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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:
28 August 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Te Wherowhero by Pei Te Hurunui Jones (RNZ); 1:05 Our Changing World (RNZ); 1:45 Go Ahead Caller (RNZ) 2:05 Heart and Soul (RNZ); 2:35 Hymns on Sunday; 3:05 Lady Jean by Noel Virtue read by Anne Budd (RNZ); 3:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ); 4:30 Science in Action (BBCWS); 5:10 Mihipeka: Time of Turmoil by Mihipeka Edwards (11 of 14, RNZ)
===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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The Princess and the Enchanter, written and told by The Taihape Morris Dancers ; Tracey-Jane and Holly: The Runaway, by Barbara Anderson, told by Ginette McDonald ; Dirt is Freedom, by Norman Bilbrough, told by Barrie Duncan ; The Recycler, by Mary Morel, told by Michael Haigh ; Jellybean, by Tessa Duder, told by Helen Jones ; Little Brother's Haircut, by Joy Cowley, told by Ole Maiava ; Down by the River, by Philippa Werry, told by Sean Allen
===7:10 AM. | Sunday Morning===
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A fresh attitude on current affairs, the news behind the news, documentaries, sport from the outfield, politics from the insiders, plus Mediawatch, the week in Parliament and music
7:32 The Week in Parliament
An in-depth perspective of legislation and other issues from the house
8:10 Insight
An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs
9:06 Mediawatch
Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in New Zealand's news media (RNZ)
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07:10
Local Body Elections - Why So Boring?
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Ash Holwell, a candidate in the upcoming Whangarei District Council election, Laura O'Connell Rapira, campaign director of ActionStation, and Auckland Council's elections planning manager Glyn Walters discuss the dismally low voter turnout among the under 30s and offer up some suggestions as to what can be done about it.
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Ash Holwell, a candidate in the upcoming Whangarei District Council election, Laura O'Connell Rapira, campaign director of ActionStation, and Auckland Council's elections planning manager Glyn Walters discuss the dismally low voter turnout among the under 30s and offer up some suggestions as to what can be done about it.
Topics: politics
Regions: Auckland Region, Whanganui
Tags: voting, rates, youth
Duration: 19'54"
07:30
The Week In Parliament for 28 August 2016
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MPs farewell retiring Governor General Sir Jerry Mataparae; Speaker reins in the Prime Minister during Question Time; Shop Trading Hours Amendment Bill passes final reading by 62 votes to 59, following a personal vote. The bill will allow local authorities to make decisions about shop trading on Easter Sunday. Debate on the bills sees Labour MPs calling on their Government counterparts to vote with their consciences, as opposed to along party lines; David Parker's Minimum Wage (Contractor Remuneration) Amendment Bill voted down by 61 votes to 60 after Peter Dunne withdraws his earlier support for the bill to with National and Act to defeat the combined votes of Labour, the Greens, New Zealand First and the Maori Party; House sits under extended hours on Wednesday morning for progress on Government bills; Health Committee begins hearing the first of around 1800 oral submissions due to be made on former Labour MP Maryann Street's petition - signed by almost 9,000 people - calling for an inquiry into public attitudes towards euthanasia; Transport & Industrial Relations hears submissions on a petition calling for a change to the road rules to allow cycling on the footpath by children under 14 years of age as well as seniors over the age of 65; Justice and Electoral Committee hears from Wiremu Demchick, as he presents his petition signed by more than two thousand people, calling on the Government to reverse the convictions of people convicted of consensual homosexual acts prior to passing of the Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986; Prime Minister John Key leads the House in congratulating the New Zealand Olympic Team on their record medal haul at the 2016 games in Rio; Leader of the House Gerry Brownlee provides a preview of what's in store when the House resumes after a one week adjournment.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 14'57"
07:50
Sonia Sly - Front Row at Fashion Week
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Sonia Sly is a RNZ producer, runs her own fashion website and presents RNZ's fashion podcast My Heels are Killing Me. She's been attending New Zealand Fashion Week in Auckland.
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Sonia Sly is a RNZ producer, runs her own fashion website and presents RNZ's fashion podcast My Heels are Killing Me. She's been attending New Zealand Fashion Week. in Auckland.
Topics: arts
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: fashion, My Heels are Killing Me, New Zealand Fashion Week, NZFW, world
Duration: 9'16"
08:12
Insight: Lifting the Lid on Undercover Policing
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Edward Gay explores controversial undercover police techniques.
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The controversial police undercover operation method known as the 'Mr Big technique' played a major part in two homicide cases this year.
The technique, where police officers create a fictitious criminal organisation and then entice the suspect into joining it, originated in Canada - where it had been used over 350 times to solve cold cases.
But it has also attracted criticism from the courts.
Undercover police wove an elaborate web to catch the cold-case killer, Kamal Reddy.
Reddy thought he had got away with the murder of his ex-girlfriend Pakeeza Yousef and her three year-old daughter, Jojo.
Seven years after the killings, no one had discovered their bodies buried beneath a busy over-bridge on Auckland's North Shore.
But Reddy became the target of an undercover police operation that lasted six months and ended with him telling an undercover officer exactly how and why he had murdered Ms Yousef and Jojo.
He even led police to the exact location under the bridge and posed for a photograph on the spot where he had buried the bodies.
To catch Reddy, police used an undercover operation known as the 'Mr Big technique'.
Dreamed up by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the 1990s, it has been used at least 350 times and has solved cold-case murders that would have otherwise remained mysteries.
But it has also caused injustices.
Alan Smith was charged with the 1974 cold-case murder of his neighbour, Beverley Smith, in Ontario, after his estranged wife implicated him 34 years later.
The story caused a splash in the local press but when Mr Smith's wife repeatedly changed her story, the police had to drop the charges.
Mr Smith's lawyer Alison Craig said the police didn't stop there and went on to set up a Mr Big operation.
Smith was isolated - aged in his late 50s, he was on the disability benefit and living in the basement of his daughter's home.
The police realised Mr Smith's major passion was fishing and in the end, that's how they got him.
Ms Craig said Mr Smith was approached by an undercover officer and told he had won a competition, the prize being a fishing trip.
"Over the course of several months, he became best friends with one of the other winners on this trip which was the main undercover police officer. They became the best of friends - they went fishing several times a week, they had coffees all the time," Ms Craig said.
Eventually Mr Smith was introduced to his friend's make-believe criminal world and his friend's boss, Mr Big.
Mr Smith also agreed to take part in crimes he believed to be real.
Ms Craig said the operation culminated with Mr Smith getting a phone call in the middle of the night from his new friend, telling him Mr Big was in trouble and needed their help.
"So off they go in the middle of the night to a parking lot of an abandoned warehouse. And there's Mr Big - he's got a shotgun and he's covered in what appears to be human blood and there's a dead guy on the floor which is actually a mannequin in a tarp."
She said Mr Big ordered Mr Smith and his friend to get rid of the body.
Ms Craig said Mr Smith was called to a meeting with Mr Big the following day where Mr Big demanded dirt on Mr Smith as insurance that he would not go to the police.
Over the coming days Mr Smith confessed to the murder of his neighbour, but each time his story changed and it didn't correspond to the evidence the police had.
The case was eventually thrown out, but by then Mr Smith had spent four and-a-half years in prison.
Unlike New Zealand, the Supreme Court of Canada has imposed tough new rules on the Mr Big scenario. They include a requirement for the prosecution to prove the value of the confession outweighs the prejudice against the defendant.
The test case in New Zealand is that of Tawera Wichman who initially denied responsibility for the death of his 10 month-old daughter Teegan.
He too became the target of a Mr Big undercover operation and eventually admitted shaking Teegan, causing her fatal injuries.
He was sentenced to three years and 10 months for manslaughter.
But before that happened, his legal team sought to have the confession excluded and the case eventually ended up in the Supreme Court.
In a three to two majority decision, the Court concluded the prejudicial nature of the criminal scenarios were outweighed by the reliability of Wichman's full confession.
The Chief Justice, Dame Sian Elias was one of the two dissenting judges. She concluded Wichman had been offered an inducement - employment in the criminal organisation - and that called into question the reliability of the confession.
"The statements were obtained by threats, promises or misrepresentations which raise issues as to their reliability…"
Dame Sian went on to say: "The power of the state was used to play on [Wichman's] hopes and fears".
She concluded: "If the views I have expressed mean that Mr Big scenarios to obtain confessional evidence cannot be undertaken, I think that is the price of observation of fair process."
That view is shared by a world authority on false confessions, Richard Leo.
Professor Leo worked on the Brendan Dassey case, made famous by the television series Making a Murderer.
He said he would like to see the technique banned, but failing that the New Zealand courts should put in place tougher restrictions, including a special Mr Big warrant.
"The warrant has to specify why you have strong cause to believe the suspect has committed the crime and why alternative methods of gathering evidence are not likely to solve the crime. So you could try to reduce its frequency.
"You could try to have it in the most serious cases where there are no other means..."
Inducements that are coercive and that suggest there will be no punishment can produce false confessions, Professor Leo said.
The police declined to be interviewed. Superintendent Chris Page said discussing police operations in public could impact on future investigations.
Topics: crime, law
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Tags: Mr Big, courts, police undercover, injustice, false confessions
Duration: 27'48"
08:40
Siberia's mammoth gold rush
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They call it Siberia's white gold and the men risking their lives to dig up mammoth tusks are every bit as tough as the gold miners of the 19th century.
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They call it Siberia's white gold and the men risking their lives to dig up mammoth tusks are every bit as tough as the gold miners of the 19th century. Photographer Amos Chapple has documented their lives in an extraordinary photo-essay for Radio Free Europe.
Chapple, originally a newspaper photographer from Auckland, has worked all over the world. Now a globe-trotting photographer he has visited 67 countries.
He has worked full time shooting UNESCO world heritage sites; since then his work has been published in most major news titles around the world including The Guardian, Vanity Fair and The Atlantic.
His latest project is in Russia's Arctic north, where a new insidious kind of gold rush is happening - hidden from view the extraction of giant woolly mammoth tusks.
Chapple says the part of Russia where the tusking is taking place is a tough Wild West-like environment.
"The winters are so harsh, and it's cold for so long, that in the summers just the top layer of the soil thaws, so it becomes this kind of soggy extent of nothing."
He says the mammoth used to wander all over the northern hemisphere and the permafrost in this part of Siberia preserves their remains making this trade possible.
And the men that work there are a tough breed.
"When they actually get to work, boy the work is heavy and the days are long, and then when they hit the booze - chaos reigns."
The industry has always been there he says, but in recent years the things have escalated. the methods to find them have become more intensive too.
"The method they're using now, which is legal, is they're rigging up these very powerful water pumps designed for fire fighting, they extract water from the rivers then use the hoses to blast into the landscape.
"They have no idea where to look for these remains, they just blast away at the landscape and hope for the best."
And if they're lucky they can get rich; very quick. Chapple says anything up to $100,000 a week.
The tusks are bought by local agents and then, eventually, end up in China where they are carved by master carvers into objects which can sell for millions of dollars.
And the cost to the environment is high too. Chapple says once pristine rivers in the area are now silted up and the colour of "hot chocolate".
Topics: weather, arts
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Tags: Siberia, mammoth, photography
Duration: 20'10"
09:15
Mediawatch for 28 August 2016
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Doping dogged the Olympics in the run up to Rio. But why did it all go quiet once the Games got going? And did women in Rio get fair coverage? Also: the government responds to technological change in media with a meek tweak of the law. Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
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Duration: 33'37"
09:40
An addict in the family
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We know help is available for alcoholics and addicts - but what about their nearest and dearest? Peter Adams and Richie Hardcore tell Wallace Chapman about the realities of living with an addict.
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We know help is available for alcoholics and addicts - but what about their nearest and dearest?
Peter Adams is a psychologist who specialises in addiction and the damage it causes families and Richie Hardcore has first-hand experience of being the child of an alcoholic.
They talk with Wallace Chapman about the realities of living with an addict and what help is available.
Al-Anon offers support to those affected by someone else's drinking.
Kina Families and Addictions Trust
Topics: health, life and society
Regions:
Tags: addiction, family, relationships
Duration: 19'14"
10:10
Tom Burlinson - Becoming Sinatra
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Australian Tom Burlinson says he started listening to Frank Sinatra when he was three - and these days he channels the voice of Sinatra at live performances of songs from the man known as 'Ol' Blue Eyes'. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Frank Sinatra's first live album Sinatra at the Sands and Tom Burlinson is coming to NZ to sing the hits, which include 'Come Fly with Me' and 'I've Got You Under My Skin.' He also treats Wallace to a few lines of 'New York New York'. Tom Burlinson performs Sinatra at the Sands at Skycity Theatre, Auckland, on November 26 2016.
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Australian Tom Burlinson says he started listening to Frank Sinatra when he was three - and these days he channels the voice of Sinatra at live performances of songs from the man known as 'Ol' Blue Eyes'. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Frank Sinatra's first live album Sinatra at the Sands and Tom Burlinson is coming to NZ to sing the hits, which include 'Come Fly with Me' and 'I've Got You Under My Skin.' He also treats Wallace to a few lines of 'New York New York'.
Tom Burlinson performs Sinatra at the Sands at Skycity Theatre, Auckland, on November 26 2016.
Topics: music, arts, history
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, The Rat Pack
Duration: 22'26"
10:30
Eowyn Ivey - Bright Lights in Alaska
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Eowyn Ivey's first novel, The Snow Child, became an international best-seller. She talks to Wallace from her home in Alaska about how her life got bigger when The Snow Child became a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and about her new book, To The Bright Edge of the World.
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Eowyn Ivey's first novel, The Snow Child, became an international best-seller. She talks to Wallace from her home in Alaska about how her life got bigger when The Snow Child became a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and about her new book, To The Bright Edge of the World.
Topics: arts, author interview
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Tags: USA, Alaska, fiction, novels, Pulitzer Prize, awards
Duration: 19'09"
10:50
Duncan Grieve - Reality Television
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Editor and publisher of The Spinoff, Duncan Grieve tells us why we should all be watching The Real Housewives of Auckland.
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Editor and publisher of The Spinoff, Duncan Grieve tells us why we should all be watching The Real Housewives of Auckland.
Topics: arts, media
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Tags: television, TV, BRAVO, The Spinoff, The Real Housewives of Auckland, reality TV
Duration: 9'09"
11:11
Jenny Bornholdt - A Selection of Poems
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Lower Hutt poet Jenny Bornholdt's new book, Selected Poems, represents her work over nine collections and nearly 30 years of writing. She was the winner of the 2002 Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship and was an Arts Foundation laureate in 2003. In 2005, she became the fifth Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate.
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Lower Hutt poet Jenny Bornholdt's new book, Selected Poems, represents her work over nine collections and nearly 30 years of writing. She was the winner of the 2002 Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship and was an Arts Foundation laureate in 2003. In 2005, she became the fifth Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate.
Topics: arts, author interview
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: poetry, Pablo Neruda
Duration: 13'26"
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7:08 Local Body Elections - Why So Boring?
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Ash Holwell, a candidate in the upcoming Whangarei District Council election, Laura O'Connell Rapira, campaign director of ActionStation, and Auckland Council's elections planning manager Glyn Walters discuss the dismally low voter turnout among the under 30s and offer up some suggestions as to what can be done about it.
7:30 News headlines
7:32 The Week in Parliament
7:47 Sonia Sly - Front Row at Fashion Week
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Sonia Sly is a RNZ producer, runs her own fashion website and presents RNZ's fashion podcast My Heels are Killing Me. She's been attending New Zealand Fashion Week. in Auckland.
8:12 Insight: Lifting the Lid on Undercover Policing
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Fake criminal organisations, false search warrants and charges - police undercover operations have been criticised for bending the rules to get convictions but are they breaking the law in an attempt to uphold it? RNZ's Court Reporter, Edward Gay, looks at two cases recently before the courts that in some cases have generated criticism from some of the country's top judges.
8:40 Amos Chapple - Mammoth Tusks
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They call it Siberia's white gold and the men risking their lives to dig up mammoth tusks are every bit as tough as the gold miners of the 19th century. Photographer Amos Chapple has documented their lives in an extraordinary photo-essay for Radio Free Europe.
9:06 Mediawatch
Doping dogged the Olympics in the run up to Rio. But why did it all go quiet once the Games got going? And did women in Rio get fair coverage? Also: the government responds to technological change in media with a meek tweak of the law.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:40 Richie Hardcore and Peter Adams - Partners of Addicts
We know there is help available for alcoholics and addicts - but what about their nearest and dearest? Peter Adams is a psychologist who specialises in addiction and the damage it causes families, and Richie Hardcore has first-hand experience of being the child of an alcoholic. Together they tell us about the realities of living with an addict and what help there is available.
Al-Anon offers support to those affected by someone else's drinking.
Kina Families and Addictions Trust
10:06 Tom Burlinson - Becoming Sinatra
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Australian Tom Burlinson says he started listening to Frank Sinatra when he was three - and these days he channels the voice of Sinatra at live performances of songs from the man known as 'Ol' Blue Eyes'. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Frank Sinatra's first live album Sinatra at the Sands and Tom Burlinson is coming to NZ to sing the hits, which include 'Come Fly with Me' and 'I've Got You Under My Skin.' He also treats Wallace to a few lines of 'New York New York'.
Tom Burlinson performs Sinatra at the Sands at Skycity Theatre, Auckland, on November 26.
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10:30 Eowyn Ivey - Bright Lights in Alaska
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Eowyn Ivey's first novel, The Snow Child, became an international best-seller. She talks to Wallace from her home in Alaska about how her life got bigger when The Snow Child became a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and about her new book, To The Bright Edge of the World.
10:49 Duncan Grieve - Reality Television
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Editor and publisher of The Spinoff, Duncan Grieve tells us why we should all be watching The Real Housewives of Auckland.
11:05 Jenny Bornholdt - A Selection of Poems
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Lower Hutt poet Jenny Bornholdt's new book, Selected Poems, represents her work over nine collections and nearly 30 years of writing. She was the winner of the 2002 Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship and was an Arts Foundation laureate in 2003. In 2005, she became the fifth Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate.
11:23 A Wrinkle in Time
The final episode of Noelle McCarthy's podcast series on ageing, A Wrinkle in Time. This week's programme focuses on death.
===12:12 PM. | Standing Room Only===
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It's an 'all access pass' to what's happening in the worlds of arts and entertainment 1:10 At the Movies with Simon Morris A weekly topical magazine programme about current film releases and film-related topics. (RNZ) 2:05 The Laugh Track
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12:16
Restoration of the silent classic Moana
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90 years ago American filmmaker Robert Flaherty decided to follow his hugely successful Inuit documentary Nanook of the North with another one set in faraway places - this time in exotic Samoa. Moana followed the life of the young son of a tribal chief, and captured on film the villagers' daily lives - fishing, making garments, singing and dancing. Originally Moana was a silent film, with a soundtrack added later by Robert and Frances's daughter Monica. Now it's undergone a massive restoration project. Lynn Freeman talks to Samoan-New Zealand film-maker Makerita Urale and to Diane Pivac from Nga Taonga Sound and Vision on the eve of the restored Moana's first public screening. She also talks to film restorer Bill Posner about the process of reviving such and old film.
Topics: arts, history
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Tags: film, documentary, Samoa
Duration: 37'07"
12:46
Revered - and occasionally feared - reviewer Peter Calder calls it a day
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Auckland Cinema managers and restaurant owners can sleep a little easier after this week. Peter Calder, the highly respected - but often ruthless - movie and food critic for the New Zealand Herald is about to hang up his pen - his poison pen, some might say. But is he as bad as he's painted, or is he, as Monty Python would put it, "vicious but fair"? Simon Morris was keen to find out...
Topics: arts
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Tags: film, journalism
Duration: 11'56"
13:34
Winners - Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel
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Announced at the 2016 WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival, the 7th Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel had a record number of entries this year, and a brand new award for debut authors: the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Novel. Lynn Freeman speaks to the winners.
Topics: arts, books
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Tags: author interview, crime fiction
Duration: 10'52"
13:46
Getting our young opera singers export-ready
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This weekend young New Zealand opera singers with their eye on an international career are starting a new programme aimed at equipping them with crucial skills that are nothing to do with singing and performing. Media training is on the programme, as well as negotiating, budgeting, legal and marketing skills. The Kiri te Kanawa Foundation has invested $200,000 in a new programme helping six singers become 'export ready' - Lynn Freeman talks to two of them. Bass-baritone James Ioelu has had four years of support from the Foundation, and he's currently working on NZ Opera's production of Sweeney Todd. Mezzo-soprano Bianca Andrew is in her final year of studio at the Guildhall School of Music in London.
Topics: arts, music
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Tags: opera
Duration: 12'02"
14:23
Escaping the advertising rat-race?
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What do ad men do when they escape the pressures of the well-designed commercial? If they can draw whatever they like, what do they choose to do with that freedom? A group of Devonport artists who are in - or have just left - the advertising industry, want to show what they create in their spare time at the Depot gallery in an exhibition called Escape Artists. Lynn Freeman talks to to escapees, Tony McNeight and Scott Wilson.
Topics: arts, media
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Tags: advertising
Duration: 10'05"
14:36
Sue Younger - Days Are Like Grass
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Sue Younger swapped a career in documentary-making for the life of a novelist. Her debut, Days are Like Grass, is set in part at Starship Children's Hospital, the workplace of paediatric surgeon Claire Bowerman. Claire's reluctantly returned to New Zealand from London - and she's got secrets that are affecting her relationships with her Israeli partner and her teenage daughter. Lynn Freeman talks to Sue about the often thin line between fact and fiction.
Topics: arts, books
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Tags: author interview
Duration: 11'24"
14:48
Artist Judy Millar's bright, bold colours span 30 years
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Two canvases by Judy Millar painted around 30 years apart but similar in many ways, are being brought together for the first time. Judy has represented New Zealand at the Venice Bienale and since 2005 has divided her time between Berlin and Auckland. Her canvases tend to be large and abstract, using bright bold colours and strokes. As Lynn Freeman discovered, it was while Judy was working on a group of new paintings that she had a flashback to another abstract work she had painted in 1987. Judy Millar's exhibition Turning the World Inside Out: 30 Years a Painter opens on Wednesday at Auckland's Gow Langsford Gallery.
Topics: arts
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Tags: painting, Venice Bienale
Duration: 10'40"
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12.16 Restoration of the silent classic Moana
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90 years ago American filmmaker Robert Flaherty decided to follow his hugely successful Inuit documentary Nanook of the North with another one set in faraway places - this time in exotic Samoa. Moana followed the life of the young son of a tribal chief, and captured on film the villagers' daily lives - fishing, making garments, singing and dancing. Originally Moana was a silent film, with a soundtrack added later by Robert and Frances's daughter Monica. Now it's undergone a massive restoration project. Lynn Freeman talks to Samoan-New Zealand film-maker Makerita Urale and to Diane Pivac from Nga Taonga Sound and Vision on the eve of the restored Moana's first public screening. She also talks to film restorer Bill Posner about the process of reviving such and old film.
12.48 Revered - and occasionally feared - reviewer Peter Calder calls it a day
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Auckland Cinema managers and restaurant owners can sleep a little easier after this week. Peter Calder, the highly respected - but often ruthless - movie and food critic for the New Zealand Herald is about to hang up his pen - his poison pen, some might say. But is he as bad as he's painted, or is he, as Monty Python would put it, "vicious but fair"? Simon Morris was keen to find out...
1.10 At The Movies
This week Simon Morris reviews The Shallows, Our Kind of Traitor and War Dogs.
1.34 Winners - Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel
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Announced at the 2016 WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival, the 7th Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel had a record number of entries this year, and a brand new award for debut authors: the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Novel. Lynn Freeman speaks to the winners.
1.46 Getting our young opera singers export-ready
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This weekend young New Zealand opera singers with their eye on an international career are starting a new programme aimed at equipping them with crucial skills that are nothing to do with singing and performing. Media training is on the programme, as well as negotiating, budgeting, legal and marketing skills. The Kiri te Kanawa Foundation has invested $200,000 in a new programme helping six singers become 'export ready' - Lynn Freeman talks to two of them. Bass-baritone James Ioelu has had four years of support from the Foundation, and he's currently working on NZ Opera's production of Sweeney Todd.
Mezzo-soprano Bianca Andrew is in her final year of studio at the Guildhall School of Music in London.
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2.04 The Laugh Track
Actor Sophie Hambleton (Westside) is about to appear in a one-women show called Fleabag at Centrepoint Theatre. Sophie's comedy picks include Ali Wong, Josie Long, Jen Grant, Madeleine Sami and Amy Schumer.
2.23 Escaping the advertising rat-race?
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What do ad men do when they escape the pressures of the well-designed commercial? If they can draw whatever they like, what do they choose to do with that freedom? A group of Devonport artists who are in - or have just left - the advertising industry, want to show what they create in their spare time at the Depot gallery in an exhibition called Escape Artists. Lynn Freeman talks to to escapees, Tony McNeight and Scott Wilson.
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2.36 Sue Younger - Days Are Like Grass
Sue Younger swapped a career in documentary-making for the life of a novelist. Her debut, Days are Like Grass, is set in part at Starship Children's Hospital, the workplace of paediatric surgeon Claire Bowerman. Claire's reluctantly returned to New Zealand from London - and she's got secrets that are affecting her relationships with her Israeli partner and her teenage daughter. Lynn Freeman talks to Sue about the often thin line between fact and fiction.
2.48 Artist Judy Millar's bright, bold colours span 30 years
Two canvases by Judy Millar painted around 30 years apart but similar in many ways, are being brought together for the first time. Judy has represented New Zealand at the Venice Bienale and since 2005 has divided her time between Berlin and Auckland. Her canvases tend to be large and abstract, using bright bold colours and strokes. As Lynn Freeman discovered, it was while Judy was working on a group of new paintings that she had a flashback to another abstract work she had painted in 1987. Judy Millar's exhibition Turning the World Inside Out: 30 Years a Painter opens on Wednesday at Auckland's Gow Langsford Gallery.
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3.04 Drama at Three
Episode 6 of Wulfsyarn, and in Kiwi Noir, "Hit and Run".
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An epic futuristic tale of the tragic maiden voyage of the gargantuan strarship, The Nightingale, captained by the enigmatic and fatally flawed, Jon Wilberfoss. (Part 6 of 10, RNZ)
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Classic radio crime drama from the Police files of New Zealand. (RNZ)
===4:06 PM. | None (National)===
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Follow That Tractor
Each month in a flat piece of English Fenland a site the size of 40 football pitches hosts the biggest second hand farm machinery auction in the world. It is both uniquely British and international – buyers from four continents arrive by truck, taxi, or hire car with their tractor shopping lists and hopes. Presenter Susie Emmett meets some of the remarkable people in this extraordinary supply chain that deal and distribute these mighty tools and spare parts from field to field. (BBCWS)
===5:00 PM. | None (National)===
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A roundup of today's news and sport
===5:11 PM. | None (National)===
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Faith on the Ukrainian Fault Line
The schism in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is dividing communities, friends, even families, as they are forced to choose between Kiev or Moscow as their spiritual guide. After Russia's annexation of Crimea and conflict continuing in the east of the country, Ukraine's fraught relationship with Russia continues to cause controversy. In a country where the majority of the population consider themselves Orthodox Christians, Olga Smirnova investigates how Ukrainian's are negotiating the rift in Ukraine's religious landscape. (BBCWS)
===5:40 PM. | Te Manu Korihi===
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A round-up of the Māori news for the week with our Te Manu Korihi team (RNZ)
===6:06 PM. | Te Ahi Kaa===
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Te Ahi Kaa analyses the proverb Tangata ako ana i te whare, turanga ki te marae e tau ana' (A person who is taught well in the home will stand collected on the marae).
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Exploring issues and events from a tangata whenua perspective (RNZ)
===6:40 PM. | Voices===
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Highlighting the activities and experiences of people with different backgrounds (RNZ)
===7:05 PM. | TED Radio Hour===
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A crafted hour of ideas worth sharing presented by Guy Raz (NPR)
===8:06 PM. | Sunday Night===
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8:15pm
Ed Hillary 1953 : Everest
Ed Hillary recalls the Everest Expedition on arrival back in New Zealand in 1953.
9:18pm
David Curtis
From the beginning to now.
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An evening of music and nostalgia (RNZ)
===10:12 PM. | Mediawatch===
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Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in New Zealand's news media (RNZ)
===10:45 PM. | In Parliament===
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An in-depth perspective of legislation and other issues from the house.
===11:04 PM. | None (National)===
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An hour of music that's "shaken, not stirred" every week from the Underground Martini Bunker at Kansas Public Radio.