Radio New Zealand National. 2015-04-21. 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:

21 April 2015

===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Spectrum (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (RNZ); 2:05 A Short History of Jazz: The 1950s - Cool Jazz and Latin (F, RNZ); 3:05 Tu, by Patricia Grace (13 of 15, RNZ); 3:30 An Author's View (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)

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

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06:00
Top Stories for Tuesday 21 April 2015
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As the British Police arrest a 14-year-old boy they believe has links to an ANZAC terror plot, we will hear from an Australian man whose son pleaded guilty to terrorism offences in 2007. We'll cross to Olly Barrett in London and Susie Ferguson in Gallipoli for the latest. The opposition claims the Government will fail to deliver on its promise of free doctor visits for all children under 13 and the mother of a teenage boy who died during routine surgery wants accountability for his death.
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Duration: 29'40"

06:06
Sports News for 21 April 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: weather
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Duration: 2'10"

06:20
Pacific News for 21 April 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 21 April 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'11"

06:27
Te Manu Korihi News for 21 April 2015
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The Mana Movement leader, Hone Harawira, is accusing the Australian Prime Minister of ignoring the plight of remote indigenous communities in Western Australia which the government is planning to close down; A South Island iwi-led agricultural training programme says it's aiming to give a boost to Māori leadership as it expands and offers higher level qualifications; A Māori historian has been charged with piecing together the story about Māori soldiers who served in World War One; A central plateau trust specialising in geothermal power generation, dairy farming and horticulture, is planning to continue growing its business outside of New Zealand.
Topics: te ao Māori
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 3'30"

06:43
Greens say free doctor visit pledge is being broken
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The Green Party says penny-pinching meanness is the reason the Government cannot fulfill its election pledge of free doctor visits to all children under the age of 13.
Topics: health
Regions:
Tags: children, free doctor visits
Duration: 4'46"

06:48
Chances of rate cut slim, despite record low inflation
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Most economists say the chances interest rates will be cut are low, despite inflation sliding to its weakest rate in 15 years.
Topics: business
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Tags: interest rates
Duration: 1'45"

06:50
Rock star economy has "unsustainable" housing market
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The economist who gave New Zealand's economy its rock star status, says Auckland's rampant housing market is unsustainable.
Topics: business, housing, economy
Regions:
Tags: Paul Bloxham
Duration: 1'32"

06:52
Coats Group non-executive director resigns
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The Coats Group says its non-executive director, Sir Ron Brierley, has resigned from the board.
Topics: business
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Tags: Coats Group
Duration: 18"

06:52
Comvita sweetens its profit guidance
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A key player in the New Zealand honey market has confirmed it's expecting its annual profit to increase by 25 percent this year.
Topics: business
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Tags: Comvita
Duration: 1'25"

06:53
Service sector is booming but risks to growth are emerging
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The service sector is booming, but there are concerns a slow-down in export markets could start hurting growth.
Topics: business
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Tags: service sector
Duration: 1'47"

06:55
Common Ledger raises about $1million from investors
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Now to a firm that's trying to simplify the accounting sector. Common Ledger is a web tool that gives accountants easy access to clients' financial information in one place.
Topics: business
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Tags: Common Ledger
Duration: 3'43"

06:59
Morning markets for 21 April 2015
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The Dow Jones Index is up 206 points to 18,033.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 34"

07:07
Sports News for 21 April 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: weather
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Tags:
Duration: 1'46"

07:11
British teen arrestsed in connection with terror plot
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British Police have arrested a 14-year-old boy they believe is linked to a terror plot planned for First World War centenary events in Australia.
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Tags: UK, WW1, terrorism, Anzac
Duration: 5'45"

07:17
Susie Ferguson reports from Gallipoli
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Susie Ferguson will be covering the Anzac Day ceremonies in Turkey and arrived in Gallipoli this morning.
Topics: history
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Tags: WW1, Anzac, Gallipoli
Duration: 1'12"

07:18
Terry Hicks says parents of radicals need support
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Yesterday on Morning Report we spoke to a New Zealand mother who accused the Danish authorities of not doing enough to prevent her son from being radicalised by extremists.
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Tags: Islamic State, Denmark, Terry Hicks
Duration: 4'18"

07:23
Teenager died after post-operation monitoring stopped
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The mother of a West Coast boy who died because he wasn't monitored properly after surgery is demanding more accountability for medical staff who make mistakes.
Topics: health
Regions: West Coast
Tags: surgery, death, mistakes.
Duration: 9'44"

07:36
Susie Ferguson reports from Gallipoli
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Back now to Susie Ferguson who is in Gallipoli. Susie this morning we have been speaking about new security concerns around ANZAC DAY what's the situation there.
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Tags: WW1, Anzac, Gallipoli
Duration: 4'28"

07:41
Govt abandons pledge of free doctor visits
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The Government won't be delivering on its pre-election promise of free doctors visits for all primary aged children.
Topics: health, politics
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Tags: children
Duration: 3'36"

07:44
Little not dismayed by latest poll results
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National's loss in last month's Northland byelection has seemingly failed to dent the party's popularity, with a weekend One News Colmar Brunton poll showing the party steady on 49 percent.
Topics: politics
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Tags: polls
Duration: 5'37"

07:50
AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd is due to go on trial today
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The AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd is due to go on trial today at the Tauranga District Court on charges of threatening to kill and possessing drugs.
Topics: crime
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Tags: Phil Rudd, AC/DC
Duration: 2'23"

07:53
Protection order failures under microscope
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The coroner's inquest into the shooting deaths of two Dunedin children by their father is expected to focus on failures in the protection order system failed that was meant to protect them.
Topics: crime
Regions: Otago
Tags: inquest
Duration: 3'08"

08:07
Sports News for 21 April 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: weather
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Tags:
Duration: 1'49"

08:11
EU ministers meet overnight to discuss migrant crisis
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European Union ministers have gathered in Luxembourg for an emergency meeting on the migrant crisis.
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Tags: EU, migrant crisis
Duration: 7'16"

08:18
GPs would like higher subsidies
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One in ten injured children will still have to pay to see the doctor despite the Government's promise to provide free visits for all children aged under 13 from July.
Topics: health
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Tags: children
Duration: 3'50"

08:22
Cost of living falls for the first time in 15 years
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For the first time in more than 15 years the cost of living is on the way down, according to consumers price index, or official inflation figures, published yesterday.
Topics: economy
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Tags: inflation, consumers price index
Duration: 5'52"

08:28
Few landowners at risk in Special Housing Area clampdown
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The Government's threat to cancel some of the fast-track Special Housing Areas in Auckland, may end up affecting only a handful of landowners.
Topics: housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: special housing areas
Duration: 3'07"

08:31
Markets Update for 21 April 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'04"

08:37
Govt braced for lower earnings from oil
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The Government is bracing itself for a fall in revenue as the price of oil takes a tumble.
Topics: economy, business
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Tags: oil price
Duration: 2'50"

08:40
NZ companies in China warned to tread carefully
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New Zealand companies in China are being warned to be tread carefully as the crackdown on what the government regards as corruption reaches a high point.
Topics: business
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Tags: China, corruption
Duration: 3'51"

08:44
Broadcasters take legal action against Global Mode service
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Four of the country's biggest broadcasters are taking legal action against two internet providers offering a service called Global Mode.
Topics: media, law
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Tags: Global Mode
Duration: 2'37"

08:47
Te Manu Korihi News for 21 April 2015
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The Mana Movement leader, Hone Harawira, is accusing the Australian Prime Minister of ignoring the plight of remote indigenous communities in Western Australia which the government is planning to close down; A Māori historian has been charged with piecing together the story about Māori soldiers who served in World War One; A central plateau trust specialising in geothermal power generation, dairy farming and horticulture, is planning to continue growing its business outside of New Zealand; A South Island iwi-led agricultural training programme says it's aiming to give a boost to Māori leadership as it expands and offers higher level qualifications.
Topics: te ao Māori
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Tags:
Duration: 3'18"

08:51
Boatload of blood seared into memory of Gallipoli veteran
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It's just four days short of a century since the first of more than 8-thousand New Zealand troops landed at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli peninsula, as part of Allied forces, in what was to be one of the biggest military debacles of the First World War.
Topics: history
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Tags: WW1, Anzac, Gallipoli
Duration: 3'55"

08:55
Was the 'real' Anzac biscuit a humble gingernut?
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New evidence suggests the real Anzac biscuit could've been nothing more than a gingernut.
Topics: food, history
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Tags: Anzac biscuit
Duration: 3'48"

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===9:06 AM. | Nine To Noon===
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Current affairs and topics of interest, including: 10:45 The Reading: The Godley Letters, read by Ginette McDonald and Sam Neill (7 of 10, RNZ)

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09:07
How ISIS radicalises young people around the world
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A 14 year old British boy has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in preparing an act of terrorism. The case is linked to the arrest of five teenagers in Melbourne over alleged plans to target Anzac Day commemorations. It follows revelations yesterday by New Zealand woman, Karolina Dam, who lives in Denmark, who discovered her 18 year old son, Lukas had likely been killed in Syria after joining Islamic State.
Topics: crime
Regions:
Tags: terrorism, Islamic State
Duration: 19'42"

09:32
Connecting rural New Zealand - the need for better broadband
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The government is putting an additional 100 million dollars into expanding the broadband into rural areas, as well as 50 million dollars to improve mobile coverage in black spot areas along main highways and popular tourist destinations. Which areas are currently missing out on fast broadband and mobile coverage, and what impact is this having? Michelle Thompson is Chief Executive of the Rural Health Alliance and Craig Young is the Chief Executive of the Telecommunications Users Association. They've joined forced to take the pulse of rural connectivity needs and will run a symposium on the issue next month.
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Photo: "Road to Mount Cook New Zealand" by B. Muirhead (CC BY 3.0)
The government is putting an additional 100 million dollars into expanding the broadband into rural areas, as well as 50 million dollars to improve mobile coverage in black spot areas along main highways and popular tourist destinations.
Which areas are currently missing out on fast broadband and mobile coverage, and what impact is this having?
Michelle Thompson is Chief Executive of the Rural Health Alliance and Craig Young is the Chief Executive of the Telecommunications Users Association. They've joined forced to take the pulse of rural connectivity needs and will run a symposium on the issue next month.
Topics: rural, technology, internet, farming, environment, education, economy
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Tags: rural broadband
Duration: 20'49"

09:52
US Correspondent Susan Milligan
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Susan Milligan is a Contributing Editor to US News and World Report, former White House and National Political Correspondent for the Boston Globe and teaches media at Boston University's DC.
Topics:
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Tags: USA
Duration: 6'57"

10:06
Lessons for human health from animals
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Professor Hank Harlow is a zoologist and animal physiologist whose research looks at lessons for human health learned from animals. He spent twenty years as the Director of the University of Wyoming's National Park Research Centre. In the course of his research he has literally crawled into a den of sleeping bears, studying how the animals adapt to survive extreme cold. This hibernation research is being used by NASA to explore how astronauts could preserve muscles during space travel, but also has applications for coma or long term bed rest patients. He's also studied muscle performance by free ranging Komodo dragons in Indonesia and hibernating ground squirrels in the rocky mountains. Professor Harlow says black bears in particular are a tremendous model for biomimicry, and could also shed light on human obesity, cardiovascular disease, kidney failure, bone loss and memory loss.
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Gallery: Hank Harlow and wild animals
Professor Hank Harlow is a zoologist and animal physiologist whose research looks at lessons for human health learned from animals. He spent twenty years as the Director of the University of Wyoming's National Park Research Centre.
In the course of his research he has literally crawled into a den of sleeping bears, studying how the animals adapt to survive extreme cold. This hibernation research is being used by NASA to explore how astronauts could preserve muscles during space travel, but also has applications for coma or long term bed rest patients.
He's also studied muscle performance by free ranging Komodo dragons in Indonesia and hibernating ground squirrels in the rocky mountains.
Professor Harlow says black bears in particular are a tremendous model for biomimicry, and could also shed light on human obesity, cardiovascular disease, kidney failure, bone loss and memory loss.
Hank Harlow talks to Kathryn Ryan.
Topics: health, science, environment
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 37'07"

10:43
Book review: 'Blood on Snow' by Jo Nesbo
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Published by Harvill Secker. Reviewed by Ralph McAllister.
Topics: books
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 3'16"

11:10
Business commentator Rod Oram
BODY:
Auckalnd Ports extension. Have we hit deflation? The Segway.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: Rod Oram
Duration: 18'46"

11:28
Breathing new life into historic buildings
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Maurice Clark is an engineer who has been involved with redeveloping some of Wellington's most historically important buildings.
Topics: history, life and society
Regions:
Tags: heritage buildings
Duration: 16'08"

11:45
Media commentator Gavin Ellis
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Gavin Ellis discusses Fairfax's photographic archive disaster, business publication NBR's foray into online radio and how a minor domestic dispute involving a cricket star appeared on the front page of the Herald on Sunday. Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and former editor of the New Zealand Herald.
Topics: media
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 14'42"

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09:05 How ISIS radicalises young people around the world
A 14-year-old British boy has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in preparing an act of terrorism. The case is linked to the arrest of five teenagers in Melbourne over alleged plans to target Anzac Day commemorations.
It follows revelations yesterday by New Zealand woman, Karolina Dam, who lives in Denmark, who discovered her 18-year-old son, Lukas had likely been killed in Syria after joining Islamic State.
Jolene Jerard is based at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She will be visiting New Zealand next month to deliver the keynote speech at the Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders Federation conference.
09:20 Connecting rural New Zealand - the need for better broadband
The government is putting an additional 100 million dollars into expanding the broadband into rural areas, as well as 50 million dollars to improve mobile coverage in black spot areas along main highways and popular tourist destinations. Which areas are currently missing out on fast broadband and mobile coverage, and what impact is this having? Michelle Thompson is Chief Executive of the Rural Health Alliance and Craig Young is the Chief Executive of the Telecommunications Users Association. They've joined forced to take the pulse of rural connectivity needs and will run a symposium on the issue next month.
09:45 US Correspondent Susan Milligan
Susan Milligan is a Contributing Editor to US News and World Report, former White House and National Political Correspondent for the Boston Globe and teaches media at Boston University's DC.
10:05 Lessons for human health from animals
Professor Hank Harlow is a zoologist and animal physiologist whose research looks at lessons for human health learned from animals. He spent twenty years as the Director of the University of Wyoming's National Park Research Centre. In the course of his research he has literally crawled into a den of sleeping bears, studying how the animals adapt to survive extreme cold. This hibernation research is being used by NASA to explore how astronauts could preserve muscles during space travel, but also has applications for coma or long term bed rest patients. He’s also studied muscle performance by free ranging Komodo dragons in Indonesia and hibernating ground squirrels in the rocky mountains. Professor Harlow says black bears in particular are a tremendous model for biomimicry, and could also shed light on human obesity, cardiovascular disease, kidney failure, bone loss and memory loss.
Gallery: Hank Harlow
10:30 Book review: 'Blood on Snow' by Jo Nesbo
Published by Harvill Secker. Reviewed by Ralph McAllister.
10:45 The Reading: The Godley Letters
Correspondence between Major General Godley and Lady Louisa Godley May to August 1915. Edited and arranged by Jane Tolerton. Read by Ginette McDonald and Sam Neill (7 of 10, RNZ).
11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram
11:30 Maurice Clark - Developer
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Maurice Clark is an engineer who has been involved with redeveloping some of Wellington's most historically important buildings.
11:45 Media commentator Gavin Ellis
Gavin Ellis discusses Fairfax's photographic archive disaster, business publication NBR's foray into online radio and how a minor domestic dispute involving a cricket star appeared on the front page of the Herald on Sunday. Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and former editor of the New Zealand Herald and can be contacted at gavin.ellis@xtra.co.nz

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Artist: Cynthia Richards
Song: Come Go With Me
Composer: Banks / Jackson / Hampton
Album: n/a
Label: Trojan
Broadcast time: 09:10

===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 21 April 2015
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A coroner is told of an earlier death threat made by the Dunedin man who shot his children. AC/DC's drummer will ask for a discharge without conviction after guilty plea.
Topics: politics, law
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 15'02"

12:17
Kiwi heads towards parity with Australian dollar
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The New Zealand dollar is again inching towards parity with the Australian currency, after a big jump overnight.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags: currency
Duration: 1'18"

12:18
Sir Ron quits Coats after 25 years
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Sir Ron Brierley is stepping down from the board of Coats Group, which was part Guinness Peat Group, the investment company he founded.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags: Coats Group
Duration: 1'02"

12:24
Midday markets
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Bryan Shepherd at Macquarie Private Wealth.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags: markets
Duration: 2'29"

12:26
Midday Sports News for 21 April 2015
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Aaron Cruden is not giving up on the World Cup.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags: rugby
Duration: 2'31"

12:35
Midday Rural News for 21 April 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 9'12"

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===1:06 PM. | Afternoons===
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Information and debate, people and places around NZ

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13:09
Your Song - It's A Man's World
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Holly Cunningham of lyttleton chooses this James Brown song, performed by Christina Aguilera.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 7'56"

13:17
TV review with Irene Gardiner
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Irene reviews 'When We Go to War' and 'CSI: Cyber'.
Topics: media
Regions:
Tags: television
Duration: 10'42"

13:28
Book review with Wendyl Nissen
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Wendyl reviews 'The Girl on The Train' by Paula Hawkins.
Topics: arts, books
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 9'02"

13:31
Music review with Colin Morris
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Colin Morris reviews releases by Gretchen Peters and Joan Baez.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 13'46"

13:40
Web review with Ele Ludemann
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Ele looks at whats hot on the web.
Topics: internet
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 4'28"

14:08
Rosetta Space Craft - Warwick Holmes
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The Australian avionics systems engineer who helped build, test and launch the Rosetta space craft that successfully landed a probe on a comet (Comet-67P) last year will give a free public lecture at the University of Waikato this week. Warwick Holmes spent 29 years working on European Space Agency spacecraft projects and missions including four and a half years on the Rosetta project. He thinks New Zealand and Australia should be investing much more in science and engineering.
Topics: science
Regions:
Tags: space, rosetta, Comet-67P
Duration: 14'18"

14:48
Feature album - One Step Closer
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'One Step Closer' by The Doobie Brothers.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 12'41"

15:08
Ghost Boy - Martin Pistorius
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When Martin Pistorius was 12 years old, a mysterious illness put him in a coma. His parents were told he would never recover. But two years later, his brain came to life again, but no one knew it. He spent the next eight years aware of everything around him, but still unable to speak or move.
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When Martin Pistorious was just 12 years old, he fell into a coma-like state suffering from a mysterious illness. The little South African boy was unable to move or talk.
Martin spent four years completely unaware of his surroundings. Then his mind suddenly became active again, but no-one knew he was there.
I often say it was like being a ghost. You can hear, see and understand everything around you, but you have absolutely no power over anything...It is like you don’t exist, Every single thing in your life is decided by someone else, from what you wear to what you eat or drink, and there is nothing you can do about it.”

For 8 years, Martin Pistorious was unable to speak or move or alert anyone to the fact that his mind was active again.
Today he is married and has a career, and has written a haunting account of his experience in a new book called Ghost Boy: The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body. He has regained control of his head and arms, but needs a computer with a voice synthesizer to communicate.
During the dark days when no one knew he had become conscious again, he would lose himself in his imagination. "I’d imagine all sorts of things' like my wheelchair transforming into a flying vehicle a la James Bond with rockets or missiles" he says.
He would watch insects with great intensity, listen to the radio and dream of playing cricket. Sometimes his caregivers would park him in front of the TV to watch the children’s show, Barney. Now the purple dinosaur triggers difficult emotions. “Maybe it’s that fact that he was so jolly and I absolutely was not but I cannot watch the show” says Martin.
It took Martin Pistorious some time to fully comprehend that he was trapped in his own body. For his family, it was also an extremely difficult time. His Mother, unaware that Martin could hear and understand everything around him, told him she hoped he would die. “ I understood” he says about his Mother’s statement. “It broke my heart but not so much because she thought they would be better off without me, I thought that too, but because I could see how my illness affected all of them”.
Over the years, Martin spent time in several care facilities and says he was abused physically, mentally and even sexually in all of them.
I was hit, pinched, manhandled and intentionally dropped...even sexually abused at the day care centre...Not being able to communicate makes you a perfect victim because you can never tell anyone. There was never a care home I was in that I didn’t see some abuse, even if it didn’t happen to me."

There were many times when Martin tried to alert everyone to his awakening. He describes his Father as his tower of strength through his 12 year ordeal. He tried to alert him about his awakening. “My Father was putting me into bed and I was trying as hard as I could to move to indicate to him that I was more aware than he thought” says Pistorious. “I remember how my heart was pounding and it felt like I was making these big movements, however they were barely perceivable. I was truly trapped” he adds.
Everything changed when a new care-giver named Verna came to work at the day care centre where Martin spent his days. “At first I thought she was just another carer, I had seen so many of them come and go” he says. “But I sensed she was different. She would talk to me as if I understood everything”. She noticed small ways that Martin indicated that he understood. She saw signs of his awareness in his eyes and urged his family to investigate. “I think being seen validates your existence. It makes you feel like you matter”.
They took him to the Centre For Augmentative And Alternative Communication at the University of Pretoria, where he started getting more intense therapy. Eventually he was given a computer to communicate and connect with the world he had only been able to watch for 12 years.
He’s married now and works as a web designer in England. He doesn’t like to dwell on the past. “ I am truly blessed. I have learned to appreciate the small, simple and yet important things in life; being with the people you love, the feel of sunshine on your skin, the taste of your favorite food”.
He also hopes his story will remind everyone who has a loved one in care never to give up hope. “Treat everyone with kindness and dignity whether you think they understand you or not”
Topics: author interview, books
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Duration: 18'00"

15:45
The Panel pre-show for 21 April 2015
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
Topics: politics, life and society
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Duration: 16'23"

21:46
Pulling Funds out of Fossil Fuels
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A discussion with organisations and individuals who decided to move their investments out of the fossil fuel industry.
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By Veronika Meduna
As investors we have some clout actually, we have the capacity to make a difference on this issue. What are we doing with our money? Are we profiting from climate change? _ Matheson Russell

At a time when the New Zealand government is opening up large areas for exploration by oil and gas companies, some of the country’s institutions have decided to pull their investments out of the fossil fuel industry.
Globally, the idea of fossil fuel divestment – the deliberate withdrawal of funds from oil, gas and coal companies to help accelerate a transition to renewable energy sources – is beginning to have an impact, totalling about $50 billion in investments that have been moved out of fossil fuels. Recently, the Guardian newspaper joined the campaign, asking the world’s largest charitable foundations to divest their endowments.
In 2014, new installations of carbon-free renewable power plants, driven by a rapid expansion in developing countries, surpassed 100 gigawatts of capacity for the first time, according to the UN Environment Programme’s latest Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment report (pdf).
In New Zealand, one of the first organisations to make a commitment to divest its funds was the Anglican Church of New Zealand, motivated largely by a sense of urgency to take action on limiting the impacts of climate change.
The Anglican Church represents almost 10 per cent of New Zealanders (according to the 2013 Census) and has large investments in property and shares. Matheson Russell, the convener of its climate action group in Auckland, says the church leadership has been concerned about climate change for a long time.
Back in 2006, the body of bishops and archbishops issued a statement where they said publicly that climate change presents a real and present danger to the environment and also to the human species and they urged strong action in response to climate change.

The first effort was on reducing the church’s own carbon footprint at the level of local parish churches to reduce “our complicity as consumers of fossil fuels”, but the divestment campaign has now added a new focus on investments. “As investors we have some clout actually, we have the capacity to make a difference on this issue. What are we doing with our money? Are we profiting from climate change?”
Matheson Russell says the Anglican Church has committed to a two-year time frame for its divestment, which it sees as an issue of social justice. “Every year at our regional assemblies, when we meet with our friends and colleagues in the Pacific Islands, they tell us about the effects of climate change they are already experiencing. Morally responsible organisations like churches need to take action swiftly and need to show moral leadership on these issues now.”
A similar sense of urgency is one of the reasons behind Victoria University’s decision to divest. Last year, Victoria University became the first university in New Zealand to take this step, and joins several tertiary institutions worldwide.
Students’ Association president Rick Zwaan says he was motivated by his frustration with the slowness of international negotiations. In 2009, during his last year at school, he was a youth delegate at COP 15, the 15th annual meeting of parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Copenhagen.
Seeing what he describes as a “failure of world leaders to take action on climate change” motivated him to take action locally and to start campaigning for divestment at Victoria University, where he now studies geophysics, environmental science and politics.“It’s really heartening to see the university taking the lead on this. It was one of the moments when I was really proud of being a student at Victoria.”
Vice-Chancellor Grant Guilford says the university has already honoured the first step of its commitment by selling shares it held directly in fossil fuel companies. The next step, he says will be more difficult as fund managers are being asked to shift mixed portfolios to more sustainable funds. “That’s becoming easier. The world is moving quite rapidly on this and there are more and more sustainable investment funds available.”
Divestment campaigns have been used in the past, targeting a host of issues including sweatshop labour, tobacco advertising, and the Apartheid regime of South Africa. Grant Guilford says faith groups and universities are usually at the forefront of such campaigns, but larger funds tend to follow.
Sometimes, he says, they accept the moral and ethical duties that stimulate the faith groups, but sometimes there are more pragmatic reasons such as the increased risk in investing in what could become stranded assets.
“For example, the Norwegian sovereign fund has announced it’s out of coal companies. It was a risk-based decision for them because they see a high risk that coal will be affected by regulatory changes related to climate change.”
The main motivation for Victoria University’s decision was “that we should align our investment decisions with the public stance that we take on climate change, which in turn is derived from our research on climate change. There is no doubt in the university community that climate change is a major threat to the world and the people in it and the biosphere as a whole.”
In the meantime, however, the university maintains its Masters programme in petroleum geoscience.
'The world is still dependent on this industry. And the people in that industry are still doing a very valuable job to maintain energy supplies that the world needs. We’re not intending to vilify the people of the petroleum industry in New Zealand by this decision. What we’re intending to say is that this transition away from fossil fuels to sustainable energy sources needs to pick up pace if the world is going to be habitable in the future.
_ Grant Guilford

The Kennett Brothers, New Zealand's leading publishers of cycling guide books and the pedalling force behind mountain biking events such as the Karapoti Classic, have decided to divest both their business and personal funds.
Jonathan Kennett says the first discussions arose when they were considering sponsorship for cycling events. "Our business has formed to promote healthy and environmentally aware lifestyles, and cycling is the biggest part of that. We decided pretty much from the word go that we wouldn't accept tobacco sponsorship. There a number of other things that we wouldn't accept sponsorship from and now we've added to that list sponsorship from the fossil fuel industry."
Divestment was the obvious next step.
We have control over our own lives, and we have responsibilities for our own actions. ... We want to take that responsibility seriously and avoid contributing to climate change where we can. There are a number of things that are relatively easy to do. Divestment is one of them. _ Jonathan Kennett

Topics: environment
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Tags: climate change, fossil fuel industry, divestment, UNFCC, Anglican Church of New Zealand
Duration: 17'54"

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1:10 Your Song
It's A Man's World - Christina Aguilera. Chosen by Holly Cunningham
1:20 The Critics
1. TV review -Irene Gardiner
2. Books-Wendyl Nissen
3 Music-Colin Morris
4. Web-Ele Ludeman
Links

Montessori blog: a letter from child to parents
The kitchen's garden
25 Life-Changing Style Charts Every Guy Needs Right Now

2:10 Rosetta Space Craft - Warwick Holmes
The Australian avionics systems engineer who helped build, test and launch the Rosetta space craft that successfully landed a probe on a comet (Comet-67P) last year will give a free public lecture at the University of Waikato this week. Warwick Holmes spent 29 years working on European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft projects and missions including four-and-a-half years on the Rosetta project. He thinks New Zealand and Australia should be investing much more in science and engineering
2:20 BBC Witness - Carousel
In April 1945 one of the most successful musicals of all time premiered on Broadway. Carousel, by Rodgers and Hammerstein was a huge hit and Jean Darling was one of the original cast. He features in today's episode of Witness
2:30 NZ Reading - Heaven Freezes
Simon goes to see a movie Little Fish and remembers the events surrounding his first wife Aileen's death. She walked into the sea never to return. It looks as if his second wife Stephanie is going to leave him too, though in very different circumstances
2:45 Feature album
One Step Closer by The Doobie Brothers
3:10 Feature interview - Martin Pistorius
When Martin Pistorius was 12 years old, a mysterious illness put him in a coma. His parents were told he would never recover. But two years later, his brain came to life again, but no one knew it. He spent the next 8 years aware of everything around him, but still unable to speak or move. He says he felt like a ghost. He could hear everything around him including his mother saying she hoped he would die to end the suffering. Slowly he did recover, get married and write a book. It's called Ghost Boy: The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body
3:35 Our Changing World - Veronika Meduna
Environmental groups worldwide are focusing their climate change campaigns on fossil fuel divestment - the removal of stocks, bonds and funds from oil companies. In New Zealand, the Anglican Church and Victoria University, are leading the way.
Stories from Our Changing World.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about. With Paul Brennan, Simon Mercep, Jock Anderson and Josie McNaught

===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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15:45
The Panel pre-show for 21 April 2015
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
Topics: politics, life and society
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Duration: 16'23"

16:08
Panel intro
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What the Panelists Josie McNaught and Jock Anderson have been up to
Topics: life and society
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Duration: 5'40"

16:14
2025 smokefree target moved
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The Ministry of Health is looking at a revamp of its anti-smoking funding if it's to meet the target of making New Zealand smokefree by 2025. We talk to Dr Robert Beaglehole about the target needs to change.
Topics: health, politics
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Duration: 10'23"

16:22
Euthanasia
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A terminally ill Wellington woman's High Court case for the right to die is becoming a test case for special interest groups.
Topics: law, health
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Tags: euthanasia, assisted dying
Duration: 4'32"

16:28
Stop, give a donation, go
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What's too aggressive when it comes to fundraising? A Coromandel Group set up a roadblock to ask motorists for money on the weekend.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: charities
Duration: 4'15"

16:35
British election
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Dr Bryan Gould joins the Panel to talk about key issues of the British election. The Scottish National Party's place in it, who's the preferred Prime Minister and if the public school influence will ever leave the British parliament.
Topics: politics
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Tags: England, election
Duration: 9'49"

16:45
The Panel Says
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What the Panelists Jock Anderson and Josie McNaught have been thinking about.
Topics: life and society
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Duration: 5'18"

16:52
Canadian kid ban
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A Canadian restaurant has banned screaming children.
Topics: life and society
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Duration: 3'12"

16:55
In a pickle over chutney
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An American tourist isn't relishing our strict airport bio-security after he wasn't allowed to take a jar of chutney onboard.
Topics: life and society, transport
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Tags: air travel
Duration: 2'42"

16:58
NZ troops on way to Iraq
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It's now been confirmed New Zealand troops have left for the first leg of their deployment to Iraq.
Topics: politics, defence force
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Tags: Iraq
Duration: 1'32"

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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 Tuesday 21 April 2015
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Chilling facts from the Livingstone inquest, Rudd's threat came after his solo album bombed, Alex Swney admits stealing millions, Tramper crawls for 10 hours with dislocated shoulder
Topics: law, politics, crime
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Duration: 15'57"

17:07
Chilling facts from the Livingstone inquest
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The coroner's court has heard that Edward Livingstone talked to others about intending to kill his children and himself as early as mid-2013, but the police did not take the threats seriously.
Topics: crime, law
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Duration: 10'14"

17:17
Rudd's threat came after his solo album bombed
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When Phil Rudd's solo album launch failed, he sacked a group of staff and threatened to kill one of them.
Topics: law, crime
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Tags: AC/DC
Duration: 2'47"

17:23
Alex Swney admits stealing millions
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Alex Swney's admitted stealing millions from the agency he ran to promote Auckland, on top of the tax evasion he's already facing prison for.
Topics: crime, law
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Tags: Heart of the City
Duration: 6'02"

17:29
Tramper crawls for 10 hours with dislocated shoulder
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A tramper crawled for ten hours with a dislocated shoulder after being stuck on the side of a mountain on the West Coast for two days.
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Tags: tramping
Duration: 2'37"

17:34
Sports News for 21 April 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Tags: rugby
Duration: 1'27"

17:36
Today's market update
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The New Zealand dollar continues to inch towards parity with the Australian currency.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: currency
Duration: 2'19"

17:38
Three killed in wild weather in NSW, Australia
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Three people have died in storms hitting Australia's east coast, and an elderly couple have been rescued while dangling from the gutter of their home.
Topics: weather
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Tags: Australia, Dungog
Duration: 3'11"

17:42
Man goes free despite fatal fight with father
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An young man has walked free from court after a tragic drunken fight with his father at a service station in Waitara last year.
Topics: law, crime
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Duration: 4'18"

17:48
A woman's fight to die goes to court
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The lawyer for a woman fighting for the right to die with her doctor's help fears the case may get bogged down and take up time his client doesn't have.
Topics: health, law
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Tags: euthanasia, assisted dying
Duration: 2'09"

17:50
Wairarapa Māori furious at sale of farm gifted by Pakeha farmer
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Wairarapa Māori furious at the sale of a farm gifted to them by a Pakeha farmer decades ago say their fight is not going away.
Topics: te ao Māori, farming
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Duration: 4'52"

17:55
Te Manu Korihi News for 21 April 2015
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The Fonterra milk co-operative model that's created billions of dollars for farmers is being proposed for Māori-owned forestry.
Topics: te ao Māori
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Tags: forestry
Duration: 3'22"

18:06
Sports News for 21 April 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 3'10"

18:09
Livingstone told his neighbour he wanted to kill his children
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The coroner's court has heard the Dunedin man who killed his children last year made an earlier death threat against them but the police didn't take it seriously.
Topics: crime, law
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Tags: CYFs
Duration: 3'19"

18:15
Prisoners covered cameras with toothpaste before murder
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The police have told an inquest how prisoners covered cameras with toothpaste before they murdered another inmate.
Topics: crime, law
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Auckland Prison
Duration: 2'38"

18:20
Organic food industry demands earlier certification
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It could be years before the organic food industry gets a certification regime, angering producers who are convinced it will confuse customers and leave New Zealand lagging behind the rest of the world.
Topics: farming, food
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Tags: organic food, labeling
Duration: 3'13"

18:23
Ellis supporters will continue fight
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Supporters of convicted child offender Peter Ellis say they will continue to fight to clear his name despite the Justice Minister turning down a Commission of Inquiry.
Topics: law
Regions: Canterbury
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Duration: 2'05"

18:26
Landmark ruling over choosing between super and ACC
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A landmark ruling by the Human Rights Review Tribunal in favour of Ernest Heads, may not leave him better off.
Topics: law
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Tags: ACC
Duration: 4'35"

18:40
Cars banned on Mount Eden's summit
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People will soon no longer be allowed to drive to the top of one of Auckland's most popular volcanoes, Mount Eden.
Topics: politics, te ao Māori
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Mount Eden, mana whenua
Duration: 4'11"

18:48
Te Manu Korihi News for 21 April 2015
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The Fonterra milk co-operative model that's created billions of dollars for farmers is being proposed for Māori-owned forestry; A Māori historian is eager for more rangatahi to take up his profession so the stories of Māori veterans live on, and aren't wasted on going to the grave; A total immersion Māori language school in northern Hawke's Bay has a new home and new buildings.
Topics: te ao Māori, farming
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Duration: 3'29"

18:52
Is Christchurch on the road to happiness?
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Engineers of a different kind have spent the afternoon talking about ways to make Christchurch a happier place.
Topics: Canterbury earthquakes, environment
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Happy City
Duration: 2'35"

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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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Entertainment and information, including: 7:30 The Sampler: A weekly review and analysis of new CD releases (RNZ) 8:13 Windows on the World: International public radio features and documentaries

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19:10
Our Own Odysseys - A Polish Gap Year
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Why young Kiwi Anneke Voerman has decided to spend a year in Poland before moving onto higher education.
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Gallery: A Polish gap year
Young Kiwi Anneke Voerman is spending a year in Poland before moving onto higher education.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: Poland, gap year, odysseys
Duration: 18'36"

20:42
Feminism
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Equality for women with feminist blogger Deborah Russell on feminism and motherhood.
Topics: life and society, media, history
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Tags: feminism, motherhood, equality
Duration: 16'13"

20:59
Conundrum - clue number 3
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Conundrum - clue number 3.
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Duration: 09"

21:59
Conundrum - clue number 4
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Conundrum - clue number 4.
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Duration: 22"

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7:10 Our Own Odysseys - A Polish Gap Year
Why young Kiwi Anneke Voerman has decided to spend a year in Poland before moving onto higher education.
Gallery: A Polish gap year

7:30 The Sampler

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19:30
The Sampler for 21 April 2015
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Nick Bollinger reviews a new album from the prolific Laura Marling, and an electronic suite from Icelandic electronicists Kiasmos, while Kirsten Johnstone discusses a stripped-back and personal set from Sufjan Stevens.
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Nick Bollinger reviews a new album from the prolific Laura Marling, and an electronic suite from Icelandic electronicists Kiasmos, while Kirsten Johnstone discusses a stripped-back and personal set from Sufjan Stevens.
Topics: music
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Tags: music review, Laura Marling, Kiasmos, Sufjan Stevens
Duration: 27'07"

19:31
Short Movie by Laura Marling
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Nick Bollinger reviews a new album from the prolific Laura Marling.
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Nick Bollinger reviews a new album from the prolific Laura Marling.
Short Movie, Laura Marling (Universal)
Laura Marling released her first album when she was just eighteen, and it presented a restless young singer-songwriter, aware of the tradition yet already asserting her own voice.
Now twenty-five, her fifth album features more of her powerful acoustic guitar picking and strong melodic songs, but also ventures into electric territory and a semi-spoken vocal delivery, showing that she is still restless and getting more daring every time.
Songs featured: Howl, Warrior, Short Movie, I Feel Your Love, False Hope, Strange, Gurdjieff’s Daughter, Sorry, Worship Me.
Topics: music
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Tags: music review
Duration: 11'50"

19:35
Kiasmos by Kiasmos
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Nick Bollinger reviews an electronic suite from Icelandic electronicists Kiasmos.
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Nick Bollinger reviews an electronic suite from Icelandic electronicists Kiasmos for The Sampler
Kiasmos, Kiasmos (Erased Tapes)
Kiasmos, the Icelandic duo of Olafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen, write and perform with synthesisers and drum programmes, augmented by the occasional acoustic piano, live strings or percussion.
What distinguishes their self-titled debut from so much downbeat electronica are the little sonic events – at times almost comic - that grab your ear and hang on. It is not demanding, which might be what makes it so refreshing.
Songs featured: Lit, Held, Swayed, Burnt
Topics: music
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Tags: music review
Duration: 6'12"

19:39
Carrie And Lowell by Sufjan Stevens
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Kirsten Johnstone discusses a stripped-back and deeply personal set from Sufjan Stevens for The Sampler.
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Kirsten Johnstone discusses a stripped-back and personal set from Sufjan Stevens for The Sampler
Carrie And Lowell by Sufjan Stevens (Asthmatic Kitty)
North American songwriter Sufjan Stevens has released his most heartbreaking set of songs yet.
Carrie And Lowell deals with the death of his mother in 2012, though she left Sufjan’s life a lot earlier. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, and struggling with substance abuse and depression, she left when Sufjan was one.
He leaves the orchestral excesses and exuberant electronic outbursts of his previous albums behind behind, with just acoustic plucking, hushed choruses and soft atmospherics giving the lyrics the space they need to weave Sufjan Stevens’ personal mythology.
Songs featured: Death With Dignity, Should Have Known Better, Fourth Of July, The Only Thing, My Blue Bucket Of Gold.
Topics: music
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Tags: music review
Duration: 9'08"

7:30 The Sampler
A weekly review and analysis of new CD releases.
8:10 Windows on the World
International public radio documentaries - visit the Windows on the World web page to find links to these documentaries.
8:40 Feminism
Equality for women with feminist blogger Deborah Russell on feminism and motherhood.
9:06 The Tuesday Feature: Steam Ahead
A panel discussion about creativity recorded at the Auckland Art Gallery. Those contributing are Professor Bruce Sheridan, the New Zealand-born academic who is the chair of the film and video department at Chicago's Columbia College, and Julie Maxton, Executive Director of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom. Noelle McCarthy is in this chair.
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 Global Village
A selection of world music along with jazz, rock, folk and other styles, artists and songs with world and roots influences chosen and presented by Wichita radio host Chris Heim (4 of 13, KMUW)

===9:06 PM. | None (National)===
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(RNZ)

===10:00 PM. | Late Edition===
=DESCRIPTION=

Radio New Zealand news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from Radio New Zealand National

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

A selection of world music along with jazz, rock, folk and other styles, artists and songs with world and roots influences chosen and presented by Wichita radio host Chris Heim (4 of 13, KMUW)