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A 24-hour recording of Radio New Zealand National. The following rundown is sourced from the broadcaster’s website. Note some overseas/copyright restricted items may not appear in the supplied rundown:
22 September 2015
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Spectrum (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (RNZ); 2:05 Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy (6 of 13, PRX) 3:05 The Angels Cut, by Elizabeth Knox (14 of 15, RNZ); 3:30 An Author's View (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)
===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
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Radio New Zealand's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including: 6:18 Pacific News 6:22 Rural News 6:27 and 8:45 Te Manu Korihi News 6:44 and 7:41 NZ Newspapers 6:47 Business News 7:42 and 8:34 Sports News 6:46 and 7:34 Traffic
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06:00
Top Stories for Tuesday 22 September 2015
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A trust helping poor Northland families into their own homes has its plans stymied by the government. A Kiribati community leader heads to Parliament today to ask the government not to deport a family who claim they are climate change refugees and Queenstown's council wants six-storey apartment blocks to be built in the resort town in effort to ease the housing and accomodation shortage.
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Duration: 34'55"
06:06
Sports News for 22 September 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'01"
06:09
Driver has had a lucky escape
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A driver has had a lucky escape after his truck left State Highway one and crashed into the Rangitikei river, near Mangaweka.
Topics: transport
Regions: Manawatu
Tags: accident, truck
Duration: 1'15"
06:11
Hundreds remain stranded in town near Gisborne
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The Gisborne region is facing a clean up this morning as roads closed most of yesterday finally open after flooding.
Topics: weather
Regions: East Coast
Tags: flooding, Gisborne
Duration: 2'00"
06:19
Pacific News for 22 September 2015
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The latest from the Pacific region.
Topics: Pacific
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Duration: 2'30"
06:21
Morning Rural News for 22 September 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'07"
06:26
Te Manu Korihi News for 22 September 2015
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The Tuhoe family at the centre of the pepperspray arrest, a fortnight ago say they're still without their family car after Police came and took it away; A hui of Te Kotahitanga today is likely to hear a recommendation that Ngapuhi's treaty negotiations be put on hold; The Minister of Māori Development has appointed two key people to carry out an investigation and to temporarily manage a Far North iwi.
Topics: te ao Māori
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 3'34"
06:38
OZ Kiwi alarmed by number of Kiwis in Aust detention centres
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An organisation that campaigns for the fair treatment of New Zealanders living in Australia is alarmed by the rising number of New Zealanders being sent to Australian detention centres to await deportation.
Topics: law
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Tags: Australia, deportation, detention centres
Duration: 3'31"
06:41
Chronic Queenstown housing shortage
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In a move to fix the chronic Queenstown housing shortage the local council has decided to ask the Environment Court to approve a plan which will allow six storey buildings and higher density development.
Topics: housing
Regions: Otago
Tags: flats
Duration: 2'26"
06:46
KPMG predicting strong market for M&A activity will continue.
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The accounting company KPMG is predicting a strong six months of merger and acquisition activity, which will offset a flat market in share floats, or initial public offerings.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: flat market
Duration: 1'21"
06:47
High level of foreign ownership in NZ shares despite the price
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Shares in New Zealand listed companies are remaining in solid demand by overseas investors despite being seen generally as expensive and underperforming compared with global stocks.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Shares
Duration: 1'52"
06:49
NIKKO favour investment in China despite slowing economy
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A global investment strategist says China's growth will continue to slow over the next few years, but the world's second biggest economy still offers plenty of investment opportunities.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: China
Duration: 2'07"
06:51
Record levels of immigration
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Record levels of immigration and tourists look set to support the economy well into next year as the export goods sector faces uncertainty in global markets and softness in commodity prices.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: immigration gains, immigration
Duration: 1'39"
06:53
Appointment of Scott Morrison as the new Federal Treasurer
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Australian businesses and financial markets are largely positive about the appointment of Scott Morrison as the new Federal Treasurer in the revamped cabinet of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull..
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 1'56"
06:57
Morning markets for 22 September 2015
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On Wall St, stocks have risen, the Dow Jones Index up 92 points, or 0.6 percent, to 16,477 the broader S&P 500 up 5 points, or 0.2 percent, to 1,963.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'00"
07:07
Sports News for 22 September 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'45"
07:10
Northland trust's dream to help families in tatters
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A trust lending a hand to poor Northland families to help them into their own homes has had its plans blocked by the government.
Topics: housing
Regions: Northland
Tags: He Korowai Trust
Duration: 6'06"
07:17
Kiribati community vows to fight refugee deportation
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A Kiribati community leader in Auckland is heading to Parliament today to beg the government not to deport a family who argue they are climate change refugees.
Topics: politics, law, climate
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Tags: Ioane Teitiota, climate change refugees
Duration: 3'37"
07:21
Angela Russell's lawyer says Minister must consider children.
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The lawyer for a woman awaiting deportation to New Zealand from Darwin says her client's children are suffering as their mother languishes in an Australian detention centre.
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Tags: Angela Russel, Australia, deportation, Darwin
Duration: 4'24"
07:25
Queenstown launches dramatic bid to ease overcrowding
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Queenstown's local council has decided to lodge an urgent application to the Environment Court in a dramatic bid to ease overcrowding in the resort town.
Topics: housing
Regions: Otago
Tags: flats
Duration: 3'46"
07:29
Fonterra job cuts: skimming the cream or targeting grass roots?
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At least 750 Fonterra workers, from senior management down, will soon be hunting for new jobs.
Topics: business, farming
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Tags: job cuts
Duration: 3'15"
07:36
Second day of school disrupted for Gisborne students
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A school principal in the Gisborne region is hoping flood waters have receded enough for school to open today.
Topics: weather
Regions: East Coast
Tags: floods
Duration: 1'43"
07:38
ACT calls for compensation over Lochinver Station
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The ACT party is calling for the government to compensate the owner of Lochinver Station after it blocked its sale to Chinese company, Shanghai Pengxin.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Lochinver Station, Act Party
Duration: 4'59"
07:44
Kiribati community leader heads to parliament
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The Kiribati community leader who is heading to Parliament today hopes his entreaties to allow the the family who argue they are climate change refugees to stay here will work.
Topics: politics, climate, law
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Tags: Ioane Teitiota, climate change refugees
Duration: 6'26"
07:51
McCaw trip scrutinised by detractors
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Richie McCaw's yellow card in New Zealand's first match of the Rugby World Cup has got his detractors crying foul once again.
Topics: sport
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Tags: RWC, rugby
Duration: 3'58"
07:55
New book suggests David Cameron's partying excesses
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A new book about UK Prime Minister David Cameron has made a series of allegations about his time at university... including drug taking and a bizzare incident involving a dead pig.
Topics: politics
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Tags: UK, David Cameron
Duration: 3'27"
08:07
Sports News for 22 September 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'09"
08:10
Far North mayor to raise trust's plight with government
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Far North mayor John Carter says a government decision to deregister a charitable trust if it sells houses to poor families is idiotic.
Topics: law, politics
Regions: Northland
Tags: He Korowai Trust
Duration: 2'28"
08:13
Internal Affairs responds to claims about trust being blocked
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Joining us is the Deputy Chief Executive of Service Delivery and Operations for Internal Affairs Maria Robertson.
Topics: housing, law
Regions: Northland
Tags: He Korowai Trust
Duration: 6'34"
08:20
Labour says migrants need to be filling genuine gaps
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Net migration to New Zealand has topped 60-thousand people in the year to August, as plenty more people come in than leave.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Tags: migration
Duration: 4'18"
08:25
AgResearch in a state of chaos - Labour
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AgResearch is in a state of chaos according to the Labour Party.
Topics: politics, business
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Tags: AgResearch
Duration: 3'19"
08:28
AgResearch staff wait to find out if they'll keep their jobs
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Professor Jacqueline Rowarth is a Professor of Agri-Business at the University of Waikato.
Topics: business, politics
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Tags: AgResearch
Duration: 3'55"
08:32
Markets Update for 22 September 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 50"
08:37
National online voting trial at risk after Dunedin pulls out
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A national trial of online voting may not be economically viable after Dunedin became the fifth council to pull out
Topics: politics
Regions: Otago
Tags: online voting
Duration: 3'25"
08:41
Agriculture consultant on Fonterra restructure
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Back now to Fonterra and it's cutting of hundreds of more jobs.
Topics: business
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Tags: Fonterra, job cuts
Duration: 4'02"
08:45
Te Manu Korihi News for 22 September 2015
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The Tuhoe family at the centre of the pepperspray arrest, a fortnight ago say they're still without their family car after Police came and took it away; A hui of Te Kotahitanga today is likely to hear a recommendation that Ngapuhi's treaty negotiations be put on hold; The Minister of Māori Development has appointed two key people to carry out an investigation and to temporarily manage a Far North iwi.
Topics: te ao Māori
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Tags:
Duration: 3'36"
08:52
Exhibition unravels mystery of how music creates emotions
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A one-of-its-kind exhibition in New Plymouth is attempting to unravel the mystery of just how music creates emotions.
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A one-of-its-kind exhibition in New Plymouth is attempting to unravel the mysterious link between music and emotions.
Musik: From Sound to Emotion has come to Taranaki direct from Canada's Montreal Science Centre and draws on research examining the role the brain plays in the musical experience.
It tries to go some way towards explaining that familiar welling behind the eyes at the sound of a particular song or the racing heart when the band of the moment breaks out its hit in a packed arena.
Michel Groulx of the Montreal Science Centre said the exhibition aimed to demonstrate the link between music and the brain.
"For reasons that are a bit obscure it seems that the brain is programmed for music and it is very interesting because there are really circuits that have been found in the brain and that are specialised for music, like composition, listening - and this also means there is a very strong connection between emotions and music."
Mr Groulx said tests had shown that many parts of the brain had a role in the perception of music.
"So you have the auditory system which really perceives the music, but you also have the limbic system which you know gives an emotion. And you have other parts of the brain like the cerebellum ... which is involved in the rhythm.
"It is interesting to see that music involves many different aspects of the brain."
Armed with a digital music player, visitors to the exhibition explore this connection by creating their own composition, beginning with the choice of an emotion.
Swiping the player on wi-fi hot spots throughout the show gives access to audio and video files explaining the ins and outs of songwriting with a little bit of guidance from the Canadian pop-punk group Simple Plan amongst others.
This information helps visitors to overlay the "emotion" they have chosen with the key components of a song, rhythm, melody, timbre and a choice of instrumentation. Visitors will end up with a two-minute of original music composition they can send to their email address and share friends.
"It's a very interactive experience, and very personal too, because every visitor will create different music," said Mr Groulx.
In addition to the composition section there are about 20 workstations, including a Guitar Hero-like set up, a percussion corner and a programmable sequencer.
'Pretty cool'
New Plymouth musician Andre Manella from the group Sonic Delusion said the exhibition had made him look at his own songwriting in a different way.
"It shows you ... how your brain works, how you receive the music and then how you turn this around when you're actually playing or writing music so you actually put that emotion into it and then try and play the music that way. It's a real eye-opener.
"It might change the way I compose because it is so so scientific. It's different, it's cool but it's great because that's essentially what it is."
Scotty Armstrong, who was going through the exhibition with his boys Riley and Floyd, was also a fan.
"It's great. It's really interactive and it breaks it all down nicely. It confirms a lot of things you all ready know really but explains a few more things.
"Doing the composition is pretty cool," he said. "I was choosing all the bits I wanted. It's a pretty quick process but it comes out sounding really good. I went for something mellow and cruisy, it seemed to suit wandering around in here."
This is the first time Musik: From Sound to Emotion has been exhibited in Australasia and it returns to Canada when its Puke Ariki season closes on 15 November.
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Topics: music
Regions: Taranaki
Tags: emotions. exhibition, Musik: From Sound to Emotion
Duration: 4'03"
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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: The Phoenix Song, by John Sinclair, told by Katlyn Wong (10 of 12, RNZ)
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09:08
Is the Govt neglecting science in the agricultural sector?
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A former scientist from AgResearch's now defunct Wallaceville site says the latest round of staffing cuts at the Crown Institute form part of the largest loss of scientific talent in New Zealand since the Second World War. The Crown Research Institute is looking to axe up to twenty percent of its agricultural scientists, following years of it slashing staff numbers. Professor Ken McNatty who is the former leader of the AgResearch Wallaceville reproduction group, says it's a national tragedy.
Topics: farming
Regions:
Tags: AgResearch
Duration: 12'57"
09:24
The 'media effect' on price wars
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New research by Massey University shows media coverage of price wars, like the slashing of mortgage rates, intense competition in domestic air fares, and spiraling house prices can add an important element to the competition. In some cases it even triggers new chain reactions. Massey University's Professor Harald van Heerde, says the impact of media coverage, including the 'echo chamber' created by social media, can be significant.
Topics: media, economy
Regions:
Tags: price wars
Duration: 13'13"
09:37
Roll out the barrel
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Roll Out the Barrel is a UK charity which is delivering roll-able water containers to communities where people would otherwise have the painstaking task of carrying them. In many developing countries such as in Africa, the job of getting essential water is often done by women, children and the elderly, where they carry it on their backs, heads or over their shoulders, often for several kilometres. Adrian Brewer wanted to find an alternative to that and developed a 30 litre rotary barrel with strong rubber tyres and a long sturdy handle. With donations and fundraising efforts from the likes of Rotary International, 2500 barrels have been rolled out in countries including Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Sierra Leone and South Africa, and as emergency aid to the Philippines.
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UK charity Roll Out the Barrel has come up with a simple way to improve the lives of people in communities where gathering water is a painstaking task.
In many developing countries such as in Africa, the job of getting essential water is often done by women, children and the elderly, who carry it on their backs, heads or over their shoulders, often for several kilometres.
UK resident Adrian Brewer wanted to find an alternative to that and developed a 30 litre rotary barrel with strong rubber tyres and a long sturdy handle.
With donations and fundraising efforts through Rotary International, 2500 barrels have now been rolled out in countries including Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Sierra Leone and South Africa, and as emergency aid in the Philippines.
Mr Brewer said he became inspired after using a similar barrel during his own caravan holidays in Europe.
"I thought, I wouldn't carry my water 20 yards let alone 20 miles... It grew from there."
He described what he had seen on one recent trip to impoverished areas in Kenya.
"Women and children are the bearers of the water. That's always the case. Very rarely do men collect it. They're collected in containers which quite frankly you wouldn't give your dog to drink from, sometimes.
"They have to collect their water from various sources - often it's rivers, often it's streams, sometimes it is taps and they do have stand pipes but they could be six or eight miles away from their home."
He said even heavily pregnant women were not necessarily exempt from this work.
"I met a lady who was literally nine months pregnant and she was still carrying her water. No-one was carrying it for her. She was just literally dragging it, at the end before her birth.
"I think on the day of her birth, she didn't actually get any water at all because nobody went and got it for her."
Mr Brewer said Roll Out the Barrel was working with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to do more than just provide the barrels to those that need them.
"They want to create small social enterprises so we're taking barrels into small projects - maybe 100, 150 barrels at a time - and we're hoping to build small enterprises, where they are manufactured locally."
He said UNDP administrator and former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark had been an influential supporter of the charity's work.
"What she did was she opened our eyes that there needs to be an empowerment of women. Unless women are in control of what they do, there is no empowerment.
"Just by the simple process of collecting water, instead of taking four hours it takes you an hour, it gives them three hours to do something else."
Topics: international aid and development
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Tags: water containers, Roll Out The Barrel, UNDP, Adrian Brewer
Duration: 10'38"
09:51
US Correspondent Susan Milligan
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Susan Milligan is a former White House and National Political Correspondent for the Boston Globe. She is a Contributing Editor to US News and World Report. She also writes for The Washingtonian, Rhode Island Monthly, AARP Bulletin, eJournal and other publications. She teaches a course in Government and the Media to Boston University students at the Washington DC Campus.
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Tags: US news
Duration: 8'06"
10:08
Maths & 'Making Waves' in Art History
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Can image analysis detect the hand of the Old Masters like Giotto or Rembrandt? The pioneering Belgian physicist and mathematician, Ingrid Daubechies has the answers. She is in New Zealand, as the Maclaurin Lecturer, to discuss how image processing tools are used to decide whether a painting is an original or not, or whether several parts of a painting were painted by the same person. Or not. The James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics at Duke University was the first female full professor of mathematics at Princeton University; the first woman to receive the National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics in 2000; and the first female president of the International Mathematical Union in 2010.
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Can image analysis detect the hand of the Old Masters like Giotto or Rembrandt? The pioneering Belgian physicist and mathematician, Ingrid Daubechies has the answers. She is in New Zealand, as the Maclaurin Lecturer, to discuss how image processing tools are used to decide whether a painting is an original or not, or whether several parts of a painting were painted by the same person. Or not. The James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics at Duke University was the first female full professor of mathematics at Princeton University; the first woman to receive the National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics in 2000; and the first female president of the International Mathematical Union in 2010.
Topics: science, arts
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Tags: maths
Duration: 25'45"
10:38
Book Review: 'Purity' by Jonathan Franzen
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Reviewed by Phil Vine, published by Fourth Estate.
Topics: books
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Duration: 6'45"
11:06
Business commentator Rod Oram
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Rod Oram discusses the government's rejection of Shanghai Pengxin's bid for Lochinver Station and further aspects of Shanghai Maling's proposal to take control of Silver Fern Farms.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 17'19"
11:29
New Zealand working dogs
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Andrew Fladeboe is an artist based in Minneapolis. He came to New Zealand on a Fulbright scholarship to immerse himself in rural life and to document and to photograph traditional New Zealand working dogs in action. He visited numerous South Island stations and worked alongside farmers and their dogs, including the remote, 1000 acre sheep and cattle station at Te Hapu run by Sandra and Ken Closs. His resulting book, New Zealand's Working Dogs also branches out, and includes dogs working in other roles, such as those affiliated with the police, airport security, DOC and disability dogs. We talk to Andrew Fladeboe and Sandra Closs.
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Andrew Fladeboe is an artist based in Minneapolis. He came to New Zealand on a Fulbright scholarship to immerse himself in rural life and to document and to photograph traditional New Zealand working dogs in action. He visited numerous South Island stations and worked alongside farmers and their dogs, including the remote, 1000-acre sheep and cattle station at Te Hapu run by Sandra and Ken Closs.
Andrew's resulting book New Zealand's Working Dogs also includes dogs working in other roles, such as those affiliated with the police, airport security, DOC and disability dogs.
Lynn Freeman talks with Andrew Fladeboe and Sandra Closs.
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Tags: Andrew Fladeboe, Sandra Closs, Working dogs, Te Hapu
Duration: 14'30"
11:44
Media commentator, Gavin Ellis
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Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and former editor of the New Zealand Herald. He can be contacted on gavin.ellis@xtra.co.nz
Topics: media
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Duration: 14'51"
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09:05 Is the Government neglecting science in the agricultural sector?
A former scientist from AgResearch's now defunct Wallaceville site says the latest round of staffing cuts at the Crown Institute form part of the largest loss of scientific talent in New Zealand since the Second World War.
The Crown Research Institute is looking to axe up to twenty percent of its agricultural scientists, following years of it slashing staff numbers. Professor Ken McNatty who is the former leader of the AgResearch Wallaceville reproduction group, says it's a national tragedy.
09:15 The 'media effect' on price wars
New research by Massey University shows media coverage of price wars, like the slashing of mortgage rates, intense competition in domestic air fares, and spiraling house prices can add an important element to the competition. In some cases it even triggers new chain reactions. Massey University's Professor Harald van Heerde, says the impact of media coverage, including the 'echo chamber' created by social media, can be significant.
09:30 Roll out the barrel
Roll Out the Barrel is a UK charity which is delivering roll-able water containers to communities where people would otherwise have the painstaking task of carrying them. In many developing countries such as in Africa, the job of getting essential water is often done by women, children and the elderly, where they carry it on their backs, heads or over their shoulders, often for several kilometres. Adrian Brewer wanted to find an alternative to that and developed a 30 litre rotary barrel with strong rubber tyres and a long sturdy handle. With donations and fundraising efforts from the likes of rotarians two and a half thousand barrels have been rolled out in countries including Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Sierra Leone, South Africa and as emergency aid to the Philippines.
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09:45 US Correspondent Susan Milligan
Susan Milligan is a former White House and National Political Correspondent for the Boston Globe. She is a Contributing Editor to US News and World Report. She also writes for The Washingtonian, Rhode Island Monthly, AARP Bulletin, eJournal and other publications. She teaches a course in Government and the Media to Boston University students at the Washington DC Campus.
10:05 Maths & 'Making Waves' in Art History
Can image analysis detect the hand of the Old Masters like Giotto or Rembrandt? The pioneering Belgian physicist and mathematician, Ingrid Daubechies has the answers. She is in New Zealand, as the Maclaurin Lecturer, to discuss how image processing tools are used to decide whether a painting is an original or not, or whether several parts of a painting were painted by the same person. Or not. The James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics at Duke University was the first female full professor of mathematics at Princeton University; the first woman to receive the National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics in 2000; and the first female president of the International Mathematical Union in 2010.
Public talks: The Master's Hand: Can Image Analysis detect the hand of the Master?
Auckland University 22nd September, University of Canterbury 25 September
Surfing with wavelets, University of Otago, 28th September
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10:30 Book Review: Purity by Jonathan Franzen
Reviewed by Phil Vine, published by Fourth Estate
10:45 The Reading: The Phoenix Song by John Sinclair, told by Kat Wong (Part 10 of 12)
11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram
Rod Oram discusses the government's rejection of Shanghai Pengxin's bid for Lochinver Station and further aspects of Shanghai Maling's proposal to take control of Silver Fern Farms.
11:20 New Zealand working dogs
Andrew Fladeboe is an artist based in Minneapolis. He came to New Zealand on a Fulbright scholarship to immerse himself in rural life and to document and to photograph traditional New Zealand working dogs in action.
He visited numerous South Island stations and worked alongside farmers and their dogs, including the remote, 1000 acre sheep and cattle station at Te Hapu run by Sandra and Ken Closs.
His resulting book, New Zealand's Working Dogs also branches out, and includes dogs working in other roles, such as those affiliated with the police, airport security, DOC and disability dogs. We talk to Andrew Fladeboe and Sandra Closs.
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11:45 Media commentator, Gavin Ellis
Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and former editor of the New Zealand Herald. He can be contacted on gavin.ellis@xtra.co.nz
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Artist: Manu Chao
Song: Bongo Bon
Composer: Chao
Album: Clandestino
Label: Putumayo
Time: 9.12
Artist: Anna Coddington
Song: The Runner
Composer: Coddington
Album: Kiwi Hit Disc 1
Label: Nz on Air
Time: 9.47
Artist: Portishead
Song: Sour Times
Composer: Barrow/Gibbons/Utley
Album: Dummy
Label: Polydor
Time: 10.34
Artist: Sola Rosa
Song: Never Enough
Composer: Worboys/Spraggon
Album: Ned Worboys
Label: Way up
Time: 11.25
===Noon | Midday Report===
=DESCRIPTION=
Radio New Zealand news, followed by updates and reports until 1.00pm, including: 12:16 Business News 12:26 Sport 12:34 Rural News 12:43 Worldwatch
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12:00
Midday News for 22 September 2015
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The Prime Minister rejects a last minute plea from a 'climate change refugee' and the Government may consider a law change to help a Far North trust.
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Duration: 15'10"
12:17
Synlait Milk has seen its full year profit slide 46 percent
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The Canterbury based dairy company Synlait Milk has seen its full year profit slide 46 percent to 10-point-6 million dollars as revenue was hit by weak milk prices.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Synlait Milk
Duration: 1'05"
12:18
Trustpower eyes up Australian political leadership change
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Trustpower says Australia's change of leadership bodes well for its chances of increasing its investment in renewable energy there.
Topics: business
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Tags: Trustpower, Australia
Duration: 1'26"
12:19
Mitre 10 makes record annual sales: improves profit margins
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Mitre 10 has delivered another record annual result, driven by strong sales across all its product categories, with improved profit margins and lower costs.
Topics: business
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Tags: Mitre10
Duration: 1'18"
12:23
Midday markets for 22 September 2015
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Andrew Cathie at Craigs Investment Partners.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'45"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 22 September 2015
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South Sydney Rabbitohs players Aaron Gray and Dylan Walker have been rushed to hospital for a drug overdose.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'28"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 22 September 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 7'46"
=SHOW NOTES=
===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
=DESCRIPTION=
An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)
=AUDIO=
13:08
First song - Razor
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The first single from the new album by Fat Freddy's Drop.
Topics: music
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Duration: 4'59"
13:15
Mt Ruapehu - Simon Dickson
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A spell of extreme weather has left Mt Ruapehu under a deep blanket of new snow, which bodes well for good spring skiing and a busy school holiday period.
Topics: climate, weather
Regions: Manawatu
Tags: Mt Ruapehu
Duration: 5'44"
13:25
Hajj Pilgrimage - Anjum Rahman
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The annual Hajj pilgrimage begins on September 22, and for many Muslims, the journey to Mecca is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. More than a million faithful, have already flocked to Saudi Arabia in preparation for the spiritual highlight. And the logisitcs of such an event are challenging. Saudi Arabia has deployed 100,000 security personnel to oversee the annual event. Anjum Rahman is from the Islamic Women's Council of New Zealand. And she's completed her once in a lifetime pilgrimage.
Topics: spiritual practices, life and society, language
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Tags: Hajj pilgrimage, Saudi Arabia, Islam
Duration: 10'43"
13:35
Wine Icecream - Philip van der Waal
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Philip van der Waal owns the Penguino Ice Cream Cafe in Nelson. And he's been crafting up all sorts of new adult flavours.
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Duration: 5'35"
13:40
Favourite album - Let England Shake
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PJ Harvey - Let England Shake. Chosen by Vic Parsons.
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Duration: 20'07"
14:10
Saving Love Soup Tokoroa - Julie King
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She's been described as the hero of Tokoroa. Julie King is the heart and soul behind Love Soup, the soup kitchen that feeds more than 200 people per week. A few months ago they were told by council they had to move from the Tokoroa East Bowling Club, where they operate from. So Julie and her team have been working tirelessly, trying to fund the move. They're still $20,000 short, and the deadline for the move is looming.
Topics: life and society, food, housing
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Tags: homelessness, poverty, chairty
Duration: 8'03"
14:20
Great New Zealand Concerts - Johnny Cash
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Today's Great New Zealand Concert covers a number of performances from American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. He first visited New Zealand in 1959 and performed at the Auckland Town Hall. He came back in 71, 73 and three times in the 90s including with the Highwaymen that included Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson.
Topics: music
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Duration: 40'56"
15:10
Feature interview - Daniel Diaz
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Daniel Diaz made his wife a promise just before doctors helped her end her own life. Brittany Maynard had terminal brain cancer. The couple moved from California to Oregon so she could legally choose when to die. She spent her last months writing and posting videos to raise awareness about death with dignity. Diaz promised his wife he would tell their story and support right to die legislation.
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Daniel Diaz made his 29 year old wife a promise just before doctors helped her end her own life. Brittany Maynard had terminal brain cancer and the couple had moved from California to Oregon so she could legally choose when to die.
Brittany spent her last months writing and posting videos to raise awareness about death with dignity. Diaz promised his wife he would tell their story and support right to die legislation.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: right to die, right to die legislation, euthanasia
Duration: 23'00"
15:45
The Panel pre-show for 22 September 2015
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Duration: 14'44"
21:06
The worm returns
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Many farms in New Zealand are missing deep burrowing earthworms, that can help better grass growth, so Nicole Schon is relocating worms to farms in need
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By Alison Ballance
“Worms do a great job in the soil to promote pasture growth.”
Nicole Schon, Agresearch.
When it comes to worms, the more the merrier as far as earthworm scientist Nicole Schon is concerned. She’s busy translocating deep burrowing worms to farms around the country, in the hope of building up their numbers so that they, in their turn, will help promote grass growth and feed more livestock.
“All the worm species we have in our pasture systems are exotic, and they arrived accidentally with European settlers, in soil with fruit trees and in ship’s ballast,” says Nicole. “We’ve got about 12 common species but they’re not all found everywhere. We might find two to three species in a paddock – if you find more than that you’re doing quite well, really.”
Nicole points out that New Zealand has also got over 200 species of native earthworms, but she says that they prefer our forest ecosystems.
The two commonest worm species on New Zealand farms are the dung worm (Lumbricus rubellus) which feeds on organic material, including dung, near the surface of the soil, and the grey worm (Aporrectodea caliginosa) that is active in the top 15 cm of the soil. The dung worm is a dark red-brown colour and very active when it is disturbed, while the grey worm is pinky grey in colour with a darker head.
The worm that Nicole is translocating is the blackhead or deep burrowing worm (Aporrectodea longa), which as its name suggests, burrows more deeply and will help water and grass roots penetrate deeper into the soil. Deep burrowing worms are mostly absent in the South Island and don’t occur everywhere in the North Island; a previous study found that six and a half million hectares of pasture land in New Zealand lack deep burrowing earthworms.
Each of these worms has a slightly different role in the soil, and together they result in well aerated, rich soil.
Nicola says that when the first worm reintroductions were carried out in the 1980s researchers found that the presence of deep burrowing worms increased pasture production by up to 20%. In pastures with no worms a thick thatch of dead grass accumulated on top of the soil. What the worms did was break this thatch down, dragging it into the soil where it added important organic matter. The action of the worms also increased water movement through the soil, aerated it and provided channels so roots can reach down further.
This earthworm relocation project is a six-year long Sustainable Farming Fund project, organised by Agresearch and Beef + Lamb NZ, and involves a number of Landcorp and private farms. Deep burrowing worms have been moved to three farms in the Manawatu, seven on the central plateau in the North Island, and 10 each near Timaru and Oamaru; none of these farms currently have deep burrowing worms. In some paddocks sixteen bags, each containing six worms, are added to the ground. In others, turfs containing some worms are added instead. Nicole and her team will return in a year to see whether the deep burrowing worms have established and increased in both number and area, and will continue to monitor for a further two years after that.
Topics: science, environment, farming
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Tags: earthworms, invertebrates, soil, worms
Duration: 15'04"
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1:10 First song
Fat Freddy's Drop - 'Razor'
1:15 Mt Ruapehu - Simon Dickson
A spell of extreme weather has left Mt Ruapehu under a deep blanket of new snow, which bodes well for good spring skiing and a busy school holiday period.
1:25 Hajj Pilgrimage - Anjum Rahman
The annual Hajj pilgrimage begins on September 22, and for many Muslims, the journey to Mecca is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. More than a million faithful, have already flocked to Saudi Arabia in preparation for the spiritual highlight. And the logisitcs of such an event are challenging. Saudi Arabia has deployed 100,000 security personnel to oversee the annual event. Anjum Rahman is from the Islamic Women's Council of New Zealand. And she's completed her once in a lifetime pilgrimage.
1:35 Wine Icecream - Philip van der Waal
Philip van der Waal owns the Penguino Ice Cream Cafe in Nelson. And he's been crafting up all sorts of new adult flavours.
1:40 Favourite album
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake. Chosen by Vic Parsons.
2:10 Saving Love Soup Tokoroa - Julie King
She's been described as the hero of Tokoroa. Julie King is the heart and soul behind Love Soup, the soup kitchen that feeds more than 200 people per week. A few months ago they were told by council they had to move from the Tokoroa East Bowling Club, where they operate from. So Julie and her team have been working tirelessly, trying to fund the move. They're still $20,000 short, and the deadline for the move is looming.
2:20 Great New Zealand Concerts - Johnny Cash
Today's Great New Zealand Concert covers a number of performances from American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. He first visited New Zealand in 1959 and performed at the Auckland Town Hall. He came back in 71, 73 and three times in the 90s including with the Highwaymen that included Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson.
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3:10 Feature interview - Daniel Diaz
Daniel Diaz made his wife a promise just before doctors helped her end her own life. Brittany Maynard had terminal brain cancer. The couple moved from California to Oregon so she could legally choose when to die. She spent her last months writing and posting videos to raise awareness about death with dignity. Diaz promised his wife he would tell their story and support right to die legislation.
3:35 Our Changing World - The Worm Returns
Earthworms are a vital, but often absent, member of many New Zealand dairy farms. It's a case of the more worms the better, as having good worm numbers can result in a 20% increase in pasture growth. Alison Ballance joins Nicole Schon, from Agresearch, on a Manawatu farm as she checks on a trial to boost numbers of deep tunnelling worms that will be harvested and relocated to worm-less farms around the country.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about. With Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zoe George.
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Tuesday 22 Sept
OPENING SONG:
ARTIST: Fat Freddy's Drop
TITLE: Razor
COMP: Fat Freddy's Drop
ALBUM: Bays
LABEL: The Drop
FAVOURITE ALBUM:
ARTIST: P J Harvey
TITLE: The Colour Of The Earth
COMP: Harvey
ALBUM: Let England Shake
LABEL: ISLAND 276302
ARTIST: P J Harvey
TITLE: The Words That Maketh Murder
COMP: Harvey
ALBUM: Let England Shake
LABEL: ISLAND 276302
ARTIST: P J Harvey
TITLE: Let England Shake
COMP: Harvey
ALBUM: Let England Shake
LABEL: ISLAND 276302
ARTIST: P J Harvey
TITLE: The Last Living Rose
COMP: Harvey
ALBUM: Let England Shake
LABEL: ISLAND 276302
GREAT NZ CONCERTS:
ARTIST: Johnny Cash
TITLE: Folsom Prison Blues
COMP: Johnny Cash
ALBUM: Johnny Cash: Live At Folsom Prison
LABEL: SONY 798969
ARTIST: Johnny Cash
TITLE: Ring Of Fire
COMP: Cash, Kilgore
ALBUM: Johnny Cash: Ring Of Fire, The Legend Of
LABEL: UNIVERSAL 988785
ARTIST: The Highwaymen (Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson)
TITLE: Highwayman
COMP: Webb
ALBUM: Highwayman
LABEL: SONY 798969
ARTIST: Johnny Cash
TITLE: I Walk The Line
COMP: Cash
ALBUM: I Walk The Line
LABEL: COLUMBIA promowalk
ARTIST: Johnny Cash
TITLE: A Boy Named Sue
COMP: Johnny Cash
ALBUM: Johnny Cash: Presents A Concert, Behind Prison Walls [Live]
LABEL: EAGLE 609502
PANEL:
ARTIST: Joe Walsh
TITLE: Life's Been Good
COMP: Walsh
ALBUM: Joe Walsh: Greatest Hits; Little Did He Know (Compilation)
LABEL: MCA 111679
===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
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An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
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15:45
The Panel pre-show for 22 September 2015
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Duration: 14'44"
16:05
The Panel with Jonathan Krebs and Josie McNaught (Part 1)
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Topics - There's been a call for Hamilton's killer tiger to be exiled overseas. Is this the answer? Three Countdown supermarkets have had their liquor licenses suspended for uderage sales. Dr Anna Hood of the University of Auckland discusses climate change refugees.
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Duration: 23'09"
16:06
The Panel with Jonathan Krebs and Josie McNaught (Part 2)
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Topics - Pop musicians are over-represented in accidental deaths, suicide and homicide. An Australian study looks at why. A 24 year-old New Zealander's died after ingesting a kind of tobacco tea in a shamanic ceremony in Peru. Dr John Fountain explains what this does to the body. Is it really a compliment for a sports person to be booed? Listener thoughts on the New Zealand flag.
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Duration: 26'35"
16:07
Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Jonathan Krebs and Josie McNaught have been up to.
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Duration: 3'38"
16:14
Tiger exile
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There's been a call for Hamilton's killer tiger to be exiled overseas. Is this the answer?
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Duration: 2'32"
16:19
Underage supermarket alcohol sales
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Three Countdown supermarkets have had their liquor licenses suspended for uderage sales.
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Duration: 5'24"
16:25
Climate change refugee
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Dr Anna Hood of the University of Auckland discusses climate change refugees.
Topics: climate, law, refugees and migrants
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Duration: 11'18"
16:35
Live hard die young
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Pop musicians are over-represented in accidental deaths, suicide and homicide. An Australian study looks at why.
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Duration: 5'26"
16:40
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Josie McNaught and Jonathan Krebs have been thinking about.
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Duration: 6'05"
16:45
Shaman tourism's deadly consequences
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A 24 year-old New Zealander's died after ingesting a kind of tobacco tea in a shamanic ceremony in Peru. Dr John Fountain explains what this does to the body.
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Duration: 10'18"
16:55
Boo to Richie
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Is it really a compliment for a sports person to be booed?
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Duration: 3'18"
16:58
Flag
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Listener thoughts on the New Zealand flag.
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Duration: 1'17"
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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Radio New Zealand's two-hour news and current affairs programme
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17:00
Checkpoint Top Stories for Tuesday 22 September 2015
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PM dashes any hopes of Kiribati man staying in NZ, Lawyer for Ioane Teitiota disappointed by Key's comments, Rising rental costs force overcrowding in Auckland, Christmas Island being used to soften us up - NZ detainee, Indonesian security chief warns of IS threat to region, Thieves make off with 170 motorbikes and scooters, and Owners of VW diesel-powered cars are angry.
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Duration: 25'28"
17:10
PM dashes any hopes of Kiribati man staying in NZ
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The Prime Minister has dashed any hope of a Kiribati man being able to stay in New Zealand as a climate change refugee.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Tags: Kiribati
Duration: 2'55"
17:12
Lawyer for Ioane Teitiota disappointed by Key's comments
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The lawyer for Ioane Teitiota Michael Kidd, says his family are terrified of going back to Kiribati.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Tags: Kiribati
Duration: 2'40"
17:15
Rising rental costs force overcrowding in Auckland
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Renters in Auckland say some people are overcrowding apartments illegally, and that others are being forced to move because of rising rental prices.
Topics: housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: rental prices, renting
Duration: 3'27"
17:17
Christmas Island being used to soften us up - NZ detainee
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An immigration detainee near Darwin who witnessed a fellow New Zealander seized and sent to Christmas Island says it's being done to soften them up so they'll sign the papers to be deported.
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Tags: Australia, deportation
Duration: 4'49"
17:24
Thieves make off with 170 motorbikes and scooters
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Waitakere Police are hunting a gang of thieves who've stolen 170 motorbikes from a warehouse in Kelston on Sunday night or early Monday morning.
Topics: crime
Regions: Northland
Tags: Waitakere
Duration: 3'27"
17:27
PM pressed on pushing flag change agenda at public appearances
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The Prime Minister has been challenged in Parliament about why he's been pushing the case for changing the flag at various functions he's recently attended.
Topics: politics
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Tags: New Zealand Flag
Duration: 2'36"
17:34
Evening Business for 22 September 2015
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News from the business sector including a market report.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'10"
17:36
Drones increasing problem for power companies
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Power companies are asking people flying drones to keep well clear of power lines, after two struck powerlines in the space of a week.
Topics: technology
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Tags: drones
Duration: 4'01"
17:41
Indonesian security chief warns of IS threat to region
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Foreign terrorist fighters, aligned with IS are moving into other South East Asian countries from Malaysia.
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Tags: Indonesia, Islamic State, Malaysia
Duration: 3'24"
17:47
Concerns over tackle techniques in rugby
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World Rugby's governing body, the IRB, may look at changing tackling rules to reduce concussions.
Topics: sport, health
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Tags: rugby, concussion
Duration: 3'58"
17:52
Te Manu Korihi News for 22 September 2015
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The Māori Development Minister, Te Ururoa Flavell, is disappointed that claimants are taking their opposition to Māori land reforms to the Waitangi Tribunal; Ngati Awa says the mauri of Otaiti or the Astrolabe Reef has been severed by the grounding of the Rena and it can't be restored until the wreck is removed; The Invercargill Police Iwi Liaison Officer will now be based weekly at the offices of a local Māori trust; Te Rūnanganui o Ngati Porou announced a new Chief Executive today.
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Duration: 3'23"
17:55
Owners of VW diesel-powered cars are angry
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An American lawyer says thousands of VeeDub owners in the US are angry and appalled to find Europe's largest carmaker had rigged United States emissions tests.
Topics: environment
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Tags: Volkswagen, USA, emissions
Duration: 4'23"
18:08
Sports News for 22 September 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'57"
18:12
Questions about charitable status of housing trusts
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The Government might consider changing the law to help a Far North Trust keep its charitable status so it can carry on renovating ex-state houses for homeless families.
Topics: housing, law, politics
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Tags: housing trusts, homelessness
Duration: 4'11"
18:12
Toast - that's how one foreign investor sees the Australian
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Foreign investors are turning away from Australia, with one describing its economy as "toast".
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Duration: 4'12"
18:16
Punter misses out on a million but gets to RWC
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A security guard from Canterbury is off to the World Cup final at Twickenham after guessing the results of the first five games.
Topics: sport
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Tags: rugby, RWC 2015
Duration: 3'35"
18:28
Drink-drive mum pleads guilty
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A Taranaki mother has pleaded guilty to multiple charges after driving through a checkpoint with four children aged 14 or under in her car.
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Duration: 2'03"
18:35
Australian schools given "radicalisation kits"
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School teachers are Australia are being given "awareness kits" so thay can identify which students are at risk of being radicalised.
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Duration: 3'55"
18:46
Te Manu Korihi News for 22 September 2015
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Ngati Awa says the mauri of Otaiti or the Astrolabe Reef has been severed by the grounding of the Rena and it can't be restored until the wreck is removed; The Māori Development Minister, Te Ururoa Flavell, is disappointed that claimants are taking their opposition to Māori land reforms to the Waitangi Tribunal; Māori Television will have a new executive join their leadership team next month; The Invercargill Police Iwi Liaison Officer will now be based weekly at the offices of a local Māori trust.
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Duration: 3'24"
18:50
Today In Parliament for 22 September 2015 - evening edition
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Drama as a debate on ACC levies is interrupted after former ACC minister, Nick Smith, is ejected from the chamber by assistant speaker, Trevor Mallard, who then orders the sergeant-at-arms to bring the minister back to withdraw and apologise for remarks that he considered derogatory to himself as chairman; Opposition orchestrate their questions to the prime minister so that John Key faces six identical questions and one almost the same.
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Duration: 4'53"
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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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Entertainment and information, including: 7:30 The Sampler: A weekly review and analysis of new CD releases (RNZ) 8:13 Windows on the World: International public radio features and documentaries 9:06 The Tuesday Feature
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19:12
Our Own Odysseys: Biking The World
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Patrick Morgan loves to bike, and has done so around the world. He recently returned from four months cycling through central Asia.
Topics: transport
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Tags: odysseys, travel, Biking, Asia, Istanbul, Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan.
Duration: 18'06"
20:42
Eco Living
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Doing our day to day lives more sustainably and environmentally aware - with Ian Mayes, Eco Design Advisor with Hamilton City Council. How best to heat and manage a house?
Topics: economy, climate, housing
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Duration: 16'33"
20:59
Conundrum
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Conundrum Clue number 3.
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Duration: 10"
21:59
Conundrum
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Conundrum Clue number 4.
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Duration: 06"
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7:10 Our Own Odysseys: Biking The World
Patrick Morgan loves to bike, and has done so around the world. He recently returned from four months cycling through central Asia.
7:30 The Sampler
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19:30
The Sampler for 22 September 2015
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This week in The Sampler Nick Bollinger reviews psychedelia and soul from Dan Auerbach's new band The Arcs; the first offering in five years from Beirut; and the black comic Americana of Johnny Dowd.
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Beirut's Zach Condon. Phot by Shawn Brackbill.
This week in The Sampler Nick Bollinger reviews psychedelia and soul from Dan Auerbach's new band The Arcs; the first offering in five years from Beirut; and the black comic Americana of Johnny Dowd.
Topics: music
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Tags: music, music review, Beirut, Zach Condon, Dan Auerbach, The Arcs, Johnny Dowd
Duration: 29'44"
19:35
Yours, Dreamily by The Arcs
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Psychedelia and soul from Dan Auerbach's new band The Arcs.
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Nick Bollinger explores Psychedelic soul of Dan Auerbach's new band The Arcs.
f I had to sum up in one sentence the secret of Dan Auerbach’s success, it might be a gift for taking things that don’t sound like much and turning them into things that sound pretty great. That was the story of his band The Black Keys, who made a virtue of their limitations all the way from their two-piece lo-fi roots to the arena rock of El Camino. And in a way that’s the story of his latest project. The Arcs is a new band put together by Auerbach to kill some unexpected downtime after The Black Keys touring plans were put on hold due to drummer Patrick Carney’s bodysurfing accident.
I don’t know whether Auerbach already had a bunch of songs stored up for some future Black Keys project or whether these were purpose written, but the Arcs seem to have effortlessly come up with a full album of material. And there are places where it could pretty much pass for The Black Keys. But in many ways The Arcs have more in common with some of the other projects Auerbach has been busying himself with since The Black Keys’ success turned into a go-to guy for artists as diverse as Dr John and Lana Del Rey. In particular, this album revisits the swoony, faintly narcotised sound of Del Rey’s Ultraviolence. There’s a weirdly distressed quality, like an old 45 with its grooves worn out, that was a feature of the records The Black Keys made with the producer known as Danger Mouse, and Auerbach has gone on to apply it in some of his own productions.
But if the lessons of Danger Mouse and Auerbach’s bluesy sensibilities inevitably make whatever he does sound a bit like The Black Keys, the other members of this new combo bring some special skills of their own. In particular there’s Homer Steinweiss, house drummer for the Daptone label and Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. A loving encyclopaedia of soul and funk, he matches grooves so good they might be sampled off a Stylistics record, to Auerbach Philly-soul soundalikes that sound like they might have been old Intruders’ singles. If the lyrics – which vary between well-crafted and a bit cringey - read like the correspondence between a parting couple, the music delivers that correspondence on a dreamy bed of bluesy psychedelic soul. It mightn’t seem like much, but I do like the way it sounds.
Songs played: Outta My Mind, The Arc, Put A Flower In Your Pocket, Stay In My Corner, Pistol Made Of Bones
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Tags: Dan Auerbach, The Arcs, music, music review
Duration: 8'27"
19:40
No No No by Beirut
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No No No; the first offering in five years from Beirut.
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Nick Bollinger checks out the first offering in five years from Beirut.
With the inimitable voice of Zach Condon, Beirut charmed almost everyone crazy with their breakthrough album The Flying Club Cup. Okay, we knew he was really an indie rock dude and the arrangements a clever composite of borrowed exotica, still the combination of those gypsy horns and Condon’s big romantic croon was pretty irresistible, and he managed to extend that gypsy fantasia for a bit longer on the belated follow-up, 2011’s The Rip Tide. But if the voice is still intact, there’s something else seriously missing from this new album.
The album is called No No No and I must confess that’s what I found myself saying when I first heard that track. Melodically it’s an echo of the sort of things Condon was writing eight years ago on The Flying Club Cup. But what might have formed the basis of some exotic fantasy has, this time, been turned into a slightly bland pop tune, the horns eased into the background, keyboards pushed to the front, and those faux-gypsy rhythms replaced with beats that might have come from an old Hall and Oates record.
To an extent I appreciate Condon’s dilemma; he understands the law of diminishing returns and doesn’t want to keep making the same Beirut album over and over again. No one wants to become a self-parody. The problem is, he doesn’t have enough to replace his old self with. The pop idea is not much more than that: an idea. Taken on its own terms, Beirut’s No No No is a pleasant enough offering. And at only 30 minutes in length it certainly doesn’t make any epic demands. My disappointment with really rests in the fact that eight years ago, listening to The Flying Club Cup, I heard a musical imagination that was seemingly limitless, and had begun to imagine myself what kind of exotic creations Zach Condon might dream up in the future. Instead, No No No just shows that that imagination might have limits after all.
Songs played: Gibraltar, No No No, August Holland, Perth, So Allowed, As Needed
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Sam Wicks talks to Beirut band leader Zach Condon
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Duration: 8'29"
19:45
That's Your Wife on the Back of My Horse by Johnny Dowd
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The black comic Americana of Johnny Dowd.
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Nick Bollinger encounters the black comic Americana of Johnny Dowd.
Johnny Dowd is not an artist who could ever complain of being threatened with fame and fortune. He’s never been signed to a major, never had a breakout hit and, by his own admission, his music ‘does not have universal appeal’. And yet for anyone who’s curious, this American original has created a deep catalogue that’s there to explore; some fourteen albums and growing. Born in Texas in the late 1940s, and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Johnny Dowd didn’t make his first record until he was nearly fifty, by which time he had been a solider stationed in Berlin, experimented with psychedelics, and run a small trucking company out of Ithica, New York, which remains his bread and butter this day.
I’ve seen Dowd’s music referred to under the heading of Americana, and broadly I guess that’s what this is. But Americana tends to conjure rootsy sounds - fiddles, banjos and such-like – and that’s never really been Johnny Dowd’s poison. Even when he played acoustic guitar on his early records, it was more in the manner of a dissolute busker. But his subsequent recordings have taken a weaving path through cocktail jazz, prog rock, and sub-Captain Beefheart skronk. But his latest musical phase is surprising, even to listeners who are used to Johnny’s surprises. Because much of That’s Your Wife On The Back of My Horse is, more or less, Dowd’s version of dance music. Like his very first record from twenty years ago, Wrong Side Of Memphis, he has played almost everything on the album himself. And this has largely involved synthesisers and drum machines, though he has managed to make these instruments sound as queezy as anything he puts his hands on.
If you were to assume the narrator in all of Dowd’s songs was Dowd himself – and he usually writes in the first person – he’d be a drunkard, sexual deviant, murderer, a philanderer and an incurable boast, and I’ll assume he’s innocent of at least one of those charges. So he’s mostly writing in character, and those characters may or may not see the world the way others around them do. The situations they find themselves in are often terrible; they might have lost their marriage, committed some unspeakable crime or seen their life go down the drain in any number of ways. And yet, however grim the circumstances, listening to what they are saying and the way they say it, can seem blackly funny. It’s the theme that runs through all of Dowd’s work – fourteen albums of it – and, in a way, it’s nothing less than the humour of human folly. That’s a big theme, a great one, and Dowd is as astute an observer of it as anyone I’ve ever heard. And I don’t think he’s finished with it yet.
Songs played: That’s Your Wife On The Back Of My Horse, Why?, My Old Flame, Empty Purse, Words Are Birds, Dear John Letter, White Dolemite
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