Radio New Zealand National. 2015-05-04. 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:

04 May 2015

===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 At the Movies with Simon Morris (RNZ); 1:05 Te Ahi Kaa (RNZ); 2:30 NZ Music Feature (RNZ); 3:05 The Captive Wife, by Fiona Kidman (6 of 15, RNZ); 3:30 Science (RNZ); 5:10 War Report (RNZ)

===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
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Radio New Zealand's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including: 6:18 Pacific News 6:22 Rural News 6:27 and 8:45 Te Manu Korihi News 6:44 and 7:41 NZ Newspapers 6:47 Business News 7:42 and 8:34 Sports News 6:46 and 7:34 Traffic

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06:00
Top Stories for Monday 4 May 2015
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NZ urged to follow Australian state of Victoria housing market, Senior Northland policeman accused of misconduct, Prime Minister regrets misreading ponytail saga, Prime Minister regrets misreading ponytail saga, Australia imposes foreign property investor tax, Fears monsoon rains will help spread disease in Nepal, Low-decile school communities are poorer and Social problems surge in provincial NZ say Sallies.
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Duration: 32'53"

06:06
Sports News for 4 May 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'24"

06:11
NZ urged to follow Australian state of Victoria housing market
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Foreigners buying houses in the Australian state of Victoria will be subject to two new taxes as the state government tries to cool the rising property market.
Topics: housing
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Tags: Australia, property market, housing market
Duration: 2'26"

06:18
Pacific News for 4 May 2015
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The latest from the Pacific region.
Topics: Pacific
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Duration: 2'29"

06:23
Morning Rural News for 4 May 2015
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 3'57"

06:28
Te Manu Korihi News for 4 May 2015
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A small Māori delegation from the far north is confronting Norway's biggest oil company head-on; The Labour MP for Te Tai Hauauru is defending his involvement in the annual overseas Speaker's Delegation tour, saying it benefits his Māori constituents; A business academic believes kinship was the key to a Māori firm securing a contract to supply Dubai with ration packs; A founding member of Te Wananga o Aotearoa wants people to stop referring to the institute as "the Wa".
Topics: te ao Māori
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Duration: 3'32"

06:40
Senior Northland policeman accused of misconduct
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A senior Northland police officer is under investigation after being accused of mishandling protection order breaches reported by a young woman.
Topics: law
Regions: Northland
Tags: protection order
Duration: 2'44"

06:48
Labour statistics expected to reflect low inflation, migration
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Jobs figures out this week are expected to show more jobs but low wage growth.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: labour market, job market, jobs, wage growth, wages, employment
Duration: 2'48"

06:51
Govt. officials say Maui field should be pumping gas past 2030
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Government officials say the Maui field should be pumping gas past 2030, this emerged as Shell Todd Oil Services sought approval from the Environmental Protection Authority to keep operating the field.
Topics: business, economy, environment
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Tags: Environmental Protection Authority, Maui gas field, gas
Duration: 1'03"

06:53
China Australia's biggest source of foreign investment
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for the first time China has become Australia's biggest source of foreign investment, Sydney correspondent Jim Parker reports.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: China, Australia, foreign investment
Duration: 2'49"

06:56
Mad Group looks to continue fast growth with new capital
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A fast-growing fresh food company is looking to raise 1.5 million dollars of capital, so it can continue its rapid pace of growth.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Mad Group, food company
Duration: 1'25"

06:57
Radar developed in Auckland touted as revolutionary
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A marine electronics company has launched a radar developed in Auckland that it says is a game changer.
Topics: business, economy, technology
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Tags: marine navigation, sport fishing
Duration: 1'56"

06:59
Morning Markets for 4 May 2015
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The kiwi begins the week at 75.38 US cents, 96.01 Australian, 49.79 British pence, point-6729 euro, 90.59 yen and 4.67 renminbi and the TWI 78.03
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 50"

07:06
Sports News for 4 May 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'03"

07:11
Prime Minister regrets misreading ponytail saga
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The Prime Minister will be back in Parliament tomorrow for the first time since the ponytail-pulling scandal erupted last month.
Topics: politics
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Tags: John Key, prime minister, ponytail pulling, Amanda Bailey, ponytail
Duration: 8'54"

07:20
Policeman accused of misconduct over protection order breaches
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Authorities are investigating a senior Northland police officer accused of mishandling protection order breaches reported by a young woman.
Topics: law
Regions: Northland
Tags: Independent Police Conduct Authority, protection order breaches, protection order
Duration: 4'21"

07:26
DHB may require unimmunised staff to wear surgical mask
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A large district health board may require staff who refuse to have the annual flu jab wear surgical masks in clinical areas of the hospital.
Topics: health
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Tags: Waikato DHB, flu jab, Waikato District Health Board, flu, immunisation
Duration: 3'32"

07:29
Australia imposes foreign property investor tax
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Foreigners buying houses in the Australian state of Victoria will be subject to two new taxes as the state government tries to cool the rising property market.
Topics: housing
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Tags: Australia, property market, tax, foreign buyers
Duration: 3'16"

07:35
Veteran royalwatcher expects a new Princess Elizabeth
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The new royal baby has arrived but there's no word yet on on what the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will call Prince George's little sister.
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Tags: Royals, Duchess of Cambridge, Duke of Cambridge
Duration: 4'49"

07:41
Fears monsoon rains will help spread disease in Nepal
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A 101-year-old man has been pulled alive from the rubble of his house in Nepal, seven days after it collapsed in the country's devastating earthquake.
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Tags: Nepal, Nepal earthquake
Duration: 4'00"

07:45
Low-decile school communities are poorer
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Education Ministry figures show the communities around low-decile schools are poorer than ever.
Topics: education, money
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Tags: low-decile schools, schools
Duration: 3'17"

07:48
Social problems surge in provincial NZ say Sallies
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Frontline Salvation Army workers in provincial New Zealand are reporting a surge in cases of multiple families crammed into small houses and others living in their cars.
Topics: housing
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Tags: Salvation Army, homelessness, overcrowding
Duration: 4'05"

07:55
Getting Auckland rail back on track
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Auckland Transport hopes to get the city's struggling commuter rail system back on track after two months of disruption which it calls unacceptable.
Topics: transport
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Auckland Transport, commuter rail system
Duration: 3'57"

08:06
Sports News for 4 May 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'05"

08:11
RNZ political editor on a testing week ahead for PM
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The Prime Minister faces a testing week in the House, as he prepares to return to Parliament for the first time since the ponytail-pulling scandal erupted.
Topics: politics
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Tags: prime minister, John Key, ponytail, ponytail pulling
Duration: 6'05"

08:19
Anti violence campaigner on Northland protection order breaches
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A senior Northland police officer accused of mishandling protection order breaches is being investigated.
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Regions: Northland
Tags: Northland police officer, protection order breaches, domestic violence
Duration: 3'35"

08:23
Masks could be compulsory for hospital staff who refuse flu jab
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Staff at Waikato District Health Board who refuse to have their annual flu jab could be made to wear surgical masks in hospital clinical areas.
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Tags: Waikato District Health Board, flu, immunisation
Duration: 4'59"

08:28
Search underway for police dog lost in Wairarapa mountains
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In a case of the rescuer needing to be rescued, a police search dog has gone missing in the Mount Holdsworth area, west of Masterton
Topics:
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Police Dog
Duration: 3'53"

08:33
Markets Update for 4 May 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 54"

08:37
Australia introduces taxes to target foreign investors
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Foreign buyers in the state of Victoria will be slugged with a 3 percent tax on the purchase price of their houses.
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Tags: Australia, tax, foreign buyers, foreign investment
Duration: 4'04"

08:41
Clear win for Mayweather in the 'Fight of the Century'
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It was billed as the Fight of the Century and it was certainly the most lucrative in the history of boxing.
Topics: sport
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Tags: Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, boxing
Duration: 5'10"

08:48
Te Manu Korihi News for 4 May 2015
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A small Māori delegation from the far north is confronting Norway's biggest oil company head-on; A founding member of Te Wananga o Aotearoa wants people to stop referring to the institute as "the Wa"; The Labour MP for Te Tai Hauauru is defending his involvement in the annual overseas Speaker's Delegation tour, saying it benefits his Māori constituents; A business academic believes kinship was the key to a Māori firm securing a contract to supply Dubai with ration packs.
Topics: te ao Māori
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Duration: 3'32"

08:51
Kiwis upset world champion Kangaroos in Anzac test
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The Kiwis rugby league team scored an emphatic win over the Kangaroos in Brisbane last night - their third win on the trot against the world champions and their first win in the annual Anzac test for 17 years.
Topics: sport
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Tags: rugby league
Duration: 3'53"

08:55
Phil Kafcaloudes with news from Australia
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Time to chat to our Melbourne correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes.
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 4'15"

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===9:06 AM. | Nine To Noon===
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Current affairs and topics of interest, including: 10:45 The Reading: Touchstones, by James McNeish, read by Ian Johnstone (4 of 8, RNZ)

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09:08
Threat to future of Mt John Observatory
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The future of the country's only research observatory is at risk due to a critical lack of funding and staff shortages. All but one member of staff at the Mt John observatory near Lake Tekapo have retired, meaning it's no longer able to meet international contracts for collaborative research. Professor John Hearnshaw recently retired from the Mt John Observatory.
Topics: science, technology
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Tags: astronomy
Duration: 21'11"

09:30
The pitfalls of fibre optic cabling in a power outage
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Following up our story last Friday on new housing developments and apartments only being wired with fibre optic cabling, which makes it impossible to have a traditional phone line. The issue has also highlighted the fact that fibre is useless in the event of a power cut, as only phones with a back-up power supply will be able to operate. With Craig Young, the chief executive of TUANZ (Telecommunications Users Association) and Bill Bennett, Technology Journalist.
Topics: technology, internet
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Tags: electricity, telecommunications, fibre optic cabling
Duration: 19'01"

09:48
Europe Correspondent Seamus Kearney
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The migrant crisis in the Mediterranean.
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Tags: Europe, migrants, Mediterranean, migrant crisis
Duration: 8'25"

10:09
Former Black Ferns Captain-turned academic, Farah Palmer
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Farah Palmer is the former captain of the Black Ferns, now senior lecturer in sport at Massey University. She played in three rugby world cups between 1996 and 2006 - leading the New Zealand women's rugby team to victory in each. In 1998 she was named Māori sportsperson of the year, in 2005 the International Rugby Board's Women's Personality of the Year and has been a member of the IRB Women's Advisory Committee as well as a current independent member of the Māori Rugby Board. Last year Dr Palmer was inducted into the IRB's Hall of Fame. She speaks to Kathryn Ryan about race, gender and leadership in sport, and sexism in media coverage of women's sport.
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Farah Palmer is the former captain of the Black Ferns, now senior lecturer in sport at Massey University.
She played in three rugby world cups between 1996 and 2006 - leading the New Zealand women's rugby team to victory in each.
In 1998 she was named Māori sportsperson of the year, in 2005 the International Rugby Board's Women's Personality of the Year and has been a member of the IRB Women's Advisory Committee as well as a current independent member of the Māori Rugby Board.
Last year Dr Palmer was inducted into the IRB's Hall of Fame.
She speaks to Kathryn Ryan about race, gender and leadership in sport, and sexism in media coverage of women's sport.
Topics: sport, education, history, politics, media, life and society
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Tags: Dr Farah Palmer, sexism, gender, Black Ferns
Duration: 33'03"

10:42
Book review: 'One Life' by Kate Granville
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Reviewed by Jane Westaway.
Topics: books
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Tags: Kate Granville, One Life, book review
Duration: 4'28"

11:06
Politics with Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams
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Mike and Matthew discuss Labour's strategy, the budget surplus failure, how John Key has made it through another difficult week, and Judith Collins raising her profile.
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Mike and Matthew discuss Labour's strategy, the budget surplus failure, how John Key has made it through another difficult week, and Judith Collins raising her profile.
Topics: politics
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Tags:
Duration: 23'35"

11:36
How to grow and prepare Feijoas
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Lianne Wilson is a gardening expert from Tui Garden Products. She shares a recipe for feijoa jelly.
Topics: food
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Tags: feijoa, feijoa jelly, cooking, gardening, growing feijoas
Duration: 13'12"

11:48
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
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Outdoorsman and adventurer Kennedy Warne has been recently returned from two weeks in Kiribati. This week he continues his discussion on the pacific nation, which is one of the countries most vulnerable to sea-level rise.
Topics: environment, Pacific
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Tags: Kiribati, rising sea levels, Kennedy Warne
Duration: 11'36"

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09:05 Threat to future of Mt John Observatory

Pictures: Fraser Gunn
The future of the country's only research observatory is at risk due to a critical lack of funding and staff shortages. All but one member of staff at the Mt John observatory near Lake Tekapo have retired, meaning it's no longer able to meet international contracts for collaborative research. Professor John Hearnshaw recently retired from the Mt John Observatory.

09:30 The pitfalls of fibre optic cabling in a power outage
Following up our story last Friday on new housing developments and apartments only being wired with fibre optic cabling, which makes it impossible to have a traditional phone line. The issue has also highlighted the fact that fibre is useless in the event of a power cut, as only phones with a back-up power supply will be able to operate. With Craig Young, the chief executive of TUANZ (Telecommunications Users Association) and Bill Bennett, Technology Journalist.
09:45 Europe Correspondent Seamus Kearney
Europe Correspondent Seamus Kearne reports on Europe's struggle to find solutions to migrant crisis in the Mediterranean with overcrowded ships continuing to arrive and more deaths reported; and the French Government speaks out over accusations that some of its soldiers sexually abused children in the Central African Republic.
10:05 Former Black Ferns Captain-turned academic, Farah Palmer
Farah Palmer is the former captain of the Black Ferns, now senior lecturer in sport at Massey University. She played in three rugby world cups between 1996 and 2006 - leading the New Zealand women's rugby team to victory in each. In 1998 she was named Māori sportsperson of the year, in 2005 the International Rugby Board's Women's Personality of the Year and has been a member of the IRB Women's Advisory Committee as well as a current independent member of the Māori Rugby Board. Last year Dr Palmer was inducted into the IRB's Hall of Fame. She speaks to Kathryn Ryan about race, gender and leadership in sport, and sexism in media coverage of women's sport.

10:30 Book review: 'One Life' by Kate Granville
Reviewed by Jane Westaway .
10:45 The Reading: 'Touchstones' by James McNeish
We continue the memoir of James McNeish, about the people in his life who shaped his perspective: “a gallery of people – rebels, outsiders, romantics, enlightened misfits and illiterates – who have touched me in life.” (Part 11 of 15, RNZ).
11:05 Political commentators Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams
Mike and Matthew discuss Labour's strategy, the budget surplus failure, how John Key has made it through another difficult week, and Judith Collins raising her profile.
11:30 How to grow and prepare Feijoas
Lianne Wilson is a gardening expert from Tui Garden Products. She shares a recipe for feijoa jelly.
11:45 Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Outdoorsman and adventurer Kennedy Warne has been recently returned from two weeks in Kiribati. This week he continues his discussion on the pacific nation, which is one of the countries most vulnerable to sea-level rise.
Gallery: Kiribati: islands vs ocean

===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 4 May 2015
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John Key confident he won't be charged over a complaint following his pony tail pulling episode and regions tell the government the housing crisis isn't just an Auckland concern.
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Duration: 15'46"

12:17
Westpac New Zealand lifts annual cash earnings 13 percent
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Westpac New Zealand's first half underlying profit rose 2 percent to 441-million dollars, boosted by its digital banking business.
Topics: business
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Tags: Westpac New Zealand
Duration: 59"

12:18
Tait Communications wins deal
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Tait Communications has won a deal to roll out a new digital mobile radio network for an energy company in the United States' Midwest -- the largest of its kind to be deployed in North America.
Topics: business
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Tags: Tait Communications
Duration: 47"

12:19
NZX buys iFarm infomration business for an undisclosed sum
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The NZX has bought iFarm, the livestock market information business, for an undisclosed amount, in order to boost the appeal of its existing Agri-Information business.
Topics: business
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Tags: NZX, iFarm
Duration: 1'39"

12:21
Sea Dragon shares fall 5%
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Shares in the fish oil producer Sea Dragon have fallen five and a half percent after the chairman and the chief executive both resigned.
Topics: business
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Tags: Sea Dragon
Duration: 28"

12:24
Midday Markets for 4 May 2015
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Don Lewthwaite at First NZ Capital.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'37"

12:27
Midday Sports News for 4 May 2015
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The New Zealand rugby league captain Simon Mannering says the side has its sights on the world number one ranking after claiming their third consecutive win over Australia for the first time in more than 60 years.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'42"

12:36
Midday Rural News for 4 May 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 7'12"

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

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13:08
Your song - Hey World (don't give up version)
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Michael Tavares from Auckland has chosen 'Hey World' (don't give up version) by Michael Franti and Spearhead.
Topics: music
Regions:
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Duration: 14'21"

13:22
New Zealand Retro: Giving
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Judge Carolyn Henwood, Raynor Henson from the NZ Fire Service and Tim Jago from Muriwai Volunteer Lifeguard Service.
Topics: history, life and society
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Tags: giving
Duration: 37'55"

14:10
Auckland's new baby giraffe
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A couple of weeks ago, the team at the giraffe enclosure at Auckland Zoo were able to witness the birth of a calf and watch it go from being delivered, to walking within the space of 30 minutes.
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A couple of weeks ago, the team at the giraffe enclosure at Auckland Zoo were able to witness the birth of a calf and watch it go from being delivered, to walking within the space of 30 minutes.
Nat Sullivan, Pridelands team leader, was there when mother Rukiya gave birth.
Images courtesy of Auckland Zoo.
Video

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Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Auckland, Auckland Zoo, animals, giraffes
Duration: 7'55"

14:19
Mission to dispell the myths around sharks - Riley Elliot
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A shark scientist is on a mission to dispell the myths around sharks. Riley Elliot is doing a PhD in shark research at Auckland University, and when he's not in the water himself, he's campaigning to save sharks from being harvested, overfished and killed.
Topics: science
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: sharks
Duration: 12'36"

14:47
Earthquake near Wanaka
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Reports are coming in that a shallow earthquake of about 6 mangitude ocurred near Wanaka at around 2:30pm this afternoon.
Topics: science, environment
Regions: Otago
Tags: earthquake, Wanaka
Duration: 7'38"

14:53
Feature album - Heroes
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David Bowie was in the middle of yet another re-invention when Heroes came out in October 1977. The album was a move further into the new electronic sound he'd started to pursue a few months earlier with the release of "Low", and he would complete the so called "Berlin trilogy" with "Lodger" the following year.
Topics: music
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Duration: 3'59"

15:09
Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica
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Ian Fleming, the assistant to the director of British Naval Intelligence in 1943, visited Jamaica to deal with U-Boat raids in the Caribbean. He vowed to return after the war to swim in the sea and write books. And so he did. James Bond Books. Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica by Matthew Parker is an account of Fleming's life on the island, full of love affairs and loss, that 007 himself might have envied.
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Ian Fleming used to sit sipping cocktails with the jet set by a deep-blue bay with Caribbean breezes blowing sounds like a scene straight out of one if his James Bond novels.
Post-World War II, Fleming spent two months every year on Jamaica. All of his 12 books about 007 were written there.
Author and historian Matthew Parker said Fleming was an awkward and prickly character but “he found something in Jamaica that really smoothed off the rough edges. Friends of his said in Jamaica he could be as much of himself there as he could anywhere”.
Parker writes about the influence of the island on the author in his new book Goldeneye - Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica.
Fleming first visited Jamaica in 1943 as assistant to the director of naval intelligence, investigating rumors about a secret Nazi submarine base near Nassau. He vowed to return.
“He declared in 1943 that he would live there and write the best spy novels ever” Parker said.
When the war ended, Fleming bought a piece of land on the North Coast in 1946 and built a house he called Goldeneye.
“It was originally called something like Rotten Egg Bay which is totally not Bond and not Ian Fleming” Parker said.
"During the War he was involved in a project to secure Gibraltar should Spain join the German side and this was called Operation Goldeneye. And he rather liked this - I think he coined the phrase himself”.
Parker said Jamaica in 1946 was a very old fashioned place, and that appealed to Fleming just as much as the scenery and the climate.
“It was really somewhere Fleming felt he could have been 100 years before in the heyday of the British Empire.
“Jamaica was a colonial backwater. The Imperial values of automatic respect for the English as a race still thrived in the 1940s”.
This, Parker maintains, was the DNA of the Bond character.
“In the figure of Bond, Britain still bestrides the world and projects power wherever it likes and even saves the United States. For British people in the 1950s this was a consoling fantasy where all of these terrible collapses happening in the Empire could be ignored in favour of this escapist and imperial hero.”
This outpost of Empire mixed with what Winston Churchill described as a combination of “soft breezes and hard liquor” inspired Fleming, Parker said.
“There was at the same time this exotic sensual and dangerous aspect of it and that combination was the secret of the success of the Bond novels. Ian Fleming was asked late in his career what’s the secret of your success, what’s your style, he said ‘disciplined exoticism’. All this leads back to Jamaica where the books were created.”
More Bond fodder arrived on the island when actor Errol Flynn sailed into Jamaica after a storm in 1944.
“In his wake the cream of Hollywood all piled in: Bette Davis, Grace Kelly, Ginger Rogers” said Parker.
Most of the jet set would have spent time on the French Riviera before the war, but started coming to Jamaica, Parker said.
“Whether you were royalty or whether you were in theatre or literature, really you weren’t a proper star until you were photographed in Jamaica. Marilyn Monroe had her honeymoon there. JFK spent a lot of time there. It became this bubble of the super rich jet set and Fleming was part of it.”
During the 1940s Fleming was a playboy on par with the character he created.
“Goldeneye became a bachelor pad. He had all the most beautiful women of Europe come to stay. After awhile he tired of it. He wrote that it was the same people and the same conversation and the same cocktails” said Parker.
After 6 years of the playboy life in Jamaica, in 1953, Parker says Fleming “turned inward and sat down and wrote Casino Royale”.
The year before Fleming wrote his first Bond book, he married Ann Charteris who never liked the spy novels.
Parker said she called them “pornography”.
She stayed away from Jamaica and Fleming had an affair with a white Jamaican woman Blanche Blackwell.
She was the mother of Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records who discovered Bob Marley.
She is still alive, and Parker spoke to her for the book.
“She was totally unpretentious - just supportive of him and nurtured him. She told me he was a man with bad depression. She was part of the attraction of Jamaica for him. It was much less complicated, much more sensual, simple and kind than his life back in London."
Fleming died in 1964 at the age of 56 after years of heavy drinking and smoking.
Topics: author interview, books
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Tags: James Bond, Ian Fleming
Duration: 21'29"

15:30
Unknown Anzacs - Cook Islanders at war
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Hundreds of Cook Islands soldiers enlisted for the First World War but their contribution has never been officially recognised by the New Zealand government they worked for. Daniela Maoate-Cox investigates.
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Howard Marsters with some of the research he has gathered on his relatives who fought in the First World War photo: RNZ, Daniela Maoate Cox
The worst part of the campaign was the heat and even though they come from a very warm climate in the Pacific, they couldn’t handle the heat. A lot of them came back with their lungs saturated in sand. – Howard Marsters

Hundreds of Cook Islands soldiers enlisted for the First World War but their contribution has never been officially recognised by the New Zealand government they worked for. Daniela Maoate-Cox investigates.
At the age of 15 Howard Marsters marched into an army recruitment office in Auckland eager to sign up for the Vietnam war and follow in the footsteps of his great uncles who served in the First World War.
Unfortunately for Howard the recruitment officer was a fellow Rarotongan who knew he was underage and told him to get out of his sight.
But four decades later Howard has clocked up 21 years in the territorials and is proudly delving into the history of his relatives who inspired him to join.
Just under 500 Cook Island men, most of them in their teens, enlisted for the First World War serving as labourers and ammunition bearers in France, Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, and Palestine as part of the Māori contingent.

Left: Record of service for Beni Banabi collated by Howard Marsters - Supplied by Howard Marsters, Top right: Rarotongan soldiers standing next to artillery shells, about 1916-18 credit- Image from Turnbull Library Pictures, Bottom right: untitled
But their contribution has never been officially recognised by the New Zealand government they fought for and Howard has spent the past half decade finding out more about the men who went, to get them the recognition they deserve.
"A lot of them were around late teens, early twenties, and the thing is those who went overseas even though they went as youngsters they came back as grown men but some of them wanted to go back on a second tour and I believe they did. Even though they came from a warm climate in the pacific they couldn’t handle the heat and a lot of them came back with their lungs saturated in sand."
Grandpa Beni, he only served one year in Palestine and was shipped back to Auckland with tuberculosis and died of the sickness.

Private Beni Banaba was just 25 when he enlisted.
Howard’s other relative Grandpa Carl Marsters was a Warrant Officer Second Class and Company Sergeant and Howard said he was the longest serving Cook Islander, especially skilled with languages.

Left: Carl Marsters' service record and medals collated by Howard Marsters - supplied by Howard Marsters, Right: Parchment record of Carl Marsters' war service. supplied by Howard Marsters
“He did over two and a half years over there,” he said. “A lot of the soldiers couldn’t speak English properly and he could relate from Arabic, to Cook Island (Māori) and English. It’s probably why he became what he was because he had to interpret.”
The soldiers were given a heroes welcome and acknowledged by the governor general at the time when they returned from the war he said but have not been recognised in official commemorations since.

Left: Headstones of Cook Islands' soldiers at the Returned Services Association in Rarotonga photo: Helene Kay, Right: RSA WW1 Headstones in Rarotonga, photo: Helene Kay
“Every Anzac that I’ve marched I’ve never heard any recognition of these guys,” he said.
Maybe it’s about time that they were recognised as part of the contingent that actually served under the British flag.

Remembering those men who served is the driving force behind the Cook Islands Soldiers of World War One Committee who organised this year’s commemorative events in conjunction with the Cook Islands High Commission to New Zealand.

Poppies pinned on by the descendants of Cook Island soldiers, photo: RNZ, Daniela Maoate Cox
They’re a team of volunteers and one of them, Helene Kay, has been digging through archives, photos, and old military records to find out where they went and why.
She said the men signed up for the same reasons as everyone else and they deserve to be recognised.
A lot of people don’t know the Cook Islanders served in World War One. We looked at the 1916 census and did the math and 18% of Cook Island men went to the war.

“I think in terms of recognition at the Dawn Service they deserve a mention...It would be nice that they as part of the Māori Contingent and the New Zealand armed forces get recognised as a unit in themselves.”
Some of them ended up working with the Māori contingent digging tunnels in France such as Angene Angene who helped dig the Arras tunnel.
“He was in France and got very sick with pneumonia. After he recovered, he and two other Cook Islanders went with the contingent of Māori to help the New Zealand tunnelers at Arras. There are etchings on the walls from our guys that were there,” Helene said. “A lot of people did [that] graffitti I guess, tagging. It’s another research project in itself.”
Helene said the research has been a labour of love and the committee as only scratched the surface but eventually hope to publish a book with the information gathered.
Anyone with information or stories to share can email the Cook Islands World War One Committee at ciswwo100@gmail.com.

White crosses representing Cook Islands soldiers on the lawn at Parliament in Wellington.
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Duration: 10'12"

15:46
The Panel pre-show for 4 May 2015
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1:10 Your Song
Hey World (Don't Give Up) by Michael Franti. Chosen by Michael Tavares
1:20 New Zealand Retro: Giving
Judge Carolyn Henwood
Raynor Henson from the NZ Fire Service
Tim Jago from Muriwai Volunteer Lifeguard Service
Archival audio supplied by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.
2:10 Baby Giraffe - Nat Sullivan
We get a progress report from Auckland Zoo on latest giraffe calf – a 1.8m tall female.

Images courtesy of Auckland Zoo.
2:20 Sharks! - Riley Elliot
A shark scientist is on a mission to dispell the myths around sharks. Riley Elliot is doing a PhD in shark research at Auckland University, and when he's not in the water himself, he's campaigning to save sharks from being harvested, overfished and killed.
2:30 NZ Reading - The Conductor
Shostakovich wakes to an empty home after a family row and meets Sollertinsky, Artistic Director of the Leningrad Philharmonic, who tells him the Germans are evacuating their own diplomats from the city. Karl Eliasburg, the second best conductor in Leningrad, eats a meagre breakfast with his elderly mother and buys a newspaper to read the review of the Philharmonic's concert. The critic Druskin says it was saved by the conductor Mravinsky
2:45 Feature album
Heroes. David Bowie
3:10 Feature interview - Matthew Parker
Ian Fleming, the assistant to the director of British Naval Intelligence in 1943, visited Jamaica to deal with U-Boat raids in the Caribbean. He vowed to return after the war to swim in the sea and write books. And so he did. James Bond Books. Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica by Matthew Parker is an account of Fleming's life on the island, full of love affairs and loss, that 007 himself might have envied
3:30 Voices - Daniela Maoate-Cox
Hundreds of Cook Islands soldiers enlisted for the First World War but their contribution has never been officially recognised by the New Zealand government they worked for
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about. With Jim Mora, Noelle McCarthy, Wendyl Nissen and Scott Yorke
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Monday 4 May
YOUR SONG:
ARTIST: Michael Franti
TITLE: Hey World (Don't Give Up Version)
COMP: Franti,Spearhead
ALBUM: All Rebel Rockers
LABEL: LIBERATION 400127
RETRO:
ARTIST: The Beatles
TITLE: With A Little Help For My Friends
COMP: John Lennon / Paul McCartney
ALBUM: Sgt Peppers Lonley Heart Club Band
LABEL: PARLOPHONE 746442
FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST: David Bowie
TITLE: Heroes
COMP: Bowie, Eno
ALBUM: Heroes
LABEL: EMI 521908
ARTIST: David Bowie
TITLE: Beauty And The Beast
COMP: Bowie
ALBUM: Heroes
LABEL: EMI 521908
PANEL HALF-TIME:
ARTIST: Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Judy Garland, Ray Bolger & Buddy Ebsen
TITLE: If I Only Had A Brain
COMP: Arlen, Harburg
ALBUM: The Wizard Of Oz
LABEL: RHINO 271999

===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
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An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)

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15:46
The Panel pre-show for 4 May 2015
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16:06
The Panel with Wendyl Nissen and Scott Yorke (Part 1)
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What the Panelists Wendyl Nissen and Scott Yorke have been up to. John Key says there's no need for a MP whose brother is before the courts to stand down. Judith Collins is thinking of a cabinet comeback. Guardian reporter David Wroe joins the Panel to discuss the press conference about the Australian Federal Police handling of the Bali 9 case. Student Volunteer Army organiser Sam Johnson is in Nepal. We talk to him about his role in the disaster zone.
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Duration: 24'33"

16:07
The Panel intro
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What the Panelists Wendyl Nissen and Scott Yorke have been up to.
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Duration: 3'51"

16:11
JK says MP doesn't need to step down
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John Key says there's no need for a MP whose brother is before the courts to stand down.
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Duration: 1'29"

16:13
Judith Collins comeback
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Judith Collins is thinking of a cabinet comeback.
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Duration: 3'07"

16:16
Bali 9 police speak
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Guardian reporter David Wroe joins the Panel to discuss the press conference about the Australian Federal Police handling of the Bali 9 case.
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Duration: 8'20"

16:25
Nepal aid
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Student Volunteer Army organiser Sam Johnson is in Nepal. We talk to him about his role in the disaster zone.
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Duration: 7'05"

16:34
The Panel with Wendyl Nissen and Scott Yorke (Part 2)
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Do you see yourself centred in your brai or in your heart? What the Panelists Wendyl Nissen and Scott York have been thinking about. Manuka honey fakes are rife in Europe. We talk to John Rawcliffe of the UMF Honey Association about how they're trying to solve this. The first daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge has entered the world. The Royal reporter for Woman's Day Sebastian Van der Zwan talks to the Panel about the name game.
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Duration: 24'44"

16:35
Brain or heart?
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Do you see yourself centred in your brain or in your heart?
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Duration: 3'04"

16:38
Panel says
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What the Panelists Wendyl Nissen and Scott York have been thinking about.
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16:44
Fake Manuka honey
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Manuka honey fakes are rife in Europe. We talk to John Rawcliffe of the UMF Honey Association about how they're trying to solve this.
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Duration: 7'20"

16:51
Baby princess
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The first daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge has entered the world. The Royal reporter for the Woman’s Day Sebastian Van der Zwan talks to the Panel about the name game.
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Duration: 8'16"

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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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Radio New Zealand's two-hour news and current affairs programme

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17:00
Checkpoint Top Stories for Monday 4 May 2015
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A man bleeds to death from a surgeon's mistakes. A strong earthquake rattles Wanaka and John Key confirms he's paying for his own legal advice over the ponytail pulling.
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Duration: 22'08"

17:08
Elderly man bleeds to death after mistakes in surgery
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An elderly man bled to death on the operating table as a junior doctor stood there with his hand in the wound, after the surgeons gave up.
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Duration: 4'00"

17:12
Earthquake rocks the lower South Island.
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A fair few bottles of wine have been smashed but there've been no injuries or major damage in the strong earthquake that hit near Wanaka this afternoon.
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Duration: 2'47"

17:15
More from a seismologist
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With us is Victoria University seismologist John Townend.
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Regions: Otago
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Duration: 2'21"

17:18
Australian police unapologetic for tip-off
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The Australian police say they do not have blood on their hands for helping Indonesia catch the Bali 9 drug smugglers and they can't guarantee it won't happen again.
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Duration: 5'42"

17:23
PM paying for his own legal advice.
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The Prime Minister has confirmed he is paying for the legal advice he has sought about the prospect of facing an assault charge for pulling an Auckland waitress' ponytail
Topics: politics
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Duration: 4'51"

17:28
Police to try again to pull car out of ocean
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The police will try again on Wednesday to pull out of the sea the car belonging to the step-father of an 11 year-old Invercargill boy missing for months.
Topics: crime
Regions: Otago
Tags: John Beckenridge
Duration: 2'05"

17:33
Today's market update
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The sharemarket ended lower today, with the NZX 50 index shedding 30 points to 5767.
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Duration: 2'12"

17:36
Whangarei woman feels let down again by Northland Police
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The mother of a Whangarei woman, killed just days after warning police that her ex-partner had broken a protection order against him, says she fears the police have learnt nothing from her daughter's death two and a half years ago.
Topics: crime
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Duration: 3'07"

17:39
Two gunmen shot dead at Texas anti-Islam art show
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There has been a deadly shooting in a Dallas suburb in Texas at a controversial art exhibit, featuring depictions of the Muslim prophet Mohammed.
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Duration: 4'07"

17:43
Former wine boss accused in trial of playing a double game
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A former wine boss has been accused of playing a double game in a big deal he set up, and using his son to hide the kickbacks he received for it.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Peter Scutts, wine boss
Duration: 2'36"

17:46
DHB chief on fatal mistakes in surgery
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Both a surgeon and the Nelson Marlborough District Health Board are in the gun over a man who bled to death during what was meant to be routine gall bladder surgery
Topics: crime, health
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Tags: surgery, report, Health and Disability Commissioner
Duration: 5'32"

17:52
Pig traps woman in her car
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A Dunedin woman feared for her life when a 150-kilogram pig sat on her lap, trapping her in her car.
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Duration: 2'54"

17:54
Wharenui would be welcomed back - Māori advisor
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Officials managing a wharenui in Britain have been thrown a lifeline. Just days after a mansion which this meeting house had been placed next to was gutted by fire, a Māori advisor says the wooden whare tipuna would be welcomed back home now.
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17:57
Police dog Thames still missing in remote bush
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The search is carrying on for a police dog missing in rugged bush north of Wellington.
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Duration: 2'15"

18:07
Sports News for 4 May 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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18:14
Ongoing trial for rape and murder of Blessie Gotingco
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A detective held up a bloodied knife in court today, which he said he found in the kitchen of the man accused of the rape and murder of Blessie Gotingco.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Blessie Gotingco, murder, rape, trial
Duration: 3'06"

18:18
Charge migrants to move - Australian think-tank
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A proposal to charge would-be immigrants to Australia for the privilege of moving there has riled unions and businesses alike.
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Duration: 5'39"

18:25
Half of homes overcrowded at decile one schools
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New figures show children at decile one schools come from neighbourhoods where over half the homes are overcrowded.
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Duration: 4'28"

18:34
26 bodies in jungle are likely human trafficking victims
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Thai police believe 26 bodies found in a mass grave deep in the jungle are the victims of human trafficking.
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Duration: 3'25"

18:37
EQC fails to force householers to pay court costs
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The Earthquake Commission has failed in its bid to force three property owners to pay legal costs with the Court of Appeal ruling against it today.
Topics: law
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Duration: 2'51"

18:40
Extreme labour exploitation found in Australia
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Evidence of extreme labour exploitation, slave-like conditions and black market labour gangs have been found on farms and in factories supplying Australia's biggest supermarkets and fast food chains.
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Duration: 5'21"

18:45
Mild winter to follow golden summer
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Climate scientists have good news for those mourning the end of the golden summer, with a mild winter predicted for the entire country.
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Duration: 4'33"

18:50
Te Manu Korihi News for 4 May 2015
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Officials managing a wharenui in Britain have been thrown a lifeline; A retired paediatrician suggests research into low birth weight could be one way to establish if a child might have suffered alcohol damage before they were born; Whanau and friends are mourning the death of a champion of the Māori language, Henrietta Maxwell, of Ngati Porou who died over the weekend.
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Duration: 3'19"

18:55
World first by graffiti drone
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The world's first graffiti drone has vandalised one of New York's largest billboards.
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Tags: USA, drone, graffiti, KATSU
Duration: 3'30"

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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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Entertainment and information, including: 8:13 Windows on the World: International public radio features and documentaries 9:30 Insight: An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs (RNZ)

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19:10
Choppy Waters
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There are some quite engrossing bits of history relating to admiralty jurisdiction in New Zealand in the mid nineteenth century, with maritime specialist Bevan Marten from Victoria University of Wellington's School of Law.
Topics: history
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Tags: admiralty jursidiction, flying cloud, flying mist
Duration: 18'32"

20:45
Computer Science
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Prof. Mark Apperley from University of Waikato spreads out the silicon chips to expose how computers switch us on - gamerfication (using game-like techniques in serious applications) and the virtual electric vehicle experience.
Topics: science, technology
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Tags: computers, computer hardware, computer software
Duration: 16'14"

20:59
Conundrum Clue 1
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Listen on Friday for the answer.
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Duration: 23"

21:59
Conundrum Clue 2
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Listen on Friday for the answer.
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Duration: 27"

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7:10 Choppy Waters
There are some quite engrossing bits of history relating to admiralty jurisdiction in New Zealand in the mid nineteenth century, with maritime specialist Bevan Marten from Victoria University of Wellington's School of Law.
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 Computer Science
Prof. Mark Apperley from University of Waikato spreads out the silicon chips to expose how computers switch us on – gamerfication (using game-like techniques in serious applications) and the virtual electric vehicle experience.
9:30 Insight
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 Charlie Poole - You Ain't Talkin' to Me

===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

===11:06 PM. | None (National)===
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