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:
30 March 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:06 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Insight (RNZ); 1:15 Country Life (RNZ); 2:05 The Forum (BBC); 3:05 Blind Bitter Happiness, by Peter Feeney (1 of 10, RNZ); 3:30 Diversions (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC); 5:45 The Day in Parliament
===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
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RNZ's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including: 6:16 and 6:50 Business News 6:18 Pacific News 6:26 Rural News 6:48 and 7:45 NZ Newspapers
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06:00
Top Stories for Wednesday 30 March 2016
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The hijacking of an Egypt Air flight ends peacefully as the hijacker surrenders. Leading medical experts declare the war on drugs a failure - we'll hear from the Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne and Housing New Zealand looks to recover the cost for methamphetamine testing from former tenants.
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Duration: 28'47"
06:06
Sports News for 30 March 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'07"
06:10
Two people stabbed after thieves stole their car
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As you heard in the news there's been a stabbing in the Auckland suburb of Lynfield overnight. Reporter Gill Bonnett is at the police cordon.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: stabbing
Duration: 1'22"
06:11
Housing NZ chases tenants for $54,000 meth damage
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Housing New Zealand is looking to recoup 54-thousand-dollars from two tenants who contaminated their state houses with methamphetamine.
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Tags: Housing New Zealand, methamphetamine
Duration: 2'19"
06:13
Trump's campaign manager charged with battery
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Donald Trump's campaign manager has been charged with battery and accused of grabbing a reporter on the arm.
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Tags: US, Donald Trump
Duration: 3'24"
06:18
Wairoa iwi angry over river pollution
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Wairoa iwi are angry at the way a private company has treated local waterways, after a dam broke three months ago, contaminated rivers and stopped people from fishing and swimming over the summer.
Topics: environment
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: Waihi Dam
Duration: 2'13"
06:21
Early Business News for 30 March 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 2'12"
06:26
Morning Rural News for 30 March 2016
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'16"
06:43
Labour calls for govt to come clean on plans for Kiwibank
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The Labour Party wants the Government to come clean over its plan for New Zealand Post and its subsidiary, Kiwibank.
Topics: politics
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Tags: NZ Post, Kiwibank.
Duration: 2'10"
06:46
Flood protection scheme riddle
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Authorities on the West Coast can't fathom why the owners of landmark buildings in Franz Josef never signed up to a scheme that would protect them from floods - like the one that hit the tourist spot last week.
Topics: politics, environment
Regions: West Coast
Tags: floods
Duration: 2'03"
06:49
Financial firm raises new-house policy idea
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An Auckland based financial services firm General Finance is asking why non-resident buyers of houses in New Zealand aren't restricted to buying only new houses.
Topics: business, housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: General Finance
Duration: 1'41"
06:51
Commercial property investors knock on doors, looking to buy
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Property investors are knocking on doors in the hunt for good quality commercial buildings to buy in New Zealand's hot real estate market.
Topics: business
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Tags: property investors
Duration: 2'42"
06:54
Entrepreneurs recruiting skilled people despite small budgets
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Entrepreneurs with more brains than bucks are footing it in a hotly competitive environment -- not just for funds, but for people with the right stuff to turn their digital dreams into a reality.
Topics: business
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: entrepreneurs, Auckland Lightning Lab
Duration: 1'46"
06:56
Morning markets for 30 March 2016
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Wall Street is trading up today after the chair of the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen says it should proceed cautiously on its rate rising path.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'10"
06:58
Business briefs
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Z Energy says it has settled its dispute with the New Zealand Customs Service over the treatment of co-mingled fuels at its Wiri Oil Services terminal and other terminals.
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Duration: 1'23"
07:07
Sports News for 30 March 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'53"
07:11
EgyptAir hijack ends with passengers unharmed
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The hijacking of an Egyptian jet has ended peacefully after a five-and-a-half hour standoff overnight.
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Tags: Egypt, hijack
Duration: 4'48"
07:16
Dunne says war on drugs already over in NZ
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Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne says it is possible New Zealand will become more is promising a more tolerant approach towards minor drug offences in the coming years.
Topics: health, politics
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Tags: drugs
Duration: 5'28"
07:22
Housing NZ to step up meth testing and claw back costs
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Housing New Zealand is stepping up its testing for methamphetamine use in state houses - with a view to socking former tenants for clean-up costs.
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Tags: Housing New Zealand, methamphetamine
Duration: 2'51"
07:25
FBI botched San Bernardino iPhone issue from the start
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The FBI has managed to unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino gunman.
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Tags: FBI, iphone
Duration: 5'23"
07:35
Little lashes out at political trolls
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Politics has taken a nasty turn in recent weeks with ministers subjected to threats and insults often with a sexual undercurrent.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Andrew Little
Duration: 4'58"
07:40
Growing concern about number of attacks
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There's growing concern at a sharp spike in the number of International students being robbed or attacked in Auckland city.
Topics: politics, crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: robbery, international students
Duration: 4'41"
07:45
Franz Josef locals meet in wake of flood disaster
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Frustrated Franz Josef locals are expected to pack out a meeting this morning on how to stop the Waiho River smashing through its stop banks again.
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Regions: West Coast
Tags: Waiho river
Duration: 3'08"
07:50
Allergy sufferers say raw milk rules unfair
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Allergy sufferers say they are being disadvantaged by new rules regulating the sale of raw milk.
Topics: health
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Tags: raw milk
Duration: 3'35"
07:53
Wairoa locals want Government action on silt issue
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A Hawke's Bay farmer says she's been forced to sell her underweight stock because a broken privately-owned dam allowed silt to contaminate the water supply.
Topics: environment
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: silt, water
Duration: 3'34"
07:56
Black Caps ready themselves for T20 semi against England
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The Black Caps are set to face their toughest challenge yet in the T20 World Championships in India.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Black Caps, cricket
Duration: 2'57"
08:07
Sports News for 30 March 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'19"
08:11
Greens say NZ needs to do more to end failed war on drugs here
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The Green Party health spokesperson Kevin Hague wants a legal and regulated industry for cannabis in New Zealand.
Topics: health, politics
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Tags: drugs
Duration: 5'20"
08:17
Finance Minister leaving the door open for split
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The Finance Minister Bill English is leaving the door open to a possible split between New Zealand Post and Kiwibank.
Topics: politics
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Tags: New Zealand Post, Kiwibank, NZ Post
Duration: 2'54"
08:20
RNZ's business editor on Kiwibank split
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To dissect this further, we're joined now by RNZ's business editor, Gyles Beckford.
Topics: politics, business
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Tags: Kiwibank
Duration: 4'10"
08:24
Flood protection scheme riddle
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A week after Franz Josef was deluged, it's emerged officials tried to lock key buildings into a scheme to protect them from severe flooding - but no-one backed the plan.
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Regions: West Coast
Tags: floods
Duration: 2'51"
08:26
Black Caps and White Ferns eye finals berths at T20 world cup
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The finals of the Twenty20 world cricket cup beckon for both the New Zealand men's women cricket teams.
Topics: sport
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Tags: cricket, Twenty20
Duration: 2'59"
08:29
Markets Update for 30 March 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 59"
08:36
Suspect named in EgyptAir hijacking
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Cypriot officials have named the hijacker of the Egyptian passenger jet as Seif Eldin Mustafa.
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Tags: Egypt, hijack
Duration: 3'35"
08:40
Republican establishment desperate to oust Trump
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Moves by key Republicans to stop Donald Trump winning the nomination have ramped up as the pivotal Wisconsin primary looms.
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Tags: US, Donald Trump
Duration: 4'27"
08:45
Family fights eviction by The Maori Trustee
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An East Coast farming family is fighting to stay on their land after being evicted by the agent for Maori owners, The Maori Trustee.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions: East Coast
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Duration: 4'13"
08:51
Aerial mapping technology helps identify where aid is needed
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A New Zealand engineer says a unique aerial mapping technology which was used in Fiji after Cyclone Winston, could be hugely beneficial to the Pacific in times of disaster.
Topics: technology
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Tags: aerial mapping, Fiji, Cyclone Winston
Duration: 3'03"
08:54
Bill to give DOC rangers greater powers passes first reading
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Legislation that would give Department of Conservation rangers greater powers to arrest suspected smugglers and poachers has unanimously passed its first reading in Parliament.
Topics: politics, crime
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Tags: DOC
Duration: 2'32"
08:56
Japanese satellite out of control in space
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Japanese scientists are scrambling to save an out-of control satellite worth a quarter of a billion dollars, launched just last month.
Topics: science
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Tags: Hitomi, satellite, Japan
Duration: 2'32"
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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: One Girl One Dream by Laura Dekker (6 of 8, RNZ)
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09:08
War on Drugs a failure - study author
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A major joint study by Johns Hopkins University in the US and the British medical journal The Lancet, has criticised the War on Drugs, saying the punitive approach to drug offending has done more harm than good. The report argues that counter-narcotic policies across Europe and the United States relating to drug use and dependence have no basis in science. Next month the United Nations will hold a special General Assembly on Drugs - the first since 1998. Dr Chris Beyrer of Johns Hopkins' Blooomberg School of Public Health is one of the lead authors of the report.
Topics: health, crime, politics, author interview
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Tags: drugs
Duration: 26'55"
09:38
Japanese earthquake debris
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The millions of tonnes of debris from Japan's devastating tsunami nearly five years ago are continuing to carry sea life thousands of kilometres across the ocean - and scientists warn they could wash up on New Zealand shores too.
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Millions of tonnes of debris from Japan's devastating tsunami nearly five years ago are continuing to carry sea life thousands of kilometres across the ocean - and scientists warn they could wash up on New Zealand shores.
A magnitude nine earthquake triggered a massive wall of water that devastated Japan's north-east coast in 2011, killing almost 19,000 people and triggering a major nuclear accident.
The Japanese government estimates 75 percent of debris that was taken out to sea during the tsunami has sunk, but Jim Carlton from the Maritime Studies Program of Williams College and Mystic Seaport told Nine to Noon there were hundreds of thousands of items still afloat - from small pieces of styrofoam to entire ships.
Mr Carlton, who is the lead principal investigator on Project ADRIFT's (Assessing the Debris Related Impact From Tsunami) biological diversity assessment team, said five Japanese skiffs had washed ashore in Oregon over the past couple of days and brought with them a range of marine life.
Previously entire concrete docks have been found on Oregon and Washington beaches, with buckets and other plastics regularly washing up on Hawaii and the North American coastline.
Mr Carlton said most of the debris from the tsunami was washing ashore on the Pacific North West Coast of America and Canada, carrying with it crabs, sea urchins, anenomes, fish, clams and other species.
Historically debris would have made from wood and would have decomposed at sea, but newer materials meant it was lasting much longer.
A key question for North America and Hawaii was whether some of 330 species found alive on the debris, could become invasive in the areas.
"It's given us one of our first real looks, in the history of marine biology, for long term survival of species rafting across an ocean," Mr Carlton said.
The debris has made a nearly 7000km journey across the ocean, most of it starting from north of Tokyo, but some has been picked up along the way.
Mr Carlton said the key concern was Japanese coastal species arriving alive on the other side of the ocean.
All of the objects that had washed ashore had tested negative for radioactivity.
Mr Carlton said it was very hard to predict the fate of any objects after the tsunami and know where they would end up.
"We know that certain things left the exact same port at the exact same time and yet have very different trajectories."
It wasn't impossible that some debris - and marine life - could wash up on New Zealand shores.
"We think most of it's likely going to stay in the North Pacific, but things have surprised us quite a bit so far."
Listen to Jim Carlton on Nine to Noon:
Topics: science
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Tags: Japan, earthquake, quake, Adrift, Jim Carlton, marine, species, North Pacific Marine Science Organization
Duration: 10'32"
09:49
Australia correspondent Karen Middleton
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Possible double dissolution election. Threatened strike action at international airports. Controversial running race.
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Duration: 9'07"
10:06
Cosmologist Janna Levin on gravitational waves
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Dr Janna Levin is a professor of physics and astronomy at Columbia University, where she studies the Early Universe, Chaos, and Black Holes. She was given unprecedented access to the team behind one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history - the discovery of gravitational waves.
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Dr Janna Levin was given unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to the team behind one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history – the discovery of gravitational waves (effectively ripples in the fabric of space-time) that were first anticipated by Albert Einstein a century ago.
She observed scientists working with the most sensitive scientific instrument ever made – LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) – to identify two black holes merging to create a gravitational wave, thereby proving Einstein's space-time ripple.
Dr Levin explains to Kathryn Ryan why gravitational waves are so exciting to scientists:
Dr Janna Levin is a professor of physics and astronomy at Columbia University, where she studies the Early Universe, Chaos, and Black Holes. She is also an award winning author of books including A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines and How the Universe Got Its Spots: diary of a finite time in a finite space.
She is coming to New Zealand in May for the Auckland Writers Festival, where she will talk about her new book, Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space, which is her first-hand account of the remarkable discovery of gravitational waves.
In the video below, she shows what happens when two black holes of equal mass collide.
Topics: science, author interview
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Tags: cosmology, astronomy
Duration: 33'42"
10:40
Book review - Under the Influence by Joyce Maynard
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Reviewed by Jane Westaway, published by HarperCollins.
Topics: books
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Duration: 4'35"
11:06
Marty Duda's artist of the week - Jackson Browne
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Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne's self-titled debut album, was released in 1972 when he was 23 years old, with songs like Jamaica Say You Will, Doctor My Eyes and Rock Me On The Water. Browne continued building on that first album, resulting in a string of albums through the 1970s including For Everyman, The Pretender, Late For The Sky and Running On Empty. During the 1980s Browne's music took on a harder edge and became more political. More than 40 years after his debut, Jackson Browne released another album last year - Standing In The Breach.
Topics: music
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Tags: Jackson Browne
Duration: 21'21"
11:28
Taika Waititi - Hunt for the Wilderpeople
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Film director Taika Waititi talks about his latest NZ movie, Hunt for the Wilderpeople - starring Sam Neill and Julian Dennison, and based on the book Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump.
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Taika Waititi's latest film is a return to his trademark Kiwi outsider story, which shows a new side of Sam Neill and reveals the charm of Julian Dennison.
The director says his latest New Zealand film, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, is quite a different take on the 1986 book Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump.
Listen to the interview on Nine to Noon:
When he first wrote the screenplay, in 2005, it was a very different beast to how his final product would work out, too, partly because he found the perfect young actor to play the lead character, 13-year-old foster child Ricky Baker.
"When I wrote the first draft, I had in mind a very different character. I had more in mind a harder character, like a hardened street kid.
"The draft that I wrote back then was kind of very dramatic, very dark, wasn't very funny and full of tragedy, and I think that was me as a first-time filmmaker wanting to make my mark as a serious filmmaker."
But between putting the draft on hold and filming three other feature films, he realised he was better at comedy, and working with Dennison on a commercial also changed things.
"I thought there's a strong enough actor here that isn't the character I originally wrote, and I changed the character in the script to fit this actor.
"It's an innate sense of self. He's very confident being with himself in his own presence, really.
"He makes you feel very relaxed because he's so relaxed, and there's something very unnerving but also you gravitate towards that."
The plot of the film revolves around Baker, whose rebellious nature leads to a national manhunt through the bush for him and his foster father, Hec, played by Sam Neill.
"I cast children knowing that they don't have to act, they just have to say the lines ... and that's how you get natural performances is by not asking a kid to be different from how they grew up.
"I imagine he's a kid who wants be cool and is overcompensating a lot by dressing like he's a gangster and pretending he's a gangster - but he's never been in a fight and is actually a really loving person, which is exactly what Julian is."
Neill was a different story, a man whose prominence on the screen over decades had lent him a certain image.
"I was really concerned that I didn't want Hec to come across as well-to-do or whatever.
"I was like 'oh man, but he's always in tuxedos and stuff, how's he going to pull off being this Barry Crump character'."
But Neill's history with New Zealand cinema and his strength in films like Sleeping Dogs reminded the director of the kind of talent he was working with.
"I actually thought, wrongly - you know, when I first considered him, I thought he's a bit soft, but, you know, he's not soft at all. Sam Neill is a really hard dude."
Waititi has a long history with stories about New Zealand outsiders, but more recently has been finding wider success in Hollywood.
With Wilderpeople following critically acclaimed vampire mockumentary What We Do In the Shadows, Waititi was already moving on to direct Thor: Ragnarok from the major Hollywood blockbusting Marvel Avengers franchise.
But the action blockbuster was not his staple, he said, and he would always return to his quintessential Kiwi outsider comedy.
"You do one for you and one for them," he said.
"I'm always going to come back to the early stuff that I did because in a way I feel like it's the purest that I've been as a filmmaker or a storyteller - is because those were the ideas that I had before I knew anything about film-making or the rules."
His rise as a filmmaker was also partly to do with growing up, he said.
"Once you hit 40, I feel it's like a positive way of giving up.
"I've stopped caring that much about things I don't need to care about - I've stopped caring about being liked by everybody, I've stopped caring about things I can't change.
"All humans have that feeling like that at some point. I think humans in general, in the animal world, feel like they don't belong, they're the odd ones out. So, we're all rejects."
That understanding of a sense of otherness was informed by his youth on the East Coast and in Wellington, where he always felt like he wanted to fit in, and wanted everyone to "be together".
"When you're living out there, it is the outside world, on the East Coast we were the last to get any kind of cultural things.
"Going to the city was going to Whakatane, which if you've been there it's a city now but back then it definitely wasn't.
"I feel like most of my life I've been trying to find my place."
Topics: arts
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Tags: film, Cinema
Duration: 20'12"
11:49
Science commentator Siouxsie Wiles
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This week, science commentator Dr Siouxsie Wiles explains why parents might be unwittingly feeding their children too much sugar and talks about a citizen scientist project which sent bacteria to the International Space Station and a plan to send rhinos from Africa to Australia to protect them from poachers.
Topics: science
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Duration: 10'18"
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09:05 News and current affairs
09:30 What has become of the tonnes of debris from the Japanese quake?
The massive earthquake of the coast of Japan and resulting devastating tsunami just over five years ago, sent millions of tonnes of debris into the ocean. While some washed up on Japanese shores or sunk to the bottom of the ocean a lot of material from homes, boats, cars, buildings and other infrastructure - was swept out to sea and is still making its way across the Pacific ocean. My next guest is the lead principal investigator on Project ADRIFT's (Assessing the Debris Related Impact From Tsunami) biological diversity assessment team, monitoring what debris is ending up where and what life it's picked up along the way. Jim Carlton says there are hundreds of thousands of items afloat - from small pieces of styrofoam to ships.. everything from entire concrete docks have been found on Oregon and Washington beaches as well as small fishing boats, with buckets and other plastics regularly washing up on Hawaii and the North American coastline and plenty of life forms attaching themselves to the debris.
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09:45 Australia correspondent Karen Middleton
10:05 Black hole blues: cosmologist, Janna Levin's on the discovery of gravitational waves.
Dr Janna Levin is a professor of physics and astronomy at Columbia University, where she studies the Early Universe, Chaos, and Black Holes. She was given unprecedented access to the team behind one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history, the discovery of gravitational waves. These are ripples in the fabric of spacetime that were first anticipated by Albert Einstein a century ago.
A team of scientists at LIGO, used the most sensitive scientific instrument ever made, the billion dollar, Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, to identify the merging of two black holes, which created a gravitational wave - proving Einstein's theory.
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Dr Janna Levin is also an award winning author of books including "A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines"
and "How the Universe Got Its Spots: diary of a finite time in a finite space".
She is coming to New Zealand in May for the Auckland Writers Festival, where she will talk about her new book, Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space, which is her first hand account of the remarkable discovery of gravitational waves.
In the video below, she shows what happens when two black holes of equal mass collide.
[embed] https://youtu.be/esdzw8XETJM
10:35 Book review: Under the Influence by Joyce Maynard
Reviewed by Jane Westaway
Published by HarperCollins
10:45 The Reading 'One Girl, One Dream' written and told by Laura Dekker (Part 6 of 8)
11:05 Marty Duda's artist of the week - Jackson Browne
Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne's self-titled debut album, was released in 1972 when he was 23 years old, with songs like Jamaica Say You Will, Doctor My Eyes and Rock Me On The Water. Browne continued building on that first album, resulting in a string of albums through the 1970s including For Everyman, The Pretender, Late For The Sky and Running On Empty. During the 1980s Browne's music took on a harder edge and became more political. More than 40 years after his debut, Jackson Browne released another album last year - Standing In The Breach.
Artist: Jackson Browne
Song: Rock Me On The Water (4:12)
Composer: Jackson Browne
Album: Jackson Browne (1972)
Label: Asylum
Artist: Jackson Browne
Song: Lawyers In Love (4:18)
Composer: Jackson Browne
Album: Lawyers In Love (1983)
Label: Asylum
Artist: Jackson Browne
Song: The Birds Of St Marks (4:22)
Composer: Jackson Browne
Album: Standing In The Breach (2014)
Label: Inside
11:20 Taika Waititi - Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Film director Taika Waititi talks about his latest NZ movie, Hunt for the Wilderpeople starring Sam Neill and Julian Dennison, and based on the book Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump.
[embed] https://youtu.be/n8Xvsjy57X0
11:45 Science commentator Siouxsie Wiles
This week, science commentator Dr Siouxsie Wiles explains why parents might be unwittingly feeding their children too much sugar and talks about a citizen scientist project which sent bacteria to the International Space Station and a plan to send rhinos from Africa to Australia to protect them from poachers.
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Time: 09:30
===Noon | Midday Report===
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RNZ 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 30 March 2016
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New Zealand overtakes Australia to lead the world in melanoma rates; A world expert on narcotics says the War on Drugs is not working.
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Duration: 15'16"
12:17
Economist picks OCR fall in April
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The New Zealand dollar has jumped to a 10-day high of 68-and-a-half US cents overnight after the chair of the United States Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, said the central bank would maintain a gradual policy approach.
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Duration: 2'18"
12:19
OCR drop may not mean lower home loan rates
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Meanwhile, even if the cash rate is cut again next month, an Auckland based financial services firm says that's not likely to lead to lower home loan rates.
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Duration: 1'11"
12:20
Building consents rebound sharply in February
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As you heard in the news, building consents have rebounded sharply in February, led by apartment permits in Auckland.
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Duration: 1'10"
12:22
Volatile global dairy prices helps NZX dairy market grow
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The New Zealand sharemarket operator, NZX, says ongoing volatility in the dairy sector has helped its still fledging dairy derivatives market grow rapidly over the past year.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'35"
12:24
Midday Markets
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by James Malden at Macquarie Private Wealth.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 2'45"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 30 March 2016
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The Black Caps dismiss claims of an England advantage ahead of the World T20 semi.
Topics: sport
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Tags: cricket, Black Caps, World T20
Duration: 2'16"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 30 March 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
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Duration: 8'18"
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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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13:15
Decriminalising Drugs - Ross Bell
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The Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne has indicated today that the government might consider taking a more tolerant approach to minor drug offences.
Topics: health, law, politics
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Tags: decriminalising drugs
Duration: 13'53"
13:30
Sealice - Dr Simon Baker
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Sealice are suspected to have played a part in a teenager suffering a bad reaction after swimming in Auckland's Hauraki gulf. The 17 year old was airlifted to Auckland hospital after appearing to have an anaphylactic reaction possibly to sea lice bites. It's the latest in the string of concerns about stings and bites for wimmers in the Gulf this summer. Dr Simon Baker Medical Officer of Health at Auckland Regional Public Health Service.
Topics: health, environment
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Hauraki Gulf, sealice, anaphylactic reactions
Duration: 7'47"
13:40
Sound Archives - Sarah Johnston
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Recordings of performing animals this week - and a mad cat-lady recording!
Topics: arts, media, environment, spiritual practices
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Tags: singing cats
Duration: 8'22"
13:45
Favourite Album - True Colours
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True Colours - Split Enz
Topics: music
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Tags: Split Enz, True Colours
Duration: 13'36"
14:07
Jef Neve and The APO at Auckland Museum
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A world renown composer and pianist Jef Neve from Belgium is collaborating with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra this weekend as part of Auckland Museum's First World War Centenary programme. Jef is performing In Flanders Fields: Jef Neve and the Endurance of the First World War at the Auckland Museum on Saturday April 2 . It's part of a the series which is looking at lesser known stories from World War One combining music with readings which connect the experiences between New Zealanders and Belgians during that period. He's with Jesse in the studio to talk about his upcoming performance and other appearances while he's in New Zealand.
Topics: arts, music
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Auckland Museum, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, First World War Centenary
Duration: 14'29"
14:20
Bookmarks - Tom Scott
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Celebrated cartoonist Tom Scott tells about a few of his favourite things on Bookmarks today.
Topics: arts, books, author interview
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Tags: cartoonists
Duration: 35'35"
15:07
Geoffonomics - Geoff Simmons
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Economist Geoff Simmons analyses the Universal Basic Income proposed by the Labour Party at their Future Of Work conference, recently.
Topics: politics, economy
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Tags: Labour Party Future of Work conference
Duration: 13'04"
15:15
The Wireless Preview - Lucy Smith
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Sex education has been taught in New Zealand schools since 1999, and last year the Ministry of Education released an updated guide for schools on teaching sexuality which addresses issues of consent, coercion and cultural differences. But while sex ed is a compulsory part of the curriculum, schools are free to decide how they teach it - so what we learn (and don't learn) can vary wildly from one school to the next. Lucy Smith hit the streets for The Wireless to find out people learnt in high school sex education and what they wished they'd been told.
Topics: education, media
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Tags: schools, sex education
Duration: 3'11"
15:25
History - Grant Morris
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Victoria University legal history lecturer Grant Morris discusses the orgins of New Zealand's free education system.
Topics: education, history
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Tags: free education systems
Duration: 10'07"
15:45
Panel Pre-Show - Jesse & Jim & Zara
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What the world is talking about with Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zara Potts.
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Duration: 14'33"
=SHOW NOTES=
1:10 First Song
'To My Surprise' - James.
1:15 Decriminalising Drugs - Ross Bell
The Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne has indicated today that the government might consider taking a more tolerant approach to minor drug offences. Ross Bell is the Director of the New Zealand Foundation. He welcomes a 'harm minimisation' approach to drugs.
1:27 Sealice - Dr Simon Baker
Sealice are suspected to have played a part in a teenager suffering a bad reaction after swimming in Auckland's Hauraki gulf. The 17 year old was airlifted to Auckland hospital after appearing to have an anaphylactic reaction possibly to sea lice bites. It's the latest in the string of concerns about stings and bites for wimmers in the Gulf this summer. Dr Simon Baker Medical Officer of Health at Auckland Regional Public Health Service.
1:34 Sound Archives - Sarah Johnston
Recordings of performing animals this week - and a mad cat-lady recording!
1:40 Favourite Album
True Colours - Split Enz.
2:10 Jef Neve and The APO at Auckland Museum
A world renown composer and pianist Jef Neve from Belgium is collaborating with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra this weekend as part of Auckland Museum's First World War Centenary programme. Jef is performing In Flanders Fields: Jef Neve and the Endurance of the First World War at the Auckland Museum on Saturday April 2 .
2:20 Bookmarks - Tom Scott
Celebrated cartoonist Tom Scott tells about a few of his favourite things on Bookmarks today.
3:10 Geoffonomics - Geoff Simmons
Economist Geoff Simmons analyses the Universal Basic Income proposed by the Labour Party at their Future Of Work conference, recently.
3:20 The Wireless
Sex education has been taught in New Zealand schools since 1999, and last year the Ministry of Education released an updated guide for schools on teaching sexuality which addresses issues of consent, coercion and cultural differences. But while sex ed is a compulsory part of the curriculum, schools are free to decide how they teach it - so what we learn (and don't learn) can vary wildly from one school to the next. Lucy Smith hit the streets for The Wireless to find out people learnt in high school sex education and what they wished they'd been told.
3:30 History - Grant Morris
Victoria University legal history lecturer Grant Morris discusses the orgins of New Zealand's free education system.
3:35 New Zealand Society
A woman, a dog and thousands of kilometres of New Zealand road. Leisa McNaughton is cycling the country with her canine companion, Indy, to raise awareness of mental illness. She caught up with Katy Gosset as she passed through Christchurch and shared her own story of recovery.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about with Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zara Potts.
=PLAYLIST=
JESSE'S SONG:
ARTIST: James
TITLE: To My Surprise
COMP: Jim Glennie
ALBUM: The Girl at The End Of The World
LIVE: Mercury
FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST: Split Enz
TITLE: Shark Attack
COMP: Tim Finn
ALBUM: True Colours
LABEL: Polydor
ARTIST: Split Enz
TITLE: I Wouldn't Dream Of It
COMP: Tim Finn
ALBUM: True Colours
LABEL: Polydor
ARTIST: Split Enz
TITLE: Nobody Takes Me Seriously
COMP: Tim Finn
ALBUM: True Colours
LABEL: Polydor
FEATURE INTERVIEW: Jef Neve
ARTIST: Jef Neve
TITLE: Anthem For Our Fathers
COMP: Jef Neave
ALBUM: In Flanders Fields (Soundtrack)
LABEL: Download
BOOKMARKS FEATURE: Tom Scott's Music Picks
ARTIST: The Beatles
TITLE: There's A Place
COMP: Paul McCartney, John Lennon
ALBUM: Please, Please Me
LABEL: Parlophone
ARTIST: Van Morrison
TITLE: I'll Be Your Lover Too
COMP: Van Morrison
ALBUM: Street Choir
LABEL: Warner
PANEL HALF TIME SONG:
ARTIST: Leonard Cohen
TITLE: Everybody Knows
COMP: Leonard Cohen, Sharon Robinson
ALBUM: I'm Your Man.
LABEL: Columbia
===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
=DESCRIPTION=
An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
=AUDIO=
15:45
Panel Pre-Show - Jesse & Jim & Zara
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What the world is talking about with Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zara Potts.
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Duration: 14'33"
16:00
The Panel with Philippa Stevenson and Steve McCabe (Part 1)
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What the Panelists Steve McCabe and Philippa Stevenson have been up to;Govt supports change in drug stance;Auckland crime;150 yr-old tree felled for CHCH memorial.
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Duration: 22'29"
16:10
Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Steve McCabe and Philippa Stevenson have been up to.
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Duration: 4'10"
16:14
Govt supports change in drug stance
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The Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne agrees that punishing drug addicts has done more harm than good.
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Duration: 4'19"
16:20
Auckland crime
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Kim Workman discusses whether more police officers on the beat are beating crime and whether recent attacks on Asian students are race-related.
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Duration: 10'36"
16:27
150 yr-old tree felled for CHCH memorial
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Should a 150 year-old tree have been cut down to make way for Christchurch's earthquake memorial?
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Duration: 1'24"
16:30
The Panel with Philippa Stevenson and Steve McCabe (Part 2)
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New research has found that pessimists are less stressed having accepted the inevitability of the worst possible outcome;What the Panelists Steve McCabe and Philipa Stevenson have been thinking about;Lincoln University Honourary professor Rupert Tipples discusses the problems facing farmers when trying to employ locals;Which came first the news or the ad placement?Listener feedback.
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Duration: 27'32"
16:33
The bright side of pessimism
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New research has found that pessimists are less stressed having accepted the inevitability of the worst possible outcome.
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Duration: 8'13"
16:45
Employing locals in a low wage economy
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Lincoln University Honourary professor Rupert Tipples discusses the problems facing farmers when trying to employ locals.
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Duration: 12'53"
16:54
Which came first the news or the ad placement?
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A news story about actress Billie Piper's split from her husband featured ads for the very leather jacket she was wearing on the same web page.
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Duration: 2'50"
16:58
Listener feedback
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Some coments from Panel listeners
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Duration: 3'13"
=SHOW NOTES=
===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
=DESCRIPTION=
RNZ's weekday drive-time news and current affairs programme
=AUDIO=
17:00
Checkpoint with John Campbell, 30th March 2016
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Watch Wednesday's full programme here. It begins 5 minutes in.
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Duration: 00"
17:08
24,000 underpaid in MBIE mix-up
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The Minister responsible for Novopay has flagged more potential problems with the school payroll system, with wages for 24,000 employees underpaid.
Topics: education, economy, politics
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Tags: Novopay, MBIE
Duration: 2'46"
17:15
New Zealand highest rate of melanoma worldwide
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A new study has shown Australia has succeeded in reducing melanoma rates while New Zealand has not, leaving the country with the highest skin cancer rate in the world.
Topics: health
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Tags: melanoma
Duration: 5'52"
17:17
Health minister defends
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The Health Minister, Jonathan Coleman, says melanoma rates have always been high in New Zealand.
Topics: health, politics
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Tags: melanoma
Duration: 59"
17:20
New poll shows support for medical cannabis
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A poll by UMR of 1750 New Zealanders have shown over 70 percent support legalising the drug for medical use.
Topics: health, politics
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Tags: medical marijuana
Duration: 4'15"
17:24
Parliament unresponsive to cannabis law change
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Parliament seems unlikely to change its tactics on medical or recreational marijuana, despite public support. Eric Frykberg reports.
Topics: health, politics
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Tags: medical marijuana
Duration: 3'19"
17:27
Official flag referendum results posted
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56.6 percent of New Zealand voters have chosen to retain the current flag, after final results came in which included an additional 15,000 votes.
Topics: politics, life and society
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Tags: flag referendums
Duration: 2'04"
17:28
Council happy with $5million from Auditor General
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The Auditor General's office is to pay the Kaipara District Council more than $5 million to settle a claim over its role in the council's debt crisis.
Topics: environment, politics
Regions: Northland
Tags: Kaipara District Council, Auditor General's office, debts
Duration: 2'50"
17:33
Evening business for 30 March 2016
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News from the business sector, including a market report.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 3'54"
17:38
Finance Minister rules out sale of NZ Post
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The Finance Minister has ruled out privatising New Zealand Post either partially or fully after its announcement last week that it would be shedding 500 jobs by July.
Topics: business, economy, politics
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Tags: NZ Post, job cuts
Duration: 2'02"
17:42
Home buyers encouraged to test for P contamination
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Home buyers are being encouraged to add yet another item to their list of costs when purchasing a home -- a methamphetamine contamination test.
Topics: housing, health, life and society
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Tags: home buyers, P-contamination
Duration: 3'22"
17:45
New work safety regulations to come into effect
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New Health and Safety at Work regulations come into effect on Monday, with Minister Michael Woodhouse now under fire from accusations of Nanny State-ism.
Topics: health, politics
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Tags: health and safety work regulations
Duration: 7'02"
17:47
Westland District Council plan to remediate stop-banks
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After a three hour meeting today, the Westland District Council says a plan is in place to remediate the stop-banks which burst in Franz Josef last week.
Topics: environment, politics, weather
Regions: West Coast
Tags: Waiho river, Franz Josef, Westland District Council, flooding
Duration: 3'26"
18:10
NZ rate of melanoma is highest in the world
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New Zealand's rate of melanoma is now the highest in the world.
Topics: health, environment
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Tags: melanoma rates
Duration: 4'33"
18:17
Black Caps, White Ferns prepare for World Cup semis
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As the Black Caps gear up for their T20 cricket World Cup semi-final against England in Kolkata tonight, the White Ferns have one last day to prepare for theirs.
Topics: sport
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Tags: T20 Cricket World Cup, Black Caps, white ferns, cricket
Duration: 4'56"
18:18
Bees' survival threatened
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The National Beekeepers Association says an influx of newcomers to the industry is threatening bees survival.
Topics: environment, rural, farming, life and society
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Tags: bee-keepers, honey, bees' survival
Duration: 3'21"
18:20
Medical marijuana debate
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The medical marijuana debate has been snowballing for months now, but now a new poll suggests an overwhelming majority of New Zealanders would support letting people use cannabis for medical purposes.
Topics: health
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Tags: medical marijuana
Duration: 2'13"
18:22
Time running out for Kaimanawa horses
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Time is running out for dozens of Kaimanawa horses if rescuers don't come forward by this Friday with offers to rehome them.
Topics: environment, farming, rural, life and society, politics
Regions: Waikato, Whanganui, Hawkes Bay
Tags: Kaimanawa horses, Department of Conservation
Duration: 4'59"
18:26
New Zealand premiere of Hunt for the Wilderpeople
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Tonight,the new film from director, writer and occasional actor, Taika Waititi, has its formal New Zealand premiere in Auckland, and its informal premiere in cinemas throughout the country.
Topics: arts
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Tags: film, Hunt For the Wilderpeople
Duration: 4'49"
18:55
Today In Parliament for Wednesday 30 March 2016
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Finance Minister Bill English bats away speculation about a partial sell-off of New Zealand Post; Mr English also fields questions on behalf the Minister for Building and Housing; Stuart Nash puts questions to Police Minister Judith Collins; Maori Affairs Committee briefed on the TPPA and how it affects Maori.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 5'12"
=SHOW NOTES=
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3lS2qVBadNMMAlUGMY011XfILokeUeaa
===6:30 PM. | Worldwatch===
=DESCRIPTION=
The stories behind the international headlines
===6:55 PM. | In Parliament===
=DESCRIPTION=
===7:06 PM. | Nights===
=DESCRIPTION=
RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information
=AUDIO=
19:12
German Responses to Refugees
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Our Changing World host Veronika Meduna recently spent time in Germany visiting family and friends, where she witnessed contrasting responses to what has been a dramatic increase in migrants, particularly from war-torn Syria...
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Tags: Germany, Angela Merkel, nationalism, resettlement.
Duration: 21'11"
20:12
Nights' Overseas Reports - Uganda
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Uganda's Daily Monitor journalist Tabu Butagira reports on the Republic of Uganda, pop. 35,873,253 (est. 2012)... its the eve of the ruling by Uganda's Supreme Court on a petition challenging the re-election of incumbent President Yoweri Museveni...
Topics: life and society, politics, economy
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Tags: Uganda, Yoweri Museveni.
Duration: 16'17"
=SHOW NOTES=
7:12 German Responses to Refugees
Our Changing World host Veronika Meduna recently spent time in Germany visiting family and friends, where she witnessed contrasting responses to what has been a dramatic increase in migrants, particularly from war-torn Syria...
7:30 Spectrum - Going Under Kava
New Zealand people and their stories
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8:12 Nights' Overseas Reports - Uganda
Uganda's Daily Monitor journalist Tabu Butagira reports on the Republic of Uganda, pop. 35,873,253 (est. 2012)... its the eve of the ruling by Uganda's Supreme Court on a petition challenging the re-election of incumbent President Yoweri Museveni...
8:30 Window on the World - Assignment: Hungary at the Cutting Edge
international public radio documentaries
9:07 The Drama Hour - Yellow Bride pt 2 of 2
10:17 Late Edition
a round up of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International
11:07 At the Eleventh Hour - New Jazz Archive: Charlie Parker
jazzy jazz
... nights' time is the right time...
===7:35 PM. | Spectrum===
=DESCRIPTION=
Clap once, down a coconut shell of muddy water, then clap three times and pass on the shell while your tongue slowly numbs. But how does kava mix with modern day activities like driving, given its growing popularity outside the Islands and its increased consumption by followers of teetotal religions? (RNZ)
===8:30 PM. | Windows On The World===
=DESCRIPTION=
International public radio features and documentaries
===9:06 PM. | None (National)===
=DESCRIPTION=
Queenie is from the Philippines, now married to Jason and living in New Zealand. they seem to be the perfect couple with two sons, as well as being rich and successful. But then Jason decides to leave to marry the boss' daughter (2 of 2, RNZ)
===10:00 PM. | Late Edition===
=DESCRIPTION=
RNZ news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from RNZ National
===11:06 PM. | None (National)===
=DESCRIPTION=
Exploring jazz's place in the story of America. Each episode is a collection of stories, interviews, and music that relates the past, present and future of jazz (11 of 12)