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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:

18 September 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 Drawl & Twang 2:05 Heart and Soul (RNZ); 2:35 Hymns on Sunday; 3:05 Classical Music by Joy Cowley read by Peta Rutter (12 of 15, 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 (14 of 14, RNZ); 5:45 Historical Highlight

===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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Against the Wind, by Cheri Pinner, told by Sonia Yee; Watercress Tuna and the Children of Champion Street, by Patricia Grace, told by Ole Maiava; The Match, by Judith Holloway, told by William Kircher; Josefa and the Vu, by Tulia Thompson, told by Madeleine Sami; Crocodile's Teeth, by Janet Slater Bottin, told by Anne Budd; The Bridge, by Ruth Corrin, told by Frances Edmond

===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 7:43 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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07:08
David Norman - The Maori Economy
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Economist David Norman joins Wallace to talk about his new report which shows Maori are facing a period of incredible economic growth. With more than $43 billion in assets, Maori are a growing economic force in the workforce, as business owners and as consumers.
Topics: business
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Tags: Maori, economics, David Norman
Duration: 17'00"

07:30
The Week In Parliament for 18 September 2016
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Speaker receives complaint from Labour's Chris Hipkins alleging the Parliamentary Service interfered with his email correspondence with a journalist, saying it blocked an email carrying an attachment which had been classified but had subsequently been cleared for release; Questions and answers between Greens co-leader Metiria Turei and Education Minister Hekia Parata get lost in translation; Ms Parata marks Chinese language week; Justice & Electoral Committee hears submission on a petition 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 - as well as calling for an official apology for those convictions; Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee presented with petition calling for repatriation of the bodies of New Zealand servicemen buried in Malaysia; Health Committee hears submissions on former Labour MP Maryann Street's petition calling for an investigation into public attitudes towards medically-assisted dying; Speaker orders Winston Peters to leave the chamber - twice in two days; Christopher Finlayson gives a preview of the week ahead.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 15'23"

07:47
Local Body Elections -West Coast
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Each week we will visit a region in New Zealand to find out what the big issues are in the upcoming local body elections. This week we speak to Brendon McMahon, from The Greymouth Star.
Topics: politics
Regions: West Coast
Tags: Local Body Elections, West Coast, Hokitika, Greymouth, Westport
Duration: 11'37"

08:12
Insight: A Failure to Care for Veterans with PTSD?
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RNZ defence reporter Kate Pereyra Garcia talks to war veterans about PTSD and what they say is a lack of help to deal with it when they get home.
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This story discusses suicide and could be upsetting to some people. Contact details for support services can be found at the end of this story.
In the 40 years since the end of the Vietnam War ended, the nature and spread of conflict has revolutionised life for service men and women.
The enemy is no longer clear cut, the threats are constant, and geographical borders mean little. The result is a generation of contemporary war veterans whose wounds are often invisible.
International and local research suggests between 12 and 18 percent of all those who serve overseas will suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a mental health condition that's triggered by terrifying events such as those experienced while at war.
It can cause flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety, if left unchecked, it can get worse, and veterans and their advocates are concerned about the lack of support available to them in New Zealand.
When Bill Blaikie was deployed to Afghanistan in 2004, it was the pinnacle of his military career.
Just eight years later, after living through six months in the war-torn nation, he was in an intensive care unit with a 20 percent chance of survival, after a second suicide attempt.
Mr Blaikie credits his survival to the fact his wife came home and found him, and that their next-door neighbour was a firefighter, trained in first aid.
"I was so disassociated with my family, not happy in life or anything like that, that I attempted suicide twice."
He was diagnosed with PTSD in 2006, the year after he left his 17-year army career in both Australia and New Zealand.
Mr Blaikie said, after he was given counselling and prescribed some medication, he figured he was better and should get on with life.
"I was just living day-to-day of depression, anxiety, alcohol and so from morning 'til night it was just that cycle.
"I had some good jobs, I'd turn up to work, you'd do that but then you'd then go back into that depression, anxiety, alcohol straight away, and you never actually recovered, so you just sort of spiralled and spiralled down. After six-odd years it just blew."
Following his suicide attempts in 2012, Mr Blaikie was lucky enough to be in the care of a doctor he had served with in East Timor.
He got immediate counselling, alcohol rehabilitation and a support network was wrapped around him.
He has come a long way since then but his wife, Nancy Blaikie, said her husband's PTSD still ruled their lives.
"My life basically stopped... I've been the middle person between the kids and him and the way he reacts to things.
"Our whole lives have changed. He's not the same person I married 15 years ago and I don't think I'll ever get that back. But it's a new reality. However, I'm at that stage where I just don't think we've exhausted all our avenues."
Having been through the treatment options in New Zealand, Mr Blaikie looked to Australia where group therapy programmes were offered specifically for veterans.
He was turned down by Veterans' Affairs when he applied for funding to attend one such programme, as the government did not fund treatment overseas.
However, thanks to more than $45,000 raised via Givealittle, Mr Blaikie is currently attending a programme in New South Wales.
While he was grateful for the public support he received, especially from the Returned Services Association (RSA), One Dollar Warriors and the Fallen Heroes Trust, he said he was disappointed Veterans' Affairs didn't come to the party.
Treatment options
Veterans' Affairs Minister Craig Foss said New Zealand's health and ACC systems were different to the equivalents in other countries and veterans here could expect the same care as any other New Zealander with PTSD.
Veterans' Affairs, the Defence Force and the Ministry of Health were constantly monitoring international research for new developments, Mr Foss said.
But any treatment offered here must be clinically proven first.
"We wouldn't want our veterans to be guinea pigs," he said.
"There's many many services and different ways of treatment or counselling available in New Zealand already, and, yes, there may be something new and different somewhere else, perhaps it's just being trialled."
Edmond Van Ammers is the director of the PTSD programme at the Geelong Clinic in Victoria, Australia.
There was no practical reason why New Zealand veterans couldn't benefit from attending therapy over there, he said.
"A lot of New Zealanders and Australians have already served together in peacekeeping and overseas settings.
"The important thing of course is to make sure that when the New Zealand veteran comes back to New Zealand that they don't just fall in a hole... that when that person returns to New Zealand that there is a clinical psychologist or a support person who can continue to work with them."
While the results varied between patients, Dr van Ammers said in his experience veterans did benefit from group therapy in the longer term.
However, Massey University senior lecturer Ian de Terte said, without proper research showing group therapy was effective for those with PTSD, he'd be cautious in using it.
The two main treatments that were proven to work with PTSD sufferers were cognitive behavioural therapy and eye movement therapy. Both were available here, he said.
Because PTSD could hit anyone, from any walk of life, he said it was a good idea for veterans seeking treatment to find someone who understood their military background.
RSA support services manager Mark Compain said the association did have concerns about the limitations of treatment in New Zealand.
"We understand that governments have a procurement process and they have a threshold to meet in terms of making sure this is medically sound. If taxpayers' money is going to be used, then there has to be due diligence.
"But this is where organisations like the RSA, and the recently formed No Duff organisation are working in the communities to provide a bit of a bridge - to make sure that, if there are people falling through the gaps, or things aren't working for them, then at least we've got people on the ground connecting with them.
Some work on new treatment options is already under way in New Zealand by non-governmental agencies.
The RSA is running a pilot programme with a PTSD dog in Christchurch, and the Australasian Services Care Network is working on educating primary health care providers and social agencies to raise awareness about the possible mental health issues for veterans.
A data project is also under way by government departments to allow for better collecting and sharing of information.
If you or someone you know is suffering from PTSD, you can get more information on the Mental Health Foundation's website - www.mentalhealth.org.nz - or by calling Healthline on 0800 611 116.
Here are some support options:

Lifeline: 0800 543 354 - available 24/7
Suicide Crisis Helpline: 0508 828 865 (0508 TAUTOKO) - available 24/7
Youthline: 0800 376 633
Samaritans: 0800 726 666 - available 24/7
Kidsline: 0800 543 754 - available 24/7
Whatsup: 0800 942 8787 - 1pm to 10pm weekdays, 3pm to 10pm weekends
Depression Helpline: 0800 111 757 - available 24/7
Rainbow Youth: (09) 376 4155

If it is an emergency and you feel like you or someone else is at risk, call 111.
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Topics: defence force, health
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Tags: mental health, war, Defence, PTSD
Duration: 27'16"

08:40
Jim Flynn's Search for the Best Modern Authors, Part 3
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Jim and Wallace discuss South American writers, including the politics and the passion reflected in the great writing of Gabriel Garcia Marquez - recommending the memorable Love in the Time of Cholera but urging readers to avoid The Autumn of the Patriarch at all costs. This book, written in one paragraph is, Jim says, "really terrible". Jim also reveals his attitude to magic realism: "I'm dead against it when it takes over. When someone disappears in a puff of smoke when they could just have easily been run over by a truck."
Topics: arts, books
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Tags: best books, authors, book list
Duration: 13'59"

09:40
Chris Kraus - loving Dick
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Chris Kraus is the author of I Love Dick which was recently made into a pilot by Amazon. The pilot is directed by Jill Soloway who's responsible for the hit Transparent. Chris Kraus is a graduate of Victoria University and New Zealand features in both I Love Dick - which has been called a feminist classic - and her next novel Aliens and Anorexia.
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Amazon recently released a pilot episode of a proposed new TV series called I Love Dick. It’s one of three pilots released by the media giant, which has asked viewers to decide which series ends up being green lit.
I Love Dick is based on the autobiographical novel by Chris Kraus. The series has been developed by Jill Soloway, the creative force behind amazon’s most celebrated hit, Transparent.
I Love Dick has been described as a feminist classic and a fictional memoir. Its author, Chris Kraus graduated from Wellington’s Victoria University in the ‘70s and New Zealand features both in it and her second novel, Aliens and Anorexia.
But can we claim Chris Kraus as one of our own?
Read an edited excerpt of the interview below:
I Love Dick was first published in 1997 to very little positive response, why do you think it is attracting so much interest and acclaim 20 years later?
It’s a funny thing. The book was republished in 2006. The managing editor made the decision to bring it out again in 2006 and weirdly when it came out at that time it was if it was coming out for the first time and that was the moment when, 2005 or so, was kind of the height of the female blog movement.
Everybody was now online all of the time and all of these brilliant women all over the country and all over the world had started keeping their own Tumblr blogs and writing really substantial and interesting literary and critical work on their blogs.
The book found its way into that world, the blog world of these younger women and they started writing about it. It kind of circulated on Tumblr in that way. Blogs were like the new zines, but in this medium the book gained a whole new life.
Then it started seeping into more mainstream circles. I was shocked in 2010 when someone told me they had seen the book mentioned in the British Airways magazine when they were on a plane ride.
Somehow I think the book ended up feeding into a lot of the discourse about autobiographical fiction and the way that autobiographical fiction is perceived so differently when they’re written by men and written by women.
What message does I Love Dick offer the young women of today?
I think you will probably have to ask the readers themselves what messages the book has. They can take from it what they will. You write a book and it is one thing to the writer. You put it out there and then it’s not really yours to say anymore, it has more to do with the readers.
I think people read things into the book that I didn’t thing that I was writing into the book, but that’s fine. That’s the nature of it.
One thing that I think feels very important and timely to the younger readers of I Love Dick now is the way it tackles the issue of privacy. The issue of privacy resurfaced big time when everybody was online all of the time and posting on social media and keeping blogs. There was such a taboo when I wrote the book against women using materials from their own lives and naming names. Nobody questioned it.
That taboo I think is now felt to be, by most younger women, completely unacceptable. They believe that everyone should own the right to speak to their own experience in their own terms and that always seemed really reasonable to me, so I think the privacy issue had a lot to do with it.
It certainly crossed boundaries. Was it a novel, or was it a memoir? You and other characters appear in I Love Dick under your own names. How much is invented and how much simply reported?
Well, it’s all reported. I used to be a reporter. When I started writing seriously, when I started writing I Love Dick in 1996 (actually it was in New Zealand that I was a reporter) I found that having been a reporter was incredibly useful because I didn’t feel the terror of the blank page. When you’re working on a daily newspaper you just have to write copy very fast. So, yes, it’s reportage, but that is a common literary technique.
I think that once you write something down, it becomes fiction because the writing process itself is so highly selective. I never set out to write the story of me in I Love Dick. It was a story of myself using myself as a case study at a certain place and time, in a moment in cultural history and looking back towards other cultural histories.
So, I was being very investigative, not just about my own situation, but about the culture in general. Writing is highly selective and what you choose to put into the book and leave out of the book and how you structure the book, that’s what makes it a literary enterprise and that’s what makes it fiction.
Topics: author interview
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Tags: Chris Kraus, Jill Soloway, I Love Dick, Transparent
Duration: 17'40"

10:06
Matt Johnson - The The
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Matt Johnson has being playing music since he was 11 years old. Best known for his band, The The, Matt Johnson has, in recent times, shunned the spotlight, concentrating on writing music for films. Matt Johnson joins Wallace to talk about those mad days of the 80s, why he gave up the limelight and what he's been doing in the 30 years since the album 'Infected' was released.
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Matt Johnson has being playing music since he was 11 years old. Best known for his band The The he's shunned the spotlight in recent times to concentrating on writing music for films.
Matt Johnson joins Wallace Chapman to talk about the great, post-punk days of the 80s, UK/USA politics and Brexit, the demise of the old English pub, and what he's been doing in the 30 years since the album 'Infected' was released.
Matt Johnson grew up above the East London pub his family owned. It was an unusual, magical upbringing featuring larger-than-life characters from the worlds of football, gangland and music, such as Jackie Charlton, the Kray Twins, Van Morrison, and The Who. Johnson set up Fifty First State Publishing and released his father Eddie's memoires of those times Tales From The Two Puddings, in 2002 – the same year he put all his instruments into storage and turned his back on the stage, not picking up a guitar again for over seven years.
Matt Johnson enjoys working with people he's close to. He has contributed sound tracks to films and documentaries made by his brother Gerard Johnson and his former partner, the Swedish photographer and filmmaker Johanna St Michaels. He set up the recording label Cinéola to release them, and there's also a Radio Cinéola podcast.
Matt’s brother, artist Andy ‘Dog’ Johnson designed and illustrated many of The The’s album covers, and contributed to the visual aesthetic of influential indie label Some Bizzare Records. Andy died in January 2016.
Topics: arts, music
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Tags: The The, Matt Johnson
Duration: 32'29"

10:47
Chris Clarke - World Summit for Refugees and Migrants
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World Vision NZ CEO Chris Clarke talks to Wallace on the eve of the World Summit for Refugees and Migrants. New Zealand has been one of the most generous and supportive countries towards the Syrian refugees - but are we doing enough? Chris Clarke will talk about why Kiwi's respond so positively to migrants - but why the rest of the global community is failing them.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Tags: World Vision, Syria, refugees, Chris Clarke
Duration: 11'18"

11:05
Nick Allen - Mastering Mountains
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As a child, Nick Allen had a map of Mount Everest pinned to the ceiling above his bed. It was always his dream to one day climb it. But after he developed Multiple Sclerosis shortly after his 21st birthday, it seemed the dream was always to remain just that - a dream. Nick joins Wallace to talk about how he refused to give up on his dream to climb - and how he's managed to overcome his illness and master the art of mountaineering.
Topics: author interview
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Tags: Nick Allen, multiple sclerosis, Climbing and Mountaineering
Duration: 20'51"

11:30
Margaret Bowater - Nightmares
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Margaret Bowater is president of the Dream Network Aotearoa and regional representative on the International Association for the Study of Dreams. And she's the author Healing the Nightmare - Freeing the Soul - A Practical Guide to Dreamwork.
Topics: author interview
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Tags: dreams, nightmares, psychology
Duration: 20'44"

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7:08 David Norman - The Maori Economy
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Economist David Norman joins Wallace to talk about his new report which shows Maori are facing a period of incredible economic growth. With more than $43 billion in assets, Maori are a growing economic force in the workforce, as business owners and as consumers.
7:30 News headlines
7:32 The Week in Parliament
7:47 Local Body Elections - West Coast
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Each week we will visit a region in New Zealand to find out what the big issues are in the upcoming local body elections. This week we speak to Brendon McMahon, from The Greymouth Star.
8:12 Insight: Failing NZ's veterans with PTSD
When deploying troops to train Iraqi forces and rebuild Afghanistan's Bamiyan province, the Government is at pains to point out these are non-combat roles. But there's an undeniable impact on the hundreds of servicemen and women spending months in hostile environments far from home. The nature of conflict has changed, creating a new generation of veterans whose battle scares are invisible but no less significant. Our Defence Reporter Kate Pereyra Garcia looks at how well equipped NZ is to deal with veterans' mental health injuries such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
8:40 The New Torchlight List - Jim Flynn's Search for the Best Modern Authors
Episode 3
For the book, The New Torchlight List - In Search of the Best Modern Authors, Otago University Emeritus Professor of Politics Jim Flynn read and rated 400 books, mostly by modern novelists. In this episode of the RNZ podcast series based on his book, Jim and Wallace discuss South American writers, including the politics and the passion reflected in the great writing of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. They recommend the memorable Love in the Time of Cholera but urging readers to avoid The Autumn of the Patriarch at all costs. This book, written in one paragraph is, Jim says, "really terrible". Jim also reveals his attitude to magic realism: "I'm dead against it when it takes over. When someone disappears in a puff of smoke when they could just have easily been run over by a truck."
9:06 Mediawatch
Mediawatch talks to the Norwegian editor who has named and shamed the founder of Facebook for the way it handles news. Also; the media fallout from Mad Monday, alarming headlines about bananas, and iPhone hype in the news.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:40 Chris Kraus - Loving Dick
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Chris Kraus is the author of I Love Dick which was recently made into a pilot by Amazon. The pilot is directed by Jill Soloway who's responsible for the hit Transparent. Chris Kraus is a graduate of Victoria University and New Zealand features in both I Love Dick - which has been called a feminist classic - and her next novel Aliens and Anorexia.
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10:06 Matt Johnson - The The
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Matt Johnson has being playing music since he was 11 years old. Best known for his band, The The, Matt Johnson has, in recent times, shunned the spotlight, concentrating on writing music for films. Matt Johnson joins Wallace to talk about those mad days of the 80s, why he gave up the limelight and what he's been doing in the 30 years since the album 'Infected' was released.
10:47 Chris Clarke - World Summit for Refugees and Migrants
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World Vision NZ CEO Chris Clarke talks to Wallace on the eve of the World Summit for Refugees and Migrants. New Zealand has been one of the most generous and supportive countries towards the Syrian refugees - but are we doing enough? Chris Clarke will talk about why Kiwi's respond so positively to migrants - but why the rest of the global community is failing them.
11:05 Nick Allen - Mastering Mountains
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As a child, Nick Allen had a map of Mount Everest pinned to the ceiling above his bed. It was always his dream to one day climb it. But after he developed multiple sclerosis shortly after his 21st birthday, it seemed the dream was always to remain just that - a dream. Nick joins Wallace to talk about how he refused to give up on his dream to climb - and how he's managed to overcome his illness and master the art of mountaineering.
11:30 Margaret Bowater - Nightmares
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Margaret Bowater is president of the Dream Network Aotearoa and regional representative on the International Association for the Study of Dreams. And she's the author Healing the Nightmare - Freeing the Soul - A Practical Guide to Dreamwork.

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Artist: John Lennon
Song: Out the Blue
Composer: John Lennon
Album: Mind Games
Label: Apple Records
Broadcast Time: 8;38

Artist: The The
Song: STRAIGHT TO THIS IS THE DAY
Composer: Matt Johnson
Album: Soul Mining
Label: Epic Records
Broadcast Time: 10:55

Artist: The The
Song: SWEET BIRD OF TRUTH
Composer: Matt Johnson
Album: Soul Mining
Label: Epic Records
Broadcast Time: 10:42

Artist: Pink Floyd
Song: Fearless
Composer: David Gilmour and Roger Waters
Album: Meddle
Label: Capital
Broadcast Time: 11:24

Artist: Jamie XX
Song: Loud Places
Composer: Jamie XX
Album: In Colour
Label: Young Turks
Broadcast Time: 11:56

===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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12:13
NZ Literature Survey
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According to a new survey by the New Zealand Book Council into our reading habits, many readers believe homegrown novels are over hyped and too much of a mixed bag to bother with. Generally we prefer Kiwi non-fiction. Crime's the most popular genre, but even then - despite a big and growing number of Kiwi crime writers - they make a tiny proportion of crime sales here. Lynn Freeman brings togetherr authors Tina Clough and Patricia McCormack, and Cambridge bookseller Hamish Clayton to talk about these and other trends. Can anything be done to turn New Zealand readers on to New Zealand-based fiction?
Topics: arts
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Duration: 15'57"

12:13
NZ Literature Survey
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According to a new survey by the New Zealand Book Council into our reading habits, many readers believe homegrown novels are over hyped and too much of a mixed bag to bother with. Generally we prefer Kiwi non-fiction. Crime's the most popular genre, but even then - despite a big and growing number of Kiwi crime writers - they make a tiny proportion of crime sales here. Lynn Freeman brings togetherr authors Tina Clough and Patricia McCormack, and Cambridge bookseller Hamish Wright to talk about these and other trends. Can anything be done to turn New Zealand readers on to New Zealand-based fiction?
Topics: arts
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Duration: 27'19"

12:35
Kiwi Cleverman editor Simon Price
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Over the last 20-plus years, film and television editor Simon Price has worked on projects large and small, from TV series and feature films to short films and documentaries. The Dunedin-based editor will be talking about the role of the editor at next weekend's Big Screen Symposium. His CV includes Tusi Tamasese's movie The Orator and the documentary Antarctica - a year on ice. This year he edited Yamin Tun's award-winning short film Wait, and, at the other extreme he's the lead editor on the ambitious Australian TV series Cleverman, currently on screen over here. Lynn Freeman asks him for some tricks of the trade.
Topics: arts, life and society
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Duration: 10'33"

12:50
Actress Michelle Ang and The Walking Dead
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TV series The Walking Dead is as infectious as it is addictive. The zombie marathon has spun off a sort of prequel - Fear the Walking Dead, starring New Zealand's own Cliff Curtis. And the spin off of the spinoff is a mini-series-stroke-web-series called Flight 462, about a plane that crashes into the sea at the height of the zombie apocalypse. And there's a New Zealand connection to that too - actress Michelle Ang, who was nominated for an Emmy for her performance. Simon Morris talks to Michelle in LA.
Topics: arts, life and society
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Duration: 12'44"

13:30
Rachel Laing, Jennifer Ward-Lealand and Dirty Laundry
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There are no guarantees in the TV drama business, but a new series on TV One has certainly got solid gold credentials. It's co-created by Rachel Laing, who's by far our most successful writer on the big or small screens. And it features one of our biggest stars, Jennifer Ward-Lealand in her first prime-time TV role since the 1980s. Lynn Freeman talks to Rachel and Jennifer about Dirty Laundry - a steamy mixture of family drama, crime, money, secrets and lies.
Topics: arts
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Tags: TV, drama
Duration: 16'26"

13:43
The NZ Secondary Students Choir is looking for new talent
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The New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, and it's on the look out for new talent. Auditions start later this month for the choir. Notable graduates include Jonathan Lemalu, Madeleine Pierard and this year's Lexus Song Quest winner baritone, Benson Wilson. The Secondary Schools choir sang in Canada earlier this year, and just a few weeks ago the current lineup sang together for the last time at the Big Sing in Dunedin. Lynn Freeman talks to Students' Choir musical director Andrew Withington, old boy Benson Wilson and current choir alto Te Ohorere Williams.
Topics: arts
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Tags: New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir
Duration: 18'53"

14:30
Stone jeweller Craig McIntosh
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Craig McIntosh started carving bone when he was 12. Since then, he's made his name working with stone, crafting pendants and broaches. The Dunedin-based stone carver and jewellery maker has just received a new eight thousand dollar cash prize called ``Dame Doreen's Gift'', named after late potter and educator Dame Doreen Blumhardt. Craig's the first artist the Blumhardt Foundation's chosen for an award. Craig's a busy man - making, exhibiting and just completing a masters degree in fine art. But he found time to tell Lynn Freeman why the award's come at the perfect time:
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Tags: Stone Carving
Duration: 10'01"

14:40
Lindsay Dawson's new novel Scarlet and Magneta
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The Bay of Plenty in the 1880s is the setting for former magazine editor Lindsay Dawson's latest novel, Scarlet & Magenta, published by outloudpress. It's Lindsay's ninth book and her most personal, based in part on letters written by her great-grandfather. In the novel, she brings together Anna, frustrated with life in the settler township of Tauranga, and Violet, who's just arrived from London with a ghastly, ambitious husband and a big secret.
Topics: arts, books
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Duration: 12'01"

14:50
"Culturally clueless" in Aotearoa
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If you're looking for exciting new ideas about things that matter - on TV, on film, even on cutting-edge web-series - you're probably looking in the wrong place. Independent theatre is where it's at right now, and it seems to be buzzing. Case in point, a new one-woman show that's about to play at Auckland's Basement, and then Wellington's Bats. It's called Vanilla Miraka, Hayley Sproull's personal story of what she calls her "cultural cluelessness". It's directed by the tireless independent theatre queen Jo Randerson. Lynn Freeman asks Jo and Hayley what they're exploring in the show:
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If you're looking for exciting new ideas about things that matter - on TV, on film, even on cutting-edge web-series - you're probably looking in the wrong place.
Independent theatre is where it's at right now, and it seems to be buzzing.
Case in point, a new one-woman show that's about to play at Auckland's Basement, and then Wellington's Bats. It's called Vanilla Miraka, Hayley Sproull's personal story of what she calls her "cultural cluelessness". It's directed by the tireless independent theatre queen Jo Randerson.
Vanilla Miraka explores Hayley’s attempts to re-connect with her Māori heritage.
“I wasn’t raised in a strong Māori context at all, not that it was discouraged, it’s just that it wasn’t really a strong part of my life and it was only as I got older that I got more curious about it.
“It’s only because I left it so late to investigate this side of me, that’s where this feeling of, ‘I’m not allowed to know or I’m not allowed into that world.’”
The show was created with the intention to provoke conversation. With theatre, that conversation can happen instantly, right in the same room.
“It feels more like a conversation when I am actually looking at my audience and asking them these conversations and sharing my point of view with them.”
While Vanilla Miraka is specific to Hayley’s experience as a Māori woman, a preview season brought up some interesting points from audience members.
“The conversation wasn’t exclusive to those with a Māori heritage, or a mixed Māori heritage, we had people from Germany who came up and said I feel similar in the way that I connect with my heritage, which I think is quite common these days. It is a disconnect from where you come from and where your family comes from.”
It was that feeling of disconnect that inspired Hayley to create a theatrical work about it, and connecting with her Māori heritage has become a larger investigation in her life, she says.
“It’s that feeling of, I’ve walked one path for so long, but I don’t want to choose between which one I walk. I want to stumble around both of them.”
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12:16 NZ Literature Survey
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According to a new survey by the New Zealand Book Council into our reading habits, many readers believe homegrown novels are over hyped and too much of a mixed bag to bother with. Generally we prefer Kiwi non-fiction. Crime's the most popular genre, but even then - despite a big and growing number of Kiwi crime writers - they make a tiny proportion of crime sales here. Lynn Freeman brings togetherr authors Tina Clough and Patricia McCormack, and Cambridge bookseller Hamish Wright to talk about these and other trends. Can anything be done to turn New Zealand readers on to New Zealand-based fiction?
12.35 Kiwi Cleverman editor Simon Price
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Over the last 20-plus years, film and television editor Simon Price has worked on projects large and small, from TV series and feature films to short films and documentaries. The Dunedin-based editor will be talking about the role of the editor at next weekend's Big Screen Symposium. His CV includes Tusi Tamasese's movie The Orator and the documentary Antarctica - a year on ice. This year he edited Yamin Tun's award-winning short film Wait, and, at the other extreme he's the lead editor on the ambitious Australian TV series Cleverman, currently on screen over here. Lynn Freeman asks him for some tricks of the trade.
12:50 Actress Michelle Ang and The Walking Dead
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TV series The Walking Dead is as infectious as it is addictive. The zombie marathon has spun off a sort of prequel - Fear the Walking Dead, starring New Zealand's own Cliff Curtis. And the spin off of the spinoff is a mini-series-stroke-web-series called Flight 462, about a plane that crashes into the sea at the height of the zombie apocalypse. And there's a New Zealand connection to that too - actress Michelle Ang, who was nominated for an Emmy for her performance. Simon Morris talks to Michelle in LA.
1:10 At The Movies
This week Sully, Sausage Party and Blood Father
1:33 Rachel Laing, Jennifer Ward-Lealand and Dirty Laundry
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There are no guarantees in the TV drama business, but a new series on TV One has certainly got solid gold credentials. It's co-created by Rachel Laing, who's by far our most successful writer on the big or small screens. And it features one of our biggest stars, Jennifer Ward-Lealand in her first prime-time TV role since the 1980s. Lynn Freeman talks to Rachel and Jennifer about Dirty Laundry - a steamy mixture of family drama, crime, money, secrets and lies.
1:49 The NZ Secondary Students Choir is looking for new talent
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The New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, and it's on the look out for new talent. Auditions start later this month for the choir. Notable graduates include Jonathan Lemalu, Madeleine Pierard and this year's Lexus Song Quest winner baritone, Benson Wilson. The Secondary Schools choir sang in Canada earlier this year, and just a few weeks ago the current lineup sang together for the last time at the Big Sing in Dunedin. Lynn Freeman talks to Students' Choir musical director Andrew Withington, old boy Benson Wilson and current choir alto Te Ohorere Williams.
2:06 The Laugh Track - NZ Comedy Trust CEO Geoff Turkington
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Geoff's picks include Dean Martin, Foster Brooks, Angela Barnes, Urzila Carlson and Donald Trump (again!)
2:25 Stone jeweller Craig McIntosh
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Craig McIntosh started carving bone when he was 12. Since then, he's made his name working with stone, crafting pendants and broaches. The Dunedin-based stone carver and jewellery maker has just received a new eight thousand dollar cash prize called ``Dame Doreen's Gift'', named after late potter and educator Dame Doreen Blumhardt. Craig's the first artist the Blumhardt Foundation's chosen for an award. Craig's a busy man - making, exhibiting and just completing a masters degree in fine art. But he found time to tell Lynn Freeman why the award's come at the perfect time:
2:36 Lindsay Dawson's new novel Scarlet and Magneta
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The Bay of Plenty in the 1880s is the setting for former magazine editor Lindsay Dawson's latest novel, Scarlet & Magenta, published by outloudpress. It's Lindsay's ninth book and her most personal, based in part on letters written by her great-grandfather. In the novel, she brings together Anna, frustrated with life in the settler township of Tauranga, and Violet, who's just arrived from London with a ghastly, ambitious husband and a big secret.
2:49 "Culturally clueless" in Aotearoa
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If you're looking for exciting new ideas about things that matter - on TV, on film, even on cutting-edge web-series - you're probably looking in the wrong place. Independent theatre is where it's at right now, and it seems to be buzzing. Case in point, a new one-woman show that's about to play at Auckland's Basement, and then Wellington's Bats. It's called Vanilla Miraka, Hayley Sproull's personal story of what she calls her "cultural cluelessness". It's directed by the tireless independent theatre queen Jo Randerson. Lynn Freeman asks Jo and Hayley what they're exploring in the show:
3:06 Drama at 3
The penultimate episodes of Wulfsyarn and Kiwi Noir

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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 9 of 10, RNZ)

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Classic radio crime drama from the Police files of New Zealand. (RNZ)

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Integrating the networks in our cities can bring financial and social benefits and develop a smarter city. We know that connectivity and mobility facilitates innovation and creativity but what makes a really buzzy city, both economically and culturally? (1 of 3, RNZ)

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A roundup of today's news and sport

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Imams in the Vatican
Some of the brightest and best students of Islam in Britain round off their education at the Cambridge Muslim College, which aims to train the next generation of British Muslim leaders. Towards the end of their course, the students (some of them trainee imams) step out of their Islamic comfort zone to experience something which is quite new to most; they immerse themselves in the faith and culture of the world’s largest Christian church during a trip to Rome and the Vatican. Abdul-Rehman Malik travels with the group as they visit some of the Catholic world’s most important sites and meet ordinary and not-so-ordinary Catholics. How will they respond to attending mass for the first time, and to the majesty and vastness of St Peter’s Basilica? What will they make of their meeting with a lively and enthusiastic cloistered nun, or the infectious passion for astronomy displayed by the director of the Vatican Observatory, Br Guy Consolmagno? And, will all that pale into insignificance on the last day, when they come face to face with Pope Francis? (BBC)

===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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Melanie Nelson and Alex Hotere-Barnes have had different pathways in learning te reo Māori, for Melanie it began in high school at Motueka and for Alex it began when his father enrolled him and his twin brother into Kohanga Reo. As adults both have remained committed to their own personal development of language fluency and any kaupapa associated with te reo Māori. Melanie and Alex have met some challenges and discouragement along the way, they share their story with Jerome Cvitanovich.
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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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9:20pm
Gareth Curtis
From co-founding the Mockers to song writing.
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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.

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An hour of music that's "shaken, not stirred" every week from the Underground Martini Bunker at Kansas Public Radio.