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A recording of Radio New Zealand National from 5am to midnight. The following rundown is sourced from the broadcaster’s website. Note some overseas/copyright restricted items may not appear in the supplied rundown:
14 March 2015
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight (RNZ); 12:30 Laugh Track (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (BBC); 2:05 NZ Music Feature (RNZ); 3:05 Losing It, by Sandy McKay (5 of 10, RNZ); 3:30 The Week (RNZ); 4:30 Global Business (BBC) 5:10 Witness (BBC); 5:45 Voices (RNZ)
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight (RNZ); 12:30 Laugh Track (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (BBC); 2:05 NZ Music Feature (RNZ); 3:05 Losing It, by Sandy McKay (6 of 10, RNZ); 3:30 The Week (RNZ); 4:30 Global Business (BBC) 5:10 Witness (BBC); 5:45 Voices (RNZ)
===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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King Thrushbeard, by David Somerset, told by Jacqui Dunn; Katarina, by Gavin Bishop, told by Glynnis Paraha; Return To Air, by Liebchen Tamahori, told by Paora Maxwell; Slinki Malinki's Catflaps, by Lynley Dodd, told by Ray Henwood; He Won't Escape Us, by Pauline Cartwright, told by Grant Tilly (RNZ)
===7:08 AM. | Country Life===
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Memorable scenes, people and places in rural NZ (RNZ)
===8:10 AM. | Saturday Morning===
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A mixture of current affairs and feature interviews, until midday (RNZ)
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08:12
Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor: Vanuata update
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Journalist for Radio New Zealand International, discussing the impact of Cyclone Pam on Vanuatu.
Topics: Pacific, weather
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Tags: Vanuatu, Cyclone Pam
Duration: 8'47"
08:20
Brian O'Connell: 48 hours of drugs in Ireland
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Broadcaster and journalist based in Cork, discussing this week's inadvertent temporary legalisation of a range of consciousness-altering drugs in Ireland.
Topics: law, politics
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Tags: Ireland, drugs
Duration: 10'42"
08:30
Stefan Sobkowiak: recreating Eden
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Canadian biologist and landscape architect who has been running an organic, then permaculture orchard business since 1993. He is travelling throughout New Zealand on the Beyond Organic tour of talks and workshops.
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Stefan Sobkowiak trained as a biologist and landscape architect, and has taught fruit production, landscape plants and design, and the natural history of vertebrates at Montreal’s McGill University. He owned a landscape design firm for 20 years, developing hundreds of projects for private, institutional and municipal clients, and he has been running Miracle Farms as an organic, then permaculture business since 1993.
Stefan talks to Noelle McCarthy about growing things.
Stefan Sobkowiak's is the subject of the 2014 feature documentary The Permaculture Orchard, and he is currently travelling New Zealand from Northland to Central Otago on the Beyond Organic tour, leading a series of 20 talks and workshops (11 March to 6 April).
Topics: business, environment, farming, food, rural, weather
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Tags: Canada, Joseph Russell Smith, Bill Mollison, David Holmgren, Organics
Duration: 33'49"
09:05
Bruce Sheridan: psychology of creativity
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Chair of Cinema Art + Science at Columbia College Chicago, and North American regional Chair of CILECT, the world organisation of film and media schools. He is the fourth Creative Fellow for the University of Auckland's Creative Thinking Project, delivering a series of lectures.
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Bruce Sheridan is the Chair of Cinema Art + Science at Columbia College, Chicago, and North American regional Chair of CILECT, the world organisation of film and media schools.
He has returned to New Zealand as the fourth Creative Fellow for the University of Auckland’s Creative Thinking Project, to deliver a series of public lectures drawing on recent research into creativity and discussing evidence from neuroscience and cognitive psychology to make the case for reintegrating art and science in education.
Bruce Sheridan talks to Noelle McCarthy.
Topics: arts, business, education, media, science, technology
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Julie Maxton, Kevin Ashton, Steve James, Dr Dre, creativity, Fred Mandell
Duration: 35'00"
09:45
Arthur Tompkins: the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist
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District Court Judge, and member of Interpol's DNA Monitoring Expert Group, discussing the 1990 theft of 13 works from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Édouard Manet's Chez Tortoni - one of the 13 stolen art works.
Arthur Tompkins discusses the 1990 theft of 13 priceless works from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
Explore the Gardner's Stolen Art - take a new virtual tour through the Google Art Project.
The FBI's video about the stolen art
Learn more about the theft and reward on the FBI's website.
Arthur Tompkins is a District Court Judge, and member of Interpol’s DNA Monitoring Expert Group. He has a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces.
Topics: arts, crime
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Duration: 17'14"
10:05
Playing Favourites with Sean Donnelly
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Auckland musician who records and performs as SJD, and this month releases his seventh album, Saint John Divine. He is joined in the studio by collaborators Victoria Kelly and Sandy Mill.
Topics: business, life and society, music
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Voom, Bono, Don McGlashan, The Clean, SJD
Duration: 48'48"
11:05
David Graham: Hillary Clinton
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Staff writer at The Atlantic magazine, discussing the fallout from Hillary Clinton's use of a home email server.
Topics: politics, technology
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Tags: Hillary Clinton, USA, email
Duration: 11'45"
11:20
Anastasia Radevich: footwear art
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Avant garde shoe designer and footwear artist of Belarus origin who studied in London with fashion creators Alexander McQueen and Nicholas Kirkwood.
Topics: arts, business
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Tags: Canada, fashion, shoes
Duration: 20'49"
11:35
Lonnie Hutchinson: black and white
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Artist of Ngai Tahu and Samoan heritage, who is working on a major commission for Christchurch's justice precinct, and has a retrospective exhibition in the Auckland Arts Festival.
Topics: arts, Pacific, politics, te ao Māori
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Tags: Auckland Arts Festival, Pasifika
Duration: 19'38"
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8:12 Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor: Vanuatu update
Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor is a journalist for Radio New Zealand International, and will provide an update of the impact of Cyclone Pam on Vanuatu.
8:20 Brian O’Connell: 48 hours of drugs in Ireland
Brian O'Connell is a television and radio broadcaster, based in Cork, whose work also appears in the Irish Times, and several international publications. His 2009 book, Wasted (Gill & Macmillan), examined Ireland’s relationship with alcohol. He will discuss this week’s inadvertent temporary legalisation of a range of consciousness-altering drugs in Ireland.
8:35 Stefan Sobkowiak: recreating Eden
Stefan Sobkowiak trained as a biologist and landscape architect, and has taught fruit production, landscape plants and design, and the natural history of vertebrates at Montreal’s McGill University. He owned a landscape design firm for 20 years, developing hundreds of projects for private, institutional and municipal clients, and he has been running Miracle Farms as an organic, then permaculture business since 1993. His work is the subject of the 2014 feature documentary The Permaculture Orchard, and he is currently travelling New Zealand from Northland to Central Otago on the Beyond Organic tour, leading a series of 20 talks and workshops (11 March to 6 April).
9:05 Bruce Sheridan: psychology of creativity
Bruce Sheridan is the Chair of Cinema Art + Science at Columbia College, Chicago, and North American regional Chair of CILECT, the world organisation of film and media schools. He has returned to New Zealand as the fourth Creative Fellow for the University of Auckland’s Creative Thinking Project, to deliver a series of public lectures drawing on recent research into creativity and discussing evidence from neuroscience and cognitive psychology to make the case for reintegrating art and science in education.
9:45 Art Crimes with Arthur Tompkins: Isabella Stewart Gardner
Arthur Tompkins is a District Court Judge, and member of Interpol’s DNA Monitoring Expert Group. He has a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces, and will discuss the 1990 theft of 13 works from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
10:05 Playing Favourites with Sean Donnelly
Auckland musician Sean Donnelly records and performs as SJD, and was awarded the 2013 Taite Prize for his album Elastic Wasteland. His seventh album, Saint John Divine (Round Trip Mars, released 27 March), is the first of a planned trilogy. He will be joined in the studio by collaborators Victoria Kelly and Sandy Mill.
11:05 David Graham: Hillary Clinton
David A. Graham is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers political and global news. He previously reported for Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and The National. He will discuss the fallout from Hillary Clinton’s use of a home email server.
11:20 Anastasia Radevich: footwear art
Anastasia Radevich is a shoe designer and footwear artist of Belarus origin. She studied in London with fashion creators Alexander McQueen, Nicholas Kirkwood and Bolongaro Trevor, and now lives and works in Montreal, Canada. Photos; Anastasia Radevich
11:40 Lonnie Hutchinson: black and white
Lonnie Hutchinson is an artist of Ngai Tahu and Samoan heritage. She is currently working on a major commission for Christchurch’s justice precinct, and a major survey of her work from 1997 to 2013, BlackBird, is currently exhibiting at the Gus Fisher Gallery in Auckland (to 2 May). On 14 March at the Gallery as part of White Night at the Auckland Arts Festival, there will be two performances (6pm and 8pm) by Darcell Apelu and Amiria Puia-Taylor of her work Can You See Me, in which a female figure is taped to the ground and struggles for release.
Lonnie Hutchinson installations: Waiting forLe_Ma'oma' and Can You See Me
This Saturday’s team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Auckland engineer: Alex Baron
Wellington engineer: Carol Jones
Research by Infofind
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Song: Was I Always Here
Artist: SJD
Album: Saint John Divine
Label: Round Trip Mars, 2015
Broadcast: 10:05
Song: Beautiful Day
Artist: Voom
Album: Hello, Are You There
Label: Lil’ Chief, 2006
Broadcast: 10:20
Song: Beautiful Haze
Artist: Sean Donnelly, Sandy Mill and Victoria Kelly
Album: Live in the Auckland studio of Radio New Zealand (song from the 2007 album, Songs from a Dictaphone)
Broadcast: 10:30
Song: Little Pieces
Artist: Sean Donnelly, Sandy Mill and Victoria Kelly
Album: Live in the Auckland studio of Radio New Zealand (song originally from the 2015 album, Saint John Divine)
Broadcast: 10:40
Song: Point That Thing Somewhere Else
Artist: The Clean
EP: Boodle, Boodle, Boodle
Label: Flying Nun, 1981
Broadcast: 10:55
===12:11 PM. | This Way Up===
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Exploring the things we use and consume. Some content may offend (RNZ)
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12:15
Trippy treatments
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Stephen Ross of New York University's School of Medicine is involved in studies looking at the potential therapeutic effects of the hallucinogen, psilocybin.
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Psilocybin is a naturally occurring psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms. It's been used in spiritual and religious ceremonies for millennia. It's also used as a recreational drug.
Back in the 1950s, the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann isolated psilocybin in the lab and Sandoz, the company he worked for, started selling it worldwide for medical use in psychotherapy. It was Hofmann who 20 years earlier had synthesized and studied lysergic acid diethylamide or LSD.
As part of its marketing, Sandoz encouraged psychotherapists and researchers to try their hallucinogens, so they'd better understand the patient experience. Their popularity grew with a flurry of research in US medical centres, prisons and universities, and it didn't take long for these psychedelic substances to be enthusiastically embraced by the 1960s countercultural movement to "turn on, tune in, drop out".
By 1970 these drugs were on Schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act in the US, meaning a substance has no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. Here in NZ both LSD and psilocybin are classified as Class A drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Act.
After years of being demonised, there's growing scientific interest in these psychoactive substances, and their potential medical and therapeutic effects. There are studies worldwide evaluating the use of psilocybin as a treatment for depression, anxiety and addiction.
Stephen Ross is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at NYU School of medicine, who's been involved in a number of studies involving psilocybin.
He told This Way Up's Simon Morton that he is soon to publish a study looking at the effect of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy among a group of cancer patients.
He says a single dose led to immediate and sustained reductions in anxiety, depression, existential distress and death anxiety, with the effects lasting for up to 6 months. "That's relatively unique in psychiatry. We don't really have a model where a single dose of anything leads to immediate and sustained effects...What we found is therapeutic benefit from a single dose that lasted several months."
In the future he wants to broaden the study to include treatment for alcohol addiction and he is also about to oversee a phase 3 controlled clinical trial involving psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for cancer patients. "This is significant because phase 3 is the final stage before a drug is developed and if this trial is positive it's possible that in the coming three to seven years psilocybin could be rescheduled for cancer related distress which would be historic and it would then be available as a prescribable medicine...it would be a new therapy and it would change history."
But Mr Ross also says that although the early signs in some of these studies are promising, they are being conducted under strictly controlled and supervised conditions, and involve drugs that are illegal and can be dangerous. So the very clear message is don't try this at home.
Topics: health
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Tags: medicines, LSD, psilocybin
Duration: 27'22"
12:40
Naked Science
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Dr Chris Smith of the Naked Scientists with research showing that medical ultrasound could break down the toxic protein in the brain thought to cause Alzheimer's disease. Also evidence of a hot ocean on Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons.
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Australian researchers have shown that medical ultrasound can help rid the brain of the toxic protein that causes Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer's is caused by the accumulation in the brain of a protein called beta-amyloid, which builds up to form plaques that can lead to a progressive loss of mental faculties. 40 million people worldwide are already affected by the disease, and that number is expected to triple over the next 50 years as the world population ages. So treatment of the disease is a major priority.
Dr Chris Smith of the Naked Scientists told This Way Up's Simon Morton about a study by two University of Queensland researchers, Gerhard Leinenga and Jurgen Gotz. Writing in Science Translational Medicine, they have shown that a simple medical ultrasound might be all that's needed to reverse beta-amyloid accumulation.
The duo reasoned that it might be possible to wash out the amyloid from the brain if the blood brain barrier, which isolates the brain from the bloodstream, could be opened up temporarily. To do this, they injected mice with a mixture of "microbubbles". These circulate harmlessly in the bloodstream, but when they are hit by ultrasound waves they collapse in on themselves and create a miniature shock wave.
Dr Smith says that although the treatment involves mice the results look do look promising, with a 58% reduction in beta-amyloid detected in treated mice compared to the control cases, and significantly improved memory and cognitive function.
"Here what they are saying is when we pop these tiny bubbles it temporarily turns off the blood brain barrier...that proteins called albumins leach in from the bloodstream and they bind onto the beta-amyloid and they encourage it to be taken up by immune cells called micro-gliol cells; these are the macrophages or eating cells of the central nervous system and they scavenge this stuff, they devour it and sequester it away....so they are saying we might be able to pull the same stunt in people."
Topics: science
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Tags: Saturn, ultrasound, Alzheimer's
Duration: 9'30"
12:50
Food spies
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Mitchell Weinberg is founder and CEO of Inscatech. Its aim is to fight food fraud and adulteration with its network of food spies dotted around the globe.
Topics: food
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Tags: food security, food safety, food fraud
Duration: 8'22"
13:15
Tech news Apple Watch
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Apple is in the news this week with the launch of the Apple Watch, and the prospect of its electric vehicles driving around by 2020. With technology correspondent Peter Griffin.
Topics: technology
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Tags: Apple, Apple Watch, electric cars
Duration: 13'48"
13:35
Birds: the bar-tailed godwit
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We head out with Hugh Robertson to an estuary, on the trail of the bar-tailed godwit or kuaka.
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Copyright: 123RF
Simon heads out with Hugh Robertson to an estuary on the trail of the bar-tailed godwit, or kuaka, whose migration is the longest known non-stop flight of any bird.
Bar-tailed flight migration
Using satellite tracking, birds in New Zealand were tagged and tracked all the way to the Yellow Sea in China.
Topics: environment
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Tags: birds, godwit
Duration: 18'01"
13:50
Seeing Robots
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Training robots to see more like humans. Syed Saud Naqvi, a PhD student at Victoria University of Wellington, is working on an algorithm under the supervision of Will Browne, an associate professor in the school of School of Engineering and Computer Science.
Topics: technology
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Tags: robots
Duration: 11'13"
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Quick hits
12:15 Trippy treatments
12:40 Naked Science
12:50 Food spies
13:15 Tech news: fruity watch
13:25 Birds: The bar-tailed godwit
13:50 Seeing robots
The small print
At 12:15pm the therapeutic use of psychedelics. Psilocybin is a naturally occurring psychoactive compound found in magic mushrooms and has been used in spiritual and religious ceremonies for thousands of years. More recently there have been studies to evaluate the use of psilocybin for the treatment of depression, anxiety and addiction. We're speaking to Stephen Ross, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine about his work with psychoactive drugs. Michael Pollen New Yorker article here.
12:40pm Naked Science news with evidence of a hot ocean on Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, plus a medical ultrasound has been used to break down the toxic protein in the brain linked with Alzheimer's disease...in mice!
And before the 1pm news, tasty espionage; the team of global spies cracking down on food fraud.
1:15pm news from the tech world with Peter Griffin, Apple launches a watch and the fruity company's plans to get branded electric cars on the road by 2020.
1:25pm We'll visit a local estuary to spot the migrant bird that flies 12,000 kilometres from Alaska to New Zealand, the Kuaka or the bar-tailed godwit, great photos here.
1:50pm robots that can see, Syed Saud Naqvi, a PhD student at Victoria University of Wellington is working on an algorithm that can help a robot see more like us humans, we speak to his supervisor Will Browne.
We're playing these tracks too...
Artist: Clarence Clarity
Track: Meadow Hopping, Traffic Stopping, Death Splash
Composers: Clarence Clarity
Album: No Now
Label: Bella Union
Broadcast: 12:30
Artist: SBTRKT featuring Ezra Koenig
Track: New Dorp New York
Composers: Aaron Jerome
Album: Wonder Where We Land
Label: Young Turks
Broadcast: 13:10
Artist: Das EFX
Track: They Want EFX
Composers: William Hines and Andre Weston
Album: Dead Serious
Label: East West
Broadcast: 13:45
And our theme music is:
Artist: Jefferson Belt
Track: The Green Termite
Composer: Jefferson Belt
Album: Table Manners
Label: Round Trip Mars
===2:05 PM. | Music 101===
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The best songs, music-related stories, interviews, live music, industry news and music documentaries from NZ and the world
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17:59
Music 101 Pocket Edition 31
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It's a WOMAD 2015 spectacular, with Myele Manzanza, Jupiter and Okwess International, Bombino, Trinity Roots and Public Service Broadcasting.
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The Bowl of Brooklands stage at WOMAD New Zealand. Photo by Charlotte Curd.
In the Music 101 Pocket Edition 31: It's a WOMAD 2015 spectacular, with Myele Manzanza, Jupiter and Okwess International, Bombino, Trinity Roots and Public Service Broadcasting.
Topics: music
Regions: Taranaki
Tags: Womad 2015, Music 101 podcast, Pocket Edition, Myele Manzanza, Bombino, Public Service Broadcasting, Trinity Roots, world music
Duration: 1h 06'10"
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The Bowl of Brooklands stage at WOMAD New Zealand. Photo by Charlotte Curd.
WOMAD, the World of Music Arts and Dance festival held in New Plymouth, is an essential part of this country’s summer festival circuit, showcasing an eclectic offering of artists from every corner of the globe.
It’s also a live music destination for the Music 101 team, who will capture interviews, live sessions and discussions with many of the musicians who top this year’s bill.
Join Music 101’s Emma Smith, Kirsten Johnstone, Trevor Reekie, Zac Arnold and Sam Wicks broadcasting live from the Bowl of Brooklands.
Check out Radio New Zealand's coverage of WOMAD Taranaki 2015.
===5:11 PM. | Focus on Politics===
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Analysis of significant political issues presented by Radio New Zealand's parliamentary reporting team (RNZ)
===5:45 PM. | Tagata o te Moana===
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Pacific news, features, interviews and music (RNZ)
===6:06 PM. | Great Encounters===
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In-depth interviews selected from Radio New Zealand National's feature programmes during the week (RNZ)
===7:06 PM. | Saturday Night===
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An evening of requests, nostalgia and musical memories
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7pm – 8pm
Harry James with Kitty Kallen (voc) - I’m Beginning To See The Light
Peter Dawson - The Mountains O’Mourne
John McCormack - Parted
Woody Herman - Woodchopper’s Ball
Roger Whittaker - Wind Beneath My Wings
Flanders & Swann - First & Second Law
Boswell Sisters - There’ll Be Some Changes Made
Jim Reeves - I Love You Because
Danny Kaye - Ugly Duckling
Judy Collins - Bread & Roses
New London Orchestra/Ronald Corp - Coronation Scot
8pm – 9pm
Neil Sedaka - Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
Larry’s Rebels - Dream Time
Lena Horne - Stormy Weather
Martin Denny - Quiet Village
The Supersonics - Walk Don’t Run
Bing Crosby - The Donovans
Sonja Kristina - Colder Than A Rose In Snow
Carter Family - My Clinch Mountain Home
Runrig - Hearts Of Olden Glory
Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls Of Fire
Glen Campbell & Bobbie Gentry - My Elusive Dreams
The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe
9pm – 10pm
Peter Skellern - You’re A Lady
Bonnie Riatt - Million Miles
The Skatalites - Eastern Standard Time
Madness - Our House
Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen
Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways
Richard Thompson - Another Small Thing In Her Favour
Stevie Wonder - Living For The City
10pm – 11pm
Sly & The Family Stone - Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)
Sarah Spicer & John Lee Hooker - Little Bit Of Rain
The Who - Behind Blue Eyes
Brad Paisley - Perfect Storm
Brad Paisley - Moonshine In The Trunk
Imelda May - Kentish Town Waltz
Fairport Convention - A Sailors Life
===11:04 PM. | None (National)===
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Between excerpts of their finest moments, Monty Python cast members Eric Idle, John Cleese and Terry Jones (with help from Python geek/historian Kim Howard Johnson) look back on the men, the myths, and legends behind them. Musician Mark Stewart analyses the musical works that are equally as influential as their skits and films. Radio broadcasters Michael Berger and Jeff Prescott discuss Python's impact on concerned citizens of San Diego and the FCC. Carol Cleveland, a Python in everything but the title, adds what it's like to be a real woman (Joyride Media)