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:
27 September 2015
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 History Repeated (RNZ); 1:05 Our Changing World (RNZ); 2:05 Spiritual Outlook (RNZ); 2:35 Hymns on Sunday; 3:05 Eric of Epsom, by Julia Brannigan (RNZ); 3:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ); 4:30 Science in Action (BBC); 5:45 NZ Society (RNZ)
===7:08 AM. | Storytime===
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Thoughts from the Sick Bay, by Sandra Smith, told by Katherine Beasley; Freddy and the Space Invaders, by Stuart Hoar, told by Bruce Phillips; Hay Carting, by Alec Barltrop, told by Brian Sergent; Light as Air Cake, by Janet Slater Bottin, told by Christine Bartlett; Splodgy the Rissole that Fell on the Floor, by Don Franks, told by Michael Wilson
===8:08 AM. | Sunday Morning===
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A fresh attitude on current affairs, the news behind the news, documentaries, sport from the outfield, music and including: 7:43 The Week in Parliament: An in-depth perspective of legislation and other issues from the house (RNZ) 8:10 Insight: An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs (RNZ) 9:06 Mediawatch: Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in NZ's news media (RNZ)
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07:10
Sandra Grey and Joan Withers - sexism in the workplace
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Recent reports in the UK media of a "mushroom cloud of retro sexism" has helped focus attention back on gender discrimination in the workplace. Dr Sandra Grey is president of the Tertiary Education Union, and Joan Withers, MBA, is a business-person and company director.
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Recent reports in the UK media of a "mushroom cloud of retro sexism" has helped focus attention back on gender discrimination in the workplace.
Wallace Chapman talks with Dr Sandra Grey and Joan Withers about the nature and extent of workplace sexism in 2015.
Dr Sandra Grey is president of the Tertiary Education Union and Joan Withers, MBA, is a businessperson and company director. She chairs the TVNZ Board, and heads the board of directors of Mighty River Power.
Topics: inequality, identity, history, business
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Tags: Joan Withers, Sandra Grey, workplace sexism, gender issues, equality, women, gender
Duration: 21'31"
07:30
The Week In Parliament for 27 September 2015
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Week in the House dominated by urgency for passage of the New Zealand Flag Referendums Amendment Bill - adding the "Red Peak" design to the upcoming referendum; Assistant Speaker Trevor Mallard takes issue with statements made by National's Nick Smith - an incident culminating in Mr Smith's ejection from the Chamber; South Korean Free Trade Bill passes final reading; Finance & Expenditure Committee hears submissions on Taxation (Bright-line Test for Residential Land) Bill - which is also the subject of questions to the Revenue Minister; Andrew Little questions John Key's penchant for pandas.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 15'08"
07:50
Tim Armstrong - measuring time
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At the start of daylight savings for this summer season we look at the challenges of measuring time and the tricky hurdle of leap seconds.
Topics: science
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Tags: leap seconds, Tim Armstrong, time, Daylight saving
Duration: 7'11"
08:45
Dr Lora Wu - The National Sleep Deficit
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Thousands of New Zealanders suffer from sleep problems - and the beginning of daylight saving just adds to a growing national sleep deficit. Dr Lora Wu is a post-doctoral fellow at Massey University's Sleep/Wake Research Centre.
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For many New Zealanders, daylight saving is not a cause for celebration as that one hour less sleep can make life miserable if you have trouble sleeping.
Dr Lora Wu of Massey University's Sleep/Wake Research Centre tells Wallace Chapman that thousands of New Zealanders struggle to adjust.
Topics: health
Regions:
Tags: sleep, insomnia, Massey University, sleep apnoea, Daylight saving
Duration: 12'26"
09:08
Mediawatch for 27 September 2015
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Piggybacking on a political attack; media in transition, integrating their news; World Cupwatch - Japan overjoyed but overlooked, and; Richie's reputation.
Topics: media
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Tags:
Duration: 34'28"
09:40
Prof Harlene Hayne - Celebrating Academic Success
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Does the tall poppy syndrome really exist? Professor Harlene Hayne, Vice Chancellor of Otago University, believes it does and says it's time we started celebrating our academic successes in the same way we celebrate our sporting ones.
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Does the tall poppy syndrome really exist? Professor Harlene Hayne, Vice Chancellor of Otago University, believes it does.
She tells Wallace Chapman that it's time New Zealand started celebrating academic success in the same way we celebrate sporting achievement.
Topics: inequality, life and society, identity
Regions: Otago
Tags: Otago University, Harlene Hayne, Dunedin, tall poppy syndrome
Duration: 16'34"
10:10
Julian McMahon and Ursula Noye - Death Penalty for Drug Crime
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October 10 is the World Day Against the Death Penalty and this year the theme is ending the death penalty for drug crimes. Julian McMahon is an Australian barrister who has worked on death row cases in the Asian region, and Ursula Noye is Vice-President of Reprieve Australia, an NGO fighting the death penalty around the world.
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33 countries and territories enforce the death penalty for drug crimes, including many of our regional neighbours.
October 10 is the World Day Against the Death Penalty. This year the theme is ending the death penalty for drug crimes. Julian McMahon is an Australian barrister who has worked on death row cases in the Asian region, and Ursula Noye is Vice-President of Reprieve Australia, an NGO fighting the death penalty around the world.
Wallace Chapman talks with Julian McMahon and Ursula Noye about the use of the death penalty for drug offences in the Asia Pacific region and internationally.
Topics: crime, life and society
Regions:
Tags: death penalty, drugs, NZ Drug Foundation, Myuran Sukumaran, Bali 9, Andrew Chan
Duration: 23'37"
10:40
Bruce Ansley - A Wild Road Trip
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Writer Bruce Ansley travelled some of New Zealand's most awe-inspiring and remote roads while researching his latest book, Wild Roads: A New Zealand Journey. The book features 60 routes ranging from scenic coastal highways to treacherous mountain passes.
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Writer Bruce Ansley travelled some of New Zealand's most awe-inspiring and remote roads while researching his latest book Wild Roads: A New Zealand Journey. The book features 60 routes ranging from scenic coastal highways to treacherous mountain passes.
Bruce Ansley and Wallace Chapman compare their favourite New Zealand roads.
Topics: author interview, books, arts
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Tags: New Zealand landscape
Duration: 19'44"
11:10
Seth Shostak - Life in Space
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Senior astronomer and Director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute, Mountain View, California. Seth Shostak is coming to New Zealand as a guest speaker at the Aoraki Mackenzie Starlight Festival in Twizel, Oct 9-11.
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Is there life out there? It's one question that has fascinated humankind since the beginning of time.
Senior astronomer Seth Shostak has devoted his life to SETI – the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. He is currently Director of the Center for SETI Research in Mountain View, California and is guest speaker at the Aoraki Mackenzie Starlight Festival in Twizel, 9-11 October 2015.
Seth talks with Wallace Chapman.
Topics: science, technology
Regions: Otago
Tags: SETI, ETS, alien life, astronomy
Duration: 19'53"
11:35
Mike Nock - The Sounds of Len Lye
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New Zealand jazz pianist Mike Nock has more than 100 albums to his name - including collaborations with Tal Farlow and Yusef Lateef. He's been in New Plymouth looking at links between jazz music and the sculptures of Len Lye.
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New Zealand jazz pianist Mike Nock has more than 100 albums to his name - including collaborations with Tal Farlow and Yusef Lateef.
He's been in New Plymouth looking at links between jazz music and the sculptures of Len Lye.
Topics: music, arts
Regions: Taranaki
Tags: jazz, Mike Nock, Len Lye
Duration: 23'03"
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7:10 Sandra Grey and Joan Withers – Sexism in the Workplace
Recent reports of what's been described in the UK media as a "mushroom cloud of retro sexism" has focused the attention back on gender discrimination in the workplace. Dr Sandra Grey is president of the Tertiary Education Union and Joan Withers, MBA, is a businessperson and company director. She chairs the TVNZ Board, and heads the board of directors of Mighty River Power.
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7:30 Current Affairs: The Week in Parliament; measuring time and the tricky problem of leap seconds; and Radio New Zealand International’s Sally Round is just back from Fiji where it’s a year since Frank Bainimarama and his FijiFirst party won a landslide victory at the polls.
8:12 Insight: Auckland's Quest for Affordable Housing
Housing in Auckland has never been further out of reach of so many first-time buyers. The median sale price of $755,000 is nearly 10 times the estimated mean household income. Three times the income is considered "unaffordable". The city is already two years into the three-year Housing Accord, aimed at boosting land supply, home building, and thereby easing prices, but it's made no impact with average sale prices rising 20 per cent in a year. Some experts argue New Zealand doesn't have systems in place to successfully turn out sufficient numbers of reasonably priced homes. In this week's Insight, Todd Niall looks at why the numbers of affordable homes being built in Auckland only amount to a drop in the housing bucket, and at whether anyone has plans big enough to make a difference.
Produced by Teresa Cowie
8:42 Dr Lora Wu – The National Sleep Deficit
Thousands of New Zealanders suffer from sleep problems – and the beginning of daylight saving just adds to a growing national sleep deficit. Dr Lora Wu is a post-doctoral fellow at Massey University’s Sleep/Wake Research Centre.
9:06 Mediawatch
Papers and their publishers under pressure, and how the media seized on the story of ‘the prime minister and the pig’. Also: World Cupwatch – how Japan was overjoyed but overlooked; and facing the facts on Richie's reputation.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:40 Prof Harlene Hayne – Celebrating Academic Success
Does the tall poppy syndrome really exist? Professor Harlene Hayne, Vice Chancellor of Otago University, believes it does and says it’s time we started celebrating our academic successes in the same way we celebrate our sporting ones.
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10:07 Julian McMahon and Ursula Noye – Death Penalty for Drug Crime
There are 33 countries and territories that retain the death penalty for drug crimes – including many of our regional neighbours. Many of us watched in horror as the Bali 9 were shot by firing squad in Indonesia earlier this year. October 10 is the World Day Against the Death Penalty and this year the theme is ending the death penalty for drug crimes. Julian McMahon is an Australian barrister who has worked on death row cases in the Asian region, and Ursula Noye is Vice-President of Reprieve Australia, an NGO fighting the death penalty around the world. They have been visiting New Zealand on a trip organised by the Drug Foundation to urge our Government to speak up against the death penalty to our neighbours and trading partners.
10:35 Bruce Ansley – A Wild Road Trip
Writer Bruce Ansley travelled some of New Zealand’s most awe-inspiring and remote roads while researching his latest book: Wild Roads: A New Zealand Journey. The book features 60 routes ranging from scenic coastal highways to treacherous mountain passes.
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11:06 Seth Shostak – Life in Space
Seth Shostak is senior astronomer and Director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute, Mountain View, California. (SETI is the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence).He spends much of his days searching for signals from life in outer space. Seth Shostak is also host of the radio show, Big Picture Science: He is coming to New Zealand as a guest speaker at the Aoraki Mackenzie Starlight Festival in Twizel, Oct 9-11
11:30 Mike Nock – The Sounds of Len Lye
New Zealand jazz pianist Mike Nock has more than 100 albums to his name - including collaborations with Tal Farlow and Yusef Lateef. He’s been in New Plymouth looking at links between jazz music and the sculptures of Len Lye.
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===1:12 PM. | Spectrum===
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People, places and events in NZ (RNZ)
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12:15
The Country Club
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In the early 1960s Roy Kellahan was running a horse trekking business on an old abandoned dairy farm in the Ohariu Valley, not far from Wellington. Weekend horse treks ended up being quite social affairs and Roy hit on the idea of building a club where he and his clients could gather for a few drinks after a day's riding. By the time Ohariu Valley Country Club opened its doors for private members in 1973 it boasted a large lavishly furnished dining room fitted with European furniture and drapes, an underground wine cellar, a billiard room, squash court, spa, sauna and even a board room.
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In the early 1960s Roy Kellahan was running a horse trekking business on an old abandoned dairy farm in the Ohariu Valley, not far from Wellington.
Weekend horse treks ended up being quite social affairs and Roy hit on the idea of building a club where he and his clients could gather for a few drinks after a day’s riding. What started as a modest set of club rooms evolved into a large European style lodge which Roy and his friends built on a 4ha block he subdivided off the farm.
By the time Ohariu Valley Country Club opened its doors for private members in 1973 it boasted a large lavishly furnished dining room fitted with European furniture and drapes, an underground wine cellar, a billiard room, squash court, spa, sauna and even a board room.
There was a huge fireplace in the downstairs lounge, a dancefloor and bar area decorated with light fittings imported from Spain. Outside was a balcony overlooking two tennis courts and a heated Olympic sized swimming pool.
Roy’s idea was to entice businesses to use the facilities midweek and families on the weekends. He and his associates promoted the Country Club enthusiastically throughout the Wellington Region and quite soon he had a number of large companies ready to sign up.
But opening a private club in 1970s Wellington was tough. Aside from the bureaucracy involved in getting building permits and consents, operating a bar and restaurant in the days of strict liquor licensing was a big challenge. Up until the late 1960s liquor could only be bought at hotel after 6pm if you were staying as a guest.
Six o’clock closing came to an end in 1967 and a few licensed restaurants were operating , but the Country Club, like many other sports clubs of the era, still had to operate in a grey area of the law when serving drinks to their patrons. The club used a ticket system. No cash changed hands and a member could get alcohol by providing a printed ticket. Roy says it was a thin veneer of legality.
In 1974, following a royal commission on liquor licensing, the Country Club applied for license and was turned down. Shortly after making submissions to the commission the club was raided by police and most of its stock of wine and beer was confiscated.
It took Roy and his partners 7 years and their own Act of Parliament to finally be allowed to serve liquor to their customers. In 1981 the Winton Holdings Licensing Act permitted the club to legally “sell and supply liquor on premises situated in the Ohariu Valley, Wellington.” But nearly a decade of battling bureaucracy had taken its toll. In 1984 the Club essentially closed its doors, faced with a massive bill to retrofit the property to comply with the fire regulations associated with its new status as a licensed liqueur outlet.
Topics: business, law, life and society
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: horse trek, liquor licenses, privateclubs, country clubs
Duration: 24'37"
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===1:40 PM. | Standing Room Only===
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It's an 'all access pass' to what's happening in the worlds of arts and entertainment, including: 1:10 At the Movies with Simon Morris 3:04 The Drama Hour: Close to You, by Chad Taylor Neal is a firefighter. His younger sister, Josie, has been injured in the house fire that has destroyed her home in a small country town. Josie has a history of lighting fires. Neal travels down from Auckland to visit her in hospital and to try to make sense of what has happened (RNZ)
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12:41
A positive spin on Christchurch's wrecked buildings
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New York Choreographer Leslie Scott is collaborating with Christchurch dancers on a project about decaying and demolished buildings and rebullding. Christchurch offers many options in all three categories. (re)BUILD as a collaboration with the Christchurch Arts Centre and Hagley Dance Company and opens at the Centre this Friday as part of the Body Dance Festival.
Topics: arts
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: dance, Hagley Dance Company, Christchurch Rebuild
Duration: 12'08"
12:50
A different perspective on the Garden City
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Large banners with images of cabbage trees, daffodils and even weeks have been handmade for the SCAPE outdoor art biennial. Otakaro Plant Parade is a new artwork by Fiona Jack which has been developed for SCAPE 8 New Intimacies, Christchurch's biennial outdoor art event. Over the past year Fiona has spent time in Christchurch, talking with locals and learning about ecological stories and histories of the Garden City. Her work celebrates and responds to these gathered narratives: from the historic trees planted by Samuel Barker along Oxford Terrace, to the daffodils which appear every year through the efforts of the Christchurch Beautifying Association; from the cabbage trees at Burnside High School to the self-seeding weeds that occupy the city's vacant lots. Next Sunday morning banners will form a procession the path of the Otakaro-Avon River.
Topics: arts
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: SCAPE, Avon River, Christchurch, Otakaro Plant Parade
Duration: 13'24"
13:34
Finding a choral niche in the capital
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It's a brave choir that takes on the music of seminal musicians like David Bowie and Fleetwood Mac. You have to please people who know and love every note of the original version, yet put your own stamp on it.One of Wellington's newest choirs Supertonic whose singers are in the 20s to 30s age group, is taking on the challenge. While it's only been going since early last year, Supertonic's put on several concerts and been recorded by the sound wizards at Park Road Post. Founding member Evie Rainey and Supertonic's Music Director Isaac Stone explain why they started a new choir rather than join one of the many existing ones in the Capital. The choir's next concert 'Fighting in the Dancehall' is on Saturday 3 October at The Hunter Lounge in Wellington.
Topics: arts, music
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: choirs, Supertonic
Duration: 10'12"
13:45
Pulling all the Strings
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New Zealand doesn't have a long history of puppeteering compared to other parts of the world where puppets still continue to serve as storytellers, reinforcing cultural traditions and bringing myths and legends to life. Sonia Sly went to meet some puppeteers to find out how they're keeping the world of puppetry alive in New Zealand ahead of Out of the Suitcase Puppet festival in Wellington.
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“If you go to Japan or many Asian countries or European countries there’s a culture of puppet animation, so it makes those people both very good puppeteers, but it also transfers into the animation that happens in film,” says puppeteer, Rose Beauchamp.
It’s been almost 30 years since the last Out of the Suitcase Puppet Festival in Wellington, but that’s not to say that puppets have seen their demise. Rose Beauchamp who is organising this year’s event, says that New Zealand has a wealth of talented performers who continue to perform locally, but also travel to international festivals to show their work.
She is adamant that it is our short history of puppeteering and misconceptions about the craft that keep puppetry under the radar.
“Puppetry has been marginalised as it’s just for kids or ‘what a nice hobby you’ve got.’ It takes a while for those attitudes to change,” says the puppeteer who has travelled internationally with her shadow puppets.
But no matter the misconceptions Rose has maintained an interest in the magic of puppetry. “It’s like a sort of gift that you’re given and that you keep exploring,” she says.
Born in Germany, Norbert Hausberg has created at least 100 puppets, some of which are housed at Te Papa’s Discovery Centre.
It was a childhood love of puppets whilst growing up in an environment where puppetry was celebrated that ignited his passion.
His puppets are hand carved from wood and take at least two weeks to complete. Though he confesses to having heads that have yet to find partnerships with the right bodies, and vice-versa.
For Norbert, being a puppeteer has offered a great deal of freedom: “You’re completely independent—it’s just you and your suitcase [and] you can go anywhere. You can perform in small venues [or] large venues.”
Travelling with his shows has provided some magical moments, including an experience he had during a trip to India where a local puppeteer animated his grandfather puppet: “Suddenly it was this very agile Indian grandfather,” says Norbert, who after all these years is still astonished by what he saw.
Sam Duckor-Jones considers himself very new to the world of puppeteering and it was his background as a self-taught sculptor that piqued his interest in puppetry.
“Deep down my true love is animation, but I find all the computer side of things really difficult,” he says.
Sam has a very close relationship with his pianist puppet, Isaac, whose expressive face shows determined concentration, with spindly wooden arms and legs clothed in what is now, torn sheet music. It all adds to the life and character of the puppet.
It’s an indulgent occupation and one which allows the Sam to do all the things that he wished he could do himself.
“I like playing [the piano] by myself in the room, but not in front of people. But he can play in front of people and get away with it.”
Sam dons silky black, elbow-length gloves to bring his new puppet, an opera singer, to life. In this moment, Sam becomes at one with her, and she with him.
“The other thing I like about puppets is not hiding the way that they work. I want people to see that this is operated by a live human and we’re working together,” says the young puppeteer.
Out of the Suitcase Puppet Festival runs from the 1-5 October in Wellington.
Listen to Sonia Sly chat to Norbert, Sam, and Rose about the keys to bringing the world of their imaginations and characters to life.
Topics: arts, life and society
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: culture, tradition, shadow puppetry, Out of the Suitcase Puppet Festival, Germany, Japan, history, craft, theatre, music, stories
Duration: 11'13"
14:25
Turning film noir into dance noir
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Zahra Killeen-Chance is an award winning choreographer and dancer, whose choreographed work has been produced in Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin and Taipei. Currently Zahra is studying for a masters in Performance and Media at AUT. Her upcoming work The Fallen Mystery, is inspired by 1940s-1950s Film Noir film style, where elements of these films are explored through dance. It started as a 10 minute piece performed at Auckland's Tempo Dance Festival in 2014 and returns to Tempo this year as a full length work. The Fallen Mystery is non-linear and characterised by short tableaus full of imagery. Adding to the show Hermione Johnson will perform live music alongside the dancers.
Topics: arts
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Zahra Killeen-Chance, Film Noir, dance, film
Duration: 12'17"
14:37
Early New Zealand murder revisited
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It was one of New Zealand's most shocking and most reported murders back in the late 19th century. Most of us have never heard of Mary Dobie, a young artist killed while out walking on in Opunake. But in the 1880s the newspapers and their readers just couldn't get enough of the murder mystery. Writer and Journalist David Hastings has researched Mary's story, which is remarkable in its own right, for his book, The Many Deaths of Mary Dobie. It is published by Auckland University Press.
Topics: arts, history, author interview
Regions: Taranaki
Tags: David Hastings, murder, Parihaka, Mary Dobie
Duration: 9'50"
14:45
The 2015 IHC Art Awards
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Mike Gourley checks out this year's IHC Art Awards and talks with national judges, Boh Runga and Dylan Horrocks. He also interviews the event organiser Penny Harding - about the winning work, and IHC National Communications manager, Gina Rogers, about the glossy and stylish booklet she edited, marking a decade of the Awards from their beginnings in 2004 through to last year. The sponsorship has now been taken up by the Holdsworth Family Trust. Auckland artist Chris Wills won the IHC Art Awards 2015 and $5000 with an intricate map of New Zealand embroidered on linen, while teenage Gisborne artist Keitha Taylor is this year's People's Choice winner. She entered a pen and watercolour pencil drawing Baby and Mother Giraffe.
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Mike Gourley checks out this year's IHC Art Awards and talks with national judges, Boh Runga and Dylan Horrocks. He also interviews the event organiser Penny Harding about the winning work and IHC National Communications manager, Gina Rogers.
Auckland artist Chris Wills won the IHC Art Awards 2015 and $5000 with an intricate map of New Zealand embroidered on linen, while teenage Gisborne artist Keitha Taylor is this year's People's Choice winner. She entered a pen and watercolour pencil drawing Baby and Mother Giraffe.
Topics: arts, disability
Regions:
Tags: IHC Art Awards
Duration: 11'44"
14:47
IHC Art Awards 2015
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Mike Gourley checks out this year's IHC Art Awards and talks with national judges, Boh Runga and Dylan Horrocks. He also interviews the event organiser Penny Harding - about the winning work, and IHC National Communications manager, Gina Rogers, about the glossy and stylish booklet she edited, marking a decade of the Awards from their beginnings in 2004 through to last year. The sponsorship has now been taken up by the Holdsworth Family Trust. Auckland artist Chris Wills won the IHC Art Awards 2015 and $5000 with an intricate map of New Zealand embroidered on linen, while teenage Gisborne artist Keitha Taylor is this year's People's Choice winner. She entered a pen and watercolour pencil drawing Baby and Mother Giraffe.
Topics: arts
Regions: East Coast, Auckland Region, Wellington Region
Tags: IHC, IHC Art Awards
Duration: 11'06"
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12:39 A positive spin on Christchurch's wrecked buildings
New York Choreographer Leslie Scott is collaborating with Christchurch dancers on a project about decaying and demolished buildings and rebullding. Christchurch offers many options in all three categories. (re)BUILD as a collaboration with the Christchurch Arts Centre and Hagley Dance Company and opens at the Centre this Friday as part of the Body Dance Festival.
12:48 A different perspective on the Garden City
Large banners with images of cabbage trees, daffodils and even weeks have been handmade for the SCAPE outdoor art biennial. Ōtākaro Plant Parade is a new artwork by Fiona Jack which has been developed for SCAPE 8 New Intimacies, Christchurch's biennial outdoor art event. Over the past year Fiona has spent time in Christchurch, talking with locals and learning about ecological stories and histories of the Garden City. Her work celebrates and responds to these gathered narratives: from the historic trees planted by Samuel Barker along Oxford Terrace, to the daffodils which appear every year through the efforts of the Christchurch Beautifying Association; from the cabbage trees at Burnside High School to the self-seeding weeds that occupy the city's vacant lots. Next Sunday morning banners will form a procession the path of the Ōtākaro-Avon River.
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1:10 At the Movies with Simon Morris
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1:34 Finding a choral niche in the capital
It's a brave choir that takes on the music of seminal musicians like David Bowie and Fleetwood Mac. You have to please people who know and love every note of the original version, yet put your own stamp on it.One of Wellington's newest choirs Supertonic whose singers are in the 20s to 30s age group, is taking on the challenge. While it's only been going since early last year, Supertonic's put on several concerts and been recorded by the sound wizards at Park Road Post. Founding member Evie Rainey and Supertonic's Music Director Isaac Stone explain why they started a new choir rather than join one of the many existing ones in the Capital. The choir's next concert 'Fighting in the Dancehall' is on Saturday 3 October at The Hunter Lounge in Wellington.
1:47 Strings attached
New Zealand doesn't have a long history of puppeteering compared to other parts of the world where puppets still continue to serve as storytellers, reinforcing cultural traditions and bringing myths and legends to life. Sonia Sly went to meet some puppeteers to find out how they're keeping the world of puppetry alive in New Zealand ahead of Out of the Suitcase Puppet festival in Wellington.
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2:05 The Laugh Track: Gerry Paul
Musician Gerry Paul is a man of many parts - he's a songwriter, a TV presenter, a producer and the creator of "Hank the Wrestling Shark" opened many doors for him after winning the 2010 Grand Prize at the international John Lennon Songwriting Contest. Gerry's spent a big chunk of his life touring overseas with some big name acts and a variety of bands. He's about to perform at several New Zealand venues, including at the Tauranga Arts Festival in collaboration with Trinity Roots in a show called Motu-Oileain, and also with singer/songwriter Mel Parsons. He shares some of his favourite comedians including Brendan Grace, Ricky Gervais and Billy T James, and New Zealand TV show Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby.
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2:26 Turning film noir into dance noir
Zahra Killeen-Chance is an award winning choreographer and dancer, whose choreographed work has been produced in Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin and Taipei. Currently Zahra is studying for a masters in Performance and Media at AUT. Her upcoming work The Fallen Mystery, is inspired by 1940s-1950s Film Noir film style, where elements of these films are explored through dance. It started as a 10 minute piece performed at Auckland's Tempo Dance Festival in 2014 and returns to Tempo this year as a full length work. The Fallen Mystery is non-linear and characterised by short tableaus full of imagery. Adding to the show Hermione Johnson will perform live music alongside the dancers.
2:36 Early New Zealand murder revisited
It was one of New Zealand's most shocking and most reported murders back in the late 19th century. Most of us have never heard of Mary Dobie, a young artist killed while out walking on in Opunake. But in the 1880s the newspapers and their readers just couldn't get enough of the murder mystery. Writer and Journalist David Hastings has researched Mary's story, which is remarkable in its own right, for his book, The Many Deaths of Mary Dobie. It is published by Auckland University Press.
David Hastings' career in journalism spans more than four decades. He began working as a copy boy on the Melbourne Sun in 1970 and ended in 2013 as editor of the Weekend Herald. In between times he worked for Australian Associated Press, the Australasian Express in London, the ABC in Melbourne as sub-editor, producer and then television news editor. At the New Zealand Herald between 1987 and 2013 he was a sub-editor, foreign editor, news editor, deputy editor and, finally, editor of the Weekend Herald. He left the Herald in January 2013 to pursue his interest in writing history.
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2:48 IHC Art Awards 2015
Mike Gourley checks out this year's IHC Art Awards and talks with national judges, Boh Runga and Dylan Horrocks. He also interviews the event organiser Penny Harding - about the winning work, and IHC National Communications manager, Gina Rogers, about the glossy and stylish booklet she edited, marking a decade of the Awards from their beginnings in 2004 through to last year. The sponsorship has now been taken up by the Holdsworth Family Trust. Auckland artist Chris Wills won the IHC Art Awards 2015 and $5000 with an intricate map of New Zealand embroidered on linen, while teenage Gisborne artist Keitha Taylor is this year's People's Choice winner. She entered a pen and watercolour pencil drawing Baby and Mother Giraffe.
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3:05 The Drama Hour
===5:06 PM. | None (National)===
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The Anthropocene: a Fact and a Challenge. The first of three discussions being held as a prelude to the United Nations COP 21 climate change conference which begins in Paris in November (1 of 3, RNZ)
===6:00 PM. | None (National)===
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A roundup of today's news and sport
===6:11 PM. | Spiritual Outlook===
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Exploring different spiritual, moral and ethical issues and topics (RNZ)
===6:40 PM. | Te Manu Korihi===
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Maori news and interviews from throughout the motu (RNZ)
===7:06 PM. | Te Ahi Kaa===
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Exploring issues and events from a tangata whenua perspective (RNZ)
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18:06
Awatea - Act 1
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Set in the sleepy seaside town of Omoana, the community rally to host their annual hui to celebrate the achievements of Matt Paku, but the real nature of his life in Auckland is slowly unravelled. The New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation commissioned Bruce Mason to write this radio play, first broadcast in 1965.
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Awatea - Act 1
By Bruce Mason
In 1964, The New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC) commissioned Bruce Mason to write a play that would feature Opera star Inia te Wiata. By Christmas that same year, a draft treatment was written. The original name for the play was The Hui, but later changed to Awatea. In April 1965 Inia te Wiata successfully toured George Gershwin's Opera Porgy and Bess in New Zealand. The timing fell into place and while Inia was in the country, he took on the role of Werihe Paku, the blind māori rangatira of his community and father to Matt Paku (played by Don Selwyn).
Matt is a scholar and gains entry into University, he heads to Dunedin and becomes a doctor, his community have hailed him as their local hero. Matt writes to his father and sends money every month, the letters are read to Werihe by Gilhooly, the postmistress.
The letters signifies the depth of the relationship between father and son, but things take a turn when Gilhooly reads one of Matt's letters. The drama plays out as the community prepares for the hui on New Years Eve.
Te Ahi Kaa features Act 1 of Awatea, written by Bruce Mason (1921 – 1982), engineered by John McGregor and produced by William Astin.
Awatea Cast
Ana - Ngaire Karaka
Pera - Hannah Tatana
Kani - Sam Stevens
Moki Boy (Voice One) - Peter Gwynne (1929 -2011)
Moki Boy (Voice two) - Ian Mune
Irapeta - Newha Taiaki
Werihe Paku - Inia Te Wiata (1915 - 1971)
Gilhooly - Pat Evison (1924 - 2010)
Jameson - Peter Read (1923 - 1981)
Brett - Tim Elliott (1935 - 2011)
Matt - Don Selwyn (1936 - 2007)
Hamiora - Kingi Ihaka (1921 -1993)
Tina Keritahu - Diana Winterburn (1937 - 1966)
Male Chorus One - Peter Gwynne (1929 -2011), Michael Woolf, Martyn Sanderson (1938 -2009), Ian Mune.
Female Chorus - Dorothy Munro, Wendy Gibb, Ngaire Karaka, Hannah Tatana
Children - Paula D'Emden, Rosamund Packer, Sonny Mulheron, Treena Kerr
Topics: arts
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: theatre, Inia te Wiata, Bruce Mason
Duration: 53'09"
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===8:06 PM. | One In Five===
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The issues and experience of disability (RNZ)
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19:02
A glimpse into the world of conductive education
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This week on One in Five: a glimpse into the world of Conductive Education.The holistic therapy was designed in Hungary in the 1950s for children with motor disorders such as spina bifida or cerebral palsy. The philosophy then became popular in the United Kingdom and gradually spread throughout other English speaking countries as well as Europe. Most New Zealand centres now offer Conductive Education and the "conductors", who carry out the therapy, are very much in demand. Katy Gosset pays a visit to the Conductive Education Centre in Southland.
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"Not everyone would do it but this is my decision, what I wanted to do for him."
Twice a week Lynley Ramsay (above left) makes the almost three hour round-trip from Owaka to Invercargill to take her son Jackson (above right) to the Southland Centre for Conductive Education. There he follows a holistic therapy system developed in Hungary by Dr Andras Peto.
Practitioners of the therapy, or conductors, study a four year course that can only be done in Hungary or, more recently, the United Kingdom. The philosophy was designed to help children with spina bifida and cerebral palsy and combines aspects of physiotherapy and verbal encouragement as well as life skills. Repetitive instructions are often delivered in a musical form, making them more easily understood by babies and children. Conductors also use sage baths and massage to limber up the often tight muscles of their clients.
Lynley started taking Jackson to conductive education when he was just 11 months old and she's been coming ever since. "He was not meeting any of his milestones so I decided it was time to step and try and find more for him." And she believes the educational practice has made a huge difference to her son's life. "Everything that he's able to do I think he's learned from conductive education."
Jackson has cerebral palsy, epilepsy and is visually impaired. Lynley says, although he is 21, his cognitive skills are those of a five-year-old. However she says, through conductive education he has been able to learn to feed and toilet himself and move from the floor to seated or standing positions. "What you learn at conductive "ed” is: you take it home with you. So when Jackson's sitting at the dinner table, I will make sure that his feet are flat on the floor because that enables him to balance himself."
Those skills will be important as Jackson enters a new phase of his life, leaving school and beginning a day programme at Idea Services. Lynley wants Jackson to be able to enter the centre and move around the building himself. "Making his life as independent as he can, using the skills he's got."
Committed to conductive education
Zsofia Varga (above right) has been Jackson's conductor for three years. She trained at the Andras Peto Institute in Budapest, which she describes as "a magical environment". She says, as part of the training, the students were immediately thrust into working with children who had disabilities, mainly cerebral palsy. "It's amazing to see how children who couldn't move their limbs or do different activities just learn it."
She says the philosophy focuses on what individuals can do rather than what they can't. "You can see that they enjoy the programme which is very important and they don't feel disabled." She says conductors focus on finding a way for the child to do each movement. "We work on getting people independent."
Zsofia is returning to Europe to be closer to family but says she and her finance enjoyed their time in Invercargill and the relaxed New Zealand environment generally. "People are just friendly. Everyone recognises you in the shop after three years." But she says it’s hard to say goodbye to clients like Jackson. "You just get really close to them ... you see them develop day by day, week by week and they achieve different milestones."
The fact that conductors are sought after internationally and often need to travel for work was one of the attractions of the career path. "I can see the world as well, at the same time, as working with special needs children."
In demand
The manager, Kevin Wall, says the centre has 33 clients, most of whom are babies and he receives some Ministry of Health funding for them. But he says the centre is the only one in New Zealand that accepts people of all ages and increasingly the therapy is attracting adults who have had strokes.
"We 're getting them out of their wheelchairs and retraining them to walk and use their limbs and give them the life skills back."
He says, because the adults aren't funded, the centre needs to raise an additional $150,000 - $200,000 and the trustees and staff do this through sausages sizzles, raffles and other community activities. "Every little bit makes the pile of money we need to keep us going."
Kevin Wall says it can be difficult to secure conductors as affluent families often hire the graduates as full-time nannies for their children. He says the other challenge is meeting the competitive professional salaries that conductors command. "It is very hard because you're competing with a world market." But he says the conductors are worth the cost because of what they achieve in terms of each child's development. And he says parents are often surprised by the progress that is made. "When you see the before and the after, it’s unreal."
Some academics have suggested that not every child with cerebral palsy is suited to conductive education. But Lynley Ramsay says she and Jackson will be sticking with it."I have a thing for conductive education. I just think it’s such a worthwhile and worthy cause."
"I keep coming because it keeps working."
Topics: disability, education, health, life and society
Regions: Southland
Tags: Conductive Education, holistic therapies, Hungary, Andras Peto
Duration: 25'30"
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===8:35 PM. | Voices===
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Asians, Africans, indigenous Americans and more in NZ, aimed at promoting a greater understanding of our ethnic minority communities (RNZ)
===8:45 PM. | In Parliament===
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An in-depth perspective of legislation and other issues from the house (RNZ)
===9:06 PM. | Sounds Historical===
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NZ stories from the past (RNZ)
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20:05
Sounds Historical Hour One - 27 September 2015
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Sounds Historical with Jim Sullivan is the programme that gives listeners their chance to learn about the colourful, dramatic and often remarkable events and people from New Zealand's past.
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Duration: 53'18"
21:05
Sounds Historical Hour Two 27 September 2015
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Sounds Historical with Jim Sullivan is the programme that gives listeners their chance to learn about the colourful, dramatic and often remarkable events and people from New Zealand's past.
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Duration: 56'05"
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8:02 Today in New Zealand History
Opening of Canterbury Provincial Council on 27 September 1853. 4'21"
Bookshelf: Cricketing Cousins: The Brittan Brothers in Early Canterbury by Geoffrey Rice & Frances Ryman (Canterbury University Press)
08:09 Artist: Timaru Junior Municipal Band (1955)
Song: Old Earth
Composer: n/s
Album: n/a
Label; Private recording - Dunford Studios 2'48"
08:13 Daily Dairy - a 1ZB programme for St Patrick's Day 1955
An interview with Father Redmond [of Auckland] about what the day means for the Irish. He explains the Irish national sport of hurling is played and other celebrations, such as ceilidh and wearing shamrocks. He ends with a greeting in Gaelic for Auckland's Irish residents. Mr Wilson, senior supervisor of the telephone branch of the Post and Telephone Department is interviewed about the new telephone directories. He talks about the size and cost of production. Over 44,000 names are in the 1955 edition. Cricket - In Dunedin, the touring English team beat New Zealand yesterday. Interview with Len Hutton and Geoff Rabone, the English and New Zealand captains. Repairing the Novachord. A man named 'Ken' is interviewed by an unidentified broadcaster about repairs he is making to a Novachord [an early electronic keyboard] He explains how it works and some notes are played. This is the only Novachord in New Zealand, so he says he just had to learn how to service it himself. [This is the Novachord once housed in the 1ZB Radio Theatre.]
Yachting Memorial: An unidentified broadcaster interviews a Mr Munro about the Wilkinson Memorial cup, a memorial to W.A. 'Wilkie' Wilkinson, who is referred to as the 'grand old man of Auckland yachting'. The race will take place off Orakei Wharf on February 5th. A massed start is planned and he says it will be very impressive with about 200-250 boats taking part. Talking weighing machine. An interview about the machine at Modern Bags store in Customs Street. Mr Tray [?] the manager of the store talks about the machine, which he says is the only one of its kind in New Zealand. It comes from England and has a turntable inside and the needle moves across as you are weighed and lands on the current track and tells you your weight. The broadcaster inserts two-pence and the machine is heard saying his weight as 'four stone'. He then encourages some women to stand on the scales and there is some debate about the accuracy of the machine.
08:36 Historian and poet Bill Oliver
Born in Fielding in 1925, died in Wellington last week at the age of 90. We hear a 1951 book review he wrote for (at 26) for wartime correspondent Alexander Clifford's Enter Citizens.
08:40 Alan Stewart of Timaru
The long-serving radio broadcaster died this week. He was a well-known announcer in South Canterbury from the 1960s until recent times, with a spell as a programme organiser in Whangarei in the late 1960s. This 1970s recording illustrates a children's session of the times. 1'25"
08:42 Artist: Frazer Daly (with the Rivers Sisters)
Song: My Truly Truly Fair
Composer: Merrill-Mitchell
Album: 78
Label: Tanza Z105 2'42"
08:46 War Report 55
Veterans Alex Fraser and Lazell Davidson recall seeing the sinking of HMS Triumph at Gallipoli and other naval activity in the region. Newspaper reports of war souvenir editions and the growing lists of casualties and obituaries including a lament that volunteers were dying leaving lesser men safe at home.
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Artist: John McCormack
Song: There's a Long Long Trail A Winding
Composer: King/Elliott
Album: Oh, It's a Lovely War Vol 2
Label: CD41 486309
Artist: n/s
Song: We Don't Want to Fight but By Jingo…
Composer: McDermott/Hunt
Album: n/s
Label; n/s
Artist: Radio New Zealand Studio Orchestra
Song: You Needed Me
Composer: Goodrum
Album: Orchestral Gold Vol 2
Label: Tartar TRL 005
09:02 As I Remember
Our Gulbransen Radio by Mrs C McGlone of Waipukurau, read by Rosie Sullivan. 3'08"
00:06 Artist: Chris Zoias (Wellington baritone)
Song: Prologue from I Pagliaccia
Composer: Leoncavallo
Album: private recording
Label: n/a 4'49"
09:10 Burnetts Face
A documentary by Jim Henderson on the old coalmining settlement of Burnetts Face, near Denniston on the West Coast. [Only two of the many participants are named in the programme. The possible identities of some of the other speakers were contributed by Bob Parker, a former resident of Burnetts Face.] The programme opens with actuality recordings made in a coal-mine near the deserted settlement of Burnetts Face. The programme is introduced by an unidentified man who says he is a former resident and miner [possibly Walter Clark.] A woman interviews "Aunty" another former resident, about what life was like at Burnetts Face. Jim Henderson describes the view of Denniston and nearby Burnetts Face, which is now a ghost-town. Two men recall the local school and the games they used to play as children [possibly Bill Andrew and Johnny Crawford.] A poem written by a miner is read and an old organ is played. A man [possibly Benny Lightbown] describes the sole remaining building, the Mission Hall. He explains what it was used for in the past. The original organ in the hall is still playable. He describes the social life of the village and a group of single men "The Bachelors". Their song is sung by a group of men. Six hundred people once lived in the gully at Burnetts Face. Jim Henderson and another man [possibly Bill Andrew] describe its desolate appearance now and what buildings used to exist. A man [possibly Ozzie Ball] who was the grocer's delivery boy talks about his job supplying the Cascade Creek mine by packhorse twice a week. The Crown Hotel is now a shell but another man recalls events which took place there. He talks about the history of the hotel as he walks around the derelict building. A town-crier or local boys with a bell, used to walk around the town describing what events were on. Mrs Mary Meadows, aged 78, was post-mistress at Burnetts Face from 1934-1953. She says she has very happy memories of the place and talks about the great community feeling. She sings an excerpt of the song she sang the night she left England 50 years ago this month. Another woman who lived there 48 years ago talks about 'two-up' being played. She would listen out for the policeman's horse and warn the players to scatter by waving her tea-towel. Another woman talks about the water pipes freezing up in winter until midday, which made it difficult to do washing in winter. Actuality recordings made at a gathering of old Burnett's Face residents, recorded at the foot of the hill below Denniston. [various songs sung by a group and anecdotes.] Men read inscriptions from the local cemetery of miners killed in accidents. A man [possibly Arnold Openshaw] gives a lengthy description of what it was like being underground during the Murchison earthquake in 1929. He describes the roof falling in and nearly burying him, but all the men managed to escape. John [Jack] Parker describes leaving Burnetts Face in 1957. He and his wife were the last residents to leave. They arrived in 1924 when there were 60-80 houses there. He says all services were maintained right up until they left, including deliveries by the Denniston butcher and grocer. 28'26"
09:39 Artist: The Coalrangers
Song: Westcoast Bound
Composer: Valente
Album: Godzone Country
Label: Sony 2'29"
09:43 From the Back Country
A 1990 episode featuring toilet tales from Barry Slyfield introduced by Alwyn Owen. 8'31'
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Song: I'll Put You Together Again
Composer: Black/Steven
Album: Orchestral Gold Vol 2
Label: Tartar TRL 005
===11:12 PM. | Mediawatch===
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Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in NZ's news media (RNZ)