A 24-hour recording of Radio New Zealand National. The following rundown is sourced from the broadcaster’s website. Note some overseas/copyright restricted items may not appear in the supplied rundown:
29 September 2015
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Spectrum (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (RNZ); 2:05 Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy - For the Record: In the early 20th century there was a recording war - a war of recording studios. There was Thomas Edison on one side. Then there was everybody else. Edison insisted that the higher speed of the recording produced better quality. He was right, but that didn't make him successful (7 of 13, PRX) 3:05 The Madonna in the Suitcase, written and read by Huberta Hellendoorn (2 of 5, RNZ); 3:30 An Author's View (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)
===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
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Radio New Zealand's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including: 6:18 Pacific News 6:22 Rural News 6:27 and 8:45 Te Manu Korihi News 6:44 and 7:41 NZ Newspapers 6:47 Business News 7:42 and 8:34 Sports News 6:46 and 7:34 Traffic
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06:00
Top Stories for Tuesday 29 September 2015
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NASA finds evidence of flowing water on Mars and says colonisation of the red planet is a possibility. The seas around the Kermadec Islands are set to become a huge marine reserve and an Australian Senator justifies his country's hard-line on deporting New Zealanders.
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Duration: 32'28"
06:05
Sports News for 29 September 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'09"
06:10
Liquid water on Mars
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Nasa says liquid water is almost certainly present on Mars.
Topics: science
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Tags: Mars, NASA, life on Mars
Duration: 2'48"
06:13
Russia spearheads Syria response at UN
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The United Nations General Assembly has kicked off in New York.
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Tags: UN, Syria, United Nations General Assembly
Duration: 4'57"
06:19
Pacific News for 29 September 2015
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The latest from the Pacific region.
Topics: Pacific
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Duration: 2'05"
06:21
Morning Rural News for 29 September 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'02"
06:25
Te Manu Korihi News for 29 September 2015
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Heretaunga-Tamatea will offer its people governance and financial management training, as it anticipates its 100 million-dollar Treaty payout; The Māori Women's Welfare League says a priority is increasing the political relevance of the once-influential organisation; Waitangi has become the first wahi tupuna to be included on the New Zealand Heritage List; Many kohanga reo in Whanganui have opened their doors to other learning nests who have been unable to reach their own buildings along the river road.
Topics: te ao Māori
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Duration: 3'39"
06:38
UN official visit to Australia cancelled
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A leading Australian human rights lawyer says the Australian government is thumbing its nose at its international obligations with the postponement of a visit by the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights of Migrants.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Tags: Australia, UN Special Rapporteur, human rights
Duration: 3'35"
06:44
Filipino dairy workers paid $15,000 to come to New Zealand
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Hundreds of Filipino workers on dairy farms here are being investigated after they for using fraudulent documentation to get visas to work on New Zealand dairy farms.
Topics: farming, rural, refugees and migrants
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Tags: Filipino workers, dairy farms
Duration: 2'37"
06:49
RBNZ board gives confidence vote to Wheeler
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The board of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand has given the governor Graeme Wheeler a vote of confidence in the way he has conducted monetary policy over the past year.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: RBNZ, Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Duration: 1'44"
06:50
Criticism of RBNZ policy
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At least one economist thinks the RBNZ made a mis-step when it raised rates and then a year later started reversing the policy.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: RBNZ, Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Duration: 2'09"
06:52
Australia's Vocus to takeover NZ telco owner
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New Zealand's largest telecommunications companies can expect to see increased competition as the Australian telecoms company Vocus Communications plans a 1.9 billion-Australian-dollar takeover of rival M2, which has significant New Zealand operations.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: M2, Vocus Communications, telecommunications
Duration: 2'00"
06:54
ERoad lowers earnings forecasts as US costs rise, sales slow
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The transport software company, ERoad, says it's accelerating its United States expansion plans, which have resulted in higher costs and lower than expected sales in Oregon - at least in the short-term.
Topics: business
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Tags: Eroad, USA
Duration: 1'48"
06:56
Comvita says SeaDragon to help it develop new fish oil products
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The honey and natural foods company, Comvita, says its investment in SeaDragon will help it develop a new commercial line of refined fish oil-based products.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Comvita, SeaDragon
Duration: 2'06"
06:58
Morning markets for 29 September 2015
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Wall Street's down about 2 percent as investors keep a wary eye on China's economy and any impact that might have on when interest rates rise in the United States.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 54"
07:06
Sports News for 29 September 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'00"
07:11
Liquid water observed on Mars
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Nasa scientist have just confirmed the presence of liquid water on Mars raising the prospect that traces of life will be found in what was previously thought to be an arid inhospitable environment.
Topics: science
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Tags: Mars, NASA, life on Mars
Duration: 7'07"
07:18
New ocean sanctuary created around the Kermadec islands
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A huge ocean sanctuary covering more than 6-hundred thousand square kilometres is to be created around the Kermadec islands north east of New Zealand.
Topics: environment
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Tags: Kermadec Islands, ocean sanctuary
Duration: 5'07"
07:23
Australian MP supports deportation of New Zealand criminals
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An Australian senator is defending his country's hard-line immigration stance on deporting convicted criminals.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Tags: Australia, deportation
Duration: 6'07"
07:28
World leaders at the UN trade blows
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World leaders speaking at the opening session of UN General Assembly have traded criticism over the handling of the conflict in Syria and the fight against Islamic state.
Topics: aid and development
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Tags: Syria, UN, UN General Assembly, United Nations, Islamic State
Duration: 4'46"
07:38
Hundreds of Filipino dairy workers under scrutiny
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Hundreds of Filipino workers on dairy farms here are under scrutiny after authorities in the Philippines revealed dozens have come on visas they got using false documents.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Tags: Filipino workers, dairy farms
Duration: 2'54"
07:40
Labour says govt needs answers from Australia over visas
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The Labour Party says the government must demand an explanation from Australia about the treatment of New Zealand citizens who are being locked up and kicked out of Australia.
Topics: crime, refugees and migrants, politics
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Tags: Australia, deportations, Australian detention centres
Duration: 5'52"
07:46
NZF high performance director resigns
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New Zealand Football's High Performance Director, Fred de Jong, has resigned from his role.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Fred De Jong, football
Duration: 3'28"
07:51
Skoda, Audi caught up in VW emissions scandal
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The VW emissions cheating scandal has spread to the company's Audi and Skoda brands.
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Tags: VW, Audi, Skoda, emissions cheating scandal, emissions
Duration: 3'57"
07:55
Tourism NZ to use Chinese TV star
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Tourism New Zealand is hoping to use the celebrity status of a Chinese reality TV star to get road safety messages across to tourists.
Topics: transport
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Tags: Tourism New Zealand, road safety, China
Duration: 3'04"
08:06
Sports News for 29 September 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 1'59"
08:10
Director at the Pew Charitable Trusts Bronwen Golder
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As we have been reporting this morning a huge new ocean sanctuary is to be created around the Kermadec Islands northeast of New Zealand.
Topics: environment
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Tags: Kermadec Islands, ocean sanctuary
Duration: 4'51"
08:14
Leaked report shows city landfill releasing nasty chemicals
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A report leaked to Radio New Zealand shows a landfill near Porirua City is releasing high levels of a potentially lethal chemical.
Topics: environment, health
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: tip, Porirua
Duration: 3'04"
08:20
Tiny Queenstown house most expensive per metre in NZ
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New Zealand's most expensive house per square metre is on the market in Queenstown - and it only has one bedroom.
Topics: housing
Regions: Otago
Tags: expensive house
Duration: 3'26"
08:23
Australia undermining human rights by deporting criminals
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An Australian human rights organisation says Australia is damaging its reputation by deporting convicted criminals back to their home countries they have no connection to.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Tags: Australia, deportation
Duration: 6'32"
08:29
Markets Update for 29 September 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 47"
08:36
UAVNZ doubtful a drone could've caused close call in CHCH
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The national body for unmanned aerial vehicles in New Zealand is doubtful a drone was involved in a close call in the skies above Christchurch.
Topics: transport
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: drones, UAV New Zealand
Duration: 2'44"
08:38
Tourism NZ to use Chinese TV star
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As we reported earlier, Tourism New Zealand is to use a Chinese reality TV star to get road safety messages across to tourists.
Topics: media, internet
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Tags: television, Tourism New Zealand, China
Duration: 3'17"
08:42
Company linked ot Luigi Wewege win court case against FMA
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A company of which the controversial businessman Luigi Wewege is a director has won a battle against the Financial Markets Authority.
Topics: business
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Tags: Luigi Wewege, Financial Markets Authority, Vivier
Duration: 3'51"
08:47
Te Manu Korihi News for 29 September 2015
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The Waitangi National Trust says the addition of Waitangi to the New Zealand Heritage List could bring big benefits for tourism in Northland; Heretaunga-Tamatea will offer its people governance and financial management training, as it anticipates its 100 million-dollar Treaty payout; The Māori Women's Welfare League says a priority is increasing the political relevance of the once-influential organisation; Many kohanga reo in Whanganui have opened their doors to other kohanga who have been unable to reach their own buildings along the river road.
Topics: te ao Māori
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Duration: 3'33"
08:50
Indonesia no longer has 'beef' with NZ
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Indonesia is re-opening its doors to New Zealand beef after imposing tough restrictions over the past four years.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: beef, NZ beef, Indonesia, trade
Duration: 2'56"
08:54
Greenpeace's campaign against Shell Arctic drilling
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Royal Dutch Shell has stopped Arctic oil and gas exploration off the coast of Alaska after disappointing results from a key well in the Chukchi Sea.
Topics: politics, environment
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Tags: Greenpeace, Shell Oil, oil, gas, oil and gas exploration
Duration: 3'49"
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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: Speed of Light, by Joy Cowley, read by Simon Leary (2 of 10, RNZ)
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09:07
Detention of NZer's in camps could run into the thousands
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The New Zealand citizens who are being locked up in detention centres then kicked out of Australia could eventually run into the thousands according to the Australian Lawyers Alliance. Greg Barns is Australian political commentator; former government policy adviser and President of the Australian Lawyers Alliance.
Topics: politics, refugees and migrants
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Tags: Australia, Australian detention centres, deportation
Duration: 14'55"
09:26
Trans Tasman Travel Arrangement is not a binding treaty
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The Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement (TTTA) provides that Australians and New Zealanders can travel to and live and work in one another's country without restriction. However it is not part of any binding bilateral treaty between New Zealand and Australia. Andrew Smith of Victoria University's School of Accounting and Commercial Law has looked at the TTTA and the impact of Australia changed the rules for New Zealanders living in Australia.
Topics: law, politics, refugees and migrants
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Tags: travel, Australia, Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement, TTTA
Duration: 7'53"
09:36
Will Google and Facebook soon control news distribution?
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The director of the Nieman Journalism lab at Harvard University, Joshua Benton says local news is under threat, as global giants like Facebook, Apple and Google begin to dominate news platforms, and control distribution.
Topics: technology, media, internet
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Tags: Google, Facebook, Apple
Duration: 13'02"
09:51
US correspondent, Steve Almond
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US politics - a looming potential government shutdown?
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Tags: USA
Duration: 8'19"
10:08
Carin Bondar: The nature of sex
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Dr. Carin Bondar is a Canadian biologist, writer, presenter and a science geek. Her research involves how human sex compares to that of beasts in the natural world. Carin Bondar is a biologist with a PhD in population ecology from the University of British Columbia. Her independent web series 'Wild Sex' has been viewed 27 million times and and she is the author of The Nature of Sex, the ins and outs of mating in the animal kingdom. BOOK - The nature of sex by Dr Carin Bondar, published by Hachette NZ
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Dr. Carin Bondar is a Canadian biologist, writer, presenter and science geek with a PhD in population ecology from the University of British Columbia.
Her research involves how human sex compares to that of beasts in the natural world. Her independent web series Wild Sex has been viewed 27 million times and and she is the author of The Nature of Sex, the ins and outs of mating in the animal kingdom. She talks with Kathryn Ryan.
Topics: science
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Tags: Dr Carin Bondar, the nature of sex, natural world, animal kingdom, mating
Duration: 28'44"
10:39
Book Review: Noonday by Pat Barker
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Reviewed by Ralph McAllister, published by Hamish Hamilton.
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Duration: 4'54"
11:06
Business commentator Rod Oram
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Dissects Fonterra's better than expected financial results and the immanent arrival of world's second largest clothing retailer, H&M, in New Zealand.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Fonterra, Rod Oram
Duration: 17'14"
11:26
Effective Altruism, Doing Good Better
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William MacAskill, as a Research Fellow at Cambridge University spent five years developing the philosophy of effective altruism, which applies data and scientific reasoning to the normally sentimental world of doing good. During the course of his research he concluded that many ways of making a difference achieve little, but by targeting our efforts on the most effective causes, we each have an enormous power to make the world a better place. In his book, Doing Good Better he introduces the principles underlying effective altruism and sets out a practical guide to increasing your impact through your charity, volunteering, purchases and choice of cause.
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As a Research Fellow at Cambridge University, William MacAskill spent five years developing the philosophy of effective altruism, which applies data and scientific reasoning to the normally sentimental world of doing good. During the course of his research he concluded that many ways of making a difference achieve little, but by targeting our efforts on the most effective causes, we each have an enormous power to make the world a better place.
In his book Doing Good Better he introduces the principles underlying effective altruism and sets out a practical guide to increasing your impact through your charity, volunteering, purchases and choice of cause.
Topics: author interview
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Tags: William MacAskill, Doing Good Better, effective altruism, charity, volunteering
Duration: 16'49"
11:44
Media commentator, Gavin Ellis
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Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and former editor of the New Zealand Herald. He can be contacted on gavin.ellis@xtra.co.nz
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Duration: 14'56"
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09:05 Detention of New Zealander's in Australian camps could run into the thousands
The New Zealand citizens who are being locked up in detention centres then kicked out of Australia could eventually run into the thousands according to the Australian Lawyers Alliance. Greg Barns is Australian political commentator; former government policy adviser and President of the Australian Lawyers Alliance.
09:25 Why the Trans Tasman Travel Arrangement is not a binding treaty
The Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement (TTTA) provides that Australians and New Zealanders can travel to and live and work in one another's country without restriction. However it is not part of any binding bilateral treaty between New Zealand and Australia.
Andrew Smith of Victoria University's School of Accounting and Commercial Law has looked at the TTTA and the impact of Australia's 2001 rule change affecting New Zealanders living in Australia.
09:30 Will internet giants like Google and Facebook soon control news distribution?
The director of the Nieman Journalism lab at Harvard University, Joshua Benton says local news is under threat, as global giants like Facebook, Apple and Google begin to dominate news platforms, and control distribution.
09:45 US correspondent, Steve Almond
10:05 Carin Bondar: The nature of sex
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Dr. Carin Bondar is a Canadian biologist, writer, presenter and a science geek. Her research involves how human sex compares to that of beasts in the natural world. Carin Bondar is a biologist with a PhD in population ecology from the University of British Columbia. Her independent web series 'Wild Sex' has been viewed 27 million times and and she is the author of The Nature of Sex, the ins and outs of mating in the animal kingdom.
BOOK - The nature of sex by Dr Carin Bondar, published by Hachette NZ
10:30 Book Review: Noonday by Pat Barker
Reviewed by Ralph McAllister, published by Hamish Hamilton
10:45 The Reading: Speed Of Light by Joy Cowley read by Simon Leary (Part 2 of 10)
11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram
11:30 Effective Altruism, Doing Good Better
William MacAskill, as a Research Fellow at Cambridge University spent five years developing the philosophy of effective altruism, which applies data and scientific reasoning to the normally sentimental world of doing good. During the course of his research he concluded that many ways of making a difference achieve little, but by targeting our efforts on the most effective causes, we each have an enormous power to make the world a better place. In his book, Doing Good Better he introduces the principles underlying effective altruism and sets out a practical guide to increasing your impact through your charity, volunteering, purchases and choice of cause.
11:45 Media commentator, Gavin Ellis
Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and former editor of the New Zealand Herald. He can be contacted on gavin.ellis@xtra.co.nz
===Noon | Midday Report===
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Radio New Zealand 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 29 September 2015
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Almost one in 10 people now being held in Australian detention centres is a New Zealand citizen and extra funding is on the way to address Auckland's emergency housing shortage.
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Duration: 13'43"
12:17
Kathmandu's FY profit down 53 percent
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Outdoor clothing and equipment retailer Kathmandu Holdings' has reported a full year net profit of 20-point-4 million dollars, half the previous year, a result the new chief executive says is disappointing and below expectations.
Topics: business
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Tags: Kathmandu Holdings
Duration: 1'44"
12:19
F & P Finance sale said to be close: negotiations continue
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The sale of one of New Zealand's largest consumer finance companies is down to the final stages of negotiations, according to sources.
Topics: business
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Tags: Fisher & Paykel Finance
Duration: 1'06"
12:19
50-50 bet about another OCR cut
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The Reserve Bank has its next look at interest rates at the end of October, and on current thinking it's a 50-50 bet whether they will cut the official cash rate by another quarter percentage point to counter a slowing economy.
Topics: business
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Tags: Reserve Bank NZ
Duration: 1'28"
12:21
Midday Markets for 29 September 2015
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Don Lewthwaite at First NZ Capital
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'44"
12:24
Business briefs
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It appears it could be more affordable to own a house. A report by Massey University says that's due to falling mortgage rates and property prices staying relatively stable.
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Duration: 1'12"
12:25
Midday Sports News for 29 September 2015
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The All Blacks flanker, Sam Cane, says he's pleased for his former-Chiefs team-mate Gareth Anscombe who has been drafted into the wales World Cup squad.
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Duration: 2'58"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 29 September 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 7'37"
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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
First Song - Bramble Rose
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Don Henley feat Mick Jagger with Tift Merrit's song Bramble Rose.
Topics: music
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Duration: 5'56"
13:16
Police Remembrance Day - Rowan Carroll
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This morning, the annual Police Remembrance Day service was held at the Royal New Zealand Police College in Porirua. It's a commemoration of the thirty eight employees who died, as a result of their duties since the New Zealand Police was established 1886. And a recognision of the twenty nine officers killed on duty as a result of a criminal act. Rowan Carroll is the director of the New Zealand Police Museum and she's been at the commemoration events.
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Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Police Remembrance Day
Duration: 6'37"
13:20
Police Remembrance Day - Rowan Carroll
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This morning, the annual Police Remembrance Day service was held at the Royal New Zealand Police College in Porirua. It's a commemoration of the thirty eight employees who died as a result of their duties since the New Zealand Police was established 1886. And a recognition of the twenty nine officers killed on duty as a result of a criminal act. Rowan Carroll is the director of the New Zealand Police Museum and she's been at the commemoration events.
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Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Police Remembrance Day
Duration: 3'58"
13:22
Mars Water - Haritina Mogosanu
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Nasa scientists have confirmed the presence of liquid water on Mars. They say it's not the dry, arid planet that they thought in the past, and it's excited some of our scientists here.
Topics: science, technology
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Tags: NASA, life on Mars, water on Mars, Mars, astrobiology
Duration: 8'37"
13:30
Distinguished Professor Paul Moughan
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Dairy prices were a 'hot topic' at the World Dairy Summit last week, and with on-going market instability in China, New Zealand's dairy industry is struggling. Prices rebounded in the past three Global Dairy Trade auctions, but farming leaders say there's still a long way to go, after record low prices last month. And as new competitors, global food demand and world population grow, how we produce food and maintain competitve in the world market is key. Distinguished Professor Paul Moughan is from Massey University and is the director of the Riddet Institute. He's giving a series of talks in Auckland and Wellington next month, to discuss how and what New Zealand could do to protect its future.
Topics: economy, business, food
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Tags: Global Dairy Trade, dairy prices, dairy industry
Duration: 11'16"
13:45
Favourite Album - You Win Again
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Van Morrison and Linda Gail Lewis - You Win Again. Chosen by Roger Brookes.
Topics: music
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Tags: Van Morrison, Linda Gail Lewis
Duration: 17'11"
14:08
Seed Banks - Colin Khoury
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The world's food sources are under pressure, from climate change, population growth and an over-reliance on a few key crops - rice, maize and wheat. If one of these crops were to fail we'd be in trouble, but there is an insurance policy - thousands of wild ancestor seeds, kept under lock and key, to call upon when we need to find genetic resistance to a new disease or pest. Colin Khoury is from the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture in Colombia and he joins us from Colorado.
Topics: science, climate, environment
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Tags: ancestor seeds, seed banks, food sources
Duration: 11'25"
14:20
Great NZ Concert - Bob Dylan
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Our Great New Zealand Concert series remembers Bob Dylan's 1978 gig at Western Springs.
Topics: music
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Tags: Bob Dylan
Duration: 39'49"
15:10
Lois Pryce - A life of adventure
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Some people dream of chucking in their jobs and hitting the open road in search of adventure. Lois Pryce did it. She gave up her job at the BBC in London, got on her Yamaha XT225 Serow trail bike and rode from Alaska to Argentina and has never looked back. Recently she did a solo trip around Iran on a motorcycle. She's now known as Lois on the Loose and writes about her travels and adventure tourism.
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Fear of the unknown is the biggest enemy of adventure according to Lois Pryce, who has twice ridden a motorbike across Iran by herself.
She’s also made solo trips from Alaska to the southernmost town in the world, at the tip of Argentina and a 10,000 km journey across the Sahara through Africa.
Pryce says her travels have taught her that everything works out in the end. “It made me realise that a lot of the fear we about entering the unknown or leaving our comfort zones or going to these places that sound scary places like Iran or Colombia or El Salvador, when you get there it’s just people.”
Pryce has written books about her travels and started the Adventure Travel Film Festival.
It all started in 2003 when she gave up her job in the music department of the BBC. “It could have been the best job in the world but I just wanted to get out. I can’t blame the BBC it was just that I would stare out the window and wish I was somewhere else.”
When she set off on her first adventure, she left the GPS and gadgets at home. “If you have a GPS you look at the screen in front of you and know where you are meant to be all the time,” Pryce says. “Some of the most fun experiences happen when you get lost and you have to ask people for directions”.
The start of her first solo motorbike journey from Alaska to Argentina did not go smoothly. Mounties in Canada stopped her and discovered she had no insurance and impounded her bike. “Two weeks into my grand adventure and I’m standing there paying a large amount of money to get my bike back.”
In Mexico, Pryce discovered the value of having a fake wedding ring as a woman travelling alone when she came across a protest that blocked the road. “I said my husband was waiting for me on the other side and we were on our honeymoon” Pryce says. “They got teary eyed and said ‘go on let her through.”
Despite the confidence from talking her way around roadblocks in Mexico and adventures in Africa, Pryce says she was nervous about making a solo motorbike trip across Iran. Once she got there, that all melted away.
“I realised the government and the people are two completely separate entities. There were so excited to see me and so welcoming. You can’t move for people offering you tea and food and places to stay.”
At one point, a truck tried to run her off the road.
“The drivers jumped out of the truck and I could see they were carrying bags of fruit. They were chasing me for miles to give me fruit.”
Pryce says traveling alone on a motorbike will yield many lessons. Among them, vulnerability makes you stronger. “We are conditioned to feel that people are out to get us and that’s just not the case at all”.
Listen to Lois Pryce talk to Jesse Mulligan about her adventures.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: travel, tourism, adventure
Duration: 25'28"
15:45
The Panel pre-show for 29 September 2015
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 14'53"
21:10
Planning for a pandemic
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The Great Barrier Island community discusses the frightening prospect that they could be the sole survivors after a global flu pandemic.
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Recently the community on Great Barrier Island came together to discuss a frightening prospect – what would happen if a pandemic wiped out the world’s population and left the inhabitants of the island as the sole survivors?
This question was posed in a panel discussion called No Barriers – Small Island, Big Ideas – Exploring Pandemics, hosted by the Great Barrier Island Branch of Awana Rural Women. The scenario was simple but chilling; a novel Type A influenza virus, called Mortenza, develops in a small village on the other side of the world and quickly spreads across the globe, killing everyone it infects. Soon, the 900 people on the island are the only ones left alive.
On the panel was Lance Jennings, a clinical virologist at Canterbury District Health Board and the director of New Zealand’s National Measles Laboratory for the World Health Organisation: WHO. He says that a pandemic like Mortenza is a realistic prospect.
There is always the possibility that a novel virus… could evolve at any time.
Lance Jennings, Canterbury District Health Board
Lance Jennings points to the ability of the influenza virus to evolve across the species barrier, allowing it to be transmitted from its animal host to humans, as one reason for concern. An example is the avian influenza H7N9 virus in southern China, which causes serious respiratory illness in humans and kills approximately 20 per cent of those it infects. At present, transmission between people is rare but as the virus evolves, this could change.
One key message from Lance and the rest of the panel is pandemic preparedness; having a plan in place to deal with an outbreak. New Zealand has the National Health Emergency Plan which includes the New Zealand Influenza Pandemic Plan: A Framework for Action. Topics range from planning for individual and community recovery in an emergency event to disability issues and ethical values in a pandemic situation.
Should an outbreak occur, the Ministry of Health will take the lead role in a response that will involve the whole of Government. But the Emergency Plan is specifically designed to devolve downward so all local bodies and District Health Boards will be able to continue to implement it if central government collapses. And like a virus, the plan frequently adapts to changing circumstances.
The National Plan was used in 2003 to respond to SARS and then subsequently for the H5N1 avian flu outbreak. It’s an evolutionary document.
New Zealand’s ethnically diverse population means that in the event of a pandemic there will likely be a range of responses to sickness, death and the disposal of bodies. Some may involve close and intimate contact with the infected, allowing the further transmission of the virus and tragically, potentially helping it to kill entire family groups. But there are plans to deal with this, too. Ongoing dialogue with community leaders educates all parties to potential risks, while more pragmatically, consultation with funeral directors hopefully means that an adequate supply of body bags will be available and the necessary protocols will be in place to deal with the dead.
A second key to combating a killer virus is the continuing emphasis on the importance of annual flu vaccinations and promoting uptake among those most vulnerable. According to Lance Jennings this not only improves the health of those individuals but also builds capacity to effectively distribute vaccines and improves communications lines within both the community and the media that could prove to be critical in a pandemic.
But unlike your favourite disaster movie, there is no possibility of a super vaccine being quickly developed. Current technology requires first a specific virus to respond to. Control reagents are then developed and should they prove to be successful, it may then be possible to manufacture the vaccine in large amounts. Unfortunately, the likely time frame for this is at least four to six months - too slow for a swift and unusually deadly virus like Mortenza.
But although a Mortenza-like illness, which kills everyone it infects, is possible, is it really likely to occur?
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 killed between 20-40 million people or roughly 3 per cent of the population. The Great Plague in Europe and Central Asia possibly accounted for around a third of the world's population. But while we have yet to see anything as deadly as Mortenza, Lance Jennings says conditions around the planet mean that a virus like this has to be planned for. He cites contributory factors like increasing population growth and the dense concentration of people in large cities as well as the vast increase in both chicken and pig production. In short, a perfect storm scenario for the creation of the kind of deadly diseases.
Viruses are getting agitated. We’re starting to see lots of novel Influenza A viruses emerging … there are things going on that we don’t understand at this point in time … I think it is inevitable that we will certainly have more emergence of these viruses and the chances for one devastating virus occurring must be in our planning.
In the meantime, planning, preparation and public discussion are the best forms of prevention. And if a pandemic does occur, trying to take refuge on Great Barrier Island may not be the best plan. It is highly unlikely that the virus would not reach the island. And almost everyone there owns a gun.
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Duration: 13'12"
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1:10 First song
Don Henley feat Mick Jagger with Tift Merrit's song Bramble Rose.
1:15 Police Remembrance Day - Rowan Carroll
This morning, the annual Police Remembrance Day service was held at the Royal New Zealand Police College in Porirua. It's a commemoration of the thirty eight employees who died as a result of their duties since the New Zealand Police was established 1886. And a recognition of the twenty nine officers killed on duty as a result of a criminal act. Rowan Carroll is the director of the New Zealand Police Museum and she's been at the commemoration events.
1.25 Mars Water - Haritina Mogosanu
Nasa scientists have confirmed the presence of liquid water on Mars. They say it's not the dry, arid planet that they thought in the past. And it's excited some of our scientists here.
1:30 The Future Of Food - Paul Moughan
Dairy prices were a 'hot topic' at the World Dairy Summit last week, and with on-going market instability in China, New Zealand's dairy industry is struggling. Prices rebounded in the past three Global Dairy Trade auctions, but farming leaders say there's still a long way to go, after record low prices last month. And as new competitors, global food demand and world population grow, how we produce food and maintain competitve in the world market is key. Distinguished Professor Paul Moughan is from Massey University and is the director of the Riddet Institute. He's giving a series of talks in Auckland and Wellington next month, to discuss how and what New Zealand could do to protect its future in a volatile market.
1:40 Favourite album
Van Morrison - You Win Again. Chosen by Roger Brookes.
2:10 Seed Banks - Colin Khoury
The world's food sources are under pressure, from climate change, population growth and an over-reliance on a few key crops - rice, maize and wheat. If one of these crops were to fail we'd be in trouble, but there is an insurance policy - thousands of wild ancestor seeds, kept under lock and key, to call upon when we need to find genetic resistance to a new disease or pest. Colin Khoury is from the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture in Colombia and he joins us from Colorado.
2:20 Great New Zealand Concerts - Bob Dylan, Western Springs, 9 March 1978
Our Great New Zealand Concert series remembers Bob Dylan's 1978 gig at Western Springs.
3:10 Feature Interview - Lois Pryce
Some people dream of chucking in their jobs and hitting the open road in search of adventure. Lois Pryce did it. She gave up her job at the BBC in London, got on her Yamaha XT225 Serow trail bike and rode from Alaska to Argentina and has never looked back. Recently she did a solo trip around Iran on a motorcycle. She's now known as Lois on the Loose and writes about her travels and adventure tourism.
3:35 Our Changing World - Justin Gregory
Recently the Great Barrier Island community got together to discuss a frightening prospect - what would happen if an influenza pandemic wiped out the world's population and left the island's inhabitants as the sole survivors.
Stories from Our Changing World.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about. With Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zoe George.
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INTRO SONG:
ARTIST: Bob Dylan
TITLE: TAMBOURINE MAN LIVE
COMP: Bob Dylan
ALBUM: Bob Dylan at Budokan
LABEL: CBS/Sony
ARTIST: Don Henley feat Mick Jagger
TITLE: BRAMBLE ROSE
COMP: Tift Merritt
ALBUM: Cass County
LABEL: ?
GREAT NEW ZEALAND CONCERT:
ARTIST: Bob Dylan
TITLE: All Along the Watchtower
COMP: Bob Dylan
ALBUM: Bob Dylan at Budokan
LABEL: CBS/Sony
ARTIST: Bob Dylan
TITLE: Blowin' in the Wind
COMP: Bob Dylan
ALBUM: Bob Dylan at Budokan
LABEL: CBS/Sony
ARTIST: Bob Dylan
TITLE: Simple Twist of Fate
COMP: Bob Dylan
ALBUM: Bob Dylan at Budokan
LABEL: CBS/Sony
ARTIST: Bob Dylan
TITLE: Love Minus Zero, No Limit
COMP: Bob Dylan
ALBUM: Bob Dylan at Budokan
LABEL: CBS/Sony
ARTIST: Bob Dylan
TITLE: Love Minus Zero, No Limit
COMP: Bob Dylan
ALBUM: Bob Dylan at Budokan
LABEL: CBS/Sony
ALBUM OF THE DAY:
ARTIST: Van Morrison/Linda Gail Lewis
TITLE: You Win Again -
COMP: Hank Williams
ALBUM: You Win Again
LABEL: VIRGIN
ARTIST: Van Morrison/Linda Gail Lewis
TITLE: Old Black Joe
COMP: Stephen Foster
ALBUM: You Win Again
LABEL: VIRGIN
ARTIST: Van Morrison/Linda Gail Lewis
TITLE: Real Gone Lover
COMP: Dave Bartholemew, Joe Robichaux & Ruth Durand
ALBUM: You Win Again
LABEL: VIRGIN
ARTIST: Van Morrison/Linda Gail Lewis
TITLE: Boogie Chillen
COMP: John Lee Hooker
ALBUM: You Win Again
LABEL: VIRGIN
===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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15:45
The Panel pre-show for 29 September 2015
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 14'53"
16:05
The Panel with Sue Wells and Sue Guthrie (Part 1)
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Topics - The clash at the U.N, New Zealanders in Australian prisons and on Christmas Island, Is economic confidence down? Skoda and Audi also caught up in emmissions scandal, What's the secret to longevity?
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Duration: 23'50"
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The Panel with Sue Wells and Sue Guthrie (Part 2)
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Topics - How do you find an extra hour in a day? The fight over the fort and the million dollar view, Chris Brown and Tainui's Tukoroirangi Morgan, Can you make yourself more "likeable"?
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Duration: 26'16"
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Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Susan Guthrie and Sue Wells and have been up to.
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The clash at the U.N
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Professor Tim Anderson joins the panel to discuss the state of Syria.
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Duration: 8'58"
16:16
New Zealanders in Australian prisons and on Christmas Island
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What would do you do with these New Zealanders who are really Australians?
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Duration: 4'56"
16:20
Is economic confidence down?
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The number of workers who think they're going to get a pay rise is at its lowest level in 11 years.
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Duration: 6'42"
16:28
Skoda and Audi also caught up in emmissions scandal
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More than 2 million Audi diesel cars worldwide rigged with emissions cheating software.
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Duration: 1'59"
16:32
What's the secret to longevity?
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Would you like to know when you are going to die?
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Duration: 2'45"
16:36
How do you find an extra hour in a day?
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Stats from the Aussie research firm McKinsey say the average business worker receives 300 emails each week and spends more than 2.5 hours a day reading and responding to them.
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Duration: 5'45"
16:42
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Susan Guthrie and Sue Wells have been thinking about.
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16:44
The fight over the fort and the million dollar view
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The children's fort in Wellington that blocked the million-dollar harbour view.
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16:49
Chris Brown and Tainui's Tukoroirangi Morgan
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Tainui's Tukoroirangi Morgan had earlier indicated that if American singer Chris Brown makes it into New Zealand they'd be interested in hosting him.
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Duration: 7'31"
16:55
Can you make yourself more "likeable"?
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There's a new book out called "Unlikeable: The Problem with Hillary" by Edward Klein. One of its revelations is that Hillary Clinton enlisted Steven Spielberg to help make her more 'likeable'.
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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Radio New Zealand's two-hour news and current affairs programme
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Checkpoint Top Stories for Tuesday 29 September 2015
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GCSB boss reveals Cortex cyber-spying details, Split among Māori leaders over hosting singer Chris Brown, Australian Greens call for halt to NZ deportations, NZer rejects jihadi tag, says he was going to see his fiance, Killer armed with knives waited for his wife, Family force to flee house on discovering his P levels, and Macho bullshit" has to stop - police.
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GCSB boss reveals Cortex cyber-spying details
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The acting head of the Government Communications Security Bureau has for the first time revealed operational details on the Cortex cyber security programme used by government agencies and some large New Zealand companies.
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Tags: GCSB, Cortex, cyber security
Duration: 3'50"
17:14
Split among Māori leaders over hosting singer Chris Brown
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There's division among Waikato Māori over hosting Chris Brown - at the same time as a group of high profile New Zealanders rally to have the American singer allowed in.
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Duration: 2'53"
17:16
Australian Greens call for halt to NZ deportations
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The Australian Green Party is calling for all deportations of New Zealanders to stop. The Australian Greens Senator and Immigration spokesperson is Sarah Hanson-Young.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Tags: Australian detention centres, Australia, deportations, Australian citizenship
Duration: 4'50"
17:23
NZer rejects jihadi tag, says he was going to see his fiance
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A 25-year-old New Zealander accused of trying to join extremists in Syria and fight in their civil war says he was actually on his way to Denmark to see his fiancee whom he had never met.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Tags: Australia, Amin Mohamed
Duration: 2'44"
17:29
Crew works to save as much of Tuhoe as possible
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A small crew is working against the tide to help save as much of the doomed boat, the M-V Tuhoe as possible. The 97 year old schooner, fresh from two-hundred-thousand dollars of repairs paid in large part by fundraising, was returning to its berth from Lyttelton when it got stuck at the Waimakariri rivermouth.
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Tags: M-V Tuhoe, schooner
Duration: 2'54"
17:35
Evening Business for 29 September 2015
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News from the business sector including a market report.
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Duration: 2'12"
17:38
Killer armed with knives waited for his wife
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Mandeep Singh was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum non-parole period of 13 years for the murder of Parmita Rani and attempted murder of Parminder Singh. Edward Gay was at the High Court in Auckland.
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Duration: 3'21"
17:40
Family forced to flee house on discovering P levels
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A family of seven has been forced to leave their P-contaminated Tokoroa home with just the clothes they were wearing.
Topics: housing, health
Regions: Waikato
Tags: P lab, pure methamphetamine, methamphetamine residue
Duration: 5'09"
17:43
'Macho bullshit' has to stop - police
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A police detective is urging men to cut the "macho bullshit" as the hunt goes on for a group who king-hit a man in south Auckland. Nicole Pryor reports.
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Duration: 2'36"
17:48
Audi, Skoda vehicles also masking emissions
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The Volkswagen emissions scandal is expanding, embroiling now the company's Audi and Skoda cars. Liz Dobson is the motoring editor at the New Zealand Herald.
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Duration: 3'56"
17:50
Defense asks if minister saw warrants before Dotcom raid
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A defence lawyer in the Kim Dotcom extradition hearing has questioned whether the Justice Minister saw a copy of the arrest warrants before the raid on the internet mogul's mansion went ahead.
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Duration: 3'23"
17:55
Te Manu Korihi News for 29 September 2015
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Ngati Kuri says the creation of the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary is part of a growing realisation of the need for greater protection of the environment; After two years of consultation and feedback Miranda Hot Springs on the shores of the Firth of Thames will be reverting to its original Māori name; Ngati Whakaue is working to inspire its tamariki to take up careers in science using resource kits that give their lessons a cultural twist.
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Duration: 3'02"
18:06
Sports News for 29 September 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 3'01"
18:15
Dame Tariana Turia gets behind singer Chris Brown coming
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The former MP and Māori Party co-leader, Dame Tariana Turia, has revealed she will write to the Immigration Minister in support of singer and convicted woman beater Chris Brown coming here.
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Tags: Chris Brown, Tariana Turia, Chris Brown tour
Duration: 2'46"
18:17
Auckland fare evaders could face $1000 fines
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Train ticket inspectors are to be given greater powers to crack down on people trying to avoid paying their way, fare evaders including the prospect of thousand-dollar fines.
Topics: transport
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Tags: fare evaders, ticket inspectors
Duration: 3'48"
18:20
Precarious' for NZers in detention - Australian Greens
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The Australian and New Zealand Green parties are calling for all deportations of New Zealanders to stop. Luke Mathers is a 22 year old panelbeater from Brisbane who left New Zealand aged four.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Duration: 3'46"
18:22
Detention centres full - lawyer
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An Australian migration lawyer says the country's detention centres are filled to overflowing. The lawyer asked to be known only as Susan, to protect her clients fighting deportation to New Zealand and elsewhere.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Duration: 4'28"
18:27
Backtrack over classing 18,000 homes as vulnerable
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Tens of thousands of Christchurch residents are breathing a sigh of relief after the government decided not to class 18000 properties as being vulnerable to sea level rise.
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Duration: 4'32"
18:36
Australian sharemarket sheds billions
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The Australian sharemarket shed more than $40 billion earlier today as commodities tanked. The ABC business correspondent Michael Janda joins Checkpoint.
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Duration: 3'26"
18:40
Housing provider questions Govt's approach to emergency housing
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Social housing providers are asking why the Government is providing funding for new emergency housing in Auckland, instead of giving extra support to those already doing the job.
Topics: housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: social housing, Auckland housing market, emergency housing
Duration: 2'47"
18:43
Tuna fisherman angry at Kermadec Sanctuary
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Conservationists and tuna fishermen are at odds over the Kermadec Islands being turned into a giant marine sanctuary covering 600 000 square kilometres.
Topics: environment, business
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Tags: Kermadec Islands, conservation, mining, prospecting, fishing
Duration: 3'49"
18:47
Pay, politics top of mind for teacher unions
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Auckland teachers are warning of staff shortages in the city's schools because their pay is not keeping up with house prices.
Topics: education, housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: teachers, teachers pay, house prices, Auckland housing market
Duration: 2'48"
18:50
Te Manu Korihi News for 29 September 2015
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Ngati Kuri says the creation of the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary is part of a growing realisation of the need for greater protection of the environment; After two years of consultation and feedback Miranda Hot Springs on the shores of the Firth of Thames will be reverting to its original Māori name; Ngati Whakaue is working to inspire its tamariki to take up careers in science using resource kits that give their lessons a cultural twist.
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Duration: 3'08"
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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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Entertainment and information, including: 7:30 The Sampler: A weekly review and analysis of new CD releases (RNZ) 8:13 Windows on the World: International public radio features and documentaries 9:06 The Tuesday Feature: Resilience in the Age of the Anthropocene - facing climate change challenges The Anthropocene: a Fact and a Challenge. The first of three discussions being held as a prelude to the United Nations COP 21 climate change conference which begins in Paris in November (1 of 3, RNZ)
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19:12
Our Own Odysseys: A Japanese thank you
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When Thomas' family rescued a Japanese motorcyclist in distress, he was rewarded with a month's free digs in a village near Osaka with his host Toru. Thomas talks to Bryan about the Japanese seaside, sandbathing, and sleeping in a drawer.
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Tags: odysseys, Japan, travel
Duration: 21'05"
20:42
NZ History - The ol' days of Government House
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A lucky guy whose job is also his hobby, Gavin McLean is a senior historian for the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Gavin discusses the grand old days of Government Houses in NZ, back when they were seats of power - sort of.
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A lucky guy whose job is also his hobby, Gavin McLean is a senior historian for the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Gavin discusses the grand old days of Government Houses in NZ, back when they were seats of power - sort of.
Topics: history, politics
Regions: Wellington Region
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Duration: 16'48"
20:59
Conundrum Clue 3
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Listen on Friday for the answer.
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21:59
Conundrum Clue 4
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Listen on Friday for the answer.
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7:10 Our Own Odysseys: Thomas Morgan
When Thomas' family rescued a Japanese motorcyclist in distress, he was rewarded with a month's free digs in a village near Osaka with his host Toru. Thomas talks to Bryan about the Japanese seaside, sandbathing, and sleeping in a drawer.
7:30 The Sampler
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19:30
The Sampler: Lana Del Rey, Brassland, Dave Rawlings Machine
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This week in The Sampler Nick Bollinger reviews the latest set of doomed dream-pop from Lana Del Rey; new releases from the National members Bryce and Aaron Dessner's Brassland label; and the neo-rustic inventions of Dave Rawlings Machine.
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Dave Rawlings & Gillian Welch of Dave Rawlings Machine. Photo supplier.
This week in The Sampler Nick Bollinger reviews the latest set of doomed dream-pop from Lana Del Rey; new releases from the National members Bryce and Aaron Dessner's Brassland label; and the neo-rustic inventions of Dave Rawlings Machine.
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Duration: 29'41"
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Honeymoon by Lana Del Ray
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Nick Bollinger dissects the latest set of doomed dream-pop from Lana Del Rey.
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Nick Bollinger dissects the latest set of doomed dream-pop from Lana Del Rey.
Lana Del Rey is the kind of pop star someone would have had to invent, if she hadn’t come along and invented herself. And that invention is fully-formed, if showing its ultimate limitations, on her fourth and latest album. The persona is the same one most of us were first introduced to in the 2011 hit ‘Video Games’ and the Born To Die album that followed closely on its heels: sweet but not so innocent, vulnerable, fallible and fatally attracted to danger. It is a composite of American archetypes, mostly taken from the movies. There’s a bit of Marilyn Monroe, for sure, and the teenage runaway Sissy Spacek played in Terrence Malik’s Badlands, with a slew of David Lynch creations thrown in. And that picture of doomed romance is underscored by a music that never rises above the tempo of a sleepwalk; that shivers and shimmers like some ghostly jukebox that only plays tortured torch divas. Honeymoon may be something of a one-mood album, but it certainly nails that mood. And while it doesn’t have a song with quite the universal appeal of ‘Video Games’, the songs are – within the narrow emotional boundaries Del Rey has drawn for them – pretty good, and Rick Nowels, songwriting gun-for-hire and Del Rey’s main collaborator here, has polished up the melodies so they shine – even through the narcotised haze.
Songs played: God Knows I Tried, Music To Watch Boys To, High By The Beach, Art Deco, Terrence Loves You, Honeymoon
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Duration: 9'58"
19:30
Nashville Obsolete by Dave Rawlings Machine
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Nick Bollinger navigates the neo-rustic inventions of Dave Rawlings Machine.
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Nick Bollinger navigates the neo-rustic inventions of Dave Rawlings Machine.
It’s never really been explained why the records of Gillian Welch don’t give co-billing to her partner David Rawlings. After all, he’s been there right from the beginning, co-writing the songs, singing in intensely close harmony and playing all that wonderful guitar. But the balance is somewhat redressed by this. It’s credited to the Dave Rawlings Machine, the second set to come out under this emblem. But essentially it’s just Welch and Rawlings again, the chief difference being that for these discs the usual practice of Welch singing lead and Rawlings harmony is reversed. And great harmony singer though he is, Dave Rawlings can also really sell a song. When it comes to this kind of old-timey, sepia-tinted song no one does it better than Welch and Rawlings. It’s as though they looked into that period before hillbilly music evolved into the commercial country industry it became and went, hold it, there’s more that could be said with these simple heartfelt sounds. But what’s sometimes overlooked is how much they have been influenced by much more recent traditions. On stage they have covered everyone from Jefferson Airplane to Radiohead, refracting it through their particular old-timey lens. But as songwriters, the influence that is inescapable is that of Bob Dylan and Neil Young. The title Nashville Obsolete sums it up pretty well. Most of what you’ll find here has been through Nashville – Welch and Rawlings’ adopted home – at some time or other, whether it’s that old-time picking, Dylanesque imagery or countrypolitan strings. Yet what Dave Rawlings Machine makes by putting all this together is hardly obsolete, but rather ageless and, in its own way, curiously new.
Songs played: Candy, The Last Pharaoh, Bodysnatchers, The Trip, Short-Haired Woman Blues
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Duration: 10'15"
19:30
The Brassland Label
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Nick Bollinger investigates two new releases from the National members Bryce and Aaron Dessner's Brassland label.
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Nick Bollinger investigates two new releases from the National members Bryce and Aaron Dessner's Brassland label.
Brassland is an indie label, set up in New York in 2001 by twin brothers Aaron and Bryce Dessner, with their friend Alex Hanley Bemis. The original idea was simply to release music the brothers were involved in, like Bryce’s contemporary classical group Clogs, and rock band The National, in which both Bryce and Aaron play guitars. The National, of course, took off and before long had outgrown their own label, winding up in the hands of much bigger indie 4AD. Yet their success has, in a way, helped Brassland continue as the small and esoteric indie it first set out to be. And ongoing sales of those first few National records have allowed Brassland to keep making new records like these
Music For Wood and Strings by Bryce Dessner and So Percussion
On Music For Wood and Strings the wood and strings in question are actually a set of instruments designed by Bryce Dessner and his friend Aaron Sanchez, and built by Sanchez who is also a member of another Brassland band Buke and Gase. A sort of cross between a hammered dulcimer and an electric guitar, they call the instruments chordsticks. They have eight strings which can be tuned to an open chord, and when struck produce a sound that is simultaneously harmonic and percussive. But the real effect of these remarkably simple and old-fashioned-looking instruments is the way they sound when there’s more than one them being played at once. And that’s the basis of Dessner’s composition here. There are four musicians in So Percussion, each playing a chordstick and, in some cases, extra percussion, and much of the beauty is in the patterns that emerge as the instruments interlock rhythmically and harmonically.
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Bashed Out by This Is The Kit
The other recent release from the Brassland label is from a European signing: singer, songwriter and bandleader Kate Stables, who hails from Norwich, lives in Paris and records under the name This Is The Kit. And if your preference is more for melodies and lyrics than the hypnotic hocketing of So Percussion, then this could be for you. Bashed Out is the third album Stables has made as This Is The Kit, but her first since the Dessners signed her to Brassland, and it hardly feels like it was just bashed out. Stables plays guitar and occasionally banjo, and has a two-piece band who embellish her songs with bass, percussion and vocal choruses. But with Aaron Dessner taking the production role, that simple sound has been added to in deep and subtle ways. Both the Dessner brothers add their guitars, and you’ll hear other instruments at different times too – keyboards, occasional horns and violin – creating what is sometimes sounds like a small orchestra playing sympathetically somewhere in the next room. But in the end it’s Stables’ voice and songs, with their soft surfaces and unexpected angles, that make it such an attractive set.
Songs played: lver John, Spores Are Settling, Bashed Out, Nits, Magic Spell
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Radio New Zealand news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from Radio New Zealand National
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A selection of world music along with jazz, rock, folk and other styles, artists and songs with world and roots influences chosen and presented by Wichita radio host Chris Heim (1 of 12)