘Drinkin’ Smokin’ Cheatin’.
Perhaps the essential difference between a country songsmith like Clark and your typical folk-rock singer-songwriter is that where the singer-songwriter tends to treat their experiences and perceptions as unique and individual, Clark knows hers are universal. And if her listeners haven’t directly experienced the things she sings about, their neighbour or cousin has. In fact, often she’s not the protagonist in these songs at all, but more often a narrator, standing to the side, giving us the lowdown on these slices of life.
Her words are cleverly constructed, but the effect is more like eavesdropping on a conversation in the supermarket. The new album’s title, Big Day In A Small Town, could describe any of the humble catastrophes portrayed in the songs. The voices are mostly those of the white working poor, and hearing these tales of money worries and broken homes I start to wonder if these voters might be tempted by Trump?
Brandy Clark’s Big Day In A Small Town might not be as confronting to conservative countrydom as her earlier album, still, it’s a classy piece of work. In an album full of great lines my favourite might be Clark’s kiss-off to an ex-husband who has just hooked up with a younger woman: ‘Karma’s a bitch so I hope you have a daughter’.
‘Ain’t we all the stars in our own soap opera?’ she asks in another song and one can only agree. As for Clark herself, she’s like a soap opera scriptwriter – which doesn’t mean her stories don’t ring true.
Songs featured: Girl Next Door, Drinkin’ Smokin’ Cheatin’, Three Kids No Husband, Broke, Soap Opera.
Big Day In A Small Town is available on Warner Music.
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Duration: 6'52"

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