Radio New Zealand National. 2015-05-03. 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:03 May 2015

===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 History Repeated (RNZ); 1:05 Our Changing World (RNZ); 2:05 Spiritual Outlook (RNZ); 2:35 Hymns for Sunday 3:05 The Captive Wife, by Fiona Kidman (5 of 15, RNZ); 3:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ); 4:30 Science in Action (BBC)

===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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White Heron: Lord of the Birds, by Chris Winitana, told by Chris Winitana and Tina Kaipara; Dragon Spell, by John Parker, told by Lloyd Scott; Michael, written and told by Apirana Taylor; Blackie the Fisher Cat, by Janet Pereira, told by Madeleine McNamara; I Fell In Love With A Maunga, by Carolyn Taka, told by Glynnis Paraha; The Story of Tamangori, by David Somerset, told by Fiona Samuel (RNZ)

===7:08 AM. | Sunday Morning===
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A fresh attitude on current affairs, the news behind the news, documentaries including Insight, sport from the outfield, politics from the insiders, plus Mediawatch, music and The Week in Parliament

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07:10
Aid groups struggle as situation worsens in Nepal
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A week after the huge earthquake in Nepal that killed thousands and left many more without shelter and relying on foreign aid, UNICEF says that many of the children have been left in shock, with no access to basic care.
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Duration: 10'21"

07:22
Activist 'disappointed' at NZ response to killer robots
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Mary Wareham is Human Right Watch arms advocacy director and the global coordinator of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. Last month she attended a United Nation's conference on autonomous weapons - or killer robots - in Geneva and, as she wrote in a comment piece, she was bitterly disappointed by New Zealand's lack of engagement on the issue.
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The global co-ordinator of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots says she was bitterly disappointed by New Zealand's lack of engagement at a recent UN conference on autonomous weapons in Geneva.

A mock killer robot during the launch of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots in London in April 2013.
Photo: AFP

Mary Wareham - the arms advocacy director at Human Rights Watch - said the group wanted a pre-emptive ban on the development of weapons able to select targets and use force without any form of human intervention.

Mary Wareham
Photo: Twitter / @marywareham

Ms Wareham, a former Wellingtonian now based in Washington DC, also co-ordinated the New Zealand campaign against landmines from 2007 to 2012.
She said New Zealand had no policy on autonomous weapons despite a commitment made by Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully in 2013.
She said at the meeting two weeks ago in Geneva, New Zealand, a member of the UN Security Council, said nothing at all.
"it was just odd to see my government sit there and not contribute," she said.
"I'm not used to to seeing that. I'm used to seeing New Zealand being active and engaging and taking leadership roles in treaties to ban landmines, cluster bombs, the arm trades treaty.
"New Zealand is very, very active but on this one, we seem to be sitting out."
A spokesperson for Mr McCully said New Zealand would develop a policy in concert with other governments when the international community was clearer about the weapons.
Topics: defence force, technology
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Tags: robots, weapons
Duration: 8'35"

07:30
The Week In Parliament For Sunday 3 May 2015
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Opposition holds government to account in expanded financial review debate. Heated exchanges over trade deal in committee rooms. Questions elicit significant policy moves from government on welfare and housing. Parliament back up to 121 MPs.
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Duration: 15'03"

07:48
Workers still suffer two years after Rana Plaza disaster
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Two years ago, the 8-storey Rana Plaza Factory building, located near Dhaka in Bangladesh and housing five garment factories, collapsed, killing 1,100 workers. At the time, Human Rights Watch called for reforms, including a drastic overhaul of the government's system of labour inspections, and an end to Government efforts to thwart the right of workers to unionise.
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Duration: 8'06"

07:55
US Military plans to extend live fire range in NW Pacific
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The United States military's plans to use two islands in the Northern Marianas as live fire ranges has aroused strong feelings in the northwest Pacific US territory.
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Duration: 4'48"

08:12
Insight for 3 May 2015 - NZ's Neglected Foetal Alcohol Problem
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Philippa Tolley investigates the scale of the burden caused by NZ's neglected foetal alcohol problem
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Alcohol damage to unborn children has been described as one of New Zealand's biggest preventable health problems but it appears nobody knows the size of the problem or is actively trying to find out.
Insight has been investigating the burden undiagnosed fetal alcohol damage is placing on the public sector, the community and individual families.
Eighteen months ago, the government committed itself to implementing recommendations from a select committee inquiry into improving child health outcomes over Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).
These included calls for specific actions and a study into the prevalence of FASD in New Zealand and should have been in place this month but, so far, nothing has been signed off.
One New Zealand grandmother, who would like to be known as "Shirley" and adopted one of her grandsons shortly after his birth, is among those desperate for agencies to step up and offer help.
The boy's parents couldn't cope with a baby and, although Shirley knew they drank heavily every week, she had no idea her grandson had suffered damage.
But he had - and the impairment became obvious as he grew and his behaviour became more out of control. In one incident, he hit his grandfather with a stick despite him being in his wheelchair.
"I was the focus of most of his anger and was physically attack[ed] many times."

Shirley said, in the end, her grandson was arrested for holding up a dairy with a knife at the age of 15. He was found unfit to plead and placed in a structured residential environment, which Shirley believed helped, but at 18 he was out on the streets and is now before the adult courts.
Problem across New Zealand
There are likely to be families across New Zealand struggling with similarly impaired children.
Researchers have estimated, based on overseas studies and what's known about drinking in New Zealand, that up to 3000 babies are born every year with some sort of damage caused by their mother's drinking - which would work out to be 30,000 children in the last decade alone.
The impact of the disorder is still not given the prominence it deserves, according to Christine Rogan, who works for Alcohol Health Watch and co-ordinates a network for people affected by FASD.
"I think there is a lot of guesswork at the moment like this. [Is] it because this child has had an adverse environment or this child isn't being disciplined properly ... but it could also be that, underneath all of that, is some prenatal brain damage and the leading cause of that is alcohol."
While studies vary, Ms Rogan said drinking rates among pregnant women in New Zealand appear to sit at 25 to 30 percent, which would be high compared with other countries.
At least 10 percent of expectant mothers are drinking at levels that are definitely hazardous for the unborn child and, anecdotally, drinking by young women appears to have increased in recent years, she said.
Neuropyschologist Valerie McGinn worked on the fetal alcohol spectrum damage diagnosis for Teina Pora presented to the Privy Council, which helped lead to his conviction for rape and murder being quashed.
She said she wanted work to be done to find out how prevalent the disorder was in this country and was frustrated with a lack of government commitment.
"We have an opportunity at the moment to be part of a World Health Organisation (WHO) study but we have not [got] government funding and the WHO obviously won't fund a country like New Zealand."
Ministry of Health advisor on child and youth health Pat Touhy said two options were being considered: the WHO option favoured by Ms McGinn and a suggestion to use longitudinal research under way already in Auckland - 'Growing Up In New Zealand'.
"They've got all the history; they've got all the developmental information they require."
Children's Commissioner Russell Wills has also urged action to better understand the scale of the problem.
Dr Wills, who is also a paediatrician in Hawkes Bay, described increasing numbers of children presenting with serious behavioural problems. It's relatively common for four-year-olds to be excluded from preschool and new entrants are now being referred for assessment, he said.

Overseas studies have suggested up to 60 percent of affected children end up in the justice system - as Shirley's grandson did.
Principal Youth Court Judge Andrew Becroft said he wanted more done to assess the prevalence of this kind of alcohol damage across society, identify individuals and help those with a range of neurological problems, including FASD. He said he feared that the way society treated individuals damaged by alcohol before birth now may be seen in the future as the same as imprisoning a blind person because they were unable to see.
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Topics: health
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Tags: foetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Duration: 30'03"

08:42
Rongomai Bailey - The Closure of Aboriginal Communities
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Rongomai Bailey works for Ngaanyatjarra Media, a multi-media company owned by the Yarnangu people of Western Australia. This week he filmed one of the first outback protests against the proposed closure of up to 150 aboriginal communities and recorded an interview with aboriginal elders Elizbeth Marrkilyi Ellis and Daisy Helen Ward.
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Duration: 17'06"

09:08
Mediawatch for 3 May 2015
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The backlash against dissent and disrespect on ANZAC day; the intrusion of TV advertising on a solemn centenary; a retiring Fairfax executive on the future of journalism in the digital age; PR and journalism in 'Ponytailgate'.
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Duration: 38'53"

09:40
Katherine Barnes - The Sabotage Diaries
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After Katherine Barnes' father-in-law died, she made some surprising discoveries about his experiences during the Second World War. She talks to Wallace about Tom Barnes and his Sabotage Diaries.
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Duration: 8'21"

09:50
Deborah Morris-Travers - A Push for the Rights of Children
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UNICEF NZ National Advocacy Manager, Deborah Morris-Travers, talks about a new push to improve the lives of New Zealand children living in poverty.
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Duration: 8'38"

10:08
Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Conversion
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The gothic makeup, the guillotine and hangman's noose, the plastic decapitated baby cadavers around the stage - Alice Cooper was once described as the most evil rocker in the world. Wallace talks to Alice Cooper ahead of his May 9th concert at Auckland's Vector Arena.
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Alice Cooper was once described as the most evil rocker in the world. He defined a sound and look, and has sold tens of millions of albums. His catchy rock anthems meant that by the time he was 25, his band was one of the biggest in the world.
He talks to Wallace Chapman about his conversion to Christianity, hanging out with Jim Morrison, his friendship with Groucho Marx, his admiration for Lydia Ko, and how he was never truly Satanic.
Alice Cooper is coming to NZ with Motley Crue and will play on Saturday 9 May 2015, at Vector Arena, Auckland.
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Eight Months to Mars - Alice Cooper (2009).
Topics: music, sport
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Tags: rock, rock 'n' roll, golf
Duration: 20'38"

10:35
Jake Gorst - Life on Long Island
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Jake Gorst is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and the director of Modern Tide, a documentary about modernist architecture on the East Coast of the US. He also directed The Nature of Modernism: E. Stewart Williams, an insight into mid-century modernism in Palm Springs on the US West Coast. Both films are playing at the Resene Architecture & Design film festival starting in Auckland next week, before moving to Wellington, Dunedin and Christchurch.
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Duration: 20'09"

11:10
Tim Winton - Australian Classic
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Writer Tim Winton has been named an Australian national treasure. His book, The Riders - now considered an Australian classic - was short-listed for the Man Booker prize for fiction, as was his 2002 book Dirt Music. Tim also writes children's books and non-fiction, and his work has been adapted to opera and film. Tim's latest novel is Eyrie, and he is coming to New Zealand for this month's Auckland Writers Festival.
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Writer Tim Winton has been named an Australian national treasure. His book, The Riders - now considered an Australian classic - was short-listed for the Man Booker prize for fiction, as was his 2002 book Dirt Music.
Tim also writes children's books and non-fiction, and his work has been adapted to opera and film.
Tim's latest novel is Eyrie, and he is coming to New Zealand for the Auckland Writers Festival.
Topics: books, author interview
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Duration: 23'48"

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Ana Heremaia - ARCO Workshops
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Ana Heremaia is an interior architect and one of the founders of ARCO Workshops - an innovative architectural/educational practice in Kaikohe which has seen local rangitahi designing contemporary furniture and even a marae.
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An innovative architectural/educational practice in Kaikohe has seen local rangitahi designing contemporary furniture and even a marae.
Ana Heremaia, an interior architect and one of the founders of ARCO Workshops, talks to Wallace Chapman.

Topics: arts
Regions: Northland
Tags: community, Kaikohe, youth
Duration: 15'20"

11:45
Brent Edwards - Press Freedom
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May 3 is World Press Freedom Day, a date which celebrates the fundamental principles of press freedom, evaluates press freedom around the world, defends the media from attacks on their independence and pays tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the exercise of their profession. Listeners may know Brent Edwards as Radio New Zealand's political editor, but today he's talking to us as EPMU Print and Media Council convener and New Zealand's representative with the International Federation of Journalists. The annual Press Freedom Debate will be held at the Backbencher tavern in Wellington on Thursday, May 7. Tickets are $25 and can be bought from Brent by emailing him: brent.edwards@radionz.co.nz
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Duration: 9'44"

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7:08 Current affairs
An update from Nepal; a report from RNZI on US expansion plans from Guam; two years after the deadly Rana Plaza fire in Bangladesh, has anything improved for workers? The Week in Parliament, plus – Wallace talks to Mary Wareham, Human Rights Watch arms advocacy director and global coordinator of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, who recently attended a UN conference on autonomous weapons in Geneva and was disappointed by New Zealand’s “lack of substantive engagement”.
8:12 Insight
The damage that some babies can suffer when pregnant mothers drink heavily has again floated into the public consciousness. The Privy Council accepted that the then convicted murderer Teina Pora suffered from Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. It quashed his conviction for the murder and rape of Susan Burdett and decided that his "frequently contradictory and often implausible confessions and the recent diagnosis of his FASD [Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder] leads to only one possible conclusion ... that reliance on his confessions gives rise to a risk of a miscarriage of justice". The number of people in New Zealand affected by the disorder is unknown, but some estimates indicate that 3000 babies are born with it every year.
Produced by Philippa Tolley.
8:40 Rongomai Bailey – The Closure of Aboriginal Communities
Rongomai Bailey works for Ngaanyatjarra Media – a multi-media company owned by the Yarnangu people of Western Australia. This week he filmed one of the first outback protests against the proposed closure of up to 150 aboriginal communities and recorded an interview with aboriginal elders Elizbeth Marrkilyi Ellis and Daisy Helen Ward.

9:06 Mediawatch

How some expressions of ANZAC Day dissent copped a backlash, and the intrusion of advertising on the centenary. Also: A veteran editor on the digital future of New Zealand journalism, and further fallout from Ponytailgate.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:40 Katherine Barnes – The Sabotage Diaries
After Katherine Barnes’ father-in-law died she made some surprising discoveries about his experiences during the Second World War. She talks to Wallace about Tom Barnes and his Sabotage Diaries.
9:50 Deborah Morris-Travers – A Push for the Rights of Children
UNICEF NZ National Advocacy Manager, Deborah Morris-Travers, talks to Wallace about a new push to improve the lives of New Zealand children living in poverty.
10:06 Alice Cooper – Welcome to my Conversion
Alice Cooper was once described as the most evil rocker in the world. He defined a sound and look, and has sold tens of millions of albums. His catchy rock anthems meant that by the time he was 25, his band was one of the biggest in the world. He talks to Wallace about his conversion to Christianity, hanging out with Jim Morrison, his friendship with Groucho Marx, his admiration for Lydia Ko, and how he was never truly Satanic.
Alice Cooper is coming to NZ with Motley Crue and will play on Saturday May 9, at Vector Arena, Auckland.
10:35 Jake Gorst – Life on Long Island
Jake Gorst is an Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker and director of Modern Tide, about modernist architecture on the East Coast of the US, and is also director of The Nature of Modernism: E. Stewart Williams – an insight into mid-century modernism in Palm Springs on the US West Coast.
Both films are playing at the Resene Architecture & Design film festival starting in Auckland next week, before moving to Wellington, Dunedin and Christchurch.

Left: The Pearlroth House of Westhampton Beach, New York, designed by Andrew Geller in 1959. Photo from The Andrew Geller Architectural Archive/Jake and Tracey Gorst Collection. Right: Jake Gorst
11:05 Tim Winton – Australian Classic
Writer Tim Winton has been named an Australian national treasure. His book, The Riders – now considered an Australian classic – was short-listed for the Man Booker prize for fiction, as was his 2002 book Dirt Music. Tim also writes for children, he writes non fiction, and his work has been adapted to opera and films. His latest novel is Eyrie, and he is coming to New Zealand for this month's Auckland Writers Festival.
11:30 Ana Heremaia – ARCO Workshops
Ana Heremaia is an interior architect and one of the founders of ARCO Workshops – an innovative architectural/educational practice in Kaikohe which has seen local rangitahi designing contemporary furniture and even a marae.

Left: Ana Heremaia working with one of the students at an ARCO Workshop. Right: Rangitahi working on a pop-up park
11:45 Brent Edwards – Press Freedom
May 3 is World Press Freedom Day – a date which celebrates the fundamental principles of press freedom; to evaluate press freedom around the world, to defend the media from attacks on their independence and to pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the exercise of their profession. Listeners know Brent Edwards as Radio New Zealand's political editor – but today he's talking to us as EPMU Print and Media Council convener and New Zealand's representative with the International Federation of Journalists.
The annual Press Freedom Debate will be held at the Backbencher tavern in Wellington on Thursday, May 7. Tickets are $25 and can be bought from Brent by emailing him: brent.edwards@radionz.co.nz

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Artist: Yothu Yindi
Song: Gapu
Composer: Traditional. Arranged by G Yunupingu
Album: Tribal Voice
Label: Mushroom
Broadcast Time: 8:40
Artist: Alice Cooper
Song: School's Out
Composer: Cooper
Album: The Best of Alice Cooper
Label: Rhino
Broadcast Time: 9:40
Artist: Alice Cooper
Song: Welcome to My Nightmare
Composer: Cooper
Album: The Best of Alice Cooper
Label: Rhino
Broadcast Time:10:05
Artist: Alice Cooper
Song: Poison
Composer: Cooper
Album: The Best of Alice Cooper
Label: Rhino
Broadcast Time:10:30
Artist: Anika Moa, Boh Runga and Hollie Smith
Song: Over and Over
Composer: Moa/Runga/Smith
Album: Peace of Mind
Label: Sony
Broadcast Time: 10:55
Artist: Yothu Yindi
Song: Hope
Composer: Traditional. Arranged by M Yunupingu
Album: Tribal Voice
Label: Mushroom
Broadcast Time: 11:55

===12:12 PM. | Spectrum===
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In 1971 a bunch of radical feminists espousing Women's Liberation and Socialism bought 8 Winn Road in Freemans Bay, central Auckland. The group lived next door to another collective and down the road from two others for approximately 25 years and raised their children there. Two members of the group are writing the history of the house and their time there, including the night they stormed the Great Northern Hotel on Queen Street to protest the exclusion of women! Spectrum goes back to Winn Road and down Queen Street with founding members of the group to talk about a feminist slice of Auckland's history (RNZ)

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12:10
Free Love, Feminism and Freemans Bay
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In 1972 a group of radical feminists espousing Women's Liberation and Socialism bought 8 Winn Road in Freemans Bay, central Auckland. The group lived next door to another collective and down the road from two others for nearly 15 years and raised their children there. Two members of the group are writing the history of the house and their time there, including the night they stormed the Great Northern Hotel on Queen Street to protest the exclusion of women. Spectrum goes back to Winn Road with founding members of the group to talk about a feminist slice of Auckland's history.
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Linley Scott (left) and Fern Mercier.
"Here you are in a left wing organisation, supposedly dedicated to the breaking-down of sex roles, and the women were still making the cups of tea! So we decided to do something about this practically..."

– Linley Scott, a founding member of the Winn Road urban commune in Freemans Bay.
Gallery: Winn Road in the 1970s
Linley Scott and Fern Mercier met as thirteen year olds at Otago Girls High School in the 1960s.Linley is unsure what drew them together in the first place but says it soon became apparent that “you had to leave Dunedin if you were to have a life.”And so having both moved to Auckland separately, they rekindled their friendship and established Women for Equality.
"It was socialist; in fact it was more pink than socialist really,We thought we should try and live our ideals and try and put all the new ideas about sex roles and equal child rearing into practice..."

Freemans Bay early 1970s.
The group set about protesting for equal pay, supporting the pro-choice movement, and educating for an end to gender-role stereotyping.In 1972 Fern and Linley made the move to 8 Winn Road in Freemans Bay, having purchased the historic but run-down property for $14,000, and set about creating an urban commune.

8 Winn Road Freemans Bay, early 1970s.
The founding group of eight to 10 members and their children lived at the property for nearly 15 years, establishing a community that would grow to include another property in the street, and two other communal houses on nearby Picton Street.

Early members of the Winn Road commune
"We had a freedom of thought…and hope, we believed we could change society and we were open to so many conceptual thoughts…it was an exciting time to live and to be young."

Over the intervening years, hundreds of people passed through the properties, some only choosing to spend a night, others becoming life-long friends.The commune finally dissolved in 1985 due to diverging views and money issues. But both Fern and Linley remain intensely proud of how their children were raised at Winn Road.

Another great Winn Road birthday party. Fern Mercier and her son Damon Keen.
"The fact that we’ve raised amazing children, well then we’ve done everything we could, there’s nothing more fantastic that you could do really, It’s just a rich tapestry of events and people and to have that tapestry still on the loom with all those people that we’ve known for so long, that is the really rich thing."

Winn Road's Goat! (Photos courtesy of Fern Mercier and the Winn Road & Friends Community.)
And the women hope a new generation of grandchildren will take up the mantle, Fern says her days espousing women’s liberation and socialism are far from over.
"We’ll go out protesting!"

Join Fern and Linley as they share herstories with Spectrum’s Lisa Thompson and take a walk back through 8 Winn Road.
Right: Jane Barrett Linely Scott and Fern Mercier
Archival audio supplied by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.

Topics: education, history, housing, life and society, politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: feminism, women’s rights, 1970s Auckland, 1980s Auckland, urban commune, pub liberations, Freemans Bay
Duration: 27'26"

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===12:40 PM. | Standing Room Only===
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It's an 'all access pass' to what's happening in the worlds of arts and entertainment, including: 3:04 The Drama Hour: Show Down, by Margaret Escott, adapted by Elspect Sandys Adaptation of the 1936 novel charting a Waikato dairy farmer's love affair and marriage with an upper-class Englishwoman visiting NZ (1 of 2, RNZ)

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12:35
John Pule: Suitcase
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The recent Niue Arts and Culture Festival took as its theme the question "Who am I?" and called on Niuean artists to ponder ideas of identity and how they might renew, rethink and reclaim their ancestral home. Painter, poet and novelist John Pule has just moved back to his birthplace in Niue and responded with an exhibition of lithographs. Justin Gregory spoke to him at the Niue Yacht Club.
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Niuan Painter, poet and novelist John Pule
The recent Niue Arts and Culture Festival took as its theme the question “Who am I?” and called on Niuean artists to ponder ideas of identity and how they might renew, rethink and reclaim their ancestral home. Painter, poet and novelist John Pule has just moved back to his birthplace in Niue and responded with an exhibition of lithographs. Justin Gregory spoke to him at the Niue Yacht Club.

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Duration: 8'26"

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New Zealand at the Venice Biennale
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Berlin-based New Zealand artist Simon Denny and his funders will soon find out if his art installations about mass surveillance have struck a chord with audiences, critics and curators at the Venice Biennale. Half of the installation is unmissable for people flying into Marco Polo Airport. Standing Room Only presenter Lynn Freeman is covering La Biennale for Radio New Zealand.
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Berlin-based New Zealand artist Simon Denny and his funders will soon find out if his art installations about mass surveillance have struck a chord with audiences, critics and curators at the Venice Biennale. Half of the installation is unmissable for people flying into Marco Polo International Airport. Standing Room Only presenter Lynn Freeman is covering La Biennale for Radio New Zealand.
(Left) Simon Denny, who is displaying at the Venice Biennale
New York Times article focusing on Simon Denny's work at the Biennale

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Duration: 7'08"

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ComicFest
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This week Wellington was host to a plethora of comic talent - no not from the comedy festival. New Zealand illustrators and cartoonists met up to discuss their craft at ComicFest. At one such post-discussion panel meetup Standing Room Only producer Shaun D Wilson spoke to Toby Morris, Tim Bollinger, Jonathan King and Tim Gibson about the state of their art.
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This week Wellington was host to a plethora of comic talent – no not from the comedy festival. New Zealand illustrators and cartoonists met up to discuss their craft at ComicFest. At one such post-discussion panel meetup Standing Room Only producer Shaun D Wilson spoke to Toby Morris, Tim Bollinger, Jonathan King and Tim Gibson about the state of their art.

Toby Morris' comic The Pencilsword.
Topics: arts, technology
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Tags: comics, ComicFest, arts festival, drawing, illustration, publishing, web comics
Duration: 11'16"

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Prepping for 48 Hours of madness
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Tiny teams all over the country are doing in two days what it takes far larger teams years to do - make a movie. The 48 Hours film competition is on! Simon Morris speaks to the New Zealand Manager for 48 Hours 2015 Tim Groenendaal, as well as experienced competitors Hayden Weal (Moffilaide), and Julian Vares (The Eh Team).
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Tiny teams all over the country are doing in two days what it takes far larger teams years to do - make a movie. The 48 Hours film competition is on! Simon Morris speaks to the New Zealand Manager for 48 Hours 2015 Tim Groenendaal, as well as experienced competitors Hayden Weal (Moffilaide), and Julian Vares (The Eh Team).

Le Restaurant D'erreurs by Eh Team

Dick Off by Moffilaide
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Tags: arts festival, 48 Hours, film
Duration: 13'14"

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The Laugh Track - Nish Kumar
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Brit Nish Kumar is playing New Zealand for the first time at the International Comedy Festival. He talks standup and picks choice cuts from Louis C.K., Chris Rock, Daniel Kitson, and Stewart Lee. In Auckland Nish is part of The Big Show, as well as performing his own set at The Classic. He will be touring the country on the Comedy Convoy.
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Brit Nish Kumar is playing New Zealand for the first time at the International Comedy Festival. He talks standup and picks choice cuts from Louis C.K., Chris Rock, Daniel Kitson, and Stewart Lee. In Auckland Nish is part of The Big Show, as well as performing his own set at The Classic. He will be touring the country on the Comedy Convoy.
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Duration: 20'33"

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Singing sisters in Cinderella
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The latest New Zealand Opera production is about to open. It's Rossini's La Cenerentola, rather better known as Cinderella. Interestingly three of the leads - Cinderella and the two Wicked Sisters - are all played by expat New Zealand singers. Singers Amelia Barry and Rachelle Pike were both New Zealand Opera Emerging Artists who studied together in New York.
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The latest New Zealand Opera production is about to open. It's Rossini's La Cenerentola, rather better known as Cinderella. Interestingly three of the leads - Cinderella and the two Wicked Sisters - are all played by expat New Zealand singers. Singers Amelia Barry and Rachelle Pike were both New Zealand Opera Emerging Artists who studied together in New York.

Soprano Amelia Barry and Mezzo soprano Rachelle Pike as The Wicked Sisters in La Cenerentole
Topics: arts
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Tags: opera, New York, New Zealand Opera
Duration: 9'08"

14:39
Running Towards Danger
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The trouble doesn't end for Karen after her flatmate is shot and killed next to her on the street. In her novel Running Towards Danger, author Tina Clough puts Karen under huge pressure as she forces her to travel the country under an assumed name. She thinks she's found a safe place to settle down - but is she right?
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The trouble doesn't end for Karen after her flatmate is shot and killed next to her on the street. In her novel Running Towards Danger, author Tina Clough puts Karen under huge pressure as she forces her to travel the country under an assumed name. She thinks she's found a safe place to settle down - but is she right?
Topics: arts, author interview
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Tags: Thriller, novel
Duration: 10'10"

14:50
Jack Feleti: Ebony Carver
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In a village on Niue's eastern coast, master carver Jack Feleti makes one-of-a-kind objects from the ebony he finds on his ancestral lands. The exquisite, hand-carved pieces he produces have been sold everywhere from Auckland to Japan and he tells Justin Gregory that the raw materials he needs for his art are all around him.
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Artist Jack Feleti being recorded by Justin Gregory
In a village on Niue’s eastern coast, master carver Jack Feleti makes one-of-a-kind objects from the ebony he finds on his ancestral lands. The exquisite, hand-carved pieces he produces have been sold everywhere from Auckland to Japan and he tells Justin Gregory that the raw materials he needs for his art are all around him.
Topics: arts
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Tags: arts, Niue, economics, culture, religion, export
Duration: 9'37"

=SHOW NOTES=

12:26 John Pule: Suitcase
The recent Niue Arts and Culture Festival took as its theme the question “Who am I?” and called on Niuean artists to ponder ideas of identity and how they might renew, rethink and reclaim their ancestral home. Painter, poet and novelist John Pule has just moved back to his birthplace in Niue and responded with an exhibition of lithographs. Justin Gregory spoke to him at the Niue Yacht Club.

Niuan Painter, poet and novelist John Pule

12:41 New Zealand at the Venice Biennale
Berlin-based New Zealand artist Simon Denny and his funders will soon find out if his art installations about mass surveillance have struck a chord with audiences, critics and curators at the Venice Biennale. Half of the installation is unmissable for people flying into Marco Polo International Airport. Standing Room Only presenter Lynn Freeman is covering La Biennale for Radio New Zealand.
(Left) Simon Denny, who is displaying at the Venice Biennale
New York Times article focusing on Simon Denny's work at the Biennale

1:10 At the Movies with Simon Morris
Simon Morris welcomes the blockbuster season - or at least big films. Avengers: Age Of Ultron tackles trendy Artificial Intelligence, Testament of Youth is a film version of a famous First World War memoir, and the award-winning Leviathan takes a critical look at Putin's Russia.
1:34 ComicFest
This week Wellington was host to a plethora of comic talent – no not from the comedy festival. New Zealand illustrators and cartoonists met up to discuss their craft at ComicFest. At one such post-discussion panel meetup Standing Room Only producer Shaun D Wilson spoke to Toby Morris, Tim Bollinger, Jonathan King and Tim Gibson about the state of their art.

Toby Morris' comic The Pencilsword
1:46 Prepping for 48 Hours of madness
Tiny teams all over the country are doing in two days what it takes far larger teams years to do - make a movie. The 48 Hours film competition is on! Simon Morris speaks to the New Zealand Manager for 48 Hours 2015 Tim Groenendaal, as well as experienced competitors Hayden Weal (Moffilaide), and Julian Vares (The Eh Team).

Le Restaurant D'erreurs by Eh Team

Dick Off by Moffilaide
2:05 The Laugh Track – Nish Kumar
Brit Nish Kumar is playing New Zealand for the first time at the International Comedy Festival. He talks standup and picks choice cuts from Louis C.K., Chris Rock, Daniel Kitson, and Stewart Lee. In Auckland Nish is part of The Big Show, as well as performing his own set at The Classic. He will be touring the country on the Comedy Convoy.
Standup comedian Nish Kumar
2:25 Singing sisters in Cinderella
The latest New Zealand Opera production is about to open. It's Rossini's La Cenerentola, rather better known as Cinderella. Interestingly three of the leads - Cinderella and the two Wicked Sisters - are all played by expat New Zealand singers. Singers Amelia Barry and Rachelle Pike were both New Zealand Opera Emerging Artists who studied together in New York.

Soprano Amelia Barry and Mezzo soprano Rachelle Pike as The Wicked Sisters in La Cenerentole
2:39 Running Towards Danger
The trouble doesn't end for Karen after her flatmate is shot and killed next to her on the street. In her novel Running Towards Danger, author Tina Clough puts Karen under huge pressure as she forces her to travel the country under an assumed name. She thinks she's found a safe place to settle down - but is she right?

2:50 Jack Feleti: Ebony Carver
In a village on Niue’s eastern coast, master carver Jack Feleti makes one-of-a-kind objects from the ebony he finds on his ancestral lands. The exquisite, hand-carved pieces he produces have been sold everywhere from Auckland to Japan and he tells Justin Gregory that the raw materials he needs for his art are all around him.

Artist Jack Feleti being recorded by Justin Gregory
3:05 The Drama Hour

=PLAYLIST=

Artist: Bonny “Prince” Billy
Song: Missing One
Composer: Will Oldham
Album: Lie Down In The Light
Label: Spunk Played at: 12:12
Artist: The Zombies
Song: She’s Not There
Composer: Argent
Album: Billboard 1964
Label: Rhino Played at: 12:26
Artist: Everything But The Girl
Song: Missing (Todd Terry Remix)
Composer: Thorn, Watt
Album: Everything But The Girl
Label: Virgin Played at: 12:58
Artist: Ferlin Husky
Song: Gone
Composer: Smokey Rogers
Album: The Golden Age of American Rock ‘N’ Roll – Special Country Edition
Label: ACE Played at: 1:10
Artist: The Webb Sisters
Song: Missing Person
Composer: Dan Wilson, Charley Webb, Hattie Webb
Album: When Will You Come Home?
Label: TWSR Played at: 1:44
Artist: John Mayer
Song: Something’s Missing
Composer: John Mayer
Album: Heavier Things
Label: Aware Played at: 1:58
Artist: The Rolling Stones
Song: Miss You
Composer:
Album: Rewind (1971-1981)
Label: CBS Played at: 2:06
Artist: Orchestra e coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Song: Sinfonia
Composer: Rossini
Album: La Cenerentola
Label: Decca Played at: 2:25
Artist: Dave Mason
Song: I’m Missing You
Composer: Mason/Stein
Album: Show Me Some Affection
Label: Elite Played at: 2:45
Artist: Aimee Mann
Song: Disappeared
Composer: Aimee Mann
Album: Charmer
Label: Superego Played at: 2:59
Artist: Hall & Oates
Song: She’s Gone
Composer: Hall, Oates
Album: Greatest Hits: Rock ‘n Soul Part 1
Label: RCA Played at: 3:59

===4:06 PM. | Sunday 4 'til 8===
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4:06 The Sunday Feature: The War That Changed the World - Tanzania: Colonial War The First World War is remembered as a European conflict, but 100 years ago the British and German Empires also fought in East Africa. This programme looks at the struggle over present-day Tanzania which had a catastrophic effect on the population (BBC) 5:00 The 5 O'Clock Report A roundup of today's news and sport 5:11 Spiritual Outlook Exploring different spiritual, moral and ethical issues and topics (RNZ) 5:40 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi Māori news and interviews from throughout the motu (RNZ) 6:06 Te Ahi Kaa Exploring issues and events from a tangata whenua perspective (RNZ) 7:06 One in Five The issues and experience of disability (RNZ) 7:35 Voices Asians, Africans, indigenous Americans and more in NZ, aimed at promoting a greater understanding of our ethnic minority communities (RNZ) 7:45 The Week in Parliament An in-depth perspective of legislation and other issues from the house (RNZ)

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=SHOW NOTES=

4:07 The Sunday Feature: The War That Changed the World - Tanzania: Colonial War
The First World War is remembered as a European conflict, but 100 years ago the British and German Empires also fought in East Africa. This programme looks at the struggle over present-day Tanzania which had a catastrophic effect on the population (BBC)
5:00 The 5 O'Clock Report
A roundup of today's news and sport.
5:12 Spiritual Outlook
Exploring different spiritual, moral and ethical issues and topics (RNZ)
5:40 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi
Māori news and interviews from throughout the motu (RNZ)
6:06 Te Ahi Kaa
Exploring issues and events from a tangata whenua perspective (RNZ)
7:06 One In Five
The issues and experience of disability (RNZ)
7:35 Voices
A weekly programme that highlights Asians, Africans, indigenous Americans and more in New Zealand, aimed at promoting a greater understanding of our ethnic minority communities (RNZ)

===8:06 PM. | Sounds Historical===
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NZ stories from the past (RNZ)

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20:05
Sounds Historical for 3 May 2015 ( Part 1 )
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Stories of yesteryear from around New Zealand.
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Duration: 53'54"

21:05
Sounds Historical for 3 May 2015 ( Part 2 )
BODY:
Stories of yesterday from around New Zealand.
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Duration: 56'37"

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8:08 Today in New Zealand History 4’26”
The First Plough used in New Zealand, 3 May 1820. (surface noise)
8:16 Artist: Beverley Hill, The Kavaliers and the Zodiac String and Chorus 2’33”
Song: Love Me Forever
Composer: n/s
Album: promoglamour CD nz
Label: Zodiac
8:21 Dame Alison Holst DNZM CBE QSM Part Two 12’59”
Nine to Noon's longtime resident food expert, has been diagnosed with dementia and has withdrawn from her media roles. In this interview recorded in 1985 she talks to Jim Sullivan about her early days in television in the mid-1960s.
8:35 Artist: Rosy Parsons 3’38”
Song: Tim
Composer: Parsons
Album: Pride of Place
Label: n/s
Rosy Parsons of Wanaka with a tribute to flier Sir Tim Wallace written in 1998
8:39 A General Election broadcast from 1966 9’25”
Vernon Cracknell leader of the Social Credit Political League speaks at the Auckland Town Hall introduced by Doctor Roy McElroy, the Mayor of Auckland. The party won its first representative in Parliament in the 1966 election.
8:51 April homework results
8:52 War Report 34 6’48”
Memories of landing at Gallipoli and the early fighting from “Bob” and Bill and Laurie Smith. A newspaper report from 3 May naming just three New Zealand casualties. The real number would be known as the long casualty lists started a few weeks later.
Music:
Artist: John McCormack
Song: There’s a Long Long Trail A Winding
Composer: King/Elliott
Album: Oh, It’s a Lovely War Vol 2
Label: CD41 486309
Artist: Alfred Lester
Song: Good-Bye-Ee
Composer: Weston/Lee
Album: Sounds of World War 1
Label: Goentertainment 557331
9:00 News
9:04 As I Remember 4’50”
My love affair with radio by Cliff Couch read by Phil Smith.
9:10 Artist: Howard Morrison Quartet 2’11”
Song: I Love Paris
Composer: Cole Porter
Album: 45
Label: La Gloria GSP 051
9:13 Interview with Lorraine Rishworth 5’46”
A 1970 interview in which Lorraine Rishworth talks about a London production of The Merry Widow in 1908 with Miss M. Broughton Carr (who was prominent in Northland musical circles in the 1920s). Miss Carr recalls Lily Elsie’s performances and how in Britain as a child she and her sister would go and see her perform frequently. Talks about a copy of a programme and discusses what happened to Lily.
9:19 Artist: Malvina Major and NZSO/William Southgate
Song: Vilia (from The Merry Widow) NZSO/William Southgate
Composer: Lehar
Album: Malvina Major I Remember
Label: Kiwi
9:25 Insight 1976 - the Smallest Show on Earth Part Two 8’43”
This week ‘The smallest show on earth?’ - the film industry in New Zealand. The film industry is usually associated with Hollywood. However New Zealand has its own film industry story, eighty years ago this month the first motion pictures were screened in this country and it wasn't too long after that pioneer filmmakers were shooting film in New Zealand.” Roger Donaldson of Aardvark Films says the film industry is not healthy, currently there are no independently produced dramas or documentaries underway. Filmmaker and actor, Ian Mune says there is no regular procedure to follow to apply for finance and stresses that New Zealanders want to see New Zealand films. Unfavourable comparisons are made with Australia and Canada where financial support is made available through public funds and industry investors are given confidence as the public show interest. Geoff Steven sees that government funding is required to get the industry going in New Zealand. Roger Donaldson justifies the feature film industry in New Zealand and the need for New Zealanders to represent themselves here and overseas. The industry believes the ideas and talent exist but not the funds. Arts Council Chairman, Hamish Keith believes a film fund needs to be set up to develop films in New Zealand. Roger Donaldson explains that film is an expensive pass-time and a business and can be a commodity to be produced and sold like any other overseas. John O’Shea is not convinced there is a need for a bureaucratic, government financed film board. The Arts Minister, Alan Highet accepts the need for a film board in New Zealand, one separate to the Arts Council. Hamish Keith not sure a separate body is needed outside of the Arts Council. Roger Donaldson says the Arts Council is the only organisation that has shown an interest and has experience with filmmakers, filmmaking and contacts. Alan Mune explains that every government pushes this issue back. David Fowler puts it down to a problem of population. Roger Donaldson and Ian Mune give their outlook for feature films.
9:35 Artist: Tommy Adderley 3’24”
Song: You’ve Lost that Loving Feeling
Composer: Spector/Mann
Album: promoglamour CD nz
Label: Zodiac
Tommy Adderley first came to New Zealand from Birmingham, England during the fifties. He was a seaman at the time and made many trips to New Zealand, finally deciding to jump ship in 1959 to settle in Wellington. Tommy released a CD of Jazz standards shortly before he died on February 5, 1993, aged 53 years. He was dubbed New Zealand's "Mr Rock 'n' Roll", and must be regarded as one of the all time greats of New Zealand music.
9:40 Bookshelf 10’58”
Porters in My Past by John Ewan. Published by Chateau, Nelson. ISBN 978 0 473 29166 2
A Job to Do. New Zealand Soldiers of “the Div” write about their World War Two experiences, by John Gordon, Exisle ISBN 9781755 591306. John Gordon discusses the New Zealand poetry and prose of World War Two.
9:53 Artist: Phil Powers 4’52”
Song: The Girl from the Criterion
Composer: Powers
Album: White City
Label: n/a

===10:12 PM. | Mediawatch===
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Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in NZ's news media (RNZ)

===11:04 PM. | Hidden Treasures===
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Trevor Reekie seeks out musical gems from niche markets around the globe, re-releases, and interesting sounds from the shallow end of the bit stream (6 of 8, RNZ)