Radio New Zealand National. 2015-09-08. 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:

08 September 2015

===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Spectrum (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (RNZ); 2:05 Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy (4 of 13, PRX) 3:05 Spade, by Frankie McMillan (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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06:06
Sports News for 8 September 2015
BODY:
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 1'50"

06:19
Pacific News for 8 September 2015
BODY:
The latest from the Pacific region.
Topics: Pacific
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'58"

06:22
Morning Rural News for 8 September 2015
BODY:
News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 3'58"

06:26
Te Manu Korihi News for 8 September 2015
BODY:
A Bay of Plenty hapu is accusing the owners of the Rena of using colonial tactics to divide iwi with offers of money;The Māori health advocate Sir Mason Durie says a report on Whānau-Ora shows its roll-out has been variable and there have been insuffienct funding in some areas, making change difficult.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 3'23"

06:38
PM says refugee services will be stretched
BODY:
The Prime Minister says New Zealand's emergency intake of hundreds of Syrians will stretch the country's refugee services.
Topics: politics, refugees and migrants
Regions:
Tags: refugee quota
Duration: 3'12"

06:47
CBL aims to raise $90 million of new capital
BODY:
CBL Corporation is seeking up to 132 million dollars through a share float on the New Zealand and Australian sharemarkets.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: CBL Corporation
Duration: 2'52"

06:50
Tourism growth constrained by capital investment
BODY:
The tourism industry is close to overtaking dairy as New Zealand's number one export earner, but a lobby group for the sector says growth continues to be constrained by a relatively low level of investment.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: tourism industry, tourism
Duration: 2'22"

06:52
Auckland housing market weighing on banking sector - PWC
BODY:
The accounting firm, PWC, says concern about Auckland's overheated housing market and the state of the rural industry are weighing on the banking sector, despite an improvement in bed debt.
Topics: business, economy, housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Auckland housing market
Duration: 53"

06:53
Wine industry stepping up efforts to teach more about NZ wine
BODY:
A wine lobby group says China has the potential to be New Zealand's largest full bodied red wine market, and they're prepared to pay handsomely for it.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: China, wine, New Zealand Winegrowers
Duration: 1'43"

06:55
Small business profile - Pure Food Company
BODY:
Time for this week's firm that tends to fly under the radar .... it's Pure Food, which its founder, Sam Bridgewater says was born out of personal experience.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags: Pure Food
Duration: 2'39"

06:57
Morning markets for 8 September 2015
BODY:
Wall Street is closed for a holiday. In Europe, stocks rose - after the mining firm, Glencore, pledged to cut its debt by a third.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: markets
Duration: 1'13"

07:07
Sports News for 8 September 2015
BODY:
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 1'48"

07:14
Immigration Minister confident resourse wont be stretched
BODY:
The Prime Minister, John Key, says the hundreds of Syrians New Zealand is taking in will put pressure on the country's resources for refugees.
Topics: politics, refugees and migrants
Regions:
Tags: refugee quota
Duration: 4'42"

07:19
Family First hopes Into The River Ban will set precedent
BODY:
Family First is hoping the the banning of a book that contains "detailed descriptions of sex acts, coarse language and scenes of drug-taking" will set a precedent for banning other books in the future.
Topics: books
Regions:
Tags: censorship, Into the River
Duration: 3'51"

07:23
School Libraries Association defends banned book
BODY:
Listening to that was the President of the School Library Association, Miriam Tuohy.
Topics: books
Regions:
Tags: censorship, Into the River
Duration: 3'26"

07:27
Violent schoolboy restrained, handcuffed by police
BODY:
A case of a violent 10-year-old schoolboy has highlighted what some say is increasing violence in primary schools and a new need to train teachers in safe ways to restrain children when they get out of control.
Topics: education
Regions:
Tags: violence
Duration: 2'57"

07:33
John Tamihere defends Whanau Ora system
BODY:
Whanau Ora is coming under fire after a report into its first four years of operation failed to spell out exactly where the money is going.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions:
Tags: Whanau Ora
Duration: 4'40"

07:38
Tip-off leads to $7.5m tertiary funding repayment
BODY:
A whistle-blower's tip-off has led to the Tertiary Education Commission ordering a training centre to repay 7-and-a-half-million-dollars in government funding.
Topics: education
Regions:
Tags: Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre
Duration: 3'55"

07:42
TEC will stagger repayments of 7.5m so Taratahi can survive
BODY:
Earlier I spoke with the Chief Executive of the Tertiary Education Commission, Tim Fowler about the investigation, which has now been referred to the Serious Fraud Office and which will see Taratahi repay the TEC 7.5 million dollars.
Topics: education
Regions:
Tags: Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre
Duration: 3'40"

07:47
France and Germany urge other EU countries to take fair share
BODY:
France and Germany are proposing a compulsory refugee quota system for European Union countries as the unprecedented influx continues.
Topics: politics, refugees and migrants
Regions:
Tags: France, Germany
Duration: 4'01"

07:51
ASB lowers its home loan rates to match BNZ
BODY:
Just as Auckland's torrid housing market is showing signs of cooling off, competition amongst banks for home loan customers appears to be heating up.
Topics: housing, economy
Regions:
Tags: interest rates
Duration: 3'13"

07:54
Fans prepare for Rugby World Cup kickoff
BODY:
It's only 10 days until the Rugby World Cup kicks off in England and Wales, and those lucky enough to head along are starting to prepare for the trip.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags: RWC 2015
Duration: 3'08"

07:57
Former All Black to face trial next year in Wales
BODY:
The former All Black captain, Mils Muliaina, will go on trial in Wales next year over allegations he sexually assaulted a woman.
Topics: sport, crime
Regions:
Tags: Mils Muliaina, England
Duration: 2'22"

08:07
Sports News for 8 September 2015
BODY:
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'09"

08:10
An extra 750 new Syrian refugees will be resettled
BODY:
Prime Minister John Key says New Zealand's ability to absorb refugees will be stretched by his Government's decision to accept an additional 750 Syrians over the next two and a half years.
Topics: politics, refugees and migrants
Regions:
Tags: refugee quota
Duration: 4'23"

08:15
Labour ditches its refugee bill
BODY:
Labour has now decided to pull its emergency humanitarian response bill, which would have seen a doubling of the quota over the next year.
Topics: politics, refugees and migrants
Regions:
Tags: refugee quota
Duration: 3'37"

08:19
Winston Peters says Whanau Ora spending still questionable
BODY:
The New Zealand First leader, Winston Peters, says a new report into Whanau Ora still doesn't explain what the programme does or where the money goes.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions:
Tags: Whanau Ora
Duration: 3'07"

08:22
Customary claim to coastal areas will include whitebait
BODY:
A South Taranaki Iwi want whitebait included in their Treaty of Waitangi claim.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions:
Tags: Treaty of Waitangi claim, whitebait
Duration: 5'05"

08:29
Markets Update for 8 September 2015
BODY:
A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: markets
Duration: 1'14"

08:34
Wellington 'ready' for influx of Syrian refugees
BODY:
The first group of Syrian refugees who will arrive in January will be settled in Wellington.
Topics: politics, refugees and migrants
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: refugee quota
Duration: 4'19"

08:38
Wales have suffered a huge blow
BODY:
Wales have suffered a huge blow 10 days out from the Rugby World Cup losing their star goalkicker Leigh Halfpenny who has suffered a serious knee injury.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags: RWC 2015
Duration: 3'11"

08:43
Te Manu Korihi News for 8 September 2015
BODY:
The Māori health advocate Sir Mason Durie says a report on Whānau-Ora shows its roll-out has been variable and there have been insuffienct funding in some areas, making change difficult; A Bay of Plenty hapu is accusing the owners of the Rena of using colonial tactics to divide iwi with offers of money.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 3'20"

08:46
Archaeologists have discovered at least a 100 stone monoliths
BODY:
Archaeologists have discovered at least a hundred stone monoliths near Stonehenge, buried just a metre below the ground.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags: UK, Stonehenge
Duration: 3'19"

08:50
Australia, NZ might come under pressure at Pacific forum
BODY:
Australia and New Zealand could come under pressure at a major gathering of Pacific countries this week over climate change.
Topics: Pacific, politics
Regions:
Tags: climate change
Duration: 3'41"

08:54
West Papua's record on human rights to be discussed
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West Papua's record on human rights will be discussed at the Pacific Islands Forum this week.
Topics: Pacific, politics
Regions:
Tags: Pacific Islands Forum
Duration: 2'53"

08:56
Raglan company awarded research grant
BODY:
The country's most iconic surf breaks are about to be mapped, measured and modelled by scientists.
Topics: environment, science
Regions:
Tags: surf breaks
Duration: 2'56"

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===9:06 AM. | Nine To Noon===
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Current affairs and topics of interest, including: 10:45 The Reading: The Crane, by Sarah Quigley, told by Rachel Nash (F, RNZ)

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09:09
Row over banned book
BODY:
Ted Dawe's award winning Young Adult book Into the River has been caught up in a scrap between the Office of Film and Literature Classification and the independent review body over what, if any, restriction should be on it. The Review board has put an interim restriction order on the book, which means it cannot be sold, lent or displayed by anyone. Bernard Beckett is the author of 11 mostly young adult books, and numerous plays and was the Chief Judge of the Childrens' Book Awards in 2013 when Ted Dawe's book won the Book of the Year and the Young Adult category.
Topics: books
Regions:
Tags: Into the River, Ted Dawe, Office of Film and Literature Classification
Duration: 16'35"

09:34
Calls for law change to deal with stray cats
BODY:
Is a law change needed to deal with the country's stray cat problem?
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Who is responsible for dealing with stray cats?
Some SPCA branches are `trapping, neutering and releasing' stray cats back to their colonies, which has angered environmentalists, who say the strays are devastating native wildlife and should be put down. Nine to Noon discussed this on Monday with Professor Brett Gartrell, of New Zealand's only dedicated wildlife hospital, Wildbase at Massey University and the Chief Executive of the Royal New Zealand SPCA Rick Odem.
Since then, we have attempted to find out just who is responsible for dealing with strays. It turns out no one is.
Stray cats are not officially classed as pests, unlike feral cats which have no contact with humans.
The Department of Conservation says strays are not their responsibility, and it's councils who deal with them.
But Local Government New Zealand tells us stray cats are "certainly not an issue which is the responsibility of local government, in fact council have very limited powers for dealing with the issue".
So we asked the Conservation Minister, Maggie Barry. But she declined to speak to Nine to Noon or give any kind of statement.
A report on Pet Biosecurity for the Ministry of Primary Industries in 2012 suggests a legislation change may be needed, as "there is no legislation in place to address the systemic risk associated with the transfer of pet animals into the environment". It says the Animal welfare act is not sufficient to prevent the biosecurity risk posed by the release of pet animals into the environment.
So at present, much of the work dealing with stray cats it seems, is left to volunteer groups.
Peter Dorman is the founder of The Lonely Miaow, an Auckland volunteer group that tries to rehome stray cats in Auckland. There are an estimated 20 thousand colonies of strays in the city, and Mr Dorman says the group can't keep up, but is the only organisation dealing with strays in the city.
He spoke with Kathryn Ryan on Nine to Noon
Topics: environment
Regions:
Tags: stray cats, conservation, cats, feral cats
Duration: 8'28"

09:35
London bombing victim and now peace advocate, Gill Hicks
BODY:
Australian Gill Hicks was almost killed in the July 2005 London Tube bombings. She lost both her legs. When she recovered she devoted herself to a mission of spreading peace, setting up charity Making a Difference for Peace to counter terrorism and foster better links between Muslim and other communities
Topics: security, conflict
Regions:
Tags: London Bombings, Gill Hicks, terrorism, 2005 London Tube bombings
Duration: 16'20"

09:51
US correspondent, Susan Milligan
BODY:
Obama 's successful nuclear deal with Iran and Hillary Clinton getting into more hot water over her private e-mails.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags: USA
Duration: 8'33"

10:13
Simon Colton: teaching computers to be creative
BODY:
Simon Colton is a computer scientist, currently working in the Computational Creativity Group at Goldsmiths College in the University of London, where he is Professor of Computational Creativity. He works on software that behaves in ways that mimick creativity in humans, such as The Painting Fool, an artificial intelligence that he hopes will one day be accepted as an artist in its own right.
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Simon Colton is a computer scientist, currently working in the Computational Creativity Group at Goldsmiths College in the University of London, where he is Professor of Computational Creativity. He works on software that behaves in ways that mimick creativity in humans, such as The Painting Fool, an artificial intelligence that he hopes will one day be accepted as an artist in its own right.
He talks with Kathryn Ryan.
Topics: technology, arts
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 24'55"

10:38
Book review: Instrumental by James Rhodes
BODY:
Reviewed by Charlotte Graham, published by Allen an Unwin.
Topics: books
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 5'49"

11:11
Business commentator, Rod Oram
BODY:
Rod Oram joins us from Beijing to talk about the prospect of the New Zealand meat processing company, Silver Fern Farms getting a Chinese investor.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 11'17"

11:23
Shakespeare meets Aotearoa in Maori re-telling of Othello
BODY:
One of Shakespeare's most famous plays is being given a make-over. Regan Taylor, the co-director of Te Rehia Theatre Company uses specially carved 'Maori performance masks' to re-work the Elizabethan tragedy in a solo performance in English and te reo. SolOthello plays at Huria Marea in Judea, at Tauranga Arts Festival on October 29th at 7pm. The play will then travel north.
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One of Shakespeare's most famous plays is being given a make-over. Regan Taylor, the co-director of Te Rehia Theatre Company uses specially carved 'Maori performance masks' to re-work the Elizabethan tragedy in a solo performance in English and te reo.
Regan Taylor talks with Kathryn Ryan.
SolOthello plays at Huria Marea in Judea, at Tauranga Arts Festival on October 29th at 7pm. The play will then travel north.
Topics: arts, te ao Maori
Regions:
Tags: Othello, theatre, Shakespeare
Duration: 20'09"

11:43
Media commentator, Gavin Ellis
BODY:
Discusses why sometimes it is right to shock - after the publication of the the pictures of Aylan Kurdi whose young lifeless body was pictured washed up on a Turkish beach.
Topics: media
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Duration: 16'06"

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09:05 Row over banned book
Ted Dawe's award winning Young Adult book Into the River has been caught up in a scrap between the Office of Film and Literature Classification and the independent review body over what, if any, restriction should be on it. The Review board has put an interim restriction order on the book, which means it cannot be sold, lent or displayed by anyone.
Bernard Beckett is the author of 11 mostly young adult books, and numerous plays and was the Chief Judge of the Childrens' Book Awards in 2013 when Ted Dawe's book won the Book of the Year and the Young Adult category.
09:20 Calls for law change to deal with stray cats
Continuing on from our story yesterday, we look at why no official body is responsible for dealing with stray cats.
A report on Pet Biosecurity for the Ministry of Primary Industries in 2012 suggests a legislation change may be needed, as "there is no legislation in place to address the systemic risk associated with the transfer of pet animals into the environment". It says the Animal welfare act is not sufficient to prevent the biosecurity risk posed by the release of pet animals into the environment.
Peter Dorman is the founder of The Lonely Miaow, a volunteer group that tries to rehome stray cats in Auckland. There are an estimated 20 thousand colonies of strays in the city, and Mr Dorman says the group can't keep up, but is the only organisation dealing with strays in the city.
09:30 London bombing victim and now peace advocate, Gill Hicks
Australian Gill Hicks was almost killed in the July 2005 London Tube bombings. She lost both her legs. When she recovered she devoted herself to a mission of spreading peace, setting up charity Making a Difference for Peace to counter terrorism and foster better links between Muslim and other communities
09:45 US correspondent, Susan Milligan
10:05 Simon Colton: teaching computers to be creative
Simon Colton is a computer scientist, currently working in the Computational Creativity Group at Goldsmiths College in the University of London, where he is Professor of Computational Creativity. He works on software that behaves in ways that mimick creativity in humans, such as The Painting Fool, an artificial intelligence that he hopes will one day be accepted as an artist in its own right.
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10:35 Book review: Instrumental by James Rhodes
10:45 The Reading The Crane, by Sarah Quigley, told by Rachel Nash (F, RNZ) (Part 2 of 2)
11:05 Business commentator, Rod Oram
11:20 Shakespeare meets Aotearoa in Maori re-telling of Othello
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One of Shakespeare's most famous plays is being given a make-over. Regan Taylor, the co-director of Te Rehia Theatre Company uses specially carved 'Maori performance masks' to re-work the Elizabethan tragedy in a solo performance in English and te reo. SolOthello plays at Huria Marea in Judea, at Tauranga Arts Festival on October 29th at 7pm. The play will then travel north.
11:45 Media commentator, Gavin Ellis

===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 8 September 2015
BODY:
The Government is confident we can cope with a refugee influx; Plans to speed up the Overseas Investment Office.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 15'46"

12:17
Manufacturing sales fall: soft quarter for economic growth
BODY:
Manufacturing sales have continued to fall, pointing to a soft quarter for economic growth.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 1'19"

12:19
Traffic report indicates economy losing momentum
BODY:
Meanwhile, a monthly traffic report indicates the economy is losing momentum.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 1'25"

12:21
Government seeks feedback on Telecommunications Act
BODY:
The Government is reviewing the regulations covering all digital communications with a view to coming up with a new set of rules that can adapt to a changing environment, while promoting investment and innovation.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 1'19"

12:25
Midday Markets
BODY:
For the latest from the markets we're joined by Angus Marks at First NZ Capital.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 1'34"

12:26
Midday Sports News for 8 September 2015
BODY:
Golfer Danny Lee secures his place in the Presidents Cup golf team.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'48"

12:35
Midday Rural News for 8 September 2015
BODY:
News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 7'45"

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===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
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An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)

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13:10
First Song - Trouble
BODY:
'Trouble' - Keith Richards.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 5'37"

13:15
South Pacific - Tim Beveridge and Tizane McEvoy
BODY:
Tim Beveridge and Tizane McEvoy are starring in Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical, South Pacific. They'll be touring from Kerikeri in the Far North, to Invercargill in the Far South, transporting audiences to the war-time romance. The work premiered in 1949 on Broadway and was an immediate hit, but it drew a fair amount of controversy. Baritone, Tim Beveridge, has had a career spanning more than 20 years and has encompassed many roles including actor, singer, producer, conductor and arranger. And singer, Tizane McEvoy, has previously performed with Kiri te Kanawa and Andrea Bocelli.
Topics: arts, music
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Tim Beveridge, Tizane McEvoy, South Pacific
Duration: 13'15"

13:30
Going West Readers and Writers Festival
BODY:
He's a doctor, poet and children's writer. Dr Glenn Colquhoun won the Jessie McKay best first book of poetry award, at the 2000 Montana NZ book Awards for his collection, The Art of Walking Upright. His third collection, Playing God, won the poetry section of the same awards in 2003 as well as the readers' choice award. He was awarded the Prize in modern letters in 2004 and a Fulbright scholarship to Harvard University in 2010. Glenn is giving the Remembrance address at the 20th Going West Books and Writers Festival this Friday.
Topics: arts, books, author interview
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Going West Readers and Writers Festival, Glenn Colquhoun
Duration: 9'17"

13:40
Favourite Album - Memorial Beach
BODY:
Memorial Beach - AHA. Chosen by Katrina Brown of Greymouth.
Topics: music
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Duration: 15'48"

14:10
Judge Neil MacLean
BODY:
Our next guest spent 35 years as a coroner, eight as New Zealand's first Chief Coroner, and oversaw two of New Zealand's biggest mass casualty events: the Pike River mine disaster and the Christchurch earthquakes. Judge Neil MacLean retired from the position in February this year. And he's giving a talk about his job tonight, at this year's Harkness Henry Lecture, at the University of Waikato.
Topics: law
Regions: Waikato
Tags: Judge Neil Maclean, Chief Coroner, University of Waikato
Duration: 15'22"

14:20
Great NZ Concerts
BODY:
On the Great New Zealand Concerts show today, we're featuring Tina Turner in New Zealand in 1985 and 1993.
Topics: music
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Tags: Tina Turner
Duration: 37'39"

15:10
Feature interview - Dietmar Eckell
BODY:
Some plane crashes do have a happy ending. German photographer Dietmar Eckell spent 3 years, travelling to four continents to find 15 aircraft crash sites where everyone on board survived. His quest took him to deserts, swamps, jungles and mountain tops. He features his photographs in a book called Happy End. He paid for the travel and the book through crowdfunding. Dietmar Eckell talks about these aviation miracles and why many of the planes are remarkably well preserved.
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Some plane crashes do have a happy ending. German photographer Dietmar Eckell spent three years, traveling to four continents to find 15 aircraft crash sites where everyone on board survived. His quest took him to deserts, swamps, jungles and mountain tops. He features his photographs in a book called Happy End. He paid for the travel and the book through crowdfunding. Dietmar Eckell talks about these aviation miracles and why many of the planes are remarkably well preserved.
Topics: transport, arts, books
Regions:
Tags: photography, planes
Duration: 16'24"

15:45
The Panel Pre-Show for 8 September 2015
BODY:
What the world is talking about. With Paul Brennan, Jim Mora and Noelle McCarthy.
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Duration: 14'46"

21:46
Does your first language influence your trombone playing?
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Matthias Heyne is investigating whether the tongue positions we learn as part of our native language influences the way trombonists play their instruments
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They speak a range of first languages: Tongan, New Zealand English, American English, German and Japanese. But the people taking part in Matthias Heyne’s research have one thing in common – they are all trombone players.
Matthias is a student of language and music at the University of Canterbury and the question driving his PhD research came to him when he was a German exchange student living for a year in the United States. A keen bass trombone player he thought that the American trombone players he was listening to sounded different to the ones back home. He began to wonder if the way he spoke as a native German speaker, and in particular the way he used his tongue, influenced the way his trombone playing sounded. This musing eventually led him to the University of Canterbury to carry out a PhD with the title: ‘The Influence of First Language on Playing Brass Instruments.’
To answer that question he armed himself with a plastic ‘PBone’ trombone, an ultrasound machine and a special non-metallic head brace, and began to record as many people as he could playing the trombone.
Some of the players he has shoulder-tapped are big names in the jazz world – New Zealand’s Rodger Fox, and the American Francisco Torres. Others, such as Matt Allison and Scott Taitoko, play in New Zealand orchestras, while others are band players. Through a chance meeting Matthias got in touch with the Royal Tonga Police band and made a profitable trip to Tonga to record a number of players there.
Each player goes through the same drill – the ultrasound scanner is fitted snugly under their chin with a specially designed head brace that has no metal parts and won’t interfere with their playing. Matthias will have prepared a list of all the consonant and vowel combinations in the player’s first language and they read that list into a microphone. The recordings of that list are synced to the ultrasound so that Matthias can later match and trace the tongue shape for every sound. Then the trombonist sight reads some simple exercises on the plastic trombone (this standard equipment removes all the variety that would come from individual instruments).
In this video Matthias plays the trombone and you can see the ultrasound scan of his tongue as he plays.
Matthias says the analysis is very time consuming, and to date he has only analysed some of the sustained notes. But he has noticed that speakers of New Zealand English, which uses a sound known as schwa (defined as ‘the vowel sound in many lightly pronounced unaccented syllables in words of more than one syllable’) such as the ‘uh’ in butter, use a central tongue position when playing long notes. Tongan does not have this sound so the Tongan players don’t have a motor memory for this central tongue position; instead, on sustained notes, their tongue position is further back.
Matthias says the study is a complex one and there are a number of alternative hypotheses that he has to consider as well as first language.
“A big confound with my study is the different styles of playing the people have learned. That can be emulating the style of a specific teacher, or whether you use vibrato on long notes or not. And I believe there exist different national styles of playing … so there seems to be a typical German style of playing versus a typical American style.”

Another issue is whether the player is an amateur or a professional. Matthias suspects that amateur players are more highly influenced by their first language, whereas professionals, who have practised and played for many thousands of hours learn to over-ride the learned motor memory of tongue positions from their first language.
Matthias has a website which explains his work in more detail, and he also collects every study he can find that to do with the study of music and language. If you are a brass player Matthias has a survey that he’d like you to take part in, regarding ‘brass players’ intuitions and experiences relating to language influence on brass playing’.
In this video you can see Matthias play the Ride of the Valkyries, and see what his tongue does as he plays:

Topics: science, music
Regions:
Tags: brass instruments, trombone, first language, ultrasound, tongue, linguistics, music
Duration: 13'24"

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1:10 First song
'Trouble' - Keith Richards
1:15 Breaking News - Gunman, Upper Hutt
Mike Knudsen heard a shot and the Upper Hutt CBD was flooded by armed police. A local McDonalds restaurant appears to be at the centre of this operation.
1:20 South Pacific - Tim Beveridge and Tizane McEvoy
Tim Beveridge and Tizane McEvoy are starring in Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical, South Pacific. They'll be touring from Kerikeri in the Far North to Invercargill in the Far South, transporting audiences to the war-time romance. The work premiered in 1949 on Broadway and was an immediate hit, but it drew a fair amount of controversy. Baritone, Tim Beveridge, has had a career spanning more than 20 years and has encompassed many roles including actor, singer, producer, conductor and arranger. And singer, Tizane McEvoy, has previously performed with Kiri te Kanawa and Andrea Bocelli.
1:30 Going West - Glenn Colquhoun
He's a doctor, poet and children's writer. Dr Glenn Colquhoun won the Jessie McKay best first book of poetry award, at the 2000 Montana NZ book Awards for his collection, The Art of Walking Upright. His third collection, Playing God, won the poetry section of the same awards in 2003 as well as the readers' choice award. He was awarded the Prize in modern letters in 2004 and a Fulbright scholarship to Harvard University in 2010. Glenn is giving the Remembrance address at the 20th Going West Books and Writers Festival this Friday.
1:40 Favourite album
Memorial Beach - AHA. Chosen by Katrina Brown of Greymouth
2:10 Coroner - Judge Neil MacLean
Neil McLean spent 35 years as a coroner, eight as New Zealand's first Chief Coroner, and oversaw two of New Zealand's biggest mass casualty events: the Pike River mine disaster and the Christchurch earthquakes. Judge Neil MacLean retired from the position in February this year. And he's giving a talk about his job tonight, at this year's Harkness Henry Lecture, at the University of Waikato.
2:20 The Greatest Kiwi Concert You've Ever Seen
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On the Great New Zealand Concerts show today, we're featuring Tina Turner in New Zealand in 1985 and 1993.
3:10 Feature Interview - Dietmar Eckell
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Some plane crashes do have a happy ending. German photographer Dietmar Eckell spent 3 years, traveling to four continents to find 15 aircraft crash sites where everyone on board survived. His quest took him to deserts, swamps, jungles and mountain tops. He features his photographs in a book called Happy End. He paid for the travel and the book through crowdfunding. Dietmar Eckell talks about these aviation miracles and why many of the planes are remarkably well preserved.
3:35 Our Changing World - Alison Ballance
Matthias Heyne plays the trombone, and he wonders if his German accent means his style of playing is different to someone who speaks, say, New Zealand English as their first language. The University of Canterbury PhD student shows Alison Ballance how he's worked out a way to measure possible differences.
Stories from Our Changing World.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about. With Paul Brennan, Jim Mora and Noelle McCarthy.
Music details
OPENING SONG:
ARTIST: Keith Richards
TITLE: Trouble
COMP: Richards, Jordan
ALBUM: Crosseyed Heart
LABEL: Republic
FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST: AHA
TITLE: Dark Is The Night
COMP: Pål Waaktaar
ALBUM: Memorial Beach
LABEL: Warner
ARTIST: AHA
TITLE: Move To Memphis
COMP: Magne Furuholmen / Pål Waaktaar
ALBUM: Memorial Beach
LABEL: Warner
ARTIST: AHA
TITLE: Memorial Beach
COMP: Pål Waaktaar
ALBUM: Memorial Beach
LABEL: Warner
ARTIST: AHA
TITLE: Angel In The Snow
COMP: Pål Waaktaar
ALBUM: Memorial Beach
LABEL: Warner
GREAT NZ CONCERT:
ARTIST: Tina Turner
TITLE: What's Love Got to Do with it
COMP: Britten, Lyle
ALBUM: Tina Turner: The Collected Recordings, Sixties To Nineties (Compilation)
LABEL: Capitol
ARTIST: Tina Turner
TITLE: Proud Mary
COMP: Fogerty
ALBUM: Tina Turner: The Collected Recordings, Sixties To Nineties (Compilation)
LABEL: Capitol
ARTIST: Tina Turner
TITLE: Better Be Good To Me
COMP: Chapman, Chinn, Knight
ALBUM: Tina Turner: The Collected Recordings, Sixties To Nineties (Compilation)
LABEL: Capitol
ARTIST: Tina Turner
TITLE: Nutbush City Limits
COMP: Turner
ALBUM: Tina Turner: The Collected Recordings, Sixties To Nineties (Compilation)
LABEL: Capitol
THE PANEL:
ARTIST: Thomas Dolby
TITLE: She Blinded Me With Science
COMP: Dolby, Kerr
ALBUM: Close But No Cigar
LABEL: Virgin

===4:00 PM. | The Panel===
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15:45
The Panel Pre-Show for 8 September 2015
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What the world is talking about. With Paul Brennan, Jim Mora and Noelle McCarthy.
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16:00
The Panel with Virginia Larsen and Tim Watkin (Part 1)
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Panel intro;Women and children only;Remorse, emotional trauma and the law; Rainbow Warrior
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Duration: 24'05"

16:08
Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Tim Watkin and Virginia Larson have been up to.
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Duration: 2'17"

16:10
Women and children only
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An Australian senator isn't swayed by emotion and Winston Peters says take the women and children Syrian refugees and send the men back to fight.
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Duration: 8'59"

16:22
Remorse, emotional trauma and the law
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The dean of law of the University of Otago Mark Henaghan talks about remorse and emotional trauma and how this effects sentencing.
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Duration: 8'52"

16:30
The Panel with Virginia Larsen and Tim Watkin (Part 2)
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Pop psychology; Panel says;The TV ratings game;No shower in 12 years;Red Peak.
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Duration: 26'27"

16:35
Pop psychology
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How much sway do "scientific studies" hold over you?
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Duration: 5'36"

16:40
Panel says
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What the Panelists Tim Watkin and Virginia Larson have been thinking about.
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Duration: 5'30"

16:45
The TV ratings game
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An analysis on Masterchef and Story ratings from Regan Cunliffe of Throng tv ratings website.
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Duration: 7'27"

16:52
No shower in 12 years
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Microbiologist Dr Siouxsie Wiles tells us if a daily shower is really necessary. How about one every 12 years?
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Duration: 6'37"

16:59
Red Peak
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The government has rejected an online petition of about 20,000 people calling for Aaron Dustin's design to be included as a fifth option and barrister Graeme Edgeler thinks the Government isn't likely to intervene in an electoral process.
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Duration: 1'03"

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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 8 September 2015
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Police shoot dead the Upper Hutt gunman;NZ First suggests only accepts women and children from Syria;Children faint on stage;Restaurant managers admit exploiting workers;Longest serving prisoner denied parole;Kaitaia airport overtaken by protestors.
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Duration: 25'03"

17:10
Police shoot dead the Upper Hutt gunman
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The police have shot dead a man who opened fire in a McDonalds restaurant, before shooting at police in the middle of a busy street in Upper Hutt.
Topics: crime
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: gunman, police, Upper Hutt
Duration: 7'13"

17:20
NZ First suggests only accepts women and children from Syria
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The New Zealand First leader, Winston Peters, is suggesting New Zealand only accepts refugees who are women and children, and sends the men back to fight against Islamic State.
Topics: refugees and migrants, politics
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Tags: Winston Peters, Syrian refugees, refugee quota
Duration: 2'26"

17:22
Children faint on stage
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Invercargil's Civic Theatre was the centre of an emergency today after several children rehearsing for a school production fainted.
Topics: arts, health, education
Regions: Southland
Tags: Invercargill Civic Theatre, children fainting
Duration: 4'23"

17:27
Restaurant managers admit exploiting workers
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Two managers of a popular Indian restaurant chain in Auckland have admitted exploiting workers, including paying a chef just forty dollars for two month's work.
Topics: food, health
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: restaurants, worker exploitation, workplace health and safety
Duration: 4'13"

17:33
Today's market update
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News from the business sector including a market report.
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Duration: 2'22"

17:36
Longest serving prisoner denied parole
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The country's longest serving prisoner has again been denied parole.
Topics: crime
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: sexual offender, parole denied, Christchurch
Duration: 2'23"

17:42
Kaitaia airport taken over by protestors
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Kaitaia Airport has been taken over by a group of protestors from a Far North iwi who have locked the gate, stopping planes from taking off or landing.
Topics: te ao Maori, politics, transport, conflict
Regions: Northland
Tags: Kaitaia airport, Ngati Kahu, protestors
Duration: 4'03"

17:44
English rebuffs calls for Govt to reject dividend
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The Government is rebuffing calls to reject a multi-million-dollar payout from Housing New Zealand, saying the dividend encourages the agency to be more efficient.
Topics: politics, housing
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Duration: 2'32"

17:47
National and Labour MP in agreement over Turakina
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With the future of a troubled boarding school hanging in the balance, the campaign to keep it open is gaining traction, with the district's mayor out in support, and a National and Labour MP in agreement over the issue.
Topics: te ao Maori, education
Regions: Whanganui
Tags: Turakina, boarding school, Turakina Maori Girls College
Duration: 3'17"

17:50
Police investigate bank robberies
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A BNZ bank in Manukau was robbed today and the police say it could be connected to two other robberies in the past eight days.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Manukau BNZ, bank robbery
Duration: 1'41"

17:51
Dairy farmer chases thieves in underwear
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A Waikato dairy farmer tried to chase down two thieves in the middle of the night wearing nothing but his thermal underwear and gumboots.
Topics: rural, farming, crime, transport
Regions: Waikato
Tags: robbery, quad bike, Ohaupo
Duration: 3'26"

17:54
Kiwi's pun video goes viral
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An Auckland man's pun-laden video of a walk in the bush has gone global.
Topics: arts, environment
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: viral pun video
Duration: 3'40"

18:08
Sports News for 8 September 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 3'15"

18:12
Police shoot dead the Upper Hutt gunman
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A man is dead after he opened fire at a McDonalds restaurant in the centre of Upper Hutt. The police shot the man when he turned his firearm towards them on Main Street just after half past twelve this afternoon.
Topics: crime
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Upper Hutt, gunman
Duration: 2'20"

18:15
Police union slams gun crime
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"For the fifth time in a month, frontline response police officers have had to deal with armed and clearly dangerous offenders," Police Association President Greg O'Connor said today.
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Tags: Upper Hutt gunman
Duration: 3'56"

18:18
ACT MP denies he's been done over by National
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The ACT leader says he hasn't been done over by the National Party over the paid parental leave issue , rather he's just much better informed now about the support available to some families.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 2'20"

18:22
Lawyer wants to take up long-serving prisoner's case
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A human rights lawyer says he plans to fight for the release of the country's longest serving prisoner - 77-year-old child sex offender, Alfred Vincent.
Topics: crime
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Duration: 3'38"

18:25
Skype scam
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The police are warning about a new kind of internet scam, where men are being blackmailed after performing sexual acts over Skype.
Topics: crime, technology
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Duration: 3'33"

18:35
Immigration NZ says Wellington first port for Syrians
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Immigration New Zealand says it's focusing on Wellington for the first influx of Syrian refugees because there are already some living there.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Duration: 2'02"

18:38
WCC working out what it will do with extra Syrians
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The Wellington City Council is trying to create a strategy to cope with its biggest intake of Syrian refugees in a decade.
Topics: refugees and migrants
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Syrian refugees, Wellington City Council
Duration: 2'36"

18:40
Aucklanders react to controversial lighthouse scuplture
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Aucklanders have responded to a controversial 1.5-million-dollar state house sculpture that has been granted resource consent.
Topics: arts, politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: state house sculpture, Auckland
Duration: 3'07"

18:45
Govt calls for telecommunications changes
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The Government says the telecommunications industry is changing fast and state regulation needs to catch up fast.
Topics: technology, politics
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Duration: 3'14"

18:48
Te Manu Korihi for 8 September 2015
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The Ngati Kahu leader Margaret Mutu says the government will have to sit down and talk with the iwi if it wants Kaitaia airport to reopen; The Labour MP, Peeni Henare, says Te Puni Kokiri is burdened with improving Maori outcomes but more Government agencies should take responsibility; Awareness is growing in the health sector about Maori-designed baby sleeping pods, which allow newborns to safetly sleep in their parents bed.
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Duration: 3'13"

18:50
Today in Parliament for 8 September 2015 - evening edition
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Questions about the economic health of the regions and refugees as Parliament resumes after a week's break. Finance Minister, Bill English, concedes some regions are struggling and confirms that an increase in jobs will be outpaced by a rise in unemployment. Opposition questions on refugees are led by the Greens' co-leader James Shaw, and fielded by Immigration Minister, Michael Woodhouse. The Speaker rejects requests for an urgent debate on the Government's decision to accept an additional six hundred Syrian refugees.
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Duration: 5'11"

18:52
Zoo staff battle to preserve hearing in chimpanzee
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More surgery beckons for a chimpanzee at Wellington Zoo as staff seek to preserve hearing in the chimp's only functioning ear.
Topics: environment
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Wellington Zoo, Chimpanzee, deafness
Duration: 3'11"

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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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Entertainment and information, including: 7:30 The Sampler: A weekly review and analysis of new CD releases (RNZ) 8:13 Windows on the World: International public radio features and documentaries 9:06 The Tuesday Feature: Indigenous and Pacific Experiences in WW1 The First World War had a great impact on many communities and cultures in the South Pacific region. Three speakers with different ethnic backgrounds discuss the 'other' narratives their research has revealed (RNZ)

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19:11
Our Own Odysseys: Back To The Beauty Of Uganda
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Wairarapa photographer Geoff Walker is currently living in Uganda and attempting to build bridges between there and here.
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Wairarapa photographer Geoff Walker is attempting to build bridges between Uganda and New Zealand.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: odysseys, Uganda, photography
Duration: 18'48"

20:42
Feminism - intersectionality
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Deborah Russell talks about intersectionality: the charge that feminism is a white middle class movement and its all about making life better for white middle class women, while at the same time completely forgetting about the intersection of race and gender, gender identity and gender, ability/disability and gender, class and gender.
Topics: life and society, media, history, identity, inequality
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Duration: 16'26"

20:59
Nights Conundrum
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Clue 3
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21:59
Nights Conundrum
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Clue 4
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7:10 Our Own Odysseys: Back to the beauty of Uganda
Wairarapa photographer Geoff Walker is attempting to build bridges between Uganda and New Zealand.
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7:30 The Sampler

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19:30
The Sampler: Iris DeMent, Masayoshi Fujita, Jill Scott
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This week in The Sampler Nick Bollinger reviews a new album by American roots icon Iris DeMent that has its roots in 20th century Russia; a set of musical fables from Berlin-based vibraphone master Masayoshi Fujita; and a compendium of R&B styles from Jill Scott.
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This week in The Sampler Nick Bollinger reviews a new album by American roots icon Iris DeMent that has its roots in 20th century Russia; a set of musical fables from Berlin-based vibraphone master Masayoshi Fujita; and a compendium of R&B styles from Jill Scott.
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Duration: 30'00"

19:31
The Trackless Woods by Iris Dement
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Nick Bollinger reviews a new album by American roots icon Iris DeMent that has its roots in 20th century Russia.
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Nick Bollinger reviews a new album by American roots icon Iris DeMent that has its roots in 20th century Russia.

Iris DeMent makes some of the most authentically southern music you'll hear. Her voice, her songs and her country gospel piano all point directly to her Arkansas roots. But her new record has a very different set of roots, geographically and historically. All seventeen of the songs on The Trackless Woods take their lyrics from poems by the twentieth century Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.
Over the almost quarter-century since her extraordinary debut album Infamous Angel, one of the consistent features of her music has been the personal nature of her lyrics, which draw on the specifics of her life story, describing places and people, sometimes even naming them. Parents, husbands and several of her thirteen brothers and sisters have appeared in various DeMent songs which, taken as a whole, create a picture of where she comes from; a large family of farmers and labourers from the border of Arkansas and Missouri, displaced to California when hard times hit the farm. But these new compositions take her not just inside someone else's world, but one that - outwardly, at least - seems very different from her own. Born in 1889 of aristocratic roots, and by her own account a distant descendant of Genghis Khan, Anna Akhmatova grew up in St. Petersburg where in the early years of the twentieth century she became an important figure in the city's bohemian poetry scene. Initially inspired by the Symbolists, she gradually moved towards a style rooted in a more concrete reality. It's a different reality from DeMent's, but there's a plainness and economy of language that the two writers share, and which is one reason Akhmatova's words flow from DeMent with such apparent ease.
For all their basis in the day-to-day particulars of her own life, DeMent's songs have always had an existential dimension to them. When they describe forms of suffering, as they often do, the very specific nature of that suffering - the loss, say, of a parent or sibling - is surprisingly universal. The particulars of Akhmatova's suffering were undoubtedly different from DeMent's. The years immediately following the revolution had seen the flowering of the Russian avant-garde, in which the poet thrived and produced some of her best-known work. But renaissance soon gave way to repression and from 1925 to 1940 Akhmatova's books were officially banned, while many of her friends and colleagues, including her son, were forced into labour camps and worse by the Stalinist regime. And the depth of her grief is measured in the restrained yet ultimately devastating sense of loss in lyrics like the one called 'The Last Toast'.
The songs, DeMent says, came to her at the piano, a book of translations of Akhmatova's poems on the music stand, often turned to a random page. So particular was the environment to the songs' creation that DeMent decided she had to record the album exactly where she had composed it, bringing studio equipment and musicians into her Iowa home. And the recording certainly captures that intimacy. The other players and singers are subtle. They include legendary names like guitarists Leo Kottke and Richard Bennett, who co-produced the album with DeMent. But for much of the record one hardly notices they are there.
I've kept looking for the reasons The Trackless Woods works so well when the worlds it brings together - those of a Russian poet and an Arkansas rustic - seem so far apart. In addition to the things I've identified, there's the fact that the poet's rhythms are very song-like and the translations DeMent has worked from - mostly by Babbette Deutsche - gently highlight her use of rhyme. DeMent has even said she believes Akhmatova must have conceived some of these poems as songs.
There is also the shared sense of place. It is said that Akhmatova refused to emigrate, despite enduring great hardships, as she believed a poet could only sustain their art in their native country. But perhaps the most crucial connection for DeMent is the most personal one. She and her husband, the singer-songwriter Greg Brown, have a daughter Dasha, who they adopted from Russia in 2005. DeMent says that in gaining a family her daughter had to give up the land of her birth, and that in setting these poems she has tried to give Dasha back some of the country she has lost. What makes that gift even more poignant is that so many of these lyrics, written against a background of purges and repression, mourn the loss of that country as well.
Songs: 'Like A White Stone', 'Broad Gold', 'From The Oriental Notebook', 'The Last Toast', 'Listening To Singing', 'And This You Call Work', 'Not With Deserters'.

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Duration: 13'27"

19:42
Apologues by Masayoshi Fujita
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Nick Bollinger reviews a set of musical fables from Berlin-based vibraphone master Masayoshi Fujita.
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Nick Bollinger reviews a set of musical fables from Berlin-based vibraphone master Masayoshi Fujita.
What a beautiful instrument the vibraphone is. It only seems to take a cluster of those deep bell-like notes to change the whole colour of the atmosphere. Like a big xylophone with a resonator tube attached to each bar, it was one of the first instruments to employ electricity, using variable speed motors to produce that distinctive shimmering tremolo. Jazz musicians like Lionel Hampton were early adopters, and it has been used in classical music too, as well as the broad genre known as exotica. Where would Arthur Lyman have been without it? But Masayoshi Fujita is a young Japanese vibraphonist who has his own ideas about what to do with the instrument.
Fujita started out as a drummer in Japan before shifting to the vibraphone and moving to Berlin. Where he made his first recordings under the name El Fog. They were minimalist in style, matching pulsating bell tones with glitchy electronic beats. Dropping the El Fog handle, in 2013 he released Stories, his first album under his own name, which placed the vibraphone in more analogue settings, sometimes accompanied by strings, at other times entirely solo. The new disc continues down the analogue path; the vibraphone is essentially the only electrified instrument here, and Fujita plays it with greater skill than ever. But his accompaniment has expanded into an eight-piece ensemble of clarinet, accordion, French horn, flute, cello, violin and percussion, and some of the things he does with it are fantastic.
Among the eight tracks on Apologues are a couple of pieces where the effect is almost Eno-esque, a tone pond, with petals of sound falling gently on long sustained undertones. At other times Fujita’s compositions are rich and full, like big colourful figurative illustrations.
An apologue is a short fable or allegory and if these instrumentals seem to tell stories, they are supported by some brief whimsical texts in the accompanying booklet. Fujita has already established himself as a master of his instrument with his electronic collaborations and solo work, but on Apologues he proves himself as a composer and a storyteller and perhaps some sort of painter as well.
Songs played: 'Tears Of Unicorn', 'Flag', 'Knight Of Spirit Lake', 'Puppet’s Strange Dream Circus Band', 'Swallow Flies High In The May Sky'.
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Duration: 7'26"

19:50
Woman by Jill Scott
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Nick Bollinger reviews a compendium of R&B styles from Jill Scott.
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Nick Bollinger reviews a compendium of R&B styles from Jill Scott.
Jill Scott was heard most recently on Dr. Dre's Compton: A Soundtrack, an album that is like an avalanche of voices. But when it comes to singing, she can run rings around all of them.
If the sixteen tracks on Woman have a linking theme it's no more than the one the title suggests: life and all its vagaries, from a female point of view. Musically, it's all over the shop. Though the songs are all strongly identifiable as R&B, that could mean anything from a cool 80s Flyte Tyme-type production to a Motown pastiche. 'Closure' is a song that, if Scott hadn't written it then Sharon Jones surely would have, and it's a hoot, with the kind of mocking battle-of-the-sexes humour you could imagine in the heyday of the Apollo.
Something that has distinguished her since early on is that she is also a spoken word artist, which is not to call her a rapper; more like a performance poet. And there are a couple of spoken interludes in this set too, which, in a way, is where Scott is at her most distinctive. The variety might suggest that Scott isn't quite sure who it's aimed at, so is offers a little something for everyone, but if that's the case then my tastes must be unusually catholic because I find myself liking most of it very much.
Topics: music
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Duration: 9'15"

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 Feminism
Equality for women with feminist blogger Deborah Russell. Intersectionality (that's the charge that feminism is a white middle-class movement and its all about making life better for white middle-class women, while at the same time completely forgetting about the intersection of race and gender, or gender identity and gender, or ability/disability and gender, or class and gender)
9:06 The Tuesday Feature: Indigenous and Pacific Experiences in WW1
The First World War had a great impact on many communities and cultures in the South Pacific region. Three speakers with different ethnic backgrounds discuss the 'other' narratives their research has revealed (RNZ)
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. 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 (F, MCM)

===10:00 PM. | Late Edition===
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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 (11 of 13, MCM)