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:
02 April 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight (RNZ); 12:30 Laugh Track (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (BBC); 2:05 NZ Live; 3:05 Blind Bitter Happiness, written and read by Peter Feeney (2 of 10, RNZ); 3:30 The Week (RNZ); 4:30 Global Business (BBC); 5:10 Witness (BBC); 5:45 Voices (RNZ)
===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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Can't Fool Me, by David Hill, told by Brian Sergent; Mist, by Gaelyn Gordon, told by Peter Kaa; The Loblolly Boy, by James Norcliffe, told by Dick Weir; The Three Magicians, by Margaret Mahy, told by Grant Tilly; He Won't Escape Us, by Pauline Cartwright, told by Grant Tilly
===7:10 AM. | Country Life===
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Memorable scenes, people and places in rural New Zealand (RNZ)
===8:10 AM. | Saturday Morning===
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A mixture of current affairs and feature interviews, until midday (RNZ)
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08:12
Karen McCluskey: reducing violence in Scotland
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Colin Peacock interviews the Director of the Violence Reduction Unit, a national centre of expertise on violence based in Glasgow. The VRU was established in 2005 to take a public health approach to violence, treating it as an infection which can be cured.
Topics: crime, economy, history, law, politics
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Tags: violence, Scotland
Duration: 25'04"
08:35
Simon Kuper: football, money and Leicester City
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Colin Peacock interviews the sports columnist for the Financial Times, and co-author of Soccernomics, a 2009 book about how money influences the game.
Topics: author interview, business, money, politics, sport
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Tags: Leicester City, Europe, football, Scotland, France, terrorism
Duration: 23'01"
09:07
Yossi Alpher: Israel's place in the Middle East
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Colin Peacock interviews the Israeli writer and consultant who co-founded and edited the Israeli-Palestinian online publication bitterlemons.net. He is the author of Periphery: Israel's Search for Middle East Allies, and No End of Conflict: Rethinking Israel-Palestine, and will be a guest at the Auckland Writers Festival in May.
Topics: author interview, books, conflict, defence force, history, inequality, politics, refugees and migrants, security, world
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Tags: Israel, Palestine, Iran, Morocco
Duration: 23'29"
09:30
Michael Moore: Where To Invade Next
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Colin Peacock interviews American documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, whose first film in six years, Where To Invade Next, looks at social welfare programmes across Europe, Scandinavia and the Middle East, and will screen at the New Zealand Film Festival Autumn Events programme during April and May.
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Michael Moore has been making successful documentary films since his 1989 debut feature Roger and Me, about the economic decline of his home town of Flint, Michigan.
His first film in six years, Where To Invade Next, looks at social welfare programmes across Europe, Scandinavia and the Middle East, and will screen at the New Zealand Film Festival Autumn Events programme in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, during April and May.
He talks to Colin Peacock.
Topics: economy, education, environment, food, history, inequality, life and society, media, money, politics, world
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Tags: social welfare, film
Duration: 18'13"
09:45
Art Crime with Arthur Tompkins: Madonna of the Yarnwinder
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Colin Peacock interviews Arthur Tompkins, member of Interpol's DNA Monitoring Expert Group with a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces, about the theft and recovery of Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna of the Yarnwinder.
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Arthur Tompkins is a District Court Judge, and member of Interpol’s DNA Monitoring Expert Group. He has a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces.
Today, he discusses the theft, and eventual recovery, of Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna of the Yarnwinder.
The painting is one of only a handful of da Vinci's that can confidently attributed to the artist, and was commissioned in the closing years of the 15th Century.
Its value is estimated to be worth from £30 million-£50 million.
Tompkins talks to Colin Peacock about the high-profile theft in 2003.
Topics: arts, crime, history
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Tags: Leonardo da Vinci
Duration: 9'38"
10:06
Dafydd Davis: trails and mountain bikes
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Colin Peacock interviews a leading Welsh trails consultant and advocate for sustainable land management who is visiting New Zealand to help develop a master plan for Makara Peak Mountain Bike Park.
Topics: environment, history, sport, transport, world
Regions: Wellington Region, Canterbury
Tags: cycling, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Simon Kennett, Makara, trails, bike trails
Duration: 23'25"
10:35
Paul McLaney: Shakespeare, soliloquies and song
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Colin Peacock interviews Paul McLaney - composer, singer and guitarist, and deputy chair of the NZ Music Commission. He is the creator of Play On: a Musical Imagining of the Great Soliloquies, the only dedicated musical production during the Pop-up Globe season in Auckland, with musicians, actors, a string section and three-piece acoustic band.
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Colin Peacock interviews the composer, singer and guitarist, and deputy chair of the NZ Music Commission. He is the creator of Play On: a Musical Imagining of the Great Soliloquies, the only dedicated musical production during the Pop-up Globe season in Auckland, with musicians, actors, a string section, and three-piece acoustic band.
Topics: arts, education, history, life and society, music, refugees and migrants, world
Regions: Northland, Auckland Region
Tags: Shakespeare, Pop-up Globe, Marx, Gramsci, intellectual property
Duration: 28'30"
11:07
Fiona Pardington: photography, family and objets trouve
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Colin Peacock interviews one of New Zealand's most celebrated photographers whose new book, A Beautiful Hesitation, is published in tandem with the largest exhibition of her work to date, currently showing at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.
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Dr Fiona Pardington is one of New Zealand’s most celebrated photographers.
Her new book, A Beautiful Hesitation (VUP), is published in tandem with the largest exhibition of her work to date, currently showing at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (until 19 June).
She talks to Colin Peacock about her career and the things that have inspired her work.
Topics: arts, books, history, identity, life and society, spiritual practices, te ao Maori
Regions: Auckland Region, Southland
Tags: Neil Pardington, Mike Hosking, Aaron Lister, photography, parrots, Bluff, Hana O'Regan
Duration: 31'02"
11:37
"Ukulele Russ" Copelin: one-man Alaskan band
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Colin Peacock interviews a survivalist and ukulele virtuoso from Fairbanks, Alaska, who makes his second visit here for masterclasses, workshops and concerts in Auckland, and plays two songs live on his ukulele, U-bass, loopers, and harmonica.
Topics: arts, environment, food, life and society, music, rural, technology, world
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Alaska, moose, Caribou, ukulele, Maine, water
Duration: 21'58"
11:55
Listener Feedback to Saturday 2 April 2016
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Colin Peacock reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 2 April.
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Duration: 5'22"
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8:12 Karyn McCluskey
Karyn McCluskey is Director of the Violence Reduction Unit, a national centre of expertise on violence based in Glasgow. The VRU was established in 2005 to take a public health approach to violence, treating it as an infection which can be cured.
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8:35 Simon Kuper
Simon Kuper is sports columnist for the Financial Times, and writes a general column for the Weekend FT. He has written a number of books including (with Stefan Szymanski), Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey - and even Iraq - are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport (Nation Books).
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9:05 Yossi Alpher
Former Mossad official Yossi Alpher is an Israeli writer and consultant. He headed a strategic think tank at Tel Aviv University, was special adviser to Ehud Barak during the 2000 Camp David Summit, and co-founded and edited the Israeli-Palestinian online publication bitterlemons.net. He is the author of Periphery: Israel’s Search for Middle East Allies (Rowman and Littlefield) and No End of Conflict: Rethinking Israel-Palestine (Rowman and Littlefield), and is a guest at two events at the Auckland Writers Festival in May.
9:30 Michael Moore
Michael Moore has been making successful documentary films since his 1989 debut feature Roger and Me, about the economic decline of his home town of Flint, Michigan. His first film in six years, Where To Invade Next, looks at social welfare programmes across Europe, Scandinavia and the Middle East, and will screen at the New Zealand Film Festival Autumn Events programme in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, during April and May.
9:45 Art Crime with Arthur Tompkins
Arthur Tompkins is a District Court Judge, and member of Interpol’s DNA Monitoring Expert Group. He has a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces, and will discuss the theft and eventual recovery of Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna of the Yarnwinder.
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10:05 Dafydd Davis
Dafydd Davis, MBE, is a leading Welsh trails consultant and advocate for sustainable land management. He has been involved in recreation management and development of mountain bike and trail facilities for the last 22 years, and has worked throughout the UK, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Australia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Canada and Norway. He is visiting New Zealand to help develop a master plan for Makara Peak Mountain Bike Park.
10:35 Paul McLaney
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Composer, singer and guitarist Paul McLaney is the deputy chair of the NZ Music Commission, consults on intellectual property issues, and has released albums under his own name, and as Gramsci. At the instigation of actor/directors Ian Mune and Peter Elliot, he has created Play On: a Musical Imagining of the Great Soliloquies, the only dedicated musical production during the Pop-up Globe season in Auckland. McLaney is joined for the one-off show (3 April) by musicians and actors Julia Deans, Laughton Kora, Cameron Rhodes, Maisey Rika, Esther Stephens and Mara TK, alongside the EDIN string section and a three-piece acoustic band.
11:05 Fiona Pardington
Dr Fiona Pardington is one of New Zealand’s most celebrated photographers. Her new book, A Beautiful Hesitation (VUP), is published in tandem with the largest exhibition of her work to date, currently showing at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (to 19 June).
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11:30 “Ukulele Russ” Copelin
Russ Copelin (a.k.a. Ukulele Russ) is a ukulele virtuoso, who lives in Fairbanks, Alaska. He makes his second visit to New Zealand this month, with a masterclass at Music Works Albany (3 April), a masterclass and concert at Campbell Hall, Morrinsville (9 April), and a Sunday afternoon “Woncert” (workshop concert) at the Outram Hall, Murrays Bay Beach (10 April ).
This Saturday’s team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Brad Warrington
Auckland engineer: Brian Mahoney
Research by Infofind
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Artist: Paul McLaney
Song: Pick Up The Pieces
Composer: Paul McLaney
Album: Edin
Label: LOOP, 2006
Broadcast: 10:30
Artist: Paul McLaney
Song: Our Revels Now Are Ended
Composer: Paul McLaney, William Shakespeare
Live in the RNZ Auckland studio
Broadcast: 10:50
Artist: Ukulele Russ
Song: City by the River
Composer: Russ Copelin
Live in the RNZ Auckland studio
Broadcast: 11:40
Artist: Ukulele Russ
Song: Laundry
Composer: Russ Copelin
Live in the RNZ Auckland studio
Broadcast: 11:55
===12:11 PM. | This Way Up===
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Exploring the things we use and consume. Some content may offend (RNZ)
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12:01
This Way Up 2 April 2016 Part 1
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Music streaming (Spotify and SoundCloud Go), analysis of Apple vs FBI, and ebooks and reader analytics.
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Duration: 50'04"
12:15
Music Streaming: Spotify and SoundCloud Go
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The global business of music streaming services is going off. This week SoundCloud's launching a paid subscription service called Go and Spotify's raising US$1 billion as it gears up for a public listing in the next year or two. We're speaking to Douglas MacMillan, a technology reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and John Paul Titlow of Fast Company who's been speaking to SoundCloud about its plans.
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"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." -Hunter S. Thompson
In the music streaming business, popularity comes at a cost. Every time a track gets played someone is meant to pay a label or artist. So the more users, the bigger the royalty payments.
This could be one of the reasons that Spotify is looking to raise US$1 billion in extra cash in preparation for listing on the stock exchange and becoming a publicly owned company. Douglas MacMillan is a technology reporter for the Wall Street Journal covering the story.
Meanwhile, SoundCloud has just announced a paid subscription service called Go as it tries to turn more of its user base of some 175 million users listening to over 100 million tracks into paid subscribers. John Paul Titlow of Fast Company has been at the launch of SoundCloud Go this week.
Topics: music, technology, internet, media
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Tags: streaming music services, Spotify, Soundcloud, Apple Music, Tidal
Duration: 19'05"
12:30
Apple vs FBI: the war over encryption
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Kashmir Hill of fusion.net on the implications of the FBI versus Apple fight over access to an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters. With the FBI announcing this week that it's managed to unlock the phone without Apple's help, what does this mean in the context of an ongoing global "war over encryption"?
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After months of legal manoeuvring and Apple protests over the FBI wanting access to an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters, the FBI has announced this week that it's unlocked the phone in question without Apple's help. So what was all the fuss about?
Kashmir Hill of fusion.net has been following the story from the outset and analyses what the whole affair means for us tech users, in the context of an ongoing global battle over privacy and encryption.
"Do we want to have places that the government can't look? Do we want to have devices that can't be unlocked? The FBI director James Comey says it's like a car company building cars with trunks that you can't unlock. That's how the government sees it, and for technology companies they say once you build a backdoor into a device it's not guaranteed that only the government will be the one to use the backdoor; it could be used by hackers or by someone who means ill intent towards a user. A lot of times these are framed as privacy against security debates, but this is really security versus security. It's public safety as perceived and conceived of by the government versus by customer facing technology companies." - Kashmir Hill
Topics: technology, internet, media
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Tags: Apple; FBI; security; privacy
Duration: 10'52"
12:50
Reader analytics
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Digital ebooks are opening up unique opportunities for measuring reader behaviour, helping publishers and writers track how people read books, and when they might give up. Andrew Rhomberg is the founder of Jellybooks, a business specialising in the emerging field of reader analytics.
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Reading a physical paper book has typically been a quiet, private experience.
But digital ebooks are opening up unique opportunities for measuring reader behaviour, helping publishers and writers track how people read books for, and when they might give up.
Andrew Rhomberg is the founder of Jellybooks, a business specialising in the emerging field of reader analytics.
Topics: technology, media
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Tags: publishing; tracking; data; reader analytics
Duration: 8'20"
13:01
This Way Up 2 April 2016 Part 2
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Discoveries in amber, ebikes buyer's guide, and how genes define us.
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Duration: 52'11"
13:10
Amber: world market and discoveries in amber
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The world market for the precious gemstone amber is booming; driven by demand from China, prices have risen by up to 1000% over the past 5 years. Amidst fears that this demand might be slowing, Alex Duval Smith has been measuring the mood at Amberif, the world's annual amber trade fair in Poland. Also, discoveries in amber, and the precious gemstone has proved the perfect storage medium for all kinds of ancient life. George Poinar of Oregon State University has been studying amber and what is in it for over 50 years. It was his pioneering work extracting DNA from insects fossilized in amber that inspired Michael Crichton to write Jurassic Park, the book that gave birth to the massive movie franchise! His discoveries in amber have included 120 million year old weevils, a new plant species that's a 45-million-year-old relative of coffee, ancient flowers, and fossil records of the world's oldest bee.
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Imagine you're an ant, a lizard or a mayfly happily going about your business walking along a tree branch when a great big glob of pine resin falls on you, trapping you and causing your slow and painful demise through suffocation. Bummer!
Now it probably won't cheer you up much but if you fast forward 100 million years the fossilised tree resin you're entombed in will have become a valuable gemstone called amber that can fetch top dollar on the open market, and even more because it's got you in it.
The world amber market is booming; driven by demand from China prices have risen tenfold over the past 5 years, but there are fears that this demand might be slowing. Alex Duval Smith has just been to Amberif, the world's annual amber trade fair in Poland, to see the deals getting done.
George Poinar of Oregon State University has been studying amber and its intrusions for 50-odd years. It was his work extracting DNA from insects fossilized in amber that inspired Michael Crichton to write Jurassic Park, the book that gave birth to a massive film franchise.
Topics: science
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Tags: Poland, genetic techniques, DNA, amber
Duration: 19'56"
13:30
Ebikes buyer's guide
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With more and more of us eager to coast uphill (relatively) painlessly we look at the latest electric bikes on the market with Paul Smith, the Head of Testing at consumer.org.nz.
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With more and more of us eager to coast uphill (relatively) painlessly we look at the latest electric bikes on the market with Paul Smith, the Head of Testing at consumer.org.nz. You can find Paul's report here.
Topics: technology, transport
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Tags: Electric bikes, bicycles, cycling, ebikes
Duration: 15'01"
13:45
How genes define us
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Stephen Montgomery studies genetics and runs the Montgomery Lab at Stanford University. He's particularly interested in how and why genes, of which we have over 20,000 in our human genome, turn on and off and vary from person to person. From the production of insulin to turning your hair grey, knowing how our genes function and change over time could be used to help us fight illness and prevent diseases in the future.
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Stephen Montgomery studies genetics and runs the Montgomery Lab at Stanford University. He's particularly interested in how and why genes, of which we have over 20,000 in our human genome, turn on and off and vary from person to person. From the production of insulin to turning your hair grey, knowing how our genes function and change over time could be used to help us fight illness and prevent diseases in the future.
Topics: science, health
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Tags: genetics
Duration: 13'44"
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===2:05 PM. | Music 101===
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The best songs, music-related stories, interviews, live music, industry news and music documentaries from NZ and the world
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14:00
Music 101 Pocket Edition 80: Low/ De La Soul/ Will Wood
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Low perform an impromptu a capella, we go round two with Will Wood and Trevor Reekie gets 3 feet high with De La Soul.
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In the Music 101 Pocket Edition 80: Low perform an impromptu a capella, we go round two with Will Wood and Trevor Reekie gets 3 feet high with De La Soul.
Topics: music
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Tags: Music 101 Pocket Edition, Music 101 podcast
Duration: 1h 02'02"
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Low
Kirsten Johnstone joins Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk for an acapella session at Wellington's Bodega.
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Will Wood
The Auckland- based Americana artist doubles down with his new release, Magpie Brain and Other Stories.
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The Sampler: The Renderers
Nick Bollinger listens to the latest desert-baked release from Brian and Maryrose Crook - In The Sodium Light.
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De La Soul
Trevor Reekie talks Prince Paul, sampling, and how they followed up a groundbreaking debut 3 Feet High and Rising.
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Introducing: Embedded Figures
Amber Skye shares a song from her feminist dance project.
We Are Temporary
Previously based in Christchurch where he performed with The Enright House, Mark Roberts is a Brooklyn-based German-American who makes electronic music as We Are Temporary; he also runs Stars & Letters Records, which has released music from Black City Lights and The Shocking Pinks. Mark speaks with Shaun D Wilson about his focus-grouped We Are Temporary album, Crossing Over.
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The Secret Life of Gig Etiquette
The tall guy at the front, the girl dancing with the overflowing beer, the dude bro who doesn't understand the word 'no' – the rules governing behaviour at gigs are likely to go unnoticed until they are broken. Melody Thomas speaks with door people, security guards, musicians and gig lovers about the codes of conduct for a happy gig-going experience.
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The Proclaimers
On first appraisal, Scottish duo The Proclaimers have leveraged their career on little more than two hit records. But their success is actually based on a serious commitment to playing live, and a well above average strike rate placing music into films and TV. Before their next New Zealand appearances, Trevor Reekie talks to The Proclaimers's Charlie Reid about how he and his brother Craig became a success on their own terms.
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===5:11 PM. | Focus on Politics===
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Analysis of political issues presented by RNZ's Parliamentary team (RNZ)
===5:30 PM. | Tagata o te Moana===
Tagata o te Moana for 2 April
Little water left as Micronesia struggles with months-long drought; The governor of Port Moresby is calling for public debate on reforming abortion law in Papua New Guinea; NZ aid survey shows faults in system; Some of latest NZ aid to Fiji goes to dairy sector; A New Zealand engineer says a unique aerial mapping technology which was used in Fiji after Cyclone Winston, could be hugely beneficial to the region in times of disaster; Public transport operators in Vanuatu want level playing field; Sport: Sacked Tonga 7s coach hasn't been paid.
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Pacific news, features, interviews and music for all New Zealanders, giving an insight into the diverse cultures of the Pacific people (RNZI)
===6:06 PM. | Great Encounters===
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In-depth interviews selected from RNZ National's feature programmes during the week (RNZ)
===7:06 PM. | Saturday Night===
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Saturday nights on RNZ National is where Phil O'Brien plays the songs YOU want to hear. All music from 7 till midnight (RNZ)