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:
21 February 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Police Files of NZ (RNZ); 1:05 Our Changing World (RNZ); 2:05 Heart and Soul (RNZ); 2:35 Hymns on Sunday; 3:05 Enemy Territory, by Elspeth Sandys (12 of 15, RNZ); 3:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ); 4:30 Science in Action (BBC); 5:10 Bishops, by Mona Williams (9 of 10, RNZ); 5:45 NZ Society
===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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Riding to School, by Jack Lasenby, told by Stuart Devenie; Going for a Swim, by Victor Rodger, told by Victor Rodger; Iris La Bonga and the Helpful Taxi Driver, by Margaret Mahy, told by Donna Akersten; Mavis Mamby Pants, by Linda McIntyre, told by Peter McCallum ; Midnight Adventure, by Patricia Batten, told by Bronwyn Bradley; Guardian of the Bay, by Cynthia Todd Maguire, told by Andrew Scott
===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 and music 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
Sally Round - Cyclone Winston latest
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People in Fiji are waiting for daylight to assess the damage from a massive cyclone which has been hammering the country in the last 18 hours. There are reports of one death, people trapped, and houses smashed after Tropical Cyclone Winston, a Category 5 system, tore through the island group. Sally Round from RNZ International talks to Wallace.
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Duration: 4'08"
07:13
Alice Clements in Suva
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Alice Clements is an aid worker with UNICEF Pacific.
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Duration: 7'23"
07:21
Iris Low-McKenzie - Hunkering Down In Fiji
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As the storm approached, our reporter Kim Baker Wilson spoke to the head of Save The Children in Fiji, Iris Low-McKenzie, who was hunkering down with family.
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Duration: 3'50"
07:24
Ian McInnes - Aid Response
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Ian McInnes is the chief executive of the aid agency Tearfund - and chairman of the Council for International Decelopment vwhich represents 18 aid agencies.
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Duration: 4'00"
07:30
The Week in Parliament for 21 February
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Debate on Prime Minister's Statement adjourned to allow passing of Government Bills - including one that gives Ministers powers to sell state houses; Government faces questions about details of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, as does MFAT Chief Trade Negotiator David Walker when he appears before the Foreign Affairs, Defence & Trade Committee; Children's Commissioner Russell Wills voices concern about the Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill, which he says won't solve child health problems; Corrections boss Ray Smith faces questions about Mt Eden Prison from Law & Order Committee members; Parliament is adjourned for a week, returning on Tuesday 1st March.
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Duration: 15'14"
07:32
Christchurch: Five Years On
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Mayor Lianne Dalziel, lawyer Duncan Webb and Restart Chairman John Suckling join us to look at how Christchurch is faring five years on from the devastating February 22 earthquake.
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Tags: Lianne Dalziel, Duncan Webb, John Suckling
Duration: 18'37"
07:50
Nalini Baruch - From Denarau Island
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Nalini Baruch and her husband Colin are from Martinborough, and are on Denarau Island near Nadi for a long-awaited family reunion.
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Duration: 3'16"
07:55
Raijeli Nicole - Cyclone Update
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Pacific regional director for the aid charity Oxfam - she joins us from Fiji's capital Suva.
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Duration: 4'57"
08:40
Don McGlashan and Shayne Carter - Making Music
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Two of our finest songwriters - Don McGlashan and Shayne Carter - join Wallace to talk about their upcoming performance at the Auckland Arts Festival where both songwriters will play their favourite songs from each others back catalogue.
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Two of our finest songwriters are coming together for a very special evening: Don McGlashan and Shayne Carter will perform in the Speigeltent at the Auckland Arts Festival on March 11th.
Both have collaborated together and reworked each other's music and will be performing their back catalogue; The Mutton Birds, Straitjacket Fits, Blam Blam Blam, Dimmer, and there will be songs that will be unearthed for the very first time in years.
LISTEN to their interview with Wallace Chapman, where they field listeners' questions about songwriting, and Shayne reveals that he is putting finishing touches on a new album.
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Tags: Auckland Arts Festival, Don McGlashan, Shayne Carter
Duration: 15'00"
09:06
Mediawatch for 21 Feb 2016
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Coverage of Christchurch's quake on a sunny summer Sunday; noodle confusion; shock of the nude; is the writing on the wall for our printed papers?
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Duration: 34'14"
09:40
Sam Orchard - Being Trans and Other Life Stuff
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Cartoonist Sam Orchard is a transgendered guy with experience of depression and anxiety who draws on these - and other life experiences - for his comic website Rooster Tails. He is involved in a Mental Health Foundation project aimed at changing the attitudes of those who discriminate and exclude young people with mental health issues. He talks to Wallace about tough times being trans - and how he's learned to love difference.
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Cartoonist Sam Orchard is a transgender guy with experience of depression and anxiety who draws on these - and other life experiences – for his comic website Rooster Tails. He is involved in a Mental Health Foundation project aimed at changing the attitudes of those who discriminate and exclude young people with mental health issues.
Sam talks with Wallace about tough times being trans – and how he's learned to love difference:
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Duration: 21'26"
10:06
Tony Atkinson - Godfather of Inequality Studies
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Sir Tony Atkinson has been called the godfather of inequality studies. He was a mentor to economist Thomas Piketty (author of the bestseller Capital in the 21st Century)and Nicholas Stern calls him one of the great scholars of our time. In his new book, Inequality - What Can Be Done, the professor of economics at the London School of Economics lays out a comprehensive set of policies to reverse growing inequality.
Topics: author interview, inequality
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Tags: ubi, economics, tax, Sir Tony Atkinson
Duration: 35'30"
10:35
Warren Francis - Eyewitness account of Cyclone Winston
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Warren Francis runs a safari lodge on Nananu-Ri Island near Rakiraki, in Northern Fiji - one of the worst affected areas.
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Duration: 4'24"
10:40
Joseph Campbell - 1995: The Watershed Year
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Professor W Joseph Campbell believes 1995 was the year in which history reached a tipping point. It was the year of Monica Lewinsky, O.J. Simpson and the Oklahoma bombing. It was also the year in which the internet really made its mark. But what exactly is a watershed year? And why 1995?
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Professor W Joseph Campbell believes 1995 was the year in which history reached a tipping point. It was the year of Monica Lewinsky, O.J. Simpson and the Oklahoma bombing.
It was also the year in which the internet really made its mark.
But what exactly is a watershed year? And why 1995?
Professor Campbell talks to Wallace Chapman.
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Tags: 1995; W Joseph Campbell; Watershed years
Duration: 19'07"
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Gregg Hurwitz - Nowhere Man
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Gregg Hurwitz's new book Orphan X is the first in a new series featuring the mysterious Nowhere man, aka Evan Smoak, a man on a mission to help the desperate and deserving who have nowhere else to turn. Orphan X is the best-selling fiction book in New Zealand this week and Evan Smoak has been likened to lee Child's heroic Jack Reacher. Gregg Hurwitz also writes TV, screenplays and comics for Marvel and DC. As he says - "it beats working".
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Duration: 17'23"
11:25
Alex Perrottet - Fiji Cyclone Update
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Alex Perrottet from RNZ International joins Wallace for the latest from Fiji.
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Duration: 3'27"
11:35
Peter Sweatman - Self-Driving Cars
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Dr Peter Sweatman is a world authority on intelligent transport systems and self-driving vehicles. he is the founding director of the University of Michigan's Mobility Transformation Center - which has a fleet of nearly 3000 connected autonomous vehicles.
Topics: transport
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Tags: self-driving cars, Peter Sweatman
Duration: 15'42"
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7:08 Christchurch Five Years On
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Mayor Lianne Dalziel, lawyer Duncan Webb and Restart Chairman John Suckling joins us to look at how Christchurch is faring five years on from the devastating February 22 earthquake.
7:30 News headlines
7:32 The Week in Parliament
7:47 Ebonie Rio - Pain in the Knee
Knee pain is common and persistent for many people. Dr Ebonie Rio is lead researcher at the Monash University Tendon Research Group which has developed a medication and injection-free exercise that can eliminate knee tendon pain.
8:12 Insight: Sheep and goats - the new diary boom?
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There is a surge in interest in sheep and goat dairy products, with farms springing up around the country and plants exporting infant formula and whole milk powder to Asia and Europe. But predictions for the future are mixed, with some goat milk exporters worried that markets will be flooded while others say there is not enough supply to keep up with demand. Alexa Cook explores the dairy goat and sheep industry to find out why more people are keen to get involved.
Produced by Philippa Tolley.
8:40 Don McGlashan and Shayne Carter - Making Music
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Two of our finest songwriters - Don McGlashan and Shayne Carter - join Wallace to talk about their upcoming performance at the Auckland Arts Festival where both songwriters will play their favourite songs from each other's back catalogue.
9:06 Mediawatch
Is the writing on the wall for our printed papers - or will they last longer than pundits predict? Also: How the media caught up with the Christchurch quake last weekend, and the newsworthiness of nudity - and noodles.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
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9:40 Sam Orchard - Being Trans and Other Life Stuff
Cartoonist Sam Orchard is a transgender guy with experience of depression and anxiety who draws on these - and other life experiences - for his comic website Rooster Tails. He is involved in a Mental Health Foundation project aimed at changing the attitudes of those who discriminate and exclude young people with mental health issues. He talks to Wallace about tough times being trans - and how he's learned to love difference.
10:06 Tony Atkinson - Godfather of Inequality Studies
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Sir Tony Atkinson has been called the godfather of Inequality studies. He was a mentor to economist Thomas Piketty (author of the bestseller Capital in the 21st Century) and Nicholas Stern calls him one of the great scholars of our time. In his new book, Inequality - What Can Be Done, the professor of economics at the London School of Economics lays out a comprehensive set of policies to reverse growing inequality.
10:35 Warren Francis - Eyewitness Account of Cyclone Winston
Warren Francis runs a safari lodge on Nananu-Ri Island near Rakiraki, in northern Fiji - one of the worst affected areas.
10:40 Joseph Campbell - 1995: The Watershed Year
Professor W Joseph Campbell believes 1995 was the year in which history reached a tipping point. It was the year of Monica Lewinsky, O.J Simpson and the Oklahoma bombing. It also was the year in which the internet really made its mark. But what exactly is a watershed year? And why 1995?
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11:05 Gregg Hurwitz - Nowhere Man
Gregg Hurwitz's new book Orphan X is the first in a new series featuring the mysterious Nowhere Man, aka Evan Smoak, a man on a mission to help the desperate and deserving who have nowhere else to turn. Orphan X is the best-selling fiction book in New Zealand this week and Evan Smoak has been likened to Lee Child's heroic Jack Reacher. Gregg Hurwitz also writes TV, screenplays and comics for Marvel and DC. As he says - "it beats working".
11:27 Peter Sweatman - Self-Driving Cars
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Dr Peter Sweatman is a world authority on intelligent transport systems and self-driving vehicles. He is the founding director of the University of Michigan's Mobility Transformation Center - which has a fleet of nearly 3000 connected autonomous vehicles.
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Artist: Straightjacket Fits
Song: She Speeds
Composer: Shane Carter
Album: Hail
Label: Rough Trade America
Broadcast Time: 8:55am
===12:11 PM. | Spectrum===
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It's a three-day course designed to give school leavers some practical life skills, and help them cope with the 'real world' of budgeting, banking, housing, cooking, and getting a job. Now "LIFE 101" is being taken into Auckland Prison to help long serving convicts prepare for release. For Spectrum David Steemson goes to jail for a day. (RNZ)
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12:15
Fighting fever with healthy habits
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Schools in Porirua are tackling high rates of rheumatic fever by teaching their students healthy habits from the start.
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By Daniela Maoate-Cox
Contraband cookies, crisps, or candy in a lunchbox are quickly reported to teachers by health conscious child informants.
“The kids are good policemen of that, they’ll come up quickly and say someone’s got chippies because they’re usually jealous,” says Glenview School deputy principal Lester Mohi.
“They will tell on [them] in the blink of an eye. Good informant system, it’s positive though.”
Bad-snack snitches are an unforeseen side effect of the Porirua primary school’s healthy eating policy. A policy that includes a ban on junk food, provides fruit and milk, and a community garden.
“Our healthy eating policy has been recognised by the heart foundation and we boast the most awards in the entire country,” Lester says.
“So I definitely see that as one of the reasons that perhaps links into our kids’ positive health and modelling of those kinds of practices that they can take into their adulthood and hopefully into the parenting of their children.”
Porirua has high rates of rheumatic fever, particularly affecting children, and a recent study suggests a connection between sugar and the illness.
So the school’s focus is on preventative measures to instill good habits from the start and stop health issues from forming.
Windley School has a similar ideology promoting exercise, and teaming up with organisations that provide free breakfasts, fruit and milk for the students to help build a strong immune system; the best defense against rheumatic fever.
But it doesn’t go so far as to ban certain foods.
“If they’re getting food from home to bring to school we think that’s a good idea,” principal Rhys McKinley says.
“Most foods, we just let them have... if you put in a food policy they might turn up with nothing.”
Establishing healthy practices is a long term solution with regular throat swabbing of students in schools taking place to catch streptococcal, or strep, throat which can lead to rheumatic fever.
Practice nurse, Litia Gibson, at the Porirua Union and Community Health Service can swab up to ten throats a day.
She says a whole range of factors contribute to the high rates of rheumatic fever such as poor housing, low incomes, and a lack of health literacy.
“It’s very hard to try to get into somebody’s house and teach them to clean their own home but when we get them out here we try and capture all of that in the discussions that comes out of those visits with mum and dad,” she says.
“The effects of those kind of social issues that impacts on their overall health, [on] the children who’ve got no voice, without mum raising those issues, or dad, they do tend to come in quite a lot so we see quite a lot of recurrent sore throats throughout the year.”
But Litia says the situation is improving.
“Most of our families have come in with a better reflection of how they carry out their home management of their health and every time we raise the bar of the discussion.”
“We do it for a greater cause, it’s not just for what we do here in the community, it impacts on the nation, we don’t want to fall into a health care system that doesn’t look after it’s own people.”
For more information on rheumatic fever visit the Ministry of Health website here.
Topics: education, health
Regions: Wellington Region
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Duration: 24'53"
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===12:37 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
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12:42
Composer John Psathas - No Man's Land
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In his monumental, multi-cultural, symphony with pictures, No Man's Land, John Psathas asks us to consider the First World War in a new light. He's brought together around 150 musicians from conflict zones, past and present, to perform on old battlegrounds and bunkers. No Man's Land premieres at the New Zealand Festival next month before going on tour. Lynn Freeman talks to John after watching the 75-minute-long video that forms the backdrop to the work, played by a live band of Kiwi, Greek and Polish musicians.
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In his monumental, multi-cultural, symphony with pictures, No Man's Land, John Psathas asks us to consider the First World War in a new light. He's brought together around 150 musicians from conflict zones, past and present, to perform on old battlegrounds and bunkers. No Man's Land premieres at the New Zealand Festival next month before going on tour. Lynn Freeman talks to John after watching the 75-minute-long video that forms the backdrop to the work, played by a live band of Kiwi, Greek and Polish musicians.
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Tags: First World War, Auckland Arts Festivals, New Zealand Festival
Duration: 21'54"
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Virtuoso Strings
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Every Tuesday night, Porirua children from low-decile schools get together in a school hall to play classical music on borrowed instruments. The Virtuoso Strings Charitable Trust works with local schools, as well as other organisations that provide food and other invaluable contributions needed to keep the orchestra going. But it survives thanks to the drive of music teachers Liz Sneyd and Craig Utting. Lynn Freeman was invited to the orchestra's rehearsal
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Every Tuesday night, Porirua children from low-decile schools get together in a school hall to play classical music on borrowed instruments. The Virtuoso Strings Charitable Trust works with local schools, as well as other organisations that provide food and other invaluable contributions needed to keep the orchestra going. But it survives thanks to the drive of music teachers Liz Sneyd and Craig Utting. Lynn Freeman was invited to the orchestra's rehearsal.
Topics: arts, music
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Pororiua College, Virtuoso Strings Charitable Trust, classical music
Duration: 25'27"
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The Laugh Track - Lana Schwarcz
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Australian comedienne Lana Schwarcz talks about her show Lovely Lady Lumps and plays comedy favourites Tig Notaro, Denise Scott, Tig Notaro, Louisa Omielan and Steven Wright.
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Duration: 21'01"
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Photographer Ilan Wittenberg
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Israeli-born Ilan Wittenberg abandoned a family tradition of industrial engineering to become an award-winning photographer. He makes a living out of family portraiture from his converted 6-car garage on the North Shore. But 15 years after arriving in New Zealand his dream is really taking off. Lynn Freeman talks to Ilan about his new exhibition of portraits taken within the old city walls of his old home: Faces of Jerusalem: An Interfaith Journey. And a rather different project is gaining ground. Listen up if you're a man ready to expose your bare chest to his camera's lens!
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Duration: 10'51"
14:39
UK Performer Jonny Donohue - Every Brilliant Thing
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Every Brilliant Thing is a UK theatre production that's been described as "the funniest show you'll ever see about depression". Solo actor and former stand-up comic Jonny Donohoe talks to Sonia Sly about why he's more than happy to deal with sensitive subject matter and the art of engaging with an audience.
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Duration: 9'31"
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No getting down on depression
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'Every Brilliant Thing' is a UK theatre production that has been referred to as the funniest show you'll ever see about depression. Solo performer and former stand-up comic Jonny Donohoe talks to Sonia Sly about why he's more than happy to deal with sensitive subject matter, the art of engaging with an audience and life on the road.
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One actor on stage and the subject matter – mental illness.
While it sounds deep and possibly laying the foundations for tragedy, the intention behind the UK production Every Brilliant Thing was to create an entertaining and hilarious show about depression.
Former stand-up comedian Jonny Donahoe takes the role of narrator amidst a host of other characters, and guides his trusting audience through the course of events in a story about a six-year-old boy whose mother is dealing with severe depression.
Sonia Sly talks to Jonny about dealing with sensitive material, life on the road and the joy of performing in a one-man show:
“We did a lot of research, we watched a lot of TED talks [and] read a number of books. It’s really important to be armed with that knowledge because it is such a tricky subject and it is important to talk about it.”
The 32-year-old says, that unlike having other pain or injury to body, when it comes to hurt in the mind, people are very shy.
“I think it’s very prevalent amongst people who go into the arts, but the simple truth is depression is rife.”
Donahoe is quick to counter that the show is ultimately about entertaining an audience; there is plenty of improvisation and those who come to see the show get to have a hand in creating the world of characters in the little boy’s life as he begins to create a gift for his mother—a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world.
“The only way you can really talk about things that have such a stigma is to laugh at them,” he says.
The show has toured successfully throughout the UK, USA, and is now on its Australian leg before heading to New Zealand at the beginning of March.
In that time they’ve hit the nail on the head with their intended goal – The Guardian named 'Every Brilliant Thing' as the funniest show you’ll ever see about depression.
“The trick to comedy is [having] a warmth and interest in other people, so I always aim to be genuine in myself [and] with this show, I love that you share something with a group of people [who] come into a room very much as individuals [but] they leave it as a group, having had a shared experience. That’s something I’m really proud of,” Donahoe says.
Every Brilliant Thing runs at the New Zealand Festival from 2-5th March.
Topics: health, identity
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: United Kingdom, Every Brilliant Thing, solo show, theatre, mental illness, depression, comedy, stand-up comedy, comedian, New Zealand Festival, performance, mental health, suicide, children, family
Duration: 9'31"
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English Writer Antony Penrose - The Boy Who Bit Picasso
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As a child, Antony Penrose hung out with the famous artist Pablo Picasso - he was a friend of young Tony's parents, artist and writer Roland Penrose and photographer Lee Miller. Many years later, Antony Penrose writes books for children. In The Boy Who Bit Picasso, he gives us a rather different perspective on the legend. His latest book is called Miro's Magic Animals. Spanish artist Joan Miró was a very different character to Picasso but just as endearing to the young Tony. Antony Penrose is heading to New Zealand for a series of talks around the country, and Lynn Freeman spoke to him in Australia, first about some of the drawings Picasso drew for him.
Topics: arts, books
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Tags: Picasso, The Boy Who Bit Picasso, Miro's Magic Animals
Duration: 19'57"
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12.42 Composer John Psathas - No Man's Land
In his monumental, multi-cultural, symphony with pictures, No Man's Land, John Psathas asks us to consider the First World War in a new light. He's brought together around 150 musicians from conflict zones, past and present, to perform on old battlegrounds and bunkers. No Man's Land premieres at the New Zealand Festival next month before going on tour. Lynn Freeman talks to John after watching the 75-minute-long video that forms the backdrop to the work, played by a live band of Kiwi, Greek and Polish musicians.
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1.10 At The Movies with Simon Morris
This week, comicbook antihero Deadpool, real-life rescue The Finest Hours and, 15 years later, the sequel to high-fashion spoof Zoolander. Also a roundup of this week's Bafta Awards.
1.34 Virtuoso Strings
Every Tuesday night, Porirua children from low-decile schools get together in a school hall to play classical music on borrowed instruments. The Virtuoso Strings Charitable Trust works with local schools, as well as other organisations that provide food and other invaluable contributions needed to keep the orchestra going. But it survives thanks to the drive of music teachers Liz Sneyd and Craig Utting. Lynn Freeman was invited to the orchestra's rehearsal.
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2.04 The Laugh Track - Lana Schwarcz
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Australian comedienne Lana Schwarcz talks about her show Lovely Lady Lumps, and plays comedy favourotes Tig Notaro, Denise Scott, Tig Notaro, Louisa Omielan and Steven Wright
2.26 Photographer Ilan Wittenberg
Israeli-born Ilan Wittenberg abandoned a family tradition of industrial engineering to become an award-winning photographer. He makes a living out of family portraiture from his converted 6-car garage on the North Shore. But 15 years after arriving in New Zealand his dream is really taking off. Lynn Freeman talks to Ilan about his new exhibition of portraits taken within the old city walls of his old home: Faces of Jerusalem: An Interfaith Journey. And a rather different project is gaining ground. Listen up if you're a man ready to expose your bare chest to his camera's lens!
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2.39 UK Performer Jonny Donohue - Every Brilliant Thing
Every Brilliant Thing is a UK theatre production that's been described as "the funniest show you’ll ever see about depression". Solo actor and former stand-up comic Jonny Donohoe talks to Sonia Sly about why he’s more than happy to deal with sensitive subject matter and the art of engaging with an audience.
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2.49 English Writer Antony Penrose - The Boy Who Bit Picasso
As a child, Antony Penrose hung out with the famous artist Pablo Picasso - he was a friend of young Tony's parents, artist and writer Roland Penrose and photographer Lee Miller. Many years later, Antony Penrose writes books for children. In The Boy Who Bit Picasso, he gives us a rather different perspective on the legend. His latest book is called Miro's Magic Animals. Spanish artist Joan Miró was a very different character to Picasso but just as endearing to the young Tony. Antony Penrose is heading to New Zealand for a series of talks around the country, and Lynn Freeman spoke to him in Australia, first about some of the drawings Picasso drew for him.
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Anthony Penrose dates
Monday 22nd February 2016 Havelock North 'Lee Miller and Picasso'
Wednesday 24th February Auckland 'Picasso through Miller and Penrose'
Thursday 25th February Hamilton 'Lee Miller and Picasso'
Monday 29th February Wellington 'Lee Miller and Picasso'
Wednesday 2nd March Nelson 'Lee Miller and Picasso'
Thursday 3rd March Blenheim 'Lee Miller and Picasso'
Monday 7th March Christchurch 'Picasso through Miller and Penrose'
Wednesday 9th March Dunedin 'Lee Miller and Picasso'
3.05 Drama At 3 - The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial
Part One of the LA Theatreworks production, starring Ed Asner.
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Highlighting radio playwriting and performance: The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial by Peter Goodchild
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World renowned physicist Professor Stephen Hawking delivers his two BBC Reith Lectures on the subject of black holes. 2. Black holes ain't as black as they are painted! (2 of 2, BBC)
A feature from the BBC World Service
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A roundup of today's news and sport
===5:10 PM. | News Special===
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An RNZ News Special covering the effects of Cyclone Winston on Fiji.
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17:10
Tropical Cyclone Winston
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A brief rundown of what's happened so far.
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Duration: 47"
17:11
Sally Round
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RNZ International's Sally Round talks about the damage and steps towards restoration.
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Duration: 3'16"
17:14
Acting head of Fiji Red Cross, Ahmad Sami
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The Fijian Government is conducting aerial surveys to assess the damage caused by Cyclone Winston. The acting head of Fiji Red Cross, Ahmad Sami, told our reporter Kate Pereyra Garcia that it's too early to say how many homes have been destroyed.
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Duration: 4'43"
17:19
Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully
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The New Zealand Government has sent an Air Force Orion to Fiji to help assess the damage caused by the cyclone. The Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully says initial reports suggest Fiji may have fared better than expected in the cyclone.
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Duration: 4'28"
17:24
Chairman of the Ba Mission Hospital Jay Dayal
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The Chairman of the Ba Mission Hospital says the town is like a war zone and he has never seen anything like it. Jay Dayal says every single house is damaged and there are whole suburbs wiped out in the wake of Cyclone Winston, a category five storm, that has now moved to the west of Fiji. He says the town of Ba is unrecognisable and resembles a war zone.
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Duration: 2'13"
17:26
Alice Clements from Unicef
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With electricity out and telecommunications patchy it could be several days before the full extent of the damage caused by Cyclone Winston is known. Alice Clements, from Unicef Pacific is in Suva and told our reporter Kate Pereyra Garcia that there won't be anyone in the country who isn't affected or know someone who is.
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Duration: 2'21"
17:28
Fane Lomani lives near Tavua
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Despite warnings to leave flimsy homes for the sturdier halls and churches which were set up as evacuation centres, some people decided to stay put and had lucky escapes. Fane Lomani lives near Tavua in the north of the main island of Viti Levu and she says many homes around her solid concrete house now lie in ruins. She says their occupants only left at the last minute at the height of the storm.
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Duration: 3'16"
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Chairman of the Fiji Community Association Nathaniel Yalimaiwai
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Community groups are meeting in Auckland now to discuss how they can help in the aftermath of the cyclone. Nathaniel Yalimaiwai is the chairman of the Fiji Community Association and is at the meeting.
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Duration: 3'33"
17:35
Will Winston hit New Zealand?
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Cyclone Winston could be heading towards the North Island later this week. But the Meteorologist Emma Blades told our reporter Kate Pereyra Garcia there is uncertainty about where the cyclone will go next.
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Duration: 2'46"
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===5:40 PM. | Te Manu Korihi===
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===6:06 PM. | Te Ahi Kaa===
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Exploring issues and events from a tangata whenua perspective (RNZ)
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18:05
He Wake Eke Noa - Pūhoro Māori Science Academy
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Te Waoriki Hunia and Arama Yancey said it was kind of 'freaky' to meet a person who had actually been in space. The two Murupara area school students are talking about Colonel Rick Searfoss who attended the launch of Pūhoro, the Māori Science Academy lead by Massey University. The eighty students and their families got to hear the inspirational advice by Māori aerospace engineer Mana Vautier who says hard work and never letting go of your dreams is the key to success.
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When Mana Vautier spoke to a room full of young Māori students from schools in the Manawatu region, his message was clear: with hard work and focus, you can achieve anything. Mana spent most of his time between New Zealand and Hong Kong, due to his dad's job in the airline industry.
He stayed in Hong Kong for 10 years and moved back to New Zealand to attend boarding school. Tertiary education would follow, as well as a number of jobs, all the while saving hard to attend college in the States.
At the opening launch of Pūhoro, the Māori Science Academy lead by Massey University, he reflected upon the list of jobs he had, including stints at McDonald's, BP service station, driving a bus, and rubbish truck collection.
When asked to talk about his heritage, Mana says the name Vautier is from Jersey Island, off the coast of Normandy, France. His mum Tangi is from Rotorua iwi Te Arawa, her hapū is Tūhourangi and she has connections to Ngāti Kahungunu.
My parents helped while we were living in Hong Kong to be sure to let us know who we are and where we are from. With dads work in the airline industry we were able to come home. As a young boy I could always identify with the haka. - Mana Vautier
Mana is the Ambassador and Big Brother of the Māori Science Academy, Pūhoro. It's the official launch that brings him home. His last visit was five years ago. Today, he works as an Aerospace Engineer at NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration).
As far back as I can remember, probably when I was back in nappies I would look at the night sky and wanted to know more about it, I wanted to go out there and explore it. - Mana Vautier
The academy will work with students from Manukura school, Hato Pāora College, Feilding High School, Awatapu College and Palmerston North Boys High School who are studying STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) related subjects. Virtual support will be given to Murupura Area School.
Each student will receive learning support through field trips, tutorials and labratory visits. Murupara Area School pupils Te Waoriki Hunia, 14 and Arama Yancey, 14 are excited to join Pūhoro. Their science teacher, Nicola Turner says the school has a brand new building with spaces set up specifically for Skype conferences.
Kahuroa Brown attends Hato Paora College, for him Pūhoro means taking advantage of an opportunity.
The idea of just opening the door to opportunities is fantastic, and presenting it in a way that's a bit more appealing to these guys. There was the analogy of the stereotypical science student and that's not necessarily how it should be, there are heaps of ways to experience and explore the world of science. - Timoti Brown
The University's collaboration partners include Te Puni Kōkiri, Te Tumu Paeroa, NZQA and the Palmerston North District Council. Leland Ruwhiu is the Academy Navigator and it's his role to work with the schools, whanau and mentors, he says the success of the programme will be determined by students who choose to study science related subjects until year 13.
Pūhoro will continue to support students through to University Entrance and workforce.
Assistant Vice Chancellor Dr Selwyn Katene says that while many Māori work in sciences, there is a need for more.
If it works here in Palmerston North and we look at developing a regional academy and then perhaps going national where we have a wide range of interested people. University Professors and lecturers working with science teachers, and enabling our students to look at science that's something a bit more than white lab coats. - Dr Selwyn Katene
Topics: te ao Maori, science, education
Regions: Manawatu
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Duration: 31'05"
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===6:40 PM. | Voices===
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===7:05 PM. | TED Radio Hour===
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===8:06 PM. | Sunday Night===
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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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Previewing the resumption of parliamentary sittings on 9 February
===11:04 PM. | None (National)===
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An hour of music that's "shaken, not stirred" every week from the Underground Martini Bunker at Kansas Public Radio (4 of 12, KPR)