Radio New Zealand National. 2015-05-07. 00:00-23:59.

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:

07 May 2015

===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 One in Five (RNZ); 1:05 Discovery (BBC); 2:05 The Thursday Feature (RNZ); 3:05 The Captive Wife, by Fiona Kidman (9 of 15, RNZ); 3:30 NZ Books (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC); 5:45 The Day in Parliament (RNZ)

===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

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06:00
Top Stories for Thursday 7 May 2015
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Prostate cancer and the hidden toll it's taking on New Zealand men. Our health correspondent reveals a new study which paints a bleak picture. In China, Peter Gardner goes to trial sooner than expected, facing serious drug charges, which could result in the death penalty and West coast mine workers prepare for more bad news.
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Duration: 27'03"

06:06
Sports News for 7 May 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'57"

06:10
Doctors dub govts elective surgery funding boost a dead duck.
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Doctors are dubbing the Government's 98-million dollar injection into elective surgery a dead duck.
Topics: health
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Tags: elective surgery
Duration: 2'05"

06:18
Pacific News for 7 May 2015
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The latest from the Pacific region.
Topics: Pacific
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Duration: 3'05"

06:21
Morning Rural News for 7 May 2015
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 3'55"

06:25
Te Manu Korihi News for 7 May 2015
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A Motiti Island sub-tribe has accused Heritage New Zealand of being incompetent because it hasn't dealt with an application the hapu says it submitted more than a year ago; A National-list MP of Ngai Tahu descent is encouraging young Maori individuals to become involved with local community boards to advocate for tangata whenua; The chair of Nga Maunga Whakahii o Kaipara is relieved a joint forest venture is over because he says it means the land will now be returned to its shareholders; A Whanganui tribe is galvanising its members to strengthen its negotiating position with the Crown.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Duration: 3'41"

06:37
Government accused of experimenting on vulnerable
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The Green Party says the Government's experimenting on some of the most vulnerable people in Invercargill and Tauranga with its plans to sell state houses.
Topics: housing, politics
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Tags: state houses
Duration: 2'26"

06:47
OCR cut in June?
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The official cash rate could be cut as early as June after jobs data showed weaker than expected wage growth.
Topics: business
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Tags: OCR
Duration: 2'58"

06:50
TRS says other parties are interested in backdoor listing
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The shell company, TRS Investments, says it is urgently looking at other investment opportunities, after time ran out on Mega's bid for a backdoor listing.
Topics: business
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Tags: TRS Investments
Duration: 3'15"

06:53
Economist has next season's payout forecast under $6
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The forecast milk payout for next season is at risk of a cut after milk prices fell to their lowest level in about six years.
Topics: business
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Tags: milk price
Duration: 1'12"

06:54
Briscoe Group's profit tracking ahead of last year
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Briscoe Group says its profit is tracking ahead of last year after notching up a four percent lift in sales for the first quarter to the end of April.
Topics: business
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Tags: Briscoe Group
Duration: 1'19"

06:55
KiwiSaver funds set to top $30 billion
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KiwiSaver funds are likely to top 30 billion dollars by the end of the year, eight years after the voluntary savings scheme was launched.
Topics: business
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Tags: KiwiSaver
Duration: 1'37"

06:57
Powerhouse Wind hopes to raise $600,000 on PledgeMe
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A South Island wind turbine developer is hoping to take its small-scale product to the world, with the help of investors on the crowd-sourcing platform, PledgeMe.
Topics: business
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Tags: Powerhouse Wind
Duration: 1'19"

06:58
Morning markets for 7 May 2015
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Wall Street is lower after weak jobs' data in the US.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 50"

07:07
Sports News for 7 May 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'01"

07:12
Survival "bleak" in NZ for advanced prostate cancer: study
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A study published today says the survival of New Zealand men with advanced prostate cancer is bleak and much worse than in comparable countries.
Topics: health
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Tags: prostate cancer
Duration: 4'25"

07:16
New Zealander facing the death penalty in China
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25-year-old New Zealander Peter Gardner goes on trial in China today on drug charges.
Topics: crime
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Tags: China, Peter Gardner
Duration: 4'43"

07:21
Workers to hear about expected Stockton job losses
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Workers from a West Coast mine will meet with their employer today to hear about expected job losses.
Topics: business
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Tags: mining
Duration: 2'47"

07:24
High profile assaults spark concerns
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New Zealand's justice system has been criticised as 'broken, confusing and in a sorry state.'
Topics: crime, law
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Tags: justice system
Duration: 3'31"

07:35
Government accused of experimenting on vulnerable
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The Government's been accused of experimenting on some of the most vulnerable people in Invercargill and Tauranga with its plans to sell state houses in those areas first.
Topics: housing, politics
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Tags: Green Party, state houses
Duration: 2'36"

07:38
Tauranga housing prodiver interested in state house sales
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The iwi settlement trust and community housing provider, Nga Potiki, has shown an interest in purchasing some of the more than 12-hundred state houses that will be for sale in Tauranga.
Topics: housing, politics
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: Nga Potiki, state houses
Duration: 5'28"

07:43
Doctors dub govt's elective surgery funding boost a dead duck
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Doctors are dubbing the Government's 98-million dollar injection into elective surgery a dead duck.
Topics: health, politics
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Tags: elective surgery
Duration: 2'55"

07:48
Global police warning about lethal slimming pills
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Interpol has issued a global warning not to buy slimming tablets online after a case in Britain where a young woman died after burning up from the inside.
Topics: health
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Tags: slimming tablets
Duration: 4'11"

07:52
Pacific Island community says kava drug test pointless
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The Drug Detection Agency says many companies are requesting a drug test for kava and it's only a matter of time before one is available.
Topics: crime, business, Pacific
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Tags: kava, drug test for kava
Duration: 2'53"

07:55
UK election on a knife edge hours before polls open
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Voting in the British general election gets underway in less than 12 hours.
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Tags: UK, elections
Duration: 3'03"

08:07
Sports News for 7 May 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'09"

08:11
Prostate cancer survival poor in NZ
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Research published this morning on New Zealand men with advanced prostate cancer, shows the chance of survival is bleak and worse than in comparable countries.
Topics: health
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Tags: prostate cancer
Duration: 5'34"

08:16
Bad news expected for Solid Energy miners
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Solid Energy staff from Westport's Stockton mine are bracing themselves for the company's restructuring announcement today.
Topics: business
Regions: West Coast
Tags: Solid Energy
Duration: 5'44"

08:23
SNP's influence looms over UK elections
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With just over nine hours until polls open in the British elections, the Scottish National Party looks set to become a power player over the days that follow.
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Tags: UK, elections
Duration: 4'12"

08:27
Further disturbing details emerge in alps crash report
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Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz apparently rehearsed the manoevre he used to crash his jetliner into the French Alps an interim report from French air accident investigators has found.
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Tags: Germanwings, Andreas Lubitz
Duration: 3'46"

08:31
Markets Update for 7 May 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'12"

08:36
Italy rejects Tony Abbott's asylum seeker advice
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Italy's Navy Chief has rejected advice from Australia's Tony Abbott on how to deal with asylum seekers.
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Tags: asylum seekers, Italy
Duration: 3'57"

08:40
Head of APEC says TPP may be ratified soon
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The head of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum says he is confident the long awaited Trans Pacific Partnership free trade deal will be signed soon.
Topics: politics, economy
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Tags: Trans Pacific Partnership, TPP
Duration: 4'24"

08:46
US artist unaware he was involved in an exhibition
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An American artist is dismayed his work is being used in New Zealand's Venice Biennale art installation about intelligence agencies.
Topics: arts
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Tags: Secret Power, Biennale
Duration: 3'56"

08:52
Te Manu Korihi News for 7 May 2015
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A Motiti Island sub-tribe has accused Heritage New Zealand of being incompetent because it hasn't dealt with an application the hapu says it submitted more than a year ago; The chair of Nga Maunga Whakahii o Kaipara is relieved a joint forest venture is over because he says it means the land will now be returned to its shareholders; A National-list MP of Ngai Tahu descent is encouraging young Maori individuals to become involved with local community boards to advocate for tangata whenua; A Whanganui tribe is galvanising its members to strengthen its negotiating position with the Crown.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Tags:
Duration: 3'37"

08:56
Hokitika rental strain
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Expansion at Hokitika's milk factory is thought to be behind a shortage of rental properties in the West Coast town.
Topics: business, housing
Regions: West Coast
Tags: Hokitika, rentals
Duration: 2'48"

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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: Touchstones, by James McNeish (2 of 8, RNZ)

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09:08
Why are prostate cancer outcomes in NZ so poor?
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The survival of New Zealand men with advanced prostate cancer is bleak and worse than in comparable countries, according to a study released today. Graeme Woodside is the Chief Executive of the Prostate Cancer Foundation.
Topics: health
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Tags: prostate
Duration: 15'07"

09:23
Why are prostate cancer outcomes in NZ so poor?
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Dr Nina Scott is a Maori public health physician with Waikato DHB, she's a researcher for the University of Auckland and was on the research team for this study. She was the Ministry of Health's advisor to the select committee review on prostate cancer and was on the prostate cancer taskforce.
Topics: health
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Tags: prostate
Duration: 9'16"

09:35
The Milibrand effect
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Will Russell Brand’s endorsement of UK Labour leader Ed Miliband actually translate into votes and what role is new media now playing in democracy?
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Will Russell Brand’s endorsement of UK Labour leader Ed Miliband actually translate into votes and what role is new media now playing in democracy?
Young labour supporters responded to attacks on Miliband by the right-wing press by posting photoshopped images of Ed Miliband under #milifandom which trended number one on Twitter in the United Kingdom.

#HellYesEd #CoolEdMiliband @CoolEdMiliband #milifandom Not sure that Sylvester Stallone isn't the body double: pic.twitter.com/RJTzByRk55
— Richard Millwood (@richardmillwood) April 21, 2015

@elliegalaxies same tho pic.twitter.com/scsSZwJZLN
— Alison (@alisonfilly) April 19, 2015

Eddie Mercury by @StcrevDavid #Milifandom #CoolEdMiliband pic.twitter.com/KEOHOI2cwQ
— Cool Ed Miliband (@cooledmiliband) April 21, 2015

Ed Miliband knows nothing pic.twitter.com/S8JuAQsa5m
— #Milifandom (@OddMiliband) April 19, 2015

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Duration: 12'28"

09:48
UK correspondent Kate Adie
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The Uk elections.
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Tags: UK, elections
Duration: 11'30"

10:14
Endangered Turtles of the Torres Strait Islands
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Leah Lui-Chivizhe is a doctoral student in history at the University of Sydney where her research focuses on Torres Strait Islander relationships and engagements with the marine environment and the Islander-turtle relationship. Throughout history the turtle has been an important source of food as well as having great cultural and spiritual significance. She now works part-time for the Nura Gili Centre for Indigenous Programs at the University of New South Wales.
Topics: environment, climate
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Tags: Torres Strait Islands, turtles
Duration: 24'29"

10:42
Book Review: MAYDAY: How warring egos forced Qantas off course
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Reviewed by Gyles Beckford
Topics: books
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Tags: airline, Qantas
Duration: 4'19"

11:06
New Technology with Sarah Putt
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New Technology commentator Sarah Putt discuss privacy in the age of drones, and trouble with the Yik Yak app which allows people to post anonymous messages.
Topics: technology
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Tags:
Duration: 14'06"

11:25
Everything you need to know about Headlice
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They're the bane of many parents' lives. Head lice! Why are they so hard to get rid of? Why can't you drown them? Why does it take so much combing? We get the answers from expert Professor Rick Speare.
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Head lice are the bane of many parents' lives. Why are they so hard to get rid of? Why can't you drown them? Why does it take so much combing?
They have been found on the heads of Mummies from 2000 BC, and their anatomical structure has not changed since.
Head lice live on human blood, have six legs and can hold on to hair shafts, where they literally glue their eggs, or nits, close to the scalp.
That is partly why they are so hard to get rid of. Even if you can capture the live lice, which can speed around the scalp, the tiny nits are so well glued to the hair shaft they often escape unscathed. Even pesticide treatments do not penetrate the egg.
Professor Rick Speare, public health physician and expert on head lice, answers some questions about lice and busts a few myths.
Many lice treatments are pesticide based. Are lice becoming resistant to the pesticides?
Yes, but there are some new products on the market now which are changing the picture. Their active ingredient is Dimethicone, a long chain of silicone atoms. This gets into the breathing structure of lice and blocks their breathing holes, or stops them losing water, which makes their intestines explode.
Why can't you drown them by taking a long bath or going for a swim?
Lice have evolved with humans, and we have always put our heads in water. They are designed to resist it. The louse shuts itself down, it is called sham death, and when you take it out of the water it recovers within five minutes.
How essential is a nit comb for getting rid of head lice and nits?
With some of the new Dimethicone based products, some of the silicone based oils penetrate the egg too, so the embryos die as well. In that case you don't have to comb them all.
But most strategies involve combing since most insecticides don't penetrate the egg.
If using a nit comb by itself the lice just run away. You need to immobilise them first with conditioner (more on this below).
Some claim that brushing and combing hair regularly breaks the legs of the lice, stopping them from being able to move and reproduce.
No it won't. This is not true. A study involving two school classrooms in Victoria tested this theory. The higher rate of lice at the end of the study was in the class that combed their hair vigorously compared to the class that did not. This is because combing creates an electric charge on the hair and the lice, which can repel the lice from the hair across to other students making it easier for them to spread to nearby heads.
Is dying your hair a good way to get rid of lice, or prevent them?
No, it is a good way to hide eggs. If you dye your hair black, the hair dye will make the eggs disappear as they will become the same colour as the hair. The kids that get sent home for head lice are often the ones with black hair and dead eggs, which are white and therefore stand out more easily.
Is it true they don't like hairdryers?
Yes this is true. It is hard to kill them with hairdryers however.
If a child in the family has head lice, do you really have to wash their bedding in hot water?
No, it's a waste of time. Once off the head they are in strife.
We did a study with over 2000 schoolchildren, counting lice on heads and looking for lice on school carpets. 14,033 lice were found on the pupils heads and none on the carpets. Then we looked at heads of children with lice and the children's pillowslips. Only a small percentage of lice were found on the pillows and most were dead.
They die within 12 hours of being off the human head. Putting the pillowcase in the clothes dryer on hot for a five minutes is enough to kill lice.
Do natural home remedies like vinegar and olive oil work?
Some believe vinegar loosens the eggs from the hair shaft. This is not true. In the past people have used kerosene, but this is very dangerous as it is so flammable.
There is no scientific research that I know of on olive oil, but coconut oil does have a natural repellent though we are not sure if it kills the lice.
Natural lice treatments often have a number of active ingredients which stun the lice so they stop moving, but may not die. But hair conditioner has the same impact.
Professor Rick Speare talks about head lice with Kathryn Ryan on Nine to Noon.
Topics: health
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Tags: headlice
Duration: 22'31"

11:48
Film review with Dan Slevin
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Dan Slevin reviews That Sugar Film (Damon Gameau); Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (Brett Morgen) and Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev).
Topics: arts
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Tags: film, movies
Duration: 11'12"

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09:05 Why are prostate cancer outcomes in NZ so poor?
The survival of New Zealand men with advanced prostate cancer is bleak and worse than in comparable countries, according to a study released today.
Graeme Woodside is the Chief Executive of the Prostate Cancer Foundation and Dr Nina Scott is a Maori public health physician with Waikato DHB, a researcher for the University of Auckland and was an investigator on the research team for this study.
09:20 Why are prostate cancer outcomes in NZ so poor?
Dr Nina Scott is a Maori public health physician with Waikato DHB, she's a researcher for the University of Auckland and was on the research team for this study. She was the Ministry of Health's advisor to the select committee review on prostate cancer and was on the prostate cancer taskforce.
09:30 The Milibrand effect
Will Russell Brand’s endorsement of UK Labour leader Ed Miliband actually translate into votes and what role is new media now playing in democracy?
Russell Brand’s video endorsing Labour
Young labour supporters responded to attacks on Miliband by the right-wing press by posting photoshopped images of Ed Miliband under #milifandom which trended number one on Twitter in the United Kingdom.

#HellYesEd #CoolEdMiliband @CoolEdMiliband #milifandom Not sure that Sylvester Stallone isn't the body double: pic.twitter.com/RJTzByRk55
— Richard Millwood (@richardmillwood) April 21, 2015

09:45 UK correspondent Kate Adie
10:05 Endangered Turtles of the Torres Strait Islands
Leah Lui-Chivizhe is a doctoral student in history at the University of Sydney where her research focuses on Torres Strait Islander relationships and engagements with the marine environment and the Islander-turtle relationship. Throughout history the turtle has been an important source of food as well as having great cultural and spiritual significance. She now works part-time for the Nura Gili Centre for Indigenous Programs at the University of New South Wales.

Left: Mask, circa 1870, Torres Strait, maker unknown. Gift of the Marquess of Normanby, 1875. CC BY-NC-ND licence. Te Papa (FE000530). Right: Leah Lui Chivizhe fishing off Horn Island Wharf.
10:30 Book Review: MAYDAY: How warring egos forced Qantas off course
Reviewed by Gyles Beckford
MAYDAY: How warring egos forced Qantas off course by Matt O'Sullivan
Published by Viking Penguin Random House, RRP $40.00
10:45 The Reading: 'Touchstones' by James McNeish
We continue the memoir of James McNeish, about the people in his life who shaped his perspective: “a gallery of people – rebels, outsiders, romantics, enlightened misfits and illiterates – who have touched me in life.” (Part 14 of 15, RNZ).
11:05 New Technology with Sarah Putt
New Technology commentator Sarah Putt discuss privacy in the age of drones, and trouble with the Yik Yak app which allows people to post anonymous messages.
11:25 Parenting: Everything you need to know about headlice
Professor Rick Speare is a public health physician and director of Tropic Health Solutions and an expert on headlice. He answers questions about headlice and the best ways to get rid of them.
11:45 Film review with Dan Slevin
Dan Slevin reviews That Sugar Film (Damon Gameau); Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (Brett Morgen) and Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev).

=PLAYLIST=

Artist: The Bats
Song: Block of Wood
Composer: The Bats/Scott
Album: Stanley Road
Label: Flying Nun
Time: 0932
Artist: Stevie Wonder
Song: Signed, sealed Delivered, I’m yours
Composer: Wonder/Garrett/Wright/Hardaway
Album: 1970’s album
Label: MOTOWN
Time: 1010
Artist: Bella Kalolo
Song: Let Go
Composer: Kalalo
Album: Time and Space
Label: Bella Sounds
Time: 1040
Artist: Trinity Roots
Song: El Kaptain
Composer: Trinity Roots
Album: Citizen
Label: PRIVATE
Time: 1121

===Noon | Midday Report===
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Radio New Zealand news, followed by updates and reports until 1.00pm, including: 12:16 Business News 12:26 Sport 12:34 Rural News 12:43 Worldwatch

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12:00
Midday News for 7 May 2015
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Life sentences have been handed to the pair who burnt a man to death; A new option for people with unresolved claims of historic abuse.
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Duration: 15'08"

12:17
Z Energy's profit slumps
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The slump in oil prices has dragged down Z Energy's net profit by 93 percent to 7-million dollars.
Topics: business
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Duration: 1'31"

12:18
BNZ first half profit rises 28 percent to $510 million
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The Bank of New Zealand's first half net profit has jumped 28 percent, driven by strong revenue growth and cost management.
Topics: business
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Duration: 58"

12:19
Team Talk says its on track to meet FY profit guidance
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Team Talk share price has risen nearly 20 percent after saying it's on track to meet its profit guidance for the year, with second-half revenue that is slightly better than the first half.
Topics: business
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Duration: 1'18"

12:20
European Union has unveiled a new framework
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The European Union has unveiled a new framework for the internet, dubbing it the Single Digital Market.
Topics: business
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Duration: 1'05"

12:21
Imperial Tobacco posts profits
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The world's fifth largest cigarette maker, Imperial Tobacco, is proving there's still a lot of money to be made in the business.
Topics: business
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Tags: tobacco
Duration: 1'19"

12:22
Tax freedom day is today
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Today is tax freedom day, the day when New Zealand taxpayers stop paying tax and start earning for themselves.
Topics: business
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Tags: tax
Duration: 1'09"

12:23
Midday Markets for 7 May 2015
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The sharemarket falls
Topics: business
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Duration: 2'33"

12:26
Midday Sports News for 7 May 2015
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The Hurricanes will be without four All Blacks as they seek to cement their place at the top of the super rugby standings.
Topics: sport
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Tags: hurricanes
Duration: 2'54"

12:35
Midday Rural News for 7 May 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 7'53"

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===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
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Information and debate, people and places around NZ

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13:10
Your Song - Je T'aime
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Dom Blaazer from Auckland has chosen Je T'aime by Serge Gainsbourg.
Topics: music
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Serge Gainsbourg
Duration: 13'14"

13:20
Our New Zealand A to Z - Knitting
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It's knitting today! With: Teacher, designer, knitter and spinner Margaret Stove; Royal shawl knitter Cynthia Read; Prison volunteer Coralie Curtis, on knitting in Hawkes Bay Prison; Jenna Todd and her granny Sandy Todd.
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Jersey knitted for Jenna Todd by her grandmother Sandy.
Knitting in Aotearoa with teacher, designer, knitter and spinner Margaret Stove; royal shawl knitter Cynthia Read; prison volunteer Coralie Curtis, on knitting in Hawkes Bay Prison; and Jenna Todd and her granny Sandy Todd.
Calling all knitters - share your triumphs and disasters. Email your pics to website@radionz.co.nz
Gallery: Knitting in NZ
Related

Knitted knockers
Knitter natters
Knitters deemed too noisy and dangerous for library
A purler idea for blokes
What does the way you hold your knitting needles say about you?
Guerilla knitting and yarn bombing

Topics: life and society, arts
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Tags: knitting, craft
Duration: 39'26"

14:10
The Ugly Shakespeare Company
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For 20 years the Ugly Shakespeare Company has toured theatre to schools the length and breadth of the country, introducing 800-thousand school kids to the Bard.
Topics: arts
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Tags: Shakespeare
Duration: 12'57"

14:20
Could you travel the world on $10 a day?
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Croatian stockbroker-turned broke traveller, Tomislav Perko, has been doing just that for five years. He's hitchhiked across the Indian Ocean, traversed five continents, and now he's in New Zealand.
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Tags: Croatia
Duration: 10'06"

14:45
Feature Album - Judith by Judy Collins
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Our Feature Album is 'Judith' by American singer/songwriter Judy Collins. Her 12 LP came out in 1975 and is still her best selling album.
Topics: music
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Tags: Judy Collins
Duration: 14'17"

15:10
The Expats - Baden Campbell
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This week we speak to Baden Campbell who's on his way home from London. Instead of flying, he's taking the best part of two years to travel back by bike.
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Tags: London, bike
Duration: 12'19"

15:45
The Panel pre-show for 7 May 2015
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 13'34"

21:34
Exercise is the Best Medicine
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The exercise physiology clinic at the University of Auckland combines exercise for rehabilitation with teaching and research
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By Alison Ballance
Exercise is good for you – and it can save your life.
That's according to exercise experts Greg Anson and Jim Stinear from the University of Auckland.

“Physical inactivity can kill you. And World Health [Organisation] data in 2010 indicated that more people died from physical inactivity than from smoking”, says Greg Anson, head of the Department of Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Auckland. “Physical activity is an essential part of living well.”
As well as advocating for exercise as a way of preventing illness, Greg Anson and his colleagues are strong believers in the recuperative powers of exercise. “Clinical exercise physiology provides an intervention for rehabilitation, and also the opportunity to study the pattern of recovery following injury.”
Clinical exercise physiologists at the Health and Performance Clinic at the University of Auckland use personalised exercise prescriptions to help people recovering from medical conditions ranging heart attacks and strokes to diabetes, metabolic syndrome, as well as muscular conditions and people recovering from surgery.
The clinic has about 50 cardiac patients and a further 70 with medical issues ranging from diabetes to cancer.
Last year Linda Boyens discovered a lump in her breast, and a diagnosis of breast cancer led to a left mastectomy, followed by chemotherapy and radiation treatment. As part of her recovery she’s been taking part in prescribed exercise treatment at the Health and Performance Clinic. “I’ve been absolutely delighted with it, having been a gym bunny and always thought about a healthy lifestyle,” says Linda. “What I wanted … was to get my flexibility back, and obviously recovering from the wound. And also to get me back into a really great space.”
Another of the clinic’s clients is Nigel Bass, a retired cardiologist. In his professional capacity at Auckland Hospital he often referred his patients to the cardiac rehabilitation programme that was the predecessor of the current Health and Performance Clinic. Last year Nigel was admitted to hospital with severe back pain that left him using strong pain medication and crutches. Almost at the end of his 12-week course at the clinic Nigel says he is feeling much better.
As well as offering rehabilitation for people like Linda and Nigel, the clinic is also a training and research facility for students studying for a Master’s degree in exercise physiology. It has just become the first exercise physiology clinic outside the United States to become accredited to CAAHEP, the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs.
Stacey Reading is programme director of the Health and Performance Clinic, and he says the research carried out at the clinic aims to “better utilise exercise to help people improve their functional capacity once they’re affected by something like heart disease or a stroke."
Stacey says that "discovering new best practises and the best way to apply that exercise to help people is the focus of most of our research here.”
Jim Stinear, director for the post-graduate programme in clinical exercise physiology at the University of Auckland, says he believes that “our programme has struck a nice balance between rich clinical training environment but still adhering to what our university takes a great deal of pride in, which is its research. I’m always reminding students of ‘how will this inform our clinical practise’.”
The University of Auckland Clinics' Health and Performance Clinic is a specialised teaching clinic, one of six that are collectively known as the University of Auckland clinics.
Topics: science, health
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Tags: exercise, health, rehabilitation, human physiology, non-communicable diseases
Duration: 13'40"

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1:10 Your Song - Je T'aime by Serge Gainsbourg chosen by Dom Blaazer from Auckland
1:20 Our New Zealand A to Z: Knitting - with:
Teacher, designer, knitter and spinner Margaret Stove
Royal shawl knitter Cynthia Read
Prison volunteer Coralie Curtis, on knitting in Hawkes Bay Prison
Jenna Todd and her granny Sandy Todd.
Calling all knitters - share your triumphs and disasters. Email your pics to website@radionz.co.nz
Gallery: NZ A-Z: knitting

Left: The Rata shawl. Right: Bush Bouquet Christening coat (which was a precursor to the shawl designed and made for the birth of Prince William). Images courtesy of Margaret Stove.
2:10 Ugly Shakespeare - Richard Green
For 20 years the Ugly Shakespeare Company has toured theatre to schools the length and breadth of the country, introducing 800-thousand school kids to the Bard.
2:20 Could you travel the world on $10 a day?
Croatian stockbroker-turned broke traveller, Tomislav Perko, has been doing just that for five years. He's hitchhiked across the Indian Ocean, traversed five continents, and now he's in New Zealand.
2:30 NZ Reading - Peter Bland with part four of 'The Conductor' by Sarah Quigley.
MUSIC DETAILS
Excerpts from allegretto of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony no. 7 in C major, NZSO [RNZ Recording]
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The Conductor by Sarah Quigley Pub: Random House / Vintage (6-May-2011) ISBN-978-1869795061
2:45 Feature album - Judith by Judy Collins (1975)
3:10 The Expats - Today, Baden Campbell who's on his way home from London - but instead of flying, he's taking the best part of two years to travel back by bike.
3:20 The Porton Down Cover-up
In May 1953, British airman Ronald Maddison died after taking part in a nerve gas test at government research base Porton Down. His death would be covered up for nearly fifty years. This BBC Witness story includes the memories of another test subject Michael Cox, who was in the gas chamber when Maddison collapsed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02q5dq0
3.35 Exercise Is The Best Medicine - Alison Ballance
What began more than 30 years ago as an exercise clinic at the University of Auckland for cardiac patients has now been expanded to become an exercise physiology clinic offering specialist exercise advice to people with all sorts of medical and surgical conditions.
Stories from Our Changing World.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show - Zara Potts

===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 7 May 2015
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 13'34"

16:05
The Panel with Linda Clark and David Slack (Part 1)
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Otago Poly considering drug and alcohol testing; Should athletes be discharged without conviction?; NZ down in world tourism rankings.
Topics: sport
Regions: Otago
Tags: tourism
Duration: 25'41"

16:06
The Panel with Linda Clark and David Slack (Part 2)
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The British election; Panel says; Germanwings pilot rehearsed French Alps crash; What is the appeal of The Bachelor?
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Duration: 24'26"

16:10
Otago Poly considering drug and alcohol testing
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Otago Polytechnic is considering drug and alcohol testing for most students and staff. Where do you draw the line? Employment lawyer Alastair Espie, from Cullen Law in Wellington ponders the question.
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Duration: 9'17"

16:20
Should athletes be discharged without conviction?
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To what extent should athletes be discharged without conviction, on the basis it would affect their employment and their ability to travel or compete in international competitions?
Topics: sport
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Duration: 5'15"

16:25
NZ down in world tourism rankings
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New Zealand has slipped down the world tourism rankings. What does this mean for our future?
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Duration: 5'31"

16:35
The British election
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The Panelists share their thoughts on the British election.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 7'07"

16:40
Panel says
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What the panelists, Linda Clark and David Slack, have been thinking about.
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Tags: bullying, Greeting cards
Duration: 13'20"

16:45
Germanwings pilot rehearsed French Alps crash
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The Germanwings pilot Andreas Lubitz rehearsed the French Alps crash, putting the plane into a controlled dive on the outward journey. Should this action somehow have alerted authorities?
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Duration: 5'33"

16:55
What is the appeal of The Bachelor?
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What is the appeal of tv show The Bachelor?
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Duration: 5'07"

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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 Thursday 7 May 2015
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Westport's Stockton miners dealt another devastating blow; Solid Energy responds; Westport reacts to Stockton mine news; Auckland households to pay $114 a year for transport projects; Trial underway in China for NZer accused of drug-smuggling; Hit and run driver dies in car crash fire; Shalvin Prasad's family say questions remain over his murder.
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Duration: 23'27"

17:07
Westport's Stockton miners dealt another devastating blow
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A hundred miners are losing their jobs as the country's largest opencast coal mine axes more than a quarter of its workforce.
Topics: economy
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Duration: 1'17"

17:09
Solid Energy responds
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The chief executive of Solid Energy is Dan Clifford.
Topics: economy
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Duration: 5'13"

17:13
Westport reacts to Stockton mine news
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Our reporter Georgina Stylianou is in Westport, and was outside the meeting waiting for the workers to come out.
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Regions: West Coast
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Duration: 2'00"

17:16
Ak households pay $114 a year for transport projects
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Auckland households will pay an extra one hundred and fourteen dollars a year to fund transport projects which their council says won't otherwise go ahead.
Topics: transport
Regions: Auckland Region
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Duration: 3'58"

17:20
Trial underway in China for NZer accused of drug-smuggling
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The trial of a New Zealander accused of drug smuggling and who could face the death penalty is underway in China.
Topics: crime, law
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Tags: China, drug smuggling, New Zealand
Duration: 3'05"

17:24
Hit and run driver dies in car crash fire
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A hit-and-run driver's suffered a fiery death avoiding police road spikes in Whanganui.
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Regions: Whanganui
Tags: hit and run, police
Duration: 3'45"

17:28
Shalvin Prasad's family say questions remain over his murder
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The mother of a man doused in petrol and burned alive says seeing photos of him now feels like daggers to her heart.
Topics: crime, law
Regions: Auckland Region
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Duration: 3'47"

17:33
Today's market update
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The New Zealand Top 50 index has fallen 35 points.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'32"

17:38
Fast-track for abuse victims fails to impress lawyer
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The lawyer for hundreds of victims of historical abuse in state care says a new fast-track process to deal with claims is underfunded and deeply flawed.
Topics: law
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Duration: 5'25"

17:43
Police officer goes beyond bounds with pig hunters
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A policeman who trespassed two pig hunters in a threatening way has been found to have gone beyond the bounds.
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Duration: 3'01"

17:46
Catering firm to take over southern hospital kitchens
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Catering giant Compass is taking over at Dunedin's and Invercargill's hospital kitchens in the face of heated community and union opposition.
Topics: food, health
Regions: Otago, Southland
Tags: catering
Duration: 3'38"

17:49
Farmer waits nervously for swaps payout
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A man forced to sell his farm after losing millions in notorious interest rate swaps is waiting to see how big an imminent payout is before deciding whether to fight on.
Topics: farming, rural
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Duration: 4'07"

17:52
Respected Ngāti Hine leader dies
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The people of Te Tai Tokerau and Māoridom are mourning the death of a leading advocate of Te Reo Māori.
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Duration: 3'17"

18:08
Sports News for 7 May 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 3'06"

18:11
Buller District Mayor on Stockton Mine
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Stockton mine's axed more than a quarter of its workforce today and within months the entire coalmine could be forced to shut down.
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Regions: West Coast
Tags: Stockton mine, jobs
Duration: 7'10"

18:18
UK voters on a knife edge
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In the last few minutes polls have opened in Britain's most unpredictable general election in decades.
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Duration: 2'58"

18:21
Govt: Auckland's transport plan won't work
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Auckland households will pay $115 a year extra in special rates for a plan the government says is misguided and which it won't help to fund.
Topics: transport
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: rates
Duration: 3'41"

18:25
Student gives evidence in Auckland District Court
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A student has described seeing a teacher sitting at his classroom desk in front of a computer with his pants down and touching his crotch.
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Duration: 2'28"

18:33
Te Puke freezing worker won't back down over Facebook post
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A Te Puke freezing worker who's been threatened with the sack because of a Facebook post says she's not backing down.
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Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: Facebook, Te Puke
Duration: 3'00"

18:36
MPs asked to consider different flag process
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MPs considering a national flag change have been told the public should have the right to say whether or not they want a new one, before considering alternatives.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 2'54"

18:39
Masseur jailed for 21 months
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A Christchurch masseur has been jailed for sexually assaulting three women on the massage table.
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Regions: Canterbury
Tags: maaeur jailed
Duration: 2'33"

18:41
Men with advanced prostate cancer desperately need more help
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New evidence shows the chances of surviving the disease in New Zealand is much worse than other countries.
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Duration: 4'14"

18:48
Te Manu Korihi News for 7 May 2015
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The people of Te Tai Tokerau and Māoridom are mourning the death of a leading advocate of Te Reo Māori; Iwi leaders have scolded Maori MPs who are critical of the Whānau Ora policy; Five young Māori tertiary students have been awarded Ngārimu VC scholarships to help them further their academic studies.
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Duration: 3'35"

18:53
Today In Parliament for 7 May 2015 - evening edition
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Winston Peters makes submission on the Flag Referendum Bill to Justice and Electoral Committee; Trevor Mallard presents his petition on that Bill to the same committee; Te Ururoa Flavell fields questions about Whanau Ora.
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Duration: 4'58"

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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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Entertainment and information, including: 7:30 At the Movies with Simon Morris: Current film releases and film related topics (RNZ) 8:13 Windows on the World: International public radio features and documentaries 9:06 Our Changing World: Science and environment news from NZ and the world (RNZ)

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19:12
Getting The Gamers Going
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Gaming magazines, from the 1980s to the nineties, were direct contributors to the development of 'gaming culture' - with Dr. Graeme Kirkpatrick, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester.
Topics: arts, technology
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Tags: computer games, gaming magazines, gamers, gamergate
Duration: 20'32"

20:42
Video Games
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Joystick ninja and GamePlanet editor Matt Maguire solves the riddles, beats the bad guys and saves the Earth countless times on a myriad of gaming platforms... rhythm games that use special plastic controllers - Guitar Hero and Rock Band are coming back from the dead.
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Tags: gamergate, video games, computer games, rhythm games, Guitar Hero, Rockband, Rocksmith
Duration: 16'19"

20:59
Conundrum Clue 7
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Listen on Friday for the answer.
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Duration: 08"

21:59
Conundrum Clue 8
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Listen on Friday for the answer.
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Duration: 1'21"

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7:10 Getting The Gamers Going
Gaming magazines, from the 1980s to the nineties, were direct contributors to the development of 'gaming culture' - with Dr. Graeme Kirkpatrick, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester.
7:30 At the Movies

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19:30
At The Movies for 7 May 2015
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On At The Movies, Simon Morris looks at two films about music: Boychoir, starring Dustin Hoffman and Eddie Izzard, is the latest in a new genre - the choir movie; Montage Of Heck is a documentary about Nirvana front-man, the late Kurt Cobain; And It Follows is creating a buzz among fans of horror films.
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A still from Boychoir (- not Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck - for clarification).
Boychoir, in which another troubled kid meets another inspirational teacher,
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck – not quite all you ever wanted to know about Nirvana,
And It Follows writes the next chapter in the history of horror.
The Big Picture, with Simon Morris.
If there’s one thing the movie industry has learned from the costume department, it’s this: Never throw anything away, it may come back into fashion.
Back in the Seventies, we saw the apparent demise of the big animated feature, the disaster film and the cheesey musical.
They came back, needless to say. In fact sometimes it seems that’s just about all there is in the cinema. In the case of The Lego Movie, all rolled into one…
The traditional war film regularly comes and goes, as do fantasy, swords-and-sorcery epics, though it was less predictable that Cecil B DeMille’s old-fashioned Biblical spectaculars would make a comeback in the YouTube 2010s, in the shape of Noah and Exodus: Gods and Kings.
One man’s old hat is another man’s brand-new headgear, of course, and often the second-hand antique of a previous era becomes a fresh attraction to an audience that wasn’t born when the last generation got good and sick of it. Who’d have guessed that a silent movie – The Artist – would pick up an Oscar long after such things had seemingly been relegated to the dustbin of history?
3D movies were, at one stage, a desperate gimmick, only used by the cheapest of horror films. Film noir was a beloved Forties style, sadly lamented by the critics, until The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo hauled it back into the mainstream – particularly on television.
Yes, sooner or later everything comes back in one way or another – Japanese monster movies, Disney fairy-tale movies, even the much-maligned “women’s pictures” of the Fifties and Sixties.
Everything except one… No matter how hard everyone tries, the old-fashioned western isn’t coming back any time soon. They can write ‘em, they can film ‘em, but they can’t reproduce the frontier decency and total lack of cynicism the old horse-operas depended on. Not yet at any rate.
This week sees the return of two elderly genres – the musical and the chilly Eighties horror film.
It Follows has been hailed by horror purists as the best of its type since John Carpenter and Brian De Palma stalked the drive-ins.
Musicals these days also go out of their way to pretend they’re not what you think.
Montage of Heck is actually a documentary about troubled rock-star, Kurt Cobain – but it still finds room to play the hits.
And Boychoir masquerades as a drama about another troubled kid with the voice of an angel, who might just be the one to take the choir into the big leagues.
Topics: arts
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Tags: film, film review
Duration: 23'05"

19:31
Boychoir - film review
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Simon Morris reviews the latest in a new genre - the choir movie. In Boychoir another troubled kid meets another inspirational teacher…
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Boychoir - directed by Francois Girard, starring Dustin Hoffman, Debra Winger and Eddie Izzard

In choir films, there’s always one character with a bad attitude, and invariably he’s the kid with the talent. Stet lives with his slatternly Mum on the wrong side of the tracks. His teachers don’t know what to do with him – all but one. Ms Debra Winger can see he’s got a terrific voice and urges him to try out for Boy Choir.
Boy Choir is where the cream of America’s youthful choristers go. It’s a prep school for boy sopranos, and could just be the making of the rebellious Stet. What he needs is that standard figure in all these movies – the Inspirational Teacher.
In this case it’s crusty old Mr Carvelle, played by Dustin Hoffman. Carvelle takes one look at surly young Stet and rejects him out of hand. But the other teachers urge him to look again.
In a choir films we pretty much know the steps the story’s going to take – Stet starts badly, he gets picked on by the snobby rich kids, he decides to get good just to show them, and so on. Minor subplots are tossed in, then sorted out without breaking a sweat. The star character Stet is, ironically given his startling singing talent, essentially two-note. He’s angry, then he comes right.
Even the singing – which after all in a film called Boychoir is the point of the exercise – isn’t as knockout as it’s clearly meant to be.
Pity really. I wanted to love Boychoir more than I did. But I found myself missing the musical highs and lows of both As It Is In Heaven and… I have to say, no-one’s more surprised about this than I am – the teen movie Pitch Perfect.
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Duration: 5'32"

19:40
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck - film review
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Simon Morris reviews a documentary about Nirvana front-man, the late Kurt Cobain. Montage Of Heck is not quite all you ever wanted to know about Nirvana.
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Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck - documentary directed by Brett Morgan.

Kurt Cobain – Montage of Heck director Brett Morgan is clearly a Cobain obsessive, and goodness knows the singer and main songwriter of grunge band Nirvana is a fruitful source for a documentary.
Cobain was born in Washington State, and spent most of his life getting into trouble – at home, at school, everywhere. After Kurt’s parents broke up, he seemed to go off the rails, living in turn with his good-time mother and his mostly absent father – both of whom try to explain why they had so much difficulty with the kid.
Cobain ignored school, and turned to music – especially 70s punk, which he discovered about 5 years after it had died everywhere else.
Like another semi-biography about Cobain – Gus Van Sant’s Last Days, Montage of Heck is fascinated by the tortured character of the rock star. But they were both less interested in - or simply less capable of - exploring the actual music, where it came from, and what Cobain’s band did with it.
Conspicuous by his absence is Nirvana’s third main member, drummer Dave Grohl. But then there’s nothing from the other ten or so people who passed through Nirvana over the years - apart from Krist Novoselic.
But you suspect director Brett Morgan and producer Courtenay Love aren’t interested in anything that deviates from the iconography of the Lone Genius Rockstar.
There’s a whole lot of Cobain’s wife, Courtenay Love in Montage of Heck, revelling in her Tough Bad Girl status. Certainly her tolerance for drugs – particularly heroin – was unhelpful to the fragile, and borderline narcissist, Cobain.
The downside of a rock documentary – you could say it’s the same with any talented artist, which Cobain undoubtedly was – is that personally these people are often deeply unappealing. You undeniably learn a lot – possibly a bit too much – about Cobain’s messy and ultimately tragic life.
But sometimes it’s better to let the music do the talking, “revered icon” or not.
Topics: arts, music
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Duration: 5'57"

19:50
It Follows - film review
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Simon Morris reviews It Follows which writes the next chapter in the history of horror, and is creating a buzz among fans of the genre.
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It Follows - directed by David Robert Mitchell, starring Maike Monroe.
It Follows is aimed at the people for whom the question “Do you like scary movies?” can only have one answer. “Hell yes…” - for it is as scary as a montage of heck.
For a start, like the eighties classics that seem to have inspired it, it’s chillingly minimal.
Jay (Maike Monroe) goes on a date with her new boyfriend Hugh, and all seems to be going swimmingly. Until Hugh gets a bit nervous at the cinema. He thinks he sees someone he doesn’t want to talk to.
So he and Jay take off to his car, and Jay passes out, waking up tied to a chair in a parking lot. It’s not what you’re thinking, says Hugh.

It is a new kind of monster chasing her – a shape-shifting, slow-walking thingy that never lets up. You can easily run away from it, but you have to stop sometime, and when you do, it catches up with you.
Unlike the usual horror film, which depends for its effects on fast-cutting close-ups and buckets of blood, It Follows is all icy suspense. And its lethal weapon is the wide shot. You spend the whole movie scanning the horizon looking for something heading our way.
If you want to have the pants scared off you, It Follows will certainly do that. Like Let The Right One In, The Terminator, Halloween and The Ring, it’s the idea that’s so scary. And once you hear about it, it’s very difficult to unhear about it before you go to bed.
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Duration: 6'02"

7:30 At the Movies
Films and movie business with Simon Morris.
8:10 Windows on the World
International public radio documentaries - visit the Windows on the World web page to find links to these documentaries.
8:40 Video Games
Joystick ninja and GamePlanet editor Matt Maguire solves the riddles, beats the bad guys and saves the Earth countless times on a myriad of gaming platforms... rhythm games that use special plastic controllers - Guitar Hero and Rock Band are coming back from the dead.
9:06 Our Changing World

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Coming up on Our Changing World on Thursday 14 May 2015
Orokonui EcoSanctuary near Dunedin, medical maggots, and Atholl Anderson on the book ‘Tangata Whenua’

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21:06
A Devilish Cancer - Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease
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In less than 20 years a rare contagious cancer has decimated Tasmanian devil numbers by 85 percent, but a vaccine may be on the way
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By Alison Ballance
I just think devils are cool. They’re the size of a small dog – or a really fat cat. They’re gorgeous, quite stocky, and I think they’re quite charismatic. There’s nothing like them out there in the world.
Kathy Belov, University of Sydney

Tasmanian devils are critically endangered. In the last 20 years their numbers in the wild have fallen by 85%, due to a highly contagious lethal cancer. “Devil facial tumour disease is really decimating the population,” says Kathy Belov, a genomics expert from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Sydney.
“This is a really unusual disease. It’s a contagious cancer that’s spread by biting. Molecular genetics work has shown us that the disease emerged in a single female devil, in one of her nerve cells, what’s called a Schwann cell, and for some reason this tumour became transmissible. And what’s really interesting is that it’s the devil who bites into the tumour on another devil who gets the disease.”
Tasmanian devils frequently bite each other’s faces as they squabble over carcasses, and also during mating. The animals often die of starvation due to the large tumours which appear at bite sites around the face and jaw, but in 65% of cases the cancer metastasises and causes organ failure.
The unique thing about the cancer is that it grows and divides without being detected by the animal’s immune system. The reason for this is that devils have very low levels of genetic diversity, as a result of population crashes and resulting genetic bottlenecks.
Devils are virtually genetically identical to each other, says Kathy Belov.

These noisy marsupials were once widespread on mainland Australia, but since the end of the last Ice Age about 12,000 years ago they have been confined to Tasmania. “In the last 200 years they have been through at least three major population crashes, where their numbers have dropped to as low as they are now, then slowly built up again.”
As part of the Save the Tasmanian Devil Program a large captive population of about 700 disease-free Tasmanian devils has been established in various Australian zoos, with a breeding programme to maximise the genetic diversity. The four Tasmanian devils that have been at Wellington Zoo since the end of 2013 are surplus to breeding requirements and have been brought to New Zealand as ambassadors for their species.
The initial idea was that even if the wild population went extinct the devils could be re-introduced to Tasmania from the captive populations. However, Kathy Belov says that the wild population is proving more resilient than first expected. It seems that young devils in their first year of life aren’t succumbing to the cancer, and are able to successfully produce a litter of pups before becoming sick.
Although there is currently no cure for devil facial tumour disease several research teams have developed what seems to be promising vaccines which are about to be trialled.
It’s very early days, but young devils don’t get the disease and one of the areas we’re looking into is protection in the pouch or the milk,” says Kathy. “We’ve discovered a range of very exciting novel anti-microbial peptides which we’ve tested and we know kill bacteria and fungi, and in particular they kill things like multi-drug resistant golden Staph, so we’re really excited about that … but we’re also hopeful they can kill the tumour cells.

Kathy has been involved in work looking to see if there are individuals that are resistant to the disease. Whole genome sequencing has been carried out on a number of animals and their cancers, and that data is currently being analysed. The first preliminary Tasmanian devil genome was published in 2011 and followed up in 2012.
Devil facial tumour disease is one of only two known contagious cancers affecting animals, and exists as several strains, although all the strains contain cells from the original infected female.
Kathy Belov is on the Governance Board for the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution.
Listen to the audio of A Devilish Cancer below:
Topics: environment, science
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Duration: 12'28"

21:20
Exploring Seabed Methane Seeps
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A team of NIWA marine scientists investigates methane seeps that bubble up from the seabed off the North Island's east coast.
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By Veronika Meduna
Everywhere we saw these little mounts of carbonate, there was something coming out of them.
Expedition leader Joshu Mountjoy, NIWA

A team of marine scientists returned from a week-long expedition voyage along the east coast of the North Island with new evidence of more than 700 methane gas flares bubbling up from the seabed.
The coastline runs along the Hikurangi Subduction Margin, a tectonically active area known to produce slow-moving submarine landslides. A year ago, a joint New Zealand/German research team used state-of-the-art 3D seismic and echosounder technology to map the seafloor and discovered a vast network of frozen methane deposits and gas flares that play a role in the underwater land movement.
Last week, NIWA marine scientists returned to the area aboard the deep-water research vessel Tangaroa to find out how much of the methane might be escaping from the ocean into the atmosphere and to look for any ecosystems that depend on the gas as a food source.

Expedition leader and NIWA marine geologist Joshu Mountjoy says the first objective was to remap the area and to look at previously identified gas flares in more detail, using a range of acoustic techniques and a purpose-built, deep-towed image system to collect video.
“Overall what was really surprising this time was that everywhere we saw these little mounts of carbonate we saw something coming out of them. I expected that there would be some of these that were producing gas, and some of them that were closed off and not producing, but every single lump on the seafloor had gas coming out.”
He says the total number of methane seeps is around 750 individual flare sites, all networked together and changing with time.
However, beyond that number, there are several small faults that are clearly associated with how the gas is getting up through the sediment and up to the surface. “Along these is just a curtain of gas flares as well, continuous gas coming out along the length of these faults.”
Methane hydrates are an ice-like form of the gas and usually found at water depths of 600 metres and more, within the upper 500 metres of the sediment. The deposits depend on specific pressure and temperature conditions to remain frozen within the sediment, but bubbles of methane gas can erupt through to the surface. This area off Poverty Bay is unusual in that gas seeps emerge from the seabed at around 200 metres deep.
Ashley Rowden, a marine ecologist at NIWA, says at deeper sites such methane deposits are known to support entire ecosystem that depend on the gas as a primary food source. He says the discovery of such communities in shallower sites now means that our understanding of life that inhabits gas seeps may need to be re-evaluated.
We get excited about what we see as a response to that methane, which can be bacterial mats, so little white patches on the seafloor, but also particular animals which we know rely on that methane. We see mussel-like organisms, clams, tube worms … or you can often see their dead remains because the one thing about these methane seeps is that they are ephemeral.
Marine ecologist Ashley Rowden, NIWA

One of the key questions for this expedition was whether the methane, which is a potent greenhouse gas, may be escaping into the atmosphere. To answer this, the team ran a continuous sampling regime, measuring methane bubbles and their flow rates, sampling water to track methane concentrations, and deploying equipment in the ship’s rigging to sample the air.
“The most immediate question is to understand how much of this gas is getting into the atmosphere and how much it needs to be factored in in terms of climate models.
“Then there’s also tracking it back towards the source … understanding just how much gas there actually is in the sediment. From our understanding of the landslide processes we want to know how much pressure is building up there … and how that might be affecting the changing landscape.”
The team also hopes to work out how the gas is actually produced – either through biological processes or a heat-driven system at depth.
“This comes back to looking for resources. Petroleum exploration companies are interested in that and looking for thermogenic gas production that might be associated with hydrocarbon systems. In this situation, it’s a very leaky system so it’s unlikely that it’s hugely useful, but nonetheless by sampling that gas you can get some idea of what’s going on deep in the earth.”

For Ashley Rowden, the most important aspect is the comparison between shallow and deep-water methane-specific ecosystems. He wants to know whether the biological communities are similar or not so that he can think of them in the context of future management.
“Gas hydrates which can occur in association with these methane seeps are potentially a resource which might be mined and drilled for in the future and there’s potential consequences for the organisms which live near a drill site.”
Topics: science
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: methane seeps, submarine landslides, Hikurangi Subduction Margin, methane hydrates, frozen methane, Tangaroa, NIWA
Duration: 13'20"

21:34
Exercise is the Best Medicine
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The exercise physiology clinic at the University of Auckland combines exercise for rehabilitation with teaching and research
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By Alison Ballance
Exercise is good for you – and it can save your life.
That's according to exercise experts Greg Anson and Jim Stinear from the University of Auckland.

“Physical inactivity can kill you. And World Health [Organisation] data in 2010 indicated that more people died from physical inactivity than from smoking”, says Greg Anson, head of the Department of Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Auckland. “Physical activity is an essential part of living well.”
As well as advocating for exercise as a way of preventing illness, Greg Anson and his colleagues are strong believers in the recuperative powers of exercise. “Clinical exercise physiology provides an intervention for rehabilitation, and also the opportunity to study the pattern of recovery following injury.”
Clinical exercise physiologists at the Health and Performance Clinic at the University of Auckland use personalised exercise prescriptions to help people recovering from medical conditions ranging heart attacks and strokes to diabetes, metabolic syndrome, as well as muscular conditions and people recovering from surgery.
The clinic has about 50 cardiac patients and a further 70 with medical issues ranging from diabetes to cancer.
Last year Linda Boyens discovered a lump in her breast, and a diagnosis of breast cancer led to a left mastectomy, followed by chemotherapy and radiation treatment. As part of her recovery she’s been taking part in prescribed exercise treatment at the Health and Performance Clinic. “I’ve been absolutely delighted with it, having been a gym bunny and always thought about a healthy lifestyle,” says Linda. “What I wanted … was to get my flexibility back, and obviously recovering from the wound. And also to get me back into a really great space.”
Another of the clinic’s clients is Nigel Bass, a retired cardiologist. In his professional capacity at Auckland Hospital he often referred his patients to the cardiac rehabilitation programme that was the predecessor of the current Health and Performance Clinic. Last year Nigel was admitted to hospital with severe back pain that left him using strong pain medication and crutches. Almost at the end of his 12-week course at the clinic Nigel says he is feeling much better.
As well as offering rehabilitation for people like Linda and Nigel, the clinic is also a training and research facility for students studying for a Master’s degree in exercise physiology. It has just become the first exercise physiology clinic outside the United States to become accredited to CAAHEP, the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs.
Stacey Reading is programme director of the Health and Performance Clinic, and he says the research carried out at the clinic aims to “better utilise exercise to help people improve their functional capacity once they’re affected by something like heart disease or a stroke."
Stacey says that "discovering new best practises and the best way to apply that exercise to help people is the focus of most of our research here.”
Jim Stinear, director for the post-graduate programme in clinical exercise physiology at the University of Auckland, says he believes that “our programme has struck a nice balance between rich clinical training environment but still adhering to what our university takes a great deal of pride in, which is its research. I’m always reminding students of ‘how will this inform our clinical practise’.”
The University of Auckland Clinics' Health and Performance Clinic is a specialised teaching clinic, one of six that are collectively known as the University of Auckland clinics.
Topics: science, health
Regions:
Tags: exercise, health, rehabilitation, human physiology, non-communicable diseases
Duration: 13'40"

21:46
Language and Sensory-Motor Experience
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Alistair Knott is teaching a computer "baby" to speak different languages to see if syntax and sensory-motor experiences are linked
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By Ruth Beran
A computer “baby” at the University of Otago may provide the link between the scientific disciplines of linguistics and neuroscience.
So we have a computer model that simulates a baby in some sense learning a language,” says cognitive scientist and linguist Alistair Knott. “The baby has got sensory motor skills. For instance we have a model of the sensory motor routines which a baby needs to do in order to grab a cup but also to watch someone else grab a cup.

The idea is to map sensory-motor experiences with the output sequence of words, and if there is a correlation it would show a direct relationship between the syntax of sentences and the structure of sensory-motor experiences.
““I have to emphasise [the computer baby is] very simple, but if you squint your eyes you can see it acquiring firstly the simple kind of syntax that babies learn at around 18 months. Then later on, at about 2 years of age, the light going on and the baby starting to produce well-formed grammatical sentences,” says Alistair Knott.
The computer model is learning various languages like English, Maori, Japanese and Slovak.
All of these languages, according to the world’s best-known linguist Noam Chomsky from MIT, have similar syntax, even if they don’t look similar on the surface.
Chomsky also hypothesised that babies are born already knowing something about language and just have to hear their mother tongue and input some unknown parameters. This is a concept known as universal grammar.
However, modern neuroscience has shown that there is no area of the brain dedicated solely to language, making it difficult to accept that there is an innate competence for language.
Alistair’s idea is that the syntax of a sentence like “The man grabbed the cup” is related to the sensory-motor process of actually grabbing a cup.
“It’s a very optimistic idea. The idea is that linguists like Chomsky, but other linguists, as well have been uncovering information about the structure of sensory-motor experiences by studying the structure of sentences,” says Alistair.
If Alistair’s optimistic idea is true, it would be a game changer. It would bring together the separate disciplines of linguistics and neuroscience.
“Theoretical linguists look at the structure of sentences, and build models that describe and explain the grammar of one language or another,” says Alistair. While neuroscientists study the performance of that action, or watching and perceiving other people perform that action.
What I’m trying to do is connect the theories that are developed by linguists with the theories that are developed by people who study experience of actions in the actual world,” says Alistair. “If it was the case that these two disciplines could be connected, that would be a very interesting result for cognitive science in general.

Topics: language, science
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Tags: linguistics, neuroscience, language, syntax, sensory-motor experience
Duration: 14'22"

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