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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:
28 July 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 Night Lights Classic Jazz - Come On Down to Central Avenue (11 of 12, WFIU); 3:05 Heart of Darfur, by Lisa French Blaker (2 of 12, 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 28 July 2015
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More leaked documents emerge, showing a major shake-up planned for District Health Boards that could pit board against board.. some are calling the proposals destructive. A Criminal and human rights lawyer accuses Serco of breaching the Bill of Rights Acts in the treatment of a prisoner and friends of one of the French Canadians who died on the Kepler track remember a man full of adventure.
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Duration: 28'55"
06:06
Sports News for 28 July 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'10"
06:11
Serco may have breached Corrections and Bill of Rights Acts
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A human rights lawyer says it's possible Serco breached both the Corrections and Bill of Rights Acts over the alleged treatment of a former inmate at Mount Eden Prison.
Topics: crime
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Tags: Corrections, Mt Eden prison, Serco
Duration: 2'33"
06:17
Pacific News for 28 July 2015
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The latest from the Pacific region.
Topics: Pacific
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Duration: 2'32"
06:23
Morning Rural News for 28 July 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 3'42"
06:27
Te Manu Korihi News for 28 July 2015
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The Māori caucus of the National Network for Stopping Violence says if the management at Mount Eden Prison is turning a blind eye to violence, that prevents the rehabilitation of prisoners; The organisation that supports Māori tourism is supporting the introduction of a levy on international travellers because it says it will take the burden off the taxpayer; A former Māori Affairs Minister says there need to be more stringent policies around foreign ownership in New Zealand.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Duration: 3'20"
06:41
DHB chair wary of mooted changes to health funding
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More leaked documents reveal the funding of DHBs could be in for a shake-up.
Topics: health, politics
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Tags: funding
Duration: 2'24"
06:48
Briscoe Group expects takeover of Kathmandu to succeed
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Briscoe Group expects its takeover offer for Kathmandu Holdings to be accepted, given the positive response it's already recieved.
Topics: business
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Tags: Briscoe Group
Duration: 2'36"
06:51
Brierley lifts stake in Kirks again
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Sir Ron Brierley has continued to lift his stake in the Wellington retailer, Kirkcaldie and Stains.
Topics: business
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Tags: Kirkcaldie and Stains
Duration: 59"
06:52
M2 in expansion mode
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The company which runs Slingshot says it is still in growth mode, despite having to drop a service giving viewers access to overseas content that would otherwise be blocked.
Topics: business
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Tags: M2 New Zealand
Duration: 2'20"
06:55
Business profile - Elitric Group
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Now to a firm that may fly under the radar. Today we look at the app development start-up, Elitric Group.
Topics: business
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Tags: Elitric Group
Duration: 3'32"
06:58
Morning markets for 28 July 2015
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Wall Street is weaker after the Chinese share market fall.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 57"
07:07
Sports News for 28 July 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'01"
07:13
Leaked documents show DHB funding could be in for a shakeup
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More leaked documents reveal the funding of District Health Boards could be in for a shake-up some say is reminiscent of changes made in the 1990s.
Topics: health, politics
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Tags: funding
Duration: 3'40"
07:15
Plans for shakeup to DHB funding labelled a 'mixed bag'
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And listening to that Professor Robin Gauld, the head of department of preventive and social medicine at Otago University.
Topics: health, politics
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Tags: funding
Duration: 5'20"
07:20
Serco may have breached Corrections and Bill of Rights Acts
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A human rights lawyer says it's possible Serco's treatment of an inmate at Mount Eden Prison breached both the Corrections and Bill of Rights Acts over.
Topics: crime
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Tags: Corrections, Mt Eden prison, Serco
Duration: 2'53"
07:24
Nats fall behind Labour-Greens for first time
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In the latest poll of polls support for the National Party has fallen behind the Labour and Green bloc for the first time since February last year.
Topics: politics
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Tags: polls
Duration: 3'22"
07:29
Avalanche that killed men likely a silent killer
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A mountaineering expert says two young Canadian tourists walking the Kepler Track probably wouldn't have even heard the avalanche that claimed their lives.
Topics: sport
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Tags: tourists, avalanche, Kepler Track
Duration: 3'13"
07:37
Librarians say teens reading fewer books
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Some school libraries are blaming social media and computer games for big drops in the number of books teens are reading.
Topics: education, books
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Tags: reading
Duration: 3'06"
07:40
Extensive series of raids targetting the Headhunters gang
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Police are this morning carrying out an extensive series of raids targetting the Headhunters gang across Auckland, Waikato, the Bay of Plenty and Northland.
Topics: crime
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Tags: Headhunters gang
Duration: 2'04"
07:42
TPP deal enters final stages in Hawaii
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A controversial trade deal between New Zealand and other Pacific Rim nations including the United States enters final negotiations in Hawaii this week.
Topics: politics, business
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Tags: TPP
Duration: 4'38"
07:47
Human trafficking report's controversial rankings
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The United States has upgraded Malaysia and Cuba in its annual report on human trafficking.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Malaysia, human trafficking, United States
Duration: 3'34"
07:50
Update on police raids of the Headhunters gang
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Police are this morning carrying out an extensive series of raids targetting the Headhunters gang across Auckland, Waikato, the Bay of Plenty and Northland.
Topics: crime
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Tags: Headhunters gang, raids
Duration: 54"
07:52
Job-grabbing interlopers or an untapped opportunity?
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Job-creating or job-grabbing? The jury's out around New Zealand whether having more migrants in the regions will be a good or a bad thing.
Topics: politics
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Tags: migrants
Duration: 2'38"
07:54
Economist behind term 'zombie town's sceptical over policy
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Independent economist Shamubeel Eaqub is the author of the book Growing Apart that looks at regional prosperity. He's gone as far as to call some provincial centres zombie towns that need to close.
Topics: politics
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Tags: immigration
Duration: 4'32"
08:07
Sports News for 28 July 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'11"
08:11
Health Minister advised to bin the plan for DHB funding shakeup
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The way District Health Boards are funded could be in for a major shakeup.
Topics: health, politics
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Tags: district health boards, funding
Duration: 6'00"
08:17
Prisoner: Serco neglected health care once discharged
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A prisoner who claims he was beaten and dropped off a balcony at Mt Eden Prison says the prison operators, Serco, failed to look after him properly when he was discharged from hospital with two broken legs.
Topics: crime
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Tags: Corrections, Mt Eden prison, Serco
Duration: 2'13"
08:19
RNZ reporter has been talking with inmate's family
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Our Maori Affairs correspondent, Mihingarangi Forbes has been talking with the family of Alex Littleton.
Topics: crime
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Tags: Corrections, Mt Eden prison, Serco
Duration: 1'33"
08:21
Howard League: Lack of healthcare an ongoing issue for prisons
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The Department of Corrections declined our request for an interview on Morning Report. Jarrod Gilbert is a spokesperson on national corrections issues for the Howard League for Penal Reform.
Topics: crime
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Tags: Corrections, Mt Eden prison, Serco, Howard League
Duration: 3'43"
08:25
Labour leader Andrew Little talks TPP: foreign buyers
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The Labour Party leader, Andrew Little, says it will not support the Trans-pacific partnership deal if it stops the government restricting the sale of New Zealand land to foreign buyers.
Topics: politics
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Tags: TPP
Duration: 6'18"
08:30
Toyota Hilux with 1,200,000 km on the clock
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Yesterday on Morning Report we spoke to Turners about the Toyota Hilux ute up for sale that had travelled one-point-two million kilometres with just one owner.
Topics: transport
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Tags: Toyota Hilux
Duration: 33"
08:32
Markets Update for 28 July 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'03"
08:38
Waikato DHB's mental health inspection overdue
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The father of a patient who died under the care of the Henry Bennet Centre in Hamilton says an inspection of the Waikato District Health Board's mental health services is overdue - but doesn't go far enough.
Topics: health
Regions: Waikato
Tags: Waikato District Health Board, mental health services
Duration: 3'53"
08:42
PM not sure whether Security Council debate will do anything
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The Prime Minister is not sure whether a New Zealand-initiated debate on small island states at the United Nations Security Council this week will lead to any definitive statement on climate change.
Topics: politics, Pacific
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Tags: UN
Duration: 3'06"
08:45
More on police raids of the Headhunters gang
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More than 4 million dollars worth of expensive cars, machinery and property is being seized today as part of a police raid targeting the criminal activity of the Headhunters gang. Our reporter Gill Bonnett is outside an address on Marua road in Ellerslie.
Topics: crime
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Tags: Headhunters gang, raids
Duration: 2'26"
08:49
Te Manu Korihi News for 28 July 2015
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The organisation that supports Māori tourism is supporting the introduction of a levy on international travellers because it says it will take the burden off the taxpayer; The Māori caucus of the National Network for Stopping Violence says if Mount Eden Prison's management is turning a blind eye to violence, that prevents the rehabilitation of prisoners; A former Māori Affairs Minister says the Government's new regional immigration policy opens the door for economic colonisation.
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Duration: 3'21"
08:57
Senior British politician filmed with drugs, prostitutes
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The British Labour Party peer, Lord Sewel is being urged to resign from the House of Lords.
Topics: politics
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Tags: UK, Lord Sewel
Duration: 2'45"
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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: Five Sons and 100 Muri of Rice, by Sharyn Steel and Zoe Dryden (7 of 12, RNZ)
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09:08
Effects of financial pressures on tertiary students
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Nearly 44 percent of full time students say they don't have enough money to meet their basic needs, according to a new survey of five thousand students conducted by the New Zealand Union of Students' Associations.
Maria Goncalves-Rorke is a former student financial services advisor;
Sarah Miller is a student advocate at Massey University;
and Dr Cathy Stephenson, GP at VUW student health services.
Topics: education
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Tags: student, tertiary, university, finance
Duration: 27'24"
09:36
Dr Magdalena Harris on eradicating Hepatitis C
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Dr Magdalena Harris is a former drug user who is now an academic in social research for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine. Getting clean led her to pick up her abandoned studies – achieving a PhD looking at the experience of living with Hepatitis C in New Zealand and Australia
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Dr Magdalena Harris is a former drug user who is now an academic in social research for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine. Getting clean led her to pick up her abandoned studies – achieving a PhD looking at the experience of living with Hepatitis C in New Zealand and Australia
Dr Harris is a keynote speaker at this country's first Hepatitis C Summit in Wellington, which has an aim of eliminating the disease in New Zealand..She is a lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Topics: health
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Tags: Hepatitis C, heroin, drugs, Magdalena Harris
Duration: 14'26"
09:50
US Correspondent Susan Milligan
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Susan Milligan reports on how President Obama is now aggressively trying to sell the Iran nuclear deal on Capitol Hill, and why Donald Trump is still dominating the polls in the Republican presidential candidate race. 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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Duration: 7'47"
10:05
The Lawson Quins on their stolen childhoods
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When the Lawson quins were born 50 years ago, the family became instant celebrities.
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It was 1965 and Ann Lawson had been told she was having quadruplets. Her medical team had seen all four babies, and heard four heartbeats.
She opted for a natural birth. First came Samuel, then Lisa, Deborah and Shirlene. The babies were all breathing, everyone was relieved. Then suddenly a fifth baby emerged much to everybody's shock. Selina, it seems, had been obscured by one of her siblings in the womb, their hearts beating in synchronicity.
It was the first time quins had ever been born in New Zealand. The family became instant celebrities and the world's media came knocking.
The children's milestones were captured by the women's magazines. They were in hot demand for children's fashion parades and the subject of stares at every outing.
From the outside it appeared to be a happy childhood, and for many years it was.
But things changed when their parents divorced and their mother remarried a man called Gary Eyton after a whirlwind three-month romance.
Gary it turned out, was a violent abuser who terrorised the family.
"All these pictures of us being happy with balloons was not how we were living," Deborah Lawson said.
The quins have shared the truth about their childhoods with author Paul Little for his book Stolen Lives, The Untold Stories of the Lawson Quins.
Shirlene and Deborah Lawson speak to Kathryn Ryan on Nine to Noon.
Deborah Lawson said she wanted to tell her story for the sake of her children and her sisters, and to learn what they had experienced. "When you are all going through it at the same time you are too in it to know what everyone else is going through."
But Shirlene was reluctant to share hers.
"It was a hard thing to think about telling our story and it took me months to agree to writing the book. Just the fear of it, I think, just the thought of what we went through and how we felt.
"The nerves, the bubble in your stomach, the fear of telling people what we went through. It's been very hard."
They both said the hardest thing about sharing their stories was they no longer had their parents to ask what went wrong; they could not go to their Dad and ask him why he left.
When their mother met Gary Eyton, the quins accepted him into their lives, as they believed he made their Mum happy. It soon became evident that he was a violent man, who terrorised the family, beat their mother and isolated her from the community and her own children.
"It got to the stage where we were on our own. Gary controlled her so much. We grew up fast".
Shirleen and Deborah said their mother wanted to protect her kids from Gary, and at one stage even planned to fly them out of the country. But every time she tried to leave her plans were thwarted, not just by Gary, but by those around them who thought they knew better.
Gary Eyton threatened to kill Ann if she left him. She eventually did leave him and he kept his promise, killing her then himself. The quins were just 16.
Shirleen and Deborah said they grew up very quickly after that.
"We had no support. we looked after ourselves. Had to find our own way. You're not given a book on how to do it. It takes time."
The quintuplets are all parents now, and some are also grandparents. They celebrated their 50th Birthday on 27 July 2015.
Archival audio supplied by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: domestic abuse, quintuplets, Lawson Quins
Duration: 33'05"
10:40
Book Review: The Dust that Falls from Dreams
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'The Dust that Falls from Dreams' by Louis de Bernieres, published by Harvill Secker. Reviewed by Anne Else.
Topics: books
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Duration: 5'45"
11:12
Business commentator Rod Oram
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Rod Oram discusses this week's TPP negotiations in Hawaii; Brett Hewlett's departure as CEO of Comvita; and the sale of the Financial Times and possible a stake in The Economist.
Topics: business
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Duration: 11'16"
11:23
What makes a city, a city?
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In 'The Villa at the Edge of The Empire', author Fiona Farrell explores the essence of cityhood and community with a particular focus on Christchurch. From its founding, to its post-quake devastation, and ongoing rebuild, she gives a personal and provocative take on the place she calls home. Fiona Farrell will also address fundamental questions like how cities are imagined and reimagined, as part of the Christchurch Arts Festival's Shifting Points of View talks.
Topics: author interview, environment, identity, housing, life and society, politics
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Christchurch, Regeneration
Duration: 17'40"
11:48
Media commentator, Gavin Ellis
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Gavin Ellis discusses the sale of two of the world's most important financial newspapers - the Financial Times and The Economist. 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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Tags: Garth Geoge
Duration: 16'48"
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09:05 What effects are financial pressures having on tertiary students?
Nearly 44 percent of full time students say they don't have enough money to meet their basic needs, according to a new survey of five thousand students conducted by the New Zealand Union of Students' Associations.
Maria Goncalves-Rorke is a former student financial services advisor; Sarah Miller is a student advocate at Massey University and Dr Cathy Stephenson is a GP at VUW student health services.
09:20 Reducing Hepatitis C cases
Dr Magdalena Harris is a former drug user who is now an academic in social research for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine. Getting clean led her to pick up her abandoned studies – achieving a PhD looking at the experience of living with Hepatitis C in New Zealand and Australia. Dr Harris a Trustee for the UK Hepatitis C Trust and an Editorial Board Member for the International Journal of Drug Research. Dr Harris is a keynote speaker at this country's first Hepatitis C Summit in Wellington today, which has an aim of eliminating the disease in New Zealand.
09:45 US Correspondent Susan Milligan
Susan Milligan reports on how President Obama is now aggressively trying to sell the Iran nuclear deal on Capitol Hill, and why Donald Trump is still dominating the polls in the Republican presidential candidate race.
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 The Lawson quins are now 50
When they were born 50 years ago, the Lawson quins became the nations darlings - the first set of quintuplets born in New Zealand. But despite all the women's magazines features depicting a happy childhood, the reality was far more grim. Their parents divorced and their mother remarried a man who was a violent abuser who went on to kill their mother when they were 16. Kathryn talks to Shirlene and Deborah Lawson.
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10:35 Book Review: The Dust that Falls from Dreams by Louis de Bernieres
Reviewed by Anne Else, Published by Harvill Secker.
10:45 The Reading: Five Sons & 100 Muri of Rice by Sharyn Steel and Zoe Dryden
Read by Susan Wilson and Uma Giri (Episode 7 of 12)
11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram
Rod Oram discusses this week's TPP negotiations in Hawaii; Brett Hewlett's departure as CEO of Comvita; and the sale of the Financial Times and possible a stake in The Economist.
11:20 What makes a city, a city?
In The Villa at the Edge of The Empire, author Fiona Farrell explores the essence of cityhood and community with a particular focus on Christchurch. From its founding, to its post-quake devastation, and ongoing rebuild, she gives a personal and provocative take on the place she calls home.
Fiona Farrell will also address fundamental questions like how cities are imagined and reimagined, as part of the Christchurch Arts Festival's Shifting Points of View talks.
11:45 Media commentator, Gavin Ellis
Gavin Ellis discusses the sale of two of the world's most important financial newspapers - the Financial Times and The Economist.
Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and former editor of the New Zealand Herald. He can be contacted on gavin.ellis@xtra.co.nz
===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 28 July 2015
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Mt Eden prison controversy takes a new twist. The Prime Minister concedes medicines may cost more under the TPP.
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Duration: 15'18"
12:17
2 degrees offers its first broadband plans
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The telecommunications provider, 2degrees, has entered the broadband market.
Topics: business
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Duration: 1'22"
12:19
Investors await opening of China's stock market
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The money markets are awaiting the opening of China's stock market following the biggest one-day fall in eight years.
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Duration: 1'29"
12:21
Summerset buys Parnell land - 3rd purchase since last week
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Summerset has purchased another development site in Auckland - this time next to the Auckland Domain.
Topics: business
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Duration: 1'22"
12:25
Midday Markets for 28 July 2015
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Don Lewthwaite at First NZ Capital.
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Duration: 2'36"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 28 July 2015
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NZ basketball coach not surprised by Steven Adams' Tall Blacks no show.
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Duration: 2'36"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 28 July 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 7'44"
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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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13:06
Jesse Opening Sequence
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Jesse Opening Sequence - Includes a burst of Single Ladies.
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Duration: 5'12"
13:13
Song You Have To Hear - Liquid Spirit
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Liquid Spirit by Gregory Porter.
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Duration: 3'53"
13:17
'Ridley' the Sea Turtle - Wellington Zoo
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Ridley the turtle is continuing to recover at Wellington Zoo. The 25kg Olive Ridley Sea Turtle, was discovered at Lyall Bay beach just over two weeks ago. The endangered turtle was was found hypothermic and barely responsive. And the chance of recovery was looking 50/50, when we last spoke with the zoo. Wellington Zoo updates us.
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Ridley the turtle is continuing to recover at Wellington Zoo. The 25kg Olive Ridley Sea Turtle, was discovered at Lyall Bay beach just over two weeks ago. The endangered turtle was was found hypothermic and barely responsive. And the chance of recovery was looking 50/50, when we last spoke with the zoo. Wellington Zoo updates us.
Topics: environment
Regions: Auckland Region, Wellington Region
Tags: Wellington Zoo, Ridley
Duration: 4'01"
13:21
The Art and Science of Firewalking - Dr John Campbell
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About 300 people turned up to learn about the science of firewalking last night. And, some of the brave gave it a go. Christchurch physicist, Dr John Campbell, gave a public lecture at the University of Otago before the punters took to the glowing charcoal.
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About 300 people turned up to learn about the science of firewalking last night. And, some of the brave gave it a go. Christchurch physicist, Dr John Campbell, gave a public lecture at the University of Otago before the punters took to the glowing charcoal.
Topics: science
Regions: Otago, Canterbury
Tags: firewalking, Dr John Campbell, University of Otago, Dunedin, Christchurch
Duration: 9'31"
13:31
No Free Man: To No One Deny Justice - Dr Erin Griffey
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A new photographic exhibition is opening next week, to mark the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta. It's a series of portraits aimed at promoting public discourse around the criminal justice system in New Zealand. It features portraits of Teina Pora, Lousie Nicholas and four prisoners who are currently incarcerated. It's called No Free Man: To No One Deny Justice, and the images are taken by Nigel Swinn. Curator of the exhibition, Dr Erin Griffey, is an expert on portraiture and Head of Art History from the University of Auckland.
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A new photographic exhibition is opening next week, to mark the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta. It's a series of portraits aimed at promoting public discourse around the criminal justice system in New Zealand. It features portraits of Teina Pora, Lousie Nicholas and four prisoners who are currently incarcerated. It's called No Free Man: To No One Deny Justice, and the images are taken by Nigel Swinn.
Curator of the exhibition, Dr Erin Griffey, is an expert on portraiture and Head of Art History from the University of Auckland.
Topics: arts, law
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland University, Teina Pora, Louise Nicholas, Magna Carta, Dr Erin Griffey
Duration: 9'58"
13:40
Feature Album with Haidee Tiffen
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White Ferns coach Haidee Tiffen chooses 'I am Sasha Fierce' by Beyonce.
Topics: music
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Duration: 19'26"
14:10
Greatest NZ concert you've ever seen - James Brown
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This time every Tuesday, we'll be revisiting a great New Zealand concert. Today, to kick it off, we're going all the way back to 1978, when a musical phenomenon touched down on Auckland's North Shore. Yes, it was The Godfather of Soul himself, Mister James Brown. The first time James Brown played in Auckland, the first time he played in New Zealand in fact, he didn't play at a venue in the central city, but rather at a caberet club across the bridge on the North Shore, the Shoreline in Takapuna.
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We go all the way back to 1978, when a musical phenomenon touched down on Auckland's North Shore. Yes, it was The Godfather of Soul himself, Mister James Brown. The first time James Brown played in Auckland, the first time he played in New Zealand in fact, he didn't play at a venue in the central city, but rather at a cabaret club across the bridge on the North Shore, the Shoreline in Takapuna.
Murray Cammick was there.
The Godfather of Funk by NZ music writer Murray Cammick
We will need a new card for Christmas 2007, one that recognises the birth of Jesus Christ and the death of James Brown on December 25.
When you read Brown's biography you wonder how he survived his childhood in a house of ill-repute and his imprisonment as a teenager. With no education, how did this wild and crazy guy become the biggest soul star in the USA and then revolutionise that style to invent funk?
I get pissed off when music writers choose the 1962 Live At The Apollo as Brown's best live album. They are ignoring the pivotal achievement of his life, the fact that in 1965 he invented a new sound with the single 'Papa's Got A Brand New Bag.' This single was No.1 on the Billboard R&B charts for eight weeks. He should be called the Godfather of Funk not the Godfather of Soul.
I found a writer in the James brown box set Star Time who supports my conjecture, his name is James Brown.
"The first nine years of my career 1956-65 were good. I had 'Please Please Please', 'Night Train' [etc]. They sustained me, but it wasn't enough. Then I thought about the people around me. I wanted to come up with something that would give us a place in the business. That's when I hit on 'Papa's Got A Brand New Bag'. It was a slang that would relate to the man in the street, plus it had its own sound: the music on the one-and-three, the downbeat in anticipation. To the musicians I was saying, here's a new bag. Here's a new direction. Here's one that represents the people, not just Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss or Mantovani. So I brought the realness back. It was a revolution that became a universal sound and it's still universal today." (abridged)
Brown remained one funk's finest practictioners throughout his career and inspired the careers of Sly Stone, the P-Funk crowd (many of George Clinton's musicians including Bootsy Collins were previously in Brown's band), Prince, Michael Jackson and the hip-hop generation etc.
In 1968, Brown released the single 'Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud' that spent six weeks at No.1 on the USA R&B charts. He previewed this song cautiously at his 1968 Dallas concert. This concert was released in 1998 as Say t Live And Loud on Polydor. Chuck D of Public Enemy writes in the CD's intro about this second pivotal song, "James Brown single-handedly took a lost and confused nation of people and bonded them with a fix of words, music and attitude. "Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud' was a phrase that prepared me for the third grade, 1969 and the rest of my life."
"The Hardest Working Man in Show Business" is one of the other slogans used to describe James Brown. New Zealanders can understand why he has earnt this title as most of the other greats of soul music (Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Solomon Burke, Smokey Robinson, Wilson Pickett, Al Green, Sam & Dave etc) have never even played once in New Zealand, yet James Brown has played here three times and was also booked for two other concerts that were cancelled.
James Brown first played Auckland in the middle of 1978 when he did two shows in one night at the Shoreline Cabaret. Brown was to appear at the January 1988 Neon Picnic, that collapsed when the Music Festival could not pay for the airfares for the foreign musicians to travel to New Zealand. Brown was also booked to appear at an outdoor show on April 1, 1995 at Mt Smart Stadium, that was cancelled when ticket sales were slow.
After playing the Byron Bay Festival in Australia, Brown then played a packed show at the St. James Theatre on March 31, 2004. His return to Auckland on February 10, 2006 saw Brown playing to a half full Civic Theatre.
I saw all these shows and it would be easy to say how great it was back in the day at the intimate Shoreline Cabaret show, but my favourite New Zealand concerts were his two recent visits to play Auckland's aging picture palaces.
Back in 1978, James Brown flew into Auckland and did two shows in one night and went straight from the second show to the airport for a 5.30 am flight to Australia. I think he might have been a tired man on the night. I went to the late show (not the dinner show) at the Shoreline Cabaret, a small venue on the top floor of the Takapuna Shopping Mall.
In RipItUp Alastair Dougal (the original editor) wrote:
"On stage his tiny frame seems to contain more power than he dare let loose. After the fast songs, he has to visibly compose himself before he can tackle a moving version of 'Georgia on My Mind' - it's as if he didn't contain this strength, he would overwhelm the song. The fast songs display Brown's taste for simplicity. He's stripped the soul formula down to its basics - rhythm and voice."
After the show I went backstage with Bryan Staff (Ripper label founder) and Alastair Dougal and met James Brown. A woman who was with us, another photographer Gillian Chaplin, was not allowed backstage. 'No women backstage' we were told. Bryan Staff (then at 1ZM) told James that as a teen living in Christchurch, he'd encouraged a friend's father to release early James Brown singles in New Zealand. We were welcomed as "soul brothers" and Mr. Brown did a brief interview.
Outside the venue, Brown's entourage were leaving for the airport. My most vivid memory from that night, was of the large grand motherly wardrobe lady for Mr. Brown, outside the venue sitting atop a big old leather wardrobe suitcase, as though it were a motorbike. She must have wondered why she was in this strange land at 4 am on a winter morning. I asked her if she looked after the whole band and she replied, "No.. Mr Brown is enough work."
It is weird that I cannot remember the 1978 show in any significant detail. Maybe meeting James Brown was so memorable that I forgot the show or possibly I had not yet embraced his evolving funk sound.
To add to my confusion, in December 1979 in Tokyo, James Brown recorded the live album Hot On The One, which immediately became my favourite live James Brown album. How different could his 1979 show be from his 1978 show?
Key songs on Hot On The One are drawn from his late 1970s albums that music writers and even James Brown have criticised. 'Get Up Offa That Thing' (title track of a 1976 album), 'It's Too Funky In Here' (from 1979's The Original Disco Man), 'A Funky Good Time', 'Body Heat' (title track of another 1976 album) and 'Jam' (from 1978 album Jam 1980s, the release he was pushing in Auckland and Tokyo). The first three of these songs became the backbone of the first half of the James Brown live show, right through the 1980s until 2006. And most nights, what a great show that was! It's captured on DVDs Live at Chastain Park (1984), Live in London (1985), Live In Berlin (1988) and even Live from The House of Blues (2000).
James Brown Biographer Geoff Brown describes 1988 as "the worst year of his life." It was the best James Brown year of my life.
The Neon Picnic Festival was scheduled for the last weekend in January 1988, on the Sweetwaters Ngaruawahia site with a lineup including critics' favourites such as James Brown, The Pogues, Los Lobos, Nona Hendryx and Roy Orbison. The event looked shakey financially, weeks out from the event, so Simon Grigg and I booked cheap airfares to Melbourne to see James Brown where he was booked for three nights at the Metro, an old theatre converted into a flash nightclub.
First night at the Metro and I'm in the crush near the front of the stage just behind a posse of loud, possibly inebriated Greeks. An out- of-it jerk pushes past me. I get eye contact from the Greek posse and I step aside and the jerk is picked up by the collar and he rockets past me, propelled 10 metres back on to the club floor. My position to see James Brown was not threatened again.
The band's intro numbers are sensational, they are hotter than the album Hot On The One and the legendary Maceo Parker is back and he walks the theatre floor with a radio mic on his sax and the audience goes crazy and a concerned James Brown looks through the gap in the curtains. He knows he can't follow that and probably regrets that Maceo is back, for a moment or two.
Brown takes the stage to an already hyped crowd but he's a bit too big for his stage costume and his fly is not going to stay up. The tightest band in the world is nearly falling over with laughter but not loosing a beat. In time with the groove, Brown jumps around to face his band and see if the situation is redeemable. The band immediately look 100 percent serious as the Godfather of Soul faces them. Brown returns to the mic and facing the audience and the band sport grins from ear to ear. In the pause between songs one of the Greek guys shouts "You're fly's undone!" After one more song, Brown retreats backstage for a very necessary costume change.
The show was mind-blowing, although at the time I thought Brown did leave the front of stage to doodle on the keyboards too often. In terms of a musical experience, I thought I'd seen God. Although I did not know whether God was Mr. Brown, Maceo Parker or the band..
The following night I knew Maceo would be confined to the stage but as Maceo and the band stormed through the intro numbers I knew the show was peaking. It could not get better than this! I saw musical divinity again that night but that deity was the sum of its parts -- i.e. longtime bandmembers such as St.Clair Pickney (sax), the rhythm section (of course), backing singer Martha High, Maceo and possibly the greatest bandleader of all time, James Brown.
The essence of the shows I saw in Melbourne are recorded on the DVD that Brown recorded in the middle of that same year in East Berlin.' Due to the excellence of his performances it is difficult to believe that 1988 was year in which Brown's PCP use had caused a May concert to be cancelled in New York and led to his September 1988 arrest after a lengthy police chase. Brown was lucky to be alive as his ute had 23 bullet holes in it. Brown served two and a half years of a six year sentence before resuming his career. And of course, the unfortunate cause of the pursuit was Brown's brandishing a gun in anger after someone used his private toilet.
It was great to have James Brown back on the road in the 1990s and amazing that he found his way back to New Zealand twice. The 1988 Melbourne shows are still my favourite shows as Maceo Parker was there. But the 2004 and 2006 Auckland shows were also excellent and his recent band was funky as his brilliant 1980s lineup.
How good a show is, can depend not on factors like a performer's age or agility but on whether they are enjoying themselves on the night. James seemed to enjoy himself at both the St James and Civic shows and really excel on some of the old soul songs. How happy could he have been on the first night in Melbourne when his employee tried to blow him off the stage and he didn't fit in his pants? The 2006 Civic gig seemed somehow intimate, like Brown was in your lounge and he enjoyed his keyboard doodles and I did too.
One mark of genius in music is a prolific output, whether you're Bob Dylan, Prince or James Brown, the audience and the music writers should not be able to keep up with you. Relistening to Brown's many albums - music fans, archivists and writers will now find gold where they found fault.
First confession is from Robert Christgau (formerly of Village Voice, New York) in the LA Times, reflecting on his 1974 review of the song 'Time Is Running Out' on the album The Payback -- " 'A horn-and-voice excursion that shambles on for 12:37,' I'd sniffed. What then I'd disdained, now I loved. That's how profound James Brown is. We're still trying to catch up with him. I doubt we ever will."
- First published on the Opdiner blog
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Feature Interview - Robert Yehling on surfer Clay Marzo
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Surfer Clay Marzo knows waves. At the age of 15, he became the first surfer to receive two perfect 10's at the US Men's National Competition. He knows waves, but often he had a hard time understanding people. After years of feeling isolated from his peers, years when the only peace he felt was in the surf, he was diagnosed with Asperger's. Author Robert Yehling tells his story in the new book, 'Just Add Water: A Surfing Savant's Journey with Asperger's'.
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A Treasure Trove of Natural Sciences at Puke Ariki
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New Plymouth's museum Puke Ariki is catalogueing its vast natural sceinces collections to make them more accessible to the public.
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by Ruth Beran
Behind the exhibitions at New Plymouth’s museum Puke Ariki is a treasure store of natural history collections, and natural science cataloguer Jo Fitness has been brought in to make it easily accessible.
“We’ve got taxidermied animals, mostly birds. We’ve got a wet collection...a really awesome insect collection…a huge geology and fossil collection here,” says Jo. “Part of my job has been to find it and put it all together.”
The project is called Natural Wonders and Pouarahi Tukuihotanga/Heritage Manager Andrew Moffat describes it as bringing the amazing collection that is stored at Puke Ariki into the light.
“People often think of museums as perhaps exhibitions and whiz bang things out the front,” he says. “But…a very important part of what we do at Puke Ariki is caring for the collections and making those things available for all the great uses they can be put to.”
Part of what Jo is doing is cataloguing the collection.
“It’s a huge job, but it is a fun one!” she says.
The most exciting thing she’s worked on so far is the Ken Fox collection. Fox was a medical doctor who collected insects from the local area. “There’s thousands of insects in there and it’s all Taranaki related and really, really beautifully preserved,” she says.
The collection is stored in a cabinet made from native wood containing fourteen drawers of insects, although only eight are from the Ken Fox collection. In his obituary it was noted that Ken Fox had New Zealand’s greatest alpine collection of moths and there are over 1000 moths in the collection.
“So my job was to make sure each individual insect was catalogued,” says Jo. Photos were also taken which are now available online. “It’s an amazing collection that at some point I’d like to see on exhibit.”
Recently, Jo has been working on cataloguing a book of pressed ferns that she found by accident on a shelf. She is cataloguing each page and giving it a part number, and identifying the species. She’s also been putting tissue on top to help protect the plants from friction from the pages above and to help absorb moisture that might get in. “Although this room is temperature controlled and so that’s unlikely to happen, it’s just a safety precaution that we are carrying out to make it last,” she says.
Once catalogued, the book will be photographed and that will go online. This means people can go to the Puke Ariki website and search the database, and items like this will come up. “That’s one way that we want to be able to share our collection,” says Jo. Other ways are through education, events, and upgrading exhibits by knowing what is available to be used.
The ultimate goal, according to Jo, is to allow people to see what the museum has. “It can’t all go on exhibition because it’s only a small space over there,” she says. “It gives them the opportunity to come to us for more detail if they want to, or are interested in it.”
There is still more of the Natural Wonders project to go, but Jo says they are getting there. “We had a list of priorities to do, this is a huge collection,” she says, with the insects, most of the plants and out in the exhibition done. “The useful stuff is definitely well and truly on its way to being completed,” she says.
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Regions: Taranaki
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Duration: 19'41"
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The Panel pre-show for 28 July 2015
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What the world is talking about. With Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Noelle McCarthy.
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1:10 The Song You Have To Hear
Liquid Spirit by Gregory Porter.
1:15 'Ridley' the Sea Turtle - Libby Callander
Ridley the turtle is continuing to recover at Wellington Zoo. The 25kg Olive Ridley Sea Turtle was discovered at Lyall Bay beach just over two weeks ago. The endangered turtle was was found hypothermic and barely responsive. And the chance of recovery was looking 50/50 when we last spoke with the zoo. Wellington Zoo updates us.
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1:20 The Art and Science of Firewalking - Dr John Campbell
About 300 people turned up to learn about the science of firewalking last night. And, some of the brave gave it a go. Christchurch physicist, Dr John Campbell, gave a public lecture at the University of Otago before the punters took to the glowing charcoal.
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1:30 No Free Man: To No One Deny Justice - Dr Erin Griffey
A new photographic exhibition is opening next week, to mark the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta. It's a series of portraits aimed at promoting public discourse around the criminal justice system in New Zealand. It features portraits of Teina Pora, Lousie Nicholas and four prisoners who are currently incarcerated. It's called No Free Man: To No One Deny Justice, and the images are taken by Nigel Swinn. Curator of the exhibition, Dr Erin Griffey, is an expert on portraiture and Head of Art History from the University of Auckland.
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1:40 What's your greatest album of all time?
Haidee Tiffen (pictured) talks about her favourite album, I Am Sasha Fierce by Beyonce.
2:10 The Greatest Kiwi Concert You've Ever Seen
This time every Tuesday, we'll be revisiting a great New Zealand concert. Today, to kick it off, we're going all the way back to 1978, when a musical phenomenon touched down on Auckland's North Shore.
The Godfather Of Funk by Murray Cammick
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3:10 Feature interview - Robert Yehling
Surfer Clay Marzo knows waves. At the age of 15, he became the first surfer to receive two perfect 10's at the US Men's National Competition. He knows waves, but often he had a hard time understanding people. After years of feeling isolated from his peers, years when the only peace he felt was in the surf, he was diagnosed with Asperger's. Author Robert Yehling tells his story in the new book, Just Add Water: A Surfing Savant's Journey with Asperger's.
3:35 Our Changing World - Ruth Beran
Behind the scenes at New Plymouth's museum Puke Ariki is a treasure trove of natural sciences, but not even Heritage Manager/Pouarahi Tukuihotanga Andrew Moffat knows exactly how large it is. That's because it hasn't been fully catalogued, and Jo Fitness shows Ruth Beran what that task involves.
Stories from Our Changing World.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about. With Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Noelle McCarthy.
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The Panel pre-show for 28 July 2015
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What the world is talking about. With Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Noelle McCarthy.
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16:00
The Panel with Nicky Pellegrino and Barry Corbett (Part 1)
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What the Panelists Barry Corbett and Nicky Pellegrino have been up to;Marlborough Sounds environmental harm;Refugees for the regions?Boy's bike barred from bus.
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What the Panelists Barry Corbett and Nicky Pellegrino have been up to.
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Marlborough Sounds environmental harm
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The Marlborough Sounds are being damaged by forestry, by dredging, flooding and anchoring boats. We talk to the Commodore of the Pelorous Boating Club Michael Connolly.
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Refugees for the regions?
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Paul Spoonley from Massey University joins the Panel to talk about an idea to relocate refugees from detention centres to New Zealand's regions. Would that work?
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Boy's bike barred from bus
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Was a Dunedin bus driver right to not allow a six year-old boy take his bike on an empty bus?
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The Panel with Nicky Pellegrino and Barry Corbett (Part 2)
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Treasure found off Florida;Panel Says;Jetstar set to struggle in regions;Coke snorting peer sits tight;Child's remains in suitcase.
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Treasure found off Florida
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A company dedicated to recouping the valuables on a ship that sank almost 300 years ago after departing Havana made one of the biggest finds so far - recouping more than $1 million worth of gold coins and chains.
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Panel Says
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What the panelists Barry Corbett and Nicky Pellegrino have been thinking about.
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Jetstar set to struggle in regions
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A new report from Macquarie Group is predicting difficult times ahead for Jetstar's foray into New Zealand regional air routes. Aviation commentator Peter Clark says the airline will still forge ahead.
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Coke snorting peer sits tight
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Lord Sewel has no intention of giving up his seat in the British Parliament's House of Lords. The 69 year-old has been photographed snorting cocaine and partying with prostitutes.
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Child's remains in suitcase
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Speculation that the remains of a young girl found in a suitcase in South Australia could be those of missing British girl Madeleine McCann.
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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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Checkpoint Top Stories for Tuesday 28 July 2015
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GPS monitoring fails to stop Blessie Gotingco's killer;Corrections defends monitoring of Gotingco's killer;Fired guard suspected of helping smuggle phones into Mt Eden;PM promises to give Pharmac more money to buy drugs under TPP;Health Minister says he's open to reviewing DHB funding;Was McCaw's match winning try illegal?
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GPS monitoring fails to stop Blessie Gotingco's killer
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The authorities knew exactly where Tony Douglas Robertson was every minute of every day but they couldn't stop him abducting, raping and murdering a North Shore mother of three.
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Regions: Auckland Region
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Duration: 3'24"
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Corrections defends monitoring of Gotingco's killer
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Correction's northern regional commissioner Jeanette Burns is with us now.
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Duration: 3'42"
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Fired guard suspected of helping smuggle phones into Mt Eden
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Drug raids across the upper North Island this morning targetting the Headhunters gang have also snared three Mt Eden prisoners and a former guard.
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Duration: 4'27"
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PM promises to give Pharmac more money to buy drugs under TPP
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The Health Minister, Jonathan Coleman, says he's open to reviewing the way DHBs are funded, but at the same time is reassuring voters there won't be any wholesale changes.
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Health Minister says he's open to reviewing DHB funding
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The Health Minister, Jonathan Coleman, says he's open to reviewing the way DHBs are funded, but at the same time is reassuring voters there won't be any wholesale changes.
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Duration: 2'25"
17:27
Was McCaw's match winning try illegal?
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A retired top rugby referee is crying foul over All Black captain Richie McCaw's match-winning try against the Springboks at the weekend.
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17:35
Today's market update
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News from the business sector including a market report.
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A Gotingco family spokesperson
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More now on the disturbing history revealed today about the man who abducted, raped and murdered North Shore mother of three, Blesse Gotingco.
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Duration: 4'46"
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Corrections Minister refuses to address claims of corruption
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The Corrections Minister is refusing to address claims of corruption at Mt Eden prison, following revelations this morning that some inmates had been arrested as part of a major police operation.
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Duration: 2'39"
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Headhunter arrests appear in court
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Some of those arrested in the Head Hunter raids have appeared in court.
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Basketball star skips Olympic qualifiers
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Basketball New Zealand says Steven Adams' American club did not interfere in the star's decision to pull out of next month's Olympic qualifiers against Australia.
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Duration: 2'49"
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$75m spent on convention centre but details still unknown
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More than 75-million-taxpayer-dollars have been spent on the Christchurch convention centre, even though there's is no date for construction to begin and the total cost is still unknown.
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Regions: Canterbury
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Duration: 3'57"
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Māori language vowels 'not like in the old days'
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When kuia and kaumatua say Māori language vowels are 'not pronounced like they used to be', they'd be right - over the years their sound has changed dramatically.
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When kuia and kaumatua say Māori language vowels are 'not pronounced like they used to be', they'd be right - over the years their sound has changed dramatically.
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Duration: 3'26"
18:06
Sports News for 28 July 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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18:10
The long criminal history of Blessie Gortingco's murderer
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Blessie Gotingco's killer and rapist can at last be named after he lost his final appeal to keep name suppression just days out from his sentencing.
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Police speak out on Headhunters drug raid
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The private prison operator, Serco, is under fire yet again, with three inmates at its Mt Eden prison arrested and a guard being questioned about a methamphetamine selling operation.
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Duration: 3'40"
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Investors outnumber first home buyers
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Three times as many mortgages are being approved for property investors as they are for first-home buyers.
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Regions: Auckland Region
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Duration: 4'50"
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Rise in dangerous excavations in Auckland
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Dangerous excavations are on the rise at Auckland building sites and the blame is being put on geotechnical engineers and builders.
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Duration: 3'33"
18:40
Male video gamers sore losers: more so when women win
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Bad shooters, sore losers. Men are taking aim at female video gamers who turn out to be better than them.
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Treasure hunters find Spanish bullion off Florida
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A family of treasure hunters based in Florida has found more than one-and-a-half million dollars (NZ) worth of gold and silver lost when a Spanish fleet sank in a storm in 1715.
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Duration: 4'32"
18:45
Today In Parliament for 28 July 2015
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New Zealand Flags Referendums Bill passes second reading; Winston Peters kicked out by Speaker, to which the entire New Zealand First caucus walk out in protest; David Parker complains about quality of minister's answers.
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Te Manu Korihi for 28 July 2015
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When kuia and kaumatua say that Maori language vowels are 'not pronounced like they used to be', they'd be right - over the years their sound has changed dramatically; Labour's Corrections spokesperson is accusing both the Corrections Minister and the private company Serco of being incompetent in its management of Mount Eden Prison; Taranaki iwi Ngati Maru is to hold a series of hui next month which could set it on the road to entering into Treaty negotiations with the Crown.
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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: You Call This Art?
Filmmakers, performance artists, musicians, actors, sculptors and writers explore their approach to creating art. In this edition, actor Cliff Curtis, musician and artist Phil Dadson and writer Damien Wilkins talk with host Justin Gregory improvisation versus preparation and debate the question of what artists owe to the place they come from. And historian Georgina White reveals Havelock North's unusual history of occult worship (F, RNZ)
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Religion: Douglas Pratt
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Waikato University's Religious Studies Professor Douglas Pratt on faith, the Bible and religion in New Zealand's 'secular' schools.
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Duration: 14'25"
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Our Own Odysseys: The Daily Commute
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London writer and blogger Amy Dicketts found it interesting that people didn't really talk to each other while commuting on the Tube, so she started to converse with them, and take their photos.
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Duration: 16'06"
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Religion: Douglas Pratt
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Waikato University's Religious Studies Professor Douglas Pratt on faith, the Bible and religion in New Zealand's 'secular' schools.
Topics: spiritual practices, life and society, education
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Duration: 14'25"
20:59
Conundrum Clue Three for Tuesday 28 July
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Conundrum Clue Three for Tuesday 28 July.
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Conundrum Clue Two for Monday 27 July
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Conundrum Clue Two for Monday 27 July.
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Conundrum Clue Two for Monday 27 July
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Conundrum Clue Two for Monday 27 July.
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Conundrum Clue Four for Tuesday 28 July
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Duration: 34"
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7:10 pm Our Own Odysseys: The Daily Commute
London writer and blogger Amy Dicketts found it interesting that people didn't really talk to each other while commuting on the Tube, so she started to converse with them, and take their photos.
7:30 The Sampler
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The Sampler: Tame Impala, Aron Ottignon, The Chemical Brothers
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Jim Pinckney checks the pulse on Tame Impala's Circuits, presides over a new EP from Auckland piano prodigy Aron Ottignon checks in on the The Chemical Brothers latest offering.
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The Chemical Brothers: Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons. Photo supplied.
Jim Pinckney checks the pulse on Tame Impala's Circuits, presides over a new EP from Auckland piano prodigy Aron Ottignon checks in on the The Chemical Brothers latest offering.
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Duration: 29'36"
19:35
Currents by Tame Impala
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Jim Pinckney takes the pulse on Tame Impala's electrifying Currents.
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Jim Pinckney takes the pulse on Tame Impala's electrifying Currents.
Running hot on a streak of inspired perfectionism, the third album from Tame Impala, or more accurately Kevin Parker, the group’s frontman who handles everything by himself, takes his hyper melodic, psychedelic songcraft to new places and new levels. There is little mystery about how much solitude and withdrawing into oneself have been a motivator for Parker’s creative muse in the past, it’s explicit enough throughout his lyrics without needing to draw on album titles like Innerspeaker and Lonerism, On Currents he goes further inviting the listener into his own head for an exploration into the effects of a changing psychology and set of circumstances, all seen from the inside out. While the 29 year old maybe still swings a little too hard on the pendulum of influences and total absorption, he is certainly self-aware, and the brave step forward he’s taken on Currents bodes well for wherever he may take his talent next.
Songs played: The Less I Know The Better, Let It Happen, The Moment, New Person, Same Old Mistakes, Reality In Motion, Past Life, Cause I’m A Man, Eventually
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Duration: 9'24"
19:35
Starfish by Aron Ottignon
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Jim Pinckney presides over the latest EP from Auckland piano prodigy Aron Ottignon.
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Jim Pinckney presides over the latest EP from Auckland piano prodigy Aron Ottignon.
With a distinctive signature that combines the percussive and melodic, ex-pat, jazz piano prodigy Aron Ottignon has entered another phase in his career with his latest release. The Starfish EP is a dizzying collection of rhythms, melodies and flavours that he has picked up on his journey from New Zealand through Australia, London, France and around the world as a touring musician. Though he is the sort of artist who, whether by accident or design, often manages to fly under the radar, he has been quietly making big waves of late. It was his piano and arrangements on Papaoutai by Lorde endorsed Belgian-Rwandan singer-rapper Stromae, that helped make the track one of the biggest hits across mainland Europe in 2013. Launching an exciting, and untypical, new trio with co-producer Rodi Kirk (Scratch 22) and percussionist Sam Dubois the Starfish EP with it’s playful percussion, insidious melodies, and meticulously crafted, modern production shapes makes for a very alluring entrée.
Songs played: Waterfalls In Tanzania, Starfish, Rivers, Kingfish (Rodi Kirk Remix), Rivers (Labelle Remix), Waterfalls
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Duration: 9'01"
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Born in the Echos by The Chemical Brothers
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Jim Pinckney checks the formula in the The Chemical Brothers' latest album.
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Jim Pinckney checks the formula in the The Chemical Brothers' latest album.
Unleashing 8 albums in the space of 20 years no-one can say that Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, better known as the Chemical Brothers, haven’t bided their time and made every morsel count. Now in their mid-40’s, the former University of Manchester history students are less likely than ever to be found in the clubs that play their music, and provided their original inspiration. However the fundamentals remain essentially unchanged within dance music, and a large part of their success has been founded on their ability to deftly use, and abuse, the dynamic triggers that can have a widespread effect on a mass of dancing people. Returning to the formula of their earlier albums they’ve assembled a wide guest list including St Vincent, Beck, Q-Tip and Cate Le Bon, with a knowing confidence of which buttons to push.
Songs played: Reflexion, Sometime I Feel So Deserted, I’ll See You There, Go, Wide Open, Under Neon Lights, Born In The Echoes, Taste Of Honey
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Duration: 11'45"
7:30 The Sampler
A weekly review and analysis of new CD releases.
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 pm Religion
Religious studies Prof. Douglas Pratt from University of Waikato on one's faith in God or gods... the Bible and religion in the schools of 'secular' New Zealand.
9:06 The Tuesday Feature: You Call This Art?
Filmmakers, performance artists, musicians, actors, sculptors and writers explore their approach to creating art. In this edition, actor Cliff Curtis, musician and artist Phil Dadson and writer Damien Wilkins talk with host Justin Gregory improvisation versus preparation and debate the question of what artists owe to the place they come from. And historian Georgina White reveals Havelock North's unusual history of occult worship.
10:00 Late Edition
A review of the news from Morning Report, Nine to Noon, Afternoons and Checkpoint. Also hear the latest news from around the Pacific on Radio New Zealand International's Dateline Pacific.
11:06 The Shed
Award winning former British broadcaster Mark Coles presents his pick of the best new music releases and demos from around the planet.
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Radio New Zealand news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from Radio New Zealand National
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Award winning former British broadcaster Mark Coles presents his pick of the best new music releases and demos from around the planet. A glorious mix of brand new sounds from all over the world, real conversations with music makers and tales of everyday life as seen from an English garden shed (5 of 13, MCM)