RNZ National. 2016-03-01. 00:00-23:59.

A 24-hour recording of RNZ National. The following rundown is sourced from the broadcaster’s website. Note some overseas/copyright restricted items may not appear in the supplied rundown:

01 March 2016

===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 1990s and Beyond (4 of 4, WFIU) 3:05 The Girl who Proposed, by Elizabeth Smither (2 of 2, RNZ); 3:30 An Author's View (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC)

===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
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RNZ's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including: 6:16 and 6:50 Business News 6:18 Pacific News 6:26 Rural News 6:48 and 7:45 NZ Newspapers

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06:00
Top Stories for Tuesday 1 March 2016
BODY:
Phil Goff warns John Palino off getting involved in dirty politics in the race for Auckland mayoralty. Winston Peters calls for accountability over plans to close a rail line in Northland and the Patea community is further devastated after the death yesterday of a Fonterra milk tanker driver involved in a triple fatality last week.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 32'32"

06:06
Sports News for 1 March 2016
BODY:
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 1'51"

06:09
Dairy farmer feels abandoned by bank
BODY:
As dairy debt continues to swell, some dairy farmers say they're worried the banks won't support them through the winter.
Topics: rural, farming, business
Regions:
Tags: dairy, Farmers
Duration: 3'03"

06:13
Keytruda petitioners head to Parliament
BODY:
Cancer survivor Leisa Renwick will present a petition to Parliament today calling for the melanoma treatment drug Keytruda to be made available to all New Zealanders who need it.
Topics: health, politics
Regions:
Tags: Keytruda
Duration: 6'07"

06:21
Early business news
BODY:
Our business reporter Jonathan Mitchell is with us
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: markets
Duration: 2'18"

06:26
Morning Rural News for 1 March 2016
BODY:
News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 3'44"

06:38
Goff rejects "dirty politics" election suggestion from Palino
BODY:
Auckland mayoral candidiate Phil Goff says it's John Palino who needs to back away from the dirty politics - not him.
Topics: politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Phil Goff, John Palino
Duration: 1'49"

06:40
Forty laundry jobs cut at Wellington Hospital
BODY:
Forty people who have worked for decades at Wellington Hospital have lost their jobs after the hospital contracted out its laundry services to a Palmerston North based company.
Topics: health, business
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Wellington Hospital
Duration: 3'01"

06:50
ANZ Bank joins the rate cutting club
BODY:
The ANZ Bank has joined the club of forecasters now expecting the Reserve Bank will have to cut interest rates to support the economy in the face of weak inflation presures, a too-high currency and global uncertainty.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: interest rates
Duration: 1'42"

06:54
NZ Oil & Gas posts big loss on slump in oil prices
BODY:
The slump in oil prices has taken its toll on local explorer, New Zealand Oil and Gas, which yesterday posted a first-half loss of 27-point-6 million dollars for the six months ended December, compared with 7-point-7 million a year ago.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags: New Zealand Oil and Gas
Duration: 2'38"

06:56
Delay for Trustpower
BODY:
The energy company, Trustpower, says there's a delay in it reporting more on its proposal to split into two companies.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags: Trustpower
Duration: 32"

06:57
NZ tech company says benefits from being run out of US
BODY:
The online search firm, SLI Systems, is representative of a growing trend among New Zealand technology stocks -- namely that a good portion of its senior management, including its chief executive, is based in the United States.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags: SLI Systems
Duration: 1'14"

06:58
Morning markets for 1 March 2016
BODY:
Wall Street is up slightly as oil prices rise.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: markets
Duration: 53"

07:07
Sports News for 1 March 2016
BODY:
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'00"

07:11
John Palino comes out swinging against fellow Alk candidates
BODY:
Auckland mayoral candidiate Phil Goff says it's John Palino who needs to back away from the dirty politics - not him.
Topics: politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: John Palino, Phil Goff
Duration: 3'22"

07:14
Devastated Patea community in shock after deaths
BODY:
The Patea community has been further devastated with the death yesterday of a Fonterra milk tanker driver who was involved in a triple fatality last week.
Topics:
Regions: Taranaki
Tags: Patea
Duration: 4'00"

07:18
Peters: KiwiRail to scrap section of Northland line
BODY:
Winston Peters is calling for accountability over plans to close a rail line in Northland.
Topics: politics, transport
Regions: Northland
Tags: Winston Peters
Duration: 5'10"

07:24
Will the Health Minister front up to melanoma sufferers?
BODY:
Melanoma patients say the health minister's decision not to publicly fund the drug keytruda has condemned people to death.
Topics: health, politics
Regions:
Tags: Keytruda
Duration: 7'00"

07:30
Health Minister needs to step up to responsibilities
BODY:
And listening to that is the Labour leader Andrew Little.
Topics: health, politics
Regions:
Tags: Keytruda
Duration: 4'08"

07:40
Could John Palino be Auckland's next Mayor?
BODY:
As we have been reporting this morning, John Palino is having another crack at Auckland's top job.
Topics: politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: John Palino, Phil Goff
Duration: 8'14"

07:49
Dairy farmers scared of the banks
BODY:
Some dairy farmers say they're worried the banks won't support them through the winter, with some already being told their business is no longer viable.
Topics: rural, farming, business
Regions:
Tags: dairy, Farmers
Duration: 3'39"

07:52
Banks respond to dairy pressure
BODY:
And listening to that is Hayley Moynihan, the General Manager at Rabobank New Zealand.
Topics: rural, farming, business
Regions:
Tags: dairy, Farmers
Duration: 4'00"

07:56
Pitcairn's mayor back in court to face more charges over images
BODY:
The former mayor of Pitcairn Island is back in court today to face more charges relating to files found on his computer.
Topics: crime
Regions:
Tags: Pitcairn Island, Michael Warren
Duration: 3'10"

08:07
Sports News for 1 March 2016
BODY:
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'32"

08:09
American Ambassador explains Super Tuesday
BODY:
Tomorrow is the biggest day of the 2016 American primary season with polling taking place in 13 states and one territory in what is known as Super Tuesday.
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags: US
Duration: 5'00"

08:16
Funding of cancer drug Keytruda
BODY:
The Health Minister is promising more funding for Pharmac in the next budget.
Topics: health, politics
Regions:
Tags: Keytruda
Duration: 4'44"

08:21
Tributes paid to pioneering activist Ranginui Walker
BODY:
Tributes are pouring in for the noted Maori academic and writer, Ranginui Walker, who has died in Auckland at the age of 83.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions:
Tags: Dr Ranginui Walker
Duration: 4'44"

08:26
Surprises but no shocks at Oscars
BODY:
There were the usual surprises but no great shocks as Hollywood honoured itself at the Oscar awards in Los Angeles last night.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags: Academy Awards
Duration: 6'05"

08:32
Markets Update for 1 March 2016
BODY:
A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags: markets
Duration: 55"

08:37
Northland iwi want say over burials at sea
BODY:
Northland iwi want a stronger say about where and when bodies are buried in the sea.
Topics: environment
Regions: Northland
Tags: sea burial
Duration: 3'32"

08:41
Winz worker feels bullet fly past her face
BODY:
The trial of double murder accused Russell Tully, has heard how a woman felt a bullet fly past her head as she ran for the door.
Topics: crime
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Russell Tully
Duration: 3'50"

08:44
Lifelong criminal Arthur Taylor plans new career
BODY:
The life-long criminal Arthur Taylor says he wants to act as a legal adviser and consultant when he's released from prison.
Topics: law
Regions:
Tags: Arthur Taylor
Duration: 3'22"

08:50
Cyclones a test for Pacific RSE workers
BODY:
Fijians working in New Zealand as seasonal workers have spoken of the anxious times they had when Cyclone Winston devastated their country.
Topics:
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: Fiji
Duration: 3'29"

08:53
New Zealand first to vote in Super Tuesday primaries
BODY:
You would have heard the American ambassador earlier this morning speaking to us about Super Tuesday.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags: US, Super Tuesday
Duration: 2'48"

08:56
First Bluff oysters of the season
BODY:
The first of the 13 million or so Bluff oysters expected to be harvested this season are making their way to shops around the country today.
Topics: farming
Regions: Southland
Tags: oysters
Duration: 3'13"

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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: Bulibasha by Witi Ihimaera read by George Henare (2 of 15, RNZ)

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09:08
What sort of info does the govt collect on you and who gets it?
BODY:
The Government Statistician Liz McPherson discusses how it protects privacy when unprecedented amounts of information are collected by government agencies and shared with researchers.
Topics: health, education
Regions:
Tags: data gathering
Duration: 18'50"

09:22
Calls for action over Dunedin abuse
BODY:
11 people have signed an open letter to Otago University's Vice Chancellor Harlene Hayne, calling for action over abuse including a threat of rape, as well as racist and homophobic slurs by drunk students.
Topics: education
Regions: Otago
Tags: abuse
Duration: 22'57"

09:50
US correspondent, Susan Milligan
BODY:
US Super Tuesday Primaries.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags: US
Duration: 9'28"

10:05
Feedback on drunken street abuse in Dunedin
BODY:
11 people have signed an open letter to Otago University's Vice Chancellor Harlene Hayne, calling for action over threatening language and drunk slurs by male students. They say there is an implicit tolerance of this behaviour - the view that its just orientation week and that 'boys will be boys'.
Topics: education
Regions: Otago
Tags: abuse
Duration: 4'42"

10:15
Designing better places to die
BODY:
Alison Killing is a British architect and urban designer, her studio Killing Architects is based in the Netherlands. She says architects must consider a range of social, political and economic issues as they shape how buildings and cities are designed. She is particularly interested in the relationship between death and modern architecture, and how buildings and cities can be better designed for those who are dying. Alison Killing is interested in incorporating the end of life stage into design, particularly for hospitals, and she also looks at how cities are rebuilt after disaster.
EXTENDED BODY:
How can buildings and cities be better designed for those who are dying?
British architect and urban designer Alison Killing is particularly interested in the relationship between death and modern architecture. She wants to incorporate the end-of-life stage into design – particularly for hospitals – and is also interested in how cities are rebuilt after a disaster.
Alison Killing talks with Kathryn Ryan:
Topics: life and society
Regions:
Tags: Alison Killing, death, dying, architecture, Burial, cremation
Duration: 29'53"

10:44
Book Review: Leonard: A Life by William Shatner
BODY:
Reviewed by David Hill, published by Macmillan.
Topics: books
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 4'08"

11:05
More feedback on drunken street abuse in Dunedin
BODY:
11 people have signed an open letter to Otago University's Vice Chancellor Harlene Hayne, calling for action over threatening language and drunk slurs by male students. They say there is an implicit tolerance of this behaviour - the view that its just orientation week and that 'boys will be boys'.
Topics: education
Regions: Otago
Tags: abuse
Duration: 5'52"

11:12
Business commentator, Rod Oram
BODY:
The strange state of limbo for central banks and the equally curious up-ending of oil markets.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 14'13"

11:27
Barriers to education for older people
BODY:
How does New Zealand measure up when it comes to education opportunities for older people? Professor Brian Findsen of Waikato University is a specialist in adult education and has written the first comprehensive global analysis of education for older adults. Including some of the barriers that stand in the way of retirees who want to return to study.
EXTENDED BODY:
How does New Zealand measure up when it comes to education opportunities for older people?
Kathryn Ryan asks adult education specialist Professor Brian Findsen of Waikato University:
Brian Findsen has written the first comprehensive global analysis of education for older adults – International Perspectives on Older Adult Education – which includes some of the barriers for retirees returning to study.
Topics: education
Regions:
Tags: adult education, ageing
Duration: 14'12"

11:42
Media commentator Gavin Ellis
BODY:
Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and former editor of the New Zealand Herald. He can be contacted on gavin.ellis@xtra.co.nz
Topics: media
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 17'17"

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09:05 How does Statistics NZ protect the huge amount of information the public gives to state agencies?
The Government Statistician Liz McPherson discusses how it protects privacy when unprecedented amounts of information are collected by government agencies and shared with researchers.
09:20 Calls for action over Dunedin abuse
11 people have signed an open letter to Otago University's Vice Chancellor Harlene Hayne, calling for action over abuse including a threat of rape, as well as racist and homophobic slurs by drunk students.
09:45 US correspondent, Susan Milligan
10:05 Designing better places to die
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Alison Killing is a British architect and urban designer, her studio Killing Architects is based in the Netherlands.
She says architects must consider a range of social, political and economic issues as they shape how buildings and cities are designed. She is particularly interested in the relationship between death and modern architecture, and how buildings and cities can be better designed for those who are dying. Alison Killing is interested in incorporating the end of life stage into design, particularly for hospitals, and she also looks at how cities are rebuilt after disaster.
10:35 Book Review: Leonard: A Life by William Shatner
Reviewed by David Hill, published by Macmillan.
10:45 The Reading: Bulibasha by Witi Ihimaera read by George Henare (Part 2 of 15)
11:05 Business commentator, Rod Oram
The strange state of limbo for central banks and the equally curious up-ending of oil markets
11:20 Barriers to education for older people
How does New Zealand measure up when it comes to education opportunities for older people? Professor Brian Findsen of Waikato University is a specialist in adult education and has written the first comprehensive global analysis of education for older adults. Including some of the barriers that stand in the way of retirees who want to return to study.
11:45 Media commentator Gavin Ellis
Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and former editor of the New Zealand Herald. He can be contacted on gavin.ellis@xtra.co.nz

===Noon | Midday Report===
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RNZ 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 1 March 2016
BODY:
Opposition support for changes to employment likely, on one condition; Melanoma sufferers in Wellington expect a ministerial greeting.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 15'02"

12:17
Terms of trade falls in December quarter
BODY:
The country's purchasing power with the rest of the world has weakened further - but cheaper fuel is helping.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 1'16"

12:19
Aviation expert casts doubt on Wellington runway extension
BODY:
A visiting aviation expert doubts that extending Wellington's runway will necessarily attract new airlines because the region is not on the radar as a must visit destination.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'05"

12:20
Oceana in search for more gold
BODY:
Listed gold miner Oceana Gold says it plans to spend 10 million US dollars this year to look for more gold at its Waihi mine.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 38"

12:22
Prospects of income tax cuts suffer blow in Australia
BODY:
Let's get back over the Tasman to our correspondent, Jim Parker. He says the prospects of further income tax cuts in Australia look to have taken another blow.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 56"

12:24
Midday markets
BODY:
For the latest from the markets we're joined by Melika King at Craigs Investment Partners.
Topics: business, economy
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'08"

12:26
Midday Sports News for 1 March 2016
BODY:
An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 2'36"

12:35
Midday Rural News for 1 March 2016
BODY:
News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 9'49"

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===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
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An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)

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13:15
Pharmac Petition - Karen Brown
BODY:
A petition calling on the Government to fund the melanoma treatment, Keytruda, has been presented to Parliament today. Australia, Canada and Britain subsidise the treatment, but Pharmac has given it low priority, saying it needs further studies into the drug's effectiveness. RNZ's health correspondent, Karen Brown, was at Parliament.
Topics: health, politics
Regions:
Tags: melanoma, drug funding, Keytruda
Duration: 6'10"

13:22
Scrapping takeaway coffee cups - Mark Lane
BODY:
There'll be no more takeaway coffee cups at Otago Polytechnic's Eden Cafe. Instead, they're scrapping paper and busting out ceramic and china cups. It's an initiative that aims at reducing its carbon footprint, and they're hoping it'll take off. Polytechnic functions and catering executive chef, Mark Lane, is behind the initiative.
EXTENDED BODY:
There'll be no more takeaway coffee cups at Otago Polytechnic's Eden Cafe. Instead, they're scrapping paper and busting out ceramic and china cups. It's an initiative that aims at reducing its carbon footprint, and they're hoping it'll take off.
Jesse Mulligan talks with the man behind the plan – functions and catering executive chef Mark Lane:
Topics: environment, education
Regions: Otago
Tags: Otago Polytechnic, Eden Cafe
Duration: 5'56"

13:30
How We Recycle - Greg Roughan
BODY:
The recycling guru and former editor of Green Ideas magazine, Greg Roughan, is with us... to chat about how we recycle in New Zealand.
EXTENDED BODY:
There’s a phrase that gets floated about – ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’. And ‘recycle’ is the last one for a good reason. It’s a great thing to do, but it’s kind of the last thing that we should do. Reduce first, reuse next and then recycle if you’ve got no other option.

Jesse Mulligan chats with former editor of Green Ideas magazine Greg Roughan about recycling in New Zealand:
Topics: environment
Regions:
Tags: recycling
Duration: 7'56"

13:35
Auckland Regional Parks Turn 50 - Wayne Carlson
BODY:
Campgrounds across Auckland are celebrating 50 years of regional parks this weekend. And Auckland Council is having a Big Camp Out, to mark the occasion. Senior Ranger, Wayne Carlson, is with us from Waiheke, to talk about the history of Auckland's regional parks.
Topics: environment, politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Auckland regional parks
Duration: 8'14"

13:40
Favourite Album - What's the Story Morning Glory
BODY:
What's the Story Morning Glory - Oasis
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 16'47"

14:10
Revamping The BA - Professor Richard Shaw
BODY:
The value of an arts degree is often debated. With people asking; should we be focusing our training in growth sectors, such as technology, and what sort of success can our arts graduates expect to have. One man who's out to bust the 'myths' about the value of a Bachelor of Arts, is Professor Richard Shaw. He's spearheading a 'refresh' of the BA for Massey Univerisity.
EXTENDED BODY:
"There is a lot of employment out there going to people with arts qualifications" ~ Richard Shaw.

The value of a Bachelor of Arts degree is often debated, with people asking; should we focus our training in growth sectors such as technology, and what sort of success can our arts graduates expect to have.
One man who's out to bust the 'myths' about the value of an arts degree is Professor Richard Shaw, who is spearheading a 'refresh' of the BA at Massey Univerisity:

Topics: arts, education
Regions:
Tags: Bachelor of Arts degrees
Duration: 10'27"

14:20
Great NZ Concerts - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
BODY:
Today's Great NZ Concert is Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' 1980 tour of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Duration: 39'52"

15:10
Feature Interview - Maria Konnikova
BODY:
Maria is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Confidence Game and Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. She is a contributing writer for The New Yorker, where she writes a regular column with a focus on psychology and culture, and is currently working on an assortment of non-fiction and fiction projects.
EXTENDED BODY:
It's easy to feel superior to people who send money to Nigerian princes to share in millions of dollars or to invest their fortune with Bernie Madoff. The truth is, almost anyone can get conned if the con artist is clever enough.
Human beings are intrinsically trusting, according to psychologist and author Maria Konnikova. Her new book The Confidence Game: Why We Fall For it... Every Time explores the techniques and temperament of the con artist.
Maria Konnikova talks with Jesse Mulligan about the difference between con artists and psychopaths, which of these Donald Trump might be and also resilience – the subject of her recent New Yorker article:
Topics: books
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 12'16"

15:45
The Panel pre-show for 1 March 2016
BODY:
Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 14'12"

21:06
Deterring sharks with electricity
BODY:
Sunkita Howard is developing an electrical deterrent to discourage spiny dogfish from getting caught on fishing hooks used in the ling longline fishery.
EXTENDED BODY:
“Sharks are very sensitive to electricity. They have a special electric sense and can feel about a billionth of a volt per centimetre in seawater. To imagine what that’s like, if you take a mouthful of saltwater and gargle, that creates an electrical field in your mouth that a shark could perceive from maybe 20 centimetres away.”
Sunkita Howard, PhD student, University of Otago’s Zoology Department

Sharks use their special electrical sense to find food, but PhD student Sunkita Howard is hoping to turn it against them, to help prevent thousands of spiny dogfish getting accidentally caught on baited fishing hooks used in the ling bottom longline fishery.
“Spiny dogfish are not the sharkiest looking of sharks … they’re named after the little spike that’s in front of each of their dorsal fins.” University of Otago PhD student Sunkita Howard.

The idea is that a fishing hook emitting a small electrical field will deter sharks but not scare away the bony fish that are being targeted, which lack the shark’s electrical sense.
“When commercial fishers go out setting these great long lines with many, many hooks, targeting ling, they might catch more dogfish than they do ling. It’s not unusual on a really bad day to go out and catch a thousand dogfish on a thousand hooks.”
Using electricity as a deterrent is not a new idea – fishers already use electropositive metal to create a small electric field. A small ingot is attached to each fishing hook, but the metal only lasts a day or two and comes from a factory with a poor environmental record. Sunkita’s aim is to develop a more sophisticated longer-lasting system.
“I use electrodes that are hooked up to a microprocessor and a power supply.” By precisely controlling the electric field used, it might be possible to develop a shark deterrent that is effective and practical enough for use in commercial fisheries.
“What’s really cool is that it is an applied use of what has been for 50 or so years, very much pure blue skies research.”

Sunkita says the key will be to develop a cost-effective, re-useable tool that can fitted to every hook on a longline.
Sunkita has been working with Otago Innovation with a view to commercialising the technology. Now that she has successfully conducted tank trials with both spiny dogfish in New Zealand and sandbar sharks in the United States, the next stage would be to conduct field trials.
Sunkita has a strong interest in art, and has been creating art works alongside her experimental work.
She has also been working with an economist to quantify the cost to the fishing industry of shark bycatch.
Topics: environment, science
Regions:
Tags: sharks, fishes, spiny godfish, commercial fishing, fisheries bycatch, conservation, marine
Duration: 13'04"

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1:15 Pharmac Petition - Karen Brown
A petition calling on the Government to fund the melanoma treatment, Keytruda, has been presented to Parliament today. Australia, Canada and Britain subsidise the treatment, but Pharmac has given it low priority, saying it needs further studies into the drug's effectiveness. RNZ's health correspondent, Karen Brown, was at Parliament.
1:20 Scrapping Takeaway Coffee Cups - Mark Lane
There'll be no more takeaway coffee cups at Otago Polytechnic's Eden Cafe. Instead, they're scrapping paper and busting out ceramic and china cups. It's an initiative that aims at reducing its carbon footprint, and they're hoping it'll take off. Polytechnic functions and catering executive chef, Mark Lane, is behind the initiative.
1:25 How We Recycle - Greg Roughan
The recycling guru and former editor of Green Ideas magazine, Greg Roughan, discusses recycling in New Zealand.
1:35 Auckland Regional Parks Turn 50 - Wayne Carlson
Campgrounds across Auckland are celebrating 50 years of regional parks this weekend. And Auckland Council is having a Big Camp Out, to mark the occasion. Senior Ranger, Wayne Carlson, is with us from Waiheke, to talk about the history of Auckland's regional parks.
1:40 Favourite Album
What's the Story Morning Glory - Oasis.
2:10 Revamping The BA - Professor Richard Shaw
The value of an arts degree is often debated. With people asking; should we be focusing our training in growth sectors, such as technology, and what sort of success can our arts graduates expect to have. One man who's out to bust the 'myths' about the value of a Bachelor of Arts, is Professor Richard Shaw. He's spearheading a 'refresh' of the BA for Massey University.
2:20 Great New Zealand Concerts
Today's Great NZ Concert is Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' 1980 tour of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
3:10 Feature Interview - Maria Konnikova
Maria is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Confidence Game and Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. She is a contributing writer for The New Yorker, where she writes a regular column with a focus on psychology and culture, and is currently working on an assortment of non-fiction and fiction projects.
3:20 BBC Witness - Back to Africa
At the end of the 19th Century, African-Americans in the southern states of the US faced a wave of political and racial violence. Lynchings reached a peak. Black people were prevented from voting and subject to laws which enforced racial segregation. In response, thousands sought to leave the US and travel to Liberia. More emigrants left from Arkansas than any other southern state. We hear from Professor Kenneth Barnes of the University of Central Arkansas. He uncovered a fascinating series of letters that reveal why so many black people in his region dreamed of Liberia and what happened to them when they got there.
3:30 Our Changing World - Deterring Sharks with Electricity
To mark Seaweek we head to the Portobello marine lab to meet PhD student Sunkita Howard, from the University of Otago. Sunkita takes Alison Ballance fishing for spiny dogfish, and tells her that she is trying to develop a shark deterrent device that would use a weak electrical field to discourage the small sharks from eating the baited hooks used in ling longline fisheries.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about with Jesse Mulligan, Jim Mora and Zara Potts.

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JESSE'S SONG:
ARTIST: Aldous Harding
SONG: Horizon
COMP: Aldous Harding
ALBUM: Unreleased
LIVE: RNZ Recording
FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST: Oasis
TITLE: Don't Look Back In Anger
COMP: Noel Gallagher
ALBUM: Whats' The Story Morning Glory
LABEL: EMI
ARTIST: Oasis
TITLE: Champagne Supernova
COMP: Noel Gallagher
ALBUM: What's The Story Morning Glory
LABEL: EMI
ARTIST: Oasis
TITLE: Wonderwall
COMP: Noel Gallagher
ALBUM: What's The Story Morning Glory
LABEL: EMI
THE GREAT NEW ZEALAND CONCERT:
ARTIST: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
TITLE: Here Comes My Girl
COMP: Tom Petty, Mike Campbell
ALBUM: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - The Live Anthology
LABEL: Reprise
ARTIST: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
TITLE: Even The Losers
COMP: Tom Petty
ALBUM: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - The Live Anthology
LABEL: Reprise
ARTIST: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
TITLE: I Fought The Law (And The Law Won)
COMP: Sonny Curtis
ALBUM: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - The Live Anthology
LABEL: Reprise
ARTIST: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
TITLE: Refuge
COMP: Tom Petty, Mike Campbell
ALBUM: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - The Live Anthology
LABEL: Reprise
PANEL - HALF TIME SONG:
ARTIST: Visage
TITLE: Fade To Grey
COMP: Billy Currie, Chris Payne, Midge Ure
ALBUM: Visage
LABEL: Polydor

===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 1 March 2016
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 14'12"

16:00
The Panel with Amanda Millar and Andre Rowell (Part 1)
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Panel intro;Funding melanoma drug;Auckland Council and the living wage.
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Duration: 23'14"

16:10
Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Amanda Millar and Andre Rowell have been up to.
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Duration: 6'13"

16:15
Funding melanoma drug
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Professor Tony Blakely explains the funding dilema around the cancer drug Keytruda.
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Duration: 9'47"

16:25
Auckland Council and the living wage
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Barrister Catriona MacLennan discusses her report into the living wage.
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Duration: 7'10"

16:30
The Panel with Amanda Millar and Andre Rowell (Part 2)
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Grey is the new black;Panel says;Netball trans-Tasman league grinding to a halt;App blamed for tourists dirty habits;St David's Day;Dunedin's harassment quarter.
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Duration: 27'04"

16:35
Grey is the new black
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What's making grey so popular as a colour?
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Duration: 4'07"

16:40
Panel says
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What the Panelists Amanda Millar and Andre Rowell have been thinking about.
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Duration: 8'12"

16:45
Netball trans-Tasman league grinding to a halt
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Sports journalist Lavina Good discusses the demise of the ANZ championship and trans-Tasman netball.
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Duration: 6'13"

16:52
App blamed for tourists dirty habits
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The creator of the CamperMate mobile app Adam Hutchinson addresses concerns about his app which tells tourists where to go.
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Duration: 5'44"

16:57
St David's Day
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Today is the day for the Welsh and the patron saint of Wales St David.
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Duration: 32"

16:58
Dunedin's harassment quarter
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Police receive a constant stream of complaints about harassment from people passing through an area of Dunedin packed with student residents.
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Duration: 1'53"

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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
=DESCRIPTION=

RNZ's weekday drive-time news and current affairs programme

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17:00
Checkpoint with John Campbell, Tuesday 1st March 2016
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Watch Tuesday's full programme here. It starts five minutes in.
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Duration: 00"

17:08
Keytruda petition presented to Parliament
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A petition with over 11,000 signatures was presented to Parliament today, calling for the funding of Keytruda for advanced melanoma. Petition organiser Leisa Renwick told Checkpoint about the drug that saved her life.
Topics: health, politics
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Tags: melanoma, Pharmac, Keytruda
Duration: 6'16"

17:14
Keytruda researcher met with Health Minister months ago
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Dr Antoni Ribas, a Keytruda researcher, was in New Zealand three months ago and met with Jonathan Coleman, he tells Checkpoint. Pharmac will need more money in its budget in order to fund a melanoma treatment, Health Minister Jonathan Coleman has told Checkpoint.
Topics: health, politics
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Tags: melanoma, cancer drugs, Pharmac, Keytruda
Duration: 8'01"

17:21
Tully witness recalls thinking she would die
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A court heard emotional testimonies from victims and witnesses present at the Ashburton Work and Income shootings in 2014 today. Sally Murphy reports.
Topics: crime, law
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: shootings, Ashburton, WINZ workers
Duration: 3'24"

17:27
Otago University responds to abuse claims with education
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After repeated obnoxious behaviour from students in Dunedin, a group has written to the university's vice-chancellor calling for action. Ian Telfer reports.
Topics: education
Regions: Otago
Tags: Otago University, obnoxious behaviour
Duration: 3'34"

17:33
Business news with Nona Pelletier
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The very latest business news and market updates with Nona Pelletier.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 3'07"

17:40
Compromise possible on govt's employment law changes
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The Government may be forced to change its plans to amend employment laws in order to get the support it needs to get the legislation through Parliament. Chris Bramwell reports.
Topics: politics
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Tags: employment law
Duration: 2'38"

17:45
Government pushing ahead with gangs crackdown
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The government has launched a new Gang Intelligence Centre, designed to crack down on gangs. Social Development Minister Anne Tolley joined Checkpoint.
Topics: politics, crime, law
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Tags: gangs
Duration: 4'44"

17:46
Five dead in Vanua Balavu
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RNZ International reporter Alex Perrottet is the first journalist to reach Vanua Balavu, the third largest island in Fiji's Lau archipelago, where five people lost their lives in Cyclone Winston. He reports live.
Topics: Pacific
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Tags: Cyclone Winston, Fiji, Vanua Balavu
Duration: 2'50"

17:48
What are Donald Trump's chances at the presidency?
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As Super Tuesday looms, Donald Trump looks increasingly likely to be the Republican nominee - and even the US president, says Buzzfeed political editor McKay Coppins.
Topics: politics
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Tags: US elections
Duration: 6'53"

17:54
Firm expects financial pressure from wage increases
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An owner of a commercial cleaning company says some businesses will struggle to cover the increased costs incurred by the rise in minimum wage. Jemma Brackebush reports.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: minimum wages
Duration: 4'45"

18:07
Sports News for 1 March 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'39"

18:12
Melanoma patients demand urgent decision on drug funding
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Patients with advanced melanoma presented a petition to Health Minister Jonathan Coleman today, calling for Pharmac to fund the drug Keytruda. Health Correspondent Karen Brown reports.
Topics: health, politics
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Tags: melanoma, Pharmac, Keytruda
Duration: 3'06"

18:15
Chemotherapy 'palliative,' says stage 4 melanoma patient
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Joy Cole, a stage 4 melanoma patient, was present at the handing-over of the petition. She has been given less than a year to live.
Topics: health, politics
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Tags: melanoma, Keytruda
Duration: 2'44"

18:17
Cancer Society on the 11,000 signature Keytruda petition
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Medical Director of the Cancer Society Chris Jackson joins Checkpoint with John Campbell to discuss the 11,000 signature Keytruda petition.
Topics: health
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Tags: Cancer Society, Keytruda
Duration: 3'42"

18:22
Breakers look to win back-to-back Championships
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For the third time in the last five years the New Zealand Breakers play the Perth Wildcats to decide the Australian NBL's champions in a best-of-3 series that opens at Perth Arena tomorrow night. They'll return for game two on the North Shore on Friday.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 3'59"

18:26
Karachi girls step into the boxing ring
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In a volatile part of Karachi, a dozen girls are learning to box with the hope of bringing a medal home for Pakistan. Reuters' Katie Sergeant reports.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'31"

18:28
New dinner bill app brings equality to the table
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EquiTable, a new app created by US comedian Luna Malbroux, is bringing gender and race into the equation when splitting the dinner bill.
Topics: food
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Duration: 5'21"

18:29
Today in Parliament for 1 March 2016
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Parliament resumes after a week's adjournment with the Prime Minister, John Key, updating the House on his government's response to the devastation caused by Tropical Cyclone Winston in the Pacific. Contributions from other party leaders on the cyclone are followed by a motion mourning the death of Dr Ranginui Walker. John Key defends his government's spending on melanoma drugs and the debate on the Prime Minister's statement enters its final hours.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 4'56"

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===6:30 PM. | Worldwatch===
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The stories behind the international headlines

===7:06 PM. | Nights===
=DESCRIPTION=

RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information

=AUDIO=

19:12
Own Odysseys - Arabian Environmental Protection
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Darryl Lew was in the recent employment of the UAE government, running the NZ equivalent of the Environmental Protection Authority, Ministry for the Environment and Regional Council functions, and he's reasonably sure that he is the only New Zealander ever to grant a permit to build a nuclear power plant...
Topics: life and society
Regions:
Tags: travel, UAE, United Arab Emirates, nuclear power
Duration: 19'36"

20:42
Nights' Pundit - Mathematics
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Making the numbers add up is Dr. Dillon Mayhew from Victoria University's School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research... the ABC conjecture - a mathematical problem that has been developing in an interesting way...
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Tags: mathematics, ABC conjecture, primes
Duration: 16'20"

20:59
Conundrum Clue 3
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Listen in on Friday night for the answer
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Duration: 23"

21:06
Recollections of Ranginui Walker
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Dr Ranginui Walker, the noted academic and writer on Maori issues, died on Monday 29 February 2016, aged 83. This programme honouring him features the Maraea Rakuraku's 2010 Te Ahi Kaa conversation with the Whakatohea scholar and includes personal memories from his early life and career.
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Dr Ranginui Walker, the noted academic and writer on Maori issues, died on Monday 29 February 2016, aged 83.
This programme honouring him features a 2010 Te Ahi Kaa conversation with the Whakatohea scholar and includes personal memories from his early life and career.
Topics:
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: Ranginui Walker, Maoritanga
Duration: 46'48"

21:59
Conundrum Clue 4
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Listen in on Friday night for the answer
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Duration: 47"

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7:12 Our Own Odysseys - Arabian Environmental Protection
Darryl Lew was in the recent employment of the UAE government, running the NZ equivalent of the Environmental Protection Authority, Ministry for the Environment and Regional Council functions, and he's reasonably sure that he is the only New Zealander ever to grant a permit to build a nuclear power plant...
7:30 The Sampler

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19:30
The Sampler for 1 March 2016
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This week in The Sampler Nick Bollinger discusses the lavish launch and conflicted contents of Kanye West's The Life Of Pablo; the socially conscious and musically adventurous sounds of Rokia Traore; and talks to soon-to-visit Americana artist Eilen Jewell.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: Kanye West, Rokia Traore, Eilen Jewell
Duration: 29'58"

19:31
The Life of Pablo by Kanye West
BODY:
Nick Bollinger discusses the lavish launch and conflicted contents of Kanye West’s The Life Of Pablo.
EXTENDED BODY:
Nick Bollinger discusses the lavish launch and conflicted contents of Kanye West’s The Life Of Pablo.
If there has ever been an album launch like the one for The Life Of Pablo, Kanye West’s latest long-player, I must have slept through it.
Actually, to call it an album launch is perhaps misleading. After tantalising via Twitter with an ever-changing series of titles, lyrics, release dates, collaborators and track-listings, the rap star finally debuted his supposedly completed seventh album to the world mid-February via a laptop, from the stage of Madison Square Garden. It was part of an event that was also a fashion show for his latest sportswear collection, and a preview of his new video game (based on the idea of his late mother trying to get through the gates of heaven.) All this was witnessed not just by the audience at the Garden, but in real time on screens and in cinemas around the world, by an estimated 20 million people.
Since February 14, one has been able to listen to The Life Of Pablo, but only on Tidal, the music streaming service in which Kanye is reportedly a shareholder. There has been no sign yet of a physical record.
But if there’s a sense in which the music is only part of a complicated multi-media statement, for which Kanye West is marshalling all the resources available, the music itself has plenty to say.
This is the guy, after all, who called his last record Yeezus – a conflation of his nickname Yeezy and that of the Christian messiah – and included a track entitled ‘I Am A God’. There is plenty of self-inflation on this new album too, counterpoised by those by-now-familiar moments of self-doubt. (Just moments, mind you.) Still, there is no escaping the fact that musically, and in many ways conceptually, one of the pervasive themes of Pablo is gospel.
Hip-hop has traditionally been a secular music, closer in spirit to the blues than to the more metaphysical concerns of gospel. But, as Kanye tells us in the opening track – with his signature Auto-Tune cranked up - ‘this is a God dream’. And he’s got a choir what sounds like a church organ to back him up - though for the real testifying he hands over the mic to Chance The Rapper and the great Mary J Blige.
But if songs like these seem designed to inspire, others seem contrived to offend. ‘Famous’ caused an instant furore, just as Kanye no doubt hoped it would, with a lecherous line about Taylor Swift and the suggestion that her fame is due only to his famous upstaging of her at the MTV awards a few years back.
It’s a cheap shot and a silly one, as even Kanye would probably admit. Yet behind that much-recounted episode – which, in truth, did at least as much to spread Kanye’s fame as Taylor Swift’s – was a serious motivation that I think underlies much of what Kanye does. That, I think, is a real anger about the treatment of black people in America. Remember, the reason for Kanye’s stage invasion at the MTV awards wasn’t to do with Taylor Swift as such; it was about the fact that Swift’s video had won the award over Beyonce’s ‘Single Ladies’, a milestone in black pop and astounding piece of choreography. Surely in the back of his mind was the way Michael Jackson had to fight to have his similarly ground-breaking videos screened at all, simply because he was black and MTV’s ethos overwhelmingly white. And no matter how that may have changed or how wealthy and successful Kanye has become, he still knows the way the system is stacked.
What is disappointing, though, is how hit and miss he is with his targets. As these new songs show, he is just as likely to turn that sense of injustice against women, or convert it into pointless posturing as he does in the song ‘Highlights’.
The album went through a number of working titles before Kanye settled the typically self-aggrandising on The Life Of Pablo, inviting comparison with any number of Pablos, including Colombia drug lord Pablo Escobar and the great 20th century artist Pablo Picasso.
If Kanye’s empire might sometimes look a bit like a drug cartel, I imagine it’s the Picasso comparison he would ultimately favour. He has never hesitated to refer to himself as an artist, and all of his various enterprises - whether it be his albums or his fashion lines - part of his grand creative statement.
The Life Of Pablo has some inspired, even transcendent moments. Yet too often it is Kanye who reduces it, deflating the music’s majesty with his conflicts, neuroses, and petty vendettas. It’s almost as if there’s self-sabotage at work.
There’s a famous poem by the American poet William Carlos Williams which begins: “The pure products of America go crazy.” The writer Peter Guralnick quoted it once at the start of a famous essay he wrote about Elvis. But I wonder if it somehow applies at least as much to Kanye? Kanye is, in a way, a pure product of America. He has achieved fame, money, material wealth. He’s married to Kim Kardashian, the biggest reality television star in the business. He has all the supposed trappings of success. He’s attained the American Dream. And yet he remains angry, conflicted, unresolved. Is he proof that, perhaps, once you get there the only thing left is to go crazy?
Songs played: Wolves, Low Lights, Famous, Ultra Light Beam, Father Stretch My Hands, Highlights, Waves
The Life Of Pablo is currently only available on the music streaming service Tidal.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: Kanye West, music, music review
Duration: 10'33"

19:32
Sundown Over Ghost Town by Eilen Jewell
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Nick Bollinger talks to soon-to-visit Americana artist Eilen Jewell.
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Nick Bollinger talks to soon-to-visit Americana artist Eilen Jewell.
Boise, Idaho is not a place that often comes up in discussions of American music, but it was the birthplace of this most American of artists. For more than a decade now she’s been making lovely records of the kind you could broadly classify as Americana. Her songs mix elements of country, jazz, and rock’n’roll and she has a hot and swinging band to help bring those songs to life. Eilen left Idaho in her late teens, first to study in Santa Fe, New Mexico, then spending time on both coasts before settling in Boston, where she formed her band, launched her recording career and until recently was based. But not long before she made her latest album Sundown Over Ghost Town she moved back to the place of her birth, something she seems to reflect on in a number of the songs. Eilen Jewell is due to make her second visit to New Zealand this month – she’s playing at the Tuning Fork in Auckland on March 24th.
Songs played: Hallelujah Band, Needle and Thread, Here With Me, Worried Mind, My Hometown
Sundown Over Ghost Town is available on Signature Sounds.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: Eilen Jewell, music, music review
Duration: 9'55"

19:36
Ne So by Rokia Traore
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Nick Bollinger explores the socially conscious and musically adventurous sounds of Rokia Traore.
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Nick Bollinger explores the socially conscious and musically adventurous sounds of Rokia Traore.
Because African music has such deep traditions, it can be hard to get ones head around the fact that this music can also defy tradition, which is what this Malian singer, guitarist and songwriter does on her new album Ne So.
The grooves might have a recognisably West African feel to them, yet just the fact that the guitarist and singer is a woman makes it a bit unusual. Mali is a society in which the role of musician tends to be an inherited one, and traditionally occupied by men. Rokia doesn’t come from a line of line of griots, and neither does she subscribe to the patriarchy. The daughter of an intellectual and diplomat who encouraged her musical leanings, this multi-lingual, socially-conscious artist has been expressing her viewpoint in song since her first album, recorded in France in the late 90s. These days she divides her time between Paris and Bamako, capital of her native Mali. And while she sings in French on an original like that one, many of these latest songs reflect on the recent turbulence in her homeland.
As I say, there’s an identifiable West African-ness about Traore’s music, yet it doesn’t sit anywhere in the griot tradition. Traore mixes it up. And you’ll find elements of jazz, blues, and Western singer-songwriter styles combined with those hypnotic West African rhythms, just as the small band she uses on this album mixes European players (like Italian guitarist Stefano Pilia) with musicians from all over the West African region. The result can be a gloriously funky fusion.
For this album, Traore has worked with English producer John Parrish, best known for the records he made with P.J. Harvey. He also produced Traore’s 2014 album Beautiful Africa, a thunderingly exciting set that introduced human beatboxers and Scottish jazz rockers into the mix, and which remains in my mind Traore’s finest record so far. For Ne So, Parrish and Traore have pulled back a bit from those more boisterous experiments, throwing the focus onto Traore’s guitar and extraordinarily emotive voice. And perhaps that is simply what these songs demand.
If the mood of Ne So is more subdued than Beautiful Africa, that is no doubt a reflection of Traore’s experiences over the period during which it was made. There has been the trauma of experiencing life in a country threatened by violence and religious extremism. And she perhaps transposes some of that feeling into her reading of one of the darkest, most powerful songs of American’s Civil rights movement, the Billie Holiday-associated ‘Strange Fruit’.
If you haven’t heard Beautiful Africa yet, I’d seek that excellent 2014 album out first, still Rokia Traore’s Ne So is almost as good and – for the most part – matches its message of social change to music that imagines its own future.
Songs played: Amour, Obike, Ile, Maye, Kolokani, Ne So
Ne So is available on Nonesuch.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: Rokia Traore, music, music review
Duration: 10'07"

7:30 The Sampler
music album reviews & music discussion with Nick Bollinger
8:12 Window on the World - The Boda-Boda Boom pt 1 of 2
international public radio documentaries
8:43 Nights' Pundit - Mathematics
making the numbers add up is Dr. Dillon Mayhew from Victoria University's School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research... the ABC conjecture - a mathematical problem that has been developing in an interesting way...

pundit roster: Economics, Philosophy, Right Thinking, Military History, Feminism, Left Thinking, Mathematics, NZ History, Religion & Kai A Miro (Maori Issues)

8:59 conundrum clue 3
9:07 Tuesday Feature - Recollections of Ranginui Walker
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9:59 conundrum clue 4
10:17 Late Edition
a round up of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International
11:07 At the Eleventh Hour - The Shed
music from a myriad of cultures
... nights' time is the right time...

===7:35 PM. | The Sampler===
=DESCRIPTION=

A weekly review and analysis of new CD releases

=AUDIO=

19:30
The Sampler for 1 March 2016
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[image:62140:full]
This week in The Sampler Nick Bollinger discusses the lavish launch and conflicted contents of Kanye West's The Life Of Pablo; the socially conscious and musically adventurous sounds of Rokia Traore; and talks to soon-to-visit Americana artist Eilen Jewell.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: Kanye West, Rokia Traore, Eilen Jewell
Duration: 29'58"

19:31
The Life of Pablo by Kanye West
BODY:
Nick Bollinger discusses the lavish launch and conflicted contents of Kanye West’s The Life Of Pablo.
EXTENDED BODY:
Nick Bollinger discusses the lavish launch and conflicted contents of Kanye West’s The Life Of Pablo.
If there has ever been an album launch like the one for The Life Of Pablo, Kanye West’s latest long-player, I must have slept through it.
Actually, to call it an album launch is perhaps misleading. After tantalising via Twitter with an ever-changing series of titles, lyrics, release dates, collaborators and track-listings, the rap star finally debuted his supposedly completed seventh album to the world mid-February via a laptop, from the stage of Madison Square Garden. It was part of an event that was also a fashion show for his latest sportswear collection, and a preview of his new video game (based on the idea of his late mother trying to get through the gates of heaven.) All this was witnessed not just by the audience at the Garden, but in real time on screens and in cinemas around the world, by an estimated 20 million people.
Since February 14, one has been able to listen to The Life Of Pablo, but only on Tidal, the music streaming service in which Kanye is reportedly a shareholder. There has been no sign yet of a physical record.
But if there’s a sense in which the music is only part of a complicated multi-media statement, for which Kanye West is marshalling all the resources available, the music itself has plenty to say.
This is the guy, after all, who called his last record Yeezus – a conflation of his nickname Yeezy and that of the Christian messiah – and included a track entitled ‘I Am A God’. There is plenty of self-inflation on this new album too, counterpoised by those by-now-familiar moments of self-doubt. (Just moments, mind you.) Still, there is no escaping the fact that musically, and in many ways conceptually, one of the pervasive themes of Pablo is gospel.
Hip-hop has traditionally been a secular music, closer in spirit to the blues than to the more metaphysical concerns of gospel. But, as Kanye tells us in the opening track – with his signature Auto-Tune cranked up - ‘this is a God dream’. And he’s got a choir what sounds like a church organ to back him up - though for the real testifying he hands over the mic to Chance The Rapper and the great Mary J Blige.
But if songs like these seem designed to inspire, others seem contrived to offend. ‘Famous’ caused an instant furore, just as Kanye no doubt hoped it would, with a lecherous line about Taylor Swift and the suggestion that her fame is due only to his famous upstaging of her at the MTV awards a few years back.
It’s a cheap shot and a silly one, as even Kanye would probably admit. Yet behind that much-recounted episode – which, in truth, did at least as much to spread Kanye’s fame as Taylor Swift’s – was a serious motivation that I think underlies much of what Kanye does. That, I think, is a real anger about the treatment of black people in America. Remember, the reason for Kanye’s stage invasion at the MTV awards wasn’t to do with Taylor Swift as such; it was about the fact that Swift’s video had won the award over Beyonce’s ‘Single Ladies’, a milestone in black pop and astounding piece of choreography. Surely in the back of his mind was the way Michael Jackson had to fight to have his similarly ground-breaking videos screened at all, simply because he was black and MTV’s ethos overwhelmingly white. And no matter how that may have changed or how wealthy and successful Kanye has become, he still knows the way the system is stacked.
What is disappointing, though, is how hit and miss he is with his targets. As these new songs show, he is just as likely to turn that sense of injustice against women, or convert it into pointless posturing as he does in the song ‘Highlights’.
The album went through a number of working titles before Kanye settled the typically self-aggrandising on The Life Of Pablo, inviting comparison with any number of Pablos, including Colombia drug lord Pablo Escobar and the great 20th century artist Pablo Picasso.
If Kanye’s empire might sometimes look a bit like a drug cartel, I imagine it’s the Picasso comparison he would ultimately favour. He has never hesitated to refer to himself as an artist, and all of his various enterprises - whether it be his albums or his fashion lines - part of his grand creative statement.
The Life Of Pablo has some inspired, even transcendent moments. Yet too often it is Kanye who reduces it, deflating the music’s majesty with his conflicts, neuroses, and petty vendettas. It’s almost as if there’s self-sabotage at work.
There’s a famous poem by the American poet William Carlos Williams which begins: “The pure products of America go crazy.” The writer Peter Guralnick quoted it once at the start of a famous essay he wrote about Elvis. But I wonder if it somehow applies at least as much to Kanye? Kanye is, in a way, a pure product of America. He has achieved fame, money, material wealth. He’s married to Kim Kardashian, the biggest reality television star in the business. He has all the supposed trappings of success. He’s attained the American Dream. And yet he remains angry, conflicted, unresolved. Is he proof that, perhaps, once you get there the only thing left is to go crazy?
Songs played: Wolves, Low Lights, Famous, Ultra Light Beam, Father Stretch My Hands, Highlights, Waves
The Life Of Pablo is currently only available on the music streaming service Tidal.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: Kanye West, music, music review
Duration: 10'33"

19:32
Sundown Over Ghost Town by Eilen Jewell
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Nick Bollinger talks to soon-to-visit Americana artist Eilen Jewell.
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Nick Bollinger talks to soon-to-visit Americana artist Eilen Jewell.
Boise, Idaho is not a place that often comes up in discussions of American music, but it was the birthplace of this most American of artists. For more than a decade now she’s been making lovely records of the kind you could broadly classify as Americana. Her songs mix elements of country, jazz, and rock’n’roll and she has a hot and swinging band to help bring those songs to life. Eilen left Idaho in her late teens, first to study in Santa Fe, New Mexico, then spending time on both coasts before settling in Boston, where she formed her band, launched her recording career and until recently was based. But not long before she made her latest album Sundown Over Ghost Town she moved back to the place of her birth, something she seems to reflect on in a number of the songs. Eilen Jewell is due to make her second visit to New Zealand this month – she’s playing at the Tuning Fork in Auckland on March 24th.
Songs played: Hallelujah Band, Needle and Thread, Here With Me, Worried Mind, My Hometown
Sundown Over Ghost Town is available on Signature Sounds.
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Duration: 9'55"

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Ne So by Rokia Traore
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Nick Bollinger explores the socially conscious and musically adventurous sounds of Rokia Traore.
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Nick Bollinger explores the socially conscious and musically adventurous sounds of Rokia Traore.
Because African music has such deep traditions, it can be hard to get ones head around the fact that this music can also defy tradition, which is what this Malian singer, guitarist and songwriter does on her new album Ne So.
The grooves might have a recognisably West African feel to them, yet just the fact that the guitarist and singer is a woman makes it a bit unusual. Mali is a society in which the role of musician tends to be an inherited one, and traditionally occupied by men. Rokia doesn’t come from a line of line of griots, and neither does she subscribe to the patriarchy. The daughter of an intellectual and diplomat who encouraged her musical leanings, this multi-lingual, socially-conscious artist has been expressing her viewpoint in song since her first album, recorded in France in the late 90s. These days she divides her time between Paris and Bamako, capital of her native Mali. And while she sings in French on an original like that one, many of these latest songs reflect on the recent turbulence in her homeland.
As I say, there’s an identifiable West African-ness about Traore’s music, yet it doesn’t sit anywhere in the griot tradition. Traore mixes it up. And you’ll find elements of jazz, blues, and Western singer-songwriter styles combined with those hypnotic West African rhythms, just as the small band she uses on this album mixes European players (like Italian guitarist Stefano Pilia) with musicians from all over the West African region. The result can be a gloriously funky fusion.
For this album, Traore has worked with English producer John Parrish, best known for the records he made with P.J. Harvey. He also produced Traore’s 2014 album Beautiful Africa, a thunderingly exciting set that introduced human beatboxers and Scottish jazz rockers into the mix, and which remains in my mind Traore’s finest record so far. For Ne So, Parrish and Traore have pulled back a bit from those more boisterous experiments, throwing the focus onto Traore’s guitar and extraordinarily emotive voice. And perhaps that is simply what these songs demand.
If the mood of Ne So is more subdued than Beautiful Africa, that is no doubt a reflection of Traore’s experiences over the period during which it was made. There has been the trauma of experiencing life in a country threatened by violence and religious extremism. And she perhaps transposes some of that feeling into her reading of one of the darkest, most powerful songs of American’s Civil rights movement, the Billie Holiday-associated ‘Strange Fruit’.
If you haven’t heard Beautiful Africa yet, I’d seek that excellent 2014 album out first, still Rokia Traore’s Ne So is almost as good and – for the most part – matches its message of social change to music that imagines its own future.
Songs played: Amour, Obike, Ile, Maye, Kolokani, Ne So
Ne So is available on Nonesuch.
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Tags: Rokia Traore, music, music review
Duration: 10'07"

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