Side 1 - Ep. 36 - White collar crime. 1975-10-05.
Insight '75 [The programme begins with Pink Floyd’s song "Money".]
Cindy Beavis talks with Detective Inspector Sturt(?) of the Auckland CIB and Rob Moody, senior lecturer in law at Victoria University. Sturt talks about increase of white collar crime. while Detective Inspector Kilvington, also of the Auckland CIB, and Malcolm McCaw, a Wellington chartered accountant, explain the different forms of fraud and the various ways evidence of fraud can be hidden by employers, like misleading investors about the values of their assets and the company. Moody says detectives needs to be specialists in equity and company law and that there is too little focus on preventing white collar crime. Ernie Gould, official asenee with Commercial Affairs division of Justice Department, says organisations don’t need absolute surveillance but do need to be able to receive complaints and act on them. He talks about the mounting cost of investigating fraud and says the responsibility should be on companies to disprove their guilt rather than spending money on proving it. McCaw talks about accountability that the New Zealand Society of Accountants provides for its members and auditors, which allows them to investigate any complaint via a judicial body. Sturt talks about the reasons why people commit fraud and why some fraud isn’t reported to police. Neil Cameron talks about controlling areas where there is abuse of the by means of informal regulations. Don Trow, professor of accountancy at Victoria University, and McCaw talk about the role and responsibilities of auditors. DI Kelvington talks about the fraud associated with computer crime.
Side 2 - Ep. 38 - Death, the inevitable exit. 1975-10-19.
Insight – 75 Charles Griffin who was resuscitated after a heart attack recounts his near-death experience and Jean Haley vividly describes her near-drowning.
Archdeacon Pearson and Dr Fitchett describes the effects of approaching death on people he has met; Dr Peter Anyon talks about patients who had premonitions of their death. Spiritualist medium Mrs Swabey [?] talks about her experiences being contacted by those who have passed away and their fear of death.
Anthropologist Bernie Kernot talks about beliefs about death in Māori and European cultures and in our increasingly secular society. He says that religion provides a belief system and rituals as means to cope with death, but people are moving away in no clearly defined direction, but still use funeral parlours to provide a church atmosphere. The European incoherent set of beliefs about death contrasts with Maori’s, well defined attitude, rituals to cope with death which is a complementary opposites to life. For Māori, the dead become ancestors and part of a living community.
Sister Adams of Hutt Hospital talks about how society often hides death away because they are embarrassed to talk about it. Sister [Valerie] Norton of Christchurch Public Hospital talks about the fear and embarrassment that some families experience. Father Noel Consedine, chaplain at Christchurch Hospital, comments on the reactions of people with terminal illness.
Dr Fitchett and Dr Peter Anyon speak about how a doctor's own beliefs about death can rub off onto their patients and the training doctors receive about this inevitable fact of life.
Father Consedine believes it is hard to be honest with a dying person and knowing that a person is dying changes the way we interact with them. Sister Norton says nurses are taught not to be emotionally involved but believes talking about feelings towards death helps people to be more open to it.
Ross Clark, who is terminally ill, talks about the emotional drain hospital staff deal with.
Some hospitals deal with death better than others and home is far more noisier and busier and more regulated schedule than at home, according to Dr Fitchett.
Discussion about how to tell a patient their illness is terminal and how they and their family react and the support that family can give.
John Thompson, senior English lecturer at Victoria University, talks about how authors write about death: Katherine Mansfield, Maurice Gee, Janet Frame.